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[DiabetesOverlord Wilford Brimley]

Someone list mechs never put into a mechwarrior game... Never been done before nailed it.

[jonfett]

It's amazing how this thread started with high hopes, and now is scraping the bottom. Kinda like the game overall...

[BD RAIDR]

Another thing never done before is a mech that both IS and Clans have access to for Faction warefare.

Edited by BD RAIDR, 09 November 2016 - 09:37 PM.

[Novakaine]

Just another stupidly OP Clan mech.
Why because that's what sales.
Of course if it's LAM wAAAhooo!

[DAYLEET]

BLOOD WOLF, on 09 November 2016 - 09:21 PM, said:

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I got you on the first sentence, right-o, but the other sentence, you got me there.

its probably just entitlement on my part but id like to know what they do with the mechpack money.
A few map fixes with a few new maps? A few UI Fixes? A few CW fixes? one game mode nobody likes and everybody want to fix? The leaderboard is a new thing, its not working right but hey you take what you get amirite? Do they only have one computer at the office? Is there just one guy working at any time?

I got the Cyclops collector edition five days ago knowing full well i was just buying a mech pack and should expect nothing out of it but 4 mech. But this podcast has renewed my interest into what they are doing with all the cash, especially when they claim content is being created with it.

[darqsyde]

If the reflection on Daeron's glossy pictures is anything to go by, it's not a LAM or a Quad(and likely never will be). This leaves IS Omni or Melee.

IS Omni should be stupidly simple to implement, all the coding already exists and just has to be copy-pasta'd.

However, Melee would be the truly big announcement, and would fit nicely with a revamp of the Skill Tree.

[Glaive-]

I'm preeetty sure we'd see quads implemented before LAMs, guys. Just saying
Protomechs however..................

[Mark Nicholson]

El Bandito, on 09 November 2016 - 08:02 PM, said:

After all this time, PGI still haven't released their name sake, the Piranha.

We know. I keep bringing it up.


Also, to the rest of you, it's been a lot of fun reading your speculation on this topic.

[Johnny Z]

As usual I missed the pod cast. Is it on YouTube yet?

[Johnny Z]

Novakaine, on 09 November 2016 - 09:39 PM, said:

Just another stupidly OP Clan mech.
Why because that's what sales.
Of course if it's LAM wAAAhooo!

Ya really, that would be awesome. I never really thought that would be done maybe until now. Quads would be interesting to and Aerospace fighters would be even better.

Edited by Johnny Z, 09 November 2016 - 10:14 PM.

[DiabetesOverlord Wilford Brimley]

Well it's looking like it will indeed not be a Mad Cat MK II source twitter

[DiabetesOverlord Wilford Brimley]

Autographs is all I got left now...

[Quicksilver Aberration]

Combined with the whole joysticks will be required, I would hazard a guess it is either an aerospace fighter or a LAM, either way it is unfortunate since it will either be laggy or have nowhere to go on most maps are still claustrophobic. That or like they did in MWLL they replace any need for lights because they are better scouts and are capable of attacking from more angles than normal lights can, either way it is problematic.

[Pariah Devalis]

Hm, Perhaps wire guided missiles.... Arrow IV? Ergo, the Naga?

[Requiemking]

Mark Nicholson, on 09 November 2016 - 10:09 PM, said:

We know. I keep bringing it up.


Also, to the rest of you, it's been a lot of fun reading your speculation on this topic.

As long as the stuff at Mechcon includes at least one of the following, I would be happy:

1. a sorely need buff to JJs to allow mechs like the Victor and Highlander to be relevant again.

2. a slew of compensation quirks for the Light mechs that got screwed over during the Rescale(Firestarter, Wolfhound, ect).

3. Total reversal of the Rescale in it's entirety. Seriously, how is it right or natural that a 35 ton Light mech is as tall as a 65 ton Heavy, or that a 75 ton Heavy is taller than a 100 ton Assault.

[Kargush]

Fancy weapon system of a kind we haven't seen (like the Arrow IV), IS omni, Clan omni with STD, or a quad. Those are the likeliest ideas. Melee is improbable, LAMs almost impossible.

That said, LAMs would be the death-knell for my enjoyment of this game.

[Khalcruth]

DAYLEET, on 09 November 2016 - 09:10 PM, said:

Russ and Bombadil confirmed that we need to buy mechpack for new content to be created. They could not however, confirm if any content was created the past 2 years.

That's odd. Because for quite a while now, all we get from buying mechspacks is...more mechpacks. It'd be nice to know what the magic number of mechpacks we have to buy is, in order to get something other than more mechpacks. 10? 100? 1000? 10000? Even just the order of magnitude would be nice to know.

[Juodas Varnas]

As much as i'd love for it to be quadrupeds (or melee mechs), i won't be fooling myself into believe PGI is going to announce them.

It's probably going to be something painfully disappointing... Like IS omnis (most of which were absolute garbage and seeing how Clan Battlemechs are usually better than Clan Omnimechs in MWO, i don't see why IS omnis are going to be any different.)

I'm off to eat frozen yogurt and sulk.

Edited by Juodas Varnas, 10 November 2016 - 01:35 AM.

[Bombast]

Sunder or I start a riot.

I will also accept the Owens, or a Strider. I'll still riot, but I'll keep it a low key affair.

[TheArisen]

If Russ announced melee and the release of a melee mech like the Berserker or Axeman I'd be pretty excited.

I've long wanted Pgi to add new weapons & defensive tech and melee would definitely spice things up.