I know nothing about any of this, other than teh mechs go pew pew, but being Space Vikings sounds awesome.

Mike

What about House Kurita, what were they again?

They were one of the space jap factions also. As in they are the ruling house of the DC. They are mega-japs.

They're the ones known for the genocide where 52 million civilians were murdered, correct?

Sounds like something the DC would do.

Gonna go with house Liao. From what I've understood, they're the most pragmatic when it comes to warfare. Too much cruddy zellbringen on the clan side, and even Kurita seems a bit too honorbound.

Steiners on the other hand have small dicks (cough scout lance). I can't find **** about how house Marik wages war.

Also I don't wanna be eaten in the first 2 years of the game, so no Rashalgue republic for me either.

Liao have a chink in their armour. I might roll Liao specifically to crack that joke every game.

who did aidan pryde fight for?

Jade Falcon.


The game takes place before the clan invasion though.

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Well, it takes place at the advent of the Clan Invasion. We will see how the devs handle it in the end.

Hmm, looking at the trailer, somehow the scale seems a bit off. Looks kinda cartoony or toylike.

I hope I can get into the beta!

Also the pre-order options are intriguing.....

Mike

I'll get the 30$ option maybe .

Same, this game is going to be teh pwnaz0r

If it's looking "cartoony" or "toylike" to you, then it must be the style, not the scale.

I suppose I can drop 30 on the thing. HOWEVER, I'll wait till the beta starts in Europe too

I think the fact that Battletech mechs are 12 meters tall and dwarf trees and cliffs ironically makes the game look smaller scaled, since all the terrain looks really small compared to the mechs. This makes the landscape look less real and more toylike. (I was reminded of tabletop miniature gaming.)

The older MWs didnt seem to suffer from this, probably because older gfx tech made them not able to have detailed terrain, so we had a lot more large mostly-flat plains and stuff.

It would be interesting to see an urban scene for MW:O (if they have them). I wonder how things would look next to buildings and stuff.

Check your beta profiles theres a set of new questions.

If you were as alpha as me then you would know this.

Thank Toot! All filled out now just gotta wait and see.

Mike

Awesome, have signed up.

Bit annoying it wouldn't say I was finished until I said I was a fan of the tabletop game, and my conneciton speed was 50mb+ though, I'm in the U.K and on 40mb so it just kept acting as if I'd not completed em when I was chosing the true options. :S Ah well heh.

You'll be able to easily guess my username.
Annoying how it is all in lowercase though! pff.

It's a bit of a weird issue, yeah. Had the same with 2 questions, but after logging out and back in again and going to the beta profile again, I was able to submit the "correct" answer for the last 2 questions also.



You can fix that here: http://mwomercs.com/forums/topic/312-pi ... alization/

Thankyou Spooky!

That sort of thing really bothers me so, very happy at being able to sort it.

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