52 replies to this topic

[Ragnar44331]

Yes, for the 100 time we must talk about this again.

Devs Please make the Elemental suit. there is many things we could do with them.

I would love to see match size increase to 20 v 20 with 5 Elemental suits per team.

I would love to see the Elemental attached to the Mechs on route to battle.

Edited by baz44331, 05 January 2018 - 12:08 PM.

[Bombast]

Such a catastrophic nightmare of balance. Elementals bring almost nothing to the table but trouble. They just don't fit in the kind of game MWO is.

[Kubernetes]

What exactly would Elementals do in this game?

[Mystere]

Elementals?

I want the whole freaking armed forces complement!

[Escef]

Kubernetes, on 05 January 2018 - 12:17 PM, said:

What exactly would Elementals do in this game?

Well, as they buzzed around an enemy mech they'd cause a lot of friendly fire damage as their victim yells, "Get 'em off me!"

Outside of that? They aren't even fast enough to pace a Dire Wolf, and their weapons consist of an IS-SL and an SRM2 with 4 missiles (that's 2 shots). About the only thing they have going for them is being knee high to a Mist Lynx and it would take about 20 (10 armor in table top, with 1 additional point for the trooper) damage to drop one.

[FupDup]

When it comes to the combat effectiveness of Elementals, MW3 and MW4 lied to you.

In canon your firepower generally consists of a two-shot SRM2 pack and a Small Laser (not even a Clan ERSL, just IS SL) with limited ammo. You also may have a very low-caliber machine gun that can't even be used against mechs because of how weak it is (it's not the same as the mech MG).

Edited by FupDup, 05 January 2018 - 12:28 PM.

[Daggett]

I don't see elementals as playable units in MWO. PGI once stated that it's all about the mechs and i agree with this focus.

BUT i can imagine having elementals as some sort of consumable. There are some things they could do this way like amplifying damage in a close quarters brawl.

Main problem beside graphical representation however could be the immersion because elementals are not expected to magically pop in for a few seconds and then vanish.

Edited by Daggett, 05 January 2018 - 12:46 PM.

[TWIAFU]

Kubernetes, on 05 January 2018 - 12:17 PM, said:

What exactly would Elementals do in this game?

I can imagine some fun to be had with Elementals. Considering the size difference tween them and mechs, they are only knee high or smaller!, I can't the difficulty in making that happen in MWO.

But running and jumping around in something that small with mechs that big around, yea, sounds like fun....

[VonBruinwald]

Just allow them to take the place of a 20 'mech in drop decks.

5 Elementals for 20tons (that's 4 additional drops!)

10pts or armour (11 if you count the internals), 10kph and armed with a small laser.... I'm sure they'll be the new clan meta...

[Mole]

I'm pretty damn sure we're going to get quads before we ever get elementals. And we all know how Russ feels about quads.

[FupDup]

VonBruinwald, on 05 January 2018 - 12:40 PM, said:

Just allow them to take the place of a 20 'mech in drop decks.

5 Elementals for 20tons (that's 4 additional drops!)

10pts or armour (11 if you count the internals), 10kph and armed with a small laser.... I'm sure they'll be the new clan meta...

Elementals weigh only 1 ton, and you'd basically need 20 drops vs. 1x 20 ton light to even accomplish anything with them.

[Novakaine]

No until we see these bad boys in the game.
Come on PGI I wanna buy a "Tank Pack"

[Kubernetes]

Elementals seem like something that sounds outrageously fun until you actually try it. I'm sure after the first couple matches of (1) moving slower than an Anni, (2) doing less damage than a stock Locust, and (3) getting insta-gibbed by everything, that most sane people will realize it's not fun at all.

[Armored Yokai]

Not many players can aim with precision and last thing we need is them "accidentally" shooting me instead of the no skill clanners that are on me.

[PurplePuke]

Good God no.

Please stop asking for this.

[illudium Q 36]

No! No! NO! They broke the Table Top version of Mech Warrior and they would screw up the online version as well IMO.

A Star of Five of them with 50 armor points, ten shots of SRMs for two rounds and five small Lasers is a game breaker. I seem to remember that three stars of elementals cost the same as one Locust. Bullocks NO!

Edited by illudium Q 36, 05 January 2018 - 02:00 PM.

[Eternal Claymore]

They would be fun...to step on.

[Y E O N N E]

Kubernetes, on 05 January 2018 - 12:17 PM, said:

What exactly would Elementals do in this game?

Pad my score.

[JENNER llC]

Elemental Consumable.

Done.

[UnofficialOperator]

Elementals as a consumable

Just send in waves of them en masse