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[InnerSphereNews]

Hello MechWarriors!

Are you ready for the Shadow Cat and Arctic Cheetah countdown??

Begins tomorrow!

The Shadow Cat is in a hurry to get to the Countdown!

Watch Yesterday's Instagram post!

[Tennex]

COUNTDOWN TO THE COUNTDOWN!!

HYPE

Edit: Tiny bit of heel-toeing going on there

Edited by Tennex, 13 July 2015 - 03:44 PM.

[YaKillinMeSmalls]

Again?

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[Pariah Devalis]

https://instagram.com/p/5F-_xWjPsK/

Cute little one. When it jumps, it looks like it wants to be picked up by papa-Turkina!

Edit: Also, attempted a size comparison on testing grounds. Appears approximately as tall as the Nova, or the EBJ without shoulder pods.

Edited by Pariah Devalis, 13 July 2015 - 04:24 PM.

[Night Thastus]

Countdown to the countdown?
Lol.

[The Boneshaman]

they should have had a countdown for the countdowns countdowns countdowns.

[Tennex]

Pariah Devalis, on 13 July 2015 - 04:23 PM, said:

https://instagram.com/p/5F-_xWjPsK/

Cute little one. When it jumps, it looks like it wants to be picked up by papa-Turkina!

Edit: Also, attempted a size comparison on testing grounds. Appears approximately as tall as the Nova, or the EBJ without shoulder pods.

Did a bit of a comparison. Gona predict its a bit taller than the hunchback

[Pariah Devalis]

That scene looks like it is just when it engages those holy-crap-it's-NASA level jump jets (so happy about those), however. A smidge extra height on that.

Either way, the mech looks like it should be scaled about right. What I ended up doing was walking to the two towers and comparing in 3PV vs where the Shadow Cat was standing abeam them. Partially down the brown bit.

Edited by Pariah Devalis, 13 July 2015 - 05:07 PM.

[Zolaz]

looks like a bigger cicada

[Glaive-]

Hard to say for certain, but it looks like they may have slimmed it down a bit since the last preview!

[Jack Shayu Walker]

armyunit, on 13 July 2015 - 06:01 PM, said:

Hard to say for certain, but it looks like they may have slimmed it down a bit since the last preview!

I know right? I'm soooooooo excited about that, I can hardly contain the squees

[CHH Badkarma]

Yay. More hype.....

[Tennex]

HYPEASAURUS REX

[Twilight Fenrir]

armyunit, on 13 July 2015 - 06:01 PM, said:

Hard to say for certain, but it looks like they may have slimmed it down a bit since the last preview!

Wait... there was a last preview? o.o I thought I caught all of the Weekend updates o.o I didn't see any sneak peeks! DAMN YOU PGI STOP HIDING YOUR GLORY!!!

Also... OMG I can't wait! I want my Shadow Cat and Arctic Cheetah <3 Both mechs are going to murder everyone... the S-Cat is gonna break CW over it's knee though XD

Also... Holy crap that mech can JUMP! O_O

[Glaive-]

Twilight Fenrir, on 13 July 2015 - 06:56 PM, said:

Wait... there was a last preview? o.o I thought I caught all of the Weekend updates o.o I didn't see any sneak peeks! DAMN YOU PGI STOP HIDING YOUR GLORY!!!

Yup, they posted some WIP animations of the Shadowcat on their Instagram account:

https://instagram.com/p/4H4leKDPkr/
https://instagram.com/p/4H5tdPDPm6/

[cmopatrick]

the shadow is what I consider my chosen ride (have since mw2). Up until the last few weeks when I thought they would release the SCat and AC first, I had been absent from actually playing the game for a couple years (since not long after "launch"). Now I'm warming up with a couple other mechs (not good with either... yet), waiting for the day I get three shadows into the stable and can begin the long road to mastery.

that is the long version of: I'm SO stoked!

[Jack Shayu Walker]

Twilight Fenrir, on 13 July 2015 - 06:56 PM, said:

Also... Holy crap that mech can JUMP! O_O

I have a dream that the Scat will be able to jump up onto the HPG mainfold walls. Then I can chase off all those damn spiders and lynx... and replace them at their jobs >:3

[Jack Shayu Walker]

One thing I'm confused about though. I thought that the count-downs were a 7 day thing. and I thought that the Shadowcat came out 8 days from now on the 21st? that would make it one day until the countdown, so why is everyone saying two days?

[Jin Ma]

But will it walk like this

[MoonUnitBeta]

Jin Ma, on 13 July 2015 - 07:38 PM, said:

But will it walk like this

NOPE. I wish.

Returning foot scoops doesn't raise up like that. The toe doesn't bend down.
They barely use the length of the leg to extend any amount behind the mech, or in front to create any kind of fluent stride. They hardly bend the knee. It's just paddling across the ground and tip toeing like the stupid Direwolf. Isn't this a medium mech? The animation looks stiff. But w/e I'm not surprised. All chicken walkers have been a major disappointment from PGI. Save for the Timberwolf and Maddog. Those mechs have a good stride.

Edit: As tennex posted, the catapult is also a great example of a good walking animation. The feet are lifted up on the return rather than scoop down.

Edited by MoonUnitBeta, 14 July 2015 - 11:33 AM.