34 replies to this topic

[Finn McShae]

I long for my Orion. I can't wait. Hopefully LRM/SRM's get a tiny buff prior to that, but I don't care I'll run it anyway.

At my ELO and timezone I've still been seeing mostly Atlas DDC's all the time. Like at least 2-3 a side. I'm often the only HGN on my team since the patch dropped. Iits sad because I have to get super excited when a team doesn't bring enough ECM and I can actually USE my LRM 20's

[Ens]

it´s the pinnacle of retardness right now

[TruePoindexter]

Ens, on 19 April 2013 - 10:22 AM, said:

it´s the pinnacle of retardness right now

Just run a light and punish them for it.

[SgtMagor]

every once in a while I take my 2 flamer Spider out and if you have been skimping on the heat sinks my flamers will find out

[Nicholas Carlyle]

Not really surprised, as most people have said, Iconic Mech, Assault Mech, Jump Jets, PPC/Gauss Meta.

PGI probably should have addressed Jump Jets and the PPC/Gauss Meta before they released. But yeah...that requires some fore-thought on their part, instead of randomly changing things hoping something sticks.

[xDeityx]

Yokaiko, on 19 April 2013 - 10:01 AM, said:

this isn't very much fun



like at all.





...and the more you post the less they listen.

Which is ok the less they listen the less I spend.

If you want to see an example of how the relationship between the community and the devs could have been, check out Charlie "Flayra" Cleveland's company Unknown Worlds Entertainment and their latest product Natural Selection 2. It's a great game and a testament to what can be accomplished by a small team of developers (10 or less actual employees of the company) who treat their community with respect. They had community members jumping out of the woodworks as volunteers to help them create the game and contribute everything from actual code optimization to balance ideas.

At the October 31st 2012 release NS2 was the #1 selling game on Steam.

Edit: forgot to mention one of the most impressive things about this game - UWE created their own proprietary engine from scratch instead of using the Half-Life: Source engine as originally planned. The engine is called Spark and is almost entirely .lua based so that it can support the modding community.

Edited by xDeityx, 19 April 2013 - 11:42 AM.

[Adridos]

Krondor, on 19 April 2013 - 09:42 AM, said:

We didn't ask them to put in a broken ECM system and nerf viable indirect counters to the ground....

Oh, that must've been a different forum, then...

xDeityx, on 19 April 2013 - 09:59 AM, said:

Implying that PGI listens to us? That's cute. They've specifically said that they do not consider these forums representative of the community.

Dragon's arm, Founder's packs, Alpine Peaks and Tourmaline Desert, Forest Colony fog removal, ...

Of course, I agree. They don't listen to the forums nowdays and I don't blame them.

[Thuzel]

xDeityx, on 19 April 2013 - 08:11 AM, said:

What you're seeing is the result of an unbalanced metagame being introduced and a highly-anticipated chassis hitting the shelf at the same time.

PGI is going to take months to untangle the rat's nest of bad balance they've created.

dead on.

Except for the "going to take months to untangle the rat's nest of bad balance" part. Not too sure they're going to do that. I've seen no real indication that their understanding of balance is improving. In fact, it seems to have just gotten worse over time. Just my opinion, but the game was much more balanced towards the end of last year.

[a rabid chihuahua]

I cant get into the station jump shoot thing. When I have JJ's on a mech I use them for manuevering to a higher vantage point or get a quick idea of where the enemy is. I just cant get into the jump up and down in place thing.

[Thuzel]

Adridos, on 19 April 2013 - 11:54 AM, said:

Oh, that must've been a different forum, then...


Dragon's arm, Founder's packs, Alpine Peaks and Tourmaline Desert, Forest Colony fog removal, ...

Of course, I agree. They don't listen to the forums nowdays and I don't blame them.

Half the threads you posted actually prove the opposite of what you say. I suggest you actually look at the poll numbers you post before you post them.

No, the community (or at least, the majority of the community) never asked for the direct damage lollapalooza we have going on right now. But even if we had (we didn't), PGI should know better than to implement it.

Also, most of those examples are what PGI was already doing regardless of what was being said by the community. Large maps, founder's packs, etc... were all something already in motion. I can count on one hand the number of times PGI has decided to go against their own plans because the community said something.

They don't listen to us. They do what they want to do and if it happens to correspond to what we want, it's a bonus.

[Nicholas Carlyle]

And when they do listen it's due to overwhelming negative, QQ'ing, whining, craziness feedback. Not good, constructive, well thought out feedback.

[Wintersdark]

Roadbeer, on 19 April 2013 - 08:36 AM, said:

New mech out and it's everywhere?

What a surprising turn of events.

Roadbeer, never stop your dry trolling.

So often, I open otherwise stupid threads just because I know a post of yours will be in there that'll make me laugh.


Though my coworkers think I'm crazy after spontaneously bursting out in laughter at "GIANT COMIC SANS", and chuckling about it for the rest of the day.

[DeadlyNerd]

Tice Daurus, on 19 April 2013 - 08:25 AM, said:

I expect after a month or two, you'll see people complaining about all of the Orions on the battlefield or all of the other mechs. It's the flavor of the month and people want to level them quickly. It happens.

Except that no one was complaining about the treb, or the ctf, or even the AC40 jager.

No one would be complaining about the HGN if pop tarting wasn't so imbalanced and without drawbacks.

[itchyfingerz]

You guys saying "ill get my light and punish them" make me ROFLMAOWTFHAHA.. seriously though, I have 3ppc/gauss/3streak2. If you have a decent ping and you know how to lead and fire... its a one shot/2 shot kill. I don't know how many light mech's heads I've blown off with my highlander... to be honest the only problem I have right now is that this game ..OVERNIGHT.. has changed..I wish I were the only "one".. but its like there can only be 10 per match.

[Taemien]

CapperDeluxe, on 19 April 2013 - 10:00 AM, said:

Gonna be running my Flame going 100kph and smacking these poor slow saps around all night

Yup.

What did you use back in MWLL against poptarters? I used a Warthog if I didn't feel like being cheap and Narcing them from a Raven.