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[Paul Inouye]

Sitting across from the studio from me is a board with all the 'Mechs on it. In my crosshairs... the Highlander. More info to follow along with intended implementation date. Just giving you all a heads up.

[Zyllos]

What is to be nerf'ed?

It's fixes we need, not nerfs!

[FupDup]

While it is clear that the Highlander is a dominant mech, IMHO this is more because of other mechs not being good enough rather than the Highlander itself being too good.

On a side note, a nice indirect nerf to the Highlander (and other jumpjetting alpha snipers) would be to change the jumpjet formula. Right now you get most of the kick from just 1 jet, and adding additional jets has a "diminishing returns" effect. How it should work is linearly. I.e. 2 jets should be twice as good as 1. 3 should be 3 times as good as 1. Etc. etc. He should have to mount all of the jets to get all of the boost. This would take up some additional tonnage and critical slots on the Highlander (and other JJ mechs).

Edited by FupDup, 05 February 2014 - 05:16 PM.

[Noober]

Good stuff... but I'd go as far as saying it's the **JJs** that are the underlying problem, not the Highlander itself...

[Sandpit]

Hit boxes>?!?!?!?!?

[ICEFANG13]

I find your wording quite comical.

[Sandpit]

OMG people

Nerf gun not "nerf this" gun

[Roadbeer]

Sssssssshhhhhhhhhhhhh










Hear that?
















That is the sound of meta-humpers hearts breaking all over the forum

[Zyllos]

If he is pointing the nerf gun at a board full of mechs, then just shoot...

But if he pointing "the" nerf gun at the board full of mechs, looking specifically at the Highlander, he might want to reconsider...

[Ryan Steel]

I think the best solution to this would be to have an RNG implementation whereby at the beginning of the match you have a certain chance to get ejected from your highlander and tossed into a woodchipper.

[Mazzyplz]

the highlander used to have an easier to hit cockpit i believe, i havent been able to figure out the hitbox for a while it was my intuition that they had changed the hitbox on it, at least for the cockpit

[Kroxloq]

As much as I would love to see the Highlander get some nerfs, please be evenhanded! It does seem like its "highlander alpha jump or go home!" at the moment, but I don't want to see this mech gutted either! Please more information!

Also: great to see PGI posts on the forums!

[LaserAngel]

I hope you are looking at how Jump Jets work. It's rather aggravating seeing bunny hopping Mechs in addition to poptarting.

[LegoPirate]

the last time they decided to "nerf" the highlander they introduced ghost heat.

[Sandpit]

I think everyone's reading waaaaaay too much into this

[MadMarauder]

NEVER GUNNA hit that spider!

[pbiggz]

Paul Inouye, on 05 February 2014 - 05:09 PM, said:

Sitting across from the studio from me is a board with all the 'Mechs on it. In my crosshairs... the Highlander. More info to follow along with intended implementation date. Just giving you all a heads up.

The Horsemen Cometh

*Maniacal Laughter*

[Ransack]

What? The Highlander does not need nerfing. You have already Nerfed it multiple time indirectly with Ghost heat PPC nerfs, JJ shake, movement archetypes and SRM's that you refuse to fix. What's left, cutting the armor in half?


BAH!

I guess the Victor will be next.

Edited by Ransack, 05 February 2014 - 05:26 PM.

[IceSerpent]

Paul Inouye, on 05 February 2014 - 05:09 PM, said:

Sitting across from the studio from me is a board with all the 'Mechs on it. In my crosshairs... the Highlander. More info to follow along with intended implementation date. Just giving you all a heads up.

Paul, is there any way we can bribe you with cookies into fixing weapon balance instead of nerfing specific mechs?

[Paul Inouye]

Just going back to the good old days of poking the dragon and running away.

Yes... JJs are being looked at and specifically the initial burst turn. And there are other Mechs on the firing range.