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[RiceyFighter]

The entire game has become nothing but highlanders playing with gauss and PPCs. Stalkers boating PPCs, and Cataphracts with gauss and PPCs.For brawler pilots it been absolute hell for us. Can't even get to fight without being blown up left and right trying to move into position and into cover.

Can't have fun fighting up close when getting there means certain death : /

Seriously at a huge slump, I hate playing gauss and PPCs because my accuracy sucks, and I do best up close and personal.

/rant

I am going on a break from this game.

PS: The bugs in this game is not helping much. I accidentally killed 3 friendlies because of HUD issues. Crash in game every 4 matches.

Thanks for reading me ranting and I hope all of you enjoy playing MechWarrior Online. In till then o7

Edited by RiceyFighter, 16 April 2013 - 08:34 PM.

[tuokaerf]

How would you fix it?

[Davers]

Almost makes you miss the LRM days, doesn't it?

Why don't you just swap out your mechs load out and join them until there is some more balancing done?

[LordBraxton]

Its not highlanders

its every mech

5-6 ppc Stalkers

2ppc\gauss phracts

AC\40 jagers.. oh wait

well regardless its high alpha direct fire or g t f o


How would I fix it? SRMs back to 2.5 damage

Edited by LordBraxton, 16 April 2013 - 08:26 PM.

[TOGSolid]

Pfft, real men walk out there in a Splatcat and kick *** anyway. No one seems to be expecting a face full of SRMs from a Catapult who's poptarting them right back just out of pure spite.


That said, welcome to how 8 mans have been playing for a long while now, only with more jumpjets.

Edited by TOGSolid, 16 April 2013 - 08:37 PM.

[Kaspirikay]

Here's how I'll fix it.: remove ecm. CT only Streaks again and a 82.5kmph streakcat. Wooooohooooo

[Fate 6]

RiceyFighter, on 16 April 2013 - 08:23 PM, said:

The entire game has become nothing but highlanders playing with gauss and PPCs. For brawler pilots it been absolute hell for us. Can't even get to fight without being blown up left and right trying to move into position and into cover.

Can't have fun fighting up close when getting there means certain death : /

Seriously at a huge slump, I hate playing gauss and PPCs because my accuracy sucks, and I do best up close and personal.

/rant

I am going on a break from this game.

Same here. I don't want to sit around sniping, if I wanted to camp a spot and shoot people I'd go play CoD.

Game has also been suffering a lot of performance issues. My comp is partly to blame, but the game never ran that well and that is because of the game's performance on anything that isn't a godly PC.

[LordBraxton]

The brawl is what made me feel like I was in a mech, rather than a tank.

Now I feel like I am in a tank, hull down and waiting for a target on the horizon.

Yawn

[Bobcat023]

tuokaerf, on 16 April 2013 - 08:24 PM, said:

How would you fix it?

I'd fix it by bringing back missles to keep the snipers in check and put some kind of limit on JJ, like a short recharge time or something, so they can't jump every second of the match.

[Lord de Seis]

First it was stalkers and now it is highlanders, I just played for a hour and a half and only had 2 good matches with decent brawls. The rest was just PPC boats in some way shape or form, the other team would be all stalkers, cataphrats or highlanders all mounting PPC builds....

It was frustrating, you can't even close in and fight them. I would be Orange internals on the CT of my atlas after being hit 3 times, it is absurd.

They are the new inbalance to the game, before it was splat cats and now it is this and there isn't anything in the way of an effective counter to them unless you mount all PPC's yourself.

Edited by Lord de Seis, 16 April 2013 - 08:36 PM.

[Sybreed]

Lord de Seis, on 16 April 2013 - 08:34 PM, said:

First it was stalkers and now it is highlanders, I just played for a hour and a half and only had 2 good matches with decent brawls. The rest was just PPC boats in some way shape or form, the other team would be all stalkers, cataphrats or highlanders all mounting PPC builds....

It was frustrating, you can't even close in and fight them. I would be Orange internals on the CT of my atlas after being hit 3 times, it is absurd.

They are the new inbalance to the game, before it was splat cats and now it is this and there isn't anything in the way of an effective counter to them unless you mount all PPC's yourself.

before, you could counter splatcats by staying out of range... but PPCs are a different story. You need to literally facehug the enemy if you don't want to receive too much damage.

If he's boating ER PPCs and GAuss, you're screwed.

[Tie Ma]

just a phase. since introduction of highlander ppl get excited and try to make best 90ton poptart

they also need to nerf ER PPCs. it should still hve damae dropoff <90m just less so.

Edited by Tie Ma, 16 April 2013 - 08:42 PM.

[Zaptruder]

Buff DPS weapons. Alpha weapons have the extra value of allowing mechs to find cover... so the obvious response to rebalancing meta is... fixing missiles, and providing players with an increased incentive to wield DPS weapons.

So... AC2 through to AC10s should get buffed. Pulse lasers and small and medium lasers should be buffed.

AC2; 2.5 damage per hit...
AC5; increase rate of fire (1.3 seconds)
UAC5: decrease jam rate (15%)
AC10: increase damage to 12

Pulse lasers: decrease heat, increase rate of fire.
Medium lasers: increase damage to 5.5
Small lasers: increase range to 160m (320m maximum range).


Bam: meta game rebalanced in favour of brawling weapons. (while sniping remains a valid strategy, a team should only have 1-2 snipers per match, rather than have the majority of the team acting as snipers).

[Chavette]

No worries, you'll get plummeted down to your proper ELO fast enough, so you can rage about LRMs and splatcats.

[Tie Ma]

Zaptruder, on 16 April 2013 - 08:41 PM, said:

Buff DPS weapons. Alpha weapons have the extra value of allowing mechs to find cover... so the obvious response to rebalancing meta is... fixing missiles, and providing players with an increased incentive to wield DPS weapons.

So... AC2 through to AC10s should get buffed. Pulse lasers and small and medium lasers should be buffed.

AC2; 2.5 damage per hit...
AC5; increase rate of fire (1.3 seconds)
UAC5: decrease jam rate (15%)
AC10: increase damage to 12

Pulse lasers: decrease heat, increase rate of fire.
Medium lasers: increase damage to 5.5
Small lasers: increase range to 160m (320m maximum range).


Bam: meta game rebalanced in favour of brawling weapons. (while sniping remains a valid strategy, a team should only have 1-2 snipers per match, rather than have the majority of the team acting as snipers).

weapons that require you to hold and fire instead of fire and cover need to be buffed.

having to sit ther for 4 seconds to get full DPS just sucks compared to doing full dps up front and then cover. repeat

Edited by Tie Ma, 16 April 2013 - 08:45 PM.

[Lord de Seis]

Chavette, on 16 April 2013 - 08:43 PM, said:

No worries, you'll get plummeted down to your proper ELO fast enough, so you can rage about LRMs and splatcats.

You don't see LRM or Splatcats anymore.

[Davers]

Lord de Seis, on 16 April 2013 - 08:44 PM, said:

You don't see LRM or Splatcats anymore.

That is his point. That no one good is running them.

[Deathlike]

Lord de Seis, on 16 April 2013 - 08:44 PM, said:

You don't see LRM or Splatcats anymore.

I saw a splatcat of lore a number of matches ago...

[KinLuu]

Just make a new account and you will see enough LRMs.

[Stoicblitzer]

ggs