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[DjPush]

Read something about this. I was wondering what it is all about. Can somebody fill me in on what it will include and it's importance in the game?

[Juodas Varnas]

Well, you know how some mechs are just WAAAAAAAAAAAY too huge for their tonnage?
Well, they're planning on trying to fix that.

[Tyler Valentine]

Supposedly, they will make my Awesomes even more AWESOME!

Is it weird that in the last month the Awesome has become, by far, my favorite 'mech in the game?

[DivineEvil]

Tyler Valentine, on 21 January 2016 - 10:57 AM, said:

Supposedly, they will make my Awesomes even more AWESOME!

Is it weird that in the last month the Awesome has become, by far, my favorite 'mech in the game?

Not really. It looks great, and weapon quirks are best across the Assault class. I've got them in November and think they're underrated and heavily biased against.

Although I've always wished PGI would make them the heavily armored brutes as they're supposed to be by canon, not a convenient, despite mean, targets for an opposing team.

[Not A Real RAbbi]

Yeeaaahhhh...

If you could go ahead and make the SHD and GRF NOT as tall as an AS7, that'd be great.

Thanks, Russ...

[Y E O N N E]

DjPush, on 21 January 2016 - 10:23 AM, said:

Read something about this. I was wondering what it is all about. Can somebody fill me in on what it will include and it's importance in the game?

In most cases, it involves shrinking the existing 'Mech down proportionally, with maybe some tweaks to those proportions.

In the Catapult's case, the 'Mech is being completely remodeled from the ground up. It will be smaller, it will have all missiles contained in the boxes (hopefully the boxes vary in size by total contained tube counts), it will have big PPC barrels, and it will have one completely new variant added to the line-up. They said it's going to follow the same concept art, so don't expect a radical departure visually, but do expect it to be very pretty and very good on the field.

[Fox With A Shotgun]

TheRAbbi, on 21 January 2016 - 06:53 PM, said:

Yeeaaahhhh...

If you could go ahead and make the SHD and GRF NOT as tall as an AS7, that'd be great.

Thanks, Russ...

This. I've run into SHD / GRF in snowblind frozen city so many times, flipped out when i saw something that I thought was an assault or a heavy in a SplatFox....and then was left scratching my head when they exploded in one or two volleys. They appear extremely large for their tonnage, and are about as easy to hit as an assault as well.

Edited by Fox With A Shotgun, 21 January 2016 - 06:56 PM.

[MechWarrior5152251]

I can still dream that my Nova will suddenly shrink to the size of a Crab!

[Bishop Steiner]

TheRAbbi, on 21 January 2016 - 06:53 PM, said:

Yeeaaahhhh...

If you could go ahead and make the SHD and GRF NOT as tall as an AS7, that'd be great.

Thanks, Russ...

Eventually. But since they are actually focusing on the ones that are being gameplay impacted (height really not a biggy....) I can wait on the ones I just want to for looks and sanity.

MechWarrior5152251, on 21 January 2016 - 07:15 PM, said:

I can still dream that my Nova will suddenly shrink to the size of a Crab!

since it's the first being done....