They can't take all the same 'Mechs because they don't have the c-bills to get anything they want.
The fun is the action, not hours in any lab. This is a FPS, not the tabletop. Two completely diffrent things.
I also hate rockets comming out of nowhere because the modell/original 'Mech just doesn't have any.
Fully customization just kills any fun of the game for me.
It's no BattleTech to me just because the 'Mechs are called 'Mechs.
In my opinion custimization is against nearly anything BT stands for.

In all honesty i don't see anything wrong with customising mechs, to an extent, i cant agree with the purist philosophy though of locked load outs.
it doesnt make sense for mwll to have to create every single innersphere variant of every mech their including  just so that the players are locked to the same what 16 different available IS mechs? they cant take away the customisation of clan mechs  being omni designs, and for balance reasons they need to make that also available to IS players, kinda a hard place to be for them. if you truly disagree with customising your mechs and keeping to TRO then only play with fasa official designs, but we cant ask people not to use a perfectly good customisation option available especially when it could mean the difference between winning and losing, and on that note when you've played as many CBT games as i have (and maybe you've played more) the one thing you start to realise is that, well fasa weren't always so great at designing mechs if you know what i mean, firestarter anyone?

Isn't that the only real difference between Omni's and normal 'Mechs?
AFAIK normal 'Mechs can be customised anyway you want but not out in the field, while Omni's could go into a mobile repair bay and switch out most of their equipment to suit their needs, if enough spare weapons are available.
At least that's how I always understood Omni Mech technology...
Didn't make any difference for the MW games, as you just had one mission and off to the 'mech bay.

It would have been really cool to see differences in the weapons by the different manufacturers in a Single Player campaign. I still dream of a Mechwarrior 1 remake with a persistent multiplayer campaign with a Diablo-esque or Borderlands weapons stat randomizer.. that would be pretty fun to do..

AMEN to that brother, I mean look at the kodiak for example, the Large laser is ment to create insane heat but at the same time its supposed to soften up enemies quite quickly at range, in games like MW4 this was not the case as one ER L.laser by itself is crap.

Oh and while I remember this, do you guys plan on making the guns more true to their original damage ideals? by this I mean you won't be able to stack more than 2 ppcs on a mech, but at the same time even one PPC should be able to do noticeable damage like it did in MW2.

PPCs terrify me, the Shrek carrying 3 is horrifically bad for vehicles, but god does that thing have heat issues.

Large lasers are a significant anti-vehicle weapon, definitely useful for softening targets.

Also not sure what you mean by a mech not "being able" to carry more than 2 PPCs.

sorry let me rectify that, what I ment was that mechs that are not omnitech and that do not have the ability to stack silly amounts of PPC fire, I am aware that the awesome can swing 3 PPC,  but not many can, what frustrated me most about MW4 mercs was that every one seemed to have between 3-4 ppcs loaded on all their mechs (that said MW4 in general was very average in multiplayer, mostly due to the massive amount of BK jumpers). I was merely wandering if you guys were going to have some kind of mech build standard, so we don't see epic boats or excessive ppc builds, I am sorry if I made it seem otherwise?


Exactly man, I understand that some mechs can do it, but there should be massive heat repercussions or maybe you should appear as a massive dot on the radar due to massive heat build up (don't know how it would work on a logical level though )


See in MW2 the PPC scared the crap out of me, don't get me wrong it was slow and avoidable, but in close range you could feel it when it hit, you knew your mech was hurting when that big blue flash went across your screen, but in the later games it just felt like they were supplementary fire, the kind that had to be supported by Gauss other wise you needed lots of them, BTW can we please have a sneak peak at the Gauss in the next newsletter? It must look sooo pretty when it cracks an opposing mech up the side of the cockpit