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[N0ni]

Mechwarrior 2: 31st Century Combat has Elemental as a secret unlock (same with Tarantula) and Mechwarrior 2: Mercs certainly lets you play one in Instant Action.

Mechwarrior 4: Mercs has several types of Battle Armor to choose from, Elemental included.

[Zergling]

The game needs more Marauder variants:

[Mechteric]

kesmai, on 04 October 2017 - 01:14 AM, said:

You can.
Play MW:LL.

^ This. It's fun and it's free. MWO will never have elementals because it's not meant to.

[Stf Sgt Marblez]

Zergling, on 04 October 2017 - 06:24 AM, said:

The game needs more Marauder variants:

Why does the word hippopotamus come to mind when I look at this?

[Brain Cancer]

That's one Periphery-fugly piece of assault power armor.

[FupDup]

Curccu, on 04 October 2017 - 01:52 AM, said:

I would love you to play elemental... max speed <11kph which is 3 time slower than stock urbie

Oh, and you also can only fire your SRM2 once and your ERSL has limited battery life (no Fusion Reactor).

[Alvar Von Kenesthor]

Zergling, on 04 October 2017 - 06:24 AM, said:

The game needs more Marauder variants:

It's weird I find it cute? I mean, it looks like a baby crossbreed between a Dragon and a Marauder

I remember reading about this little guy long time ago in the wiki. And protoarmors are pretty much unplayable in MW videogames, If I recall well, they were most effective at urban enviroments and ambush tactics. They may work a little bit in MW:LL, but only because once your mech is destroyed, you can use it to finish your enemy, or pray for a headshot.
No armor, no speed, no firepower against mechs, if anything could work, that would be the Elemental claws.
I have yet to see fixed Mech Collisions and DfA, let alone meele weapons
Sure in lore they could do wonders, but I haven't seen PGI introduce the Plot Armor quirk yet so...

[Bombast]

How To Play Battle Armor In MWO

Step 1: Shut down your battlearmor and wait for enemy to come to you
Step 2: Power up and jump onto enemy mech
Step 3: Jump off and watch enemies teamkill each other in an attempt to 'scrap you off'
Step 4: Laugh the laugh of daemons

[Mystere]

ColonelMetus, on 04 October 2017 - 01:05 AM, said:

ive been playing for 5 years, i want to play as an elemental

Nah!

I'd rather play as a member of the Mobile Infantry, and not the Paul Verhoeven kind.

[Paigan]

Bombast, on 04 October 2017 - 11:27 AM, said:

How To Play Battle Armor In MWO

Step 1: Shut down your battlearmor and wait for enemy to come to you
Step 2: Power up and jump onto enemy mech
Step 3: Jump off and watch enemies teamkill each other in an attempt to 'scrap you off'
Step 4: Laugh the laugh of daemons

Do it with a flamer and be the one laughing .
Instant horrible death for the infantry guy. Neglible heat for the team mate Mech.

[Accused]

Can you imagine the quirk inflation to make elementals "viable"?

With that said, yes I want to play an elemental.

[MechaBattler]

If MW5 does well. Maybe they'll release a Clan expansion pack that hopefully includes playing a few missions as an elemental. :3

[AncientRaig]

Mechs are running around with builds that can annihilate 100 ton assault mechs in a matter of seconds and you want to play as a glorified tin can? MW:LL had to make Elementals borderline OP in order to be useful (One elemental in MW:LL is the equivalent of 5 or something like that in TT.), and even then they get popped fairly easily unless you poptart with a PPC. And that's in a game where the balance isn't atrocious. In a game like MWO, if you actually managed to get to the fight before time ran out you'd have to pray the enemy didn't have an MG mechs, or SRM boats, or good aim. And you probably wouldn't be able to rely on poptarting since JJs don't do much in this game. And you'd have to contend with the fact that even BA energy weapons have a limited ammo supply.

LordNothing, on 04 October 2017 - 05:50 AM, said:

i took out an atlas with a cockpit shot in living legends. manpack ppc <3.

You sir, are a cancer, and one of the many reasons I rarely play MW:LL these days.

[LordNothing]

AncientRaig, on 04 October 2017 - 02:30 PM, said:

You sir, are a cancer, and one of the many reasons I rarely play MW:LL these days.

to be fair my mech was destroyed and i had punched out, made it to one of those infantry bunkers and bought the ppc to hold me over till i could cross the map to get a new mech. ran into an enemy lance on the way back. one lucky shot == one dead atlas.

[Shadowomega1]

N0ni, on 04 October 2017 - 06:07 AM, said:

Mechwarrior 2: 31st Century Combat has Elemental as a secret unlock (same with Tarantula) and Mechwarrior 2: Mercs certainly lets you play one in Instant Action.

Mechwarrior 4: Mercs has several types of Battle Armor to choose from, Elemental included.

Mechwarrior 3 Pirates Moon had the Elemental as playable, however they made it 10 tons, instead of giving it unique weapons.

Maybe allowing downed pilots to "respawn" as an Elemental/Longinus in assault/Incursion modes.

[Prototelis]

Actually.. getting a battle armor or whatever its called spawn at death would be cool. But you'd get mega-wrecked by any mech you came across.

[JediPanther]

Imagine getting stepped on by a locust getting stuck to its' foot then have to watch the rest of the match from the view point of the locust's foot; even better if it were a jump jetting spider.

[JC Daxion]

I hope in Mech 5 that will be an option..


But you can kill them in mech assault, and Mech commander 2

[Prototelis]

JediPanther, on 04 October 2017 - 05:27 PM, said:

Imagine getting stepped on by a locust getting stuck to its' foot then have to watch the rest of the match from the view point of the locust's foot; even better if it were a jump jetting spider.

Even better if it were possible for a kodiak to skewer a locust with its claws and then use that locust to beat another mech to death.

Gonna kill a mf with TWO mfs

[FupDup]

Zergling, on 04 October 2017 - 06:24 AM, said:

The game needs more Marauder variants:

I didn't even know that the Support PPC existed until I looked up the Marauder BA on Sarna. 0.25 tons of 2.0 PPFLD damage, not too shabby (even if the range is a little short). Makes me really want a scaled-up mech version that's around 0.5-1.0 tons with better range...