Has anyone seen any really urban areas in the previews or the videos? I'm cool with the open spaces, but I'm concerned with just how much the variety of areas will just be different tree types and ground textures.

I haven't seen any heavy urban areas, Certis.

I thought that WAS in the game.

The picture-in-picture aiming thing looks neat but wouldn't it work better somewhere else? Like maybe under the mech's legs or stuck on its back? Tucking such a vital portion of the hud in the upper right corner is a bit counter-intuitive.

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I gathered as much from the trailer. It just looks like the PiP could be implemented with greater effect by putting it in a more conspicous location. Toggling a zoom isn't exactly innovative but a system where you can easily weave through trees and snipe without transition would be spiffy. Anything to differentiate mech combat from a really slow third person shooter would be great.

EB has it listed under July 11.

Yeah, I could swear that one of the trailers I saw for the game said "Coming in July" so this sounds about right to me. Of course, release dates pulled from retail web sites really can't be trusted until about a week before the actual street date.

Indeed. Well-done mech games have quite a bit of tactics and strategy, especially with the bigger picture they're attempting to implement in the conflicts for this game in multiplayer.

Honestly, from what I know about the game so far... is that Chromehounds is much like BF2: MC. In terms that the game plays the way you want to play it, be it strategic assaults or Rambo... either choice should prove to be a lot of fun.

Farley, no one said you can't have an opinion... because technically, none of us are in any position to make any kind of statements about the game. Since none of use played it, all we got is the movies and previews.

However, you statement is kind of crude... -imo. For the simplest fact that the whole walk, shoot, walk, shoot, comment is pretty much describes every game since Pac-man.

Fair enough farley, but the only mech game I've seen that even attempted that was Mechwarrior 2, where you could power down to ambush enemies.

I think you're being a little too harsh. It's not like they're going to release a trailer of a mech hiding in the forest, waiting to ambush. Come to think of it, they've shown almost NOTHING about the tactics commander class.

Also, play Armored Core. People who are good at that game do a lot more flying than walking.

I believe these videos were taken at E3. The ambient music was probably added in to give you something more pleasant than the din of the crowd (or perhaps the person playing was very obnoxious). Some of the other videos do include things like radio chatter, and what I've seen suggests that there'll be some sort of communications element where you'll only be able to communicate with teammates within a certain range (with certain mech parts, such as Commander equipment, acting as a bridge to extend the range). There might even be some sort of wiretap function like in The Outfit.

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