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[Wolf Hreda]

Looking at the screenshots today compared to the latest weekly screenshot, the Dragon's right arm looks different in the weekly screenshot than it did in the previous shots. Does this mean we get visually differentiated weapons?

Devs... Please say yes?

[Verminaard]

I thought it was already confirmed that mechs arms will change (to an extent) to show what type of weapon was there. Ex an auto cannon or PPC will not look the same.

The concept art shows that anyways..

http://mwomercs.com/...dragon-sketches

Edited by Verminaard, 17 May 2012 - 02:21 PM.

[Gigaton]

Verminaard, on 17 May 2012 - 02:18 PM, said:

I thought it was already confirmed that mechs arms will change (to an extent) to show what type of weapon was there. Ex an auto cannon or PPC will not look the same.

It's confirmed, yes. And not just for arms, they aim is that all loadout changes will be eventually represented visually as well.

Edited by Gigaton, 17 May 2012 - 02:23 PM.

[Mota Prefect]

Verminaard, on 17 May 2012 - 02:18 PM, said:

I thought it was already confirmed that mechs arms will change (to an extent) to show what type of weapon was there. Ex an auto cannon or PPC will not look the same.

The concept art shows that anyways..

http://mwomercs.com/...dragon-sketches

I hope this is all true because that would be friggin awesome!

[Redshift2k5]

The Swayback also has medium laser lenses instead of a single AC hole. The K2 has big honkin' energy cannons instead of LRM boxes (but no apparant difference between large laser and PPC toting versions), and i'm sure they will add more as ften as they can

http://static.mwomer...8FF191DE2B8.jpg

[Gigaton]

It has been discussed before and if you do searches I'm sure you'll find more info on this from Bryan, but this is from the recent Tweet chat:

InnerSphereNews, on 17 May 2012 - 09:00 AM, said:

Q: Is there plans to show, graphically in-game, each different weapon as it is put into your load out?
A: We do a fair bit of this now and we will be able to add more and more as the game goes along. [RUSS]

[Ranager]

Thats' pretty cool that we can actually see the different types of guns on the mechs.

[Applejack]

Redshift2k5, on 17 May 2012 - 02:24 PM, said:

The Swayback also has medium laser lenses instead of a single AC hole. The K2 has big honkin' energy cannons instead of LRM boxes (but no apparant difference between large laser and PPC toting versions), and i'm sure they will add more as ften as they can

http://static.mwomer...8FF191DE2B8.jpg

I'm pretty sure that the tri-barrelled cannon is actually a Ultra AC5 instead of a regular AC5! Just look at the Cicada-3M artwork; it has a UAC5 and it looks rather similar.

[ak12546]

This is gonna be awesome! much better than the static mech weapons in MW4

[fatcat01]

the new dragon screenshot could just be the DRG-5N variant which drops one med laser and upgrades the AC/5 to a UAC/5.
It will be interesting to see if changing the gun back to a AC/5 would change the appearance