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[Rhaelcan]

Mayhem Lewis, on 17 September 2025 - 08:18 AM, said:

Don't count on it. Last year's nova cat had it's ECM removed by the Cauldron and Tiyos, Tiyos' explanation being they worried about giving ECM to a mech with 8 ballistic Hardpoints... which was hilarious because this happened while they were launching an ECM with 10 ballistic hardpoints at the same time, the Bane.

My point being lore, wisdom, balance, none of that matters to PGI's guys or the Cauldron goons who only want to warp the game to their game-play style without any interference, they will rip stuff out and ignore core aspect of a mech to suit their bias or to make sure it doesn't compete with a new mech launch.

Bane was LARGE and WIDE and SLOW. Novacat P wasn't those. Huntsman gets ECM.

Ttly, on 17 September 2025 - 12:00 PM, said:

So what, the Battlemaster is an 85t Sleipnir with higher weapon mounts? Unless it has decent missile/energy quirks, the extra hardpoints are pretty much deadweight/ignored I'd imagine, would've been interesting if they were made more viable so that 3AC5+1LAC2 and whatever missile+energy build on it would be decent instead of just being Sleipnir but higher mount and more agility.

The 75t Stalker being decent depends on how much quirk it gets for losing the tonnage (and a missile hardpoint) I guess. I'd imagine it gets at least some heat quirk.

And the PPC+LRM TBR I doubt will actually be used that way over the usual ECM mixpod builds too, also would need as much So8 quirks as the TBR-Prime (which also can already run its loadout albeit with slightly different[worse] weapon placement) to at least be decent.

The ECM Huntsman is eh, kind of whatever that will just be run with 2HLL+a bunch of ERMLs or whatever like PPC poptart. Nothing really new.




Weird way to spell out, "I'm okay with older stuff like Wolfhound-Grinner (that is already rarely ever seen) getting powercreeped!"

Grinner is fine???

TercieI, on 17 September 2025 - 05:31 PM, said:

LOL. They didn't change "Grand Dragon." Glad they figured this out.

Whats wrong with the dragon?

Mayhem Lewis, on 17 September 2025 - 08:18 AM, said:

Don't count on it. Last year's nova cat had it's ECM removed by the Cauldron and Tiyos, Tiyos' explanation being they worried about giving ECM to a mech with 8 ballistic Hardpoints... which was hilarious because this happened while they were launching an ECM with 10 ballistic hardpoints at the same time, the Bane.

My point being lore, wisdom, balance, none of that matters to PGI's guys or the Cauldron goons who only want to warp the game to their game-play style without any interference, they will rip stuff out and ignore core aspect of a mech to suit their bias or to make sure it doesn't compete with a new mech launch.

Also, lmfao. Cauldron actually balances right. What is their 'gameplay' style? Cause to me, they balance for the game, not themselves. Example, VoidKiller, the railgun clan bullshark, is getting nerfed this upcoming patch.

6 PAC2 timberwolf will be fun.

[TercieI]

Rhaelcan, on 17 September 2025 - 06:39 PM, said:

Whats wrong with the dragon?

Just the name.

[Ttly]

Rhaelcan, on 17 September 2025 - 06:39 PM, said:

Grinner is fine???

What, you think having below 10DPS/30ish alpha to be fine because at least it has access to stealth armor which is its only selling point above the WLF-C (which has 50ish alpha thanks to HLL+cERML) since it has no weapon quirks other than heat?

And the new Raven just gets to have more hardpoints, and slightly better hitbox/weapon placement. And if it takes after the 3L, effectively more hitpoints than the Grinner too because structure (which it gets instead of armor quirk) skill nodes are +33% at 10 nodes.

Edited by Ttly, 17 September 2025 - 09:31 PM.

[Hawk819]

TTB, on 17 September 2025 - 06:14 PM, said:

I read Battlemaster. I am happy.

Truth be told, I'm not jumping for joy for this variant, I would much rather have the Gauss Variant or LB-x AC/10 variant. Either of those would've been a better choice. Like usual, they read Ballistic Torso and wham! We've got MG monster!

[Pelmeshek]

Stalker DOA if dont have good quirks.

Edited by Pelmeshek, 17 September 2025 - 10:39 PM.

[Steel Raven]

Hawk819, on 17 September 2025 - 09:36 PM, said:

Truth be told, I'm not jumping for joy for this variant, I would much rather have the Gauss Variant or LB-x AC/10 variant. Either of those would've been a better choice. Like usual, they read Ballistic Torso and wham! We've got MG monster!

...The Sleipnir has Ballistic Torso Mounts. The Black Widow has Ballistic Torso Mounts. The War Emu, Torso Ballistic Mounts.The BLR-6C canonically has 4X Light AC 5, you can easily swap those out for Dual Gauss, Dual Heavy Gauss, Triple or Quad LB-10X, Duel LB-20X, Duel RAC-5, Triple Rac-2. The only way PGI could screw this up is by ether giving it terrible quirks or ignoring the art the BLR-6C was based on and somehow place the ballistics at crotch level like the current arm mounts.

Pelmeshek, on 17 September 2025 - 10:37 PM, said:

Stalker DOA if dont have good quirks.

Yeah, I take back what I posted earlier. Without re-scaling,10 tons less armor and guns, it's going to live or die on quirks.

[ColdBrewed]

Sorry, can someone tell me where you all are seeing the loadouts and stuff for these new mechs?

[Ttly]

ColdBrewed, on 18 September 2025 - 01:18 AM, said:

Sorry, can someone tell me where you all are seeing the loadouts and stuff for these new mechs?

Most of them are just transplant out of the tabletop (which you can look up their build on sites that lists units for it) except for the Raven being renamed to MN from SS.

Though you can really just ignore the stock loadout/build, as in MWO they only serve as a guidepost on their hardpoint count for which you can mount whatever that fits.
Unless they're lucky enough to have someone bored enough to give them quirks to be run viably in such manner (as MWO's gameplay lends favourably to accurate pinpoint damage from boating greatly over the mixed-weapons most "tabletop-accurate" builds has) rather than as a joke instead in most cases.

So for example you can look at the BLR-6C here and make out that it has:
4 ballistic (2 on STs)
1 missile (LT)
4 energy (1 on STs, 2 on LA)

After that you can then mess around on the custom mechlab builder and see what it would look like with ingame customization rules.

Edited by Ttly, 18 September 2025 - 03:13 AM.

[Voice of Kerensky]

Two hours of play. Seven battles. One victory.
Thanks for a pleasant evening.

[Logancio]

sweet

[FRAGTAST1C]

If Void Killer and War Ghoul count towards both IS and Clan LGD rewards, does the Bullshark Collector's Pack qualify for both IS and Clan Package rewards?

[w0qj]

1. Yes, Legendary Bullshark (War Ghoul & Void Killer) count as both IS and Clan Legendary Awards.
https://www.mwomercs...profile/content

2. Yes, I believe that buying the Bullshark Mech Pack with the Hero add-on would qualify you for both IS and Clan Package Awards. (Because the Hero Bullshark is a Clan mech). I bought it last year, and I can confirm this.
https://mwomercs.com...am/page__st__40
https://mwomercs.com...rewards-program

FRAGTAST1C, on 19 September 2025 - 04:39 AM, said:

If Void Killer and War Ghoul count towards both IS and Clan LGD rewards, does the Bullshark Collector's Pack qualify for both IS and Clan Package rewards?

Edited by w0qj, 19 September 2025 - 06:38 AM.

[ASHRID]

FRAGTAST1C, on 19 September 2025 - 04:39 AM, said:

If Void Killer and War Ghoul count towards both IS and Clan LGD rewards, does the Bullshark Collector's Pack qualify for both IS and Clan Package rewards?

I emailed support with that question and they said it does

[TercieI]

Status page is up.

Edited by TercieI, 19 September 2025 - 11:03 AM.

[GMApterous]

“Have purchased, during the Eligibility period, any Clan Pack, Clan Hero, or Clan Reinforcement Variant from the Premium Packages Pages”

So would the Galaxy Clan Pack count for this?

[Marukage]

wie schade, es gibt kein Atlas II
https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Atlas_II
als Belohnung.

aber sonst ist alles supi.

[RoyKilroy]

How often does the eligibility page update?

[Renzor the Red]

Well this is weird.

I'm only showing having played 10/100 matches on the Active Player Reward, but in this last month I've been playing a lot (almost at loot bag 450 on the event), and I've done a couple other events as well.

Anyone else having that issue?

[smokefield]

shouldn't gauntlet pack be eligible for IS reward ?
is there any list of what mechs/packages qualify for IS and Clan reward ?

[ASHRID]

GMApterous, on 19 September 2025 - 11:06 AM, said:

“Have purchased, during the Eligibility period, any Clan Pack, Clan Hero, or Clan Reinforcement Variant from the Premium Packages Pages”

So would the Galaxy Clan Pack count for this?

No, Galaxy is listed under the Prime reward

Renzor the Red, on 19 September 2025 - 11:29 AM, said:

Well this is weird.

I'm only showing having played 10/100 matches on the Active Player Reward, but in this last month I've been playing a lot (almost at loot bag 450 on the event), and I've done a couple other events as well.

Anyone else having that issue?

Yeah I thought my match count looked low (although not that low)

Edit - seems to be fixed now

smokefield, on 19 September 2025 - 12:13 PM, said:

shouldn't gauntlet pack be eligible for IS reward ?
is there any list of what mechs/packages qualify for IS and Clan reward ?

Gauntlet is listed under the Prime reward

As a general rule when you mouse over the pack in the store the graphic flips and it will say if its an IS or Clan pack

Edited by ASHRID, 20 September 2025 - 06:05 AM.