MechWarrior Online: Timber Wolf (Mad Cat) Video Series

Here are a collection of videos of the Timber Wolf Clan Mech, also known as the Mad Cat. The builds of each variant can be very diverse thanks to Omnipods.

Below is a match where I pilot a Timber Wolf Prime I modified to resemble an "Unseen" fan favorite mech, the Marauder (MAD-2R in this case). It has two Clan ERPPC, two Clan ER Medium Lasers, and a Clan Ultra AC 5. I have lovingly dubbed it the Marauder Cat. :) I get 6 kills and 3 assists on 943 damage.

This match took place during hour 23 of Extra Life 2014. Somehow I manage to get 4 kills and 5 assists on 735 damage. I am piloting a Timber Wolf C, TBR-C, with two ER Large Lasers, two ER Medium Lasers, and two LRM15 with Artemis.

MechWarrior Online: Clan Invasion Preview on Public Test Server

After a rocky start when the Test Server hamster couldn't handle everyone trying to log in and redeem their Clan Mechs, the fun began. A lot of fun. Clan mechs are different and powerful, but they are not over powered as many people, including myself, feared they would be.

Of course, the real test is going to be on Tuesday, June 17 when everything goes live and a few weeks have passed. Even though most of the mechs I ran into yesterday were Clanners, the Inner Sphere mechs did not seem to be overwhelmed or lacking at all when fighting them.

PGI has done an excellent job modeling the mechs and the changes to the Clan weapons are great with the Clan machine guns probably taking the best sound effects award and the Clan missiles taking the visual effects award.Of course, the best thing is perhaps the way we can customize the Clan mechs via Omnipods. The possibilities are exciting.

I'm really looking forward to Tuesday when we can play and build the Clan mechs for real. If you would like to see some actual game footage, check out my five hour Twitch recording here.

MechWarrior Online: Personal Achievement - 1 Billion C-Bills Earned

I knew I was getting close to 1 Billion C-Bills earned in MechWarrior Online because I was sitting at 398 million C-Bills when I started last night and I've been tracking my C-Bill earnings since December 2012.

So, when I broke 400 million C-Bills I went to my stats page and added my combined wins and losses and my Accumulative C-Bills Per Match to my C-Bills Analysis spreadsheet. I knew it was going to be close, but when I plugged the numbers in, I had actually broken 1 Billion C-Bills earned about a week ago (I only update the total earned number once or twice a month). :)

To put things into perspective, here are some stats on my journey to 1 Billion C-Bills earned in MechWarrior Online:
Matches played: 8,708
Average C-Bills Per Match: 116,567
Days Played with Premium Time: 227 of 448
Mechs with +25% or +30% C-Bill Bonus Owned: 15

You can also see my Mech Stats here. I own 63 mechs, but all are not shown due to owning a few duplicates or not ever playing some (I'm looking at you, Locusts) or since the stats reset a few months ago. The numbers don't match up perfectly with the numbers in the C-Bills spreadsheet because PGI started the Mech Stats section of our Profiles a few months after the Base Stats.