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[1453 R]

TINA Y U NO CAULDRON-BORN Q_Q

[DoctorDetroit]

Lasers look a bit off.

[shellashock]

Looks like the Cutefox's big brother is on his way! *Squee!*

Can't wait for the Cauldron Born!

[Tina Benoit]

And here are more screenshots of the Ebon Jaguar/Cauldron Born!!

[Cpt Jason McCarthy]

I ****** in my pants !

[Walluh]

I wish to make sweet sweet love to that Cauldron Born.

[VanguardMk1]

That Cauldron Born is soooo beautiful, now I'll have to wait for it to release for C-Bills
At least I'll get the Arctic Cheetah soon, hope a sneak peek of that one comes fast

[Tarogato]

Wow, you guys went for the asymmetrical arms on the Cauldron Born. I approve - love mechs that mix it up.

[Malcolm Vordermark]

Any chance we could get these guys next to another mech for tomorrow? Say a Dire Wolf or Gargoyle for the Executioner and a Timber Wolf for the Cauldron Born?

[PhoenixNMGLB]

Love the look of the Cauldron Born but what happened to the Executioner's arms?

They look a bit skinny to me....

[Twilight Fenrir]

Omg, the EbJag is GORGEOUS <3

It's also surprisingly stealthy in that first pic, for being neon orange and green, it almost blenda into that wall XD

I was worried from the original model reveal that the legs would be too long... But I'm happy to see they bent them more :3 It's still 60% legs, but damn it looks fine ;3 (the sexy kind of fine... Not the adequate kind of fine)

The Koala is surprisingly gaunt o.o Much more open space than, say, the atlas. A lot of enemy fire is going to pass between the arms and torso on that baby!

[Will9761]

Will you show screenshots comparing their sizes to other mechs? I want to see how the Executioner's size is compared to a Gargoyle.

[VtTimber]

Executioner and Cauldron Born are looking great. Not sure if anyone realized this but the Born has no Lower Arm actuators on any of it's variants... locked arms for all!

[Anunknownlurker]

Damn but the CBN looks nice....only a week to go

[The Great Unwashed]

Now that Executioner has a real shield arm to protect the Gauss in the RT. The Cauldron born is nicely level... I fear both will do well...

Edited by The Great Unwashed, 10 June 2015 - 12:43 PM.

[Corbenik]

it looks beautiful D: them legs arent as bad as the original picture everyone was QQ about D:

[reign]

Tina Benoit, on 10 June 2015 - 12:16 PM, said:

Invasion Paint and Geo screenshots are up for the second sneak peek!

Take a look at these additional shots!

The Executioner:

That shield arm... any word on us early adopters, How many D right/left torso's will we have access to?

[Patzer]

I can't wait either I may have to dump my fav atlas

oh yaa very nice

[1453 R]

DAT CAULDRON-BORN

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All right. A few pants changes later...

The Executioner actually looks like it might have less overall torso area than the Garfayle (scale dependent, of course), though it makes up for that with a crotchplate the size of Bermuda. It's also got highly puny arms that won't be much good for shielding, RA pauldron aside, but which also might remain attached to the 'Mech until the end, unlike things such as Novas or Mist Lynxes. A very great deal is going to depend on hitbox allocation for that design, methinks...but the overall geometry looks acceptable if not amazing. The torso MGs on the (I) look to be mounted high enough to be good if not high enough to be stellar, though those arm guns are defo knuckle-dragger mounts.

I think it's got potential, but a lot is going to depend on intangibles or factors we can't see from screenshots, such as M.A.S.C. performance.

As for dat Cauldron-Born...

Ladies and gentlemen, unless the scaling is truly atrocious, we have a winner. The frontal profile on that thing is almost svelte - yeah, it's got bits sticking out all over the place, but the torso itself looks to be pretty slim overall. Wide, so it'll still catch fire, but flat enough that it might actually start being an advantage. Those skyhook hardpoints on the torso are every bit as orgasmic as we all hoped they would be. The arms are wide as hell which discourages brawling to some extent but also helps corner-peeking, and look to be about Stormcrow-height to the cockpit so they'l be able to clear hills pretty well as well. Hell, even the 'low-mount' cERML on the Prime is a nose gun. In fact it's kind of an amazing nose gun, high up and very close to centerline, for some real "if you can see it you can shoot it" action.

The whole thing is so flattened above the waist that even though you'll have to "expose half the 'Mech" to get the arm guns into play over vertical cover, pulling the 'Mech back down behind cover after unloading should take a step or two at most. It's the ultimate hull-down machine. The only part of a Cauldron_Born you're ever going to see is the part of it that kills you.

SO GOOD. SO MUCH WANT.

Edited by 1453 R, 10 June 2015 - 12:51 PM.

[Bolter01]

Cauldron -Born is beautiful!

Executioner is a Monster!

Both magnificent well done!