I love how all the flavour text is a scientist losing his shit over how scary this weapon is while also exasperating over how the bosses don’t think it LOOKS scary enough
On one hand, Visual are a bunch of materialistic morons who don't appreciate the absolutely groundbreaking technology Exotic Materials created, but on the other hand I want to thank Visual because without their intervention the White Witch would probably be way more terrifying than it already is. Like, imagine this thing doing its shit but you can't see anything - no fancy ferrofluid stuff, just matter around it spontaneously eaten away by an invisible force while its armour grows around it like some freakish living carapace.
AKA "Behold! The awesome fires of God. The limitless power of pure creation itself. Observe how it is used for the same purpose a man might use an especially sharp rock": The mech.
To quote one of my players, the White Witch is a mech that has exactly as much control over what a NPC is allowed to shoot as the GM. As a GM, I admit to having a slight grudge against the White Witch. While its kit is *really* potent, its low heatcap means its got a big glaring flaw that you can target trivially easily in order to cripple its entire base kit. It makes it a nightmare of game design.
It really is frustrating to consider. It is by turns so powerful it warps the entire game around it, and so easily crushed it might as well not exist. But it depends on the GM's decision making. If you ignore it, everyone else is frustrated, if you exploit it's weakness, the player running a White Witch is frustrated.
White Witch is easily one of the scariest mechs in the game. Its core sucks in all matter to better protect itself, *all* matter. Imagine a giant mech that look like Evangelion got into its emo phase sucking up your buddy like a tootsie pop so it can have bigger spikes.
My table's Gorgon runs Camus and Sisyphus, now. Just for those few encounters where it can force the GM to attack it, and then force the attacker to be stunned. It's an experience.
All the rivalry with the Drake and the Terminator clips through the video are really funny, as White Witch serves a very similar role but with fancier and futuristic effects.
Kai Tave confirmed on PilotNET that the Camus Razor reaction DOES apply for the rest of the scene after priming the system, RAW, but that it was possibly unintentional for it to do so. As it stands until the ticket is resolved, you prime it once and it just keeps going (as of May 6th). Go forth and intervene!
Back when my friends and I still played Lancer I mained SSC-BW but when WW came out I combined them in such a fun way using the drone to help protect the low heat cap and basically forcing enemies into duelling me it was so good I miss them
Pinning Spire is also insanely good for Vlad builds as well due to the Shrike Armor also causing the opponent to take damage when they try to free themselves whether they hit you or not.
5:28 Since Pinning Spire can target allies, do no damage to them, and make them immobilized but can't be forcefully moved, this would actually be pretty useful for allies that don't want to move like Barbarosa or Autocooler or an ally you want to keep giving the benefits of Guardian too or whatever.
"Pay attention to me Im annoying" "You paid attention to me? I am now stronk, die." "You didnt pay attention to me? You still pay attention to me, DIE."
White Witch is a blast to run, with some hacking countermeasures in friendlies you become a frighteningly quick fortress pinning down HVTs and flinging enemies around
The bit about staying away from allies when using Hyperactive mode (besides the armour resetting explosion) isn't absolutely true - the burst damage is also a tool to increase Armour quickly using Fluid Burst.
Got to use a Whitewitch in my first game. Forgot about the core ability doing damage in a radius around you and ended up standing next to an ally. He took a structure damage, but I ended up knocking down two elites with the explosion. I ended up only taking 1 hull damage that entire fight.
I'd like to note that most Combat Drill builds involve ferrofluid lance. because the best way to murder something by drill is to make sure your prey can't move.
Hey 11dragonkid, can you post a tutorial on how to configure roll20 to play lancer or link one, i really want to play with some friends but I couldn't find a way to do it, love the vids btw keep it up c:
I have been using a configured setting for Roll20 to play Lancer when I was making the Running Mech series with Interpoint Station stuff, it's very useful!
@@11dragonkid11 Hey just wanted to tell you, that was a godsend, I got many resources and configuration tips, I am making a small homebrew campaign for my friends, where before I was contemplating if I really should DM lancer now I am really confident and it's all thanks to your tips and videos, thank you
