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[DAYLEET]

You guys always ask for the next best mech. Thats highly inefficient. Lets find out the single very best mech ever and only add that to the game and we can all play that and save ourselves some trouble and wasted times.

[Strum Wealh]

Alistair Winter, on 03 January 2016 - 10:11 AM, said:

I want the Cougar! God damn, I want the Cougar!

An omnimech had a baby with a god damn fighter jet! It's going to be slow, but it's going to have an insane amount of firepower. There's a Cougar variant that has a gauss rifle! No big deal? Well, it also has five frickin CERMLs as "backup weapons". That's the same armament you see on Gargoyles and Executioners!

Oh hello, I'm a flying 35 ton mech with 50 point alpha strike.

Spoiler

For five tons heavier, you can get the Pouncer - like the Cougar, it is another Puma knock-off, and this one is actually in-timeline (with the Prime, A, B, C, and D configs)!

[MauttyKoray]

Knight Phaeton, on 03 January 2016 - 09:55 AM, said:

I want it so much... So beautiful and shiny assault. Please, please, create it in the following Clan Waves!

Sure, just need my bushwhacker first.

[Alistair Winter]

Strum Wealh, on 03 January 2016 - 04:11 PM, said:

For five tons heavier, you can get the Pouncer - like the Cougar, it is another Puma knock-off, and this one is actually in-timeline (with the Prime, A, B, C, and D configs)!

That's... the ugliest cockpit I've ever seen on a mech

[Strum Wealh]

Knight Phaeton, on 03 January 2016 - 09:55 AM, said:

I want it so much... So beautiful and shiny assault. Please, please, create it in the following Clan Waves!

martian, on 03 January 2016 - 09:58 AM, said:

Unfortunately, it's from 3066. Now we are in early 3050s.

FupDup, on 03 January 2016 - 10:01 AM, said:

Timeline.

The Mad Cat Mk.II is unlikely to ever happen in MWO due to being so far out-of-timeline, so the OP would be better-off asking for a Turkina (a slightly-heavier & conceptually-close OmniMech, where the right combination of OmniPods can come close to replicating the Mk.II's loadout) or a Supernova (another BattleMech of the same tonnage as the Mk.II, for which PGI would have to create two variants).

[pbiggz]

Strum Wealh, on 03 January 2016 - 04:11 PM, said:

For five tons heavier, you can get the Pouncer - A ******** version of the puma, like the Cougar, it is another Puma knock-off, and this one is actually in-timeline (with the Prime, A, B, C, and D configs)!

FTFY

Strum Wealh, on 03 January 2016 - 04:22 PM, said:

The Mad Cat Mk.II is unlikely to ever happen in MWO due to being so far out-of-timeline, so the OP would be better-off asking for a Turkina (a slightly-heavier & conceptually-close OmniMech, where the right combination of OmniPods can come close to replicating the Mk.II's loadout) or a Supernova (another BattleMech of the same tonnage as the Mk.II, for which PGI would have to create two variants).

AGAIN I reiterate in the strongest of terms

THE TIMELINE IS UTTERLY MEANINGLESS

Edited by pbiggz, 03 January 2016 - 04:24 PM.

[Fox With A Shotgun]

Is it just me or do half these mechs look like Marauders or derivatives of marauders? o.O

[Strum Wealh]

Alistair Winter, on 03 January 2016 - 04:15 PM, said:

That's... the ugliest cockpit I've ever seen on a mech

It seems very "Discovery, from 2001: A Space Odyssey", IMO.

[Random Carnage]

Imperius, on 03 January 2016 - 11:17 AM, said:

Huh? I play a Gold Dire Wolf currently I'm looking to lose some weight.

Same. The Dire is obsolete due to being so damned slow - acceleration, deceleration, climb, top speed and torso twist (both speed of and degree of...).

Add to that the barn-on-legs target profile of the CT and yeah, I'm looking to shed some weight also.

[knight-of-ni]

Yes, timeline, but those who have been around long enough know that PGI has a "time machine", which we know goes backwards. I bet their time machine can also go forward.

[Ted Wayz]

So many more I would like to see. But how about PGI put up another vote?

[Sigilum Sanctum]

pbiggz, on 03 January 2016 - 04:23 PM, said:

AGAIN I reiterate in the strongest of terms

THE TIMELINE IS UTTERLY MEANINGLESS

You keep saying this, but until Russ decides to say otherwise its something you have to consider. Please sit down.

[Ted Wayz]

DAYLEET, on 03 January 2016 - 03:29 PM, said:

You guys always ask for the next best mech. Thats highly inefficient. Lets find out the single very best mech ever and only add that to the game and we can all play that and save ourselves some trouble and wasted times.

I saw this video once where an Urbie took out a *** ton of Atlas. So maybe we already have it?

[Strum Wealh]

pbiggz, on 03 January 2016 - 04:23 PM, said:

AGAIN I reiterate in the strongest of terms

THE TIMELINE IS UTTERLY MEANINGLESS

And on what do you base your assertion?

Russ specifically addressed the timeline in the 09/10/2015 Town Hall podcast (at the 39:28 mark in this clip, to the 42:04 mark, as well as under "Q10" in the summary posted here) - specifically, he states that they are not finished with the Clan Invasion era, and that they want to see multiple months of the Clan Invasion play out before moving further into the timeline (or allowing for multiple timelines).

So...
1.) Do you have a more-recent statement from Russ, Paul, (maybe) Bryan, or any other authority at PGI indicating that PGI has abandoned the timeline concept? If so, then provide a link.
2.) Are you, yourself, an employee of PGI who would have the authority to make such a decision?
3.) Do you own a sufficiently-large interest in PGI, such that you hold sway over the company's decisions?

Unless and until one of those three things is demonstrated to be true, your assertion doesn't exactly carry much (really, any) weight AND can safely be declared to be demonstrably false.

[BadgerWI]

I don't think it gets in because it's made buy the clans and sold almost exclusively to the inner sphere.

[Sazabi Steppenwulfe]

timeline matters but have patience. i don't think PGI wants to take all these balance problems any further into the future until they have it fixed. I surmise that the recent release of IICs (second generation,Clan) is a further "testing" of functionality to identity problems now before moving any further on the timeline.

that and way to make more money (hey, Session Wars are expensive)

[TheArisen]

Alistair Winter, on 03 January 2016 - 04:15 PM, said:

That's... the ugliest cockpit I've ever seen on a mech

It's like the Vulcan gave into an eating disorder...

[BadgerWI]

Also it has inner sphere weapons and clan internals if I remember correctly. I don't know how they could handle that with the no mixed tech policy.

[MauttyKoray]

BadgerWI, on 03 January 2016 - 06:00 PM, said:

Also it has inner sphere weapons and clan internals if I remember correctly. I don't know how they could handle that with the no mixed tech policy.

Like the IICs it would probably be an 'exception'. Allowed to equip the IS weaponry but still need to use Clan DHS, Engines, etc.

[BadgerWI]

Would this be an exception the the IS could use? Because it was in use in at least 4 of the great houses. If so I want my Mad Cat MK II.