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[VonBruinwald]

Don't forget...

[Xetelian]

I've seen it posted on various discord servers but I expect a ton of people are going to rage in feb. and march. when they see lances of the new mechs and are like "How can I get that?"

[Pain G0D]

I will believe it when it's officially announced .

[Xetelian]

Pain G0D, on 01 December 2018 - 08:47 PM, said:

I will believe it when it's officially announced .

They did the same thing last year.

[Pain G0D]

Xetelian, on 01 December 2018 - 08:48 PM, said:

They did the same thing last year.

And they just officially announced it .

Yes I know they did it last year too but I thought it was a once off because it was PGI home brew mechs . That made me into a loyal payer . Most free to play games are not this generous . I do get that it probably helps to sell the mech packs and keeps players from running to other games for 3 months but still most if not all ftp games don't give this much away for Christmas .

It was a pain waiting till march though .

Edited by Pain G0D, 01 December 2018 - 09:06 PM.

[Peter2k]

Xetelian, on 01 December 2018 - 08:37 PM, said:

I've seen it posted on various discord servers but I expect a ton of people are going to rage in feb. and march. when they see lances of the new mechs and are like "How can I get that?"

Because you see so many of those other 2 free Heros from last year "every" player has, right?

[Acersecomic]

Peter2k, on 02 December 2018 - 03:52 AM, said:

Because you see so many of those other 2 free Heros from last year "every" player has, right?

Vanguard is not an uncommon sight, no Same with the Powehouse or.the Reaver.

[Captain Polux]

Peter2k, on 02 December 2018 - 03:52 AM, said:

Because you see so many of those other 2 free Heros from last year "every" player has, right?

I see both of them quite a bit.

[Alexander of Macedon]

Who cares? It's just another zero-effort bribe to try to keep the game afloat. I'd rather have competent developers than any amount of gift ****.

[Xeno Phalcon]

im all for free stuff but, im more interested in the MC to be honest, as a medium pilot iv no interest in the whaletrain most of the time lol.

(Though fun fact: The IIC lands on my birthday -.^)

[Acersecomic]

Alexander of Macedon, on 02 December 2018 - 08:08 AM, said:

Who cares? It's just another zero-effort bribe to try to keep the game afloat. I'd rather have competent developers than any amount of gift ****.

Fun fact, PGI, despite their numerous faults, is the only ones even doing this kind of a game.

[JediPanther]

Acersecomic, on 02 December 2018 - 09:08 AM, said:

Fun fact, PGI, despite their numerous faults, is the only ones even doing this kind of a game.

There are lots of robot-shoot-other-robot games. You can find many for free with a simple google search along with all the past mw titles.

[FupDup]

JediPanther, on 02 December 2018 - 09:38 AM, said:

There are lots of robot-shoot-other-robot games. You can find many for free with a simple google search along with all the past mw titles.

The only other mech games I've heard of are:

1. Hawken, which died and then got revived just to die again. Maybe it even died a third time, I can't even keep track at this point.

2. War Robots, one of the most Pay-2-Win games in human history where it literally takes 3+ years of upgrade time to get a fully set up hangar.

3. Titanfall, which is Call of Duty with robots (and isn't it basically dead now?).

4. Battle of Titans, which I haven't tried yet but might get around to eventually. It's supposed to be War Robots minus the horrible scummy practices from what I gather.


The old MW games are still okay for singleplayer but they can't fill the multiplayer void.

[kapusta11]

Any info on what the hardpoints are?

[FupDup]

kapusta11, on 02 December 2018 - 09:57 AM, said:

Any info on what the hardpoints are?

Last time it took quite a while for our dev overlords to release the hardpoint and quirk info for the holiday gundams. I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't even know what they want these mechs to have yet. I'm just hoping for ballistics on the Whammy IIC so that the Darth Maul isn't as mandatory of a variant to own.

However, judging by the Vanguard and Powerhouse, I'd expect these two variants to be underwhelming because they don't want people using those instead of properly paid-for heroes.

Edited by FupDup, 02 December 2018 - 10:10 AM.

[Acersecomic]

JediPanther, on 02 December 2018 - 09:38 AM, said:

There are lots of robot-shoot-other-robot games. You can find many for free with a simple google search along with all the past mw titles.

Read the quote bellow.

FupDup, on 02 December 2018 - 09:49 AM, said:

The only other mech games I've heard of are:

1. Hawken, which died and then got revived just to die again. Maybe it even died a third time, I can't even keep track at this point.

2. War Robots, one of the most Pay-2-Win games in human history where it literally takes 3+ years of upgrade time to get a fully set up hangar.

3. Titanfall, which is Call of Duty with robots (and isn't it basically dead now?).

4. Battle of Titans, which I haven't tried yet but might get around to eventually. It's supposed to be War Robots minus the horrible scummy practices from what I gather.


The old MW games are still okay for singleplayer but they can't fill the multiplayer void.

Oh, and none are Battletech. NONE ARE THE GIANT ROBOTS.
It's like telling someone to go watch Nascar because Formula 1 is no longer existant because "there are other similar things".

Edited by Acersecomic, 02 December 2018 - 10:35 AM.

[LT. HARDCASE]

Bet on the free Wham IIC having arm based ballistic hardpoints, probably even just on one arm.

As last year, they are not going to give these godlike hardpoints.

Edited by LT. HARDCASE, 02 December 2018 - 10:52 AM.

[Valdarion Silarius]

Xeno Phalcon, on 02 December 2018 - 08:12 AM, said:

im all for free stuff but, im more interested in the MC to be honest, as a medium pilot iv no interest in the whaletrain most of the time lol.

(Though fun fact: The IIC lands on my birthday -.^)

Ironically the Warhammer IIC releases on the month of my birthday as well. If they announced the Rifleman IIC on the same month (or in January) then I'll be pretty damn happy.

[VonBruinwald]

Alexander of Macedon, on 02 December 2018 - 08:08 AM, said:

Who cares? It's just another zero-effort bribe to try to keep the game afloat. I'd rather have competent developers than any amount of gift ****.

You don't have to play on the 27th, no one is forcing you to. But I'm betting you will...

[Alexander of Macedon]

Acersecomic, on 02 December 2018 - 09:08 AM, said:

Fun fact, PGI, despite their numerous faults, is the only ones even doing this kind of a game.

Yeah, because they're the ones with the goddamn license to the property. They've needed to **** or get off the MW pot for years, but they keep chugging along purely because there are enough overly nostalgic players willing to buy every single mechpack.