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#121 Bishop Steiner

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Posted 08 December 2015 - 05:43 AM

View PostThe Great Unwashed, on 08 December 2015 - 04:45 AM, said:

These single-release mechs are really annoying; I'd prefered a pack with all four of them and be done with it.

Willing to bet, most of us do not. Some of us like the fact we can look at each mech on it's own merits and decide, rather than be forced to buy a crappy mech to get the ones we want, because a la carte is for idiots, in most cases.

Same number of mechs being released as before, more freedom and better early adopter rewards in total, for us to do so.

So sorry you have to look at new mech art monthly, so terrible!!!

#122 Bishop Steiner

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Posted 08 December 2015 - 05:47 AM

View PostLily from animove, on 08 December 2015 - 05:04 AM, said:


No sry those Eare not very good.

reason? low cockpit. if you wanna shoot things you need to see things as well. so hardpoints + cockpit have to be high to be a good choice. the geometry for the archer to hillpop is not bad at all yet not as good as you think it will.

true, though similar cockpit height has not made the Stormcrow appreciably more shot at in the torso.... a fact that constantly amazes me, TBH. Though the archer wont have the speed or wonking gait to help.

If Russ and crew are smart though, it will get some heavy structure/torso buffs.

Archers are known for being plain jane vanilla combat platforms, reliable, but not remarkable. So aside from maybe some missile heat generation, I think it should be mostly defensive quirks to help it emulate it's tough and reliable reputation.

#123 Karl Streiger

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Posted 08 December 2015 - 05:53 AM

View PostBishop Steiner, on 08 December 2015 - 05:33 AM, said:

you mean Fake Thomas Marik? Meh, he may pilot one, but he is not exactly "notable" for piloting one.

I just hope we don't get another Kell, Wolf Hero - but back to the IV-Four; Sparky; Deaths Knell, Arrow Line.

So have to be "Six Gun Slim" or "Archeron IX"

I also hope for the 5S rather than the 2S because i would have some missiles in the arms...lob LRMs at target 1 and blast target 2 with SRMs would be nice.

Or they fix the 2S and 2W and place the missiles right from the beginning into the arms

#124 Bishop Steiner

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Posted 08 December 2015 - 06:10 AM

View PostKarl Streiger, on 08 December 2015 - 05:53 AM, said:

I just hope we don't get another Kell, Wolf Hero - but back to the IV-Four; Sparky; Deaths Knell, Arrow Line.

So have to be "Six Gun Slim" or "Archeron IX"

I also hope for the 5S rather than the 2S because i would have some missiles in the arms...lob LRMs at target 1 and blast target 2 with SRMs would be nice.

Or they fix the 2S and 2W and place the missiles right from the beginning into the arms

Six Gun I am fine with, but so far as I know, we have what one possible Kell Hero atm...I think they tried to claim Quarantine was Salome Ward?

And Morgan Kell is arguably the most famous Archer Pilot. So I have no qualms if it's him. That said, we do have more than enough Wolfs, already.

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Posted 08 December 2015 - 06:16 AM

Job well done, PGI. :)

Now, about the Phoenix Hawk and Crusader..... ;)

#126 Waffles 2pt0

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Posted 08 December 2015 - 06:26 AM

View PostThomasMarik, on 07 December 2015 - 05:50 PM, said:

it will not save you from my SRMs. What should we call it? Splat arc? Splater?

I am quite fond of "Splatiator" myself.

#127 Malleus011

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Posted 08 December 2015 - 06:36 AM

Quarantine was Salome Ward's? I never saw anything suggesting that, though it was the canon pilot I wanted. Awful 'mech, terrible paint job ... one of the few heroes I sold back.

They've been going pretty iconic with the Reseen heroes. Bounty Hunter, Kerensky, Legend Killer. I'm betting we'll get Kell. I hope they don't give us a 40K skin like Legend Killer or beat it with the ugly stick like Quarantine or Jester.

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Posted 08 December 2015 - 07:56 AM

Whoa missile bay doors again! When was the last mech we got that had missile doors? Kintaro?

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Posted 08 December 2015 - 08:41 AM

OMFG! My next most fav Macross mech!!! (First being the Century-D commander pod Marauder of course)

#130 GroovYChickeN

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Posted 08 December 2015 - 09:47 AM

Art is sexy as always but I'll wait to see that in games models before getting excited. I got excited in the past just to have the model come out looking like poo.

Nice to see more of the classic mechs though.

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Posted 08 December 2015 - 09:53 AM

Yeah, it will be down to how the in-game model looks. Like, the art for the Centurion looks hellacool, but the in-game models... is really wide, which looks, well, not as good at all.

#132 Juodas Varnas

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Posted 08 December 2015 - 10:04 AM

View PostRizzelbizzeg, on 08 December 2015 - 07:56 AM, said:

Whoa missile bay doors again! When was the last mech we got that had missile doors? Kintaro?

Kintaro has missile doors? Posted Image

Well, hopefully, that means maybe they'll bring back missile doors for mechs like the Centurion (oh how much i miss those 10 individual doors we had, it was such an awesome design and i'm so pissed they f*cked it up so bad)

#133 MeiSooHaityu

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Posted 08 December 2015 - 10:11 AM

View PostBishop Steiner, on 08 December 2015 - 05:33 AM, said:

you mean Fake Thomas Marik? Meh, he may pilot one, but he is not exactly "notable" for piloting one.


Will the real Thomas Marik please stand up? I'll repeat, will the real Thomas Marik please stand up?...We're gonna have a problem here.

#134 Oni74

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Posted 08 December 2015 - 10:13 AM

View PostBishop Steiner, on 07 December 2015 - 06:11 PM, said:

or Morgan Kell, leader of the Kell Hounds.... and actually a more notable combat pilot that Wolf. Thanks to plot armor, mystic mumbo jumbo, etc.......


I was thinking the same name - I've foggy recollection of reading on Morgan Kell's fights in his archer in the old school Blood of Kerensky series of books when I was in HS. I'm ready for the Archer. Marauder > Warhammer > Archer > Phoenix Hawk and I'm set. (Sorry Rifleman and Crusader)

#135 Scout Derek

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Posted 08 December 2015 - 10:14 AM

Hey, Bishop... Posted Image

I told ya the Archer would be next or the rifleman... and I was right Posted Image

Now Ima buy this guy and have a awesome SRM mech Posted Image



EDIT: Dang typos... >:-(

Edited by Scout Derek, 08 December 2015 - 10:17 AM.


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Posted 08 December 2015 - 11:13 AM

View PostJuodas Varnas, on 08 December 2015 - 10:04 AM, said:

Kintaro has missile doors? Posted Image

Well, hopefully, that means maybe they'll bring back missile doors for mechs like the Centurion (oh how much i miss those 10 individual doors we had, it was such an awesome design and i'm so pissed they f*cked it up so bad)


ya lol, it's in the ct which is odd. I just leave that hardpoint empty because i don't like the delay on that rack when I alpha and I still get the 10% damage resistance or whatever they boost when closed.

Interestingly, none of the clan mechs have missile doors. IDK if that's a lore thing or what

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Posted 08 December 2015 - 11:45 AM

Anyone else prefer this?

I certainly do.

I find the Archer terrible. Like the cockpit...is out of scale. I prefeer have the cockpit higher.


Let the flame begin! Posted Image

Edited by Sarlic, 08 December 2015 - 11:46 AM.


#138 jss78

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Posted 08 December 2015 - 12:00 PM

Showed my wife the picture (she's a biologist). She thinks it looks like:

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#139 Juodas Varnas

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Posted 08 December 2015 - 12:15 PM

View PostSarlic, on 08 December 2015 - 11:45 AM, said:

Anyone else prefer this?

I certainly do.

I find the Archer terrible. Like the cockpit...is out of scale. I prefeer have the cockpit higher.


Let the flame begin! Posted Image

Sorry dude, but i disagree with you on this one.
I'd even want the current Archer's cockpit for the Marauder too.

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Posted 08 December 2015 - 12:20 PM

Oh sweet mech you...

I'm getting the ARC-5R straight outta Satalice assembly line... why can't I place my order already!!!
And the stock is like the one I enjoy running in my founders





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