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My List of Grievances regarding the neglect of the Light Class, both Balance-Related and Content-Production Related:
1: No new light Chassis in 8 months NOT 5!. (No, Jenner-Fc and Jenner Ds do not count as new mechs...because they aren't).
2: Only 4 Light chassis, significantly limiting our options, every other class with 5-6.
3: No new Hero light in 5 months.
4: Only one Hero light (and it sucks).
5: With the introduction of the "Boar Head" Hero Atlas, there will soon be 10 Hero Assault/Heavies.
6: Phoenix Light (Locust) will be by far the worst mech in the game, and is strictly worse than other (already limited) light options.
7: No word on MASC.
8: No word on Flea (promised 5 mechs ago?)
9: Medium movement bonuses quickly brought into the game, but no word on the light movement bonuses that were also promised.
10: There has not been a "Light vs. World" Leaderboard Challenge, even though there has been 2 Heavy vs Worlds, and an Assault vs. World and Medium vs World
11: Almost every "light weapon" in this game is bad. Small Lasers, Small Pulse Lasers and Medium Pulse Lasers are all terrible. Standard SRMs are also weak. The serious, competitive options for lights are Medium Lasers and Streaks.
12: One of the best light weapons (Streak SRM) is far better when used AGAINST lights than when used BY them.
13: The only light ballistic (machinegun) is bad, and can only be used at all en masse. There is no other ballistic option usable by light mechs (no heavy machine gun, no light autocannon, etc.)
14: The game has ER PPCs, ER Large Lasers, giving extra and often-used options to Heavy and Assault mechs, but there is NO ER Small Laser or ER Medium Laser. The timeline has been "worked around" before, and in this case, the timeline needs to be "worked around" again.
15: Speed has been capped for what, a full year? In that time the development team has fixed and built and developed a thousand different things. Where is the work/news on netcode improvements so Lights can play without an artificial restriction?
Additional grievances of Kunae:
Kunae, on 24 September 2013 - 11:34 AM, said:
Only 5 months?
Man, you missed all of the really severe light nerfs which happened around and just after MWO went OB. The huge SSRM buff in Nov, which let the streak-cat reign supreme. The Dec 18th patch which put in ECM, and completely gutted JJ's.
Those are just a couple, but the biggies.
Man, you missed all of the really severe light nerfs which happened around and just after MWO went OB. The huge SSRM buff in Nov, which let the streak-cat reign supreme. The Dec 18th patch which put in ECM, and completely gutted JJ's.
Those are just a couple, but the biggies.
PGI has literally done NOTHING for light mech pilots since I joined this game 5 months ago. PGI treats us like we don't even exist. Every new announcement is for another big money Assault or Heavy, and the reason? Development of Assaults/Heavies makes the dev team more money because according to every study, Assaults and Heavies are the most often-played mechs, and they can charge more for each Heavy/Assault hero.
Well, I'm making this post because I feel like this is a straight up insult to light pilots who have been faithfully playing this game for the last half a year. Does PGI need ideas for light mechs/light mech heroes? If so PGI, message me. I've got plenty of ideas that would work.
Assaultwarrior Online is not only the easiest way to win, it is being actively promoted.
I hope that not only Light mech pilots will respond to this rallying cry, but pilots of larger mechs can understand how frustating this would be if your class had been utterly ignored for 5 months. All I'm asking is that the Light class gets its fair share of attention from the development team.
Edited by PEEFsmash, 24 September 2013 - 12:18 PM.
