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[mania3c]

Can anyone help me? I am not big battletech guru..so..is Orion capable using ECM? Or what is really interesting on Orion compared to phrac for example?

[Xeno Phalcon]

Iv never heard of a orion with ECm but dosnt mean its impossible. The orion has been called a 'poor mans atlas' due to having watered down setup like an atlas D and much of its stock hardpoints are like those you see on a atlas (lasers in the arms, autocannon on the right hip, LRMs and SRMs in the left torso ect ect).

The orion has always proven to be a sturdy but board mech and iv enjoyed it when it popped up in a few MW games in the past. I suspect in MWO you will see it standard issue with 2erppc/1gauss but its got some solid missile slots allowing for it to be a pretty well rounded support mech, im hoping it will have a good manuverability (in terms of turn rate/torso twist radius) to be in better line with how the original was treated more as a brawler (Lrms to soften up the other guy, then pound him to dirt with ac/laser/srms) but we will see.

[Ralgas]

OK now i'm getting excited...

ON-2M with 1 extra energy hard point = Marauder loadouts!! oooh yeah........... that's going to be a time/c-bill sink if it should happen

[Carrioncrows]

Ralgas, on 31 May 2013 - 07:59 PM, said:

OK now i'm getting excited...

ON-2M with 1 extra energy hard point = Marauder loadouts!! oooh yeah........... that's going to be a time/c-bill sink if it should happen

You can already do marauder loadouts with the Cataphract-3D

[Nick Drezary]

Carrioncrows, on 01 June 2013 - 12:33 AM, said:

You can already do marauder loadouts with the Cataphract-3D

Or on the Catapult-K2

[Ralgas]

still 5-10 tons short witth both mechs guys, thats a good chunk of armor/speed/heatsinks/ammo

Edited by Ralgas, 01 June 2013 - 05:44 AM.

[Caboose30]

Any idea when this is coming out? I heard June, but I don't remember if that was official or speculation.

[Ralgas]

Should be the 2nd june patch, followed by the victor in july and then the flea (assuming the speed caps allow it by then)

[Vincent Lynch]

Nick Drezary, on 01 June 2013 - 01:03 AM, said:

Or on the Catapult-K2

Did that once. MAD-3R loadout. Sucks, even with double heat sinks. better use an AC/10 or 2 AC/2.

[Commander Kobold]

mania3c, on 31 May 2013 - 01:45 PM, said:

Can anyone help me? I am not big battletech guru..so..is Orion capable using ECM? Or what is really interesting on Orion compared to phrac for example?

not a big BT guru either but from the concept art it looks like it'll be taller than a cataphract so it probably won't have as much of a gorilla arm issue when trying to fire over hills etc. It also has a rather balanced loadout so you can have weapons for all ranges and travels at 64 Km/h which for heavies is a pretty decent speed.

[doKtor kALT]

Is it just me or will this mech have also have a gigantic CT like the Awesome ?

[OpCentar]

It all depends how they place the hitboxes, but yes the entire torso should be rather bulky.

After all, lore states a "spacious interior" as one of its quirks.

[Fiona Marshe]

Whenever I've seen one on the table or in an online game, Orion's tend to zombie until late and then have *all* the ammo detonate at once.

Will have to see how it goes in this setting.

[Fishhawk]

No Orion anymore ..

[Damocles]

4 months away, I guess someone bricked their HDD.

[Corvus Antaka]

Damocles, on 04 June 2013 - 09:54 AM, said:

4 months away, I guess someone bricked their HDD.

probably saving it for the clan invasion

[Mechkilla]

Carrioncrows, on 01 June 2013 - 12:33 AM, said:

You can already do marauder loadouts with the Cataphract-3D

Argh, you can't simulate a marauder. You need the look of it. I like especially the redesigned one of Shimmering-Sword:
http://shimmering-sw...auder-293014614
http://shimmering-sw...auder-309448707

Fishhawk, on 04 June 2013 - 09:14 AM, said:

No Orion anymore ..

Who said "not anymore"? If I didn't miss something they just changed the schedule and we should get the Orion later.

[BlueSanta]

Alex Iglesias, on 19 December 2012 - 04:07 PM, said:

just wait for the variants...There's a reason i left the rims around the medium lasers thick.

Alex, can you tell us what the hell happened to cause the Orion to be delayed 3-4 MONTHS when PGI had, what, over six months to finish it?

[Hastur Azargo]

ORIOOOOOOOOOOON!!! ((((((((((((((

[Fishhawk]

Mechkilla, on 04 June 2013 - 10:00 AM, said:

Who said "not anymore"? If I didn't miss something they just changed the schedule and we should get the Orion later.

I just meant no Orion this release. I'm bummed because it was one of my favorite TT mechs and the 18th is my birthday. So I thought it was a happy coincidence. I'll get it when it comes out, but the excitement for it has faded with the delay.