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[Willothius]

Maybe I missed this, but how does it work with a Hero with omnipods?
Basically, you'd be able to make every build you'd want out of the hero CT, right?

[ImperialKnight]

Willothius, on 09 July 2016 - 01:46 AM, said:

Maybe I missed this, but how does it work with a Hero with omnipods?
Basically, you'd be able to make every build you'd want out of the hero CT, right?

you can do anything you want with the CT

the more important question is how is PGI going to handle the Hero omnipods that are unique to the Hero. will they only be available with the Hero or will the omnipods eventually be available for CBills?

[MovinTarget]

knightsljx, on 09 July 2016 - 02:05 AM, said:

you can do anything you want with the CT

the more important question is how is PGI going to handle the Hero omnipods that are unique to the Hero. will they only be available with the Hero or will the omnipods eventually be available for CBills?

My guess is it will be handled like the omnipods for the loyalty clan mechs (nova and exe).

If I remember correctly you may not have access to them unless you own the chassis itself.

[Deathz Jester]

[Hawk819]

Sweet. . .

Aside Mektek patch, I've not seen this beauty since Ghost Bear's Legacy. And, boy, does she look tight! Kudos to Alex for doing his job, and doing it better than most text artist alive today.

[Milan24]

people are saying its gonna be a fast summoner but I dont know maybe a fast timber we'll see

[Avimimus]

I was rather looking forward to this mech - but unless they make it lower profile (as in the original concept) or quirk it - it'll likely have trouble holding up well.

[Avimimus]

Milan24, on 09 July 2016 - 11:34 AM, said:

people are saying its gonna be a fast summoner but I dont know maybe a fast timber we'll see

The Timber can carry 10 more tons of payload.

This mech will be a faster Summoner that can't jump and carries a slightly smaller payload.

[Uncle Totty]

Milan24, on 09 July 2016 - 11:34 AM, said:

people are saying its gonna be a fast summoner but I dont know maybe a fast timber we'll see

Well... in the lore It was intended to REPLACE the Timber Wolf.

[Dee Eight]

True, because a Timber Wolf was unable to keep up with its lance mates in a running battle.

[Bulletsponge0]

It bugs me that the mech is named after a position a position in American football, but the Hero variant is named after a term from car racing (thats NASCAR in the MWO vernacular).

Surely they could have found a more football-related name for it??

[LordKnightFandragon]

Hey look, its the Direwolf and Warhawk as big as they should be!!!!

[Sevronis]

Baphomech, on 07 July 2016 - 12:19 PM, said:

I agree. This chassis is traditionally more squat.

http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Linebacker

However, there may be sound reasoning for the higher profile in this concept. Time will tell.

Would also like to find out the reason for this. Definitely intended to be more squat "which resembles players of ancient American Football".

In fact I was thinking the chassis was similar to the Nova, just 65 tonner size.

Edited by Sevronis, 13 July 2016 - 04:12 PM.

[Dee Eight]

Bulletsponge0, on 10 July 2016 - 10:01 AM, said:

It bugs me that the mech is named after a position a position in American football, but the Hero variant is named after a term from car racing (thats NASCAR in the MWO vernacular).

Surely they could have found a more football-related name for it??

Hero mechs are named / taken from the LORE fiction written by the original battletech writers, and have little to do with the parent mech name generally. How is Black Widow or Bounty Hunter related to the Warhammer and Marauder beyond the names of famous pilots of them ? If they writers wanted to give a linebacker a hero name from another sports genre, they could do so...because the whole game, everything about it, is FICTION. There are no rules they have to follow in naming things. While there might be "conventions" when naming a class of something, the people who pay for the class can change the naming if they wish to.

Take naval warships for example... the USA used to follow a convention on naming but there were exceptions. Battleships for example, by law were named for states... except for USS Kearsarge (BB-5) which was named for a famous Civil War Sloop-of-war Kearsarge. But then you had things like the Alaska class Large Cruisers , that in armament, design and appearance were battlecruisers, but were named for US Territories and Possessions (Guam, Alaska, Hawaii, etc) and their hull classification letters were CB whereas the original code for battlecruisers in WW1 had been CC, and other cruisers were CA, CL. CA was originally Cruiser, Armored and later used for heavy cruisers where CL was Cruiser, Light. CC was Cruiser, Capital and CB was Cruiser, Big (though some treat it as Cruiser, Battle). Carriers originally followed cruiser conventions but then there were exceptions like Kitty Hawk, Forrestal, JFK and FDR, and Nimitz, etc. Pretty much the Congress and Navy will name any ship with any name they wish to, simply by passing a new law/act of congress authorizing them to do so as part of the funding for the ship. Likewise, the writers of Battletech and Mechwarrior franchises can name anything in the game, anything they want, as owners and authorized agents of the IP.

https://en.wikipedia...ing_conventions

http://www.sarna.net...O_Hero_%27Mechs

Edited by Dee Eight, 13 July 2016 - 05:10 PM.

[John Stryker]

I got excited for a second then realised I was thinking KW1-LH2 Lineholder.

[Bulletsponge0]

Dee Eight, on 13 July 2016 - 05:09 PM, said:

Hero mechs are named / taken from the LORE fiction written by the original battletech writers, and have little to do with the parent mech name generally. How is Black Widow or Bounty Hunter related to the Warhammer and Marauder beyond the names of famous pilots of them ? If they writers wanted to give a linebacker a hero name from another sports genre, they could do so...because the whole game, everything about it, is FICTION. There are no rules they have to follow in naming things. While there might be "conventions" when naming a class of something, the people who pay for the class can change the naming if they wish to.

Take naval warships for example... the USA used to follow a convention on naming but there were exceptions. Battleships for example, by law were named for states... except for USS Kearsarge (BB-5) which was named for a famous Civil War Sloop-of-war Kearsarge. But then you had things like the Alaska class Large Cruisers , that in armament, design and appearance were battlecruisers, but were named for US Territories and Possessions (Guam, Alaska, Hawaii, etc) and their hull classification letters were CB whereas the original code for battlecruisers in WW1 had been CC, and other cruisers were CA, CL. CA was originally Cruiser, Armored and later used for heavy cruisers where CL was Cruiser, Light. CC was Cruiser, Capital and CB was Cruiser, Big (though some treat it as Cruiser, Battle). Carriers originally followed cruiser conventions but then there were exceptions like Kitty Hawk, Forrestal, JFK and FDR, and Nimitz, etc. Pretty much the Congress and Navy will name any ship with any name they wish to, simply by passing a new law/act of congress authorizing them to do so as part of the funding for the ship. Likewise, the writers of Battletech and Mechwarrior franchises can name anything in the game, anything they want, as owners and authorized agents of the IP.

https://en.wikipedia...ing_conventions

http://www.sarna.net...O_Hero_%27Mechs

So what I can gather from your post, is that there is no Lore hero variant of the linebacker, thus PGI could have named it anything. and they chose a car racing themed name for a mech that is named after a position in american football. I'm not aware of any offical naming convention that PGI uses, but it still seems odd to me.

[Uncle Totty]

Well. This is a hell of a time to find out they do not use Karma Koin any more. ($40 I can't spend on this.)

[MechPorn]

[Dee Eight]

I'm going to skip this one after they've nerfed my kodiaks only two months since they released. Also I'm tired of these three week windows to pre-order they've been on the past three mechs.

[PFC Carsten]

After nerf bat hitting the weakest of chassis', the LCT, this hard: Do not buy anything from PGI.