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[Garth Erlam]

Servers will be coming down at 10am today as usual, however, downtime will be longer than is usual. As you may have already read, we will be down from 10am PDT to 1pm PDT. As soon as I have a confirmation on the patchnotes, I will post them.

See you starside, mechwarriors!

EDIT: Now with Patchnotes -

EDIT 2: AND WE ARE LIVE!

UPDATE


Greetings, MechWarriors.

What is this? A third patch in July? Madness!

First off, we want to acknowledge the amazing work the community is doing with the Sarah Jenner! We knew you were a caring community but these results are exceeding our expectations and for that we truly thank you.

It's summer and things are heating up around here with the release of our latest map Terra Therma. Lava is hot! So read the Patch notes for a full description. Remember to use Testing grounds with map select to learn your way around Terra Therma and test out your ‘Mech under these extreme heat conditions.

We also have a host of gameplay tweaks. Heat scaling is expanding its reach, linking weapons of similar types while seismic sensors get a range reduction. Air and Artillery strike get a bit of a buff.

Some programmer found us some frames and some other programmers fixed some bugs! Programmers are great!

One week today we will be patching again and I can’t wait!

So patch up your game and get ready to drop. I’ll see you on the battlefield!

-Matt Newman

Content

New Map - Terra Therma

Terra Therma is a planet-sized moon in a large, synchronous orbit around an epistellar Jovian planet.

It is constantly exposed to tidal forces from its parent planet and therefore is prone to frequent volcanic eruptions and persistent tectonic activity; but, because of its large orbit, the gravitational influence on Terra Therma is not strong enough to expedite the natural degassing of primordial reservoirs of Helium-3 and Tritium.

These subterranean reservoirs (of T and H-3) are what bring the fight to Terra Therma. Their value, compounded by the ease of extraction are worth the installment and regular replacement of expendable, automated infrastructure; the same has been remarked about the ‘Mechs and their pilots.

“The only evidence of the constant battling over this hell-hole’s resources is in the paper work” one commander said, “as every fallen 'Mech and the sorry sob who piloted it, aka collateral loss, is quickly swallowed up by this fiery beast.”
Gameplay

Weapon System Heat Penalty Linking

• ERPPCs and PPCs will now share their max alpha limit.
  
• LRM20, LRM15 and LRM10s now share their max alpha limit.
  
• LL, ERLL, LPL will now share their max alpha limit.
  
• SRM6 and SRM4 will now share their max alpha limit.

Linked weapons will always use the highest base heat value and highest multiplier of the weapons fired. e.g. if you launch LRM15s with LRM10s, it will use LRM15 numbers. If you fire Large Lasers with ER Large Lasers, it will use ER Large Laser numbers.


For detailed explanations to our current heat scale, please refer to our forum post here: http://mwomercs.com/...e__pid__2575376

Seismic Sensor Ranges

• Seismic Sensor - Range reduced to 180m from 200m.
  
• Advanced Seismic Sensor - Range reduced to 250m from 400m.

Air/Artillery Strike

• Radius of Artillery strike increased from 50m to 60m.
  
• Radius of explosive shell increased from 25m to 30m.
  
• Radius of Air Strike explosive shell increased from 25 to 30m.

Performance


Optimization to the client code.

• Math functions.
  
• Gameplay code.
  
• Rendering code.
  
• HUD draw calls.

Bug Fixes

• Missiles were sometimes doing more damage than their listed amount. This has been fixed.
  
• SRM max range had an issue of being innacurate in the simulation. This is now significantly improved and any variation should be negligible.
  
• Heat penalties now properly reflected on the HUD when spectating other players.
  
• Heat Containment Pilot Talent is now affecting the start-up sequence. Players will return from overheat status faster if they have this upgrade.
  
• Fixed many collision issues in River City (stuck against structures, walk-through buildings, etc...).
  
• Fixed many "stuck on small rocks" bugs in Canyon Network.

General

• Spread out spawn point locations on Forest Colony.
  
• Light 'Mechs will now use smaller death smoke columns.

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


- The MechWarrior® Online™ Team

PS. Anyone who bought a Sarah Jenner AFTER the last patch went out will get theirs today

[Tennex]

alright

pretty excited

Edited by Tennex, 30 July 2013 - 07:39 AM.

[SgtMagor]

thxs for the heads up!

[xCico]

Cant wait for patch notes!

[Wired]

Gogogogo I need something to read while I wait for the servers update!

[PoLaR]

Wooo Terra-Therma!

[Doctor Proctor]

Hmmm...would the server upgrade that's causing patch time to be extended have anything to do with 12v12 hitting the live servers?

[Eximar]

Doctor Proctor, on 30 July 2013 - 07:44 AM, said:

Hmmm...would the server upgrade that's causing patch time to be extended have anything to do with 12v12 hitting the live servers?

I think that's a reasonable assumption.

[Tennex]

woah this came out fast

[Cerebelli]

Awesome. Actually sounds like a pretty good patch.

[N a p e s]

So wait, there's gonna be a patch next week as well?

[101011]

Napes339, on 30 July 2013 - 07:54 AM, said:

So wait, there's gonna be a patch next week as well?

Well, we are only 18 days from release.... an another note: Terra Therma! EDIT: well, actually, it's 18+August...

Edited by 101011, 30 July 2013 - 05:28 PM.

[EyeOne]

Good stuff. Thanks guys.

[Tennex]

Napes339, on 30 July 2013 - 07:54 AM, said:

So wait, there's gonna be a patch next week as well?

wow they are really going into hyperdrive with release date creeping closer

but i hope they don't rush things too much, would suck to have bugs or network issues introduced, the week new players come in, and reviers get a stab at the game.

Edited by Tennex, 30 July 2013 - 08:04 AM.

[xZaOx]

Instead of rock, paper, scissors we will just have paper, slowly giving everyone paper cuts. I can't wait till they listen to the mouth breathers and link PPPC's and Gauss together.

Everyone bring out your dice and take one MG, one small pulse laser, one medium laser, one LRM 5, one SRM 2, and a PPC. GO HAVE FUN.

[Tennex]

where is PPC's +1 heat?

[Dracol]

Sweet. New map and a patch next week. Not to mention the canyon map weeks.

Going to be a fun time at the NA TS scamble tonight!

[Jojobird]

Heat Containment Pilot Talent is now affecting the start-up sequence - is that IN ADDITION to what it already does, or instead? Call me paranoid, but...

[101011]

Tennex, on 30 July 2013 - 08:02 AM, said:

where is PPC's +1 heat?

Obviously, it relies on U.I. 2.0 and is being pushed back to after release. In all seriousness though, it probably just got left out of the notes.

[Druidika]

It's pretty sad that they went ahead with their ghost heat mechanics instead of silently dropping that ****** system over the coming weeks.