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[Belorion]

He said it won't make it into the 16th patch, but possibly the 30th patch which surprised me since I thought they were only doing two patches a month.

[Unbound Inferno]

FupDup, on 11 July 2013 - 11:06 AM, said:

Take a minute or two to read this new Command Chair post:
http://mwomercs.com/...general-update/

Here is Paul's little table:





Now bask in the hilarity of the fact that 2 PPC + 2 ERPPC Stalkers and 2-1 PPC + 1-2 ERPPC Highlanders are going to come out of this unscathed.
EDIT: Aw, looks like they realized their mistake:


Guess it's time for 2 ERPPC + Gauss Highlanders/Miseries instead. Stalkers can probably just use a macro or something.

Waitasec... I'm not reading this right?

LRM-15 is the only one on the list.
Not LRM-20, LRM-10 or LRM-5s... just LRM-15s?

[FupDup]

Unbound Inferno, on 11 July 2013 - 01:19 PM, said:

Waitasec... I'm not reading this right?

LRM-15 is the only one on the list.
Not LRM-20, LRM-10 or LRM-5s... just LRM-15s?

Yup, it's pure stupidity.

I'm just glad that MGs aren't on the list.

[Oderint dum Metuant]

MustrumRidcully, on 11 July 2013 - 01:18 PM, said:

I thought it was panda vision?

I always misread that name.

Touche

GG!

[Deathlike]

Joseph Mallan, on 11 July 2013 - 01:16 PM, said:

You man laid to rest. Cause til the game is launched Officially it is beta.

We should just have like a beta elimination party.

Even better, we should have the Paul elimination party countdown. Because... we've got to celebrate!

[Kraven Kor]

I has a sad.

It's like watching a movie, and you are screaming at the high school girl "Don't Go In there! Don't do it!" and she just walks on in and *whack*.

[Deathlike]

Kraven Kor, on 11 July 2013 - 01:21 PM, said:

I has a sad.

It's like watching a movie, and you are screaming at the high school girl "Don't Go In there! Don't do it!" and she just walks on in and *whack*.

Actually... I root for that in a horror movie. I expect someone to die and DEMAND SATISFACTION!

This is trending in that direction.

[Unbound Inferno]

FupDup, on 11 July 2013 - 01:19 PM, said:

Yup, it's pure stupidity.

I'm just glad that MGs aren't on the list.

Stupid is an understatement, cause they ought to have the LRM20s on it, but if they do anything with the LRM10s and LRM5s it kills the viability of those weapon systems.

They should just redo the heat system instead.

[Deathlike]

FupDup, on 11 July 2013 - 01:19 PM, said:

Yup, it's pure stupidity.

I'm just glad that MGs aren't on the list.

The 6 MG Spider forced to suddenly overheat? Oh the madness!

[Unbound Inferno]

Deathlike, on 11 July 2013 - 01:26 PM, said:

The 6 MG Spider forced to suddenly overheat? Oh the madness!

Keep in mind that was a per shot 10 heat. You'll last a fraction of a second before shutting down.

[Rippthrough]

Wonder if they could hire someone that actually can balance a game properly with all the funds from Pheonix?

[keith]

it is a sad day for the mech IP. PGI has just ruined it, by the worst way to balance the meta. what idiots they are. macros here we come.

[Oderint dum Metuant]

Rippthrough, on 11 July 2013 - 01:29 PM, said:

Wonder if they could hire someone that actually can balance a game properly with all the funds from Pheonix?

I'll balance the game for free.

[Deathlike]

Rippthrough, on 11 July 2013 - 01:29 PM, said:

Wonder if they could hire someone that actually can balance a game properly with all the funds from Pheonix?

No... it'll just be the stick icky supplier. See Bryan's thread in an AtD. He knows.

[Trauglodyte]

Not to state the obvious, but in NGNG #78 (I think), Paul or Bryan said that they scrapped the boating heat penalty because "it wasn't easy to understand and even more difficult for new players". So, I'm looking at the list wondering why it isn't full for every weapon and then wondering why it is that they're planning on screwing the new player by implementing something that isn't even remotely intuitive.

All the while, I'm still wondering why:

• we're adding heat penalties but aren't increasing heat on the worst offenders
  
• we still don't have heat penalties to anything we do UNLESS we exceed 100% (ie shut down or pseudo shut down via override)

Its like they're trying to paint a Mona Lisa with one hand and with finger paint.

Edited by Trauglodyte, 11 July 2013 - 01:33 PM.

[Deathlike]

Trauglodyte, on 11 July 2013 - 01:32 PM, said:

Its like they're trying to paint a Mona Lisa with one hand and with finger paint.

Are you sure PGI isn't licking the paint they are playing with?

[Felio]

The problem isn't that people are firing the same weapons, it's that they are dealing too much damage at once. And this does very little to address that.

[Sybreed]

Unbound Inferno, on 11 July 2013 - 01:19 PM, said:

Waitasec... I'm not reading this right?

LRM-15 is the only one on the list.
Not LRM-20, LRM-10 or LRM-5s... just LRM-15s?

because the LRM-15 is the only dangerous "boatable" option for lrms. Just shows how dumb this system is.

By dumb I mean they gave penalties to only the dangerous "boatable" weapons, which is kinda stupid in itself, they didn't touch other less dangerous weapons... this really means this system is completely improvised.

Edited by Sybreed, 11 July 2013 - 01:53 PM.

[Unbound Inferno]

Trauglodyte, on 11 July 2013 - 01:32 PM, said:

Not to state the obvious, but in NGNG #78 (I think), Paul or Bryan said that they scrapped the boating heat penalty because "it wasn't easy to understand and even more difficult for new players". So, I'm looking at the list wondering why it isn't full for every weapon and then wondering why it is that they're planning on screwing the new player by implementing something that isn't even remotely intuitive.

All the while, I'm still wondering why:

• we're adding heat penalties but aren't increasing heat on the worst offenders
  
• we still don't have heat penalties to anything we do UNLESS we exceed 100% (ie shut down or pseudo shut down via override)

Its like they're trying to paint a Mona Lisa with one hand and with finger paint.

120% - damage doesn't come in until 120%

[FupDup]

Unbound Inferno, on 11 July 2013 - 01:53 PM, said:

120% - damage doesn't come in until 120%

In the Command Chair post, Paul mentions towards the bottom that it's going to be lowered to just 100%.

Edited by FupDup, 11 July 2013 - 01:54 PM.