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[AmbidXtrousGNOME]

1st!

thanks for the surprise release PGI

The Longbows without any missiles in the arms remind me of pod racers from Star Wars Phantom Menace

Edited by AmbidXtrousGNOME, 21 November 2023 - 10:45 AM.

[trans catgirl]

seconding the surprise release thanks! that's super neat. I had a very surprised "what, like, today???? " reaction coming to the site today

[achalkov]

wow! christmas comes early.
As i said previously - PGI, you are the best

[PAQUERA]

PGI thanks for the surprise!!

[Cheeks Akimbo]

Still wish we could buy a single mech and not the whole pack

[ambosen]

Releasing *the* iconic Inner Sphere LRM carrier mech with the current state of LRM's effectively being nerfed to the point of virtual uselessness in comparison to literally every other weapon in the game. That's a bold move Cotton. Will it work out?

[C337Skymaster]

Called it. As soon as I saw it show up in MW5. It's nice to see, for sure.

Okay, I just noticed: all of these builds are 1 ton heavy. (They're failing to account for the sudden lack of CASE weight in MWO). I appreciate that some effort was made to make Clan and IS tech exactly the same, removing any and all differentiation between the two technological bases, or any reason to pick one over the other beyond pure aesthetics, but the stock builds, when drawn from the record sheets, should remain faithful to the record sheets, and let the player base crap on the builds on their own, without doing so for them.

Edited by C337Skymaster, 21 November 2023 - 11:48 AM.

[Gas Guzzler]

Ordered the whole thing but only got the special/hero. I think a few other people have had the same issue.

[Ghostfox1]

Gas Guzzler, on 21 November 2023 - 12:07 PM, said:

Ordered the whole thing but only got the special/hero. I think a few other people have had the same issue.

Email support, but I think they might have a general fix in place and are pushing them out again.

[Shookies]

This is awesome!

[NoZaku4U]

With how profoundly broken LRMs, and lock on weapons are in general, releasing an iconic LRM mech?

And really, we are well past time to drop the ridiculous IS LRM min range. They already take up more space and twice the weight of Clan.

Edited by NoZaku4U, 21 November 2023 - 01:57 PM.

[An6ryMan69]

Ha Ha Ha, that thing looks absurd!

I loved the Longbow in other Battletech games but this thing looks like it should have LRM60 in each arm!

Hopefully an LRM mech pack means a very soon upcoming LRM set of improvements so they can suck less.

MWO maps themselves already slap down LRM users hard anyways - time to give the weapon system some life again if people are to pay up to use this mech.

[Lionheart2012]

Stealth addition! But we should have known that it would drop sometime. It was added to MW5, after all.

[cougurt]

the check engine light, on 21 November 2023 - 10:51 AM, said:

Wiiiiide.

Idk, couple of those variants sound like they would be hilarious MRM barfers.

Hardpoint inflation tho.

with the exception of the hero, i'm not really seeing any hardpoint inflation here. it's very comparable to the stalker.

[Big-G]

PS.... decals are buggy as hell on the new mechs...

[PocketYoda]

We have nearly all of the unseen by now its time for a Robotech/Macross Event

[Grey Hook]

This is an awesome mech, and I think they did a great job with the design. Not sure if it will outshine the Stalker, being as wide as a fafnir, but I love it anyway.The face looks so much like a walrus! Please please please release a set of bolt-on downward-pointing walrus tusks for this guy!

[Grey Hook]

The arms really are huge. When one of these big guys drops an arm in battle it looks like it could turn into an urbanmech and join the fight.

(That would be a hilarious loadout- couple of LRM 10s and medium lasers in the torsos, and a deployable urbanmech in each arm. Like an early Capellan attempt at elemental-style battle armor).

[C337Skymaster]

ambosen, on 21 November 2023 - 11:13 AM, said:

Releasing *the* iconic Inner Sphere LRM carrier mech with the current state of LRM's effectively being nerfed to the point of virtual uselessness in comparison to literally every other weapon in the game. That's a bold move Cotton. Will it work out?

Radar Dep OP. Even at 95% "max". It needs to be 1:1 countered by Target Decay, and not override that skill, entirely.