The Glade 4.0

Raven FTW.

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Holy shitsnacks!

The Penny Arcade Report got the devs to do a really sweet walkthrough of the mech design process from concept art through animation and texturing.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

I'm considering getting into this, and loving the concept of the Founder's Mechs, but the selection is a bit underwhelming to me.
Not sure how they settled on Jenner, Hunchback, Catapult, and Atlas.
I think I'd have gone with Locust, Shadow Hawk, Warhammer, and Battlemaster.

Guess I could just be glad they're not offering up my favorites. This way I'm not tempted to shell out $120 to get 'em all

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Go back to zero, take a pill, and get well ~ Lemmy Kilmister

Warhammer would get them sued. It's not currently slated to be included at all. Same with the Battlemaster, I think, but don't quote me on the latter since my knowledge of seen/unseen stuff is all retrospective and coming in after the big controversy, etc.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

**** Harmony Gold. Right in the Goddamn Ear.

Wasp, Locust, Phoenix Hawk, Rifleman, Warhammer. I think there may be one or two more in the 3025 book that were problematic, but those were the big ones IIRC.

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Holy shitsnacks!

Unseen
Still includes Phoenix Hawk, Rifleman, Archer, Warhammer, Marauder
Reseen
Includes Locust, Griffin, Shadow Hawk, Thunderbolt, Battlemaster

I'm still not sure why nobody will take on Harmony Gold on the subject, considering that they declined to defend "their" IP against Microsoft Game Studios when MW4 was released.

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Ah yeah, forgot the Archer and Marauder.

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Holy shitsnacks!

Oh, see, I figured Microsoft just shrugged and tossed them a trivial bone for licensing.

If that's the case, instead, yeah, I'm as confused as you are.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

I've never seen any record of Harmony Gold and Microsoft making an agreement regarding MW4. I've always just figured that Harmony Gold decided they wanted to remain a viable business entity and not be destroyed like they do to businesses smaller than them.

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Please do this. This is what is preventing Macross Frontier or any of the other Macross series from coming over

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So what is wrong with HG? Do they just hate money?

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Holy shitsnacks!

For some reason they like to think they own the rights to EVERYTHING Robotech related... even the original source material, and will try to sue anyone into the ground who tries to bring it over... most companies won't even bother trying because of that

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Yeah... but I imagine they could make cash on licensing it across the Pacific...

So my original question stands. They must just hate money.

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Holy shitsnacks!

Harmony Gold has only ever owned the rights to one of the Macross series, and only the American distribution rights for that one, to my understanding.

More importantly, though, who else is playing? Surely somebody is, if we can talk for a page and a half about how shitty Harmony Gold is for Battletech/Mechwarrior fans. We need to play sometime.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

http://www.terrania.us/journal/2009/09/ ... econd.html

I am not playing MWO, I am awaiting the MWT open beta.

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http://www.animenation.net/blog/2009/08 ... oss-anime/

Sums it up pretty nicely

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Not I, I am still poking around in Star Wars about once a week. I am just about done with the smuggler class quest. Once I am done with him I am going full time Sniper with my Imp.

Though, if they put an Archer in this game, someone let me know. I may come look and see.

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Raell Kromwell

Well, frak.
They won't take my Outlook.com address *or* my Gmail.com address

edit: nm, they appear to simply not want capitalized letters in your address

This question makes me a little concerned about my beta application:

I played the tabletop game, Battletech: The Crescent Hawk's Inception, and Multiplayer BattleTech: Solaris but that's about it.

2nd edit: Screw it, $30 is a small price to pay to show my support.

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Go back to zero, take a pill, and get well ~ Lemmy Kilmister

Oh, nice. NDA dropped earlier this week.

Anybody have any questions?

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

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Go back to zero, take a pill, and get well ~ Lemmy Kilmister

I'm getting better, I swear ...

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Go back to zero, take a pill, and get well ~ Lemmy Kilmister

Ok...spent part of the morning watching videos on the website. I am not gonna be able to resist this.

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Raell Kromwell

How do you gain xp...? I've been in about probably 30 to 40 matches, wins and losses, and have yet to gain 1 xp.

Trial mechs don't gain XP. Once you've saved up to buy your own mech, you'll start earning it when you play in it.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

Thanks. I saved my pennies and got an 'owned' Hunchback. I stink pretty bad but it's fun!