Tuesday January 7th @ 10AM – 1PM PDT
Patch Number: 1.2.259
Change Log
Greetings MechWarriors!
2014 and still no flying cars? Well at least the Clans are invading!
The Cicada champion is here! This is as close as you are going to get to a “Garth” Hero ‘Mech. Its available to pilot now in the Trial ‘Mechs and will be on sale Jan 14th. Don’t forget the 10% XP boost so you can power level this fast medium 'mech.
We have some weapon tuning in this patch as well as some bug fixes too. Read on to get the full details!
See you on the battlefield.
Matt Newman
P.S in the Dec patch notes I stated “*there are currently no C-Billionaire’s in the game” Well since then we had a player reach this milestone. I’m not going to reveal who it is but I will say this “you’ve changed man… The C-Bills have changed you! You used to be so down to earth.” 
Congrats.
Content
New Hero Mech
"Grid Iron" HBK-GI
Tonnage: 50
Engine: 200 XL
Top Speed: 64.8 kph
Max Engine Rating: 275
Torso Movement:
125 degrees to each side.
25 degrees up and down.
Arm Movement:
40 degrees to each side.
35 degrees up and down.
Armor: 336 (Standard)
Internal Structure: Endo-Steel
Weapons & Equipment:
Head: Small Laser
Left Arm: Medium Pulse Laser
Left Torso: SRM 6
Right Torso: Gauss Rifle
Right Arm: Medium Pulse Laser
Hardpoints:
Head: 1 Energy
Left Arm: 1 Energy
Left Torso: 1 Missile, 1 AMS
Right Torso: 2 Ballistic
Right Arm: 1 Energy
Heat Sinks: 11 Double
Jump Jets: 0 (0 Max)
ECM Capable?: No
Module Slots: 2
Movement Archetype: Medium
Quirks: 37.5% faster torso twist speed, 10% faster torso pitch speed
30% C-Bill Bonus
New Trial Champion Mech
Cicada CDA-2A©
Tonnage: 40
Engine: 340 XL
Top Speed: 137.7 kph
Max Engine Rating: 340
Torso Movement:
125 degrees to each side.
30 degrees up and down.
Arm Movement:Armor: 232 (Ferro-Fibrous)
0 degrees to each side.
30 degrees up and down.
Internal Structure: Endo-Steel
Weapons & Equipment:
Left Torso: Medium Laser x2
Center Torso: Medium Laser x2
Right Torso: Medium Laser x2
Hardpoints:
Left Torso: 2 Energy
Center Torso: 2 Energy
Right Torso: 2 Energy, 1 AMS
Heat Sinks: 15 Double
Jump Jets: 0 (0 Max)
ECM Capable?: No
Module Slots: 2
Movement Archetype: Small
Gameplay
Weapon Tuning:
AC/20 - Projectile speed decreased from 900m/s to 650m/s (250m/s decrease)
AC/10 - Projectile speed decreased from 1100m/s to 950m/s (150m/s decrease)
Bug Fixes
Fix to a very rare deadlock during reloading the shaders.
Changed capping the FPS from 30 to 60 in the front end. Reason for this cap is we took off forcing vsync on in the front end and we have to cap at some frame rate so certain users will not have 5000 FPS in the front end and overheat their GPUs. Users who also want to change the sys_MaxFPS can once again.
General
Greater visual weapon customization for the Hunchback variants. Their appearance will better reflect the weapons that have been equipped on them.
New MechLab icons for all Hunchback variants.
We thank you for your patience and we look forward to seeing you on the battlefield!
- The MechWarrior® Online™ Team
