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[Soy]

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Is this what we, the community, desire out of PPCs?

Yes, or no?

This is a serious thread, please give this serious thought; if someone put up a 10 minute post to read, consider taking 10 mins to watch this video and consider what I'm really asking us all.

(info about the video available on the external youtube page)

[General Taskeen]

Kind of funny with the PPC thing, going for Silent Hill kind of scary?


Anyways, what are you asking. Does the community want convergence-related things for alpha firing?

[Gallowglas]

Ok, but you have to say this in your James Earl Jones voice.

[Sarsippius SulemenagicJacksonIII]

Ummm... Hash browns?

[Trauglodyte]

Gallowglas, on 01 July 2013 - 05:13 PM, said:

Ok, but you have to say this in your James Earl Jones voice.

Oh snap, someone paraphrased Thulsadoom from "Conan The Barbarian". I'm imagining a Commando falling from a cliff right now - is that wrong?

[Blue Hymn]

When I first started this game, my very first mech was an Awesome. This was around half a year ago, when PPCs were pretty bad with heat and registering actual damage on enemy mechs. PPCs were hardly used back then, but as a devout user of the Awesome, I stuck with it all the way, and managed to get things going despite people ridiculing it back then.

Then came some good news for the PPC, with its heat reduction and whatnot. People started fielding it more often, and we saw a bit more proliferation of people using the weapon amongst the general populace. The Stalker became one of the primary PPC wielders, despite the Awesome being the original role for boating the weapons. Cataphracts eventually followed suit as another suitable ppc boat, and also some other mechs as well.

Following that, the Highlanders came. PPCs and Gauss rifles quickly became the rage all of a sudden, and poptarting - which the phracts used from time to time early on - were suddenly seen everywhere with the introduction of the Highlanders.

Now, ppcs are everywhere - and personally, I don't like where it is going. Convergence, alpha strikes, none of that matters much for me. But the problem of so many mechs fielding it on the field nowadays, something needs to be done about it.

Edited by Blue Hymn, 01 July 2013 - 05:32 PM.

[General Taskeen]

Gallowglas, on 01 July 2013 - 05:13 PM, said:

Ok, but you have to say this in your James Earl Jones voice.

PPC Wisdom

[Gallowglas]

That's actually a pretty good video, Soy. I think it underscores the issue perfectly. I also like the music selection.

[Trauglodyte]

When it comes to Soy's videos, I always lose focus like 10s in cause the music is always so, um, fresh.

[Nuclear Weapon]

High dmg when boated, no ammo, durability, "low heat"... it has it all.

The way I see it, a mech should melt when heat lvls are exceded by a lot. Some buidls should be damaged when boating and shooting the seccond time.

Or... it should affect engine durability because they should be "power hungry".

Also... a system that makes them more fragile as they gain HEAT would be realistic and fair.

Edited by Nuclear Weapon, 01 July 2013 - 05:51 PM.

[Roland]

[General Taskeen]

I remember when 4 PPC's nearly blew you up in other Mech titles.

Roland, on 01 July 2013 - 05:45 PM, said:

Valeria: Do you know what horrors lie behind that wall? [to Conan]
Conan: NO.
Valeria: Then you go first.

Edited by General Taskeen, 01 July 2013 - 06:08 PM.

[Roland]

This thread is now about pictures from Conan the Barbarian, with the swords replaced by PPC's.

[Soy]

Need more thoughts about stuff in this thread, and of course more Conan PPC memes!

[General Taskeen]

Well there is a PPC "beam" thread.

Basically returning it to the MW4 PPC. A fast beam, instead of a straight up projectile with the added features that made it unique in those games: a little bit of heat transfer + messing hud display.

And of course, the idea's about dynamic convergence with alpha-striking.

[Mongoose Trueborn]

This is a great thread.

[Ningyo]

Nice video and sums it up nicely. The problem isn't that you can make all those kills using it. The problem is its so easy to make them you can do it all in one day.

Hmm kindof makes me want to see just how effective I could be in a PPC on legs

[Soy]

Thanks Ningyo, I think you get the gist of things.

[Villz]

In response to the question posed by the OP,

No i don't want this from MWO where 1 weapon to dominates all battles due to top pilots identifying a weapon system overpowered in comparison to the others and thus are forced to exploit it to stay on top. Whilst the rest of the community tries to emulate the results (few to success, how many games have u dropped with 110 damage in a stalker).

Edited by Villz, 01 July 2013 - 08:46 PM.

[Odins Fist]

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Should have never beaten me to this one... Oh well, saw the post late..

Edited by Odins Fist, 01 July 2013 - 08:48 PM.