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[Corvus Antaka]

Id like to see "orion syndicate" on the arm.

[Skadi]

Adridos, on 08 April 2013 - 07:22 AM, said:

Unless they allow lights to go at their actual speed and also implement MASC with it.

I know... not gonna happen, but imagine if it did.

Oh god, ravens with 200kph + masc, they would be able to navigate through the warp and end up on other planets... OH GOD RAVEN 3L'S ARE FROM THE WARP, RUN FOR YOUR LI-.

[Adridos]

Skadi, on 08 April 2013 - 12:20 PM, said:

Oh god, ravens with 200kph + masc, they would be able to navigate through the warp and end up on other planets... OH GOD RAVEN 3L'S ARE FROM THE WARP, RUN FOR YOUR LI-.

Ravens are the slowest lights in the game.

If we get that speed limit lifted, they get nerfed, hard.

[Strum Wealh]

So, back to potential variants...

ON1-K - "standard variant", available since 2456
x2 Medium Lasers (LA, RA)
x1 LRM-15 (LT)
x1 SRM-4 (LT)
x1 AC/10 (RT)

ON1-V - available since 2799
x2 Medium Lasers (LA, RA)
x1 LRM-15 (LT)
x2 SRM-4 (LA, RA)
x1 AC/10 (RT)

ON1-V-A - available since 2901
x2 Medium Lasers (LA, RA)
x2 SRM-4 (LA, RA)
x1 AC/10 (RT)

ON1-V-DC - available since 2913
x2 Medium Lasers (LA, RA)
x1 LRM-15 (LT)
x2 SRM-4 (LA, RA)
x1 AC/10 (RT)
x1 Command Console

ON1-M - available since 3049
x2 Medium Lasers (LA, RA)
x1 LRM-20 (LA)
x1 SRM-4 (LT)
x1 Narc Beacon Launcher (CT)
x1 LB 10-X AC (RT)
x2 CASE (LT, RT)

Personally, I'm hoping that we get the ON1-K, ON1-V-DC, and ON1-M.
Optionally, the ON1-V could also be included.
The ON1-V-A could be created from the ON1-V in the MechLab by removing the LRM launcher and adding armor.

Potential Hero characters include:

• MechWarrior Sylvan Greenspan (Wolf's Dragoons; 'Mech named "Phoenix")
  
• Colonel Tomaso Kinchurhara (1st Regulan Hussars)
  
• MechWarrior Yvonne Morticia (Team Banzai; 'Mech named "Lurch")
  
• Paula "Lady Death" Trevaline ("Pirate Queen of the Tortunga Dominion" and "Dame Murderess Extraordinaire")
  
• Theodore Kurita (heir to the Coordinator of the Draconis Combine; started his career in a restored Orion named "Revenant")
  
• Alexandr Kerensky (last commanding-general of the original SLDF; used a special variant)

Thoughts?


EDIT: fixed variant links, to go to the correct 'Mechs...

Edited by Strum Wealh, 12 May 2013 - 03:11 PM.

[Shiro Matsumoto]

My favorite mech in the original game (after Marauder).

Hmm "The Kerensky" as Hero Mech?

Edited by John McFianna, 12 April 2013 - 10:54 AM.

[AnubiteGroove]

Do we have any clue about a drop date for this mech? I heard it may be the next one.

[ChapeL]

Best news I read all day ( I'm itching for a Blackjack )

[POWR]

Grey Ghost, on 24 January 2013 - 01:42 PM, said:

Per the Content Roadmap I'm worried we won't see this till June-July or even later.

Do the Dev that add new Mechs into the game have a dedicated team for that, or are they multitask-ers?

One mech pr. month, the next mech is the Highlander, after which, if things continue like they have, we'll see the Orion, then Flea and finally Blackjack.

[Werewolf486 ScorpS]

POWR, on 13 April 2013 - 12:27 PM, said:

One mech pr. month, the next mech is the Highlander, after which, if things continue like they have, we'll see the Orion, then Flea and finally Blackjack.

How did the Highlander make it in before the Flea anyway?

[Adridos]

Werewolf486, on 13 April 2013 - 12:30 PM, said:

How did the Highlander make it in before the Flea anyway?

Highlander was done after the Jagermech, but was kept in hiding like the current batch of mechs for "marketting reasons".

Problem was, someone screwed up and the pictures that were supposed to be released with PCGamer were leaked a good few weeks sooner. To diver the community's attention away from it, they simply released Flea to keep us busy at least until the day that magazine was released.

[BlackYoshi1230]

*cue MechWarrior 3 fangasm or something similar*

Hands down, the Orion was my most favorite IS Mech of Mech3. Fun times when I had to put on LRM-5s with MLs and an AC-10 (otherwise I went dual LB-10X for good measure).

I would like to go toe to toe with an Atlas in an Orion. (Not an Annihilator, quad-ACs or quad PPCs scare the crap out of me.)

[Strum Wealh]

Werewolf486, on 13 April 2013 - 12:30 PM, said:

How did the Highlander make it in before the Flea anyway?

Adridos, on 13 April 2013 - 12:42 PM, said:

Highlander was done after the Jagermech, but was kept in hiding like the current batch of mechs for "marketting reasons".

Problem was, someone screwed up and the pictures that were supposed to be released with PCGamer were leaked a good few weeks sooner. To diver the community's attention away from it, they simply released Flea to keep us busy at least until the day that magazine was released.

IIRC, it's more that subscribers to PC Gamer have the issues mailed directly to them several weeks before the issue in question hits newsstands (with those subscribers closest to the distribution centers receiving them before those further away), so those subscribers were able to read the article - and see (and upload) the illustrations in the magazine - long before the general public got access to the magazine.

And apparently the PGI/IGP marketing department(s) overlooked that little distribution quirk...

[Thomas Covenant]

Isn't the flea slower than some of our light mechs? MASC only giving it a risky sprint...
I guess it has the low profile going for it.

[Phoenix Gray]

Grey Black, on 19 December 2012 - 02:20 PM, said:

I have one word for this announcement:

SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

That is all.

Meh. It's no Urbanmech.

[Magicbullet141]

ahh, the poor man's atlas. This should be good.

Strum Wealh, on 12 April 2013 - 03:29 AM, said:

ON1-K - "standard variant", available since 2456

The Oink!

[Grimmnyr]

NIce, first Marik heavy! Can't wait!

[Burnsidhe]

"The Revenant" that Theodore Kurita piloted was Alexsander Kerensky's 'mech, abandoned along Kerensky's path, during the SLDF Exodus.

[Wildstreak]

Strum Wealh, on 12 April 2013 - 03:29 AM, said:

ON1-V-DC - available since 2913
x2 Medium Lasers (LA, RA)
x1 LRM-15 (LT)
x2 SRM-4 (LA, RA)
x1 AC/10 (RT)
x1 Command Console

Wait, this looks familiar. DC in name, Command Console, like an Atlas that got.....
Why do I feel this will get ECM available to use?

[Strum Wealh]

Merchant, on 14 April 2013 - 05:34 AM, said:

Wait, this looks familiar. DC in name, Command Console, like an Atlas that got.....
Why do I feel this will get ECM available to use?

While that's a possibility, FWIW I'd be happier to see ECM go to another variant (the ON1-M, as "the recovered LosTech variant", specifically) and the Command Console get some form of ECCM capability.

(Then again, I'm also a proponent of moving the Atlas' ECM capability from the AS7-D-DC to the AS7-K for much the same reason, but that's another story...)

[Koniving]

Strum Wealh, on 14 April 2013 - 09:10 AM, said:

(Then again, I'm also a proponent of moving the Atlas' ECM capability from the AS7-D-DC to the AS7-K for much the same reason, but that's another story...)

I agree with that. Unlike the other Atlases, the K is much more of a stay back and command type mech, unlike the DDC whose plethora of missile hardpoints allow it to be one of the best brawlers. The K's single ballistic and single missile clearly are indicative of "Long Range" setups, such as a gauss and LRM 20. With ECM and a poor brawler status, the K's existence would actually encourage ranged mechs to stay near it, too, making better use of the ECM.

Edited by Koniving, 14 April 2013 - 12:29 PM.