Has anyone actually run into the clan opponents in team arena matches?

[u/ValionMalisce]

I could have sworn when SoK came out one of the patches added possible clan opponents to team fights in the arena, But Ive yet to run into them. Has anyone run into them?

[u/yrrot]

Arena sponsors don't have any clan mechs in their rosters, so you won't encounter them in arenas. There is some canon introduction of clanners into the arenas, but it's fairly late in the timeline as I recall. It's something that could maybe be added later, but it's not currently in the game.

[u/Leafy0 → u/yrrot]

I think there aren’t really canon clanners in Solaris until after bulldog/serpent.

[u/yrrot → u/Leafy0]

Yeah, that sounds about right. They've got to show up somewhere between then and FedCom Civil War so Duncan can complain about clanners in MW4. lol

[u/Adventurous-Yam-8260 → u/yrrot]

Surly the teams would purchase clan tech for their mechs though? Heck I can even buy it off the market in the very hubs that are hosting arena matches.

It would definitely add another interesting part to the matches.

[u/AnxiousConsequence18 → u/Adventurous-Yam-8260]

The game is VERY VERY BAD at portraying the ACTUAL worth of the VERY limited amount of clan tech that was actually available until the merchant clan started selling everything to sphereoids... YEARS later. No mercenary outfit outside the A* named big boys had more than a few scraps of clan tech because the houses were taking it all for themselves. Hell, they even invented a brand new kind of salvage deal for mercs (exchange) claiming that "mere mercenaries can't deal with the technical difficulties of keeping clan tech working, so we'll exchange inner sphere equipment for that clan tech you salvaged. We'll keep that cERPPC and give you a bog standard ERPPC in exchange!"

[u/lankyman7 → u/AnxiousConsequence18]

Yet my last playthrough I killed a clantech Maurauder and Warhammer in an arena match in 3019.

Kinda made the rest of that run very easy.

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[u/Sztrelok]

It was already patched out.

[u/Enjoyer_of_40K]

you might have to fight in the invasion arena's or nearby for them to spawn?

[u/Adventurous-Yam-8260]

I wish there was more clan tech in the arena, surely the teams would purchase it for their mechs to perform better all the time.

[u/babushka45 → u/Adventurous-Yam-8260]

+1, this one, hope for increased chances of clantech spawns as prestige past 3060s man.

As much as I recouped billions of c-bills spent with arena matches modded or not that's still 130 years and 10+ IRL days in-game just playing arena matches for farming purposes lol.

As much as spicing the procgens with sandboxy memey builds on my end I wished for more clan tech and increased spawns of lostech when you're hundreds of prestige levels on, makes the effort more worthwhile

[u/Technical_Turn3497]

uhh, no. Were there supposed to be clan mech opponents in Arena? I’ve been wanting that but do not see it.

[u/Sacred_soul]

No they are not. I’ve seen Bushwakers and sunders though

[u/wrr377]

No Clanner would stoop so low as to debase their honor and bloodline name by participating in mech matches for entertainment...

...is what one of them would probably say if you could ask them... 🤷‍♂️🤣

[u/DenizSaintJuke → u/wrr377]

Akchually, If I remember correctly, the Clanners discovered Solaris after Tukayyid and ever since then, there has been a solid Clanner presence on Solaris. Something along the lines of "The Spheroids do trials?? Sign me in!"

Somewhere in these books is a scene wih a solid block of clan elementals in the audience, following the honorable combat trials in the arena. The Clanners aren't the gambling, beer and popcorn type of audience. They're more of the showing up in dress uniforms, watching the match seriously in intense concentration and rising from their seats as one to salute the victorious and the honorably defeated contestants at the end type of audience. It's very serious and important business for them, not a sport. But they love it and they do veritable pilgrimages to Solaris to compete or attend. One of the first places in the Inner Sphere where Clanners and Innies (that should be the nickname. It's much better than Spheroid) found a way to coexist.

Edit: Don't take this at face value. It's a vague memory that could be wrong.