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[DemonRaziel]

So that one game, when I fought 3 Echos a Romeo and a Sierra was a little confusing and made calling targets via letter designations next to impossible. The fact, that 'Mechs change their letters mid-game is seriously annoying (lot more so than having weird letters like R or S) and a fix would be welcome as soon as possible.

But the newest targeting-related issue I have run into is that even though I targeted a 'Mech (pressed the "R" button) I did not get any readings. I was able to target every other 'Mech in game, just not a particular Cent' (in one game) or whatnot (in other games). I checked with my teammates and they had the same issue with the Cent (I was dropping solo when I had the issue again, and didn't describe the issue to PUGs, so no feedback on those other occasions) - we couldn't target it, and thus get any info on its loadout or damage and that is a serious gameplay affecting issue.

Please look into it and make sure you can get rid of this bug.

Aand as a side note, also please make the new UI actually user friendly, not a convoluted and overly complicated mess that is missing the key information and is a chore to navigate trough.

It's as if it was designed by the same guy who has brought us the Ghost Heat - needlessly complicated and not doing what it is supposed to or doing it in the most complicated way possible.

[Marvyn Dodgers]

If it happens again, try taking some screenshots and attaching them, a DXDiag and an Omicron log to a support ticket listing time (and timezone) date and map.

Hopefully it was just a transient issue, happy hunting!

[DemonRaziel]

Happened a few times actually (the messed up letter designations happens more often than not, the targeting issue is less frequent but a more severe bug).

It's impossible to screenshot something not happening, but I'll try to make a video with a commentary.

I just found a thread that discusses the second issue and luckily it seems the devs are already looking into it, so that's good news. Hoping to see this fixed soon (the non-TM version).

http://mwomercs.com/...geting-problem/

[Thanatos676]

I was targeting a Victor and right before my eyes he went from L to M to N. All this happened while i was trying to get my teammates to target the Victor which didn't happen near fast enough because of this issue.

[Dirk Le Daring]

Marvyn, this is not transient. All of the people I played with since the patch are experiencing this.

Seems most noticeable with M and N. But others change too.

We speculated that this would relate to there being 6 extra targets, being the turrets. Though they show no designation in game, therefore I am thinking that it may be related. So it would seem that M,N,O,P,Q,R just may be randomly floating.

Come to think of it, there seemed to be a loss and regaining of target correlation.....Have M in view and targeted, lose sight of M, and lose lock, resight same mech, lock, designation N. Just a thought.

Hope this may help.

[Corvus Antaka]

Maybe they should keep the new system. Make focus fire harder

[BrownRubberSafetyPants]

Transient issue? *facepalm and shaking head*

It is a constant issue and makes the 12v12's much more difficult.

Perhaps the developers should play the game more often or are they tired of seeing the broken mechanics?

[ImperialKnight]

constant issue since UI2.0 introduction. already reported multiple times, see if they fix in next patch.

[JohnAzussa]

BrownRubberSafetyPants, on 15 February 2014 - 09:45 PM, said:

Transient issue? *facepalm and shaking head*

On that point, even if it WAS a transient issue, is that acceptable?

"oh it happens but only sometimes" - is that actually better?