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[LordKnightFandragon]

Q After Marauder release:

Light: 1% Medium 2%
Heavy: 95% Assault 5%

All dem Marauders, and a few who still have not gotten over the Mauler nostalgia, then the few stragglers who didnt partake in the cash grab.

[Speedy Plysitkos]

Nightshade24, on 11 September 2015 - 03:22 AM, said:

I think you are a bit blind if you think it's a crab with higher legs.

Check page 1, first pics. It shows Kcrab on higher legs, and thats all.
I dont like the pics/design, same for KGC. This mech I definetly pass.

Edited by Titannium, 11 September 2015 - 04:30 AM.

[Nightshade24]

Titannium, on 11 September 2015 - 04:29 AM, said:

Check page 1, first pics. It shows crab on higher legs, and thats all.

All I see is a fine looking Marauder from page 1 to page 9. I think you were looking on the old kingcrab announcement thread a few months ago and put the comment on the wrong page.

[Speedy Plysitkos]

Nightshade24, on 11 September 2015 - 04:30 AM, said:

All I see is a fine looking Marauder from page 1 to page 9. I think you were looking on the old kingcrab announcement thread a few months ago and put the comment on the wrong page.

sry , for me its ugly KGC on higher legs.

[Nightshade24]

Titannium, on 11 September 2015 - 04:32 AM, said:

sry , for me its ugly KGC on higher legs.

sure it's ugly for a Kingcrab, I mean it doesn't look like a kingcrab at all, I mean that more slim torsos, the high mounted ballistic, lack of missiles, no claws. slimmer legs, more elegant arms, it's pretty ugly for a king crab. doesn't look like anything like any I've seen.

However it's a pretty good looking Marauder I must say.

[LordBraxton]

Excited by marauder. Not excited by price creep. Urbanmech was a community voted exclusive, this is just another heavy mech, IDC how iconic.

[Makenzie71]

When? Has someone said when?

[Speedy Plysitkos]

Nightshade24, on 11 September 2015 - 04:35 AM, said:

sure it's ugly for a Kingcrab, I mean it doesn't look like a kingcrab at all, I mean that more slim torsos, the high mounted ballistic, lack of missiles, no claws. slimmer legs, more elegant arms, it's pretty ugly for a king crab. doesn't look like anything like any I've seen.

However it's a pretty good looking Marauder I must say.

Im not alone, I found more people in different topics, that see in it KGC model. (Ultimate thread for ex.)
I understand the fanboism, and people who like it. Good for you, buy it. For me this model (KGC +-) is ugly = not interested.
Just saying, no offend.

[Will HellFire]

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Also, @Russ_Bullock, it seems the community agree that it looks like a baby King Crab. I think just makingthose side torsos not as wide and making it look sleeker will go a big way towards addressing this.

Edited by Will HellFire, 11 September 2015 - 05:11 AM.

[Bishop Steiner]

LordBraxton, on 11 September 2015 - 04:35 AM, said:

Excited by marauder. Not excited by price creep. Urbanmech was a community voted exclusive, this is just another heavy mech, IDC how iconic.

what's the price?

[LordKnightFandragon]

Will HellFire, on 11 September 2015 - 05:10 AM, said:

Phoenix Hawk!

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Phoenix Hawk!

Phoenix Hawk!

Also, @Russ_Bullock, it seems the community agree that it looks like a baby King Crab. I think just makingthose side torsos not as wide and making it look sleeker will go a big way towards addressing this.

Im not seeing the baby King Crab....

Mount the gun on its roof like its supposed to be and then there will be no baby KGC look to it.

THe arms are supposed to look like that, boxy ish like a KCG claws?

Edited by LordKnightFandragon, 11 September 2015 - 05:23 AM.

[Metus regem]

Bishop Steiner, on 11 September 2015 - 05:20 AM, said:

what's the price?

My price is pretty reasonable, a WHM-6R or Rb....

[Bishop Steiner]

LordKnightFandragon, on 11 September 2015 - 05:22 AM, said:

Im not seeing the baby King Crab....

Mount the gun on its roof like its supposed to be and then there will be no baby KGC look to it.

THe arms are supposed to look like that, boxy ish like a KCG claws?

arms are supposed to be bigger, with a loosed feel to them. These have a very germanic straightline, and stiff look, like the KGC art, a similar location and the carapace has some similarities, whilst being much narrower.

[0bsidion]

Well, I'm not getting that thing. I don't know what it is, but it isn't a Marauder. This is a Marauder:

[Nightshade24]

Titannium, on 11 September 2015 - 05:07 AM, said:

Im not alone, I found more people in different topics, that see in it KGC model. (Ultimate thread for ex.)
I understand the fanboism, and people who like it. Good for you, buy it. For me this model (KGC +-) is ugly = not interested.
Just saying, no offend.

Just saying and not being offensive- but reguardless of visualities, this is a 75 ton mech with completely different hardpoints then a KGC as well as performance, speed, playstyle, armour, etc. it being a Kingcrab variant is quite very well silly, Marauder II- possibly? but the thing is most M II's are E boats which could possibly vomit out the "IS meta" or 6 medium lasers 3 large pulse as well as jumpjets and a whole lot of moxy, even then we got no concept art for this so back to the normal one.

Me being a visual artist in many medias such as photography, paintining, ink, printing, sculpture, wash, and recently ventuaring into retro digital art and such. As well as a student of art history and such.

For me this is nothing like a king crab, this is as much a king crab as the atlas is a commado or a locust is a Shadowcat- and visually this looks more like a Timberwolf due to the arms, legs, CT, ST, etc. minus some cross sections and connections and the high mounted AC and such- which makes sense since even the targeting computer though so hence "MAD Cat".

A few people may say it looks like a KGC- a few people also thing the Ice ferret looks like a piece of white ware and the Executioner is a fuzzy forrest animal. If i squint my eyes, take a few pints and go back to hospital for an anethestic, I may see half of what people say- but sadly I play MW: O sober and I am most often sober. so I do not get the punchline of a "raven with 2 narcs" or what ever that some of my drunk friends die laughing while I look at them trying to ush them to bed.

[Nightshade24]

Will HellFire, on 11 September 2015 - 05:10 AM, said:

Also, @Russ_Bullock, it seems the community agree that it looks like a baby King Crab. I think just makingthose side torsos not as wide and making it look sleeker will go a big way towards addressing this.

only a minority agrees that, we might as well redesign the cicada, executioner, ice ferret, mad dog, and a few other mechs because they look like a baby stalker, a koala, white ware, and this pokemon

[Metus regem]

0bsidion, on 11 September 2015 - 05:34 AM, said:

Well, I'm not getting that thing. I don't know what it is, but it isn't a Marauder. This is a Marauder:

Yea, that's the MAD-3R, but that's not the MAD-3R you are going to see in a video game any time since the MW2 family of games...

Let's be honest though, this MWO Marauder, looks a hell of a lot better than the Project Phoenix TRO one.... And I for one look forward to seeing what they can do with my beloved Warhammer, if they can get the feel of the 3025 TRO WHM-6R, then I'm good. I understand the limits they are under.

[Rhaythe]

Metus regem, on 11 September 2015 - 05:41 AM, said:

Let's be honest though, this MWO Marauder, looks a hell of a lot better than the Project Phoenix TRO one....

True enough. That's one monster-sized AC5 in this version:

[0bsidion]

Metus regem, on 11 September 2015 - 05:41 AM, said:

Yea, that's the MAD-3R, but that's not the MAD-3R you are going to see in a video game any time since the MW2 family of games...

Let's be honest though, this MWO Marauder, looks a hell of a lot better than the Project Phoenix TRO one.... And I for one look forward to seeing what they can do with my beloved Warhammer, if they can get the feel of the 3025 TRO WHM-6R, then I'm good. I understand the limits they are under.

Well I'd rather they do it right or not do it at all, but that's just me. I'd get it if they had to change it a little bit, but that's way more than a little bit. It's not the same mech any more. This is pretty much the only mech I'd take this hard line stance on.

[Nightshade24]

0bsidion, on 11 September 2015 - 05:47 AM, said:

Well I'd rather they do it right or not do it at all, but that's just me. I'd get it if they had to change it a little bit, but that's way more than a little bit. It's not the same mech any more. This is pretty much the only mech I'd take this hard line stance on.

take a look at all the reseen ones, recent several years of TT, etc. the 'original' is the minority now- and not even the best looking one of the more original set.

On top of that the problem is the Marauder has many issues, 1) weapon not located the same place where it actually is physically.

Look at the direwolf B- no one is crying those 4 ballistic hardpoints are not all on the upper right torso
Look at the clan S mechs- not many question the lack of the high arm hardpoints.
look at the Executioner, warhawk, etc, no one complains the missiles is down low instead of up high, or the mist lynx, kitfox, etc.
Okay lets get of clan mechs- making it look like it's a clan only problem. The atlas doesn't have half of it's LRM 20 on the other torso- I can bet you when the annihilator is added to game it won't have twin AC 10 or gauss in 1 arm. but in the ST and arm.
Not many complain the locaiton of the CT laser for the locust.
etc.

If we go off that and onto profiling look at the damn Marauder in MW2,

That is not done 'properly", look at those long thing legs and arms and the weird proportions. this thing looks like even a commando can run up to it and break it's leg in two. Look back at the original now- there is problems litered with it everywhere, including the arms and legs.

going back to the AC 5- there is the fact it's very easy to hit and what will the hitbox say? CT? makes it a CT magnet from even the rear, ST? now 1 ST is severely in need of armour priority then the other like the hunchback for no reason ... etc