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[Tina Benoit]

Alexander Garden, on 06 March 2015 - 03:08 PM, said:

Tina is adding the quirks to the original post right now. Just needs to learn some of the ropes of our terrible amazing forum formatting system.

Hahaha yes.

Quirks are up now!

[Sputty]

Those quirks are not very good.

[Kinski Orlawisch]

Thx. Nice armor buffs..

@Sputty: Heavy and Assault don t get the super quircks. I think it is fair what they get.

Edited by Marc von der Heide, 06 March 2015 - 03:29 PM.

[Tasker]

Zeus is DOA. Grasshopper, ehhhhhhhhh.

Why on earth would you want AC/5 range? lol

Edited by Tasker, 06 March 2015 - 03:28 PM.

[Iron Mouse]

wtg PGI!!! excellent Zeus.. time for this Greek God to lay some SMACK down on you tiny mortals.

[Greenjulius]

The grasshopper quirks are badass. Me likey.

[Gas Guzzler]

Yeah.. I'm sure they will get tweaked after studying for a while. Consider if they quirked them too far and they were OP and had to dial them back down the road, PGI would get flak for grabbing peoples money with OP shinys and then nerfing them after everyone bought them. I understand how they would rather play it safe.

Greenjulius, on 06 March 2015 - 03:38 PM, said:

The grasshopper quirks are badass. Me likey.

I would have liked some medium laser range personally

[Deathlike]

Am I wrong in thinking that the quirks suggest an Awesome-level of durability?

It's scaring me.

[Malleus011]

Those Zeus quirks ... we'll have to play it of course ... But Range quirks are not terribly helpful. And armor boosts everywhere but the arms?

Huh.

[Bluecricket]

AMS Range and AC/5 Range, huh? Nice. I wonder how much Clan Wave 3 sales surged after seeing this garbage.

[SoggyGorilla]

[SA Baxter]

I bought this pack because I thought that the point of it was to give the IS some mechs that could stand up to clans. Now with the quirks released I can rest assured that this is not the case.

Guess I should have just assumed that like every other mechwarrior game if I want to do well I have to use clan mechs and weapons and that IS isn't worth bothering with at all.

[Chef Kerensky]

Deathlike, on 06 March 2015 - 03:41 PM, said:

Am I wrong in thinking that the quirks suggest an Awesome-level of durability?

It's scaring me.

And an Awesome-level of usefulness.

[Tasker]

SoggyGorilla, on 06 March 2015 - 03:51 PM, said:

PGI making so many good strides with game, but had to laugh out loud upon seeing this.

These quirks so bad cause me to scratch head and look around in confusion. AMS range? Ha ha ha.

[Gas Guzzler]

Bluecricket, on 06 March 2015 - 03:46 PM, said:

AMS Range and AC/5 Range, huh? Nice. I wonder how much Clan Wave 3 sales surged after seeing this garbage.

The AC5 range would have been nice on a Shadowhawk, combined with an ER PPC, back when jump sniping was a thing.


All in all I am a bit disappointed. I was hoping the Grasshopper might be able to hold a candle to the laser vomit TBRs, but to do that it would need medium laser range quirks, otherwise and engagement above about 500m will put it at a huge advantage. We will see what happens though.. maybe 3 ER LLs and 4 mediums might be effective.

AC5 cooldown would have been much better for the Zeus, but we will see what works out. I dunno, I will try to withhold judgment until we have these guys in mechbay.

[Matt Newman]

It is worth noting that quirks can be subject to change.

[stratagos]

Matt Newman, on 06 March 2015 - 03:58 PM, said:

It is worth noting that quirks can be subject to change.

Noted... but can you tell us why AMS range was considered worthy of quirking? That seems... questionable

[Tasker]

Matt Newman, on 06 March 2015 - 03:58 PM, said:

It is worth noting that quirks can be subject to change.

Great to read, and thank you for response. Not here to dogpile on PGI -- paid for top tier package and enjoy game -- but very concerned that these mechs DOA with bad quirks while clan Wave 3 package look VERY good even without any quirk at all.

[shameless]

I gotta agree, the first pass at quirks gives them durability but no real lethality increase, and an AMS quirk? you guys really do pull this stuff out of a hat.... next we'll see the urban mech with energy quirks, when almost half its weight is that AC/10, or AC20....

[SA Baxter]

Matt Newman, on 06 March 2015 - 03:58 PM, said:

It is worth noting that quirks can be subject to change.

It is worth noting that between the hardpoint amounts and locations, and the quirks you've deigned to give those mechs (many of which are bizarre and worthless), these mechs offer nothing over any existing IS mech.