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[Dyson Ring]

http://mwomercs.com/game/patch-notes

[Royalewithcheese]

Notably absent: missile fixes.

[Budor]

http://mwomercs.com/...o/heavy%20metal




Don't let the color stop you from buying it, though, we will eventually add changing Hero 'Mech colors.

Edited by Budor, 02 April 2013 - 09:46 AM.

[Dyson Ring]

Scratx, on 02 April 2013 - 09:38 AM, said:

No, they're not. Notice how the date still says March 19th?

Ignore the date on the title, read the patch notes

[Agent of Change]

Yeah that's last patch

you'll note today is April 2nd

Correction they failed to update the Date on teh header

they are the new notes.

Edited by Agent of Change, 02 April 2013 - 09:40 AM.

[Tarrasque]

Next we have added air-strike and artillery consumables. I think Conquest mode just got more interesting! Here is a pro tip: Use them for when a light is capping your base on Alpine and save yourself a walk back to your spawn!


Brilliant, how did I not consider this?

[Dyson Ring]

Agent of Change, on 02 April 2013 - 09:38 AM, said:

Yeah that's last patch

you'll note today is April 2nd

The title is wrong, the patch notes are the current one

[Ransack]

Open Beta Update #14

Upcoming Patch - Tuesday April 2nd @ 10AM – 1PM PDT

Patch Number: 1.2.209

Change Log

UPDATE

Greetings MechWarriors

Yesterday was April Fool's day but these patch notes are no joke!

First is our Hero BattleMech Heavy Metal! Yes this 'Mech is pink and does really play music when you get a kill! This is the first time we have released the Hero Mech before the base variants (coming April 16th). Don't let the color stop you from buying it, though, we will eventually add changing Hero 'Mech colors.

Next we have added air-strike and artillery consumables. I think Conquest mode just got more interesting! Here is a pro tip: Use them for when a light is capping your base on Alpine and save yourself a walk back to your spawn!

New Thermal and Night Vision modes are in! They look amazing and are balanced for game play! No more BlueWarrior for you!

We also have cool new digital camo patterns for your 'Mech and more 'Mech Statues for your cockpit! Keep reading for other fixes and tweaks!

See you on the battlefield!

Matt Newman

Important Known Issue

During testing we ran into a crash issue that only occurred using Nvidia 311.xx drivers, drivers before 311 tested fine as did drivers after 311. The 311 drivers have since been removed from the Nvidia website. If you are using 311.xx drivers YOU MUST UPDATE YOUR DRIVERS failure to do so will likely result in a low frequency (3 out of 10 games from our tests) crash when playing the game.

Content

New Hero Mech

“Heavy Metal” HGN-HM

Highlander HGN-HM

- Tonnage: 90
- Engine: 275 XL Top Speed: 49.5 kph
- Max Engine Rating: 330
- Torso Movement:
- 90 degrees to each side
- 20 degrees up and down
- Arm Movement:
- 20 degrees to each side
- 30 degrees up and down
- Armor: 544 (Standard)
- Weapons & Equipment:
- Left Arm: 3 Medium Lasers
- Left Torso: LRM 20, SRM 6
- Right Arm: Gauss Rifle
- Internal Structure: Standard
- Hardpoints:
- Left Arm: 3 Energy
- Left Torso: 2 Missile, 1 AMS
- Right Arm: 2 Ballistic
- Heat Sinks: 13 Double
- Jump Jets: 5 (5 Max)
- ECM Capable?: No
- Module Slots: 2
- 30% C-Bill Bonus
- Plays a music clip from its head-mounted external speakers after an enemy kill

Trial BattleMechs:

- Raven RVN-4X
- Centurion CN9-A
- Dragon DRG-5N(C)
- Awesome AWS-8Q

BattleMech Cockpit Items:

- Jenner Statue
- Cataphract Statue
- Centurion Statue

BattleMech Skin:

- Digital Skin

New Consumable Modules:

- Each team has a separate global cooldown timer governing their use of artillery and air strikes
- No one can activate an artillery or air strike while their team's cooldown timer is counting down
- At the start of the match, each team's cooldown timer counts down 60 seconds
- When a player activates an artillery or air strike, his team's cooldown timer starts to count down for 10 seconds

- Artillery Strike
- Calls in a barrage of long range artillery.
- Press [Home] to target the area under your crosshairs with an artillery strike.
- After a 5 second delay, 6 shells drop into a 50 m radius around the targeted area. Each shell does 10 points of damage.
- Consumed on use.
- Cannot be equipped to a Mech that already contains an Artillery Strike, Improved Artillery Strike, or Priority Artillery Strike module.
- Upgradable to Improved Artillery Strike.

- Priority Artillery Strike
- Calls in a barrage of long range artillery.
- Press [Home] to target the area under your crosshairs with an artillery strike.
- After a 4 second delay, 10 shells drop into a 50 m radius around the targeted area. Each shell does 10 points of damage.
- Consumed on use.
- Cannot be equipped to a Mech that already contains an Artillery Strike, Improved Artillery Strike, or Priority Artillery Strike module.

- Air Strike
- Calls in a fighter air strike on a targeted zone.
- Press [End] to target the area under your crosshairs with an air strike.
- After a 5 second delay, 6 bombs drop along a 100 m strip, starting at the targeted area and moving away from your location when you activated the strike. Each bomb does 10 points of damage.
- Consumed on use.
- Cannot be equipped to a Mech that already contains an Air Strike, Improved Air Strike, or Priority Air Strike module.
- Upgradable to Improved Air Strike

- Priority Air Strike
- Calls in a fighter air strike on a targeted zone.
- Press [End] to target the area under your crosshairs with an air strike.
- After a 4 second delay, 10 bombs drop along a 100 m strip, starting at the targeted area and moving away from your location when you activated the strike. Each bomb does 10 points of damage.
- Consumed on use.
- Cannot be equipped to a Mech that already contains an Air Strike, Improved Air Strike, or Priority Air Strike module.

New Support Modules:

- Air Strike Accuracy
- Decreases the radius of the targeted area by 20%.

- Artillery Accuracy
- Decreases the length of the bombardment zone by 20%.

New Consumable Module Upgrades:

- Improved Artillery Strike
- Upgrades the Artillery Strike module.
- Increases artillery shell count by 4, and decreases flight time by 1 second.
- Does not need to be equipped to a BattleMech.

- Improved Air Strike
- Upgrades the Air Strike module.
- Increases air strike bomb count by 4, and decreases flight time by 1 second.
- Does not need to be equipped to a BattleMech.

Notable Enviornment Changes:

- Changed HDR eye adpatation numbers to reduce amount of HDR blooming, and speed the recovery rate.
- Tweaked lighting in all levels to minimize lighting differences due to HDR eyeadaptation changes.
- Extended LOD distances in River City on many large buildings.
- Reduced strength of parallax occlusion mapping on some snow terrain textures to help reduce "crawling" terrain textures.

Gameplay

- New Night and Thermal vision modes
- Thermal vision is now "white hot" and is restricted to normal view distances. i.e. Players can no longer use thermal to view long distances.
- Night Vision is now monochrome green and shows greater detail in the surroundings.
- Players will notice that Night Vision is more useful for navigation and Thermal Vision is more useful for seeking out Mechs.
- More tuning will be done but these vision modes are on target for final implementation.

Bug Fixes

- Artemis Line-of-sight check is now more accurate
- EMP will now turn off ECM in Counter Mode
- Mech damage glow now fades away after they die

We thank you for your patience and we look forward to seeing you on the battlefield!

The MechWarrior® Online™ Team

[Pyrrho]

People don't read, they only know better.

[Hobo Dan]

Heavy Metal - Plays a music clip from its head-mounted external speakers after an enemy kill.

Suddenly I might have to buy this...

[Pyrrho]

"Notable Enviornment Changes:

- Changed HDR eye adpatation numbers to reduce amount of HDR blooming, and speed the recovery rate.
- Tweaked lighting in all levels to minimize lighting differences due to HDR eyeadaptation changes.
- Extended LOD distances in River City on many large buildings.
- Reduced strength of parallax occlusion mapping on some snow terrain textures to help reduce "crawling" terrain textures."

This is the only information we already didn't really have (besides specifics on the Heavy Metal).

[Scratx]

Dyson Ring, on 02 April 2013 - 09:38 AM, said:

Ignore the date on the title, read the patch notes

Hmm, so it appears to be so. I stand corrected.

[Nicholas Carlyle]

As I said in the other thread...underwhelming.

[FupDup]

Tarrasque, on 02 April 2013 - 09:39 AM, said:

Next we have added air-strike and artillery consumables. I think Conquest mode just got more interesting! Here is a pro tip: Use them for when a light is capping your base on Alpine and save yourself a walk back to your spawn!


Brilliant, how did I not consider this?

What I'm wondering is this: will there be any notification of an inbound artillery strike for the people in the target area? If not, it would be seriously obnoxious. It would also remove one of the light mech's main roles of capping the base, thereby encouraging more people to drive Fatlases.

Edited by FupDup, 02 April 2013 - 09:43 AM.

[Joseph Mallan]

Small Patch.Interesting though.

[Roadbeer]

I dub this patch


MEH

[SgtMagor]

yea! the date thru me off, so I didn't bother reading it at first.

[Sybreed]

hmm, the no missile fix is quite disappointing, I'm literally boycotting all my mechs that are using missiles until they get a small buff, right now they're almost useless.

[Ransack]

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Next we have added air-strike and artillery consumables. I think Conquest mode just got more interesting! Here is a pro tip: Use them for when a light is capping your base on Alpine and save yourself a walk back to your spawn!

Huh? Unless you are close enough to see it, you can't. for shame.

[Fenix0742]

No collisions, no death from above, no highlander burial, despite this being the release of the highlander hero. Boy I sure am glad they made coolant flushes and airstrikes a top priority.

Excitement deleted.