Okay i'll bite. Honest feedback incoming!
Scrotacus 42, on 19 April 2014 - 02:40 PM, said:
Look, theres no other interesting games to play except Dark Souls 2.......and the meta for that game is even more infuriating than this one. Look I know how to make this game better without breaking your balls. Do exactly as I say to the letter and the game will be much better.
Your opinion. Others get upset if you state it as fact.
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1: Put lrms back to about 140 m/s (still better than original 120). Lrms were damn annoying anyway now this game is not fun because of them. You've got these crippled missile boats and so I try to lead a light mech or a pack of them back to my team AND THEY CANT DO SHIT ABOUT IT BECAUSE THEYRE A BUNCH OF GODDAMN MISSILE BOATS. The rest of the team is too busy with their PPCs shoved so far up their ass they don't notice or cant hit a light mech with them anyway so they don help either. Oh, and I cant TALK TO THEM AND ASK FOR HELP Infuriating, see next point.
Anyone who knows my posting history knows my views on LRM's...they suck!
Having said that i have been occasionally hit by them in the past few days so i'm glad they are basically useable now. I was even killed by LRM's a few days ago (which has happened maybe a handful of times out of thousands of matches since closed beta), which made me happy even if it was mostly my own fault
Imo indirect-fire needs a slight nerf and direct-fire needs a big buff...mostly by fighting on battlefields instead of arena's.
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2: Put voice chat in the game for the love of whatever deity you worship. Its so bad that I cant even try to help the pugglefish and im sick of getting rolled 12-4 because your matchmaker keeps putting me and my 4-man lance-mates up against 6-10 assault mechs and my teammates are bunch of ragtag people with no tonnage or ecm. I can tell within 1 minute even if theres no score just by the way the other team moves and the mech composition my team is lacking that im gonna get steamrolled again. I am almost always right. There is no argument for not having in game voice chat, don't even bother trying to make some feeble case against it. You don't like certain people? Mute them. Simple.
Already gave my opinion on that elsewhere in the thread.
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3: Everyone in the community needs to stop using the word "drop" until pgi lets lance commanders pick where the lances actually spawn or "drop" at. For immersions sake, include a dropping through the atmosphere cutscene. If we had *cough* voice chat *cough* then we could talk to each other and form a plan and hash out where to meet, where to send scouts. It would also prevent every map from playing out the same on every match as there would be less use of these silly unofficial meeting spots on every map. Alpine is a snore. River City and Caustic is basically NASCAR with mechs, Terra Thrma is......well Ill address that in a second.
Well a cutscene would be nice, but so would the drop sequence/voice they used at the launch party (Please PGI please!
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As for sorting out a plan...for PUG's no. The idea of PUG's is just drop and fight...no messing around, and AFAIK premades on VOIP already make plans.
I don't really see the need for players/teams to be able to choose where to drop. It would have to be extremely limited to stop teams just dropping on each other to have a 3-minute brawlfest. It just doesn't seem worth it tbh.
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4: Nerf arty down to 25 or 30 points per shell (again still considerably stronger than the 15 it was originally). 40 points is just asinine, it ruins 12 mans and it isn't any fun really in any circumstance. Don't tell me to move, im not stupid, I probably tried that. But since I cant communicate with my team no one can call it out for me, see the problem? I usually avoid it or the enemy puts it in a spot I can see easily, but if I DO get hit by it, then I might as well quit, my match is ruined. I pilot lights and mediums, its not fair to penalize pilots like me just cause everyone else without balls or a sense of creativity wants to use some ******* cheese mech. Oh by the way, in case you haven't noticed, making arty that strong has done ****-all nothing to shift the meta, so don't come up in here with that weaksauce tryin to tell me otherwise. I play 12 mans, it doesn't accomplish shit, if anything it ensures the other team is gonna go heavy to survive it.
And again, I move all the time, but occasionally someone actually puts it in a spot you cant see it, or you get stuck on geometry.
I don't have a problem with arty. I rarely get caught in it even in my slowest mech (53kph Stalker). Maybe i'm just lucky.
I don't use arty because it's expensive but have tried it a couple of times, and once did manage to obliterate a mech that was chasing me in my 3L
But no...no real opinion on arty.
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5: Let company commanders pick where to put the base and turrets in assault mode, see point number 3 for the reason why.
Same reply as drop areas really. Makes the start of the match too long for little difference.
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6: Lets make terra therma an ice map except leave the volcanos and lava. Ambient temp would be nice and cool, but the lava and center 'thunderdome" area leave alone. Why? To disincentivize people from trudging to the middle every time like a bunch of special needs lemmings, because after all who really wants to fight in the middle if that's the only place that's so hot you can barely fight?. Then we could actually use the rest of the map which is much more interesting and has lots of neat terrain.
I'm not sure why you want Terra Therma changed. I mean, i personally don't love that map but at least it's some variety...sort of. Also, i avoid Theta as much as possible
I think the map looks nice, and don't mind the heat too much (as it affects everyone to a certain degree), but i do think the layout is quite bad...lots of little corridors with a central area. Too much cover imo.
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7: Please make engines a little cheaper and please please please make mechs have engines that make some ******* sense when you buy them. I bought a Wolverine 6k, which aside from its loltastically inferior hard point layout and lack of jumpjets (plus no extra weapons to make up for it) comes with a totally useless engine. A STD 275, really? What in THE **** role can a medium mech fill that goes 81 kph and mediocre short range firepower? ****-all that's what. Do you guys ever play this game yourselves pgi? Even worse the super expensive Wolverine, the 7k, comes with an XL-275. Again, wtf. Its a lame duck engine, I now have to sell it, grinf for 3 mil more c-bills and then go buy a 280 that weights the same, and that's still too slow anyway. It wouldn't cut your peckers off just to give me the proper engine in the first place. I don't give two shits about the table top game, this isnt tabletop, I don't care what the technical readout says, the game is not set up to be played in a role specific way where militaries in the real world might opt to strip a bunch or armor and sacrifice engine speed to craft some bullshit medium mech that goes 70-80kph for urban fighting. Im sorry that just does not work in this game. Just don't give ma a lame duck engine like the 250 or 275 or any of the other ones that weight the same as their next up counterpart. The only exceptions are when that is my MAXIMUM engine size. But it never is, so stop it.
PGI sells stock mechs in their game where stock mech "don't work"...according to some (i agree that heat sinks and the heat system in general don't work).
I have a HBK-4G that has a speed of 80pkh+ (can't remember exactly) and do quite well in it.
I'm not sure why you're saying you need to save for a slightly bigger engine with the same weight. Do you not customize your mechs much? I don't, but i've never had a problem making C-Bills either so i've never understood why anyone complains about "the grind"
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8: Make it so I can buy all the colors colors with c-bills. Just do it, I don't need a reason, it would just be nice, and god knows you have enough other ways to make money.
Well they have to make money somehow or the game would never get better... *resists the urge to make a sarcastic remark*.
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There that's all for now, and most of this stuff could be done in a jiffy. My word is final, my arguments are infallible, and my anger is righteous. JUST DO IT!.
I can see that you're not being serious there, but some players are **** and will respond very negatively. If like me you don't care about those players all is fine