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[Fut]

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- gp_option_ShowCockpitGlass=0/1 (off/on)
- r_DepthOfField=0/1 (off/on)
- r_HDRGrainAmount=0.0-1.0 (film grain amount)

I understand the first and last one, but what does the Depth of Field change?

[PhoenixFire55]

Raggedyman, on 29 April 2014 - 11:38 AM, said:

except if you both have premium you can set up a 1 V 1 match, so I'll set up a mouse macro to put me into any game you want whilst I head out for the evening/watch a movie/go to sleep and you farm me to your hearts content.

And this is easy for devs to track and punish ... if they are willing to commit some effort into it. But instead they punish 99% of people who just want to play with friends instead of random people and still progress in game. Brilliant.

[Nightmare1]

So, when will the two things that I want most be added?

1) The ability to activate a select portion of Premium Time. For example, I have 45 days of Premium Time, but will be moving soon and cannot activate it because I will waste a significant portion of said Premium Time during the move. If I could activate ten days worth, then I would do that and save the rest for after my move! However, I can't because of the current set-up. Best case scenario, I would activate the ten days now and save the rest for fall when I head back to school, since I will not be able to play the game very often over the summertime.

2) Half the monitors in my cockpit still say "Auto/Input Signal: No" or whatever the exact quote is. I see where the kill meter was added in a while back, but when will the rest of the monitors actually be usable, or at least, look cosmetically pleasing? I know this is a minor issue, but it's been this way since Closed Beta...

[Darian DelFord]

OMG 5 minutes no match

Also why can we not select which mode anymore? I abhore Assault mode and only want skirmish.

Edited by Darian DelFord, 29 April 2014 - 11:45 AM.

[Bront]

PhoenixFire55, on 29 April 2014 - 11:37 AM, said:

No, read my reply above.

Your reply is stupid. The ability to farm XP/CB in Private matches is huge if it wasn't limited. It's 2 guys taking turns stripping parts off of mechs, or worse, setting up dummy accounts and letting those take the beating.

Now, if they offered 10% of normal rewards, maybe. But it's not worth the coding time at that point.

PhoenixFire55, on 29 April 2014 - 11:37 AM, said:

Name me any other F2P or P2W or whatever online game that doesn't allow you to only play with people you want for free.

Private matches take server resources and cost money. In MMORPGs, grouping is already a bit different (and to that end, you can group up in MWO like in most MMOs, making a team).

Aslo, World of Tanks I believe.

Another also, only 1 player needs premium time. Of up to 24. Hardly a big deal.

[WhoDidTheElf]

Worst patch ever.

I have not played conquest ever until this patch.

Thank you for forcing me to play a mode I never wished to play.

Honestly, it's mind numbingly stupid.

[AlmightyAeng]

Raggedyman, on 29 April 2014 - 11:38 AM, said:

except if you both have premium you can set up a 1 V 1 match, so I'll set up a mouse macro to put me into any game you want whilst I head out for the evening/watch a movie/go to sleep and you farm me to your hearts content. And I'll even do it for the low, low price of $1 a time, so you can cover my premium time and I'll make a profit. I'm not losing anything from it and It'll give me $1 / 6500 MC a month.

And don't say "will never happen", as Real Money Trading / Gold Farming (which this is basically what it would be) happens in every game when their is any chance of something like this going on.

Lol, what a waste of time and money. Considering nothing is actually transferable, farming is a non-issue. And, even if this DID happen (you'd make more money just playing and not failing, btw) the guy would end up in an ELO where he gets his ass handed to him. Just dumb, all around.

[Trevor Belmont]

Yep. Please allow us to select our mode again. This is crap. How did this get past testing?

[Bront]

Fut, on 29 April 2014 - 11:41 AM, said:

I understand the first and last one, but what does the Depth of Field change?

Depth of Field is blurring of things in the background. Basically, some mechs will go out of focus depending on where your target reticule is. I didn't even know it was in the game.

[AlmightyAeng]

Trevor Belmont, on 29 April 2014 - 11:46 AM, said:

Yep. Please allow us to select our mode again. This is crap. How did this get past testing?

On the test server, public solo queue COULD select game mode.

Fut, on 29 April 2014 - 11:41 AM, said:

I understand the first and last one, but what does the Depth of Field change?

Depth of field is what makes things farther away blurry and indistinct, allowing those Spider-generated PPC shots form 1k away to come out of nowhere.

[Semesis]

like others I cant even get into a public match..good thing I activated my premium time yesterday...oh wait good thing i have all these friends to play priv...oh wait nvm lol

Edited by Semesis, 29 April 2014 - 11:53 AM.

[Sidekick]

And don´t forget:

If you think the 3/3/3/3 is the lord of the flies, feel free to prove your point:
http://mwomercs.com/...-pressure-test/

[Featherwood]

Trevor Belmont, on 29 April 2014 - 11:46 AM, said:

Yep. Please allow us to select our mode again. This is crap. How did this get past testing?

I think it was disabled to merge all pug players into one queue (from 3) in order to decrease match searching time. But yeah, I don't like it either.

[Bilbo]

Trevor Belmont, on 29 April 2014 - 11:46 AM, said:

Yep. Please allow us to select our mode again. This is crap. How did this get past testing?

They removed the ability to choose to remove a bug. There's supposed to be a hotfix in the pipe.

[ipox]

Iqfish, on 29 April 2014 - 11:34 AM, said:

Oh I could easily organize 10 or more people in my unit and we make a farmparty, everyone would have a round of pure farming

Your concept does NOT work and would be exploited.

Not to mention the ALREADY FARMING second account people who syncdrop (solo) and kill their own secondary. In private? Gameable system even more.

[Biaxialrain]

Ok, just tried again and after 3 minutes got a "failed to find a match" message.

After spending upwards of $150 on this game over the last few weeks, yes, I'm sure others have spent more, this patch needs to be addressed ASAP.

Is the goal to have less people playing MW:O?

[Raggedyman]

PhoenixFire55, on 29 April 2014 - 11:42 AM, said:

And this is easy for devs to track and punish ... if they are willing to commit some effort into it. But instead they punish 99% of people who just want to play with friends instead of random people and still progress in game. Brilliant.

so the devs, who are already behind on developing all the things you want in the game, should enter into a never ending game of cat-and-mouse to stop abuse of private matches (which, according to PGI stats, are never going to be a majority used element as most people are solo players/PUGers) rather than put time into putting in actual game features?

Screw that.

How about a nice, simple approach of "if you want to get the enjoyment of XP/CBills/Achievements you PUG, if you want to get the enjoyment of playing with your mates you Private Match".

Or would you like to have your cake and eat it?

[IGuardianI]

Iqfish, on 29 April 2014 - 11:05 AM, said:

PhoenixFire55, on 29 April 2014 - 11:02 AM, said:

1.5 years of waiting for private matches only to get this ...

3/3/3/3 - restriction - inability to make a proper MM that balances teams without this - fail.
One group per team - restriction - inability to balance groups amount in MM - fail
No exp/c-bills in private matches - inability to prevent mythical exploits without killing fun for normal players - fail.
No option to change amount of players in free private matches - epic moneygrab - fail.
No social system whatsoever to find people for your private matches without 3rd party software - utter fail.

Your PUGwarrior online is bad PGI, nobody wants to play it. Trying to squeeze money out of people who are sick of playing with random individuals instead of their team in a team-based game will only lead to people spedning less and less. Its about time you realized that people are already leaving your game in thousands, good hardcore MW fans who'd stayed here long and supported the game if it was fun.

Some people...

You seem to lost every faith in the game, PGI and everyone else.
Why don't you just leave and stop ruining the fun for people here?

While he may be bitter and untasteful in his post he is right, and speaks for a lot of MechWarrior fans. He is also a Legendary Founder so its kind of hard to see someone ruin good aspects to old MechWarrior games and lore just to increase what PGI thinks it should be.

A game developer that wants and expects the community to fund its game should not be making it what they think it should be; PGI needs to pay attention to their community and realize they continue to lose sizable chunks of the people that fund their efforts because of poor decision making like this. Its okay to piss some people off almost no matter what you implement you will always do so, but PGI needs to listen to the majority and give them what they want if they expect this game to keep on going. A few examples of thriving games/developers because they add things and take things away because they listen to their communities is Blizzard: World of Warcraft, the upcoming RSI: Star Citizen, and The Elder Scrolls Online by ZeniMax Online Studios. All of these added or took features away by listening and and implementing changes to items that the majority of the community wanted. (So side note: please get a clue PGI and realize if you ever want a shot of having a long term money making game you need to start acting like these developers or you will drive your business to the ground and end up like all the other F2P MMOs that carelessly thought they "knew" better and are now making thousands a month and not millions).

The 3/3/3/3 issue is a very valid issue it doesn't even comply with lore. It may be a minor issue but still it is sad that you would take away from any kind of piece of the "heart" of MechWarrior lore even no matter how minimal.

The no exp/c-bills in private matches I think is a success, because you will have a lot of people just letting their buddies farm off of free kills if you allowed exp/c-bills in private matches. There is a possible exploit there and the lack of exp/c-bills in private matches is good.

The limitations of what you can do in a private match because you're not a premium player, sad attempt at a money grab, shows lack of respect for its players and community and very disheartening. But really doesn't make any difference to its community in the grand scheme of things.

No social system will hurt the private match aspect. We have the forums but that gets tedious and not all players use the forums. This is definitely a needed addition as well.

Finally, I don't know who you community adviser is or if you even have one, but he/she needs to be fired or get one!

[Caballo]

After introducing the parameter to remove the film grain, it's still there. The squares are not so noticeable, but it's still there. ¿Is this some kind of joke i don't get?

[condor1X1]

waited for two matches so far once in an assult class and once in medium class...over 5 minuites each time and still searching???



wow really hope this is just cause people aint on right now