Star Citzen Added Mechs?! 

it fits into a cutter rambler, I don't know why he said it's for big ships. It's pretty close to a 8 SCU box in size, just a tad taller.

​@@KriLL325783 Probably because how it holds the boxes above the mech. Makes it difficult to navigate even a C1 Spirit inside. You have to load the boxes by the ramp and can hardly go in.

That would be cool if it folded down and could be moved like a cargo box

@@KriLL325783 Sure, it fits. But how is it supposed to help with cargo if it *is* the cargo? If it could fold up, you can take it with you on an Aurora of 300. Y'know, for reasons. Also, mining variants that fold would give it so much more utility.

Sure that'd be nice but it doesn't seem that big?

Having nearly destroyed my carpal tunnel in this patch, 100% the automatic feature should be applicable to all tractor beams. The wheel-scrolling is a terrible design in comparison

Agreed! It makes no sense for this thing to have better tractorbeams while our spaceship tractorbeams are all crap.

@@wila5477 if you ever need a new mouse, go for logitech g502, it lets you unlock the scrollwheel to scroll at lightspeed and its honestly i lifesaver when tractoring

That would make loading 32scu boxes so much easier.

The Reclaimer was heavily inspired by the Nostromo, so yes, someone may CIG is a Ridley Scott fan

Mildly shock.

@@harabecswurveweathers Cameron directed Aliens, not Scott.

@@poposterous236 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_(film)

​I'm pretty sure YOU mean Alien, not aliens, which was a ridley scot movie. The Nostromo is iconic, you should know better.

that would be the titan series of power armor suits which I recall in the lore are based on these types of powerloader suits but with armor added on and using small size ship weapons for combat purposes

@@stickpgeif that's true, then them coming out with this first is a great move.

Get it Sean! 😂

I wish more companies still did that

They did tease it on the twitter account. But I certainly didn't expect it any time soon

Well they did nerf the tractor beams so that was kinda of a teaser with cig. They want you to buy it

​@@yous2244did you buy it yet

There was a teaser in the last ISC, and the post on x-twitter.

the Titan Suit was in one or a couple of the sq42 progress reports.

@@BizzMRK I am so smart

Agreed. It works way too well for this to be the first version of mechs in the game. There is zero jank in how it moves around, and the feel is very good.

Titanfall???

Less bugs and smoother gameplay isn't what's keeping me from playing

They'll get fixed eventually. In development stage you want a priority on features. It needs to be playable but not necessarily smooth. Optimization is the final phase.

@@jeremybree1986 It'll get there, only company pushing boundaries

@@jeremybree1986 "They'll get fixed eventually" is what people have been saying for literally over 10 years.

@@echo5827the game running like crap isn’t your issue with it?

Lmao nope, this is more than a cargo dolly.

Just use the tractor beam then 😮😒 No one's forcing you to use this. Some people are certainly excited for it tho

Didn't even think of this, spot on

Yup. They also got AI working as of last month to fully manually load cargo onto and off of ships with their internal build. I'm pretty sure the design of this suit was made with them in mind.

"Stand by for Titanfall"

😂🎉 I want one!!

Game engine physics issues.

"works"

Minimech

Early tech for the Titan Suit?

Different tools for different loading. Check out Ollie43 or Jack Axton's streams -- when you have a couple of people using them, you can load up cargo ships maybe five times faster than the handheld tractor beams. They make cargo loading EXTREMELY fast.

Making it actually pick up boxes would be an actual nightmare, similar to how actually implementing the original reclaimer arm concept would be ridiculous because all of the eventualities they'd have to cover

Handheld beams going to he nerfed.

@@breadbeard6722 Yep, that would be an engineering nightmare for sure. Though, ironically, Thorston said that they still plan to make the Reclaimer claw crunch and deconstruct things for structural salvage v2 when Maelstrom comes online.

Don't worry, mecha will come later but they'll be deployed from special ships (which can be mixed and matched with the mecha) and operated like a drone where the deploying ship will be the control station.

bro thank you i was so close to screaming its an exo not a mech, at my monitor

We had the bike tokens this year in may

NOT the same.

Yeah the original design 2017 was always supposed planned to be exoskeletons with size 1 ship weapons. Never was supposed to be Mecha in this game.

Where do you want it?

But! the animation rigging is now in the game. A "real" mech would just be a scaled up version of this one. What has me concerned about mechs in general is that the company that owns the rights to BattleTech is very litigious. That's one of the biggest reasons why there are very few mechs in movies, and they look more like Japanese mechs than the BattleTechs ones.

“This isn’t an alternative to mechwarror or battletech. The end” okay and? Who said it was? Who’s pitching this thing as an alternative to MW5 or tabletop? Please find this person for me.

Definitely had that in their back pocket for the delay announcement

You just really don’t pay attention to what they say hu you don’t pay attention at all when they talk about implementing things the way that they’re going to cause then nothing the fuck out of hand held tractor beam is no surprise. They said they were gonna do that literally the day that they put them in the game on top of that if they really were out for making the most money why didn’t they do what they normally do when they’re out for more money which is tease the shit out of it they probably could’ve been dropping hints for months because I’m sorry this doesn’t just get developed overnight. They knew this was coming for like three or four months before it dropped. Don’t get me wrong I don’t fuck with CIG monetization practices at all but at the end of the day, you don’t have to buy it truly don’t you can still play the game with just a handheld tractor beam it’s just less efficient and even still in what a couple weeks you’ll be able to straight up lying in game I don’t know about you, but every time they released something new, I sure as fuck don’t go out and buy it

@@maddogtank8425 Huh? First part of name checks out.

Well if you have some imagination, this is actually very exciting.

They're not mechs but they're not not mechs

​​@@echo5827 exactly 😅

This is in the weird inbetween range where its not quite a powerarmour/suit but not quite a mech I like to call them powermechs myself but yeah.

@@hermeister3870simple thing to compare it to would be the civilian used battle armor from Battletech

Until servers are stable I'm still not playing

Sorry, good point. Literally nothing right now. Not sure what the plan is.

I have seen some speculation based on the shape of it that the left arm might allow you to "lock" cargo to it. Perhaps the plan was to have the beam attract to the left arm and lock the cargo there but physics issues made it easier to release just with the cargo floating above?

Simpletons 😂

Take my money!

If that was the case they would just make the tractor beam purple and sell it for $20 instead of developing mechs

Simps, simps everywhere

For real

Wait a few months and buy it in game.

Yes because a tractor beam mech is such a strain on game balance

I have a novel idea... cry on the internet.

It makes loading cargo far faster and easier. Just two clicks and no scroll wheel, due to its different tractor beam mode. It is a major thing for those deep in cargo gameplay, but not going to do too much elsewhere. Probably in the end it will be able to move objects heavier than the handheld tractor beams can.

They created the problem 9 days ago. They nerfed both older hand tractor beams and they are much slower than before.

@@Zeocins So a solution looking for a problem, got it. Frankly it doesn't look that much faster, looks pretty clumsily implemented as well. We've already seen the cargo transport that makes loading and offloading cargo a breeze. So why would I ever use this?

@@anthonyknight170 cry on the internet.

You should get one for free with your hangar.

There was already a leak for paint skins in the store for the power loaders, it will be sold.

@@Kothar- I'd be more than happy if it was only paints

*not* overproducing?

​@finch404 they basically stealth dropped this

You must have a lot of issues not having fun

Say you have no foresight of what they can use this tech for without saying you have no foresight.

God, I hope not! That’s just another way for Griefers to screw up everyone else’s game experience in the name of PVP.

​@@CharlesDSmith-mv7zi why have weapons at all if everything is "just another way for Griefers to screw up everyone else’s game experience in the name of PVP". Go cry somewhere else.

Tractor beams will have weight, distance limits + batteries Maybe this will allow faster, bigger moving of boxes

@@bootchoo96 sure. I'm just saying it's not a battle mech or anything like that. It's just a tractor beam. I think it bridges the gap between the handheld and a ship mounted tractor beam

@@sudonix5923 but its a tractor beam, on a mechanized suit

@@kaiberuss meh

@@sudonix5923 i do think it has its uses mainly for testing and stuff for other stuff

Never going to be released as a complete game , thats the scam.

@@PopeRocket you don't think the introduction of angry teddy bear helmets was the moment they jumped the shark?

Cutting tools for structural salvage V2.