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[Alaskan Nobody]

The Topic really says it all, my introduction to the series was back with Mechwarrior2 with the Falcon-Wolf Refusal War, and have been fairly attatched to the Clans since...
But as I play this game, I find myself enjoying working with the limitations of what weaponry we have (the minimum range on LRMs being a big one) and am not really looking forward to that changing with Clantech...

Am I alone in this?
-to reiterate, I am not-not looking forward to the mechs (I want a Hellbringer/Loki so bad >.<) but to the Tech-Adjustments.

[Pariah Devalis]

If it can be leveraged with balance, either externally like asymmetric combat or internally with damage/heat/range numbers, then I am looking for it eagerly. Hell, canonically, a clan ERPPC hits like a Gauss Rifle. I would gladly take it at 13 damage instead of 15. Clan LRMs are incredibly good, but perhaps they will be toned down in damage so that they do a proper 1:1 instead of the current LRM's 1:1.5 Missile:Damage setup. Or leave as is with original damage numbers, but make it 8v5, or 12v10. Sure a disconnect hurts the IS team, but a disconnect hurts the Clan team more. Being down a couple mechs from the start will also partially mitigate the raw firepower/speed advantages of the Clan tech.

Edited by Pariah Devalis, 12 February 2013 - 03:51 PM.

[Wales Grey]

Shar Wolf, on 12 February 2013 - 03:23 PM, said:

The Topic really says it all, my introduction to the series was back with Mechwarrior2 with the Falcon-Wolf Refusal War, and have been fairly attatched to the Clans since...
But as I play this game, I find myself enjoying working with the limitations of what weaponry we have (the minimum range on LRMs being a big one) and am not really looking forward to that changing with Clantech...

Am I alone in this?
-to reiterate, I am not-not looking forward to the mechs (I want a Hellbringer/Loki so bad >.<) but to the Tech-Adjustments.

You're too late. Teamwork and VOIP are clantech, goons are the clans.

Can you feel the burning irony?

[Wolf Clearwater]

My idea for the implementation of Clan tech: All clan mechs are stock trial variants.
(Don't hate the clans, just enjoy the current tech level)

[Stormwolf]

Looking forward to the newsfeeds, since it is unlikely that we will be playing with Clan mechs any time soon.

Edited by Stormwolf, 13 February 2013 - 06:04 AM.

[Gammanoob]

I am looking forward to it in one way, but it sort of sucks that we will be abandoning an interesting time period so quickly.

I just don't see the need to rush, it's like skipping 1939-43 in a WW2 game just because there is some cool stuff that appears in 44--45.

Edited by Gammanoob, 13 February 2013 - 12:13 PM.

[Uncle Totty]

No Clan Tech till the fall?SO WHAT! I do not need a Timber Wolf to fight for Clan Wolf.

[Alaskan Nobody]

The best thing I can see for ballance (my opinion of it anyways-I am frequently wrong when it comes to what would ballance better) -would be the different team sizes, but what worries me is the fact that I do not want to see Clantech get 'ballanced' to IS tech.
-Latter in the story lines the Clans began to abandon some of their tech, it was just to expensive, but as has been posted in other threads, and for quite a lot of reasons pricing ballance would not work well.
I mostly just do not want to see the factions that brought be in to mechwarrior either get nerfed for ballanced or abandoned for imballance....
And yes, I am well aware that we have quite a bit of time till they show up, but I am also aware of how quickly time can slip by.

[Gremlich Johns]

don't worry, Clans won't come into the game until Spring 2014

;-)

[SGT Unther]

Well according to the lore the clans never attacked with more than half the number than what the innersphere defenders had. They did that for the first 4 waves anyway, I haven't read the full Blood of Kerensky series yet.

So it might be 8 IS vs 4 Clanners, if the devs really want to stick to the lore. However as suggested before, a Innersphere company vs a clan binary (2 stars) would be more realistic.

[Alaskan Nobody]

It is not the clans themselves that I am worried about (I cannot wait for Wolf in Exile to be a group to sign on as.. If I am good enought that is -in my own opinion if no one else's) but the Tech -stuff like the no minimum on LRMs that are currently part of the strategizing... and wondering if the Catapult has LRM or SRM is kinda fun in a way- Clan tech comes and theyll always have LRMs and there will be no safe-zone