Nope. Locust is from Crusher Joe. The rest of this stuff from this series is tanks and fighters and doesn't matter much.Stahlseele wrote:Locust is Robotech though, if i remember correctly.
There are 5 designs (of 7) from Fang of the Sun: Dougram. The Shadow Hawk, Griffin, Wolverine, Thunderbolt and Battlemaster. But the original owners don't seem to give a shit, and I believe it was ruled that HG couldn't sue on their behalf, so they're staying in.
There are 9 designs from Robotech, that could be used, but according to the list of 38 mechs supposedly in the game at launch, only the Marauder and Warhammer were on the list. The Catapult K2 (dual PPC variant) and Black Knight are taking their place (the K2 was actually functional in the beta for people who dug in and tweaked files.)
The Raven was also pulled, as the electronic warfare thing wasn't working out just yet, so game seems to going into its final phase before launch with 7 lights, 11 mediums, 9 heavies and 9 assaults, not including variants, of there were lots in the beta files.
That was the argument, but it doesn't actually stop HG from filing suit to make the argument that it doesn't make them different enough, which is essentially what happened.But i thought the MWO Models used and made by old pal Alex were different enough to be safe, after all, MWO has been using and selling, them for years by now . .
Personally... looking at them side by side, it doesn't even seem like a completely bad faith argument to make that claim. Which is odd, because HG is way more litigious than the other folks that could be involved and the Wolverine and Locust particularly are far more significantly changed.
Anyway the discussion is on their forums here (their forum often doesn't play nice with mobile):
https://community.battletechgame.com/fo ... 13?page=91
basically they aren't going to talk about it, but the Docket change is basically an Amended Complaint from HG due next week, Piranha Games move for Summary Judgement was struck, Trial is set for February 2019 (with a bunch of deadlines for motions, orders, conferences, etc).
So by holding back the Robotech stuff (and doing themselves a favor by not talking about it beyond 'these two mechs are out'), they can release the game this year, and add them back in later once the lawsuit is finally fucking resolved. It may well be that PG will push for a summary judgement again once HG's amended complaint is in the system- theory is the summary judgement push was struck because the judge forced HG to revise their complaint, so a summary judgement no longer made sense. (And as far as I can tell, no one who can talk about it knows what the details of the amended version are).