154 replies to this topic

[Gas Guzzler]

Damn that cannon is very centered. Interesting. Looks good so far, like a fat Marauder.

Purrrrrfect

[RickySpanish]

FLG 01, on 11 April 2019 - 11:55 AM, said:

Outclassed in that the Fafnir is significantly and clearly inferior in most situations? I would not think so. The Mad Cat MkII seems to be superior overall, the Annihilator does better in some situations, the Cyclops perhaps in a niche, though I am not sure, and the Blood Asp... yeah, no, not at all.
I try to seperate my feelings from my analyses when ot comes to Mech performance in this game.

Funny thing about the Blood Asp, I thought it was junk too until I saw a group using it in FP, those shoulder mounted cannons are exceptional in siege gate situations and just about anywhere where you don't want to nail friendly 'Mechs in the back.

[Antares102]

白竜の誇り

I dont understand what this thing has to do with "the pride of a white dragon"

[ImperialKnight]

Are the side fins going to be side torso bit boxes?

Does the main weapon on top of the mech count as CT or RT?

[GweNTLeR]

Wow those legs and arms just ask to be shot at

[Audacious Aubergine]

ImperialKnight, on 11 April 2019 - 08:31 PM, said:

Does the main weapon on top of the mech count as CT or RT?

The hardpoint is listed as RT so that's what it'll count as, so to call this mech IS XL-unfriendly would be a slight understatement

[K4I 4LL4RD LI4O]

Yeeeessssss, yes...thx PGI this is the best looking mech ever!!! Now I am Home I love this mech cant weit for it!!!

[Acersecomic]

RickySpanish, on 11 April 2019 - 12:49 PM, said:

Funny thing about the Blood Asp, I thought it was junk too until I saw a group using it in FP, those shoulder mounted cannons are exceptional in siege gate situations and just about anywhere where you don't want to nail friendly 'Mechs in the back.

Now you are assigning a role and organisation to it in order to sell it. Junk, absolutely not. But better than Fafnir... Hardly. Hell, I'd argue it better than Cyclops Sleipnir. MadCat is superior to pretry much anything so that argument stays hehe, and while Annihilator compares to Fafnir, it is much much more slugish than Fafnir, as well as being EXTREMELY tall with all of its weapons being low.

[Kuaron]

Antares102, on 11 April 2019 - 12:50 PM, said:

白竜の誇り

I dont understand what this thing has to do with "the pride of a white dragon"

No idea but thy for translating. ^^

[Nightbird]

only structure quirks, oh boy

[Gas Guzzler]

Damn, no heat gen on any of them except the missile one.

Structure quirks only

MAD-IIC/MCII agility

And the -6S only has ER PPC HSL + 1? What the heck. These are mostly disappointing.

Bummer.

Edited by Gas Guzzler, 12 April 2019 - 09:26 AM.

[Pelmeshek]

Nice DOA mech. Where new mechpack?

[Tordin]

Looks great! And finally a marauder with centered weapon hardpoint/ mount. Keep it that way. Maybe add some more armor quirks if not enough.

[Nightbird]

Gas Guzzler, on 12 April 2019 - 09:24 AM, said:

Guess they didn't make any money since the packs were all given away for free as MW5 content (they want to count all revenue as MW5 probably)

[Gas Guzzler]

Nightbird, on 12 April 2019 - 09:36 AM, said:

Guess they didn't make any money since the packs were all given away for free as MW5 content (they want to count all revenue as MW5 probably)

Too bad, was looking forward to this one.

[Verilligo]

Bwahahaha. The -4HP has an identical agility profile to the Dire Wolf and nothing to show for it except a 10% PPC heat gen quirk. Everything else has a worse agility profile than the ATLAS with zero notable quirks and, somehow, less firepower. The oversized geometry even ensures that it's impossible to ever miss CT by giving it a HUGE center line profile. All that and it still has lower arm actuators on every variant, making build variety completely hamstrung. You'd be deadlier and survive FAR longer if you just took out a King Crab, let alone one of the better IS assaults.

[Ukos]

Eww you got Structure quirks on the Marauder 2's

I am puzzled why PGI keep putting pretty much worthless stucture quirks on mechs

[Steve Pryde]

And a new DOA mech again because useless structure quirks.

[Skinjob]

The difference between a good inner sphere assault and a bad one?

The good ones have armor quirks. Really disappointed.

[K4I 4LL4RD LI4O]

Bam and the best mech is dead...slow and no good quirks ...why pgi why???