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[Pyanfar]

Just tossing out the question, How soon do you think we can expect to see the year 4 loyalty program requirements/rewards?
Last year was announced in August, and the years before were Sept. 11/15th. I'm hoping any day now myself!

[Jay Leon Hart]

From here

Under September

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2017 Annual Rewards Program Announcement

[MechaBattler]

Please not another Centurion, Cataphract, or Cicada. We don't need anymore of any of those!

[BrunoSSace]

SOON... I been waiting a whole month already.

[Nightbird]

Good mechs = wallet open, else closed.

[Pyanfar]

Jay Leon Hart, on 07 September 2017 - 12:24 PM, said:

From here

Under September

Wow, totally missed that. Least it's this month!

[stealthraccoon]

I am pining for my UM-R68.... I nedz mah splat Urbie!

(But it should probably only have 2M RA, 2E LT, 2E LA - so as not to invade Javelin territory)

Edited by stealthraccoon, 07 September 2017 - 12:48 PM.

[Taffer]

In a surprise twist, Loyalty Piranha for lowest tier loyalty reward.

[Escef]

You'll get it 3 days after you stop asking for it.

[Pyanfar]

Escef, on 07 September 2017 - 01:03 PM, said:

You'll get it 3 days after you stop asking for it.

You'll notice I never asked for it.

[Angel of Annihilation]

Yeah I wish they would announce it soon. I was contemplating picking up the Huntsman Collectors pack while it was on sale but only if such a purchase would enable me to get the Top Tier reward however, it is possible or even likely that picking up a Huntsman collector won't qualify me as the tend to require you purchase a Collectors edition from only the most recent mechs. Still not knowing is what is keeping me from purchasing and hoping they announce before the sales is over.

[LordNothing]

i figure it will be announced around patch day, so somewhere in the next 2 weeks.

[Appogee]

Surprise twist: expect bog standard versions of existing Mechs.

PGI barely got the Civil War Mechs done in time (see: placeholder animations). They will now be struggling with the Escalation Mechs.

So I can't see them creating any new loyalty Mechs for free.

[LordNothing]

Appogee, on 07 September 2017 - 01:52 PM, said:

Surprise twist: expect bog standard versions of existing Mechs.

PGI barely got the Civil War Mechs done in time (see: placeholder animations). They will now be struggling with the Escalation Mechs.

So I can't see them creating any new loyalty Mechs for free.

loyalty mechs are just reskins with new hardpoints and stats.

[Angel of Annihilation]

LordNothing, on 07 September 2017 - 01:56 PM, said:

loyalty mechs are just reskins with new hardpoints and stats.

Yeah I was going to point this out. There isn't much work that has to be done on a Loyalty Mech other than move a few hard points around, give it a fancy camo and possibly add a few quirks. The hardest part would be modeling the hard points so they appear correctly on the mech but since it is only one variant and there is an existing geometry, even this can't be that hard.

[Suko]

MechaBattler, on 07 September 2017 - 12:28 PM, said:

Please not another Centurion, Cataphract, or Cicada. We don't need anymore of any of those!

What other mechs start with the letter "C"?

[ocular tb]

MechaBattler, on 07 September 2017 - 12:28 PM, said:

Please not another Centurion, Cataphract, or Cicada. We don't need anymore of any of those!

Suko, on 07 September 2017 - 02:13 PM, said:

What other mechs start with the letter "C"?

Commando, Crab, Catapult, Cyclops

[Appogee]

LordNothing, on 07 September 2017 - 01:56 PM, said:

loyalty mechs are just reskins with new hardpoints and stats.

Reskins, new hardpoints and stats are all still "work on MWO".

I think their full attention is on getting MW5 ready for pre-sale at MechCon.

Viktor Drake, on 07 September 2017 - 01:59 PM, said:

this can't be that hard.

Lots of things aren't that hard. It's really a matter of whether the developer wants to put any resource on doing them.

Edited by Appogee, 07 September 2017 - 02:57 PM.

[LordNothing]

you forget that the art department is the only branch of pgi that is capable of gitten er dun.

for me it usually goes like this:

i usually buy mech packs in the fall or so, thats when i have money, usually one clan one is.
last year mech con happened and announced all these wonderful things that were coming.
i usually get those packs around the new year and so for awhile im in a good mood.
some months later those come out for cbills and my un-nerfed op p2w bot is less useful.
mech con promises fail to emerge or are a shadow of what they could have been.
i start to grow angry with pgi and declare my wallet closed.
for the next 6 months i spew salt on the forum.
loyalty mechs come out in the fall.
i usually get the first couple tiers. this gets me into the game again and i start to forgive pgi for being pgi.
and this happens in the fall which corresponds to when i get money.

the loyalty mechs are what i use to justify the mech pack purchases, knowing that some time in the future im getting more robbits. if these robbits are bad i might not feel like qualifying for next year's rewards and my wallet stays closed or i would not spend as much as i would have if pgi would have come through for me. if they do some kind of atrocious corner cutting, thats even worse. its in pgi's best interest to put out good loyalty mechs. its our reward for putting up with their crap day in day out for years.

Edited by LordNothing, 07 September 2017 - 03:13 PM.

[N0ni]

More than likely patch day, when all these Versus sales are done with so you can regret not picking up collector packs for the tier rewards.

We didn't have pack sales just to have pack sales people.