MechWarrior Online open beta begins next week, features released
By Jess Colwill on October 11, 2012 at 5:51 pm
The open beta for MechWarrior Online begins next week, according to Piranha Games — who should know, really, as it is their game. Over at their site they’ve gone into some of the new items and features the beta will bring.
First is the Camo Spec, which will allow the player to customise the base skin of their mech, along with up to three colours. As well as customising the outside, you will be able to personalise the inside of your mech with some sweet decorative items like fuzzy dice or the hula girl. Finally, by December, players will be able to attach their own decals. Pre-made affairs at first, but soon after players will be able to create and attach their own pieces of art for the mech-world to see.
Source: MechWarrior Online
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Is one of the features “new non-shitty interface”?
The biggest feature is that they somehow trick people into using MWLL screenshots for MWO articles. ;)
Nah, from what I’ve seen so far (videos) they did a pretty job gob in staying close to the the original Mechwarrior titles. I’m curious how it plays.
NDA gone so now we can talk freely…
it plays … well not sure how to compare it since it doesn’t have anything resembling it in the past mechwarrior titles.
the battle setup plays out pretty much like every single MOBA games out there, ie: random map or what not, 2 teams randomly chosen from the player pool but balanced by their class (the game tries to put as many light/med/heavy on each side for example) and so on..
gameplay wise, it’s probably closest with MW3… with it’s extended beam duration, etc… except without the ‘gyro overload’ and one shot legging (the legging works the same as MW4, ie: you don’t die from losing one leg but you become crippled), and the knock effect from AC naturally isn’t as severe as they were in MW3.
they r still trying to rebalance a lot of things… AC was for a long time quite weak in MWO, at least the smaller ones… but that’s not exactly news… we ALL KNEW they were weak in most mechwarrior games, though at least after the last patch they may have some value now.