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[Larsh]

Is there a reason that the MLX doesn't have a kill counter? Granted I don't always get too many kills with it. But, come on, can we have something else besides an in cockpit ashtray?




Fixed! - Not really, I used Photoshop to add this kill counter.....

Edited by Larsh, 06 January 2017 - 09:29 AM.

[Mole]

My bet is that it does have one, it's just off-screen unless you actually use ctrl to look around the cockpit. I don't know though. I'm not home right now, otherwise I'd drop into the testing grounds with mine and look around the cockpit.

Edited by Mole, 05 January 2017 - 12:09 PM.

[NRP]

Yeah, the designers (rightfully) assumed it wasn't necessary given how extraordinarily crappy the MLX is.

[Larsh]

Mole, on 05 January 2017 - 12:09 PM, said:

My bet is that it does have one, it's just off-screen unless you actually use ctrl to look around the cockpit. I don't know though. I'm not home right now, otherwise I'd drop into the testing grounds with mine and look around the cockpit.

Forgot to mention that. I did check around the cockpit, but still nothing.

[Y E O N N E]

NRP, on 05 January 2017 - 12:36 PM, said:

Yeah, the designers (rightfully) assumed it wasn't necessary given how extraordinarily crappy the MLX is.

You shut your dirty mouth! D:<

[Juodas Varnas]

I'd happily remove all the kill counters and other useless monitors from my mechs.
All they do is obstruct the view.

[RestosIII]

Juodas Varnas, on 05 January 2017 - 03:07 PM, said:

I'd happily remove all the kill counters and other useless monitors from my mechs.
All they do is obstruct the view.

I just realized what I need in my cockpit. A little stock market counter showing up-to-date rises and falls. Obviously it would just be looping gibberish, but damn I want that in my cockpit now.

[Pariah Devalis]

You sure it isn't under the minimap, by chance? That questionable placement is the case in the Executioner. Spent a good minute and a half trying to see it, giving up, then stumbling across it before finding it.

[Skipmagnet]

NRP, on 05 January 2017 - 12:36 PM, said:

Yeah, the designers (rightfully) assumed it wasn't necessary given how extraordinarily crappy the MLX is.

Better than Firestarters, these days.

[stealthraccoon]

Wait, people actually get kills in their MLX's? Who knew, huh? Pretty hard not to get 11 assists in a normal match.

Edited by stealthraccoon, 05 January 2017 - 08:46 PM.

[Y E O N N E]

stealthraccoon, on 05 January 2017 - 08:44 PM, said:

Wait, people actually get kills in their MLX's? Who knew, huh? Pretty hard not to get 11 assists in a normal match.

If you only knew...

[Revis Volek]

stealthraccoon, on 05 January 2017 - 08:44 PM, said:

Wait, people actually get kills in their MLX's? Who knew, huh? Pretty hard not to get 11 assists in a normal match.

bruh...


YOU really dont even know!



BRUH!

[MikeBend]

It is probably on one of the arms!

[Mcgral18]

Juodas Varnas, on 05 January 2017 - 03:07 PM, said:

I'd happily remove all the kill counters and other useless monitors from my mechs.
All they do is obstruct the view.

I think it would be revolutionary if they listed information about your mech
Like where you have ammo loaded, or if any of your heatsinks were destroyed, or submerged in water

[627]

Maybe it gets added once somebody get a kill in it.

Until then it is just too depressing to have that monitor in such a mech.

[Lily from animove]

because its so optimised and tiny there was simply no space left to add another screen to the cockpit. "Mysth linx", when even unicorns are more common. Only in the clan sagas told to the little sibkos they were hunting down Dakkawhales.

Edited by Lily from animove, 06 January 2017 - 05:19 AM.

[Paigan]

Juodas Varnas, on 05 January 2017 - 03:07 PM, said:

I'd happily remove all the kill counters and other useless monitors from my mechs.
All they do is obstruct the view.

this


How SciFi Battlemech Cockpits roughly would/should look like:








How they do look like:



And this is no joke: The cockpit artist said in an interview that was her inspiration.
I'm usually a nice person, but such incompetence should be fired immediately.

[Juodas Varnas]

Paigan, on 06 January 2017 - 06:09 AM, said:

this


How SciFi Battlemech Cockpits roughly would/should look like:








How they do look like:



And this is no joke: The cockpit artist said in an interview that was her inspiration.
I'm usually a nice person, but such incompetence should be fired immediately.

I prefer the bottom pic, though.
I just don't want the cockpit monitors obstructing the windows.

[Paigan]

Juodas Varnas, on 06 January 2017 - 06:11 AM, said:

I prefer the bottom pic, though.
I just don't want the cockpit monitors obstructing the windows.

You PREFER 1950ies crude primitive mechanical cockpit interfaces?
Are delusional emotional associations really SO much stronger in people than a sense for practical AND elegant solutions?
This world never stops to suprise AND frighten me.

[Juodas Varnas]

Paigan, on 06 January 2017 - 06:28 AM, said:

You PREFER 1950ies crude primitive mechanical cockpit interfaces?
Are delusional emotional associations really SO much stronger in people than a sense for practical AND elegant solutions?
This world never stops to suprise AND frighten me.

Dude, i'm the same guy that likes Quadrupedal mechs.

There is no method to my madness.