@@dukenukem4447 Urban Mechs could be turned into legs, create some kinda "autobots" system where if you core the combined mech it just turns into a pair of urbies, a commando, and a piraiah, I see no issue with this aside from whatever abomination they form being a bit slow!
This has the same energy as prior games, where it was possible to design a mech that, due to heat issues, would explode the first time you fired all of its weaponry.
You can still do that. Strip a Piranha of all its armor and drop a bunch of HML's and HSL's in that beast. hit O and then run behind their team - or in front if you run into a medium or light. Fire once, you explode, they explode, you laugh, they sit there dejected.
MechWarrior 3, five or more ER PPCs, anything less than COMPLETELY filling your remaining slots with Clan double heatsinks and making sure you're on an arctic map and the first time you hit the alpha-strike button all you'll hear as the death cam spirals the crater is "Critical hit: ER PPC". On loop.
You can do that in the 2018(?) Battletech game too. Take an Awesome and slap 9 ppcs on that bad boy and watch as it instantly cooks the target…and then promptly explodes its CT due to heat.
As soon as the onboard said fuel was at zero and the Locust kept shooting into orbit, I'll bet the pilot was just sitting there thinking "This moment right here, this moment is the sum total of a lifetime of bad decisions."
"Captain we need to reach the other side of this planet and the dropship is running late." "I have a plan" "What plan" "Either I reach the dropship or I dig a hole to the other side of the planet. Give me about 30 seconds."
Whoever you are, this little video has somehow fed a *significant chunk* of viewers to an hour long "everything is the matter" MWO review I made like a year ago. So, thank you - I guess what I'm missing is more Locust Space Programs.
Yeah, that's actually been a problem in normal gameplay. If you get stuck on the side of a wall, so you can't move, but the game still thinks you're "airborne", your jump jets won't refill, and you can't get back out again. At that point, your only option is to take a screenshot, and then report your position to the enemy so they can come kill you. The screenshot is to report the location to PGI so they can go fix it in 4 months.
@@c182SkylaneRG I hate that jumpjets in the game are just... niche. In any other MW game they offer so much mobility and options... and in MWO they can barely lift your mech.
I mean, it'd be 20 tons of raw mass landing on something whilst moving at terminal velocity. So if you really wanted to you could calc it. I'm sure as hell not going to tho lol. I don't think it'd be in the megatons range. Kilotons maybe, but not megatons.
It would be maybe a ton of tnt equivalent (orbital kinetic bombardment with metal rods was seriously considered as an alternative to cruise issiles in the cold war), but not nuclear level. It could level a city block doe.
@@egoalter1276 I imagine the instructor who is there who just saw you launch into the sky and come crashing down would be impressed to a slight degree before he MGs the hell out of you for being an improvised lawn dart
In Earth atmosphere 20 ton mech the size of locust should fall in around 1022.5 km/h terminal velocity produces around 806717914.5 J of kinetic energy. So, like, 200-ish kilograms of TNT? Anyways, I'd stick to LRMS...
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@@sambauman69 Now would be a horrible time for me to get into MWO, they haven't even fixed their colorblind accessibility yet! And I tried McQuarrie 5, it was awful. 😂
@@AlcomIsst that's a shame. I just found Mechwarrior5 really like it, and was thinking of maybe making the jump to MW online. If that's so bad what's the best battletech experience you recommend?
Not sure what’s more ridiculous, the fact that you can put 100 jumpers on a locust, or the fact that using that many didn’t instantly overheat you three times over
Apparently this guy's modifying game files, but they only work in the Academy. No, you can't normally fit 100 jump jets on a Locust. That'd be 50 tons of jets on a 20 ton 'mech. :) But it's the same way he fit two Gauss Rifles with two tons of ammo, an ERPPC, and an XL400 engine on a Locust. :)
Haha, I busted out laughing! :D That was amazing. I had a funny feeling the landing was going to be death, though. :D There's a mission in MW2 where you're supposed to escort a mining train, and as soon as it starts moving, a Jenner IIC powers up at the top of a nearby mountain and jumps off to meet you. It typically goes exactly like this. :D Easiest kill in the game.
Omg I remember that one, ha ha! In my version tho it always kicked on the jets before landing. Shooting it's legs off before it hit the ground was a fun challenge
@@venomousgoose5023 I think it survived once, out of a dozen or so playthroughs. For whatever reason, in the version I had, it burned through its jump jets before getting anywhere close to the ground, and had nothing left to cushion the landing.
JJs were pretty easily abused in in MW2 and MW2 Mercs. If I recall you could mount them on everything and also fire them off in different directions. I had them tied to the hat switch on my old MS Sidewinder in my left hand (mouse on the right). You could also intermittently tap the JJs to maintain a straight level flight without ever touching down. I remember doing so on a Ghost Bear mission where I literally flew over and past all the opposition to escape.
The Terra defense grid is like nothing you've seen! -Mech Assault 2 Me watching this; no wonder ships can't get close to Terra... the mechs can jump high enough to shoot things down themselves!
Makes me remember a glitch that happened one time in mw2:mercs Start of mission I clipped through the ground, well the altimeter showed me falling until it went too far negative and I suddenly was free falling from max height. No jump jets to slow me down RIP
I do not think a Locust has enough space for 100 jets. Going to space is about creating a trajectory where higher point of ballistic trajectory is at orbital altitude. Upon reaching that altitude thrusters must be fired in forward direction to circularize orbit. So you turned a Locust into a small ICBM.
When you eject from your mech you're not supposed to take the mech with you.
Forgot to let go of steering column
Hear me out... An Atlas, but when you eject you are in a Commando. Keep fighting!
@@kaboombunny2857 Make it a Piranha so we have a wolf in sheeps clothing scenario and you have yourself deal! Yeah I know what I said.
@@dukenukem4447 Urban Mechs could be turned into legs, create some kinda "autobots" system where if you core the combined mech it just turns into a pair of urbies, a commando, and a piraiah, I see no issue with this aside from whatever abomination they form being a bit slow!
@@Elenrai Hahahahaha sounds glorious.
This has the same energy as prior games, where it was possible to design a mech that, due to heat issues, would explode the first time you fired all of its weaponry.
You can still do that. Strip a Piranha of all its armor and drop a bunch of HML's and HSL's in that beast. hit O and then run behind their team - or in front if you run into a medium or light.
Fire once, you explode, they explode, you laugh, they sit there dejected.
MechWarrior 3, five or more ER PPCs, anything less than COMPLETELY filling your remaining slots with Clan double heatsinks and making sure you're on an arctic map and the first time you hit the alpha-strike button all you'll hear as the death cam spirals the crater is "Critical hit: ER PPC".
On loop.
You can do that in the 2018(?) Battletech game too. Take an Awesome and slap 9 ppcs on that bad boy and watch as it instantly cooks the target…and then promptly explodes its CT due to heat.
You mean the only time you fired all your weapons?
So kamikaze strats is what I think seeing that.
As soon as the onboard said fuel was at zero and the Locust kept shooting into orbit, I'll bet the pilot was just sitting there thinking "This moment right here, this moment is the sum total of a lifetime of bad decisions."
Should have ejected at the end, use the mech as the first stage.
good decisions*
He was exactly where he had always dreamed of being.
@@sid2112 He's gonna go kill that Aerospace Bomber himself
@@mq5731 Clan honor demands nothing less, hehehe
You just turned MWO into Kerbal Space Program. This is the next level.
He even got the landings right
Underrated Comment of the decade.
@@corinthiansdaniels3728 He needs more struts...
I was thinking the same thing
The Scroll of Icarian Flight, but with Mechs.
wow that reference was a long bomb all the way from downtown lol how in the world did i still recognize the name of that
I'm actually playing Morrowind's multiplayer right now reading this.
I absolutely love this reference. TES III is the best rpg ever.
@@travman4170 None of us will ever forget
Now we just need the Boots of Blinding Speed, and we'll be all set.
Congrats on making the first documented LAM locust.
"You can't boat jump jets!"
"I AM A LEAF ON THE WIND! WATCH HOW I SOAR!"
You...you had to bring that up
To be fair, the locust ended just as quickly...
@@steveroyal6229 you bastards, you killed wash!
I cri evrytim.
Too soon
"Captain we need to reach the other side of this planet and the dropship is running late."
"I have a plan"
"What plan"
"Either I reach the dropship or I dig a hole to the other side of the planet. Give me about 30 seconds."
Whoever you are, this little video has somehow fed a *significant chunk* of viewers to an hour long "everything is the matter" MWO review I made like a year ago. So, thank you - I guess what I'm missing is more Locust Space Programs.
😎👍
Locust: My dream is become an UAV
Id like to see it death from above something at that range!
Jebediah is still bobbling his head happily throughout
Soooo the fuel bar doesn’t reload if you’re midair? Good to know
Yeah, that's actually been a problem in normal gameplay. If you get stuck on the side of a wall, so you can't move, but the game still thinks you're "airborne", your jump jets won't refill, and you can't get back out again. At that point, your only option is to take a screenshot, and then report your position to the enemy so they can come kill you. The screenshot is to report the location to PGI so they can go fix it in 4 months.
@@c182SkylaneRG wait so the screenshot isn't so tex knows where to send the angry bees?
@@c182SkylaneRG I hate that jumpjets in the game are just... niche. In any other MW game they offer so much mobility and options... and in MWO they can barely lift your mech.
@@TheRaptor0101 if used right they are amazing. I use them in many builds
It did in previous single-player games as far as I remember...
Wait this isn't Kerbal Space Program
I just wonder how many megatons of force that would be if you landed on an assault mech.
... enough. It would be ENOUGH.
I mean, it'd be 20 tons of raw mass landing on something whilst moving at terminal velocity. So if you really wanted to you could calc it. I'm sure as hell not going to tho lol.
I don't think it'd be in the megatons range. Kilotons maybe, but not megatons.
It would be maybe a ton of tnt equivalent (orbital kinetic bombardment with metal rods was seriously considered as an alternative to cruise issiles in the cold war), but not nuclear level. It could level a city block doe.
@@egoalter1276 I imagine the instructor who is there who just saw you launch into the sky and come crashing down would be impressed to a slight degree before he MGs the hell out of you for being an improvised lawn dart
In Earth atmosphere 20 ton mech the size of locust should fall in around 1022.5 km/h terminal velocity produces around 806717914.5 J of kinetic energy. So, like, 200-ish kilograms of TNT?
Anyways, I'd stick to LRMS...
Hold up, I thought we got rid of LAMs. Where did you dig up this one?
COMSTAR WANTS TO KNOW YOUR POSITION OH WAIT WE ALWAYS DO KNOW YOUR POSITION
@@rrenkrieg7988 Actually that would be the Clans, mostly Novacat.
Comstar suprisingly didn't aim to take out LAMs
Would a DFA from this config be considered orbital bombardment?
Feasibility Test of Surface-to-Orbit Mech Jump Jets - Recording from the New Avalon Institute of Science Archives, dated 3027, colorized.
the locust just gave itself its own highlander burial.
Right?! Literally! It punched straight through the map and into the underworld below! :D
Did the Locust have the damage reducing leg modifications? Delayed the separation of the hip actuators by 0.023 seconds I bet.
With the knees ending up in the neuro-helmet
I like how the planet or moon there is actually IN the the ocean.
haha good catch
Wtf is this attempt at a sentence
@@jakevuckturd1201 First time with English?
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Sounds like the perfect time to get into MWO, or wait for the stream steam release of McQuarrie 5, it buy a Battletech miniatures box. Just saying...
@@sambauman69 Now would be a horrible time for me to get into MWO, they haven't even fixed their colorblind accessibility yet!
And I tried McQuarrie 5, it was awful. 😂
@@AlcomIsst that's a shame. I just found Mechwarrior5 really like it, and was thinking of maybe making the jump to MW online. If that's so bad what's the best battletech experience you recommend?
@@sambauman69 MechWarrior 3 or MechWarrior 4: Mercenaries
mw space program
Not sure what’s more ridiculous, the fact that you can put 100 jumpers on a locust, or the fact that using that many didn’t instantly overheat you three times over
Apparently this guy's modifying game files, but they only work in the Academy. No, you can't normally fit 100 jump jets on a Locust. That'd be 50 tons of jets on a 20 ton 'mech. :) But it's the same way he fit two Gauss Rifles with two tons of ammo, an ERPPC, and an XL400 engine on a Locust. :)
@@c182SkylaneRG I know, if I could actually fit 100 jumpjets on my locust I would never play with any other loadout XD
@@AwesomeAlec1 gotta remember that small laser so you can plink away at mechs from above and behind
Haha, I busted out laughing! :D That was amazing. I had a funny feeling the landing was going to be death, though. :D There's a mission in MW2 where you're supposed to escort a mining train, and as soon as it starts moving, a Jenner IIC powers up at the top of a nearby mountain and jumps off to meet you. It typically goes exactly like this. :D Easiest kill in the game.
Omg I remember that one, ha ha! In my version tho it always kicked on the jets before landing. Shooting it's legs off before it hit the ground was a fun challenge
@@venomousgoose5023 I think it survived once, out of a dozen or so playthroughs. For whatever reason, in the version I had, it burned through its jump jets before getting anywhere close to the ground, and had nothing left to cushion the landing.
@@c182SkylaneRG ha ha ha! That is actually hilarious. I miss that game. It was the only real one we had for a while other than sim city 2000
JJs were pretty easily abused in in MW2 and MW2 Mercs. If I recall you could mount them on everything and also fire them off in different directions. I had them tied to the hat switch on my old MS Sidewinder in my left hand (mouse on the right). You could also intermittently tap the JJs to maintain a straight level flight without ever touching down. I remember doing so on a Ghost Bear mission where I literally flew over and past all the opposition to escape.
@@kennethfharkin I used to use them to jump on top of high cliffs. In some situations you could use them to jump indefinitely
Please redo this with a successful Death from Above, Alcomlsst. It would be a miracle.
Imagine this with vectoring skills.
nailed the landing though
ah yes, I've played Armored Core
how are you managing to mod MWO like this?
"exiting battlezone" they aint kidding
where we're going we don't need battle zones
That's a win in my book. The locust did exactly like planned. Died.
The Terra defense grid is like nothing you've seen! -Mech Assault 2
Me watching this; no wonder ships can't get close to Terra... the mechs can jump high enough to shoot things down themselves!
i like how it gets destroyed from ~1km height jump, while in MW3 Bushwacker didnt even get scratched from orbit drop
Makes me remember a glitch that happened one time in mw2:mercs
Start of mission I clipped through the ground, well the altimeter showed me falling until it went too far negative and I suddenly was free falling from max height.
No jump jets to slow me down
RIP
Launch: 9/10
Landing: 10/10
I was expecting a "Gundam Journey To Jaburo" level jump not a "Kerbal Space Program" experiment.
無茶するなぁ、ローカストであんな事をするなんて。
着地したらバラバラになるなぁと思っていたけど、その通りになったｗｗｗ
Ah, The Little Mech that could - one of my favourite stories of all time
Me: Wondering how much leg damage he will take
"Oh...all...."
omg that's crazy xD
The pilot's spine shattered in first few seconds due to the acceleration anways.
Just the question Ive been asking myself, what if you could have all the jumpjets.
DFA someone with this. It would be difficult as all hell to pull off but it will be glorious.
when you run out of rockets, you become the rocket
The Locust always comes through.
nobody expects a flea from that angle
It's a Locust
Who else felt that landing in their shins
Oh no, our legs - it's broken!
Fell so hard, it even hit the side torso
100 JJ no landing gear LOL
HA!!!Hahahahahaha!!
So how far across a map can the Rocket Lolcust jump? Single bounds across canyon network? LUL
Clear Polar Highlands in half a second.
Instantly appears behind enemy team.
Locust:*generic anime line*
Enemy team: visble confusion..
Houston we have a problem
who needs a uav?
DFA DFA DFA!
Worth it
Mechwarrior 2 jumpjets lol.
Also MWO closed beta jumpjets :(
I never used Jump Jets in Mechwarrior 2. First thing I did was strip them off lol
The right soundtrack would be "Learning to Fly" by Pink Floyd ua-cam.com/video/nVhNCTH8pDs/v-deo.html
I BELIEVE I CAN FLY!!
I BELIEVE I CAN TOUCH THE SKY!!
I THINK ABOUT IT EVERY NIGHT AND DAY
JUST SPREAD MY WINGS AND FL-oh shit my legs are destroyed
Launch went exactly as expected but landing could use so work.
lol
Ground Control to Major Tom
Your circuit's dead, there's something wrong
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
I do not think a Locust has enough space for 100 jets. Going to space is about creating a trajectory where higher point of ballistic trajectory is at orbital altitude. Upon reaching that altitude thrusters must be fired in forward direction to circularize orbit. So you turned a Locust into a small ICBM.
ITS ARMORED CORE 1!
Man that was my first thought seeing that jump
That’s why you need to save enough to arrest your momentum prior to impact
Dang, I didn't know Kerbel Space Program let you build mechs!
"Fuel at zero percent"
"..."
"Oh that's right. Inertia"
*BOOM*
At first I thought this was badass, then I read the description. You're even more badass OP :)
Who needs Dropships wben your Locust can do it by itself? Inmer sphere should learn a thing or two....Or not thanks.to Comstar
If you do this with an Urbanmech it becomes a cruise missile.
MechWarrior 2 directional JJs: Not bad kid, but you've still got a ways to go.
A Locust LAM variant? Well now I have seen everything.
I’m sorry… But that mech should have come down like a meteor. Lol.
Beautiful.
You know, when they said "break a leg", I don't think they meant it in a literal sense
Uhhh, it's called 'gravity'. Just a reminder!😁
Why is it that pulling shit like that is always so satisfying?I mean you know how it’s going to end at the outset but you still gotta do it.
Gonna have to move faster than that pilot, speed is life.
My name is Giovanni Giorgio but everybody calls me Giorgio
When the player base mimics mech techs during the golden age
Meanwhile Mobile suits
>Laughs in jumpjets
This is why LAM technology was abandoned.
You didn't use the other scroll of icearian flight...
Wow, so, the moon is just.....in the ocean huh? Just hanging out?
Locust:"I have to go, my planet needs me."
🤔I wonder if you can defeat someone if you land on their mech
Now to weaponise it to one hit kill Atlas mechs by landing on them
imagine if you put that power into forwards thrust instead of all upwards.
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@@AlcomIsst Thank you =)
**iron maiden - flight of Icarus intensifies.**
step 2: Death From Above
Step 3: Profit
Do not call for artillery
BECOME the artillery
dude was playing Tribes 2 for a second
"Hey Doc, watch that reentry it's a little rough"
Anyone else notice the moon is literally sitting in the water?
The Team Rocket variant
I didn't know Locust had a LAM model.
Enough jump jets to last you the rest of your life.
Wow I believe I can fly :-)
SpaceX builds Mechs now?
How it feels to chew InnerSphere 5 Gum.
Out of bounds....out of bounds ....out of bounds....
And that’s how they got the idea for the first LAMS.