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[InnerSphereNews]

Countdown to Linebacker Release Nov 15th

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LINEBACKER : 1 day to release

Sneak Peek Video

LINEBACKER : 2 days to release

Cockpit Preview

LINEBACKER : 3 days to release

Linebacker Clan Faction Patterns

Clan Ghost Bear

Clan Jade Falcon

Clan Smoke Jaguar

Clan Wolf

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Linebacker Scale Comparisons

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Linebacker Quirks

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DESKTOP IMAGES

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TITLES AND BADGES

STANDARD TITLE:

The Defender

BADGE:

COLLECTORS TITLE:

The Kicker

COLLECTORS BADGE:

*Collectors edition comes with both titles and badges

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[Luscious Dan]

The Linebacker's beefier than I would have imagined, eager to see the scale comparison to see how it looks alongside fellow 65'ers like the Ebon Jaguar and Hellbringer.

Love that digital camo skin too.

[Juodas Varnas]

It looks much better in this picture than the last one.

Still a clan mech, so... Pass (get it? it's a football pun)

[SuperFunkTron]

Even the arm weapons will be pretty high up on this thing. I can hardly wait for this thing to be released!

[Kael Posavatz]

Juodas Varnas, on 08 November 2016 - 01:30 PM, said:

It looks much better in this picture than the last one.

Still a clan mech, so... Pass (get it? it's a football pun)

Yeah, this one looks loads better than the concept sale.

It's one of the reasons I punted. (cue all American-rules football puns)

[TercieI]

Lol. So cheezy.

[Morggo]

Nice and thick and chunky, like all good clan target... errrr.... mechs... should be.
Can't wait to add some linebacker's to the kill list I mean, look at those legs! nom-nom-nom....


(seriously though, My Clan friends..you got yet another sexy looking mech...)

Edited by Morggo, 08 November 2016 - 01:52 PM.

[-Ramrod-]

DOA unless this thing is quirked to hell like the Summoner or Nova. 16.5 tons of pod space isn't enough for any substantial loadouts on a 65 ton mech. 104.4 kph doesn't mean anything if you don't have anything powerful to shoot with. And if you can hit a Stormcrow going 104.4 then you can easily hit a Linebacker. So.....armor/structure quirks, accel/decel/turn rate quirks, weapons quirks, heat quirks, but I'm sure PGI will barely quirk the thing. Alongside with that set of 8 garbage nonsense they insist on doing now that actually punishes you for you know...using an omnimech as an omnimech. Maybe fun but I predict DOA. Moderate performance at best.

[Gas Guzzler]

TercieI, on 08 November 2016 - 01:51 PM, said:

Lol. So cheezy.

Lol the mech or the titles/badges?

[TercieI]

Gas Guzzler, on 08 November 2016 - 01:56 PM, said:

Lol the mech or the titles/badges?

I kinda like the mech's looks. The title/badges and "theme" of the mech...so '80s cornball.

[Luscious Dan]

More hard points (and fairly high mounts all around), but with just 0.5 tons more pod space than the Shadow Cat and no ECM/MASC/JJs it'll be interesting to see how it plays. Multiple energy hardpoint options will give it some options, but nothing really unique. SCR, HBK-IIC, EBJ and HBR all have a lot more free tonnage to play with.

*shrug* It doesn't ******* away, but then again we don't exactly need any more KDK-3 level meta builds do we? I hope that Mech_con reveals some exciting new modules/skill trees to give mechs a unique role on the field. If some mechs had access to different skill trees than others, it could give mechs with similar tonnage/hardpoint counts vastly different roles in combat.

Edit: lol I didn't expect that phrase to be censored, but I guess it does have that whole other usage as well.

Edited by Luscious Dan, 08 November 2016 - 02:26 PM.

[The Boneshaman]

They should make all the badges in to decals.

[Dee Eight]

I sold a CJF Shrike on ebay today so I guess I can afford to upgrade my pre-order a bit

[Jack Shayu Walker]

Look at dat phat-*** kitfox.

[MovinTarget]

Ramrod AI, on 08 November 2016 - 01:53 PM, said:

DOA unless this thing is quirked to hell like the Summoner or Nova. 16.5 tons of pod space isn't enough for any substantial loadouts on a 65 ton mech. 104.4 kph doesn't mean anything if you don't have anything powerful to shoot with. And if you can hit a Stormcrow going 104.4 then you can easily hit a Linebacker. So.....armor/structure quirks, accel/decel/turn rate quirks, weapons quirks, heat quirks, but I'm sure PGI will barely quirk the thing. Alongside with that set of 8 garbage nonsense they insist on doing now that actually punishes you for you know...using an omnimech as an omnimech. Maybe fun but I predict DOA. Moderate performance at best.

Woth dat big engine it shouldn't need much in the way of accel/deccel/turn... it should naturally be better than other clan 65 tonners that aren't quirked as such. Depending on hit boxes it may be a true brawler with those hardpoints... if you use the speed right to close distances...

[ZachMan119]

Big CT or big side torsos are going to hurt it though

[xSONOHx]

Oh yeah, that's a good looking 'mech! Now to see how it preforms in-game...

[Navid A1]

All you LBK owners, enjoy the hype now while you can.

I'll see you in 2 weeks in "LBK needs serious structure buffs" threads!

[Audacious Aubergine]

Loving the looks of this thing. I'm so glad I preordered (because I don't have enough chassis that need levelling already) (that's a lie I have way too many to level already and this really isn't going to help)

[-Ramrod-]

Navid A1, on 08 November 2016 - 08:23 PM, said:

All you LBK owners, enjoy the hype now while you can.

I'll see you in 2 weeks in "LBK needs serious structure buffs" threads!

Hehe you're probably right. But it might actually need them. No idea. Depends greatly on what other quirks it might have. Looks like it'll have a huge CT. So maybe some buffs there. The arms look kinda thin honestly so maybe nothing there. This might be a mech that greatly depends on the pilot. On it's overall performance that is. I mean that's technically true for any mech but there are many mechs that are just easier to put up better numbers with. I've seen a lot of hate for the Viper but I've done pretty well in it.