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[W E N D I G O]

I have a simple suggestion. In older MW games it was possible to jettison ammunition to prevent ammo explosion damage from overheating or destroyed components. It would be great if this feature could be implemented in MWO as well.

I would appreciate your thoughts to the problem - useful or not worth mentioning?

Edited by Alpha Wendigo, 21 September 2013 - 09:11 AM.

[Foxfire]

I think that there should be the option to do so bit it shouldn't be as easy as hitting a button. That needs to be the case to keep people from accidentally screwing themselves.

[Tweaks]

Fix your poll. Don't allow multiple choices for a Yes/No question!

That said, I think it's already on the board.

Edited by Tweaks, 21 September 2013 - 08:40 AM.

[W E N D I G O]

Thanx for the hint Tweaks. I'm really new into this and didn't notice. Fixed now.

Didn't look for all the threads in this section but didn't find a similar feature suggestion so I did my own. Hopefully I don't offend anyone in any way if there is a thread like this already.

Edited by Alpha Wendigo, 21 September 2013 - 09:17 AM.

[Tweaks]

Alpha Wendigo, on 21 September 2013 - 09:16 AM, said:

Thanx for the hint Tweaks. I'm really new into this and didn't notice. Fixed now.

Didn't look for all the threads in this section but didn't find a similar feature suggestion so I did my own. Hopefully I don't offend anyone in any way if there is a thread like this already.

I haven't seen one in a long time so I don't think so. I just think it's something that was discussed in closed beta and I'm sure PGI has it on its list of backlogged features. It's not as easy as you think to implement though. They need to find a good system to allow you to jettison just the ammo you want, and considering there can be ammo in each part of the 'Mech, it's not that easy to manage.

One way they could do it, is to integrate it in the weapon groups panel, where you'd have to select a weapon with ammo and then press a key to jettison all of its ammo, but that would prevent you from jettisonning only the ammo in the CT for example, which I think is what people want.

[Biglead]

http://mwomercs.com/...d-september-17/

[Tweaks]

Biglead, on 21 September 2013 - 04:20 PM, said:

http://mwomercs.com/...d-september-17/

That's like pointing him to google without telling him what to look for. Which of these many links should we look at?

Edited by Tweaks, 21 September 2013 - 06:03 PM.

[Biglead]

Under "Concept Stage" it bullets an "Ability to Dump Ammo". I'm not saying that it will make it into the game. I'm just linking the info saying they are thinking about putting it the game. It should both help him with his poll and keep people from calling him names because they don't like his idea.

...well, that's never really stopped anybody on these forums, but you know. Just being helpful!

[Sandpit]

Yes it should. That way once an ammo based weapons is rendered inoperable you can get rid of explosive ammo

[Dirus Nigh]

Press K to jettison your ammunition. That was the command is MW2 and 3. Im surprised MWO did not have it in closed beta.

[W E N D I G O]

I think you should be able to drop ammo for a specific weapon via the wpngroup menue as mentioned (good idea) and all ammo for the purpose to protect your mech if you are overriding shutdown, so as an immediate countermeasure without selecting a specific ammunition/weapon.

Thanks for voting and posting. Hopefully there will be more interest in the future so it catches the interest of the devs.

Edited by Alpha Wendigo, 22 September 2013 - 10:10 AM.