Linebacker Now Available For Pre-Order
#81
Posted 08 July 2016 - 08:28 AM
#82
Posted 08 July 2016 - 09:00 AM
#83
Posted 08 July 2016 - 09:11 AM
Nightshade24, on 07 July 2016 - 09:45 PM, said:
PGI said we are getting 1 Medium clan 'Mech (atm Viper), 1 Heavy 'Mech (atm Night Gyr), 1 Medium (atm Kingfisher)... that left 1 heavy mech left, has to be an omnimech as well... Linebacker was the only choice left more or less.
Kingfisher is a Assault mech, I think your talking about the Huntsman. Any way, I didn't mean that I thought we would see the Pouncer as the next mech, I simply though we would see the Pouncer before anyone would consider the Linebacker.
I have one friend thats waiting to the Piranha light mech though I'm sure he only wants to see if it crashes the game (12X machine guns moving at 150+ KPH)
#84
Posted 08 July 2016 - 09:26 AM
Would the Mad Dog be a better choice for missiles? The Linebacker would have 66% of the missiles arm-mounted (low, but agile).
#85
Posted 08 July 2016 - 09:29 AM
Nightshade24, on 08 July 2016 - 03:49 AM, said:
Pretty sure he was just pointing out that people who buy this mech are stupid, just like people who put LRM's on an Atlas are stupid. Then he tried to make the point that if you keep buying these bad mechs then PGI will never learn to stop releasing them. Then he said people are bad at MWO and won't ever be able to be good. I think. Lol!
#86
Posted 08 July 2016 - 09:51 AM
#87
Posted 08 July 2016 - 10:02 AM
But this one...
I realize that shoulder-hip thing the Linebacker has wasn't going to happen. That just like the Nova it was going to end up on top of a turntable. But the Linebacker was always supposed to be this squat little thing almost as broad as it was tall. As depicted it is too tall, it isn't wide enough, and the cockpit looks like someone grabbed the front end of nearly any MISC-manufactured vessel from Star Citizen.
On the other hand, that 'special variant' scheme is flat-out amazing. I want it for my other mechs.
#88
Posted 08 July 2016 - 10:49 AM
How about new weapons ?
#89
Posted 08 July 2016 - 11:07 AM
#90
Posted 08 July 2016 - 11:14 AM
AnimeFreak40K, on 08 July 2016 - 01:54 AM, said:
They used the line-art, for one thing... all but ripped from art books (which were available at the time). Palladium Books did it too, but they also had full licensing to do so from Harmony Gold for their Robotech RPG.
Look, I'm not going to get into this debate... especially not here. I knew these mechs from Robotech, because that is what I knew of first and that is how I refer to them.
No...they didn't... look the real world timeline doesn't match up.
FASA went to the original japanese sources for the artwork for their game. They did NOT take anything from Harmony's Robotech, or Paladium's Robotech RPG, which btw didn't exist in 1984 when Battletech was created. Macross itself didn't debut on television until 1982. Robotech the tv series didn't debut until 1985, and Paladium's RPG adaptation was in 1986.
Harmony never had a valid license to the artwork for that matter, since they only purchased the international broadcast rights
to the original japanese shows, which they then edited together and changed the dialogue of to fit the new overall story arc of the Robotech universe to broadcast for american TV. This has been confirmed by Japanese court rulings. That they went around claiming they owned the rights and suing other companies didn't magically mean they were correct or telling the truth, as was embarassingly pointed out to them in court when Big West & Studio Nue asserted their rights as the sole owner of character and mecha designs for the original macross series FOURTEEN years ago.
#91
Posted 08 July 2016 - 12:33 PM
#94
Posted 08 July 2016 - 01:40 PM
Sephrus Shanadar, on 08 July 2016 - 08:28 AM, said:
the Nightstar is an IS mech, just so you know, in the "Marauder" family
Edited by Arkhangel, 08 July 2016 - 01:40 PM.
#95
Posted 08 July 2016 - 03:55 PM
#97
Posted 08 July 2016 - 04:23 PM
Aramuside, on 08 July 2016 - 01:38 PM, said:
So why post about it...wait .... because you wanted to say something and then not respond to counters...
...or he/she (what ever) did not expect counters because "they" (yeah, that is a "neutral" term) is (?) dumb.
...and YES. I have been drinking. (...am drunk.)
Edited by Uncle Totty, 08 July 2016 - 05:14 PM.
#98
Posted 08 July 2016 - 04:26 PM
martian, on 07 July 2016 - 11:51 AM, said:
- Linebacker - 17.5 tons of pod space available, speed 97 km/h
- Cauldron-Born - 30 tons of pod space available, speed 86 km/h
Thats the CB with speed tweak and the LB without...
It'll be closer to 20 KPH in the end. Heavies that peak 100KPH are quite handy indeed.
#99
Posted 08 July 2016 - 04:33 PM
Myj, on 08 July 2016 - 09:29 AM, said:
Pretty sure he was just pointing out that people who buy this mech are stupid, just like people who put LRM's on an Atlas are stupid. Then he tried to make the point that if you keep buying these bad mechs then PGI will never learn to stop releasing them. Then he said people are bad at MWO and won't ever be able to be good. I think. Lol!
Your analysis made my day.
#100
Posted 08 July 2016 - 05:19 PM
Dee Eight, on 08 July 2016 - 03:55 PM, said:
(Drunk me BTW): Stop it! You're making people THINK!
Edited by Uncle Totty, 08 July 2016 - 05:19 PM.
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