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[Horseman]

Chiasson Brinker, on 25 March 2019 - 08:24 PM, said:

And yet, accurate to the time period being portrayed. You're a down on your luck merc operating out of a Leopard, not a Defiance Industries company man operating out of a factory on Hesperus II. The kind of mechbay facilities needed to swap out major components like engines, armour or internal structure just aren't available to most mercenaries in a pre-4th Succession War setting, and whatever is available would be either expensive as all get out or else reserved for House units.

On the other hand... there's no reason not to give players a path to eventually work their way there (while in the mean time upgrading the capabilities of their on-board tech team), either.

[Phantom360]

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[color=#959595]On the other hand... there's no reason not to give players a path to [/color]eventually[color=#959595] work their way there (while in the mean time upgrading the capabilities of their on-board tech team), either.[/color]

The idea of traveling to factory worlds to hire the facilities and services of specialists to work on your battlemechs to customize them to the extent that you want seems like it may be a nice way to fit in the traditional "if it fits I sits" customization that can be found in MWO and older MW games.

You can make field refits of mechs in your Leopard dropship, swapping out a Defiance medium laser for a Martel medium laser or replacing damaged equipment with similar or identical equipment etc. But if you want the more in depth changes, such as swapping out an AC20/AC10 for a Gauss rifle or a Large laser for a PPC, or hell even upgrading the engine in one of your mechs that you want to be able to move faster, then you will have to take it to a world which has mech-techs/facilities that can facilitate those changes you want to make. Also since you are hiring professionals to do more in-depth changes, it could cost more to encourage the rareness of custom mech loadouts, but not so expensive that you cant make changes in the late, late game (I mean, if I'm rolling in enough C-bills and willing to fork over enough to buy a Union class dropship I want to pay Hesperus mech yards to make me custom load-out Atlas xD).

Most probably a pipe dream by this point but meh, can always hope for a mod with a similar idea to pop up or could look into learning unreal so I can knock up such a system.

Edited by Phantom360, 26 March 2019 - 06:17 AM.

[Adamant80]

Wait so am I correct in hearing that MW5 will not have component customization beyond brand of weapons? That kind of pisses me off if so. I dont give a crap about broken lore, I want to build my mech reasonably based on MWO's system.

[Horseman]

Adamant80, on 26 March 2019 - 08:54 AM, said:

Wait so am I correct in hearing that MW5 will not have component customization beyond brand of weapons?

Not exactly, but as far as we know changing engines, or types of heat sinks/armor/structure is not in the cards

[WayfaringCastaway]

Horseman, on 26 March 2019 - 09:01 AM, said:

Not exactly, but as far as we know changing engines, or types of heat sinks/armor/structure is not in the cards

So it sounds a lot like HBS’s mechlab in Battletech.

[Renzor the Red]

I just wanted to leave this here. I've been watching the footage videos for MW5 and came across this. Good stuff. Love the destroying tanks and aircraft and the Hunchback firing on people on foot, lol.

Looking forward to getting the four S mechs. Too bad it's not until freaking May.

[Fryepod]

And made my order.

[NocturnalBeast]

Horseman, on 26 March 2019 - 09:01 AM, said:

Not exactly, but as far as we know changing engines, or types of heat sinks/armor/structure is not in the cards

Yeah, it seems like MW5 is going to be a FPV version of BATTLETECH. I love BATTLETECH, but I am taking a break from it for a bit until there is some new story content. Not to mention, I play allot of Anthem now, bugs and all, since my friends play it and it is actually pretty fun when it works right. Seriously, read about all the problems Anthem has before you complain about the relatively minor problems MWO has.

Edited by Ed Steele, 31 March 2019 - 12:22 AM.

[Mumuharra]

Just a question.
I redeemed the 4 mechs in MWO with the code 2 weeks ago.
Does anyone know when they will be injected?

[Renzor the Red]

Mumuharra, on 31 March 2019 - 11:29 AM, said:

Just a question.
I redeemed the 4 mechs in MWO with the code 2 weeks ago.
Does anyone know when they will be injected?

Delivered May 21st.

[Tiamat of the Sea]

Super stoked over the Marauder, liking the look of the Catapult, mildly interested by the Warhammer, but that King Crab choice seems kind of.... eh.

Well, whatever way, it's nice to get more variants added to more 'mechs.

Any chance we could see even more variants for older 'mechs sometime soon? Alternately, maybe finally getting at least one IS omnimech (I would hope either the Firestarter or the Blackjack).....?

[Fryepod]

renzor51, on 31 March 2019 - 01:05 PM, said:

Delivered May 21st.

Had the same question.
Thank you sir.

[Mafarrico]

So what happens if you already pre-ordered the mad II pack and you want to pre-order MW5? Is there a way to upgrade the mad II pack, will you get some compensation? What are PGI's plans regarding that.

[Aidan Crenshaw]

contact support. They will refund your original pack and you can use the redeem code from MW5. Maybe you'll even keep the early adopters rewards if you as kindly. Or sell the code you get from MW5 to a friend. Why you did it in that order is beyond me, though.

[Majin]

I preordered MW5 and got different codes to redeem for MWO, I want to redeem them all except premium time since I wanna make the most of it when I'll have more free time, is it included in the MC Bundle Code or Item Bundle Code ?

[Aidan Crenshaw]

Mc bundle

[Mafarrico]

Aidan Crenshaw, on 01 April 2019 - 08:21 PM, said:

contact support. They will refund your original pack and you can use the redeem code from MW5. Maybe you'll even keep the early adopters rewards if you as kindly. Or sell the code you get from MW5 to a friend. Why you did it in that order is beyond me, though.

Well, I was on the fence about it, but now I' receptive to pre-ordering it, so I just want to know where I stand on that, ty for the input btw.

[hardtarget]

caved and pre-ordered

damn you Piranha

[Aidan Crenshaw]

now that you're committed, don't forget to redeem your codes.

[Cyrilis]

sorry for bringing it up again, but I really want that information:

Dear PGI: Pls let us know if and under what conditions the redeemcodes included in an MW5 pre-oder will count towards the eligibility for the MWO 2019 customer appreciacion reward program

this will really be an inportant point in my decision to buy or not to buy...