MWLL Weekly Update XVIII - August 09/01

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Welcome to the 18th Weekly Update by the team of MechWarrior: Living Legends, a Crysis total conversion modification, which covers the activities of the first week of August of 2009.
This week's update features the four variants of the Inner Sphere's Gunship Hawk Moth, the new base layout on SA_Inferno and of course another set of playtest impressions

Four Variants: IS Hawk Moth
25 tons don't sound like much for a Mech or tank, but they certainly are for a VTOL, in particular when it packs as much firepower as the Inner Sphere's Hawk Moth. All of the four variants feature missiles in one shape or another, but the additional weapons range from small beam lasers to an ER PPC or LBX10.

New base design: SA_Inferno
-OM-Sanyassi spent quite some time on making the bases on SA_Inferno appear more realistic and actually 'populated' with the help of our environmental artists. The results of these efforts can be seen in the screenshots below.

Playtest Impressions
Again, here are a few pictures from this week's playtest.

[CHHš Sturmadler]

Bases look great!  Is it just me or does the "C" variant Hawkmoth have the wrong missile pods?

[Skunker]

Wow, the blood asp shot truly is amazing. What an impressive battlemech....man that thing is huge.

[(TLL) Chesterwiz]

Nice work on inferno.

[xInVicTuSx]

Man, that mountain shot looks sexay.
Hey I was playing the last campaign (the lava moon) of Blackknight yesterday and using the all energy weapons config on BK was a real nightmare there. Wonder to what degree inferno will effect heat buildup? At least relative to the lava levels in the previous games. Less? Same? More? It was a pain to deal with but I liked it actually, and I wasn't even using ER energy weapons either.

[ilkhan]

Bases look great!  Is it just me or does the "C" variant Hawkmoth have the wrong missile pods?

C does have the wrong number of missile tubes for its description.
Put a rotor on that model and you could actually build those things...Very nice.

And <3 the blood asp and Mk II shots.

[Stormin']

Nice update again.  The base redesign on Inferno looks good, very BT.  I still can't help but think that hangar still looks out of place with the other design elements.  Here's to hoping it sees a "futuristic" retexture one of these days...

Checking out those 'Moths makes me want to go check out the aero again. =)

[STUN]

Very nice, I especially like inferno.

[Ghiest]

Hawk looks badass, I'm impressed.

As much as I love the look of the bases, the textures of the towers don't really tend to gel well with the actual walls so they stick out like a sore thumb, so I'm presume they are temporary textures.  Is it me or do those tank tracks lead into the wall on the last shot ?

[Tiger842]

Are those new towers replacing turrets? Or are they there for show?

[~SJ~ Karuik]

my LORD! that blood asp is massive! absolutely awesome shot!

inferno looks gorgeous, but it has for a while now.

amd the hawkmoth... sweet, shame ill be blowing them up, not flying it 

[2fisted]

FM looks realy cool, good action pics too!

[Timberwolf]

The Hawk with a PPC is bad and the base Design from Inferno is realy how does xInVicTuSx wrote

... looks sexay.

Nice Work Devs

[Upchuk]

With shots like these, i envy the devs getting to play/test before we do!  I WANNA PLAY....:-(

[Merle Jimmus]

Inferno base is looking great

Absolutely jaw dropping view of the Blood Asp!

I also like the raven crossing the greenery, scaling seems much better in this shot. Not sure if this has actually been worked on or if it is just a better camera angle.

I'm not an aerospace fan (yet) but the hawk moth looks not bad.