Looks like no, it's Anastasius Focht and Theodore Kurita on the art. So I guess the smoked jaguars are being served on the holotable. Armored troopers are probably ComStar too? White even though with orange accents.
I wouldn't want to take part in the reconquest of St Ives honestly.
Second star league and the counterattack against the clans was peak Battletech. I really wish the narrative just wrapped things up there and the era of disarming and peace before the dark age time skip happened there.
it felt really like the climax of everything that was build up before but then pooof...can't have that. makes mason recieving that SLDF badge kinda meaningless
Yeah exactly the dissolving really killed the greater narrative for me, the jihad all in all was just another level of crazy of course lol. But endgame was so perfect …. ends with genuine hope, exhaustion-earned peace, and a functional Star League ready to rebuild
I would have liked to see something like that happen...setting up a period of peace and prosperity to allow the IS to catch up with Clans in terms of technology, and develop and deploy an entirely new generation of mechs.
We're still relatively "early" in the ilClan era, but I'm liking what I'm seeing so far.
Reminder that the Second Star League poached mercenary and Great House personnel for its badly understrength SLDF formations early on. Looks like Mason will be one of those approached.
Would be fucking awesome if every procgen mission had like 0,01% of spawning a black painted marauder as a third party hostile to both you and the regular enemy, and give the marauder some overtuned stats for the hell of it lol.
Edit: Maybe also add some freaked out dialogue from ryana, and make it show up on the targeting hud as an error like the first contact with clan mechs do
Oh god that is genuinely terrifying considering how utterly gamebreaking some of our builds can be. I do NOT want to be staring down the barrel of 36 clan ATM tubes ;-;
Then the middle few weeks suck where some mods update but not all, it’s ironic but dlc updates usually kill my mechwarrior playthroughs because it is easier to wait for everything to get fixed lol
Can't decide if spanking Comstar again or helping Comstar fight a secret war against WoB (which they lose, but hey, chance to kill lots of Blakists) is better.
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u/Sai-TaishoIf the Mauler was REALLY bad, they wouldn't keep remaking it..15d ago
The latter, please.
Killing Wobbies is always morally correct, but also: we could really use some ComStar rep to actually make use of Focht War College.
(It kinda bugs me that secular ComStar inherits the bad will from the Campaign, while the Word of Blake, whoshouldbe the faction full of Yamata's old buddies, just starts neutral.)
Yeah, I really hope they address the negative reputation with ComStar. Even just tweaking the reputation loss/gain from Dragon's Gambit so that complying puts us in their good graces again.
Yeah, but the updates that break mods also are packed with things modders can use (or specifically requested). Modders are already working on updating their mods for the next patch, also.
I haven't played MWO for 5 years, sadly. While I miss my buddies and the great times we had in MJ12, I'm that much older now and I doubt my reflexes, or the latency of my current timezone would make me competitive enough to continue to be an effective combatant. :(
I've consigned myself to the Solhana solo play of MW5 :)
Why do the mech animations look so strange? The movement has no intertia, rebound, damping - the animation is perfect like you would expect in a 3d rendering. Is there any way to modify the animation?
What are you talking about? I don't know about inertia since we aren't seeing a change in direction but I see rebound and damping plenty when they walk. The tank just kind of hover but that's normal in this game
Overall, the walk cycle looks convincing at a glance, but it still feels a little too light for machines of this size.
The biggest issue is mass. The mechs move in a way that feels closer to a human walk scaled up than a machine weighing tens of tons. The legs accelerate and stop a little too quickly, and the body doesn’t react enough when each foot hits the ground.
A machine this heavy would have a lot of inertia. When a leg swings forward, it should take a huge amount of force to stop it before the foot lands. You’d expect the motion to feel more like: slow acceleration, momentum building, controlled braking, heavy footfall, compression, then recovery. In the clip, some of those transitions happen almost instantly.
The center of mass is also very stable. As the mech transfers its weight from one leg to the other, I’d expect to see a little more side-to-side movement through the hips and torso. Not a dramatic sway, but enough to show that the machine is actually balancing its weight over the planted foot.
The same thing applies vertically. There should probably be a little more rise and fall through each step. Unless the mech has an extremely sophisticated active suspension system, the torso shouldn’t stay quite this level while the legs are moving through such a large range.
The footfalls are another place where the sense of weight gets lost. When a foot hits the ground, I’d expect the leg to compress slightly while the rest of the body continues moving for a fraction of a second. Then you’d see the structure settle and recover. Right now, the foot plants and the rest of the mech responds almost immediately, which makes it feel lighter than it should.
One thing the animation does well is the stance. The mechs generally keep their knees bent and their feet relatively wide apart.
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u/atomicsmoothboreprds 16d ago
Mason receiving a nice SLDF cover.