Battlemech 19: Orion
#121
Posted 20 December 2012 - 12:22 AM
Orion is an awesome addition for a heavy mech, indeed. Speaking of heavy mechs, it looks like we got all of the weight range of heavy-class mechs covered.
60 ton: Dragon
65 ton: Catapult
70 ton: Cataphract
75 ton: Orion
By looking at the Orion platform design, it was known to be "a poor man's Atlas".
#122
Posted 20 December 2012 - 12:40 AM
Wow that big meaty CT, is just scream'n for a XL engine in it.
#123
Posted 20 December 2012 - 12:49 AM
#124
Posted 20 December 2012 - 01:02 AM
#125
Posted 20 December 2012 - 01:27 AM
We have 19 battlemechs announced now, of them 5 lights, 5 mediums, 5 heavies and 4 assaults. Weight class-wise it's very level. I hope 5th assault is pending. We also have 12 mechs playable, 3 in each weight class. I like it that way.
#126
Posted 20 December 2012 - 01:36 AM
#127
Posted 20 December 2012 - 01:38 AM
THIS is the one heavy i was hoping for, since Warhammer and Marauder are not available
#128
Posted 20 December 2012 - 01:48 AM
Lets see what it will be like.
#129
Posted 20 December 2012 - 02:00 AM
#131
Posted 20 December 2012 - 03:07 AM
I must have one.
No bet on Kerensky's Hero Mech. That would just be throwing my money away.
#132
Posted 20 December 2012 - 03:24 AM
Such a wonderful history and lineage. Such an utterly terrible design.
I rank the Orion as among the the most poorly-designed 'mechs in all of BT, alongside the Yeoman, Hussar, Cossack and Black Python.
And now we know that even Alex couldn't save it (Sorry FD).
This looks better--by miles--than the... thing in the TROs, but that doesn't make it good.
It also (still) shares the Hunchback's essential design flaw. See the big, easy-to-hit trapezoid hanging off the side? Shoot that first. Two thirds of the 'mech's firepower vanishes in a puff of bad design.
Oh well. 18/19 ain't bad.
#133
Posted 20 December 2012 - 03:38 AM
#134
Posted 20 December 2012 - 03:40 AM
Edited by Thorqemada, 20 December 2012 - 03:41 AM.
#135
Posted 20 December 2012 - 04:26 AM
Sam Hall, on 19 December 2012 - 11:04 PM, said:
I like this version of it a lot, but I have to admit I am not a huge fan of the redesigned head. Yeah, I know the classic Orion face had that vertical bar right in the center of the windscreen, and that's problematic when you're translating it to a first person cockpit view. But the pilot's seat doesn't have to be exactly in the middle of the head; he could be off-center looking through the left or right eye like in the Atlas.
Totally agree!
The head could be different (and smaller) but I'm too happy to complain.
EDIT: When you do the orthos, Alex, please consider making the cockpit a little smaller and less centered. This is a brawler and it needs to fight until the last point of armor, like the Atlas.
EDIT2: I'm actually terrified by how big the head hitbox will be.
Edited by Odanan, 20 December 2012 - 04:32 AM.
#136
Posted 20 December 2012 - 04:29 AM
Should be a good change from old fatty phract
#139
Posted 20 December 2012 - 04:40 AM
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