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[impar]

Which would be ridiculous.
Buying now is an impulse buy, buying Sept. 8th will be harder as the flaws of the design will be known. And I expect it to have flaws, an assualt mech with so many ballistic hardpoints...

[Animus Corpus]

as it has been said before - HOLY POH - look at the size of those side torsos! The hit boxes on those things are going to be HUGE (and rightly so)!

Insta-Kill at 1000 m

[Wikikomoto]

i wish the awesome had a PPC arm like that

[Clownwarlord]

I am thinking this mech is going to be 50/50. 50% good and 50% not so good. those ballistics are not as high as a Jager mech but they are higher than the Atlas. The missile pods are high to reach over some tall buildings.

In truth so long as the mech has sufficient armor and hit boxes then it should do well in solo matches ... it might become a meta CW mech but I doubt it will be a comp mech ... maybe a replacement for the Highlander because the Highlander still has hover jets but that might be it.

[CeKay]

What I will do if I get my first kill with the Mauler on 8th September:



So much ballistic Hardpoint, 4 UA/C 5 incoming \m/

[Nightshade24]

CeKay, on 03 September 2015 - 02:47 AM, said:

What I will do if I get my first kill with the Mauler on 8th September:



So much ballistic Hardpoint, 4 UA/C 5 incoming \m/

I'm prepairing for 6 Ac 2's on my dakka mauler...

It's mainly because of MW: O Alex Heights mauler which had 6 IS UAC 2's but still... depending how XL friendly this thing is I may trade it for a XL engine and 2 UAC 5's and 4 AC 2's... oh mumma, the dakka...

[STEF_]

Without those shoulders.....it would have been my to-go assault......

[Widowmaker1981]

Ramrod AI, on 02 September 2015 - 04:35 PM, said:

Quad LB-10 X incoming. Or 2 Gauss 2 PPC

nope.

Quad LB10 is 44 tons of guns. With a standard 300 and stripped arms it has 48 tons for weapons.. 4 tons of ammo aint enough. Similar issue for 2 Gauss 2 PPC, 44 tons of guns, and you cant strip both arms so youll only have 46 or so.

I guess you could run a 270 engine or something, but then you are falling victim to the fail - If you move at 53kph after tweak, you should be in a Dire Wolf. Every other mech in the game should be always configured to be faster than the whale.

Realistic heavy ballistic loadouts are:

Quad UAC5
Quad AC5 + lasers
Penta AC5 (40 tons of guns, 8 tons of ammo, STD300. Short on ammo though)
Twin Gauss + 6xML
2xGauss, 4xMG, ERPPC (so it gets super high gauss pushed up by the MGs, and then strip one arm and put an ERPPC in the other. not sure if ill bring ammo for the MGs, maybe 1/2 a ton)

Edited by Widowmaker1981, 03 September 2015 - 03:26 AM.

[Nightshade24]

Widowmaker1981, on 03 September 2015 - 03:22 AM, said:

nope.

Quad LB10 is 44 tons of guns. With a standard 300 and stripped arms it has 48 tons for weapons.. 4 tons of ammo aint enough. Similar issue for 2 Gauss 2 PPC, 44 tons of guns, and you cant strip both arms so youll only have 46 or so.

I guess you could run a 270 engine or something, but then you are falling victim to the fail - If you move at 53kph after tweak, you should be in a Dire Wolf. Every other mech in the game should be always configured to be faster than the whale.

can't 2 gauss 2 ppc work with an XL engine though?

[Widowmaker1981]

Nightshade24, on 03 September 2015 - 03:25 AM, said:

can't 2 gauss 2 ppc work with an XL engine though?

well, yes.

But look at those missile racks. This mech is not XL viable unless they vanish or shrink with no missiles equipped, and every other dynamically changing geometry i have seen in this game does not have camo. Those missile boxes have camo = i bet anything they aren't dynamic.

[Hawk819]

Widowmaker1981, on 03 September 2015 - 03:47 AM, said:

well, yes.

But look at those missile racks. This mech is not XL viable unless they vanish or shrink with no missiles equipped, and every other dynamically changing geometry i have seen in this game does not have camo. Those missile boxes have camo = i bet anything they aren't dynamic.

Listen, the only thing i care about that is this: IT won't be a Micro-jerk dumb down Green Boxes, Yellow Boxes and red boxes BS like MW 4 was. That's all I care about! Great job, PGI.

[NUJRSYDEVIL]

The Mauler will keep the IS players from complaining about a clan dominated-CW for at least a few days.

Seriously though, this is a great looking mech. Bring on the Marauder!

[Nightshade24]

Widowmaker1981, on 03 September 2015 - 03:47 AM, said:

well, yes.

But look at those missile racks. This mech is not XL viable unless they vanish or shrink with no missiles equipped, and every other dynamically changing geometry i have seen in this game does not have camo. Those missile boxes have camo = i bet anything they aren't dynamic.

true to a degree. but who didn't say that when you remove those boxes you get the top of the shoulders with no cameo instead? I seriously doubt PGI would leave those missile boxes up there without any missile weapons on- if they did then I will expect a huge armour/ structure quirk to the ST's that it would actually be a waste of time to shoot at the ST and would be simpler to fire at the legs or CT.

[Widowmaker1981]

Nightshade24, on 03 September 2015 - 04:22 AM, said:

true to a degree. but who didn't say that when you remove those boxes you get the top of the shoulders with no cameo instead? I seriously doubt PGI would leave those missile boxes up there without any missile weapons on- if they did then I will expect a huge armour/ structure quirk to the ST's that it would actually be a waste of time to shoot at the ST and would be simpler to fire at the legs or CT.

I was certainly hoping they would be dynamic, since im looking forward to the mech and wont ever use missiles on it in any form. (LRMs suck at my tier, i suck with SRMs and SSRM2s are.. well. no). However my point about never having seen dynamic geometry with camo on it still stands.

[Kmieciu]

At least it will be able to shield those side torsos with arms, unlike Stalker.

Edited by Kmieciu, 03 September 2015 - 05:04 AM.

[Arctourus]

now if we could just cut the countdown in half, considering the day before the mauler drops ends a major three day weekend in the United States....would be so nice to have it directly before the long weekend instead of directly after.....

[Dawnstealer]

Dual LB10s with 4 MGs and pulsers, Dual AC20s, 6MLs. 4UAC5s...

This thing has brawler written all over it. Not sure how I'll use those missile ports other than 4 LRM5s in a troll build, but...

Yeah - fun mech.

And I hadn't seen that Mercenaries thing. Pretty cool: maybe Harmony Gold is realizing there's profit to be made if they're careful in contract wording.

Axman, Marauder, Hatchetman, ummmmm...Stinger? for the next pack, please.

[Bombadil]

I'll post a screenshot of this Mauler without the missile racks when I can later this morning.

[Solahma]

Bombadil, on 03 September 2015 - 05:19 AM, said:

I'll post a screenshot of this Mauler without the missile racks when I can later this morning.

Also... with 6 AC5... pretty please!

[Dawnstealer]

Bombadil, on 03 September 2015 - 05:19 AM, said:

I'll post a screenshot of this Mauler without the missile racks when I can later this morning.

Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet.

Any chances of a preview of the inevitable "Special Edition Dawnstealer-only Hatchetman model that will be injected into all players named Dawnstealer's Account?"