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[Hawk819]

Coming first Quarter 2018, I'd love to see these Clan Lights:

OmniMech

Fire Falcon

Second-Line + IIC:

Wolfhound IIC
Locust IIC
Commando IIC
UrbanMech IIC (Hey, it's an UrbanMech. What more do we need to say?)
Peregrine (Horned Owl)
Baboon (Howler)
Vixen (Incubus)
Bear Cub
Pack Hunter
Icestorm
Mandrill

Just to name a few. Clans could certainly use some Light `Mechs. Seriously!

[Y E O N N E]

So, basically, all of them!

[Pariah Devalis]

Hellion and Fire Falcon would be safe, effective mechs for the 25 and 30 ton slots. Fire Falcon being insanely well armed for a mech its size, and Hellion being a great technology demonstrator, MASC capable, and armed to the teeth as well.

[Jackal Noble]

Hell ya to the Hellion

[Angel of Annihilation]

I seriously want a Vixen (Incubus). It has been and shall remain a mech I consider to be one of the best looking in the entire Battletech universe. Should have decent enough hardpoints as well to be a very good little mech. Wallet is absolutely open for a Vixen.

[Brain Cancer]

Urbanmech IIC.

We really can't have proper FW until everyone can settle things in a meeting of the kings of the battlefield.

[El Bandito]

Piranha is coming out. I really do not care for any others.

[Tarogato]

To narrow those down to the ones I think are the best choices atm...



Fire Falcon - an actual good 25 tonner. Speed, LOTS of hardpoints, no gorilla arms.
Locust IIC - battlemech alternative to the Fire Falcon.
Hellion - an alternative to the ACH. Better energy hardpoints, and lots missiles.
Horned Owl - alternative to the Jenner IIC. Has variants for each energy, missiles, and MGs.







And here's my problems with the others:

Wolfhound IIC - basically doesn't exist. It's one single custom mech.
Commando IIC - no variants. It itself is basically a variant of the Commando.
Urbie IIC - only two variants, they're both identical.
Howler - only two unique variants, only has hardpoints in a single torso. Boring.
Incubus - the variants are REALLY similar to each other.
Bear Cub - only three variants that are completely identical.
Pack Hunter - the variants are really similar, the builds are boring.
Icestorm - only two variants, similar hardpoints, goes 194kph stock.
Mandrill - no variants at all.

[Khobai]

Urbie IIC is a must

[FupDup]

Tarogato, on 08 November 2017 - 07:58 PM, said:

To narrow those down to the ones I think are the best choices atm...



Fire Falcon - an actual good 25 tonner. Speed, LOTS of hardpoints, no gorilla arms.
Locust IIC - battlemech alternative to the Fire Falcon.
Hellion - an alternative to the ACH. Better energy hardpoints, and lots missiles.
Horned Owl - alternative to the Jenner IIC. Has variants for each energy, missiles, and MGs.


And here's my problems with the others:

Wolfhound IIC - basically doesn't exist. It's one single custom mech.
Commando IIC - no variants. It itself is basically a variant of the Commando.
Urbie IIC - only two variants, they're both identical.
Howler - only two unique variants, only has hardpoints in a single torso. Boring.
Incubus - the variants are REALLY similar to each other.
Bear Cub - only three variants that are completely identical.
Pack Hunter - the variants are really similar, the builds are boring.
Icestorm - only two variants, similar hardpoints, goes 194kph stock.
Mandrill - no variants at all.

To be fair, making up variants is easy and PGI can mess around with hardpoint inflation to achieve slightly different results (e.g. look at the IS Urbie lineup).

But yeah, I agree with your 4 top picks...except for Urbie IIC. I think that one could be squeezed in somehow. And really I'd compare the Horned Owl to the Firestarter or Wolfhound rather than Jenny IIC.

Edited by FupDup, 08 November 2017 - 08:02 PM.

[SeventhSL]

Fire Moth !!!!!!!

Wait.... what it isn't on your list. I'm so sad.

Edited by SeventhSL, 08 November 2017 - 08:05 PM.

[Tarogato]

SeventhSL, on 08 November 2017 - 08:04 PM, said:

Fire Moth !!!!!!!

Wait.... what it isn't on your list. I'm so sad.

That would be my first pick too... if we hadn't just gotten the Piranha. I'll lay off on the PLZ GIB MY FIREMOSS for a while.

FupDup, on 08 November 2017 - 08:01 PM, said:

To be fair, making up variants is easy and PGI can mess around with hardpoint inflation to achieve slightly different results (e.g. look at the IS Urbie lineup).
[...] And really I'd compare the Horned Owl to the Firestarter or Wolfhound rather than Jenny IIC.

Making up variants is easy, but I'd rather PGI not make up variants when there are still chassis that have lots of good hardpoints available to choose from first.

I wouldn't compare the Horned Owl to a FS9 or WLF because it's not an Inner Sphere mech. =P
So yeah, for the clan side of things, what it really is is an alternative to the Jenner IIC or 'Cheetah.

[Hawk819]

SeventhSL, on 08 November 2017 - 08:04 PM, said:

Fire Moth !!!!!!!

Wait.... what it isn't on your list. I'm so sad.

Until, they can fix the so-called Rubber Band issue, then, yes, I'd like to see the Firemoth as well. Heck, I want the darn thing in my `MechBay!

[Spheroid]

@Viktor: Which version? The original art for nearly every mech from the 3055 TRO was swapped out for in house art. In some cases the mechs look nothing like the previously illustrated versions.


Vapor Eagle, Incubus, Stone Rhino, Conjurer, etc. The list goes on and on.

Edited by Spheroid, 08 November 2017 - 08:18 PM.

[N0ni]

Hellion. Imagine a splat Javelin with MASC or even a 30 ton pocket Black Lanner.


Yes.

[Paigan]

Hawk819, on 08 November 2017 - 07:21 PM, said:

Coming first Quarter 2018, I'd love to see these Clan Lights:

OmniMech

Fire Falcon

Second-Line + IIC:

Wolfhound IIC
Locust IIC
Commando IIC
UrbanMech IIC (Hey, it's an UrbanMech. What more do we need to say?)
Peregrine (Horned Owl)
Baboon (Howler)
Vixen (Incubus)
Bear Cub
Pack Hunter
Icestorm
Mandrill

Just to name a few. Clans could certainly use some Light `Mechs. Seriously!

There are DEFINITELY too many Mechs in BT.

Seriously:
We already have a lot of Mechs, including lights.
Clans are missing a 20 tonner so far.
After the Piranha, maybe another 20tonner and another 25tonner could be added.
And then that's it.
We don't need even more hollow Pokemech. We need a bunch of different Chassis (almost there or partially even way overloaded) and then we need actual content (more game modes, infantry, tanks, dropships, maybe AI units, etc.).

Edited by Paigan, 09 November 2017 - 12:42 AM.

[Davegt27]

http://www.sarna.net...ton_BattleMechs

[Myke Pantera]

Yeonne Greene, on 08 November 2017 - 07:22 PM, said:

So, basically, all of them!

Was going to say the same ^^

I'd like to see those:

• Locust IIC
  
• Hellion
  
• Horned Owl
  
• Fire Moth
  
• Fire Falcon
  
• Incubus

in that order. They can add the Commando and Urbi IIC as special variants, but please not as separate chassis. I do not want to see the Howler or Mandrill.

Vote for your favourite light mechs here

[Paigan]

Second 20tonner: Fire Moth (even with technically capped top speed)
Second 25tonner: Locust IIC
Both are kind of unique or iconic, so they are worth doing.
And then that's it.

We don't need 3 or even 4, 5, 6 Chassis of every weight, each one with 5-7 variants (that's something between 60 and 168 total variants just for clan lights alone!) that are all basically just reskins with marginal or aesthetical differences. Two per weight, maybe occasionally a third one. Keeping it reasonable.

Edited by Paigan, 09 November 2017 - 06:27 AM.

[Verilligo]

Paigan, on 09 November 2017 - 06:26 AM, said:

Second 20tonner: Fire Moth (even with technically capped top speed)
Second 25tonner: Locust IIC
Both are kind of unique or iconic, so they are worth doing.
And then that's it.

We don't need 3 or even 4, 5, 6 Chassis of every weight, each one with 5-7 variants (that's something between 60 and 168 total variants just for clan lights alone!) that are all basically just reskins with marginal or aesthetical differences. Two per weight, maybe occasionally a third one. Keeping it reasonable.

You DO realize that the team that works on new mech designs is not the same as the team that works on other aspects of the game, right? You can't just shift a person from one job to another like that, they literally would not know what to do until trained and even then it wouldn't necessarily mean you'd get things faster.