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[Sudden Reversal]

I haven't had a fun game in weeks.

*sigh*

Not sure if it is the poor matchmaking, disconnects and missing player slots or just bad game balance.

Without anything else but the grind for grinds sake, there isn't any point to it all.

Still got 2 months of premium time to use that I can't be bothered to activate without a decent reason to play.

Methinks uninstall is in order and maybe come back after Xmas.

EDIT - Actually I think I know what would keep me playing... A PUG ONLY queue.

The game is so biased in favour of those in teams, without providing adequate tools in game to easily facilitate PUG co-ordination that the disparity between those with premade on VOIP versus those without is glaring.

There really needs to be something here for the casual gamer who just wants to drop when they have 30 mins free. Remember, we are legion.

Edited by Sudden Reversal, 22 October 2013 - 07:53 PM.

[Imperius]

Yup with recent support issues and the spider being said nothing is wrong with it via the devs. I don't see myself playing too much longer. I'll have my PS4 on the 15 of Nov so I'll have stuff to do. It's a shame I really loved battletech and I really thought PGI cared. I'm starting to swim toward that island...

Edited by Imperius, 22 October 2013 - 10:15 PM.

[Imperius]

So I'm back to playing WoW, and watching Anime/Movies on my PS4. I check these forums and I come back ever so often. I look see that none of the huge issues are being addressed. ECM threads, SSRM Threads, NO UI 2.0, and still no community warfare. I think you guys meant UI 2.0 in Nov 2014, and community warfare Dec/Jan 2015/2016. I'm glad I see hit boxes being looked at but where is the stuff you promised? How long before I can give this game another chance?

[Urdasein]

I already uninstalled the game since a week or two after 2 months of play. I'm just keeping an eye on MWO and will come back when some things will be fixed (or not).

Some reasons:

- only PPC / AC20 are viable.
- Ac in general are far better than any other weapon system : low heat, pinpoint, screen shake, low crit slots requirement.
- Popshooting is a "ok" tactic but it doesn't have a counter
- lasers über broken -> low dps, high heat, no pinpoint, no screeshake, high crit slots requirement (for the DHS).
- i never used LRMs but i can say they are far too easy to dodge
- ghost heat -> need some adjustement.
- ELO -> i have no reason to do my best, i will always have a 50% win chance, no matter how i play. This is socialism =)
- SRM broken and bad hit detection
- matchmaker broken -> weight unbalance,
- match maker broken -> putting a good player in a noob team doesn't create an average team. Just an angry good player (lol).
- too many known issues... I experienced several CTD.
- mixing PUG and premade is unfair since PUGs don't have VOIP.
- new deployments, i'm not a fan of it
- lack of a KILL KILL KILL game mode. I'm not a fan of light warfare / cap stuff.

The most irritating is seing every month a new "hero mech" instead of fixing the above things. And the worst part of it is that the hero mech aren't that good.

Edited by loupgaroupoilu, 11 December 2013 - 02:06 AM.

[Mudhutwarrior]

You can see several threads like this each day if you check often enough. Between the wrecking crew and Niko they keep them moving into k-town on regular basis. Seems those are the only ones who think everything is ok here but the cracks in the **** keep getting bigger.
In game voice been around since 1999 and here we are with dozens of drones telling us 3rd party voice isn't a broken metric.
The game is stale with the same play every match while pugs drop with premades. No one wants to try different build because if you don' t bring the heat as fast as you can you don't stand a chance unless your with premade.

Its so bad now what used to be a a no no, (synch dropping) is openly discussed and promoted here on the forum. Sure its not easy to do but its being done daily now and its all slaughter all the time. Getting sick of dropping with pugs who just sit there because they will die quickly anyways. The Morale has hit rock bottom.

[DeadlyFred]

There's a lot about this game that I dislike which is never going to change, mainly the very core of it being a progression-based, monetized PvP title... this is never, ever actually a "balanced" system, nor is it one which is consumer friendly. I would have rather had Mechwarrior 5, period.

Unfortunately, that's not what the market is demanding in this day and age so I can only hope that PGI gets their act together and can make the best awful game they can because the basic framework for a really good MW game is there. Just needs a heck of a lot more polish and more maturity from both developers and the community. I mean seriously? The outrage over 3PV was bloody comical in it's level of community overreaction.

Anyhow, I just hope they don't make it {Scrap}.

[Joseph Mallan]

Ghost Heat. But boredom has sapped most of my enthusiasm.

[Thejuggla]

No mic support
Poptarting cheese builds
Lack of random spawns - maps are boring you know where the enemy is
No hard point sizing - Would help balance, only mech mounting more than 2 PPCs would be the awesome currently, could be balanced so most mechs can't mount a ballistic with dual PPCs
Ghost heat - More so on LLs LRMs and SRMs
Gauss charge - Wouldn't have a problem with the charge but it hasn't been in any other mech game I've played, and it makes a weapon that was already balanced (on its own) way worse than it should be, it hurts dps a lot.
No weapon variants - there are plenty of variants, I believe the current single slug AC20 isn't even mountable by an atlas, most are bursts of small slugs.

[JediPanther]

None of the things devs stated months, a year ago are in the game. No voice coms. No lobby. No role warefare. No ui 2.0. No clans. Yet they always seem to have new mechs and sales. As much as I want to see mwo get better, it isn't. The progress it has made has been extremely slow. Poor decisions still abound with some good and bad threads trying to explain why they are bad for the game. It was how many months of complaining on the threads of how ecm implimentaion sucked and still does before they added any type of counter? A charge mechanic that makes a weapon near useless. At least Guile could hold the charge indefintaly without exploding.

[Sybreed]

JediPanther, on 11 December 2013 - 06:43 PM, said:

None of the things devs stated months, a year ago are in the game. No voice coms. No lobby. No role warefare. No ui 2.0. No clans. Yet they always seem to have new mechs and sales. As much as I want to see mwo get better, it isn't. The progress it has made has been extremely slow. Poor decisions still abound with some good and bad threads trying to explain why they are bad for the game. It was how many months of complaining on the threads of how ecm implimentaion sucked and still does before they added any type of counter? A charge mechanic that makes a weapon near useless. At least Guile could hold the charge indefintaly without exploding.

for their defense, they never said they'd give us voice comms....

... Which I'm not sure is a good thing

[yashmack]

my biggest issue right now is that im a casual player, there is no room for casuals right now
Depending on time of day I wind up going up against group after group of corps with voice comms that are just continually pug stomping, gets old after a while...

[Balsover]

The AC heavy meta has killed it for me, its just really boring. I've always been a laser fan, and they just suck right now.

[aniviron]

Bad hitboxes, SRM hitreg, lack of any metagame incentives to play anything but assault/heavy (i.e. no scouting rewards or objectives).

[divinedisclaimer]

loupgaroupoilu, on 11 December 2013 - 01:52 AM, said:

- only PPC / AC20 are viable.

[akpavker]

Imperius, on 06 October 2013 - 12:33 PM, said:

ECM, Ghost Heat, Lack of robust collision system, pop tarts, True Skill's poor team balancing (should match good players against good players, not a few good players with new/bad players), LRM's are basically useless (poptarts, lack of scouting pugs, ECM), C-Bill Nerf, Poor hit boxes (spiders running more rampant than ever)

This is just a few in my opinion.

lack of content......

end of story!

[johnyboy420]

JUST NURF JUMPJETS (JJ)

there made too do one thing from what i see thats jumpsnipe im sick of it jumpsnipeing takes out the cover factor and just make the game play suck becuse its like the only thing that you can use too fight it and win

just make the JJ have a bigger cooldown like 1 min and make the burn time 50% more and make it move you forward more id say it that make the gameplay more balanced

Johnyboy out

Edited by johnyboy420, 11 December 2013 - 10:28 PM.

[Zyllos]

The issue on JJs is that the initial JJ provides too much. Each JJ should be providing a static amount of turning speed and thrust for each one.

[Roland]

Can't play with more than 4 friends.
No community warfare.

[Jonny Taco]

1. PGI
2. Greed
3. PGI
4. MM
5. PGI


This has obviously been nothing other than a cash grab from the beginning...

[D R E A D N A U G H T]

1. Horrible maps that feel like an afterthought instead of an asset. They're so bland and lacking character of any kind. Im looking at you Alpine / Terra.

2. Horrible weapon balance and ghost heat. I don't feel like many of the wepons are that useful.

3. Basic lack of community engagement / communication.

4. Having "new content" (mechs / skins) as the only new content available for purchase.

5. Generic mechs that don't feel unique. Just another empty shell to put broken weapons in. No build diversity as there is generally a handful or "correct" loadouts.

6. Slow development cycles. I feel like I've been playing the same game / matches / maps since closed beta.

7. Continual nerfing of legit weapons systems (Gauss).

8. poptarts / flavor of the month builds.

9. Poor hitboxes and crapy hit registration / no knockdowns.

I could go on, but I just stopped caring at this exact moment. Shrug.