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[C E Dwyer]

CycKath, on 24 July 2015 - 07:39 AM, said:

Tabletop game is bitten the bullet and is properly redoing the Unseen in time for lots of historical titles:
http://bg.battletech...dthree-two-one/












Click the link and see an even more amazing preview image...

notice the picture in the link, a proper battle Master, not the P.O.S PGI farmed out on us

[J0anna]

This looks like a serious win-win scenario for PGI. Let Catalyst Labs float the trial balloon and see if HG really wants to fight this to the death. I'm no lawyer, from what I've read HG has not been winning the court cases, just winning the expense battles. Perhaps this will be the real "end".

As a person who has read the GDL trilogy, many, many times, that Marauder is a very welcome sight for sore eyes.

[Tennex]

Juodas Varnas, on 24 July 2015 - 11:01 AM, said:

I'm sorry. I'm so sorry



Edit: Great minds think alike, Imperius. We literally posted them 2 seconds apart

MWO model confirmed. Though the girth would be smaller even

Edited by Tennex, 24 July 2015 - 11:40 AM.

[C E Dwyer]

Bishop Steiner, on 24 July 2015 - 08:35 AM, said:

not a knock on Alex's redesign, as he had some pretty tough parameters to fill.... but......
do
want

THAT is a Battlemaster.

thats why I voted for the BM in the first stage of the redesign size, shape, and frankly I don't see why we didn't get this in the first place, afte all its not a H.G mech

[Alan Davion]

Tennex, on 24 July 2015 - 11:39 AM, said:

MWO model confirmed. Though the girth would be smaller even

If PGI was seriously dumb enough to try to pawn that off on the MWO Community, I really do believe we'd burn the forums down around their ears.

[1453 R]

Cathy, on 24 July 2015 - 11:37 AM, said:

notice the picture in the link, a proper battle Master, not the P.O.S PGI farmed out on us

Are you folks really that attached to that monstrously oversized, please-God-shoot-me-now bad scifi movie bubblehead?

Because frankly that's the only major difference I can see between the two, other than the pistol, and I will stand by my opinion that Alex's rework is a much more interesting war machine than Fishtank 'Fro up there.

[Juodas Varnas]

Cathy, on 24 July 2015 - 11:40 AM, said:

thats why I voted for the BM in the first stage of the redesign size, shape, and frankly I don't see why we didn't get this in the first place, afte all its not a H.G mech

I don't remember a "redesing size, shape" vote.
Just a "rescale" one.

But yeah, Battlemaster is UNRECOGNIZABLE in MW:O.
Which is kind of frustrating, because pretty much every other Phoenix mech look both recognizable and quite decent (apart from Thunderbolt's dynamic weapon geometry, it's quite awful)

[Mechteric]

Very cool! Though I'm also very excited about this:
THE RETURN OF BATTLETECH NOVELS

[Spr1ggan]

WIsh the Battlemaster in the this game looked like the one in the pic.

[Dino Might]

I'd pay big money for the Warhammer design in this thread to be in MWO. Long PPC barrel arms are a must have. If we get stubs, I will start a riot.

[RedDragon]

*sigh* Here we go. Another mech pack before they add actual content.

[Alan Davion]

RedDragon, on 24 July 2015 - 11:52 AM, said:

*sigh* Here we go. Another mech pack before they add actual content.

Hey, at least this mech pack is worth it. Seriously, who DOESN'T want a Marauder or Warhammer?

[lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol]

Juodas Varnas, on 24 July 2015 - 11:01 AM, said:

I'm sorry. I'm so sorry



Edit: Great minds think alike, Imperius. We literally posted them 2 seconds apart

Happy about the announcement... however yeah... I dread that this is spot on. NEEDS MOAR EXES and modular camera lens lasers!

[Kristov Kerensky]

I'd love to see THAT BattleMaster in the game, as much as I love Alex's rework, that is the more iconic BattleMaster to me, that bubble canopy really is a must have for the BattleMaster, a Mech that featured a second seat, hence the large bubble canopy.

And the Warhammer and Marauder..oh yeah...I'd drop some money on those, despite not being willing to drop another dime until after the rebalance has happened, I'd do it for those in a heartbeat. Sorry grandkids, no bday presents, grandpa is getting a Marauder!

[Throat Punch]

Alan Davion, on 24 July 2015 - 11:53 AM, said:

Hey, at least this mech pack is worth it. Seriously, who DOESN'T want a Marauder or Warhammer?

I don't. But i suppose I'd have to buy the pack just to get the Rifleman. Because I mean, honestly, the Marauder looks cool, but I always prefered the Rifleman.

[Levi Porphyrogenitus]

If Catalyst can clear the legal minefield with these, then PGI can do some MWO-style adaptations of what they end with and we can go from there. It's a win-win for PGI, since if Catalyst is forced to cave then PGI is not out anything, and if Catalyst wins then PGI gets a license to print money with a "Blast From the Past" Mech Pack.

[Malleus011]

OK. This thread was posted about 9 AM my time.

Russ has been informed via Twitter, his only known form of communication.

That's more than enough time for him to have called Catalyst's offices, sat through the hold music, and sorted this out.

So all I want to know is ...

WHY ISN'T THERE AN UNSEEN PACK ON SALE YET????

[AlexEss]

Well shave my shibble and call me Shirley

Guess i actually was wrong... Well best of luck and knock your self out. =) ...

Malleus011, on 24 July 2015 - 12:07 PM, said:

So all I want to know is ...

WHY ISN'T THERE AN UNSEEN PACK ON SALE YET????

Because Russ know that you like the tease... that drawn out mix of expectation and agony, =)

Edited by AlexEss, 24 July 2015 - 12:10 PM.

[CDLord HHGD]

Malleus011, on 24 July 2015 - 12:07 PM, said:

OK. This thread was posted about 9 AM my time.

Russ has been informed via Twitter, his only known form of communication.

That's more than enough time for him to have called Catalyst's offices, sat through the hold music, and sorted this out.

So all I want to know is ...

WHY ISN'T THERE AN UNSEEN PACK ON SALE YET????

While I share your enthusiasm, I doubt "that's more than enough time".

[Kristov Kerensky]

Levi Porphyrogenitus, on 24 July 2015 - 12:01 PM, said:

If Catalyst can clear the legal minefield with these, then PGI can do some MWO-style adaptations of what they end with and we can go from there. It's a win-win for PGI, since if Catalyst is forced to cave then PGI is not out anything, and if Catalyst wins then PGI gets a license to print money with a "Blast From the Past" Mech Pack.

Actually, the Widowmaker Mechs would be the packages to sell. Warhammer, Marauder, Crusader, Archer, Wasp, Stinger, Rifleman, and Phoenix Hawk. There's also a Griffin in there, but we already have ingame, but they could include the Windowmaker Camo for the Griffin in the package. This is the 3025 composition of the Windowmakers, the 3031 composition is even larger and includes more Mechs we don't have including Unseen, so they could actually do MULTIPLE Windowmaker packages. Yeah, I know, doing PGI's PR work for them, but who cares, these are Mechs we haven't had in a MW game since MW2.