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[Audacious Aubergine]

Stop making me want the Mad Cat mkII damn it!

[Gentleman Reaper]

Jay Leon Hart, on 12 July 2017 - 04:04 PM, said:

Wait, did they extend the Gauss barrels? Or are they that much longer if they take the lower part of the arms?

Edited by Gentleman Reaper, 12 July 2017 - 06:17 PM.

[Composite Armour]

Loving the looks of the Anni, looking forward to quirks and stats. Might pick up the reinforcement pack depending.

[Twilight Fenrir]

Gentleman Reaper, on 12 July 2017 - 06:17 PM, said:

Wait, did they extend the Gauss barrels? Or are they that much longer if they take the lower part of the arms?

Whoa, yeah, wtf? Those gauss stick waay out of the arm o_o

[Baphomech]

Had a lousy day, but at least the screenshots were a bright spot. Those are some good looking mechs!

[BrunoSSace]

I don't know why PGI stops the pre order bonus. It should continue until the mechs drop in game. Id love to buy one now since the pictures were released. But since the pre order bonus has ended I guess I will wait for c-bills. Shame really, its a weird business model.

[Kiiyor]

LT. HARDCASE, on 12 July 2017 - 03:03 PM, said:

I'm not sure what you're smoking, as every Annihlator in existence is similar to this one.

If you were looking for any lame excuse to cancel the order, you chose a really bad one about which to make a dramatic show in public.

How about you show me an Annihilator that doesn't at all look similar to the one Alex drew up?

I'm not trying to support his argument, as I completely agree with you (and I like Alex's design), but...

thundergodxarbala on deviantart made a pretty kickass Annihilator IIC:

[MovinTarget]

that is a beaut, but it's not "canon" is it?

[KaiNer]

Realy .... Guys

The First Images of The anni. Were realy good but wft is this ********....

I pay Money for this Mech and get something Else... That is never a "annihilator"

Ct is way too small, and wtf are this arm's...because The belly is so small The neck Looks like Even more ugly...
...and all guns are way too long...

And The feet... arn't they a little Bit too small for a 100t...mech

Like someone says "Total dislike on the Annihilator"

Sry my eng is realy Bad but this anni. Is by far the worst mech u did in The Last year
One more reson too stop playing

Bigges joke ever....just sad

Pls go back too The first picture art style...thats i pay Money for....
Cu

Edited by KaiNer, 12 July 2017 - 08:18 PM.

[SpectreHD]

BrunoSSace, on 12 July 2017 - 06:44 PM, said:

I don't know why PGI stops the pre order bonus. It should continue until the mechs drop in game. Id love to buy one now since the pictures were released. But since the pre order bonus has ended I guess I will wait for c-bills. Shame really, its a weird business model.

Common practice to artificially increase demand. I personally would love to have the pre-order bonus last until they are released.

[TheMadTypist]

Ani looks really cool, made the transition well. Tower-o-doom, with a cardassian neck.

The lack of laser barrels on the Cougar is making me sad. I know it's consistent with what's happened everywhere else, but still makes me sad. The art with the barrels was part of what sold me on it.

CT missile keg on the Uziel being add-on geometry- is a single missile hardpoint really worth inflating the CT? although with side torsos like that it might not matter so much.

I guess the Mk II is neat. Again, though, we won't get to see those kickn' missile boxes pretty much ever. Are missile hardpoints really such a threat they need to inflate hitboxes so much? and only on certain 'mechs? we really need some kind of mechanic to make that worthwhile on the chassis lumbered with the extra surface area like that. Like add-on geometry reduces damage that hits the add-on by the proportion it inflates the component's surface.

Overall 9/10 on the looks, -1 for the lack of cougar barrels.

[-Skyrider-]

Can someone please explain what happened with the Annihilator's ct energy mounts?

[Edward Hazen]

Alright, a Jade Falcon Cougar!

[Cyrilis]

-Skyrider-, on 12 July 2017 - 09:06 PM, said:

Can someone please explain what happened with the Annihilator's ct energy mounts?

Easy: You just learned the fact that 'concept art' shows a concept and not a finished product...

[Arkhangel]

Cyrilis, on 12 July 2017 - 09:32 PM, said:

Easy: You just learned the fact that 'concept art' shows a concept and not a finished product...

amazing how people never understand what the term "concept" means.

as for the Pre-order bonus being shut down when it does, fact is, that bonus goes to people who are willing to trust PGI enough to back them early. having it stay until the mech is released just spits in the eye of people who're actual loyal customers, and not a bunch of whiny shits who feel they're entitled to get bonus stuff because they pre-ordered an hour before the patch.

You want the pre-order bonus, you pre-order early. or you don't get it. deal with it.

Edited by Arkhangel, 12 July 2017 - 09:42 PM.

[Aramuside]

Annihilator looks embarrassingly silly but it also did on the sales blurb.

However, wow that Uziel looks so much nicer than the original sales art!

Edited by Aramuside, 12 July 2017 - 10:34 PM.

[Genesis23]

The Basilisk, on 12 July 2017 - 02:37 PM, said:

PGI STOP MAKING HUGE HUNKING HULKING PICES OF JUNK OUT OF MECHS THAT SHOULD BE SLENDER CURVED AND HARD TO HIT ON IS SIDE.

No...and i mean absolutely no official source of the Annihilator depicts the mech with huge hulking easy to hit components.

The mech is super slow and basicly a semi self powered turred emplacement and therefor equiped with curved armor and a slender hard to hit figure.

AND NOT ...NEVER....A BLOCKY EASY TO HIT SUPER TALL PILE OF JUNK.

The Clan Assault on the other hand has practicaly according to cannon bad easy to hit components and you made a flat hard to hit silhuette out of it....
THE F...WHYYYYY????

Why are you hating my money so much ?
Now I have to cancel my preorder.

wtf are you talking about? slender siluette - a 100t mech? one who is known for its belly? you are the worst troll i ever encountered in this forum, and thats saying a lot.

[A Man In A Can]

-Skyrider-, on 12 July 2017 - 09:06 PM, said:

Can someone please explain what happened with the Annihilator's ct energy mounts?

Lack of foresight on Alex's part, because halfway into the model design PGI realized that only one of the CT hardpoints could be reliably used for large lasers or the new 2-crit PPC weapons, and they couldn't decide among themselves whether they wanted the right or left CT mount to be the only one with the privilege of being able to mount such weapons, thus leaving the mech slightly unbalanced visually.

So they made a snap decision to have only one high CT mount able to mount all the new options, and the lower one was placed symmetrically in the gut, aligned with the arm weapons because they knew if players were going to use that second CT E mount, it was only going to be medium/short ranged lasers, and by then you're going to be exposing your entire mech anyway.

[ShootterMcGavin]

All the new mechs look tough.

[Arkhangel]

yeah, and honestly if you're engaging that close, the placement of the laser isn't going to mean much anyways. mean, hell, that low mount might even help for blasting some little Light **** that's attempting to crotch-hug the Anni to get under its guns.