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[Y E O N N E]

Battlemaster56, on 11 July 2018 - 08:15 PM, said:

A sacfrice must be made for the greater good!! I will give up myself and by every Owens in stock for yal get the Raptor!

I'd still have to wait at least an extra month for the next IS announcement and then 3 months after that for it to be playable.

I'm out of patience!

[Battlemaster56]

Yeonne Greene, on 11 July 2018 - 08:22 PM, said:

I'd still have to wait at least an extra month for the next IS announcement and then 3 months after that for it to be playable.

I'm out of patience!

Good thing I can wait a bit since I got my Incubus, but we really need IS omni's they're a easy cash cow espically for a Civil War era theme.

Just release the beast!

[NimoStar]

Marauder II easily leading the poll for IS assault since March 2017, still not added :'(

[Y E O N N E]

Battlemaster56, on 11 July 2018 - 08:29 PM, said:

Good thing I can wait a bit since I got my Incubus, but we really need IS omni's they're a easy cash cow espically for a Civil War era theme.

Just release the beast!

Yes we do need IS Omnis, we just don't need terrible ones. Ergo, we need the Raptor!

[Ade the Rare]

I do wish the devs could wave their apocryphal wand and impliment the Lao Hu, without split-crits.

Didn't I see an "illegal design" quirk somewhere in the rules...

[SLUGOTHA]

UUURRGGH... worst mech ever... can anyone say 'pop-up target'.
I mean, look at those hit boxes... what a piece of crap...

[Black Ivan]

Pass on the Champion, there were so many other Mechs they could have chosen from

[Will9761]

The only reasons I see PGI adding the Champion is because it is a Star League/Succession War Era Mech. So they are using those mechs for a diversified mech roster for Mechwarrior 5 since it will be taking place in the Succession Wars. That is why we are not seeing the Invasion (except for the Clan mechs) and Civil War era mechs like the Argus or Chimera.

I mean we have a lot of Star League Era mechs bound for this game.

Lights:
Hermes
Hussar
Thorn
Mercury

Medium:
Clint
Hermes II
Sentinel
Wyvern
Whitworth
Dervish

Heavy:
Lancelot
Exterminator
Bombardier
Guillotine
Flashman


Assaults:
Charger
Thug
Crockett

[Marauder3D]

Star League mechs<Victory Over Harmony Gold Pack (Wasp/Valkyrie/Chameleon/Crusader/Longbow/MarauderII, choose any four)

If we don't see some of those next month, I think we know if they intend to release any more of them at all, or not.

Edited by Marauder3D, 12 July 2018 - 01:14 PM.

[Fox the Apprentice]

Marauder3D, on 12 July 2018 - 11:31 AM, said:

Star League mechs<Victory Over Harmony Gold Pack (Wasp/Valkyrie/Chameleon/Crusader/Longbow/MarauderII, choose any four)

If we don't see some of those next month, I think we know if they intend to release any more of them at all, or not.

We don't know how long their development time for new mechs is. I'd at least wait until after mech-con to start making claims.

[Marauder3D]

Fox the Apprentice, on 13 July 2018 - 05:11 AM, said:

We don't know how long their development time for new mechs is. I'd at least wait until after mech-con to start making claims.

You may well be right. I'm just impatient.

[TheArisen]

NimoStar, on 11 July 2018 - 11:22 PM, said:

Marauder II easily leading the poll for IS assault since March 2017, still not added :'(

Well other mechs were ahead of it and were added to the game so they got taken off the poll. The Fafnir for example was the #1 IS assaut until it got added.

[Gas Guzzler]

TheArisen, on 13 July 2018 - 10:55 AM, said:

Well other mechs were ahead of it and were added to the game so they got taken off the poll. The Fafnir for example was the #1 IS assaut until it got added.

Agreed.

The Marauder II would need some interesting made up variants to make it a worth while assault.

I'd kill for the ability to run 3 UAC5s and 2 PPCs with similar convergence to the MAD-IIC-A. Like:

RA: 2E
RT: 2B
CT: -
LT: 1B
LA: 2E

in basically a jumbo MAD-IIC? Hell yeah. 3UAC5, 2PPC in the LA, 14DHS, 7t ammo, LFE340, all the profits

That would definitely get a buy from me. Unfortunately, you will more likely get rehashed Marauder variants, so 3 AC5 2 PPC/HPPC is probably going to be the only option which means standard engine. I can hope though.

Aside from the Sunder, I wouldn't mind seeing the Marauder II but I don't really care for any other IS assaults at this point.

Edited by Gas Guzzler, 13 July 2018 - 12:01 PM.

[Eiswolf]

Vote for Mechs ala Card!

[Marauder3D]

Speaking of Unseen:

Marauder II is leading the IS Assault poll.

Crusader is leading the IS Heavy poll.

Wasp is in 2nd place behind the Hollander is the IS Light poll. (The fact that the only good Hollander is the 45 ton medium is beside the point, but you get the picture)

I think the Unseen the game really needs for our inner LURM lovechild is the LONGBOW!

[A Small Furry Animal]

Whitworth. We should finish out the 3025 mechs first.

[Jonathan8883]

I just ran across the Wyvern page. On paper, it has a lot of potential... short range brawler and long range sniper variants. One variant has ECM. Another has something like MASC.

Of course, stat-wise, it has to compete with the Hellspawn. It still has the problem of being an IS Medium, and would require substantial armor quirks.

[TheArisen]

Since PGI has shown they're giving this poll less attention should we make a new one or do you think they've decided polls aren't worth following? Maybe they just don't want to be predictable?

[Black Ivan]

After the last IS choice I give. Why egver PGI is adding Mechs like Vulcan or Champion

[FLG 01]

Black Ivan, on 17 July 2018 - 11:28 PM, said:

After the last IS choice I give. Why egver PGI is adding Mechs like Vulcan or Champion

I think MW:5 and perhaps HBS BT are the decisive criteria. The Champion was used during the later SW and the FCCW, so it can be used for MW:O and MW:5/BT. I mean take a look at the top three: Argus and Avatar are not available in any SW-scenario, and the Crusader... well we all know what's the problem. It might be solved now, but the Mech releases are scheduled months in advance, or so PGI says.

The Champion was not my favourite, either, but I don't think it is a problem at all. It's a legitimate choice being a popular, if rare Mech with interesting lore. Furthermore I don't think it will be a bad Mech in MWO unless they really ruin the geometry and/or give it insufficient quirks (an IS Mech still relies on them a lot).

Yes, there would have been better choices in terms of lore and in terms of in-game performance. But if we applied those criteria most of the recent IS Mechs should have never been released.