Clan Arrival New Design Review [Poll+Discussion]

Thread in 'MechWarrior Online' started by Blagg Zear, Dec 19, 2013.

How do you find the new PGI Design of the Clan Mechs?

  1. My Dream of Mechporn has come true!!!

    6 vote(s)
    24.0%
  2. Good, i prefer it over the classic design

    11 vote(s)
    44.0%
  3. Ok, but nothing special

    4 vote(s)
    16.0%
  4. Meeh, somehow i don't like it

    4 vote(s)
    16.0%
  5. All crap! WTF PGI??? Gimme my money back!

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%
  1. Blagg Zear

    Blagg Zear Star Lord

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    Simple question! Be honest and say, what your heart is saying, when you saw them the very first time with your own eyes. ;)

    Blagg


    PGI:
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    Classic Tabletop:
    [img width=700 height=97]http://i41.tinypic.com/11s01hx.png[/img]
     
  2. Solahma

    Solahma Star Lord

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    Not enough information or views for me to select any of those choices...
     
  3. TheDevilsIncarnate

    TheDevilsIncarnate Advanced Member

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    If they stick to the artwork, then I think they will look great and I will have more mech porn.
     
  4. Michael

    Michael Grand Poobah

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    Meh. It ain't a Marauder.
     
  5. Blagg Zear

    Blagg Zear Star Lord

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    for all the newbies, who never knew the classic tabletop versions... -> added comparison pic!!! :rolleyes:
     
  6. TheDevilsIncarnate

    TheDevilsIncarnate Advanced Member

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    Thanks! With the tabletops added, I think the ryoken, summoner, and kit fox got an upgrade. Everything else is about the same.
     
  7. LT Satisfactory

    LT Satisfactory Benefactor

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    The crux of the issue is once we get the ACTUAL mech in game, it won't be 1/2 as good as the art concept. I imagine the result is:
    pgi art > classic > render in game
     
  8. LORD TSARKON

    LORD TSARKON New Member

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    My Heart says that PGI has Disney/Pixar Quality Artists....... with the Business Model of Scrooge McDuck for Exorbitant pricing and all around Consumer RAPAGE
     
  9. Soy

    Soy Min-Max Maniac

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    I mostly played the Phract because I thought it, well, looked cool. Call me crazy. I can't pilot something I don't find aesthetically pleasing.

    In that sense, I find literally every one of the clan mechs in the initial packages to be aesthetically pleasing beyond every IS mech besides [potentially] the Phract.

    No seriously, across the board they just look better.

    I think they are at least 8/10s, except for:

    * Summoner looks a lil thin in the torso. To me a brawlers more effective that way, so it makes sense, but it loses some aesthetical 'oomph'.
    * I don't like the length of the gun arms on the Kit Fox, should be more snub to make the mech more compact.
    * Warhawk should look more like the Adder and Daishi, but maybe they chose to go a lil diff on it because they wanted to try and make them all distinct or w/e.

    I give the art and design and aesthetics on the clan mechs a 9/10, which is basically as good as you could realistically hope for in any game I think. For sure they knocked it out of the park, absolute home run for the artists.
     
  10. skidog2k3

    skidog2k3 Dispossessed

    Meh... they made the TimberWolf look like an over fed Mickie Mouse, and left out the MadDog.... It would have been nice to see some IIC action too. I will wait to see the actual models before I buy any Clan Tech.
     
  11. Aylek

    Aylek Administrator Staff Member

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    I don't care as much about the Timber Wolf as others do, but it does indeed look... fat. Soy described it pretty accurately.

    But as there's a Stormcrow coming to us I probably don't need any other clan mech at all anyway. ^_^

    Maybe I'll get a Dire Wolf / Daishi as well because... well, it's a Dire Wolf. But probably that'll be it.
     
  12. I_AM_ZHOUL!!!

    I_AM_ZHOUL!!! Well-Known Member

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    I always prefered the Humanoid mechs... (Griffin, Thunderbolt, Victor, Highlander, Atlas) over the bird or weird ones (blackjack, jager) so the new Timber Wolf looks better than the old one... but still isn't the most amazing thing ever... as long as I can rip the clan tech out and stick it in my IS mechs I'm gonna be extra happy.....
     
  13. Blagg Zear

    Blagg Zear Star Lord

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    I like both humanoids and chickens but somehow more chickens are in my mechbay. :rolleyes:
     
  14. Business

    Business Advanced Member

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    I think the Timberwolf lacks the aesthetic athleticism that it is otherwise synonymous with.

    Otherwise they're all quite nice to look at with the Kit Fox/Uller being my favorite.
     
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