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[Daehoth]

Wintersdark, on 29 June 2015 - 08:52 PM, said:

Nothing much else?

Just this year:

Faction chat. Voip. New CW mode game mode. Several rounds of CW improvements, gameplay and UI. Faction groups. LFG. New mechlab (yay smurfy style builds!), a couple rounds of quirk updates. Countless bug fixes. 4 or so new maps.

July has the updated River City, destructible terrain elements, hit registration fixes, more...

What more do you expect?

Wow...you must have extremely low expectations. I expect more, more. What they've done so far is refining, tweaking of more or less the existing architecture, it's the basic requirements of a game like this. It's MAINTENANCE! So yes, I expect much much more than just MAINTENANCE.

Goodness gracious, I can't believe you just cited basic requirements. I've said all I wanted to say, I shall respond no more to this topic.

It's a hot day, gonna chill by the beach. Peace out.

[Appogee]

Thanks PGI for all the effort you put into explaining the backstory of these new Mechs.

Way to leverage the lore.

...

[Nightshade24]

Skave, on 29 June 2015 - 03:23 PM, said:

So...

Clan are getting IS Mech?

Does that mean that IS are getting clan Mech next pack?

Can I have a Black Hawk-Ku then? Please?

Technically no. These were mechs they took before the Exodus and in some situations ONLY the SLDF or mainly built these mechs. in a way these mechs are as clan as the timberwolf.

Which if you look at some of the geometry of the timberwolf... summoner... hellbringer... mist lynx... gargoyle... stone rhino... kodiak... hellhound... etc...

you will see some striking resemblances with the IS counterparts.

Also out of time line, better luck asking for hte IS 3052 Omnimech.

[Wintersdark]

Daehoth, on 29 June 2015 - 08:57 PM, said:

Wow...you must have extremely low expectations. I expect more, more. What they've done so far is refining, tweaking of more or less the existing architecture, it's the basic requirements of a game like this. It's MAINTENANCE! So yes, I expect much much more than just MAINTENANCE.

Goodness gracious, I can't believe you just cited basic requirements. I've said all I wanted to say, I shall respond no more to this topic.

It's a hot day, gonna chill by the beach. Peace out.

so you're not going to answer? What do you expect?

A new game mode, 4 maps, fully new social features like Voip and faction chat/groups. .. Those are all maintenance?

[Nightshade24]

IraqiWalker, on 29 June 2015 - 04:26 PM, said:

-face palm- Forgot about that.

Wait it is? how much tons will FF give my Hunchback IIC then? O_o

[KursedVixen]

The weapons on these do not show clan.... is that right are these not clan mechs???

They look more like IS mechs notice wave 3 states engine rating instead of max engine rating...

still might grab the jenny's though.

Edited by KursedVixen, 29 June 2015 - 09:05 PM.

[Nightshade24]

Wintersdark, on 29 June 2015 - 05:37 PM, said:

Yeah, the 2xCUAC20 IIC build is awful. People will just run 2xLBX20 (still bad) or 2xGauss (Very good; subjectively better than a Grid Iron, if slower and less resilient)

Still gonna run stock weapons. May be bad. But 90 damage+ per strike isn't that bad to look at ... assuming my guns don't jam.

Jaspbo1, on 29 June 2015 - 06:17 PM, said:

Commando IIC for next IIC pack?

PL0X

not enough mechs for IIC at least from my knowledge...

For the assault IIC we can have the Supernova... a Kingcrab IIC so to say...

Another option but not exactly strictly a IIC is the Atlas II...

Kodiak may be reguarded as a highlander IIIC so to say.... but not sure this will be in a package for IIC mechs.

For heavies I have no idea. the Orion was basicly our last bet for this from memory, it only had 1 cannon variant...

For lights and mediums a few lurks about.

[IraqiWalker]

Nightshade24, on 29 June 2015 - 09:02 PM, said:

Wait it is? how much tons will FF give my Hunchback IIC then? O_o

lemme do the math in smurfy, and I'll get back to you. Unless one of you lovely people wants to save me, and show the math you already have.

1-1.5 tons. I think, over a regular Hunchie with FF. I am ballparking.

Edited by IraqiWalker, 29 June 2015 - 09:15 PM.

[Nightshade24]

Frost Lord, on 29 June 2015 - 07:41 PM, said:

that will be such a bad move, it will just inflame the clan IS OP rage and claners will use IIcs, there really needs to be a trad off the negative quirks will be hereundus. wich to cleaners will prov that IS mechs are better wile IS will say Clan tech is better. I hope they get the other mechs sorted before they come out.

in a way this kinda ballances the hunchback IIC... it has the 2 biggest hunchies ever on a mech of it's size where if you shoot at it without aiming those 2 ST's will explode very soon...

and with all the talks of duel gauss, a gauss explosion would occur thus lossing that torso. meaning you do not even need to shoot at it that much as originally thought due to the guass rifles exploding... huh... structure bonus to the IIC side torso would be a cool buff if it turns out to suck a lot... Not helping gauss builds at all but helping the others...

[FupDup]

IraqiWalker, on 29 June 2015 - 09:07 PM, said:

lemme do the math in smurfy, and I'll get back to you. Unless one of you lovely people wants to save me, and show the math you already have.

Almost max STD armor on a 50 tonner is 10.5 tons. Almost max Clan FF on said 50 tonner is 8.5 tons.

Yay for SSW shortcut on my toolbar.

[KursedVixen]

So will these mechs have Clan equipement? are they omnimechs??

[IraqiWalker]

KursedVixen, on 29 June 2015 - 09:15 PM, said:

So will these mechs have Clan equipement? are they omnimechs??

Clan equipment, but they are battlemechs, not omni mechs. They are IS mechs with clan XLs and weapons.

Edited by IraqiWalker, 29 June 2015 - 09:17 PM.

[KursedVixen]

Then why does the description not label wepons as clan they show IS I know second line units didn't get alot of the the new stuff ,but ahh heck i'm probalby gonna buy the jenner pack.

[IraqiWalker]

KursedVixen, on 29 June 2015 - 09:20 PM, said:

Then why does the description not label wepons as clan they show IS I know second line units didn't get alot of the the new stuff ,but ahh heck i'm probalby gonna buy the jenner pack.

It's clan weapons. The IS equivalents would make the loadouts impossible to work.

[KursedVixen]

I know that's why i'm confused because last i recall IS doesn't have streak 4's yet.

[FupDup]

IraqiWalker, on 29 June 2015 - 09:22 PM, said:

It's clan weapons. The IS equivalents would make the loadouts impossible to work.

It also says "Clan Collection" on the sales page. The Clan faction camo spec should also give it away.

[Cyrilis]

Any word on the ETA of IS omnimechs yet?

[IraqiWalker]

Cyrilis, on 29 June 2015 - 09:38 PM, said:

Any word on the ETA of IS omnimechs yet?

Quoting Russ (almost verbatim) "not any time soon"

[Alik Kerensky]

Can't remember if Clans have STD engines or not.

[FupDup]

Alik Kerensky, on 29 June 2015 - 09:44 PM, said:

Can't remember if Clans have STD engines or not.

They do, they just prefer not to use them on most mechs because their XL engines are so amazeballs.

For this pack, most of the Orion and Highlander IIC variants come with stock STDs.