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[Moosible]

Hi PGI and other readers,

In this post, I want to discuss the VIP Camo Pattern and one other thing which will be discussed in a bit. First, I just want to say that frankly, I think that having a VIP camo pattern available for the AS7-D-DC would be really funny. The VIP is in fact, an AS7-D-DC and they both come with ECM. So no one would know which is which, so if you walk side by side with the VIP while you are in the D-DC with ECM, some people may get really confused. A way to figure out which is which is because one has weapons, the other doesn't, and one of them will shoot and hopefully put out a rather large alpha strike. But even so, I thing that having a camo pattern available exclusively for the AS7-D-DC would be awesome. Put it in the next patch or update, or it could be in a later patch or update. Now, time for the second thing; the turret drop package. Now you know when you fire an airstrike consumable, a red marker appears where your cursor was at the moment of the activation. Well, the same thing would happen for the turret drop, except instead of the fighter jet dropping bombs, it would drop three defense turrets like the ones found in escort. There could be a upgrade in the skill tree which let's you drop four instead of three or something like that, or your defense turrets come with ECM or better armor. I think these two ideas would be fun to see in the game. Hope this is taken into consideration and please share your thoughts and ideas on this topic.

See you on the battlefield, a fellow mechwarrior,
Moosiblé

[Acehilator]

You rang?

[Moosible]

>_>

Acehilator, on 27 March 2017 - 04:25 PM, said:

You rang?

Wait... That's not the VIP, is it? Nah, Can't be. >_>

[Jingseng]

Except for the Giant V in a box above the vip. And the super slow, relentless, never stopping gait. And never firing back. And the narrator announcing if you've shot the vip (1st time) or not.

But yes.

[Wildstreak]

Except there are enough smart people like me who look above the enemy for the V in box VIP symbol. Then we use VOIP to tell other players which one the VIP is using the letter above his Mech thus defeating this strategy.
Hit E key, choose, "Sorry," from command wheel.

[Moosible]

Jingseng, on 27 March 2017 - 05:22 PM, said:

Except for the Giant V in a box above the vip. And the super slow, relentless, never stopping gait. And never firing back. And the narrator announcing if you've shot the vip (1st time) or not.

But yes.

Touché

Wildstreak, on 27 March 2017 - 06:04 PM, said:

Except there are enough smart people like me who look above the enemy for the V in box VIP symbol. Then we use VOIP to tell other players which one the VIP is using the letter above his Mech thus defeating this strategy.
Hit E key, choose, "Sorry," from command wheel.

Yes, but still, that's why you have the VIP camo and have a V. Well, this camo pattern would also look pretty funny on a game mode like skirmish. I mean, can you imagine getting destroyed by a VIP? I think that would be pretty great!

[Kuaron]

Jingseng, on 27 March 2017 - 05:22 PM, said:

And the super slow, relentless, never stopping gait. And never firing back.

A potato with his first Assault?

[MeiSooHaityu]

Wildstreak, on 27 March 2017 - 06:04 PM, said:

Except there are enough smart people like me who look above the enemy for the V in box VIP symbol. Then we use VOIP to tell other players which one the VIP is using the letter above his Mech thus defeating this strategy.
Hit E key, choose, "Sorry," from command wheel.

I think the only way the VIP camo could confuse an attacking force is if Your Decoy VIP was walking very close to the actual one. Sure the attacking force might be able to pick out which mech was which initially, but if the defenders started to enage the attackers, the attackers would probably lose track in the heat of the skirmish and take pot shots at the wrong mech (since their attention is half taken up with evading the VIP defenders).

I wouldn't pick the camo for that scenario only, but if I wanted to run the camo because I liked it (or for the lulz), I could see trying to use that tactic anyway.

[Wildstreak]

Moosible, on 28 March 2017 - 06:38 AM, said:

Yes, but still, that's why you have the VIP camo and have a V. Well, this camo pattern would also look pretty funny on a game mode like skirmish. I mean, can you imagine getting destroyed by a VIP? I think that would be pretty great!

Actually one way I could see them changing Escort would be remove the AI VIP and randomly choose a Heavy/Assault from the Defending side with no special marker and goals the player VIP must achieve.

[Moosible]

Wildstreak, on 28 March 2017 - 05:33 PM, said:

Actually one way I could see them changing Escort would be remove the AI VIP and randomly choose a Heavy/Assault from the Defending side with no special marker and goals the player VIP must achieve.

Oh, now that's not a bad idea. Go tell PGI.