MA - So...Tengu is basically Mercury??

It would be nice to know the blast radius but it isn't listed in the bots stats.
Jump damage aside, the other abilities don't seem to do much to stop immediate retribution. Jump and get popped faster than a balloon landing on a cactus.

I was thinking the same thing. Haven't picked it up yet, but I might get it, and put it up on blocks until prints start coming in.

I took the Tengu out on a couple of custom matches where I filled both teams with bots. It is WEIRD! Like, it doesn't really move like other mechs. More like a bird. The jump is more of a dash/hob and doesn't have much range. IDK, right now, it's just gonna sit in my inventory and I'll throw credits at it when I have them to spare or when I need to complete a "spend x credits" task.

I don't remember seeing a 3 star deal. This deal today was the first Tengu deal I've seen for low dollars. I don't remember exactly how much it was.

Well I went and got the 2-Star version. Upside is that I could then earn the 300 A-Coins from the Specialization Spree. I am so used to disregarding the Sprees because I lack the gear, but for only $3.99 to get the chance to earn some extra AC plus a good mech, that seems like a pretty good value. Finishing the 6 MVP task at only level 2.1 was the bigger pain than getting 30 wins, but I managed to get it all done. I wonder how many Sprees they'll offer for this mech - I mean they don't offer them for Cheetah anymore right? (or at least I don't think so, but I don't own a Cheetah so I haven't been paying attention). Feels like there is a shelf life on this and then the Sprees move on to the latest gear.

Koalabear, you're right it does move weird. I wish it jumped more like a Mercury with some real hang time instead of that abrupt hop & drop. Also can't figure out what its impact radius is yet. And it'd be nice if it showed you how long you were in stealth instead of having to count to four in your head (does the 4 seconds start when you begin the jump or when you land?). Has potential though - feels like a high skill mech to run. I think it'll be pretty fun when I finally can get around to levelling it up.

It popped up with different offers for different people. They're still doing the whole secret test group thing.
The 2 star one was $7, the 3 star one was $11 for Tengu at the start of the specialization spree.

Yeah, you have to wait a long time between purchases to get the really good offers. The longer you hold out, the more they sweeten the pot.

I've definitely seen some video of folks rocking the Tengu but I think for endgame it will be a middling mech. As far as light mechs go, I would max out a Shadow before dealing with the Tengu. That's my plan at least.

      I'm enjoying Tengu.  I've gotten a few multi kills here and there at 3 stars, with Pilot help.. Just one MR8 on it, well levelled. And it's pretty speedy.  Kind of squishy but I use cover and try to keep out of sight of that red-eye.  At higher level it shows good promise, especially in cpc on control points.

This ^^ 

I got killed in a custom game where I filled the teams with bots and my Tengu died 10s in. Haha, of course, it was base at 2 stars and I was just messing around, but I sure don't miss those early days when mechs died from a loud sneeze!

By blue skins do you mean the Ukrainian ones they just put out? Don't think those are in the Fortune Crates yet. Usually those don't go into the FC until after their special event ends. Not sure the Ukrainian ones will ever go in either, since they are currently 1 Credit each. But yes, as you clear skins, your odds of winning the other prizes increase.

With the other skins, normally the odds of winning any of new skins (where they release a copy for each mech) is very low. So for skins like Fright Light, Sunrise, Slimescale, Circuitry or Wintersong, my current odds are 0.29% per mech skin (you can see the odds of winning each prize by clicking on the info icon at the top of the pop-up screen for the different 5/10/20 key crates). My odds for Credits and to a lesser extent A-Coins are a lot higher. But when you get a new mech, then some of the older skins (like Green Floral, Artic Camo, Pink Bling, etc) get added to the crates and they get added in at a much higher percentage. For me I think it was well over 5% per skin. The A-Coins are at a similar percentage, so they got crowded out by those skins and I didn't win any AC.

Oops, sorry I misunderstood you. It's been a while since I had to deal with the rare skins and you're right, there are so many purple/epic ones I don't even pay attention anymore. I actually forgot that skins actually came in rare, epic, etc classes. If I remember correctly, then the odds outside a class of skins don't change until you clear all of them out. I am pretty sure that's how it works. That would explain why I kept winning the rare Tengu skins because the odds on each kept going up.

I had forgotten too that you can buy rare skins for Credits. Is that all rare skins or only just some of them do you know? I should keep that in mind for when I get my next mech. I'll probably win enough credits from the crates to make up the expense.

I swear I learned all thus the hard way when they gave away the Arachnos and then I just totally forgot in the interim. Probably end up forgetting again on the next mech, oy...

Don't buy the skins...they're really not worth it...unless your aim is to knock those skins out of the Fortune crates, then just buy the blue ones for credits not A-coins. Credits flow pretty quickly, but A-coins take forever to accumulate naturally without spending money.

Mine is collecting dust...er...blueprints. From what I've see so far of it in action, it's not a direct confrontation mech. It will melt against almost any other mech in a 1:1 confrontation. You have to play it smart and use it's ability more for getting close and disappearing off radar than as an actual weapon. When using it for combat, it's more of a coup de grace weapon than a brawling weapon.