wintersborn, on 17 October 2013 - 02:18 PM, said:
I'm sorry but Garth? needs to pull his head out of his [redacted]. This is a obvious and documented bug or problem with hit reg etc. on the SPIDER!
This is why people hate this company.
No money from me until I see some heads sans [redacted].
I'm going to call this bluff (and not specifically to this one, but to others in general). Though this one doesn't have any PP tags listed. Many others do who have made similar claims prior to the announcement of the program. That leads me to believe that most people are bluffing.
Personally if a company took a direction I didn't like, or did something unethical. I'd drop them without a word. Its one thing to disagree with changes or direction with the game. But posting it to garner support to self justify it is rather pointless IMO.
My advice to you all who honestly think PGI can't code their way out of a paper bag, or think the devs are a-holes, or simply think the game is broken and won't be better. Leave. Get out of Dodge. Be happy with something else. This is honest advice. I'm not simplying saying "don't like it, get out." Don't continue with the battered woman syndrome. If enough do this, changes will in fact happen.
If they don't, then the next company that picks up the franchise will know what not to do.
DeaconW, on 17 October 2013 - 03:33 PM, said:
You are a great Jenner pilot...I've seen you. Why you would stoop to driving a spider is beyond me.
I have too much self-respect to pilot a spider...but you do what you want.
WTF does respect have to do with what mech one pilots? If they bought it, why shouldn't they use it? This is the typical class envy from WoW. Leave it in the Blizzard games. You're a tool if you judge someone on a personal level by something they use in a video game. Simple as that. Get off your high horse and get over yourselves. You aren't as 'good' as you think you are.
MrMadguy, on 19 October 2013 - 12:25 AM, said:
Another weird thing, I've noticed about lights, is that they can avoid missles. Missles are not hitting them - missles are hitting the ground behind them. That means, that it is possible, that missles tracking system has some kind of delay while tracking lights' position, so missles are going to the point right behind the lights, not directly to them, and on some speed this allows lights to completely avoid missles.For example my CPLT-C4 has 4xLRM10. It's 44 total damage per lounch. Ok. Now we have some kind of LRM damage spread mechainc to avoid CT one-shoots. Some missles could even miss the target. But. It's still should be very noticable damage, as lights have only about 160-200 points of armor. 2-4 launchs should 100% kill them. But what are we seeing now? Firing LRMs to lights is almost worthless, cuz lights are avoiding 99% of damage.
I believe this is by design. Using speed to avoid missiles has been around as early as MW2, and as late as MWLL and everything inbetween. Just like speed makes it harder to nail a target with PPCs or even lasers. Missiles suffer the same inaccuracies.
There is a bit of play with missiles to actually get them to hit lights. A light that is focusing on you 1v1 will be able to avoid 100% of the missiles if they are good enough (most aren't). You can try to mitigate that by offsetting the launch times of the missiles. But against a decent pilot, expect less then optimal results.
Boating LRMs only is a good way to be light mech bait or rather anything bait thats faster then 80kph. I use secondary weapons with my LRMs to chase off the buggers into a better spot. Or just kill them.
Back to the subject about the hitbox. It looks like its a fix that needs to happen. A hole in the CT is a big issue. But I wouldn't take what a dev said in a game to face value. From what I saw in the screenshot, it looks like he was trying to politely say, f-off.
Personally if I were a game dev and had players grilling into me when I'm actually just trying to play.. I'd have said something far worse. And the one guy using foul language I'd just ban on the spot. Why? Because I could and they'd deserve it. And perhaps he did.
Is it bad for PR? Sure. But if I were a dev, that means I'm a coder, not a Community Representative (makie feelie goodie person). Course Garth's biggest mistake is not using an alias. I think all devs should use aliases in game and use CR's to speak to the community and other things.
Yeah, the players want to be touchie feelie with the devs. And want to think the devs give a flip about their feelings. But in reality, they shouldn't bother. I'd love to chat with the president about things, but none of them have taken office hours with the public since Jackson I believe. And for good reason. The devs should do the same.
Edited by Taemien, 19 October 2013 - 03:20 AM.