Posted 24 August 2017 - 06:51 PM

The lighter weights are the ones I care about the most (45 tons and below). To me those are horribly underrepresented in the game as a whole. I do like a number of the mechs on your list, but these would be my MWO top picks for each tonnage bracket:



**20 TONS**



-Wasp: Just too iconic to pass up and provides a nice agile little jumper in the 20 ton bracket with a wide variety of variants. You can cover everything from MG boats to ECM to laser vomit to missile carriers with the variants and they're also so differing in hardpoint locations to give even more variety. I also don't think it needs to be combined with the Stinger, as the Stinger is certainly unique enough to stand on its own and has plenty of its own variety in variants.



**25 TONS**



-Mongoose: I think this thing would be incredible in MWO and a superb mech for the 25 ton bracket. It also has great hardpoint variety in its variants. Besides, the Aesthetics are really something we lack in MWO with the overall design and especially the digitigrade legs.



**40 TONS**



-Clint: This thing feels like it would be quite the workhorse in MWO. I'd love to see it, but I'd also really love to see the 2-3UL with its Plasma Rifle, so as much as I'd love to see the chassis, some of the variants really do need more future tech to work out. Regardless, the variants can always be "built" when the tech hits, and there's still 5 viable variants even without the other tech, so the sooner the better.



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As a note on the Fireball: PGI stated hit-reg is at a point where speed doesn't matter, they're just too chicken to go through with it (as per last updates about a year+ ago . . . look through my post history to see the whole timeline). They've also said full blown city maps were too difficult to do and could break the game/engine . . . Russ admitted they were too chicken to do it . . . and yet they're finally doing one of those, so who knows.



As a note on the Sling: While you note the Duan Gung, I much prefer it's spiritual predecessor. I just like the aesthetics and design so much more, as well as the fact that it has solid variants (well, for the variants that exist). I'd rather have this design and use the Duan Gung to create variants for the Sling. However, I will say that I at least like the potential hardpoints of the Duan Gung.

