What is your favorite battlemech, Jow Forums?

Laser spam is always fun, but nothing beats getting 1-round mobility kills

>precision shot leg
>L/R L destroyed
>rest of lance focuses surviving leg with free called shots

/gerg/ is dead
long live /gerg/!

Tomahawk for me

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Armor sucks. Overheats like a bastard.

Falconer, all day everyday.

AC/10 in the streets
Hatchet in the sheets

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>Tfw moved to a new city for work
>only nearby gameshop I know of with regular battletech games is just dudes I can tell have all been friends for years and years
>they always have to switch stuff around for my benefit
>felt like I was imposing and I'd always be the outsider who didn't get the jokes or whatever
>made myself sad and stopped going

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Prometheus

2 ER-Laege lasers, 3 Large pulse lasers, an Ultra A/C 20, and an SRM-6 launcher, plus that baller paint job.

They're called Awesome for a reason.

Oh hey Kenny.

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Gotta go fast.

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I will rip your head off and shit down your mechanical neck.

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The Jupiter

mad cat was always one of my favorites. good blend of speed, armor and firepower. just a good, solid mech

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Mighty unfortunate this game immediately died and was replaced by a generic-in-atmosphere-FPS. I was actually excited to play the game and really enjoyed it upon release.

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>Only 216 kph
Heh

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MadCat aka Timber Wolf Prime.

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>Caring about refined features
>On a 'Mech
>Not strapping as much armor and guns on a real ÜBERCHASSIS as the laws of physics allow
>Not immediately sending every available Assault Lance on routine scouting missions
Feds, they never learn.

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Vulture all the way baby.

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I hate to be that guy but doesn't /m/ exist for this

-6D mostly fixes those problems.

Black Knight: never runs out of ammo, solid armor, hits hard from far out and only gets deadlier when you close with it.

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I like big robots that exist to carry big guns to make big messes. This doesn't just apply to Scorch

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SPH-X4 "Omega"

Because who needs to move when you have this much firepower?

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The mech minis were so cool. Shame the game died.

>Immediatly died and was replaced by a generic-in-atmosphere-FPS
tell me you're talking about CoD and not the 2nd one

How so? you do it right, you basically turn an entire corridor/room into playing "the floor is lava"

>his favorite mech is the Centurion
The Marauder is the only choice for true patricians.

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ragnarok, otherwise know as purple shield guy

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AWS-8Q "Awesome"
With 6 PCC's

>immediately shuts down after alpha striking
>dont care cause the target is already crippled and/or dead

Ayo nigga watup

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Call of Duty quietly copied Titanfall and Titanfall 2's core concepts, but claiming Titanfall 2 didn't murder what universe existed Titanfall 1 with over the top cosmetics, cinematic kills, and unrealistic weapons.

I get that it was all in a bid to revive the series, and in brought in many new fans, but the core audience had been dead for a while. No one who regularly plays Titanfall 2 played the first game much if at all and I can guarantee that. They are in no way similar sans the name and some rudimentary aesthetics.

Like I said, unfortunate this happened, even if it was completely understandable.

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>Call of Duty quietly copied Titanfall and Titanfall 2's core concepts, but claiming Titanfall 2 didn't murder what universe existed Titanfall 1 with over the top cosmetics, cinematic kills, and unrealistic weapons.

I meant to say that Call of Duty quietly copied Titanfall and Titanfall 2's core concepts, but claiming Titanfall 2 didn't murder what universe existed in Titanfall 1 with over the top cosmetics, cinematic kills, and unrealistic weapons is dishonest at best.

Every titan has their own version really, except Ronin. Only faggots use Ronin.
>Monarch is just bumblebee, especially if you paint the bitch yellow
>Tone is a high precision Light tank made by scrubs for scrubs
>Legion is a walking Gau-fucking-8
>Northstar can airstrike and anti-tank
>Ion is just monarch with more lightning and a huge fucking laser

The game is in one of it's finest comebacks in years. Nice box sets, plastic minatures are pretty prevelant with the old standby metal models covering what isn't in plastic yet. Go get some, don't let it be "dead".

Kodiak or Pirhanna. Everything else is a waste of time

What are these called? Where can I get figurines of mech warrior stuff? I hate that gundam and zoids shit that floods /mecha

*sigh* Can't believe no one in this thread wants to be a real mec/k/ warrior and go full in with the Hunchback IIC like a REAL man.

I wish they put it in MWO, like how they made up the roughneck

Isn't pic-related just a king crab on steroids?

Inner Sphere faggots get the rope. Kerensky should've gassed you

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You cant keep doing this Steiner

>mfw I use Stalkers for fire support because 6 LRM-20 launchers is sensible

OH, BUT I CAN!
There's nothing more sensible than armor freund!

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>Legion
Christ dont get me started, a good setup combined with his Smart Core and you could murder the entire enemy team in under 5 seconds
Ion was phenominal anti-pilot until they nerfed his small laser

And fuck Ronin

Who needs armor when you can just hide behind a mountain

Who needs to hide when you are the mountain?

I like the hellbringer and summoner.

How would Jow Forums fix mechwarrior gameplay? Currently the armor, weapon and damage models are too simplistic for any of the mechs to work as they are described to. Armor being represented as a simple HP value always leads to boating of many weak weapons while assault mechs can't tank anything in multi mech fights as they can easily be focused fired by any light and medium mechs. The lack of any recoil and stabilization mechanics also cripple official variant loadouts. Weapons rigidly fixed to the torso magically retain full stabilization when on the move and do not transmit any sort of recoil as a result shoving weapons in the torso is almost always superior.

I think something more like the damage modeling in war thunder would be better however battletech has more weapon types that need a purpose. The way battletech autocannons function is a little unclear as range decreases with size, probably they could be modeled the same as war thunder, depending on armor thickness,range and angle they either penetrate or bounce. Missiles are presumably just HEAT and can be modeled with relatively high penetration but poor damage to internal components. Lasers and PPC is what I'm uncertain of, the best idea I have come up with is that they are unable to penetrate but the thickness of armor where they impact is reduced until the mech is easily destroyed by kinetic weapons or nothing is left and energy weapons can hit internals. Armor would be done on a per polygon basis while the standard battletech layout would be fine for internal structure, components would have physical locations so you would have to actually aim at them rather than shooting at general locations and RNG deciding what was damaged.

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>tfw nobody plays at all around you

50% legs
50% gun

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its the mechwarrior clix minifigures made by wizkids, but they dont make them any more so try ebay

Clanbuster King Crab, my dude

>laughs in infernos

>Summoner
The Summoner-A is one of my favorite duelists.

*DHS's your path*

I like Zaku for several reasons.
I like the fact that they are pretty much anthropomorphic which is important since humans are very well designed.
I love the fact that their arms are just arms and not some weapons. It makes much more sense to have them as such instead of making the whole thing less adaptable to the battlefield.

Overal their design look something in between Nazi Germany and Urss, which makes sense given the period of the anime.

The only thing that I hate are those spikes in the shoulders....just why.

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*unsheathes blade*
heh

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For me, it's the Gelgoog Marine; but I respect the Zaku. I also have a fondness for the thiccboi that is the Dom/Rick Dom

Why aren't the Dracs allowed to have good mechs? It's like the Feddies are the Road Runner, and you feel bad for the damn Road Runner/Kurita.

cause it's for the greater good

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For me, its gonna have to be the space YF-23

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I strongly suspect that people who say they like Battletech are just pretending.

That said, my favourite was a mech that was viable only for a couple of months in MWO, and which everyone besides me thought was a retarded build: the Streak SRM boat Catapault with jump jets and an oversized engine.
In its prime it was an overweight evil piece of shit, faster and more manouverable than it was supposed to be, and capable of just vacuuming up every single light mech in the match while out-sustaining mediums if it ever needed to, and picking off the wounded.

Obviously it couldn't stand up to heavies and assaults, but if you played it like a medium and knew how lights think it could reliably get the top score in every game just by being a sadistic predator.

The tabletop and lore are where it's at. I would go so far to say that BT has the best lore of any non-historical wargame.

I'll always value Tau for getting me out of wh40k. I stopped playing (buying) to save up for them after they were announced, and in the meantime realised that I have no friends and never enjoyed a single game, so I quit.

I too wish the learn the lessons of Mont'ka

Even during the Clan Invasion, clan warriors targeted the men with the katanas first because their killing power was feared and respected.

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so how about that hollywood movie fellas

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We have the Expanse. The setting could easily be a Gundam spinoff.

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PURPLE BIRD STRONK
GREEN BIRD SHIT

>mfw Jow Forums ended up being the friendliest and best place to talk about Battletech

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does anybody have any of the superFX-style rotating chicken mech gifs or that banner which was a shitty grainy pixellated Catapault pouring an endless barrage of missiles onto a shitty grainy pixellated (i think) Awesome?

The OYW has such a great aesthetic

The fuck are you talking about? Titanfall 2 was better in every way pretty much. I played a shit ton of Titanfall 1 as well.

You don't. A large part of the appeal of Battletech is that it is a universe where defense has surpassed offense, hence why their armor has such extreme ablative qualities that they act as HP bars. This allows for its unique gameplay quirks and focus on loading down their vehicles with big arrays of weapons rather than the biggest single gun they can mount. All of the rest are abstracted and built into the weapon weights, hence why ballistic weapons are so heavy.

>the superFX-style rotating chicken mech gifs
I only have the link to the super fx chicken robot mechwarrior game demo video

please someone supply the chicken mech hangar gifs

1 had far better Lore and world building with all the fluff they gave us and in 2 we barely got any and mp balance is fucked if know how to play you can just fly around with smgs and 40 bomb easily also still butt hurt about the complete lack of interesting weapon specific attachments from the first game also the grunts tf2 grunts are a travesty in 2

youtu.be/mTboVRUSTOU

My vote goes the the Griffin with the pair of l srm6s and the erppc

Titanfall 1's lore was barely there. Just flavor text. Titanfall 2 had a full campaign. As for MP balance yo're obvious shit if you think SMGs are the best weapons. LSTAR, Mastiff, Cold War, Soft Ball and EPG were all viable options that were more fun. SMGs were for shitters.

Na man 86% win rate with the cold war and if you think that smgs aren't fucked I dont know what to tell you they nullify assault rifles almost entirely save the g2 that has no recoil at all

>No one who regularly plays Titanfall 2 played the first game much if at all and I can guarantee that.

Sounds like I just don’t fucking exist then. I’ve played both extensively but prefer 2 since 1 got boring after a bit. There are certain niche things I wish would change (like the pilot boarding scenes being in third person now)

I miss titanshields the battery stealing is a pretty shit replacement imo since you can 180punch them before they can react

Tangentially related... still playing this. Never gets old for me. Turn based strategy.

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Mirin turn based is kino

You checked out any of the Valkyria Chronicles games? 1 and 4 are on Steam, they're a weird mash up of turn based strategy and third person shooter with some RPG elements thrown in. As for the setting, it's an alternate history WW2, all the names are different,(Axis=Eastern imperial alliance, allies=Atlantic Federation)but it's otherwise pretty much WW2, but anime. First game is set in notFinland during the not Winter War, with you controlling a bunch of conscripts defending not Finland. 4 is you controlling a squad of Atlantic Federation rangers corps soldiers during the campaign to push the empire out of their territory, then blitzkrieg to the empire's capital.

Thats easy. Shadowcat.
>>mobility is just a meme

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Note the actual meaning of: generic-in-atmosphere-FPS

It means that Titanfall 2 is not bad, but without any truly appealing or unique atmosphere. Think CoD skins, eSports, Overwatch, etc.

While Titanfall 2 may have been expensive to create, large in scope, and feature-rich, but none of that is worth anything when it's blatantly obvious that the passion has been ripped from the series to appeal to more people. I don't care how much lore or story there is if all of it is an uninspired, ugly mess. Titanfall 2 is a barely coherent and disgusting corporate extraction of what was once a good idea with a terrible execution. All I'm really trying to say is that Titanfall 2 has so much stupid shit in it that was not present in Titanfall 1. The original felt much more real when you weren't having pink mech sword fights and robot-bonding campaigns.

Went and broke these out just because I knew I had them around. Been years since I've even owned a pair of A40s but I still have these. Good times.

This nigger gets it.

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>but without any truly appealing or unique atmosphere
idk man. fundamentally it's a fps, and for me the genre is defined by the early stuff which pushed the boundaries and genuinely created a unique experience for the players

doom at one point was installed on more ibm/compatibles than fucking windows for this reason. it was something genuinely new

that one world factory level in titanfall 2 was maybe the first time i've been impressed by a shooter in ten years

>ctrl-f and not one uziel
You people are all uncultured savages.

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My trothkin

You're entitled to your opinions but I'm afraid your opinions are shit m8

And Titanfall 2 has nothing new in the way of atmosphere, my point exactly. In fact, they went in the complete opposite direction and began pulling atmosphere from other games with things like swords, skins, and animations.

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>Robot breasts
>Selfie poses
>Karate garbage

Fuck it all.