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[Malorish]

Mech looks pretty . . . But . . .

It's DOA.


Terrible torso pitch makes those low mounted energy weapons worthless, coupled with horrid lack of quirks. It's basically just 4 missile hardpoints. Jump jets are nice, but wasted on this mech. It's basically not as good as the C1, and just as bad as the C4.

[A Man In A Can]

WVAnonymous, on 10 June 2016 - 03:26 PM, said:

The A1 has 40 tubes per arm, so I'm not too disturbed by the prospect of 35 tubes...

45 actually (3x15). And the boxes look capable of fitting all of them from a quick mock-up.

[Trauglodyte]

Cathy, on 10 June 2016 - 12:32 PM, said:

Thank god the Cassettes are gone, that's a bigger plus than the rescale of it.

That said the pictures confuse me somewhat, the default load out is SRM6 x4 yet the ears show it as LRM 70.

I am eternally great full the horrible is out of it, but i'm hoping the number of tubes change according to load out, if not, then while much much better than the awful modular system now thankfully removed, if the tubes display LRM70 all the time then its rather lazy, and doing mechs is what P.G.I are best at, so god help us if they have got this lazy, I'm going with, no they aren't for the moment, and hope i'm not dissapointed.

The Camo I'm a little disappointed with I expected more bumblebee and less scalely, but I suspect that Russ had a hand in this as he sounded like he had a personal dislike of this Hero when he talked about it on town hall, but I'm sure I can change that look, with more yellow and black or dark brown.

The artists like to make things look "cooler" by inflating stuff. When the Kodiak was first shown, it had a PPC or UAC/20 in every weapon location. It is just art!

[Barantor]

Trauglodyte, on 11 June 2016 - 07:24 AM, said:

The artists like to make things look "cooler" by inflating stuff. When the Kodiak was first shown, it had a PPC or UAC/20 in every weapon location. It is just art!

They fill all the weapon points to make sure it works and then someone else comes along and goes "that looks cool". They've done it on the streams that PGI does on Twitch with their artists and modelers.

[Narcissistic Martyr]

Needs a bumblebee paint job.

[C E Dwyer]

Juodas Varnas, on 10 June 2016 - 01:19 PM, said:

And i demand giving the Dragon a raised arm!

I demand chocolate !

[ScarecrowES]

Narcissistic Martyr, on 11 June 2016 - 08:17 AM, said:

Needs a bumblebee paint job.

But... it has a butterbee paint job. And the pilot's name was 'Butterbee.'

So... why bumblebee?

[Narcissistic Martyr]

ScarecrowES, on 11 June 2016 - 10:43 AM, said:

But... it has a butterbee paint job. And the pilot's name was 'Butterbee.'

So... why bumblebee?

Because I want a bumblebee looking catapult? But no the python thing is fine too...

[Juodas Varnas]

Narcissistic Martyr, on 12 June 2016 - 04:49 AM, said:

Because I want a bumblebee looking catapult? But no the python thing is fine too...

Can't you get the Jester and paint it Black and Yellow?

[Narcissistic Martyr]

Juodas Varnas, on 12 June 2016 - 05:09 AM, said:

Can't you get the Jester and paint it Black and Yellow?

Or I could just do black and yello stripes tbh. Mostly I just need something new to complain about. Getting tired of the beating the old dead horses.

[Bishop Steiner]

Narcissistic Martyr, on 12 June 2016 - 04:49 AM, said:

Because I want a bumblebee looking catapult? But no the python thing is fine too...

are you sure it's not cuz you thought it meant Bee like the insect? (I think Russ did, on the last TH).

BTW, I just wanna give Lauren Bamlett a shout out... from these photos we have so far, she did a spectacular job on that skin.

[ScarecrowES]

Bishop Steiner, on 12 June 2016 - 06:32 AM, said:

are you sure it's not cuz you thought it meant Bee like the insect? (I think Russ did, on the last TH).

BTW, I just wanna give Lauren Bamlett a shout out... from these photos we have so far, she did a spectacular job on that skin.

When I first saw it, I thought they just copied and pasted the pattern from the Nova-D(L), with a slightly different color pattern.

[Narcissistic Martyr]

Bishop Steiner, on 12 June 2016 - 06:32 AM, said:

are you sure it's not cuz you thought it meant Bee like the insect? (I think Russ did, on the last TH).

BTW, I just wanna give Lauren Bamlett a shout out... from these photos we have so far, she did a spectacular job on that skin.

Shhhh! I'm trying to save face.

[Bishop Steiner]

ScarecrowES, on 12 June 2016 - 09:09 AM, said:

When I first saw it, I thought they just copied and pasted the pattern from the Nova-D(L), with a slightly different color pattern.

hopefully you've gotten your vision checked or a higher res monitor since that first impression?

[ScarecrowES]

Bishop Steiner, on 12 June 2016 - 10:18 AM, said:

hopefully you've gotten your vision checked or a higher res monitor since that first impression?

*shrug* So many scaly camo patterns, they all start to blend together.

[Juodas Varnas]

ScarecrowES, on 12 June 2016 - 11:04 AM, said:

*shrug* So many scaly camo patterns, they all start to blend together.

So many scaly patterns? Like what? The Cobra pattern and now Butterbee? Yeah, that's a lot...

[Bishop Steiner]

Juodas Varnas, on 12 June 2016 - 11:06 AM, said:

So many scaly patterns? Like what? The Cobra pattern and now Butterbee? Yeah, that's a lot...

Loyalty Zeus/nova/wolverine had a semi snake skin look too

[Juodas Varnas]

Bishop Steiner, on 12 June 2016 - 11:55 AM, said:

Loyalty Zeus/nova/wolverine had a semi snake skin look too

Not even close!
They're hexagons! Like the TT maps!

[Bishop Steiner]

But still not that many and this one is far superior to the other two

Juodas Varnas, on 12 June 2016 - 11:56 AM, said:

Not even close!
They're hexagons! Like the TT maps!

Look at the actual pattern of light and dark. They actually do resemble snakeskin. I have my nova set specifically to that effect.

Yes they are based off hexmaps, but there is a reason so many think they are snake skin

[C E Dwyer]

ScarecrowES, on 11 June 2016 - 10:43 AM, said:

But... it has a butterbee paint job. And the pilot's name was 'Butterbee.'

So... why bumblebee?

Because Narsis and myself can't read !

I didn't know there was a python the colour of a chicken korma, and I concentrated on the Bee part

Bishop Steiner, on 12 June 2016 - 11:59 AM, said:

But still not that many and this one is far superior to the other two



Look at the actual pattern of light and dark. They actually do resemble snakeskin. I have my nova set specifically to that effect.

Yes they are based off hexmaps, but there is a reason so many think they are snake skin

Nope it's deffinately Hex squares, even mech pilots want to play table top Battle tech