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[El Bandito]

*edit* Wolfhound screenshots are up, its looking good! Very fitting look for an IS mech.








And as expected, it is in a pretty sweet spot for a humanoid Light. Even smaller than the Firestarter. Coupled with its slim waist, it is gonna be pretty durable even without JJs. And loss of arms from shielding will not matter as much due to abundant torsi mounts. In fact, its arms will most likely fall off first thanks to blocky shoulders.



*edit* Wolfhound cockpit is up!

Edited by El Bandito, 18 October 2015 - 11:25 PM.

[Bishop Steiner]

El Bandito, on 16 October 2015 - 05:47 PM, said:

And as expected, it is in a pretty sweet spot for a humanoid Light. Even smaller than the Firestarter. Coupled with its slim waist, it is gonna be pretty durable even without JJs. And loss of arms from shielding will not matter as much due to abundant torsi mounts. In fact, its arms will most likely fall off first thanks to blocky shoulders.

scale is good, jutting upper torso to shoulder ratio is not.

And in general, it looks like crap.

Meh.

[KrazedOmega]

It's ok. Looks like an uglier Panther to me.

[Burktross]

Mmmmm. shockwave

[Chados]

It's as small as a Spider and it'll zombie like a boss. As a 65-80 ton preferred driver, I hate it already.

[Bishop Steiner]

Chados, on 16 October 2015 - 07:26 PM, said:

It's as small as a Spider and it'll zombie like a boss. As a 65-80 ton preferred driver, I hate it already.

zombie..... yeah. I can't wait to watch that. Zombie means a blockier, non jumping std engine spider pew pewing with it's remaining 2 MLs..... much sacred!

[Scout Derek]

It's going to have good hit-boxes and armor quirks to cover it's jump jet weakness.

All in a going to be a solid mech with a possibility to tackle the arctic cheetah if quirked appropriately.

(Trust me, tell me that the hard-point location and it's hit-boxes aren't good)

[Homeskilit]

Approved

[Narcissistic Martyr]

Bishop Steiner, on 16 October 2015 - 07:52 PM, said:

zombie..... yeah. I can't wait to watch that. Zombie means a blockier, non jumping std engine spider pew pewing with it's remaining 2 MLs..... much sacred!

Eh, you can mount a STD280 and 4 or 5ML easily enough. Gives you the same speed as a cheeto... similar durability, and way WAY less firepower. But it'll be entertaining

[Fang01]

Still loving it. The majority of this playerbase didnt exactly salivate over this thing from announcement, seems like they're picking anything to cry about at this point. Tiny with great hardpoint placement and the best 35 ton speed till the Jenner iic in dec (and this ought to be a helluva lot tankier)

[Bishop Steiner]

Scout Derek, on 16 October 2015 - 08:02 PM, said:

It's going to have good hit-boxes and armor quirks to cover it's jump jet weakness.

All in a going to be a solid mech with a possibility to tackle the arctic cheetah if quirked appropriately.

(Trust me, tell me that the hard-point location and it's hit-boxes aren't good)

And you are basing the hitboxes off what, Derek? Seriously? That upper torso is HUGE and the shoulders provide ZERO protection.

Narcissistic Martyr, on 16 October 2015 - 08:19 PM, said:

Eh, you can mount a STD280 and 4 or 5ML easily enough. Gives you the same speed as a cheeto... similar durability, and way WAY less firepower. But it'll be entertaining

So slower than Cheetos and FS9s, can't jump, probably sorry hitboxes and less firepower?

And looks stupid to boot?

Sounds like the recipe for a winner to me, lol!

Fang01, on 16 October 2015 - 08:43 PM, said:

Still loving it. The majority of this playerbase didnt exactly salivate over this thing from announcement, seems like they're picking anything to cry about at this point. Tiny with great hardpoint placement and the best 35 ton speed till the Jenner iic in dec (and this ought to be a helluva lot tankier)

LOLWut? Majority of the playerbase has been whinging to get it since the beginning. SMH.

[El Bandito]

Bishop Steiner, on 16 October 2015 - 09:13 PM, said:

And you are basing the hitboxes off what, Derek? Seriously? That upper torso is HUGE and the shoulders provide ZERO protection.

Stop being so dramatic, Bishop. From the front it has less torso size than the Firestarter, and from the sides it can easily spread non-FLD damage due to its speed. And the arms do offer decent protection from the sides, unlike the Jenner. Now Jenner arms offer zero protection.

Edited by El Bandito, 16 October 2015 - 09:24 PM.

[Bishop Steiner]

El Bandito, on 16 October 2015 - 09:21 PM, said:

Stop being so dramatic, Bishop. From the front it has less torso size than the Firestarter, and from the sides it can easily spread the damage due to its speed. And the arms do offer decent protection from the sides, unlike the Jenner.

SMH. Uh huh.

OK.

[KuroNyra]

Bishop Steiner, on 16 October 2015 - 09:23 PM, said:

SMH. Uh huh.

OK.

Come on, it's far from that bad.

That guy is already tiny with a small profil and could easyly be a new kind of spider!

[Bishop Steiner]

KuroNyra, on 16 October 2015 - 09:33 PM, said:

Come on, it's far from that bad.

That guy is already tiny with a small profil and could easyly be a new kind of spider!

size is good, proportions are not. And the FS9 shoulders are way better.

And it still looks like crap.

It's funny...usually it's Bandito being the grump, and me white knighting.

I see little to get excited over this thing, sorry.

Edited by Bishop Steiner, 16 October 2015 - 09:36 PM.

[Tennex]

looks good

[Acheron Blade]

Even if it is decent from a quirks/game mechanics perspective, it is still really ugly...I have a hard time getting excited to play ugly mechs

[El Bandito]

Acheron Blade, on 16 October 2015 - 09:57 PM, said:

Even if it is decent from a quirks/game mechanics perspective, it is still really ugly...I have a hard time getting excited to play ugly mechs

As if people play in 3rd person view. Cockpit view is what matters, and the Wolfhound got pretty open view port.
I love my Battlemasters, but I would take more open cockpit over outer aesthetics, any given day.
#givebattlemasteritscanoncockpit

Edited by El Bandito, 16 October 2015 - 10:07 PM.

[Johnny Z]

KrazedOmega, on 16 October 2015 - 07:04 PM, said:

It's ok. Looks like an uglier Panther to me.

A few commenst on how ugly it is but I cant see that. Thats a great looking light mech. Its tight with little to nothing extra. Safe bet it will be a solid Inner Sphere light mech.

[lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol]

Bishop Steiner, on 16 October 2015 - 09:13 PM, said:

And you are basing the hitboxes off what, Derek? Seriously? That upper torso is HUGE and the shoulders provide ZERO protection.

@_@ Dude, Derek's a mod... careful.


But yes, sad the Wolfhound is what it is... and if this is the quality of the mechs being churned out now, I'm kinda horrified how they're going to treat the Warhammer and Marauder... let alone the IIC's...

Oh well, writing's been on the wall for a while...