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[Mercato]

Hallo zusammen und ein frohes neues Jahr.

Sind Hero Mechs in MWO eben Hero weil sie doll angemalt sind und sich auch andersweitig von ihren Klassen unterscheiden oder sind sie besondere Mechs aus dem Lore der Bücher und Romane?

Wenn es letzteres ist, könnte mir dann hier jemand behilflich sein und vielleicht nennen welcher Mech in welchem Buch auftaucht?

[BansheeNTD]

Ich habe keine Ahnung von der Battletech Lore, aber die Heroes sind eine Mischung aus echten Loremechs von Charakteren aus dem Battletech Universum und selbst gemachten von PGI.

Der Sparky ein "true" Hero.

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GRF-1E Griffin Sparky The personal ‘Mech of Elle Bennett of the 5th Donegal Guards, prior to the War of 3039 she had replaced the LRM launcher of her Griffin with five medium lasers, one mounted in each torso, one beside the PPC and two in Sparky's left arm. The additional weight saved goes towards an extra heat sink and an additional ton of armor.

Quelle: Sarna

Wärend z.B der Dragon Slayer von PGI selbst stammt.
Die Heroes haben einen +30% CBills Bonus sowie andere Hardpoints sowie Quircks.

Wenn irgendwas nicht stimmt, bitte korregiert mich. ^^

Edited by BansheeNorn, 01 January 2016 - 07:50 AM.

[BUMMBUMM]

machmal unterscheiden sie sich auch durch geringfügig andere Engine-ratings, torso/arm twist/pitch winkel und geschinkdigkeiten, sowie manchmal durch andere anzahl jumpjets oder die fähigkeit ECM zu tragen von den anderen Varianten des gleichen Chassis.
ausserdem sind sie doll angemalt ^^
soll heissen sie haben ein besonderes muster dass nicht geändert werden kann, die farben können aber geändert werden.
wichtigste merkmal ist aber der cbill bonus.
und falls du gedenkst dir einen hero zuzulegen, solltest du einen nehmen mit dessen normalen chassis du gut umgehen konntest und mit denen du spass hattest.

[Raubwurst]

Farbschema? Egal! CBills Bonus? Egal!
Lore!
Durch aus sind mehrere der Heroes aus den Büchern übernommen:
- Pirates Bane - Lori's Heuschreck (Bücher 1-3)
- The Gray Death - Grayson Carlyle's Schattenfalke (Bücher 1-3, glaube aber nur im 1. Buch fährt er den)
- Yen-Lo-Wang - Der gute Centurion, in dem schon Justin Xing Allard Solaris unsicher gemacht hat und der dann später von Kai Allard-Liao übernommen wurde (schon in den Büchern ein echtes Biest, in MWO super getroffen!)
- Sparky -

BansheeNorn, on 01 January 2016 - 07:45 AM, said:

[color=#959595]GRF-1E [/color]Griffin[color=#959595] Sparky The personal ‘Mech of Elle Bennett of the [/color]5th Donegal Guards[color=#959595], prior to the [/color]War of 3039[color=#959595] she had replaced the LRM launcher of her [/color]Griffin[color=#959595] with five medium lasers, one mounted in each torso, one beside the PPC and two in Sparky's left arm. The additional weight saved goes towards an extra heat sink and an additional ton of armor.[/color]

- Bounty Hunter - geführt vom berüchtigten Kopfgeldjäger, der einfach nur "Bounty Hunter" also "Kopfgeldjäger" genannt wird und diesen Marodeur von der Schwarzen Witwe Natasha Kerensky erbeutet hat.
- Black Widow* - Natasha Kerenskys Warhammer, nachdem sie ihren Marodeur verloren hat
- Legend Killer* - Grey Noton's Rifleman mit dem er den Titel des Champions von Solaris inne hatte, bevor er von Justin Xiang vertrieben wurde
- Tempest* - Der Archer eines der beiden Gründer der Kell Hounds: Morgan Kell. Unter Beteiligung dieses 'Mechs sind die zwei großen Kämpfe zwischen Morgan Kell und Yorinaga Kurita ausgetragen wurden (großartige Kämpfe!) in den Büchern erreicht Morgan einen Moment, in dem sein 'Mech anscheinend unzerstörbar wird (was eigentlich so aller Logik des BattleTech Universums den Mittelfinger zeigt).

*Mechs momentan noch nicht im Spiel, aber vorbestellbar.

Leider weiß ich bei den anderen nicht, in welchen Büchern die vorkommen. Yen Lo Wang müsste so immer mal wieder zwischen Buch 5 und 15 vorkommen.


Das sind alle wahren Heroes, die ich kenne, korrigiert mich, wenn bei einem dieser meine Erinnerung nicht korrekt war.

Zudem gibt es zu den letzten 4 jeweils eine Kurzgeschichte, welche extra für MWO geschrieben wurde:
Marodeur:

Spoiler

InnerSphereNews, on 24 November 2015 - 09:46 AM, said:

Dawn River Region

Nova Roma

The Protectorate, Free Worlds League
20 June 3014

The black-sheathed Marauder fought like a demon.

While the blue-tinted sun of Nova Roma was still an hour from the horizon, deep in the ravine dusk was already here, incandescently illuminated by bursts of charged particle beams, lasers, muzzle flashes, and the explosions of devastating impacts. Outnumbered more than two to one, a heavy lance of Wolf’s Dragoons Beta Regiment, Special Recon Group, still lashed out with a fury that shocked the attacking loyalists.

From a concealed alcove at the end of the five-kilometer-long ravine—big enough to fit his Warhammer—the Bounty Hunter scratched at his unshaven face, the dried sweat of days in the cockpit flaking away. He tapped his BattleMech’s cockpit console to zoom his forward viewscreen onto the right region of the evolving battle, just as a large-bore autocannon stream of metal death savaged the internal structure of a Dragoons Phoenix Hawk. The forty-five-ton BattleMech seemed to collapse in on itself as frayed bits of what remained of its internal torso collapsed under the remaining weight, and it toppled to the ground.

Despite the growing darkness, he saw no ejection.

The Bounty Hunter stretched until ligaments and vertebrae popped. He took a sip of water while watching the trap spring. Sorry about that, Natasha, he mused. I know much you care about your misfits. But business is business, and the loyalists pay better than Anton. To ease the day’s long hunger pang, he crunched on a granola bar pulled from a small pack behind his command couch. Not to mention, doesn’t matter how many successful battles and inroads he makes. We all know Anton’s revolt is doomed. It may take a bit for the Captain-General to cow the disparate hotheads into line, but once the rest of the Free Worlds League’s might is brought to bear …

As though driven to new heights of acumen, the black Marauder raised both arm weapon pods, pointing them toward two separate targets. Azure particle beams whipped towards loyalist BattleMechs. The first shot punched through the head of a Hermes; the BattleMech felled as though poleaxed. The second seemed to embrace the right leg of a previously damaged Hunchback, tearing the weakened limb clean away. That ’Mech toppled as well.

The Bounty Hunter’s eyes widened; the battle seeming to pause as though mid-heart beat. Then the loyalist BattleMechs ignored the remaining Dragoon pilot and poured all of their firepower into the Marauder.

A whistled filled his cockpit. “Blake’s Blood, Web-Head. You are as good as you say.”

Natasha’s Marauder, already severely damaged, disappeared for a moment under the brutal onslaught, before a small but brilliant flash from within the tempest announced an ejection, and her command couch rocketed away, leaving the BattleMech crouched down, somehow managing to stay upright. The loyalists finished off the last Black Widow BattleMech in short order.

The Bounty Hunter pulled his neurohelmet back on with a smile and powered up his Warhammer.

Good … looks like you’re gonna survive, Web-Head. And to really stick this knife, I’m gonna make your Marauder my own. If we meet again, I want you frothing … and I’ll still take you down.

MARAUDER “BOUNTY HUNTER”

One of the first designs to embrace a nonhumanoid configuration, the Marauder was hailed as the pinnacle of BattleMech design when it was unveiled in 2612. As with the Warhammer, the Marauder quickly became a heavy BattleMech of choice across the Star League Defense Force. Its battlefield performance—along with its unusual, menacing outline—even gave birth to the belief that claiming a kill against a Marauder was a hallmark of personal prominence.

Any child across the Inner Sphere knows the name “Bounty Hunter.” This phenomenon arose from a convergence of several factors.

Modern rumors traced to a “bounty hunter in a green BattleMech” first appeared in the 2920s, then grew in dark corners as the Bounty Hunter began to appear over the decades, always with a splash in a spectacular battle.

In 3014, a personal feud began between the Bounty Hunter and the femme fatale of the Inner Sphere, Natasha Kerensky, which saw his star rise further.

In 3047, a bombastic action holovid series, The Bounty Hunters, exploded into high ratings across the Inner Sphere. While it only lasted three seasons before the reality of the Clan Invasion soured most audiences on its gratuitous violence, the holovid had left its mark. While only loosely based on reports of the real Bounty Hunter, myth and reality were forever merged until most can’t tell the difference.

No one is sure who the Bounty Hunter is or whether it’s a title handed down through the years. Only those that have faced him and managed to come out the other side alive know the reality may even exceed the wildest conjecture.

Written by Randall Neil Bills

Catalyst Game Labs


MARAUDER BLUEPRINT

Warhammer:

Spoiler

InnerSphereNews, on 16 November 2015 - 04:06 PM, said:

Ducal Palace



Alpha Continent, Le Blanc
Draconis March, Federated Suns
11 October 3026



“Hey Web-Head!”



Across the open comms frequency, the arrogant words slapped Natasha Kerensky like a sucker-punch to the gut. For a long, frozen moment, the tableau remained fixed in her vision, disbelief laser-etching it on her awareness.



The palace garden’s beautiful fall colors clashed against the horror of the unfolding trap. The brilliant oranges, reds, and yellows of foliage scattered across the three long paths that wound through the gardens. Behind her, fallen blocks of broken wall attested to the improvised entrance into the large palace compound her Warhammer’s powerful kick had created. The reflecting pools thrashed with the violence of enemy BattleMechs—four of them, lights to mediums—rising from their depths like krakens from a cheesy horror vid.



And behind her, through the gaping wound of that wall…



Her fingers paled to corpse-white and creaked around her joysticks as the strain of her rage threatened to overwhelm. Her eyes locked on the rear portion of her BattleMech’s viewscreen.



Framed in the gap, as though pausing for a military recruitment poster, stood a bright emerald Marauder, a large C-bill painted on the center of its chest. Its arm-weapon pods aimed deadly with intent, and behind the heavy ’Mech approached two similarly painted Shadow Hawks.



Her volatile rage flashed to incandescence, every thought but revenge washing away even the needs of this raid. Natasha clenched her teeth to open up the general frequency as she stomped her right pedal and massaged the throttle forward for a quick spin. Confident her lancemates would make quick work of the four enemy BattleMechs inside the walls, she maneuvered to protect her vulnerable rear while bringing her weapons to bear as quickly as possible.



“It’s you and me, Bounty Hunter!” Natasha yelled. “You robbed me, damn your hide! It’s you and me!”



Her opponent, sheathed in his own arrogance of skill, superior numbers, and their sprung trap, waited for her to turn.



Knowing how quickly her ’Mech could overheat, she belayed the use of her paired Donal Particle Projector Cannons. Instead, as her targeting reticule flashed gold with a lock, she squeezed the trigger for her secondary targeting interlock. Twin medium lasers, a single PPC, and a spiral of six short-range missiles fired at the target.



Her vision flashed white alongside her rage as the Bounty Hunter raised his weapon pods to take the damage, as though saying taking your best shot; armor slagged and exploded from across the ’Mech’s torso and arms. The bright flashes and smoke of the impacts momentarily obscured the BattleMech before a slight breeze whisked it away to show the Marauder’s twin pods once more aimed, flashing azure bolts of manmade lightning back at her.



Her ’Mech. The double-damned Bounty Hunter had defeated her twelve years ago … stole her Marauder … and now he was using it against her!



Her Warhammer bucked against the maelstrom as more than a ton of armor vaporized in return for her damage. But she was the Black Widow, and the Bounty Hunter would learn what that meant this day!

WARHAMMER “BLACK WIDOW”

A procurement officer requested a "...mobile ’Mech with enough firepower to destroy or severely damage any ’Mech of the same class or lower.” When the final BattleMech rolled off the StarCorps Industries assembly line, the Warhammer fit the bill well, quickly becoming a mainstay in the Star League Defense Force. Its superb balance of armor, weapons, and speed made it extremely popular with Star League Gunslingers as well. Ultimately the Warhammer clinched its place as one of the most successful heavy BattleMechs ever produced.



Friends and foe alike have called Natasha Kerensky “the Black Widow,” “the First Lady of Death,” “the Queen of Spades,” and other names far less flattering. Yet whenever she and her black-and-red Warhammer stalk any battlefield, panic, chaos, and defeat follow in her wake. Natasha leads the Black Widow Company—an independent command within the mighty Wolf’s Dragoons—and her MechWarriors would storm the gates of hell at her side.



Across six and a half centuries of BattleMech conflict, no name has been more sensationalized, demonized, feared, or respected than the Black Widow.



Written by Randall Neil Bills

Catalyst Game Labs







WARHAMMER ORTHOGRAPHIC

Rifleman:

Spoiler

InnerSphereNews, on 09 November 2015 - 10:28 AM, said:

The Coliseum, Silesia

Solaris City, Solaris
Federation of Skye, Lyran Commonwealth
15 August 3017
Gray Noton leaned forward in his command couch, left hand slamming the throttle full-forward. Though he knew the idea was ridiculous, he couldn’t help the physiological reaction as he tried to imbue his Rifleman with every ounce of energy to push the ’Mech to its limit. The dozen-meter-tall avatar of manmade death darted forward at sixty-four kilometers an hour, at an odd angle as though it might fall over, as the machine’s two-meter-long feet pounded into the sandy floor of the massive, Class V Coliseum arena.
With the movable partitions separating portions of the massive fighting floor already on their way down, Noton knew his adversary expected him to fall back and keep range. After all, why close when he outranged his opponent’s Victor with almost every weapon at his disposal?
But he’ll expect it. Never do the expected. And I know what you’ll try, Hoftsteder: what every MechWarrior from Fitzhugh Stable is trained for in the Coliseum.
Noton leaned back into the command couch; sweat stung his eyes. The weight of his neurohelmet, a well-known friend, rubbed his shoulders as he pulled the throttle smoothly back. The Rifleman almost slid on the sandy ground, coming to an abrupt halt at the edge of the descending partition. Dragging his weapon’s joystick into the air, his BattleMech’s long arms—paired Magna large lasers and Imperator-A autocannons—searched for a target.
Right … about …
The eighty-ton Victor vaulted into view on the blindingly bright plasma of its jump jets before the massive partition was barely halfway down.
Noton grimaced. His aim was off by a good two meters, but he quickly swung the targeting reticule in line as it burned bright gold across his HUD. He grinned wickedly and pulled the triggers, managing pinpoint accuracy despite the machines’ relative motions. Twin cerulean beams flashed, gouging white-hot furrows and sloughed off armor in blobs of already cooling slag. The autocannons followed, vomiting metal towards the target, chewing into the already damage right leg. Recoil and the rapidly dropping BattleMech attempted to walk the streams up the Victor’s leg, but Noton kept his aim on track, savaging the last of the limb’s armor and sinking deep into the ’Mech’s shin. Secondary flashes of bright light spawned from additional internal structural damage within the blackened cavity.
Hyperfocused, time seemed to dial down. Against the waves of waste heat washing through the cockpit after the alpha strike, Noton gasped and watched the Victor touch down.
Come on … come on!
The assault ’Mech’s leg crumpled under the hard impact of the jump. The Victor listed heavily before collapsing to the ground in a roar.
Time sped back up. Noton’s second-to-last bout before the finals was finished. The roar of the crowd—heard even through the cockpit—replaced the rumble of his adversary’s limb-shattering fall.
Noton backed away just in case Hoftsteder hadn’t yet realized he’d lost, then he played to the crowd by raising the barreled arms of his Rifleman into the air, a titanic gladiator excepting his due from a rapturous audience.
They already called him Legend-Killer for taking the championship last year, and this victory set him well on his way to another championship. They all underestimated him.
Wait till my other Rifleman is ready. Then I’ll really own this world and topple every MechWarrior from their Valhalla thrones.

RIFLEMAN “LEGEND-KILLER”

A truly ancient BattleMech design, the Rifleman debuted before the Star League in 2505. Several variants attempted to redress some of the original’s design flaws. The RFL-3N received widespread acceptance and was heavily produced for the Star League Defense Force.
While the name “Legend-Killer” is used interchangeably to reference both BattleMech and pilot, the Rifleman Legend-Killer was piloted by Gray Noton to a series of smashing successes in the Solaris VII arenas during the 3016–3022 seasons. For seven years Legend-Killer reigned as champion, a feat unmatched in nearly 250 years of arena combat. To the delight and surprise of spectators, the sixty-ton Rifleman often faced assault-class BattleMechs and defeated them. While Noton’s skills are undeniable, the continued exceptions of what should’ve been a rare occurrence lead to rumors that Legend-Killer was actually a much higher-mass design than its reported sixty tons, or was possibly upgraded with Star League–era lostech Noton found in the Periphery during his time as a mercenary.
Regardless of the truth, Legend-Killer remains a name known and feared across the Inner sphere.


Written by Randall Neil Bills
Catalyst Game Labs


RIFLEMAN ORTHOGRAPHIC

Archer:

Spoiler

InnerSphereNews, on 16 December 2015 - 01:34 PM, said:

PRE ORDER THE ARCHER MECH PACKAGE

Desolate Plain
Oregon, Mallory’s World
Draconis March, Federated Suns

23 February 3016


Like an avatar of death, the red-painted Warhammer filled Morgan Kell’s HUD until the BattleMech blocked out all of existence.
Gasping against the overheated air, awash in sweat and fatigue that dragged at muscles until each movement was painful, Morgan slowly closed his eyes, lifted his chin, waiting. Accepting.
I have fought the good fight. My men … my brother … they will survive to fight another day.
A calm settled across him. The exhaustion of the hours-long duel with Yorinaga Kurita—the finest MechWarrior Morgan had ever faced—eased, then disappeared. That calm washed down into Morgan’s soul and even, he fancied, into his bones. A serene sense of gracefully bowing before the inexorable march of the inevitable freed feelings he’d not known since the Periphery. Since …
Ah, Tempest, my love …. how I miss you.
Yet he felt only joy at their time together, not the bittersweet of separation—a price paid in full for the time shared with that brilliant woman.
Even through the hermetically sealed cockpit and the muffling of the neurohelmet, the cacophony of Yorinaga’s alpha strike hammered at Morgan’s consciousness. Despite his calm, a quick inrush of breath held for long moments before he realized—
Huh …? I’m not dead? What the hell? How did Yorinaga miss?!
Almost without thought, his body moved, arms grabbing joysticks and wrenching weapons fire. The Archer’s missile covers opened, and a spread of forty long-range missiles leapt at the Warhammer bearing the steel insignia of the Draconis Combine’s elite Second Sword of Light regiment. Though too close to arm, they battered the enemy BattleMech nevertheless. The missiles momentarily occluded the Warhammer with the dust of impact, giving Morgan time to wrench his kneeling, one-armed ’Mech back to its feet.
Braced and waiting for the approach of death this time, Morgan saw the Warhammer appear from the smoke and once more unleash every weapon at its disposal: searing particle beams, lasers, and missiles reached out to embrace the Archer.
[color=black]An eerie [/color][color=black]déjà vu[/color][color=black] enveloped Morgan until he shook as a leaf on the wind,[/color] skin prickling. He gasped for air.
At point-blank range, one of the finest MechWarriors stalking any battlefield missed every single weapon shot. For the second time.
Am I already dead?

St. Marinus House
Zaniah III
Isle of Skye, Lyran Commonwealth

19 November 3018

Morgan shot awake from the nightmare with a bloodcurdling shout, kicking off drenched bedding as though it were the confines of his cockpit from years ago. Blind with panic despite the dim bank of coals in the corner alcove, he strove for calm, drawing on the breathing exercises and calming techniques he was learning through the graceful brothers of St. Marinus House. But to no avail. The images and feelings seared in his mind: a monstrous, out-of-control BattleMech that careened and stomped, tearing at his sanity.
What the hell happened to me that day?
Morgan collapsed back into his bed and curled into a fetal position. He waited for the worst of the attack to pass, enduring the pain, knowing that even if he found the lee, the storm was always just a sleepless night away.
Until I can figure it out, I must remain in exile. Too dangerous. Too dangerous for me, too dangerous for my brother and the Kell Hounds …
Too dangerous ….
Too dangerous ….
Too dangerous ….
The metronome of his racing heart accompanied him back into oblivion.

ARCHER “TEMPEST”
First produced in 2474, the Archer was designed as a long-range fire-support BattleMech that would harass an enemy at range while also causing significant damage in the process. It brought a successful mix of paired Doombud LRM 20s with a bevy of Diverse Optics medium lasers as backup weaponry for close-in work. The Archer was not only a mainstay of the Star League Defense Force, but most of the Successor States produced a variety of variants, building on the impressive original platform.
Arriving on the world of Galatea in 3010 with an inheritance and a dream to build a mercenary command, Morgan and Patrick Kell were originally derided for their naiveté. In the decades since, Morgan has achieved legendary status, not only for creating one of the most formable mercenary commands in the Inner Sphere but also for the infamous showdown between himself and Yorinaga Kurita on Mallory’s World in 3016. The duel gave rise to rumors that Morgan possessed a mystical “phantom ’Mech ability,” making it impossible for Yorinaga to defeat him. These rumors were only fueled further when Morgan stripped the Kell Hounds to a single battalion and retired to a monastery on Zaniah III. Morgan came out of retirement as the Fourth Succession War raged, and he would go on to lead the rebuilt Kell Hounds in some of the most important battles of that war and the Clan Invasion.
Whether Morgan actually possesses a mystical ability is irrelevant in the face of his vast strategic and tactical genius. Paired with his Archer, “Tempest,” he is a force to be reckoned with on and off any battlefield.


Written by Randall Neil Bills
Catalyst Game Labs

[Mercarryn]

Ein paar der Heroes wurden schon in einigen Hardware-Handbüchern erwähnt, entweder HH 3039 oder HH3050

• The Death's Knell (HH3050)
  
• Pretty Baby (HH 3039)
  
• The Arrow (HH 3039)

[Mercato]

Danke schonmal an alle. Ich habe gehofft das die irgendwie in Storys und Büchern vorkommen. Hat sich ja zum Teil bestätigt. Was es mit dem STK-M Misery auf sich hat wüsste ich gerne.

Ich brauch mir so schnell glaube ich keine Heros mehr kaufen. Hab nämlich schon einige. Ne nette Story zu den Heromechs zu schreiben wäre mal was für den Verbesserungsthreat.

[Mangeras]

Der Hero Orion, der Protector ist eine Anlehung an Kerenskys Custom Orion-K der mitunter Tech nutzte die es in MWO nicht gibt und entsprechend angepasst wurde.

Und ich vermute der Grid Iron ist ein wenig inspiriert durch den HBK-4G Hunchback Gauss Prototype. Die sind mit einem Gauss Prototyp zu Testzwecken ausgestattet und haben damit haben sie sogar eine Söldnereinheit vertrieben, die Dinger hatten eine immense Feuerkraft auf einer für einen Hunchback unfassbar hohen Reichweite. Die Designstudie wurde allerdings wieder fallen gelassen weil die Hunchies beim Feuern der Gauss aufgrund des Rückschlags ein wenig ins straucheln gerieten oder sogar umgefallen sind^^

Der Hero Awesome Pretty Baby bereuht auf einer Erwähnung im Technical Readout: 3025, gefahren von Danielle Peterson, in dem Teil erwähnenserter Piloten. Es gab allerdings keine Stats, also keine Daten zur Ausrüstung des Mechs.

Beim Schreiben hab ich grad erst Mercarryns Post gesehen, den Commando und den Blackjack spare ich mir dann mal^^

Der Battlemaster Hellslinger ist eine Sternenbundvariante, der abkühlende Effekt ist vielleicht eine Anlehnung an die Erwähnung von 16 DHS die den Mech besonders "cool" halten. Ein spezieller Pilot oder so wurde da nicht erwähnt.

Zum Stalker Misery hab ich lediglich ne Theorie^^ Es gibt eine Stalkerin in dem Film Misery von Stephen King. Das führte vielleicht zu der Namensgebung des Mechs

Vindicator St. Ives Blue ist die eigene Variante von Major Michael Jones und zuvor seinem Vater und er diente als Grundlage für den VND-1SIC.

Mehr fällt mir grad nicht ein, dafür müsste ich etwas stöbern aber ich denke das reicht erstmal

[Dodger79]

Mangeras, on 01 January 2016 - 01:49 PM, said:

Und ich vermute der Grid Iron ist ein wenig inspiriert durch den HBK-4G Hunchback Gauss Prototype. Die sind mit einem Gauss Prototyp zu Testzwecken ausgestattet und haben damit haben sie sogar eine Söldnereinheit vertrieben, die Dinger hatten eine immense Feuerkraft auf einer für einen Hunchback unfassbar hohen Reichweite. Die Designstudie wurde allerdings wieder fallen gelassen weil die Hunchies beim Feuern der Gauss aufgrund des Rückschlags ein wenig ins straucheln gerieten oder sogar umgefallen sind^^

Ich weiß ja, dass BT und MWO mit realer Physik tendenziell eher wenig zu tun haben, aber der Gedanke, dass ein durch Magneten beschleunigtes Projektil so viel Rückstoß hat, dass eine 50 Tonnen schwere Maschine dadurch ins Straucheln gerät, während das gleiche Chassis problemlos einer größten jemals gebauten "Panzer"geschütze herkömmlicher Bauart (sprich mit Reibladung und Rückstoß und allem pipapo) tragen und abfeuern kann, ist schon ein wenig amüsant...

[Túatha Dé Danann]

Denk dran, dass Hero-Mechs nicht die einzigen Mechs sind, die einen 30% C-Bill Bonus geben. Es gibt die gekauften Mechs aus Paketen, von denen 1 bis max. 2 Mechs diesen Bonus geben (siehe das IIC-Paket, von denen die erste Version immer diesen Bonus gibt) bzw. jetzt die Reseen-Pakete, von denen du bis zu zwei dieser Boni-Mechs pro Chassis besorgen kannst. Es gibt auch noch Spezial-Mechs, wie aus mehreren Bonus-Programmen, wo PGI diese Mechs als Dank für treue Kundschaft verschenkt.

Fürs Gameplay spielt der Lore-Aspekt keine Rolle, für Rollenspieler (die Stock-Mech Events fahren oder Spaß dran haben sich von Meta-Mechs abschlachten zu lassen) sind es aber trotzdem nette Gimmicks.

Da Hero-Mechs Echtgeld kosten, achte darauf keinen Fehlkauf zu machen. Es gibt auch hier einige Mülltonnen, obwohl sie Echtgeld kosten, aber es gibt auch Mechs, die mit den Meta-Mechs zu mindest mithalten können.

Lange Zeit weil zum Beispiel der Ilya Muromets sehr beliebt und ist auch heute noch passabel zu spielen. Auch die Misery ist eine solide Wahl. Auch der Raven Huggin bzw. der Jenner Oxide sind für Light-Piloten interessant, aber es gibt halt jetzt den Jenner IIC bzw. den Arctic Cheetah, die in den Paketen ebenfalls 30% C-Bill Bonus geben und im Vergleich zu den IS-Varianten schlichtweg besser sind.

Ich empfehle dir einen Hero zu wählen, den du tatsächlich auch oft benutzt bzw. wenn du ihn fährst, dass du Spaß damit hast. Bau dir vorher in Smurfy den Mech zusammen und gucke, ob dir das Loadout gefällt und zu deinem Spielstil passt. (Beispielbuilds findest du überall) - evtl. kannst du das Loadout auch in einen anderen Mech packen und gucken, obs dir gefällt (so als Substitution) und dann den Hero entsprechend fahren.

Letzte Anmerkung: Achte auf Angebote (50% Rabatt) um zuzuschlagen. Manchmal kannst du auch auf Testservern Heros gratis testen und gleich Master-Skills freischalten. Das ist der Moment, wo du wirklich gucken kannst, obs dir gefällt.

Hoffe, das hat geholfen.

[Mangeras]

Dodger79, on 01 January 2016 - 01:55 PM, said:

Ich weiß ja, dass BT und MWO mit realer Physik tendenziell eher wenig zu tun haben, aber der Gedanke, dass ein durch Magneten beschleunigtes Projektil so viel Rückstoß hat, dass eine 50 Tonnen schwere Maschine dadurch ins Straucheln gerät, während das gleiche Chassis problemlos einer größten jemals gebauten "Panzer"geschütze herkömmlicher Bauart (sprich mit Reibladung und Rückstoß und allem pipapo) tragen und abfeuern kann, ist schon ein wenig amüsant...

Vielleicht lags daran das es experimentelle Gauss Geschüte waren Aber ja, ich musste auch sehr schmunzeln als ich den Text, aus vielerlei Hinsicht^^

[Eglar]

Raubwurst, on 01 January 2016 - 09:21 AM, said:

Farbschema? Egal! CBills Bonus? Egal!
Lore!

naja so ganz nach dem lore sind die mechs dann doch nicht, z.B. hat Lori's Locust 4xMGs,1xML und weder ECM noch AMS (auf dem Pirate's Bane kann man jedoch keine MGs anheften)

Spoiler

Aus Buch 1 Decision at Thunder Rift:
Lori checked her 'Mech for damage. One machine gun was out, whether melted or bent in the fall, she couldn't tell. Most of the ammunition had cooked off on that side of her 'Mech, so it was possible that exploding machine gun rounds had damaged the gun. She had only three heat sinks left, and that was more serious. With only three operational heat exchangers, the Locust would overheat the first time she fired its laser — unless she could finish the battle hull-deep in the lake.

Ich finde die ideen trotzdem cool (nur die umsetzung etwas bloed).

[BansheeNTD]

Ich hätte es ja nett gefunden wenn man den Ebon Jaguar Prime (I) den Beinamen Samantha gegeben hätten.
Dann hätten wir endlich mal einen Clan "Hero" mit ner Lore. :3

[T-Rex]

Eglar, on 01 January 2016 - 02:13 PM, said:

naja so ganz nach dem lore sind die mechs dann doch nicht, z.B. hat Lori's Locust 4xMGs,1xML und weder ECM noch AMS (auf dem Pirate's Bane kann man jedoch keine MGs anheften)

Stimmt nicht so ganz der PB hat 2 Ballistik Hardpoints im CT. Aber insofern hast du auch Recht denn der Locust den Lori/Greyson gefahren haben war ein normaler 1V.

[Raubwurst]

Also PGI wartet noch auf ein paar neue Mitarbeiter, dann fangen die an Clan Heros zu machen. (Texture Artist werden dafür noch angeworben).

[Mangeras]

Raubwurst, on 01 January 2016 - 02:34 PM, said:

Also PGI wartet noch auf ein paar neue Mitarbeiter, dann fangen die an Clan Heros zu machen. (Texture Artist werden dafür noch angeworben).

uh das find ich nice Woher weist des? Und bauen die uns auch unsere neuen Pilotenskins?

[Dodger79]

Raubwurst, on 01 January 2016 - 02:34 PM, said:

Also PGI wartet noch auf ein paar neue Mitarbeiter, dann fangen die an Clan Heros zu machen. (Texture Artist werden dafür noch angeworben).

Bisher haben die doch auch Leute, die Texturen machen, warum brauchen die also neue Mitarbeiter, um die die (I)- und (S)-Varianten als Heroes zu verkaufen? Bei denen bräuchten sie nichtmal die Texturen verändern...

Und ganz ehrlich: dank der Omnipods braucht man doch ehe keine Heroes mit speziellen hardpoints. Bei den Clannern ist das echt vergebene Liebesmüh und unnötiger Aufwand.

[BansheeNTD]

Dodger79, on 01 January 2016 - 02:42 PM, said:

Bisher haben die doch auch Leute, die Texturen machen, warum brauchen die also neue Mitarbeiter, um die die (I)- und (S)-Varianten als Heroes zu verkaufen? Bei denen bräuchten sie nichtmal die Texturen verändern..

Egal, Hauptsache ich habe irgendwann 10 Ebon Jaguars im Hangar stehen!

[Eiswolf]

Bei den Clans fallen mir nur zwei Mechs die ein Hero werden könnte...
Aidan Prydes Timber... den er in der Schlacht um Tukkayid gesteuert hat...
Dashi wäre vielleicht Victor Steiner Davions Mech interessant...

Hmmm...

[Raubwurst]

Kann dir leider nicht die Quelle nennen, aber müsste ein Video mit Russ Bullock gewesen sein, also vermutlich das letzte Town Hall Meeting (alternativ hab ich's auf Twitter gelesen )
Zumindest sagte er, dass Texturartisten gesucht werden, welche sich dann um die Clan Heroes kümmern würden. (Vermutlich sind die aktuellen mit den neuen Mechpacks ausgelastet)

Neuer Pilotenskin ist auch geplant, aber keine ETA dazu genannt wurden.

[Dodger79]

Eiswolf, on 01 January 2016 - 02:45 PM, said:

Bei den Clans fallen mir nur zwei Mechs die ein Hero werden könnte...
Aidan Prydes Timber... den er in der Schlacht um Tukkayid gesteuert hat...
Dashi wäre vielleicht Victor Steiner Davions Mech interessant...

Hmmm...

Prometheus, der Daishi von Victor, hatte eine wirklich interessante und effektive Konfiguration, leider wäre sie in MWO aufgrund von Ghost heat und Gaus-cooldown nicht wirklich konkurrenzfähig (und ganz abseits davon auch bereits jetzt baubar). Und Aidans TBR haben wir mit dem Timber-S quasi schon, da das wirklich besondere an diesem Mech seine Sprungfähigkeit war.