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[Chados]

I want the Hollander II. Bring back the Schnozz!

[El Bandito]

GreyNovember, on 26 October 2016 - 06:20 AM, said:

So a biiiiig faaaat slooooow catapult with cbills in the cockpit?

Except Longbow looks nothing like a Catapult. Also, with PGI's engine rules, it will probably run around 67.5 kph max speed, which isn't slow for an Assault. My AWS-8R runs at 65.3 kph in comparison and it is never left behind.

Edited by El Bandito, 26 October 2016 - 06:45 AM.

[GreyNovember]

El Bandito, on 26 October 2016 - 06:41 AM, said:

Except Longbow looks nothing like a Catapult. Also, with PGI's engine rules, it will probably run around 67.5 kph, which isn't slow for an Assault.

Doesn't it?

Bipedal, two big ol arms on the sides that fire missiles.

Shaped a little different sure, but for the purposes of LRMs and SRMs?

We saw how heavier, humanoid catapult worked with the Archer. What do you expect from the longbow?

[El Bandito]

GreyNovember, on 26 October 2016 - 06:44 AM, said:

Doesn't it?

Bipedal, two big ol arms on the sides that fire missiles.

Shaped a little different sure, but for the purposes of LRMs and SRMs?

We saw how heavier, humanoid catapult worked with the Archer. What do you expect from the longbow?

I expect great things from the Longbow, because after 200+ games with the ARC-5W in solo-q I have almost 2:1 WLR. And that's from a mech with extremely low cockpit, which severely hurt its ability to get locks by itself. Longbow, on the other hand, has high mounted cockpit and all high mounted missiles. It's gonna bring bigger rain while earning that sweet extra 30% C-Bills with the Hero variant.

[Gas Guzzler]

Ace Selin, on 25 October 2016 - 11:43 PM, said:

100 percent of people i surveyed said the next IS mech should be the Anvil 60 ton ECM capable, JJ ready heavy mech.



I agree.

It looks and sounds good (high engine cap too), but its all laser vomit

Edited by Gas Guzzler, 26 October 2016 - 06:50 AM.

[TheMundaneYesYes]

I want superheavies. Although the Omega comes pre-nerfed due to gauss rifle limits and would probably get beaten into the ground rather fast.

Edited by Number767, 26 October 2016 - 07:28 AM.

[Bombast]

Number767, on 26 October 2016 - 07:27 AM, said:

I want superheavies.

[RAM]

TheArisen, on 26 October 2016 - 12:14 AM, said:

The Crusader is just another 65t missile mech, yeah it's unseen but beyond that?

Leg weapons!


RAM
ELH

[Alistair Winter]

GreyNovember, on 26 October 2016 - 06:20 AM, said:

This actually interests me.
If I ever dare suggest battlemechs move in a non-western way, I'll get a torrent of vitriol to " Go back to ******* weaboo gundam land ".
How exactly do you see Melee weapon wielding mechs to actually HIT Things?
Giant robots with swords is as gundam as gundam gets. Is this going to be slow, deliberate sword stances?
Because if Battlemechs don't jet around on the ground with JJs and do gundam things to close with targtes, I don't understand why they're given melee weapons.

It would have to be like a knife attack in other FPS games, basically. But I would prefer if using a melee attack had two effects:

• It takes about 2 seconds to raise your weapon and strike with it. And then there is a small cooldown.
  
• While you are using your melee weapon, you can't fire other weapons. This prevents people from spamming heat-free melee attacks while brawling.
  
• Ideally, there would need to be a melee animation, kind of like how there is a shutdown / power-up animation.

[Appogee]

NVM

Edited by Appogee, 26 October 2016 - 07:48 AM.

[Mole]

If it's over 35 tons my wallet is still shut tight. I don't know what it's going to be, but if PGI wants my money it better be a light.

[Valdarion Silarius]

Ace Selin, on 25 October 2016 - 11:43 PM, said:

100 percent of people i surveyed said the next IS mech should be the Anvil 60 ton ECM capable, JJ ready heavy mech.



I agree.

Good. With another IS mech with high weapon mounts, JJ's, and ECM (and at 60 tons) it would be more reason to have the Rifleman IIC announced in December (65 tons, high energy/ballistic mounts, JJ's and BAP).

Edited by Arnold The Governator, 26 October 2016 - 07:54 AM.

[Dee Eight]

Grand Titan would be nice since they keep pushing out assault mechs. Hatamoto-Chi fills all the variant requirements right off the bat. I will not be surprised if the make it the Marauder II though. Guillotine would be the heavy mech I'd like to see...and it might be why we just got a "the hangman" decal in the latest patch.

[Widowmaker1981]

Arnold The Governator, on 26 October 2016 - 07:52 AM, said:

Good. With another IS mech with high weapon mounts, JJ's, and ECM (and at 60 tons) it would be more reason to have the Rifleman IIC announced in December (65 tons, high energy/ballistic mounts, JJ's and BAP).

Id rather have the Pheonix Hawk IIC, Warhammer IIC or Griffin IIC. Clan already have two good 65 tonners, where they have zero good 80 tonners (PHX/WHM) or 40 tonners (GRF)

[ccrider]

Anvil. I need a 60 tonnes and it's sexy enough to mix with my zeus' and Phoenix hawks.

[Valdarion Silarius]

Widowmaker1981, on 26 October 2016 - 08:09 AM, said:

Id rather have the Pheonix Hawk IIC, Warhammer IIC or Griffin IIC. Clan already have two good 65 tonners, where they have zero good 80 tonners (PHX/WHM) or 40 tonners (GRF)

I would eventually would like to see the Warhammer IIC down the road, but not right after another assault release for the clans. The clans do need more mediums, but I think that PGI should focus and dedicate the majority of 2017 just for light/medium mechs since there wasn't any lights released this year. Yet again I'm trying to put logic in Russ's hair brained mech lineup.

[Bombast]

Widowmaker1981, on 26 October 2016 - 08:09 AM, said:

Id rather have the Pheonix Hawk IIC...

[Juodas Varnas]

Just give me my Scorpion already!
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I'd also take a Vulcan.

[CK16]

Bombast, on 26 October 2016 - 08:27 AM, said:

I agree, no offense to the fans. This is not Gundam wing, and hopefully never is. Mechwarrior has never been that face passed. A Gundam game would remind me of a twitch shooter like CoD

[GreyNovember]

Alistair Winter, on 26 October 2016 - 07:44 AM, said:

It would have to be like a knife attack in other FPS games, basically. But I would prefer if using a melee attack had two effects:

• It takes about 2 seconds to raise your weapon and strike with it. And then there is a small cooldown.
  
• While you are using your melee weapon, you can't fire other weapons. This prevents people from spamming heat-free melee attacks while brawling.
  
• Ideally, there would need to be a melee animation, kind of like how there is a shutdown / power-up animation.

About two seconds sounds like more than enough time for a Dire wolf to reverse away from a weapon that has a windup animation before it strikes.

A knife would be a spider taking a long scrap of rebar, running behind something, and blackacking it.

CK16, on 26 October 2016 - 08:36 AM, said:

I agree, no offense to the fans. This is not Gundam wing, and hopefully never is. Mechwarrior has never been that face passed. A Gundam game would remind me of a twitch shooter like CoD

8th MS team would like a word with you.