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MWO - Bane/Kraken Mech announced for November
« on: 12 September 2024, 18:21:26 »
MWO Annual Rewards Program for September announced Bane coming

    BANE REWARD

    Eligibility Conditions

        Have purchased, during the eligibility period any Bane Mech Package

    Rewards

        BANE-3(P) (Includes Mech Bay)

        100 GSP

    Reward Injection Date

        Rewards Injected on November 19th, 2024 at 10:00 AM PST (6:00 PM UTC)

Which is kind weird it's not been shown what it looks like.  Maybe its being slipped into MW5 Clans?  Seems Stone Rhino came from development of MW5 development
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Re: MWO - Bane/Kraken Mech announced for November
« Reply #1 on: 12 September 2024, 20:16:20 »
« Last Edit: 12 September 2024, 20:19:17 by Wrangler »
"Men, fetch the Urbanmechs.  We have an interrogation to attend to." - jklantern
"How do you defeat a Dragau? Shoot the damn thing. Lots." - Jellico 
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Re: MWO - Bane/Kraken Mech announced for November
« Reply #2 on: 12 September 2024, 20:47:30 »
I love the way it looks!  It has the cockpit of the original 3055 illustration with the body of the RecGuide version  :smilie_happy_clapping:
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Re: MWO - Bane/Kraken Mech announced for November
« Reply #3 on: 12 September 2024, 21:26:54 »
PGI's about to release the Kraken!  :cheesy:

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Re: MWO - Bane/Kraken Mech announced for November
« Reply #4 on: 13 September 2024, 01:13:28 »
I'm looking forward to it!

I also noticed they're releasing the obscure Commando IIC as a loyalty reward like they did the Wolfhound IIC last year. I'm not normally a fan of Commandos – they just did not serve me well in any other game I played one in – but I'm willing to give the Clan version a shot!

Additionally, the Grand Summoner is incoming as a booster pack similar to the Black Hawk-KU.
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Re: MWO - Bane/Kraken Mech announced for November
« Reply #5 on: 13 September 2024, 13:42:21 »
Is the Commando IIC new?  I don't follow the light machines too closely. I wonder if they will do the Clint IIC as well since there both Inner Sphere and Clans versions.
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Re: MWO - Bane/Kraken Mech announced for November
« Reply #6 on: 13 September 2024, 20:00:48 »
New to MWO and probably MechWarrior in general, yes; on tabletop, it's existed since 1998; debuted in TRO:3060.
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Re: MWO - Bane/Kraken Mech announced for November
« Reply #7 on: 14 September 2024, 03:58:02 »
Visually the Commando IIC shows the limitations of using bolt-ons to make "new chassis" versions of existing 'Mech. Head doesn't look like existing art and "shoulder" SRM launchers are now in the 'Mech's armpits.

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Re: MWO - Bane/Kraken Mech announced for November
« Reply #8 on: 14 September 2024, 17:29:10 »
You keep calling them "bolt-ons", Cyc, but... they're not. It's just a change in the ’Mech's geometry itself. Bolt-ons are things you add, remove, or otherwise change yourself without affecting stats or hitboxes on the ’Mech, like the Hatchetman's namesake hatchet, or the sword on the Red Reaper II, or any number of the miscellaneous attachments that have been released and available to almost all chassis.

The head of the Commando IIC is not a bolt-on any more than the extra greebling found on Prime(I) OmniMechs or those giant shields found on Onyx and the aforementioned Red Reaper II, or the alternative head sculpts found on the collector's UrbanMech (reused for the Urbie IICs) and WLF-2(R), or the deaths heads on Warlord and the loyalty version of the AS7-S. All of those things are permanent features of those ’Mechs, and some of them you can even put actual bolt-ons on them!

You keep using that term. I don't think it means what you think it means. The Commando IIC is absolutely going to have different hitboxes from its IS counterpart, even if it will only meaningfully affect the head, which most people are unlikely to hit anyway. That is anything other than a bolt-on. lol

It's different enough from the regular Commando that I'd be somewhat surprised if it doesn't come with its own cockpit; that window looks nothing like the IS Commando's.
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Cargo techs guard the station and find more stuff to take
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Re: MWO - Bane/Kraken Mech announced for November
« Reply #9 on: 14 September 2024, 20:12:32 »
To be fair to the Commando IIC, the original artwork in the TRO left much to be desired IMO.  I'm looking forward to a RecGuide-style refresh at some point and I'm fine with PGI's version for now, even if its head reminds me of a Trebuchet.
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