A friend in one of my current Lancer sessions recently went from Enkidu to Empakaai. He's used to cooking himself alive. He's looking forward to doing it with a giant fist.
Take orator and the external speakers system and demorilize your opponents by announcing that the newest season of wrestle mania has started and they're the main event
For some reason, after hearing about that Core Power, I can't help but think Harrison Armory's legal team will be threatening IPS-N, claiming, "You're stealing our thing! Only our mechs are supposed to benefit from Redlining!" Either that, or HA will try to create their own grappler mech and then use it to challenge Blackbeard and Empakaai to a wrestling match...
I like to imagine the BFAOD (Big Friendly Arm Of Doom) creates some kind of magnetic-gravitational force effect that just pulls in all sorts of shit alongside its target. Like how terrifying would it be if you were suddenly wrenched off the ground and force choked into this giant robot’s arm, looking around you seeing bits of rock, spent casings, maybe even a cybernetic limb or two from a bystander that it ripped off upon activation. All just floating around you, violently vibrating in space like the debris knows what’s about to happen to you and is actively trying to get away. And then it starts laying into you using a bristlecrown launcher point blank with a steady chuck-chuck-chuck until you stop twitching. Empakaai can be scary as fuck.
Ah, I've been anticipating this since art of what I've been referring to as "THE ALMIGHTY PIMP-HAND!!!" (yes the exclamation marks are part of it) first popped up on the Lancer subreddit.
I like the idea of this mech and using it in theory, but after attempting to use it twice and just unfortunately rolling low on every grapple check, I think the universe was telling me not to. And to be fair it also kinda some very big turns with a lot of conditional/on-hit effects that chew up a lot of playtime, on par with a Goblin. If you run it with executioner 3, you get the standard fair of operations: reroll 1 miss on a different target, and repeat 1 hit on a different target, once per round. With its core and traits, however, you also get: -to force a hull save to grapple ALL nearby targets BEFORE attacking. This means you can attempt this up to 3 times each round thanks to executioner 3, which is quite frankly, a lot (with no resource cost). -it can give difficulty on one of these saves (which is easy to forget) -on top of that, with the core bonus you can grapple after any successful hit, in case a target succeeded their save. It does heat you up, but you can exploit that by turning it into damage. Pair it with a Deep Well Heat Sink to compensate for your self heat as well. I wouldn't say it's overpowered persay (though I may be biased due to poor luck), but it is a lot to track. You'll be making a lot of rolls, and forcing a lot of saves.
With how many characters Empaakai can potentially easily grapple at once, the Bristlecrown Fleschette Launcher suddenly becomes just a little bit more powerful.
Slap executioner 3, pankrati, heatfall, deepwell, and a gravity gun on this and you have one of the most oppressive controller/striker builds in the game by LL 6
@@AzureIV Yes, there is a slot for heavy weapons and an auxiliaries mount so you can mount the D/D 288. I just like the idea of an even bigger D/D 288.
@@madmalkavian3857the sensible thing is to mount the other arm. To balance the mech out. But if youre already piloting this thing you probably would put the ram on the big arm
Well a got 3 things to say some of it has nothing to do with this video 1. Have you seen the trailer for the new game mecha break 2. This and blackbeard and enkidu are the core of the chaotic dream team that put fear in the heart of there enemies and there alleys And this is prime meme material to compare empakaai to the charger from Left 4 dead 2
Image one standing beside a Barbarossa spinning up their rail. You can either panic charge them and talk to the hand, or keep your distance and count down the moments too your own annihilation. Well up until a Goblin shows up to do Goblin things, but you get the idea.
It's funny, one of my players said that if her character ever went evil, she would use the empakaai. Makes me wish we had NPC's for player frames so i could have her meet an alternate version of herself, lol.
"This hand of mine glows with an awesome POWER! Its burning grip tells me to defeat you! Take this! My love, my anger, and all of my sorrow! SHINING FINGER!!!"
I was worried there wouldn't be a Burning Finger reference. Guess the low heat cap is why they usually fought one-on-one in organised robot boxing matches and Domon used it 1-2 times max per fight.
I don't know how meme this would be, but this mech has a heavy _and_ a flex mount... so with 3LL in Zheng you could equip a D/D 288 for _Double Big Fucking Hands_ in a combo I like to call "The Doble Dragon".
So I once heard of the beautiful, deranged, homicidal beauty that was Vlad Beard. Grapple hook onto your enemies, grapple them close to you, and every time they attack they take AP damage. And they're shredded (with a Vlad chasis, specifically). This? Sure, not as mobile... But Imagining having the Drill To Pierce the Heavens on one side, and the Burning Claw on the other.... I'm sorry to say, but that just sounds like a great time. Sure, you're basically asking to get cooked alive VERY quickly... but then again, the idea of shunting all that head into your enemy.... nice.
I just got to LL2 in our campaign, and this is my very first frame unlock. I eagerly await the chance to actually use this thing and see it in action. I desperately had to restrain myself from slapping the Tempest Charged Blade in the other hand, because as hilarious as TWO superheavy weapons on a single mech frame is, I suspect it'd impair my ability to fight by an enormous degree.
Not necessarily. Yes, both require full barrage actions, but if you don't mind the lack of versatility, you're already stationary and grappling someone. As long as it doesn't cook you alive, bring on the pain in following turns.
Sure, but that comes at massive opportunity cost. Could the 1-2 punch set-up work? Sure. But it's a matter of which is more generally useful and functional, and I'm afraid that twin superheavy melee weapons on a mech, while badass and hilarious, is just not a very good plan. This is the sort of thing you want to do at higher license level, when you and your friends have more options to build around your stupid meme build. Now don't worry, I didn't throw aside all joy for function, I'm going full melee with the build. Would a gun be better than having a nanocarbon sword and twin flechette launchers? Undoubtedly. But I'm here to play the game to have fun, not be safe.@@crystoskitsune393
I might throw in some Battletech references here and there, but there's already a lot of people reviewing various Battletech stuff out there, I prefer to keep focusing on the smaller indie ttrpg stuff.
Will be perfect for my GM's homebrew the team blackbeard got a 1D12K+3E, 2Threat bone spear from rolling near perfectly to barter with/pacify chain with what practically accumulates to giant(size 2) near sentient apes.
after seeing this mech a bit, i am disliking it more and more. its not even the features that many people say its a tad much (i do think the hand dmg is indeed a tad much, could not do burn dmg imo), ITS THAT IT DOESNT FOLLOW A NAMING SCHEME. it is the literal only official mech to not properly follow the manufacturers names and that annoys me so bloody much - IPS-N are naval shit - SSC are Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths) - HORUS are fantasy monsters - HA are warlords and generals - RKF* are flowers the alt frames also followed these naming schemes, at the least the ones that didnt just add an extra honorific (ranger swallowtail, MK I ghengi). why, why! you had "Blackpearl" right there! *not a manufacturer in the true sense of the word in the game, but its separate, hence why orchis and calandula are still in line with their names
Also have you actually read the lore on the frame, which is that it's a partnership between SSC and IPSN, so of course the naming sense don't follow normal convention. And also the designer literally went to mountain Empakaai for inspiration, that's where the name came from.
4 threat, unjammable superheavy melee Can multi grapple before attack. Has resistence to anything it grapples. Only cost 2 heat. Not to shit on Shaka, but I don't think this is balanced
That cannot be modded by core power or mod Still need to actually get close, and you can't boost or react after grappling something Cost 2 heat on a frame with low e-defense so it can get heatgunned And the big hand only deal as much damage as a heavy aside from the 4 heat, while still costing a full action. This song and dance has repeated so many times and it has been proven wrong and wrong again, it happens with Enkidu, it happens with White Witch, guess what, these things are not overpowered, they are SPECIALIZED, they are very good at what they are designed to do and outside of it, not very much.
I've played the empakai a few times in playtesting. I never knew the big hand had a different name than the big hand
A friend in one of my current Lancer sessions recently went from Enkidu to Empakaai. He's used to cooking himself alive. He's looking forward to doing it with a giant fist.
I still think he should put D/D 288 on it as well to get double fist power
@@Oldage429 "I don't need to worry about being Slowed while charging my Jajanken Rock if my target is not going anywhere anyway."
This friend sounds like a cool, dorky dude. B)
Behold, the only frame that can have 2 Superheavy weapons at the same time.
Donkey Kong ass frame
Donkey Kong ass frame
Give it the D/D288 so you can punch everyone
Slap a DD288 on that big bitch and give em the ol one two
Take orator and the external speakers system and demorilize your opponents by announcing that the newest season of wrestle mania has started and they're the main event
For some reason, after hearing about that Core Power, I can't help but think Harrison Armory's legal team will be threatening IPS-N, claiming, "You're stealing our thing! Only our mechs are supposed to benefit from Redlining!"
Either that, or HA will try to create their own grappler mech and then use it to challenge Blackbeard and Empakaai to a wrestling match...
Doesn’t the Enkidu qualify?
@@chazaqiel2319 We don't talk about that thing. Is scary.
Edit: Also, in lore it's way older, is associated with genocide, and was long-forgotten.
I like to imagine the BFAOD (Big Friendly Arm Of Doom) creates some kind of magnetic-gravitational force effect that just pulls in all sorts of shit alongside its target. Like how terrifying would it be if you were suddenly wrenched off the ground and force choked into this giant robot’s arm, looking around you seeing bits of rock, spent casings, maybe even a cybernetic limb or two from a bystander that it ripped off upon activation. All just floating around you, violently vibrating in space like the debris knows what’s about to happen to you and is actively trying to get away. And then it starts laying into you using a bristlecrown launcher point blank with a steady chuck-chuck-chuck until you stop twitching. Empakaai can be scary as fuck.
When you are Blackbeadr main, but your team tells you to not just berzerk your way and give a helping hand to them more often.
He has a big hand. For gaming.
Ah, I've been anticipating this since art of what I've been referring to as "THE ALMIGHTY PIMP-HAND!!!" (yes the exclamation marks are part of it) first popped up on the Lancer subreddit.
I like the idea of this mech and using it in theory, but after attempting to use it twice and just unfortunately rolling low on every grapple check, I think the universe was telling me not to.
And to be fair it also kinda some very big turns with a lot of conditional/on-hit effects that chew up a lot of playtime, on par with a Goblin.
If you run it with executioner 3, you get the standard fair of operations: reroll 1 miss on a different target, and repeat 1 hit on a different target, once per round.
With its core and traits, however, you also get:
-to force a hull save to grapple ALL nearby targets BEFORE attacking. This means you can attempt this up to 3 times each round thanks to executioner 3, which is quite frankly, a lot (with no resource cost).
-it can give difficulty on one of these saves (which is easy to forget)
-on top of that, with the core bonus you can grapple after any successful hit, in case a target succeeded their save.
It does heat you up, but you can exploit that by turning it into damage. Pair it with a Deep Well Heat Sink to compensate for your self heat as well.
I wouldn't say it's overpowered persay (though I may be biased due to poor luck), but it is a lot to track. You'll be making a lot of rolls, and forcing a lot of saves.
With how many characters Empaakai can potentially easily grapple at once, the Bristlecrown Fleschette Launcher suddenly becomes just a little bit more powerful.
Slap executioner 3, pankrati, heatfall, deepwell, and a gravity gun on this and you have one of the most oppressive controller/striker builds in the game by LL 6
Imagine if you could put D/D 288 on the big hand.
Can't you also wield the D/D 288? Just not on the same turn.
@@AzureIV Yes, there is a slot for heavy weapons and an auxiliaries mount so you can mount the D/D 288. I just like the idea of an even bigger D/D 288.
@@madmalkavian3857the sensible thing is to mount the other arm. To balance the mech out.
But if youre already piloting this thing you probably would put the ram on the big arm
Well a got 3 things to say some of it has nothing to do with this video
1. Have you seen the trailer for the new game mecha break
2. This and blackbeard and enkidu are the core of the chaotic dream team that put fear in the heart of there enemies and there alleys
And this is prime meme material to compare empakaai to the charger from Left 4 dead 2
This mech looks so baddass. I mean most lancer mechs look baddass, but this is just on another level.
Wait. That giant hand and it’s still size 1!?
Time for THE HAND
Image one standing beside a Barbarossa spinning up their rail. You can either panic charge them and talk to the hand, or keep your distance and count down the moments too your own annihilation.
Well up until a Goblin shows up to do Goblin things, but you get the idea.
It's funny, one of my players said that if her character ever went evil, she would use the empakaai. Makes me wish we had NPC's for player frames so i could have her meet an alternate version of herself, lol.
Empakaai saw those action figures with Kung Fu Grip and took it as a challenge
"And I took that personally."
Time to give the god HAND
"This hand of mine glows with an awesome POWER! Its burning grip tells me to defeat you! Take this! My love, my anger, and all of my sorrow! SHINING FINGER!!!"
I am thinking now!
ZA HANDO!
I was worried there wouldn't be a Burning Finger reference. Guess the low heat cap is why they usually fought one-on-one in organised robot boxing matches and Domon used it 1-2 times max per fight.
I don't know how meme this would be, but this mech has a heavy _and_ a flex mount... so with 3LL in Zheng you could equip a D/D 288 for _Double Big Fucking Hands_ in a combo I like to call "The Doble Dragon".
The pun at the end broke me. Curious what the optimal Peanut Butter and Chocolate build is for this frame tho.
so excited for ARM
So I once heard of the beautiful, deranged, homicidal beauty that was Vlad Beard. Grapple hook onto your enemies, grapple them close to you, and every time they attack they take AP damage. And they're shredded (with a Vlad chasis, specifically). This? Sure, not as mobile... But Imagining having the Drill To Pierce the Heavens on one side, and the Burning Claw on the other.... I'm sorry to say, but that just sounds like a great time. Sure, you're basically asking to get cooked alive VERY quickly... but then again, the idea of shunting all that head into your enemy.... nice.
I just got to LL2 in our campaign, and this is my very first frame unlock. I eagerly await the chance to actually use this thing and see it in action. I desperately had to restrain myself from slapping the Tempest Charged Blade in the other hand, because as hilarious as TWO superheavy weapons on a single mech frame is, I suspect it'd impair my ability to fight by an enormous degree.
Not necessarily. Yes, both require full barrage actions, but if you don't mind the lack of versatility, you're already stationary and grappling someone. As long as it doesn't cook you alive, bring on the pain in following turns.
Sure, but that comes at massive opportunity cost. Could the 1-2 punch set-up work? Sure. But it's a matter of which is more generally useful and functional, and I'm afraid that twin superheavy melee weapons on a mech, while badass and hilarious, is just not a very good plan. This is the sort of thing you want to do at higher license level, when you and your friends have more options to build around your stupid meme build.
Now don't worry, I didn't throw aside all joy for function, I'm going full melee with the build. Would a gun be better than having a nanocarbon sword and twin flechette launchers? Undoubtedly. But I'm here to play the game to have fun, not be safe.@@crystoskitsune393
Reminds me of my cat.
The giant hand giving me solid anime vibes. It's so good hehe. wooope then the Guren showed up
Hell Yeah Its, Empakaai Time!!
can't wait to see the builds for this grabby mech
sequential normal punches
i cant wait for you to cover the oleander the habsburg the bligh and the salamander next
If I ever get into a Lancer game, this thing is gonna be my first mech and I'm gonna lean hard into the Superheavy playstyle
THIS HAND OF MINE IS BURNING RED
I cant what for the custom works video
So your saying its gonna make an “impaca” on the battlefield.
The Yoink Mech
Have you thought about doing some Battletech content again? Might introduce some people to Lancer
I might throw in some Battletech references here and there, but there's already a lot of people reviewing various Battletech stuff out there, I prefer to keep focusing on the smaller indie ttrpg stuff.
i like trucker mechs
Love ur videos
only 30 seconds in and I am so excited!
i lost it at 2:03
Homie got one big hand and one small hand, just like my weird uncle.
"This ain't a scene, it's a RA-damned arms race!"
Hi
Will be perfect for my GM's homebrew
the team blackbeard got a 1D12K+3E, 2Threat bone spear from rolling near perfectly to barter with/pacify chain with what practically accumulates to giant(size 2) near sentient apes.
Me still waiting for the part 2 and 3 of wallflower
Unguis Bunguis
after seeing this mech a bit, i am disliking it more and more. its not even the features that many people say its a tad much (i do think the hand dmg is indeed a tad much, could not do burn dmg imo), ITS THAT IT DOESNT FOLLOW A NAMING SCHEME. it is the literal only official mech to not properly follow the manufacturers names and that annoys me so bloody much
- IPS-N are naval shit
- SSC are Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths)
- HORUS are fantasy monsters
- HA are warlords and generals
- RKF* are flowers
the alt frames also followed these naming schemes, at the least the ones that didnt just add an extra honorific (ranger swallowtail, MK I ghengi). why, why! you had "Blackpearl" right there!
*not a manufacturer in the true sense of the word in the game, but its separate, hence why orchis and calandula are still in line with their names
It's a crater mountain with a lake in the center, what the heck do you mean??
Also have you actually read the lore on the frame, which is that it's a partnership between SSC and IPSN, so of course the naming sense don't follow normal convention.
And also the designer literally went to mountain Empakaai for inspiration, that's where the name came from.
Also wow hey VLAD EXISTS
@@11dragonkid11 Vlad is the name of a crude oil tanker vessel (besides being a medieval psycho)
@@11dragonkid11 btw love your vids man :)
4 threat, unjammable superheavy melee
Can multi grapple before attack.
Has resistence to anything it grapples.
Only cost 2 heat.
Not to shit on Shaka, but I don't think this is balanced
That cannot be modded by core power or mod
Still need to actually get close, and you can't boost or react after grappling something
Cost 2 heat on a frame with low e-defense so it can get heatgunned
And the big hand only deal as much damage as a heavy aside from the 4 heat, while still costing a full action.
This song and dance has repeated so many times and it has been proven wrong and wrong again, it happens with Enkidu, it happens with White Witch, guess what, these things are not overpowered, they are SPECIALIZED, they are very good at what they are designed to do and outside of it, not very much.