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[Arkmaus]

Tennex, on 18 February 2013 - 11:02 AM, said:

wheres the reveal ?

^^^What he said!

[Raso]

Tennex, on 18 February 2013 - 11:02 AM, said:

wheres the reveal ?

If I'm not mistaken (and I might be) It's due out this Tuesday (ie tomorrow on the 19th) so you'd think they would want to get people excited about it, you know? Maybe get some people to load up on MC before hand and all that jive.

The silence thus far is a little bit aggravating. I hope it's just that, however, and not in any way foreboding.

[Dr Killinger]

SRM/Steak spam, hooray. Wish we could see some more variety in the missile hardpoints.

[Dexion]

Dr Killinger, on 18 February 2013 - 11:27 AM, said:

SRM/Steak spam, hooray. Wish we could see some more variety in the missile hardpoints.

There are only 3 types of missiles, LRM, SRM and Streak... well, and NARC lol just kidding.... I'm not really sure what you want people to do.

[Arkmaus]

Dexion, on 18 February 2013 - 11:32 AM, said:

There are only 3 types of missiles, LRM, SRM and Streak... well, and NARC lol just kidding.... I'm not really sure what you want people to do.

NARC spamming!!!

[Raso]

Dexion, on 18 February 2013 - 11:32 AM, said:

There are only 3 types of missiles, LRM, SRM and Streak... well, and NARC lol just kidding.... I'm not really sure what you want people to do.

There are also MRMs later on in the lore and those come in MRM20, MR30 and MRM40 verities! Can you imagine an Awesome boating 2 MRM20s with some medium lasers? My lord there would be no end to the complaining....

[verybad]

Arkmaus, on 18 February 2013 - 11:36 AM, said:

NARC spamming!!!

God I wish they'd do something to the NARC that made it worth while. Honestly, just making it immune to ECM would do it (a 167 KM radio emmiter that burns out all it's power in 20 seconds can't burn through an ECM emmiter during that time?)

Raso, on 18 February 2013 - 11:36 AM, said:

There are also MRMs later on in the lore and those come in MRM20, MR30 and MRM40 verities! Can you imagine an Awesome boating 2 MRM2040s with some medium lasers? My lord there would be no end to the complaining....

Screw the 20s, 40s is where it's at! There should be some House related weapons/mechs that are cheaper to players from those houses, and the Draconis Combine is where it's at for MRMs.

[Bagheera]

80Bit, on 18 February 2013 - 11:01 AM, said:

Am I the only one that will be using LRMs on mine?

Hint: Yes

Actually, with the speed and JJs, an LRM Trebbie with its own tag would work quite nicely at medium ranges.

The real joke here is that I bet I'm the only one who rocks one of the ballistic models. Redshift's "What to expect" thread for this patch has the minimum hardpoints in the first post. Can't imagine they leave the 7K(er, I think its that one) with just 1 of each type. Also can't imagine they add any at all to the JJ variants. Of course who can say until we see something specific other than extrapolations from canon loadouts.

Edited by Bagheera, 18 February 2013 - 11:45 AM.

[TheForce]

TheFlyingScotsman, on 18 February 2013 - 10:45 AM, said:

Hah. Yeah. I'm sure this is how many people will be playing, but they will soon realize how bad an idea that is with this mech. Tall, wide torso and no shield arm. Plus extra gun weight will guaranteed be going towards JJs and max engines, and the fastest variant only has two missile hardpoints and no jets.

I agree the left arm will be vulnerable to losing the missile hard point(s), but people will still boat SRM's. I don't think it will be as good as the CN9-A with 3 SRM6's though.

[Bagheera]

TheForce, on 18 February 2013 - 11:48 AM, said:

I agree the left arm will be vulnerable to losing the missile hard point(s), but people will still boat SRM's. I don't think it will be as good as the CN9-A with 3 SRM6's though.

Well, with the way the hard points are scattered, the TBT is definitely not going to Zombie anything like a Cent. We'll see people running them similarly though. Some faster builds will choose to forgo weapons in one or another arm to give a shield and save weight. Sort of like the build you mention that usually has nothing in the ballistic slot.

I don't know if this is a good idea for the TBT, but I bet people do it anyway.

[Nathan Foxbane]

I have almost 29 million C-bills saved up for the Trenchbucket. I will gladly be using LRMs on it. I will of course be experimenting and am really looking forward to the 7K.