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[Mad Dog Morgan]

I hear it's bouncing around somewhere.

[luigi256]

Limitations of Cryengine is preventing the flea from entering the fray. It goes too fast with MASC and that messes up the game. Or something along those lines. At least that's what I've heard.

[Repasy Cooper]

Speed limitations be damned, I await patiently for this and the Fire Moth. I still don't believe it's impossible to include these roadrunner mechs.

[SnowFox]

If I remember right the problem was with the rendering engine + particle effects + high speed = Whorfage

IE PPC hitting super fast mech made things crash badly

In a nut shell anyways

Edited by SnowFox, 23 February 2016 - 01:38 PM.

[Mad Dog Morgan]

Imposed engine caps (that disallow it going over the Locust's speeds while operating with MASC) could make the Flea work in-game.

I really just want the Fire Ant, tbh.

Edited by Vaskadar, 23 February 2016 - 02:16 PM.

[Tordin]

How does the Flea surpass the Locust in speed really? On sarna it goes 97 km/h (119 km/h with MASC) VS the Locust 129.6 km/h

Even with speed tweak the Locust is still faster. Also I like the Fleas hardpoints better, higher mounts, more weapons overall. and it has shorter nose profile. Makes up for it, ditching speed. I want it regardless.
As I have said before, we got the Urban mech even if for some its not "useful". Yeah, IMO it could be applied to the Flea as well then. So no excuse. Better be good.

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

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

[Mad Dog Morgan]

There's still not a light mech with MASC, as well.

[Repasy Cooper]

SnowFox, on 23 February 2016 - 01:38 PM, said:

If I remember right the problem was with the rendering engine + particle effects + high speed = Whorfage

IE PPC hitting super fast mech made things crash badly

In a nut shell anyways

Is it only the PPC hitting high speed mechs that causes the crash? What if they just changed the particle effect of the PPC. I mean, I like how the PPC looks now, but if it's preventing the addition of some very popular mechs then idonwannit!

[Nightshade24]

luigi256, on 23 February 2016 - 01:32 PM, said:

Limitations of Cryengine is preventing the flea from entering the fray. It goes too fast with MASC and that messes up the game. Or something along those lines. At least that's what I've heard.

The thing is unlike the firemoth the Flea could be fixed by simply giving it a low max engine... that's all you need to do to fix it- make sure with masc it out runs a locust but without it it's slower. it's enough until we increase the speed cap.

[Steel Raven]

It doesn't help that the Cryengine has proven to be unreliable at best.

My buddy had a team that dropped with nothing but Spiders as a gag a few years ago, crashed the game in a matter of minutes. Granted, the game has improved allot but Flea might not be worth the trouble.

[Mad Dog Morgan]

Nightshade24, on 01 March 2016 - 10:57 PM, said:

The thing is unlike the firemoth the Flea could be fixed by simply giving it a low max engine... that's all you need to do to fix it- make sure with masc it out runs a locust but without it it's slower. it's enough until we increase the speed cap.

This is what would allow the Flea to enter the game without breaking it.

I want that fire ant.

[Nightshade24]

Vaskadar, on 02 March 2016 - 07:55 PM, said:

This is what would allow the Flea to enter the game without breaking it.

I want that fire ant.

Fire ant is technically a very late variant of the Flea- the best you will get is a Flea hero mech that has those hardpoints and have flamer quirks -evil laugh- and they thought it was annoying as [bloop] in Mech Commander >=)

[Avimimus]

I don't think there is a technical obstacle anymore - rather they decided to make a locust (addressing the unseen issue) and didn't want two 20 ton mechs.

[Nightshade24]

Avimimus, on 04 March 2016 - 09:33 PM, said:

I don't think there is a technical obstacle anymore - rather they decided to make a locust (addressing the unseen issue) and didn't want two 20 ton mechs.

Any examples?

[DoctorGizmo]

Only time will tell where it is, but once it comes out; I'm going to make you all itch.

[Red Shrike]

GIB FLEA

No, seriously I've waiting for ever since its announcement.

[Lily from animove]

Vaskadar, on 23 February 2016 - 01:12 PM, said:

I hear it's bouncing around somewhere.

lazy unskilled paint reply


thats why

Edited by Lily from animove, 18 June 2016 - 05:50 AM.

[Tordin]

The flea is a go go. PGI need to be drowned in demands first, like the urbanmech. Also they could be effective buddies to the locust. Two 20 tonners with some differences and mechs in arms!

[Avimimus]

It would be so cute! Yes?

[LordKnightFandragon]

Flea the Wiesel 1 of this game. The mech that should die in 1 hit no matter what, but is alot stronger then it should be.