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[Marius Evander]

SuperMCDad, on 10 April 2018 - 06:12 PM, said:

Has the -25% crit chance of the -D though.

Anyone know if this is much of a help versus LBX and MG's?

the k has the same -25% so you dont need to mention the D.

Jonathan8883, on 10 April 2018 - 07:14 PM, said:

When does the Solaris map drop?
It'd be funny (and good for PGI) if they just dropped it on patch day without doing a bunch of teasers first...ahead of schedule.

We all know that there will be a hotfix on Wednesday next week also.

They have said multiple times new solaris QP map one month after solaris.

[Marius Evander]

Will we get info on which mechs are launching in which of the 7 tiers for this 1st season, before, at or after launch ?

How much cbills/xp will we get from 1v1 / 2v2 ? comparable amount to average amount of time spent in it vs average amount of time a Qp game takes? or the amount of cbills/xp you get for damage to fighting 1 mech?

Edited by Cadoazreal, 10 April 2018 - 07:58 PM.

[I cant want to]

possibly in the patch notes, but i expect that you may have to wait for launch, and then find out when you go to launch into any of the 7 divisions to see which mechs you can use

[Cowboy Sounds]

SuperMCDad, on 10 April 2018 - 06:12 PM, said:

Has the -25% crit chance of the -D though.

Anyone know if this is much of a help versus LBX and MG's?

iirc the K and Boar's Head have -25% crit chance as well. as far as performance against crit-boosted weapons (mgs, lb-acs, and high explosive-skill quirked missiles), in my experience the quirk does help, especially stacked with the crit chance skill nodes. however, it definitely will not save you from certain builds - mg boats, mrm boats, lb40 mechs, pretty much anything that invests heavily into crit-boosted weapons will tear through your quirk and your structure through sheer volume of crit instances

(tl;dr the quirk is useful, if hard-countered. even so definitely a good addition imo)

[BrunoSSace]

Making a pack worth more value.

[Marius Evander]

BrunoSSace, on 10 April 2018 - 09:04 PM, said:

Making a pack worth more value.

not sure your saying they should or that this is the most value pak they have made, the latter being the situation...

[Andrzej Lechrenski]

Oh man! I cannot wait to 1v1 duel an Atlas with lurms and an XL engine! Sweet!

"Release the Kraken!"

/s

[Black Ivan]

Lol, seems Preorders were so low they had to add in an incentive for peopel to buy

[BROARL]

too bad we can't have David vs Goliath matches with adjusted payouts according to odds based on player tier or accolades or whatever...
or can we?

Edited by BROARL, 11 April 2018 - 12:08 AM.

[Sniper09121986]

BROARL, on 11 April 2018 - 12:07 AM, said:

too bad we can't have David vs Goliath matches with adjusted payouts according to odds based on player tier or accolades or whatever...
or can we?

Not sure about payouts, but it will certainly be interesting if, say, an assault and a light from the same division will be allowed to drop together. Also was looking forward to FFA matches in fashion of Clan grand melee, because why the hell not?!

Ixidor Dinne, on 10 April 2018 - 12:09 PM, said:

Why bother with the C.A.S.E. in the side torso with an Xl engine? Torso goes you're dead anyway......

Lore build as mentioned above, explanation being it prevents the other parts of the mech from going kaputt and thus makes subsequent repairs much cheaper and faster. More of a campaign thing but makes sense from the stable management viewpoint.

[Pain G0D]

This is killing me man . Do i buy the best deal ever or a Fafnir mech pack . Technically i answered my own question and yet .

What would PGI do if it was a willing and able but double minded customer ? I have been jumping back and forth between these two deals .

Edited by Pain G0D, 11 April 2018 - 01:45 AM.

[Hemholtz]

The Fafnir on the front page seems a lot thinner...


Anyway, shouldn't there be a countdown to Fafnir release?

[JaegerDjinn]

MrKvola, on 10 April 2018 - 11:59 AM, said:

AFAIK only c-bills and XP are boosted by PT. LP and the Accolades boost is new.

Loyalty points are not new. They have been around since the Pheonix Project came out. Like 3 years ago. And you only got extra LP if you run a pheonix project hero mech or had one of the medalions hanging in your cockpit.

Edited by JaegerDjinn, 11 April 2018 - 04:19 AM.

[Hauptmann Keg Steiner]

Sniper09121986, on 11 April 2018 - 01:10 AM, said:

Lore build as mentioned above, explanation being it prevents the other parts of the mech from going kaputt and thus makes subsequent repairs much cheaper and faster. More of a campaign thing but makes sense from the stable management viewpoint.

Plus it might do things like 'keep the pilot from exploding', which is handy in a game where they matter.

[DFM]

IdToaster, on 11 April 2018 - 05:04 AM, said:

Plus it might do things like 'keep the pilot from exploding', which is handy in a game where they matter.

Only if your in a Stackpole book.

[Hauptmann Keg Steiner]

DFM, on 11 April 2018 - 05:25 AM, said:

Only if your in a Stackpole book.

There are worse places to be; the Warrior trilogy was fairly entertaining.

[The Boneshaman]

Pain G0D, on 11 April 2018 - 01:32 AM, said:

This is killing me man . Do i buy the best deal ever or a Fafnir mech pack . Technically i answered my own question and yet .

What would PGI do if it was a willing and able but double minded customer ? I have been jumping back and forth between these two deals .

i would go for the solaris Pack. i have said how i feel about that abomination they dare call a Fafnir.

this is a Fafnir not that MW4/ MWO. but that's me. ill wait for it to show up for cbills and go 99.9999%off

[Pain G0D]

I shall bow to the wisdom of a Fafnir fan @Boneshaman . BTW i loved your miniature . I collect DND minis .

I cannot recall if i even played with a Fafnir on MW4 . I know for sure i played with a Sunder.

Edited by Pain G0D, 11 April 2018 - 06:53 AM.

[Electroflameageddon]

Great looking paint job.

Load out is definitely going to change. The stock load out on this mech is my worst nightmare. Luckily, I haven't sold any of the weapons I've accumulated and my only upgrade cost could be the engine. Depending on the load out, might not have enough slots for endo, ferrous or double heat sinks, so no additional costs.

Never piloted an Atlas before, so it will be interesting....

Boosts to Premium Time is appreciated.

Hopefully the Fafnir previews show up soon.

Edited by Electroflameageddon, 11 April 2018 - 06:48 AM.

[Koniving]

Ixidor Dinne, on 10 April 2018 - 12:09 PM, said:

Why bother with the C.A.S.E. in the side torso with an Xl engine? Torso goes you're dead anyway......

Adherence to tabletop construction of a canonical mech.

With an XL engine, if you did NOT have CASE and your engine was damaged to the state of "destruction" via side torso, the mech would be a crater. The engine would not be salvageable, and the pilot would be dead.

Basically that 22 million cbill mech, which is $193,820,000 in USD as of 2016....
would be completely lost due to side torso destruction.

Meanwhile with CASE, you'd probably spend less than 3 million cbills to fix the engine. Often less than 1 million cbills.

So why wouldn't you have CASE in BT's universe?
Thus... it's on the canonical build of the Kraken.

Not to mention, as the pilot, all you'd have to do is get out, stretch your arms, yawn a bit and find somewhere to take a nap until the fighting comes to an end.

Which sure as **** beats being dead...in a crater.

Edit: this said.... Dont use CASE in mwo with an XL. It will not save you a total loss of your mech or during mwo's repair and rearm... It was something like 1/8th the cost of your engine which if XL 300 in mwo is 612,000 chills on just the engine alone without case if the side that didn't have case was destroyed. Assault mech players from back then know what I am talking about. Anyway with no r&r or permadeath for pilots feel free not to use CASE. But in the source material...heh.

Edited by Koniving, 11 April 2018 - 03:10 PM.