Mechwarrior Online

[Evildrider]

Is it bad I want that coconut monkey bobblehead?

[Falconeer]

Right. With all the NDA fear, we forgot to comment on the cockpit elements!

[Arthur_Parker]

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[Ironwood]

What the hell was he thinking approaching an Atlas from the front ?

[angry.bob]

What the hell was he thinking approaching an Atlas from the front ?

"I bet I can totally solo this Atlas" seems pretty likely.

[Lantyssa]

Poor, poor Dragon.

[Falconeer]

"He got an XL, I'm sure I can take out his left torso befo...."

Boom.

[Trippy]

What the hell was he thinking approaching an Atlas from the front ?

How do you know that's the front?

[Ghambit]

What the hell was he thinking approaching an Atlas from the front ?

"I bet I can totally solo this Atlas" seems pretty likely.

I do it all the time in a Jenner.   6 smalls, no JJs, missile def., extra sinks, max armor, and an xl.     Beware the wolfpack.  That is all.

What the hell was he thinking approaching an Atlas from the front ?

How do you know that's the front?

Wut?  The Dragon ate like 3 heavy torso lasers.  What other direction could he be coming from?

[Trippy]

What the hell was he thinking approaching an Atlas from the front ?

How do you know that's the front?

Wut?  The Dragon ate like 3 heavy torso lasers.  What other direction could he be coming from?

Does the Atlas torso not rotate?

[Ironwood]

Yeah, but he took all 4 lasers, which means 2 in the chest and 2 in the arms, so he ain't that far in the turning circle.  Trust me.

Also, when I say 'The Front', I mean why does a much much faster mech not have the Atlas's ASS square in the sights.  It's really hard for an Atlas to turn and a Dragon should be running at at least 79kph.

He just done fucked up, is what I'm saying.   

[UnSub]

What the hell was he thinking approaching an Atlas from the front ?

"What's an Atlas?"

[apocrypha]

"What's an Atlas?"

The thing that will exploderize you if you approach it from the front 

[Ironwood]

Although, I've just realised that you can make out the bar at the top and he's turned to the right about 20 degrees.

Still silly on the part of the Dragon.  AC20 to the chin pistons.

[Arthur_Parker]

Maybe it was a failed rescue mission.

[Ironwood]

Ow, my epilepsy.

[Falconeer]

Flea?!?

[Evildrider]

It looks like it's a cover for the real Mech 16 that got leaked from the PC Mag.  Which from what I hear shows the Highlander.

[Amaron]

Another light mech?  That's 5 now.   

[Evildrider]

Another light mech?  That's 5 now.   

And don't forget the Urbanmech.

[Kitsune]

Nothing wrong with the Flea, it's a decent enough light mech.  Plus probably the closest they're going to get to putting out the Locust.  Note that the redesign they've done has ditched the box on legs look of the wargame Flea and has more of the angular look of the Locust's body.  I don't think it's accidental.

[MahrinSkel]

Nothing wrong with the Flea, it's a decent enough light mech.  Plus probably the closest they're going to get to putting out the Locust.  Note that the redesign they've done has ditched the box on legs look of the wargame Flea and has more of the angular look of the Locust's body.  I don't think it's accidental.

Yeah, the gun's shorter and the "ears" are bigger, but if that shot was captioned "Locust", I wouldn't be too surprised.

--Dave

[Ironwood]

Still sure this is a hoax.

[Falconeer]

Ah. I didn't think about it. Wow, I really hope it's a hoax. Fuck fleas. Fuck armored segways and scooters with cannons. Give us battlemechs please.

[Arthur_Parker]

I bet it's real.

[Hoax]

It looks like it's a cover for the real Mech 16 that got leaked from the PC Mag.  Which from what I hear shows the Highlander.

Ohgodohgodohgodohgodplsplsplsyesssssssss

[Ironwood]

NDA LIFTED.

Gentlemen, start your engines.

[Falconeer]

Let's start from this: I absolutely love this game. Totally and completely.

Then...

[Falconeer]

More than just NDA lifted. They NOW want us to advertise for them.

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[Tmon]

I tried the game and quickly discovered it's not for me, glad I got into the beta without having to prepurchase.

[Falconeer]

Here's three screenshots from my playing session.

[Ironwood]

Man, you're going to fucking COOK on that map.

[Falconeer]

In other news, that someone muight have missed in the past few weeks, they added the Raven.

[Ghambit]

Welp, I purchased a $60 Founders pack last night after having quite a few dozen hours invested in the game.  If that's any indicator.  I dunno, there's just something about big robots and blowing up shit that just makes things go so much better after grinding at work all day.  Anyways, truth be told I only got the $60 pack because I dont feel like waiting for endosteel to come out so I can get the 3rd Jenner for the elite and module unlock.  And after getting a taste of their RMT, fact is you NEED premium and you need MC or you'll be grinding quite alot if you've got aspirations of unlocking a lot of hardware.

But, if you've got patience and like to run the same rig over and over, there's really no reason to buy MC except to maybe pay for GXP transfers (yes, the d-bags now monetize the simple effort of moving mech xp to GXP - so you can spend it on something else).  I'd say after 3 hard days of quality play on a team you could easily afford a cbill mech purchase.

The game itself? Tough to find any flaws aside from missing content.  My biggest gripe is the lack of community warfare as there's only so much you can get out of simple deathmatches.  The game really needs some more strat meta.  There's not even a guild UI, so you're forced to rely on friendlist and manual grouping.  PITA.

Anyways I run almost exclusively an XL-equipped F-variant Jenner (full armor).  I plop in the 285 (instead of the 300) which buys me another ton to play with.  That extra ton gives me spammability on 4small and 2 small pulse lasers.  Sometimes I'll dump the JJ (always only equip ONE of these and no more) and swap the pulse for regular and roll with an AMS if my team needs it.  Though, lately I've been rockin the d-variant with 4smalls and an srm6 with CASE (to pretect the torso engine slot from cookoffs) and 200rnds.   The latter setup rapes if you've got good aim.

Anyways, I take out Atlas' solo in my Jenners.     It's a bit like being infantry against a Panzer.  Sure, the panzer has beaucoup armor and guns but hey, I'm small and can pluck away at you till you die.  Actually, pretty much if you're by yourself - you're dead.  LRM Catas??  Those are the easiest prey of all.  Pick an LRM box to splurge on and BOOM - hope they had CASE.  

Which brings me back to "guilds."  If you're not on a team you will not enjoy this game and your progress will be less than half what it could be.  They attempted to remedy this by adding some goofy web-voip, but I'm not even sure anyone uses it.  I'm sure it's not free either.     I roll with fairly hardcores, and when we've got two full lances we dont lose - EVAR.  It's glorious.  Typically we'll leave some Atlas for last, pop off all his limbs ('cept one leg of course), core his XL, and send him the repair bill for kicks.  

[Merusk]

The game has been unplayable for me for some weeks now.  I don't know exactly what the problem is, but I'll play 1-2 matches and get the blue screen of death.  That's a fucking feat in Windows 7.  It is always some sort of video or memory overflow error, and it happens most frequently on the forest map.  Tech support has been unhelpful since my crashes don't produce any sort of log.  It would have to not freeze-up Windows itself for that, y'knkow.

I know it's this game and this game only, because I've installed a few other hard-running aps that have created no problems.  Quite disappointing, really, as the game was a bit of fun.

My biggest complaint is the light mechs tend to dominate.  The fuckers are nearly as durable as heavies but you can't hit them at all.   It's nearly as bad as when Dolphin diving was a problem in Battlefield 2 and kind of ruins a lot of the fun.

On the other hand, PPC Madcat Catapult!

Oh, and what Ghambit says is true.  Don't bother if you're not in a group/ clan/ lance.  WOT is doable solo but here they've missed the mark heavily and I'm not sure why.  Maybe it's because Mechwarrior has these decades of neckbeards but it's simply no good solo unless you're really in to mechs above all else.