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[ArmageddonKnight]

OK all sounds cool. Glad to hear JJ shake is coming.
But u still seem to be missing or ignoring 1 MAJOR balance issue atm.

Boating. Your never gunna get weapons balanced correctly when u can boat as much as we can atm. Any weapon balanced to not be OP when boated becomes usless when not boated, the gap beyween the 2 is to large atm.
You need to fix boating by ether reducing the heat cap and or changing the hardpoint system. This has been sugested and polled loads of times , more so in the lats few weeks thanks to the high alpha and poptart meta. There have even been other idea spread aroudn to help fix it, like stacking penalties. You have plenty of options to fix the issue, why are u not trying them ?

[Ngamok]

Rhaythe, on 04 June 2013 - 10:36 AM, said:

We don't know what the mech will be called. It might be the JR7-CNCRSUX variant or has a custom paint-job with "Cancer Sucks" down the side for all we know. It might have absolutely no connection to Sarah (and for legal reasons, probably shouldn't). They've released very little information except "we're doing something". Which in my worthless opinion, is better than nothing.

Whatever they call it, having your name immortalized in some way, in this case as a mech in an online game, is never a bad thing. Even when all the proceeds or whatever amount they are going to do goes towards charity. The alternate would be putting her name on a billboard on one of the maps or having an NPC standing around with her name over it. I'll take the Jenner as it will generate revenue and help a worthy cause.

[RG Notch]

Acid Phase, on 04 June 2013 - 09:46 AM, said:

QFT. You can bank on that. I'll be done with playing MWO any further as soon as 3PV patch is implemented.

So why are you and people who are so anti 3rd person bothering to play now? I'm totally against 3rd person, but I've known it was coming from the first time they told us it was coming whether we liked it or not. If you really mean that and not as some childish foot stamping breath holding stunt, then quit now. Whether we want it or not, whether it's abusable or not, whether people on the forums threaten to quit over it, we are getting 3rd person.
So just quit now, or learn to accept it's coming. Do you think they will stop it because a few people threaten to quit? They have ignored the massive outrage and 90% poll against it with thousands of votes. IGP thinks this will get more players. So quit now or accept it. We'll have 3rd person before a lot of things we have asked for on these forums, because we get what IGP wants not what we want.

[James DeGriz]

Ulvar, on 04 June 2013 - 10:52 AM, said:

so if people who would not spend money on charity buy that mech thats a bad thing?

It's the principle of it. People going on about oh how sad a tragedy it is, when all they care about is the special mech and potentially the warm fuzzy feeling they'll get from other people seeing them in one. "ooh you must be a GREAT guy, giving money to charity".

I often wonder you know, how different these forums would be if there weren't the ability to "Like" posts. I'm certain there are many who write not what they feel or think, but what they think will get the most Likes. It's the same sort of thing with this. I just feel that truly honest, charitable donations are done privately and without fanfare. If they're not, they're done for entirely the wrong reasons.

[Adridos]

Mister Blastman, on 04 June 2013 - 10:56 AM, said:

See underlined.

Rear mounted weapons. But you said that Cryengine has problems with back-facing cameras? How is this supposed to work?

Just like every other mech with rear-facing weapons... they will all be turned to face forward.

They already did this for a massive number of designs including Atlas, Dragon, Cataphract, Centurion and more...

[Thorqemada]

Well, a summer surprise, nice.
I dont understand all the critics, Testserver will come b4 any of the big updates and right so.
Why dont you rejoice that you can help PGI making the game better, more balanced, more playable, more entertaining?



MISSILE!

Edited by Thorqemada, 04 June 2013 - 11:11 AM.

[WildeKarde]

I'm a bit disappointed on the orion being pushed back, was looking forward to it.

Reading the quickdraw variants doesn't really entice me to want one. Might just be me but they are all the same. Unless they go radical with the hardpoints then can't see me getting one.

[TheMadTypist]

Aw, was really looking forward to the Orion. I guess we're getting a dragon with a humanoid appearance, sans ballistic and +jumpjets? Bit of a letdown to get another at 60 tons, filling the same roles as the dragon, when we have no 75 tonners or true balanced hardpoint-type Heavies yet. Still, I guess at least people will finally be able to build the Grand Dragons they've been wanting, if the engines can go big enough.

This is a classic example of lack of communication. Weren't you saying just last month the Orion was coming this month? what changed? Was there a problem that saw it pushed back? Is it for some Community Warfare reason perhaps?

And once again, bletch at 3rd person. It's much easier to poptart when you can draw a bead on the target while still behind your cover, the JJ nerf won't matter because the poptarts won't need to fly as high to get a shot on target, just enough that their main weapon systems clear that cover. It's part of what made it so insufferable in MW4.

[Kunae]

Thorqemada, on 04 June 2013 - 11:10 AM, said:

Well, a summer surprise, nice.
I dont understand all the critics, Testserver will come b4 any of the big updates and right so.
Why dont you rejoice that you can help PGI making the game better, more balanced, more playable, more entertaining?

This is open beta... we're playing on a "test server" now. Can't you see the level of stupid?

"Test servers" only exist in a released game. Has MWO been released, or is it still in beta test?

[DaisuSaikoro Nagasawa]

Ugh,

You left the text the same colour blue.

How after multiple "improvements" have you kept it at the same damned hard to read colour?

Do you not play the game? I don't know how big of a task it'd be to change it but really...

(I haven't checked to see if the (I)nfo on the large map is still screwed up (a relatively minor gripe, but still..)

[Tremendous Upside]

Thontor, on 04 June 2013 - 10:01 AM, said:

Wow, did not see the Quickdraw coming... I understand why people might be a little upset... But I kinda like the surprise change.

Really looking forward to the artwork.

I've been so looking forward to the Orion that the initial news felt like a kick in the groin... But the more I look at the QD, the more I'm liking it. Essentially a trebuchet + 10 tons... Lightweight weapons, good speed, jets? Pretty sure I can find a few mech bays for this one

[Sir Roland MXIII]

Went to buy the 30 USD pack of MC to get a Rifleman Firebrand...

Looked at the Quickdraw bait and switch for the Orion...

Looked at the card number entered for MC...

Looked at Quickdraw, 5 ton lighter version of Catapult that we need like holes in our heads...

Looked at transaction for variation on mech I've wanted for this game since I started...

...and then canceled transaction.

Thought you should see how shenanigans like this can and do cost you money: no matter how badly I want that RFL, I'm not going to support developers so intent on shoooting themselves in the foot with both barrels every chance they get. FEEDBACK! Have fun with that...

EDIT I should also note that means I won't be playing MW:O much, if at all for a month or two. Am I ragequitting, no - it's beta, I'll be waiting for PGI to shape this heap into something worth releasing, right up until they release it, heap or no. Mainly, I was really looking forward to the Orion but more-so the RFL hero to save up for it and to make builds I could not yet make: but with the proposed releases we're getting there's no point for me to pay cash, play, and then save CBills for crap I don't want. See you folks on Neverwinter and War Thunder, where the devs actually give half a damn and know how to find their keisters without need of two hands and a map.

Edited by Sir Roland MXIII, 04 June 2013 - 11:25 AM.

[Tickdoff Tank]

Cubivorre, on 04 June 2013 - 08:57 AM, said:

Bryan, your teams worst quality - Clear communication. I'm shaking my head for all of the players right now.. We were all expecting the Orion and you let us down again.

You [redacted] are impossible to please. They surprise us with a mech that has not even been announced yet (this is a GOOD THING) and you complain. They did not say the Orion is canceled. We got a present, and an interesting one at that.

Edited by miSs, 04 June 2013 - 06:02 PM.
Ad hominem

[C E Dwyer]

SgtKinCaiD, on 04 June 2013 - 10:41 AM, said:

For those who don't understand : the Quickdraw means we are going to have another round of IS Mechs thus we are going to have another assault so 2 more assaults with the Victor.

Says whom ?

This art work talked of could be clan could be mediums or lights, other heavies

Been demonstrated several times now, that artwork means nothing to the release date and announcements can be changed at the drop of a hat.

Not even a sorry folks due to monkies biting the head graphic designer on the nuts, the Orion will be delayed

Just wham, have a Quickshot.

and btw we're also putting in 3rd person view that only about 1 in 10 of the community wants, and 50% don't want.

[Lima Zulu]

There is a curious thing about Quickdraw - all of it's variants are pretty the same 5/8/5 with same weapon loadout (4ML, LRM10, SRM4), even same weapon placing, except one laserboat variant. Any ideas?

[Sir Roland MXIII]

Tickdoff Tank, on 04 June 2013 - 11:21 AM, said:

You [redacted] are impossible to please. They surprise us with a mech that has not even been announced yet (this is a GOOD THING) and you complain. They did not say the Orion is canceled. We got a present, and an interesting one at that.

Gee yeah because the Quickdraw does everything a Catapult can and we don't have Catapults yet. And no one wanted that Kerensky thing because reasons.

OH WAIT WE DO / WE DID. Nice to see people who willingly bounce their reality checks just to come to PGIs defense.

[Finn McShae]

I wouldnt be so annoyed if they had swapped for something i have ANY intrest in; like a black knight, flashman, grasshopper, guillotine, gallowglas (maybe too early), ANY unseen. WHY the jumping dragon?

But reallyi just want my Orion

[Sir Roland MXIII]

Finn McShae, on 04 June 2013 - 11:30 AM, said:

I wouldnt be so annoyed if they had swapped for something i have ANY intrest in; like a black knight, flashman, grasshopper, guillotine, gallowglas (maybe too early), ANY unseen. WHY the jumping dragon?

But reallyi just want my Orion

Its not even a jumping Dragon. It's a post Jenny Craig humanoid type Catapult - no more and no less.

Edited by Sir Roland MXIII, 04 June 2013 - 11:32 AM.

[Finn McShae]

Sir Roland MXIII, on 04 June 2013 - 11:32 AM, said:

Its not even a jumping Dragon. It's a post Jenny Craig humanoid type Catapult - no more and no less.

Hillarious.

I guess with XL it wont just be an oversized, undergunned medium like in TT but i sure aint buying one.

[Tharkan Stuermer]

Misaniovent, on 04 June 2013 - 09:13 AM, said:

Are we ever going to be able to know what map we'll be on before we drop? I am tired of having to pick general variants because I'm afraid I'll get something that'll will be a mess on maps like Alpine or Caustic.

Not knowing where we are going has a real impact on the metagame. If I take an LRM Stalker and I get Canyons or River City, I am in a less-than-ideal situation without really good support from my team. Similarly, if I take a 3x ERPPC Awesome and get Caustic, I'm in a less-than-ideal situation where I would have preferred to bring a different mech. If I take an AS7-D with an AC20 and SRMs and get dropped into Alpine, things are going to be rough.

Beyond that, are we ever going to see an improvement to the advanced zoom PIP? I have spent a lot of energy defending PGI and the state of this game, having started playing it on the first day of closed beta, but the fact that some of these issues still exist is very frustrating to me.

Seriously, I think you should reconsider your armament and your tactics!