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[InnerSphereNews]

Greetings MechWarriors,

In this news post, Mark will be showing us the progress and process of creating the 'Mechs and other assets that will ship with the Predator Pack! We hope you enjoy this look at our development process!

Check back for future updates!

The MWO Team

IMAGE 1 - The Hard Point Preview

[Mark Nicholson]

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[ManicWK9]

pls, dont give the blood hands or make it optional.

Edited by ManicWK9, 17 December 2021 - 05:57 PM.

[Mark Nicholson]

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[ManicWK9]

wrote 2 fast, sry.. ok, thx 4 the update..

[Navid A1]

I like these posts... these posts are nice.

[1453 R]

Hands may be optional, but most OmniMechs look kinda weird without them. That Blood Asp came out pretty slick, like how those hands went.

Also THANK YOU for fixing the hardpoint voids on the Shadow Cat. Bloody thing always looked just bizarre with empty voids for hands that weapons kept drifting around...

[w0qj]

So what happened to the ambush by the Rivals Pack (pun intended)?

Be interested in hearing about this story

FYI, I'll be booking the Rivals Pack sale on 1st-Jan-2022, so as to pad the 2022 sale volume going forward!
(Therefore a few days extension for the Rivals Pack Bonus Event would be appreciated; this currently would end on/about 5th-Jan-2022).

https://mwomercs.com/rivals
https://mwomercs.com...ble-bonus-event
https://mwomercs.com/events/431

Mark Nicholson, on 17 December 2021 - 05:31 PM, said:

...Third, for those feeling ambushed by recent events, I'm willing to share about creating the Rivals pack, if asked.

[Enamillion89]

Wait. W A I T! Hands are optional? Are we allowed to check or uncheck them to appear/disappear on the mech in-game? I hope that made sense

[w0qj]

Any chance for a future Blood Asp Hero mech, to have a ballistic hardpoint on it's Right Arm?

There's no such option yet; would appreciate this!

[Navid A1]

Enamillion89, on 17 December 2021 - 07:58 PM, said:

Wait. W A I T! Hands are optional? Are we allowed to check or uncheck them to appear/disappear on the mech in-game? I hope that made sense

Only on (Clan) Omni mechs.

In case the mech has hands and lower arm actuators in its arms you can toggle them on or off (little checkboxes above arm component slots)

Lower arm actuators allow you to move your arms horizontally, free from the torso. Hand actuator does not have an active effect, but serves as a crit pad slot with 7.5HP and can absorb critical damage shots to potentially save other important components in the arm.

You can't have a hand actuator enabled without having lower arm actuator also selected.

If you install any sort of projectile weapon in an arm (PPC, Any sort of cannons excluding MGs), hand and lower arm actuator are disabled by default (if the mech has them as an option).


If you have lower arm actuator active on one arm and disabled on the other arm, fee movement of arm reticle will be limited to 10 degrees to each side of the torso reticle.

[D V Devnull]

Mark Nicholson, on 17 December 2021 - 05:31 PM, said:

Priority still remains with hands and the ballistic mounts, but any hardpoints without those will see the lasers (and flamers) show up in the primary location at the front of the arm, instead of the secondary location on the side of the arm.

Please pardon my being confused (as I'm asking because C-ERPPCs have been weirdly positioned for some time now), but where will the C-ERPPCs fit on the ShadowCat in all these changes?

~D. V. "ShadowCat vs. C-ERPPC... Where will they end up?" Devnull

[Rho Treska]

Mark Nicholson, on 17 December 2021 - 05:31 PM, said:

Shadow Cat

First, thank you for your efforts and sharing your processes!

Second, and kinda leaning into what Devnull above asked too... can you please unify the hardpoints on the SHC arms to the new -E standard? It looks pretty bad when an ERPPC is shoved into the lateral slot of a handless arm while a wide, flat stump remains, and that also goes for lasers. Having the weapon on the flat like the -E in the screenshots while no hand is equipped is much more sexy, and I'd appreciate it.

Thanks in advance!

[TELEFORCE]

Rho Treska, on 18 December 2021 - 03:12 AM, said:

First, thank you for your efforts and sharing your processes!

Second, and kinda leaning into what Devnull above asked too... can you please unify the hardpoints on the SHC arms to the new -E standard? It looks pretty bad when an ERPPC is shoved into the lateral slot of a handless arm while a wide, flat stump remains, and that also goes for lasers. Having the weapon on the flat like the -E in the screenshots while no hand is equipped is much more sexy, and I'd appreciate it.

Thanks in advance!

I'm assuming that the PPC will go where the hand will go because you can't have hands or lower arm actuators on any omni arm that mounts a ballistic weapon (except machine guns) or PPCs.

I had no idea there was a Blood Asp variant with hands. They look very nice! For some reason I thought adding hands gave the omni an arm movement range bonus, but that's not the case now? Not that it's going to keep me from mounting them wherever I can - it's the only thing that's saving the Cougar from looking silly with the absurdly stubby arm lasers (which totally run counter to the MWO concept art for that 'mech, by the way).

Edited by TELEFORCE, 18 December 2021 - 04:44 AM.

[Mark Nicholson]

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[martian]

Mark Nicholson, on 18 December 2021 - 10:15 AM, said:

We had an ambitious plan to release the Predator Pack in December, and right before we announced it I got sick with a cold and was in quarantine for 10 days. The MWO team is really small right now, I'm the only dedicated artist, and that was enough to push it from "ambitous" to "completely impossible". So the Predator pack got moved to January, where I think people would have expected it anyway. I'm the bottleneck on getting 'Mech packs out right now, and we started thinking about something we could do with the remainder of the extra month of time we had bought, and yet didn't require as much new art as the recent booster packs. We had original planned for the roughneck and sunspider to be the december free mechs again, and the results you see grew from there.

Thanks for "Ambush".

It is my new favourite 'Mech.

[Oberst Jaime Wolf]

I Love my Ambush!!! Thx!

[TELEFORCE]

Mark Nicholson, on 18 December 2021 - 10:15 AM, said:

Fixing that crime has been on my list for a LONG time.

Nice to know it's on someone's list Thank you for your hard work on this game Mark!

[Mark Nicholson]

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[Navid A1]

Gold always looks fantastic on dark grey, dark blue, or dark olive green.