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[Svidro]

Wondering what the playerbase is looking like this weekend/patch. I certainly haven't gotten good all of a sudden, and I'm getting failed to find match left and right, sometimes even when I pick "Any." LRMageddon finally drive everyone off? Wildstar beta?

Calling it a night on account of 10+ minutes between games

[RG870]

I decided to take another break from MWO till the LRM insanity is over. Gonna login for a few games to get my event reward but that will be about it. That LRM spam gameplay at the moment is no fun to me. I'd love to flank / brawl but with 11 teammates camping in cover spamming thousands of LRMs and the other team doing the same that's not working anymore.

[That Dawg]

Haven't had a ten minute wait, but increasingly it seems I'm waiting 90+ seconds for a match.
honestly if you read "reviews" from online gaming magazines etc they are beating the crap out of MWO.
maybe its run its course. hope not, got some money tied up in it, but so be it

[B0oN]

Im hazarding the guess of going away in search of greener pastures ...

[Ovion]

I've only sunk about £9 into it (3000MC) for some paint and Mechbays (and will likely put in a few more later for more mechbays once I grind enough to buy 15 more mechs, I'm going to need at least 3 more for the 24 mechs I currently want.
And probably a few more after that as new shinies will have been released. Like the Flea.).

But regardless of how much money we've put in, I'm sure we want it to stick around so we can get our monies worth out of it.

But then, I'm not seeing the problem with LRMs tbh.

I've ran an LRM boat (Catapults) since I started (As well as Locusts and Centurions now), and it's marginally easier to hit with LRMs now yes.
But in the 21 matches I've had chance to play, I've not died once to LRMs.
Ballistics / Lasers / SRMs once, but not LRMs.

I guess what I'm trying to say is.... ******* be crazy.

[Tonberry King]

First I quit because I found out that the XL engines that I grinded for weeks to buy, made your mech more vulnerable to death, and the current tooltips at the time failed to inform me of that.

Now, I'm playing with a 2-year old $500 laptop, it's not so much out-dated but it's just not strong enough to handle this game. And I want to buy a new gaming PC but I don't have a job and PC parts get out-dated monthly.

Nextly, this company hasn't done a THING to promote. I mean seriously, how do you expect to get gamers, if you SECRETLY make this game???

[Ovion]

Tonberry King, on 22 March 2014 - 05:29 AM, said:

First I quit because I found out that the XL engines that I grinded for weeks to buy, made your mech more vulnerable to death, and the current tooltips at the time failed to inform me of that.

Now, I'm playing with a 2-year old $500 laptop, it's not so much out-dated but it's just not strong enough to handle this game. And I want to buy a new gaming PC but I don't have a job and PC parts get out-dated monthly.

Nextly, this company hasn't done a THING to promote. I mean seriously, how do you expect to get gamers, if you SECRETLY make this game???

Fun tip, things don't get outdated monthly anymore, unless you're one of these nutters that wants a 'bleeding edge' PC.

As a general rule, 4-6GB+ of RAM, a 3-5 core 64bit processer of 2.4GHZ+, and a 512mb+ graphics card is enough.
My machine is 8gb of ram, a 2.5GHz Quad Core, 1GB of graphics memory and is 6 years old now.
Haven't found a game I can't run yet, though I'm considering a better graphics card. Nothing too fancy, just something with 1-2GB and DXlatest.

MWO runs comfortably on Medium.
I can build a solid gaming rig for £300-400 these days (and am about to for my fiancee) that'll hold up and be fine for years.


ALSO - XLs CAN make you more vulnerable, but they're significantly lighter, and for certain mechs, well worth it.

Brawlers, maybe not.
Lights / Support mechs? Very yes.
(Which reminds me... I need to start grinding for an XL175 or 190 to go in my Locust... there's a fun one - Engine worth twice as much as the mech.)

Edited by Ovion, 22 March 2014 - 05:57 AM.

[Vaderman]

Tonberry King, on 22 March 2014 - 05:29 AM, said:

First I quit because I found out that the XL engines that I grinded for weeks to buy, made your mech more vulnerable to death, and the current tooltips at the time failed to inform me of that.

Now, I'm playing with a 2-year old $500 laptop, it's not so much out-dated but it's just not strong enough to handle this game. And I want to buy a new gaming PC but I don't have a job and PC parts get out-dated monthly.

Nextly, this company hasn't done a THING to promote. I mean seriously, how do you expect to get gamers, if you SECRETLY make this game???

Never buy a laptop for gaming. You can get twice the machine for half the money.

The above post is right though, in the last 3 years I've been running the same rig, other than a $250 video card I bought this year. It's not like it was 10 years ago.

[OnLashoc]

I just hope this thing doesn't go belly up before CW...

I will be very burnt over this.

[Ironwithin]

Search times definately are waaay longer compared to a week or two ago.

[Cest7]

The mere 1000 people browsing the website reminds me of the closed beta days...

[Cmdr Kat]

The answer is easy. Until they sort the LRM frenzy, MWO is officially off my play list.

See you after the next patch to see if any better and if not, seriously considering uninstalling.

[Captain Pabst]

Yea, the LRM bs is why I'm playing Titanfall a little more.

[Xenok]

I uninstalled the game today. The cabiin shake from LRMs is once agian rediculous. The game has had little or no real progress since closed beta and I think it was a better game when it went open beta than it is today.

One very frustrated person who loves Battletech.

[Zordicron]

Regardless of if you think the new LRM stuff is good or not, no one can deny that it has completely polarized the community and undoubtedly chased off some players, even if temporarily.

IMO, I just really do not understand why they lumped in the speed increase with the narc stuff. Seems like narc should have easily been enough to give LRM a buff, what with 30 seconds of counter ECM and no tag laser to point out exactly where the spotter is. Oh well, I guess some players liked the hide behind rocks for 10 minutes match play of last summer. At least poptart spam most maps offered plenty of cover from.

[Mystere]

Eldagore, on 22 March 2014 - 03:14 PM, said:

Regardless of if you think the new LRM stuff is good or not, no one can deny that it has completely polarized the community and undoubtedly chased off some players, even if temporarily.

I don't know about you. But, I've been here long enough to notice that almost anything seems to polarize the player base.

Edited by Mystere, 22 March 2014 - 03:36 PM.

[OnLashoc]

Mystere, on 22 March 2014 - 03:36 PM, said:

I don't know about you. But, I've been here long enough to notice that almost anything seems to polarize the player base.

So why stir the hornets nest unnecessarily with weapon tweaks at this point in the game?

[Mystere]

OnLashoc, on 22 March 2014 - 05:07 PM, said:

So why stir the hornets nest unnecessarily with weapon tweaks at this point in the game?

Because it was probably needed?

Here's another reason: a large number of gamers, online or otherwise, have a tendency to whine about anything and everything.

[FrerkShow]

I really like to play, but with the new patch i catch a file corruption bug. Cant play the game.
Tried the pather repair, tried reinstall the game. Nothing worked out. Grrrr. And now i am week out of home. Hope the support dicides to help me with this problem...I e-mail to them on thursday.

[Orbit Rain]

I'm between ISP's, can *sorta* play on my phone's 4G, but only on off times, and it's fluctuating packet transmission makes it pretty horrible...Otherwise I too would be making people QQ with my LRM's

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