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[ColonelMetus]

Band Wagon!

[Appogee]

One day*, the Spider hit boxes will be fixed.

And on that day, there will be a glorious reckoning.

The Heavy and Assault pilots of the world shall rise up as one, and the vivisected limbs of Spiders shall be scattered before them, like chaff in a storm.

And the tears of the Spider pilots shall be many.









* Assuming PGI find any time in between more important things, like creating bobble heads and decals, that is.

Edited by Appogee, 16 August 2013 - 03:12 PM.

[OneEyed Jack]

Appogee, on 16 August 2013 - 03:09 PM, said:

* Assuming PGI find any time in between more important things, like creating bobble heads and decals, that is.

Yeah, they should definitely put the art guys on the HSR and hit box problems. I'm sure they'd get it all straightened out in a jiffy!

[Joseph Mallan]

Appogee, on 16 August 2013 - 03:09 PM, said:

One day*, the Spider hit boxes will be fixed AGAIN.

And on that day, there will be a glorious reckoning.

The Heavy and Assault pilots of the world shall rise up as one, and the vivisected limbs of Spiders shall be scattered before them, like chaff in a storm.

And the tears of the Spider pilots shall be many.









* Assuming PGI find any time in between more important things, like creating bobble heads and decals, that is.

FTFY.

Right after the Stat rewind went into effect I was a Light killing monster. Now, not so much.

[Mystere]

Appogee, on 16 August 2013 - 03:09 PM, said:

One day*, the Spider hit boxes will be fixed.

And on that day, there will be a glorious reckoning.

The Heavy and Assault pilots of the world shall rise up as one, and the vivisected limbs of Spiders shall be scattered before them, like chaff in a storm.

And the tears of the Spider pilots shall be many.

And on that very same day, these very same Heavy and Assault pilots will find out that not all Spider pilots are created equal. They will find out to their utter horror that some are extremely dangerous:

Edited by Mystere, 16 August 2013 - 03:46 PM.

[GingerBang]

OneEyed Jack, on 16 August 2013 - 03:15 PM, said:

Yeah, they should definitely put the art guys on the HSR and hit box problems. I'm sure they'd get it all straightened out in a jiffy!

Now now, you can't solve all of life's problems by making them the size of an assault mech.

[Appogee]

Mystere, on 16 August 2013 - 03:46 PM, said:

And on that very same day, these very same Heavy and Assault pilots will find out that not all Spider pilots are created equal.

They can't get any ''better'' than they are now, with skilled Heavy and Assault pilots landing blows which do not register.

[Appogee]

OneEyed Jack, on 16 August 2013 - 03:15 PM, said:

Yeah, they should definitely put the art guys on the HSR and hit box problems. I'm sure they'd get it all straightened out in a jiffy!

Yeah, because no business ever staffs up in important areas, by downsizing in unimportant ones.

[xenoglyph]

Appogee, on 16 August 2013 - 10:51 PM, said:

Yeah, because no business ever staffs up in important areas, by downsizing in unimportant ones.

Yeah, because businesses totally 'staff up' by reassigning people with non-relevant skill sets.

[Appogee]

xenoglyph, on 16 August 2013 - 10:53 PM, said:

Yeah, because businesses totally 'staff up' by reassigning people with non-relevant skill sets.

That's two people in a row who apparently think that ''reassigning'' is the only way to staff up. For the record, you can staff up by downsizing in an unimportant area and reallocating the headcount budget to a higher priority area, or if cashflow and margins permit, you can employ incremental headcount in the priority area.

There you go. After this, the first semester of your MBA will be a doddle ;-)

Edited by Appogee, 16 August 2013 - 11:29 PM.

[Ralgas]

Appogee, on 16 August 2013 - 11:25 PM, said:

That's two people in a row who apparently think that ''reassigning'' is the only way to staff up. For the record, you can staff up by downsizing in an unimportant area and reallocating the headcount budget to a higher priority area, or if cashflow and margins permit, you can employ incremental headcount in the priority area.

There you go. After this, the first semester of your MBA will be a doddle ;-)

That is assuming you can attract people with the skill sets you need. Pretty sure the "hiring now" button has been active for a large portion of the dev cycle

[Corvus Antaka]

better spiders than assaults everywhere.

[Kenyon Burguess]

for all the rage spiders get on the forums, I see more highlanders, victors, and stalkers than anything else in the matches. if your excited to see the fotm spider pilots cry, what till you see the magnificent ocean of tears that will form when tonnage limits hit the matches.

[GalaxyBluestar]

Geist Null, on 16 August 2013 - 11:54 PM, said:

for all the rage spiders get on the forums, I see more highlanders, victors, and stalkers than anything else in the matches. if your excited to see the fotm spider pilots cry, what till you see the magnificent ocean of tears that will form when tonnage limits hit the matches.

true but lights in general have reason because lagshield is here again, it's back in full force - coupled with disc and freezess. Other than new maps and mechs game feels almost as bad as it was in dec. trying out 12 v12 highlights the game faults and especially MM, I've never seen so many cowards hiding and twiddling thumbs in the back lines. many new players, people park behind mechs and pin front liners up to the firing squads when they need cover again.

http://v1.memecaptain.com/40c33e.jpg

I had yellow armour but then got cored to almost death simply because jenner and spider legs are almost impenatrable. LL's in general have been nerfed from okay to somewhat ineffective with the ghost heat and i'm pondering if that was neseccary. all i see is victor highlander gaussppc poptarts and ac20 jagerbombs and zombie cents. seriously if matchmaker gives you too many newbs you're sunk.

http://v1.memecaptain.com/f1e472.jpg

http://v1.memecaptain.com/ccf721.jpg

http://v1.memecaptain.com/b39402.jpg

http://v1.memecaptain.com/7b2d31.jpg

someone please keep the cadets away from vets, they get slaughtered vets feel cheated too many steamrolls make a poor game. i'll just play rockem sockem robots for ***** and giggles and think no better of the MWO, cause that's allit is now.

Edited by GalaxyBluestar, 16 August 2013 - 11:57 PM.

[MonkeyCheese]

Appogee, on 16 August 2013 - 10:14 PM, said:

They can't get any ''better'' than they are now, with skilled Heavy and Assault pilots landing blows which do not register.

People complained about the good spider pilots before this current lagshield problem and once it is solved people will cry about the good ones again, only difference is it wont be the flavor of the month easy mode like it is now.

[Appogee]

MonkeyCheese, on 17 August 2013 - 12:52 AM, said:

People complained about the good spider pilots before this current lagshield problem and once it is solved people will cry about the good ones again, only difference is it wont be the flavor of the month easy mode like it is now.

Fair enough. I admire good Spider pilots. But there are way too many Spiders at the moment, taking advantage of the HSR shield.

[PEEFsmash]

All the pilots complaining about Stalker pilots are now complaining about Spider pilots.

"Band Wagon!"

Edited by PEEFsmash, 17 August 2013 - 01:19 AM.

[Appogee]

Ralgas, on 16 August 2013 - 11:47 PM, said:

That is assuming you can attract people with the skill sets you need. Pretty sure the "hiring now" button has been active for a large portion of the dev cycle

True. But do you believe that they've actually been trying to hire? Personally, my theory is that that button is intended to prop up the ''we're succeeding wonderfully'' storyline which is considered necessary for a F2P title to succeed.

(Personally, I hope they are succeeding. But the scant online player metrics I've seen, the way the matchmaker struggles to find me a game at my ability, the Phoenix cash-now-assets-later play, the addition of 3PV despite widespread community concern, the decision to launch with so much left unfinished, all make me think things are getting a little desperate.)

Edited by Appogee, 17 August 2013 - 01:24 AM.

[Ralgas]

Appogee, on 17 August 2013 - 01:21 AM, said:

True. But do you believe that they've actually been trying to hire? Personally, my theory is that that button is intended to prop up the ''we're succeeding wonderfully'' storyline which is considered necessary for a F2P title to succeed.

(Personally, I hope they are succeeding. But the scant online player metrics I've seen, the way the matchmaker struggles to find me a game at my ability, the Phoenix cash-now-assets-later play, the addition of 3PV despite widespread community concern, the decision to launch with so much left unfinished, all make me think things are getting a little desperate.)

Given there was a lead programmer in there for a good while it could also support the fact they've been struggling through under resourced and explains a lot about why we're missing so much from the projected plans. Only the guys behind the scenes know for sure and i doubt they are going to spill either way for fear of losing further customer confidence

Edited by Ralgas, 17 August 2013 - 02:45 AM.

[DarkDevilDancer]

I currently refuse to pilot my spider, when I kill a heavy I want them to know it's because of skill they lost not borked hit detection, fix it soon pgi I jumping around like a mad man.