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[Solis Obscuri]

From dev comments on the forums and devblogs, I've come to understand that there will be some key differences in the way merc corps will be able to manage themselves as opposed to how house troops will function. Can you elaborate on this a bit? e.g. What sorts of tools will merc commanders have available? How will contracts work (single objection or signing on for a longer duration "campaign" with a house?) Will house troops have any ability to band together with online friends and function as units together, or are they just in a grab-bag?

[Vulpesveritas]

Q17: Will we be able to pick what mech we start in, and/or will we be given an allotment of funds out of the door to choose a mech / customize / storage for repair bills?
Q18: Will repairs take time or be click repair button, pay bill, and you're good to go? If they're not instantaneous, will we start with more than one mech?

[Slystone]

I keep seeing people mention repairing there mech, what happens when it gets shot out from under you? When are you going to explain the finances of the game both real money and c-bills?

[lashropa]

1)Assume I'm building a computer primarily to play your game. Will I be wasting my money on a CPU with more than 4 cores? Help us out here, lots of speculation in the hardware threads, no definite answers.

2) What can you tell us about the meta-game?

Cheerio!

[Paul Inouye]

Felix Dante, on 15 May 2012 - 09:00 AM, said:

Ok, you guys always say that for every question of: "Will this 'x' be in the game?" that we will get our answers mostly at Beta or Launch.

How about this one then:
With what you know of the game engine's capabilites, and your current plans for the development of the game;
What do you know that will NOT be in the game that you can confirm?

Anything that hasn't been confirmed yet would be appreciated and would reduce repetitive questions on the Forums about such.

And no answers like; "Pink Trolls" and such...

Ponies.

[GaussDragon]

Can you give us more details on map design and variety?

[ManDaisy]

How many weapons can we cram onto a mech? Will we be able to cram stuff on as long as there are no slots/ tonnage violations? From the mechlab It looks like we are sticking to MW3/ table top build rules instead of MW4 hardpoints. I like to use weapons arrays for varying situations so my average number of weapons per mech on past games was about 20.

[Turbo Corvair]

Let's talk about the HUD and the cockpit. We see screenshots of the important info showing on a HUD, with the cockpit in the background often showing duplicate data.

Will there be a HUD only mode? I typically prefer to play as if my monitor is my viewscreen/windshield and I am the pilot, rather than have the monitor be a window through which I see a virtual cockpit that my avatar inhabits.


EDIT: My multi-screen question was essentially answered in todays tweet session, yes multi-screen support is in, but they are not yet ready to tell us how many screens or how they are implementing them.

Edited by Turbo Corvair, 17 May 2012 - 06:41 PM.

[DooMachine]

are there any plans to attempt to include revamped "unseen" Mechs into MWO? or possibly redesigns of the project phoenix versions of those mechs?

is there any hope at all?

[Therion I]

DooMachine, on 16 May 2012 - 02:49 AM, said:

are there any plans to attempt to include revamped "unseen" Mechs into MWO? or possibly redesigns of the project phoenix versions of those mechs?

is there any hope at all?

This THIS THIS!!

Will we see any of the Unseen?
Will we see any of the Reseen?

PLEASE

[Dihm]

Why do the mechs have hands? What is this, Gundam?

[Chuckie]

Paul Inouye, on 15 May 2012 - 07:54 PM, said:

Ponies.

Are you saying Ponies are IN or OUT of the game.. ?

[Chuckie]

Vulpesveritas, on 15 May 2012 - 08:02 AM, said:

Is it a European or African swallow?

[CMDR Sunset Shimmer]

I would really like an answer regarding the Reseen appearing in MWO... even just a yes or a no.

[Chuckie]

Dihm, on 16 May 2012 - 05:28 AM, said:

Why do the mechs have hands? What is this, Gundam?

For Salvage amongst other things.. But mainly how can you pick up a 15 ton arm that got blown off your Awesome (or the 20 ton one you blew off an Atlas) without some BIG gear. Nothings bigger than a Mech..

[MaddMaxx]

If you did answer the Re-Seen, Un-Seen question, and thusly dashed everyone's hopes, do you really think the Community would finally "give it a GD rest already"?

[Gigaton]

In the IGN video previews and recent screenies we have seen a timer in the upper center of the HUD that starts running from what seems to be 20 minutes. Is the final game planned to feature battle timer that enforces draw when time runs out (akin to the timer found in World of Tanks)?

[BarHaid]

Chuckie, on 16 May 2012 - 07:57 AM, said:

For Salvage amongst other things.. But mainly how can you pick up a 15 ton arm that got blown off your Awesome (or the 20 ton one you blew off an Atlas) without some BIG gear. Nothings bigger than a Mech..

No no. No fair trying to answer that one. I want to hear the Devs answer this.

When can we use our hands!?!?!

[Vexgrave Lars]

Dev's related to the unseen, I took a look at how to create weapons configs (by hardpoints) using variants from mechs we know are in the game so far.
What I found was, we players would actually be sacrificing a lot to build load outs that "match" those unseen mechs in the low and middle weight ranges, and really not gain much in the heavy and assault classes. I'm not sure how or if this helps, do you have anything to add, is this something you've already looked at and that is why your making the selections we've seen so far.

Edited by Vexgrave Lars, 16 May 2012 - 10:36 AM.

[DiGiTGOD]

Questions on Maps:

1) How many maps do you hope to have finished by the start of open beta?
2) When can we expect new maps after launch? (based on there only being 1 or 2 at open beta time)