Firestarter is the new light 'Mech

I read in another forum that the NGNG podcast had hints of a new light 'Mech coming to MW:O -- and it's not the Flea.

1. Humanoid
2. Controversial
3. Specialty 'Mech

My guesses are Hollander or Ostscout.

What are yours?

 

Urby

 

Hmm, a walking running Gauss Rifle sounds somewhat possible to me. Hell yeah, i even would like it, if its fast enough (130 kph+).

I´m not sure if the Ostscout would fill a gap at all...there are already some mechs, that perform well as scouts imho.

I´d rather prefer somekind of Mech & Component-Management-System

 

I really hope it's not the Urbanmech. I'd accept it as a bonus 'Mech in addition to getting another, but we're severely short of lights and we need quality ones to even up the numbers. Urbanmech is a joke -- even worse then a Locust.

 

Yeah with the Locust being as useless as tits on a bull right now I would be surprised if they dropped another turd mech into the class.

 

Could also be a WASP or Stinger too ya know? Those are pretty controversial. What?!?!? Just sayin.

 

Yes but they could redesign them, as they did with a bunch of the Phoenix mechs, and therein lays the controversial part

 

Did i read Wasp and Stinger? I love Macross

 

Not being a BT TT player, would anyone tell me what "unseen" means?

 

Designs that were stolen from other giant robot shows, books, etc. The iconic Warhammer was 'borrowed' from Macross.

 

Copperhead!! we will get a new Ballistic then!
Hollander would be great, and does fill a gap.
Ostscout is close to the spider in terms of gameplay, so not that specific.

Valkyrie, Wasp and stinger would be ok if I can go into garwalk mode and have macross music playing while I am roaming through the fieds with only speakers as my weapon, which probably cannot happen.

Wolfhound !! This is what I want, and accordng to wiki it appears first in 3028.

The mech designs are borrowed from old anime during the early years of mechwarrior/battletech. Due to copyright issules motherf**king harmonygold will bitch and rain down lawyers if you use them (while the japan side don't care less).

The mech stats and things are fine though, just not the looks.

Check out Shadowhawk's original design and the original anime.

 

The Hollander wasn't introduced until 3054, so it will still be some time before it hits the game, if ever, since there is also the issue that it doesn't have enough unique variants to make up three distinct versions for MWO (Hollander II is a medium mech).

 

3054 is a problem though.
G1 F5 F7... should be ok.

 

Yeah, well, technically aren't we almost into 3051 already? The ilKhan was killed a few days ago...

Oh, either the Wasp or the Stinger would be AWESOME. Panther would be pretty slick, too. Then we could pilot Minobu's Katana Kat.

 

Too bad the Tarantula is a later release... That was my favorite in MW2. Freakin' awesome tiny mech. Four legs?? Yes, please. Lose 25% speed w/ each leg you lose. Drooooool.

 

I really like the Firestarter and Panther but they seem unlikely. The Firestarter's hardpoints basically make it a humanoid Jenner [Correction: Strictly better than the Jenner. Seriously.] and it's variants are limited (less than 3?) if I recall correctly. And while the Panther's role is unique in Table Top in MWO a lot of people do it (single large laser or PPC) in a Spider or Raven... so it too would just be a humanoid version of a mech we already have. I don't see how either could be called "controversial".

I really hope it isn't the Urban Mech. The Light Weight Class is my favorite and it would really suck to have it so gimped.