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[Mister Blastman]

No SRM fixes or balance fixes.

N.O.P.E. !!!!!!!!!!

Also, no smurfy Mechlab UI. That was supposed to be a month away after initial release?

Double N.O.P.E. !!!!!!!!! Swing and a miss.

[mad kat]

Calamus, on 20 May 2014 - 01:17 PM, said:

Meteorology and PGI employee. The only two jobs where you can get it wrong 90% of the time and STILL HAVE A JOB!

Except one difference some weather girls are rather hot!

[Raggedyman]

On the plus side I've been able to make a rather nice cheese toasty and mug of coffee whilst waiting for my game to start.
On the down side I haven't been able to PEWPEWLAZERBEAMIAMAWALKINGMETALGOD!!!

Win some, lose some.

_{Protip: marmite and camembert is the new meta}

[xCico]

3/3/3/3 is great and all but with ELO classes this will never work properly, it is working but searching is thing that stops 3/3/3/3... You should try how it will go without ELO

[Harathan]

Raggedyman, on 20 May 2014 - 01:23 PM, said:

_{Protip: marmite and camembert is the new meta}

You're disgusting, get out.

[Goose]

Nikolai Lubkiewicz, on 20 May 2014 - 01:03 PM, said:

R&R went away for a different reason …

The system also provided a pretty brutal edge-case: Players can always find a way to put their Mechs into too much disrepair to send them into battle, and yet have already spent their CBills on equipment or such, preventing further play. While a workaround was introduced through Trial Mechs, the situation arising itself can be too demoralizing to many players in an online environment where one expects continuous progression and cannot simply load up their last saved checkpoint.

"Edge-case," was it? And all the guys playing Std engined Hero 'Mechs, so they could make a little cash despite the expected loss to someone in a full-race unit? Was that not "edge?"

R&R was bad: That no one seriously suggests Elo could prevent R&R from inverting the current normal-distribution bell-curve might just tell us more about matchmaker then R&R …

[East Indy]

Just want to thank you guys at PGI for working on matchmaking improvements, especially with a lot of the grief you've gotten this afternoon.

It kills me to see 3s offline again when players are largely swept away by how much better an experience games with broad representation can be. I'm bummed. I hope to see your efforts bear fruit.

[cSand]

Calamus, on 20 May 2014 - 01:12 PM, said:

You don't think they need a customer to show up at their doorstep and give them a piece of his mind? I've spent close to $400 in 1.5 years on the game, I think that entitles me to some feedback.

I don't actually. Ultimately, this isn't a big deal

sh*t happens

get over it

Yea it sucks that you can't play right now but god forbid you have to do something else while they fix a problem

Niko is doing a good job at least of letting us know what's going on

So yea


Just calm down everyone, your precious gaming time will be back soon enough and you can commence freaking out about other petty issues once again

Edited by cSand, 20 May 2014 - 01:26 PM.

[Clideb50]

Nikolai Lubkiewicz, on 20 May 2014 - 11:36 AM, said:

Repost due to button mashing error: Alright everyone. Matchmaking numbers continued to spike with Rule of Three's. So we are adjusting this Class Limit to a maximum of 4s. This means any of the following variations of weight classing will be possible:

3/3/3/3
4/3/3/2
4/4/3/1
4/4/2/2
4/4/4/0
etc..

We are going to see how this works out, there remains a strong possibility we will have to further increase this maximum or altogether shut off the class limits and revert back to group limits in the interim, so please stay tuned here. We are playing by ear on this one as we build the data. Thanks again for standing by.

And there was much rejoicing. Seriously, I was so sick of nothing but meta heavies and assaults. Now to go drop in my Centurions and Hunchbacks again. (yay)

EDIT: Aww, disabled again? Oh well, glad to see you guys working hard on it.

Edited by Regulus1990, 20 May 2014 - 01:33 PM.

[Raggedyman]

Harathan, on 20 May 2014 - 01:24 PM, said:

You're disgusting, get out.

I'm sorry but I can't hear you over HOW AWESOME MY TOASTY IS!!

Would talk update but still waiting for the game to start.

[Calamus]

Flaming oblivion, on 20 May 2014 - 01:19 PM, said:

Might not be there fault the games been a unbalanced grind fest for that long there simply isn't the player base anymore to balance it , everyone jumped ship , may not be a poorly implemented patch that's the issue, rather a poor track record.

So how is that not their fault?

[Harathan]

cSand, on 20 May 2014 - 01:25 PM, said:

I don't actually. Ultimately, this isn't a bit deal

sh*t happens

get over it

Yea it sucks that you can't play right now but god forbid you have to do something else while they fix a problem

Niko is doing a good job at least of letting us know what's going on

So yea


Just calm down everyone, your precious gaming time will be back soon enough and you can commence freaking out about other petty issues once again

Yep, Niko is doing a fab job. But if you think spending $400 on something doesn't entitle you to an opinion on that thing, then you have more money than sense.

[Solahma]

Perhaps in the future, you can declare Patch Day as Beta Feature day where you freeze premium time on accounts and implement the new feature (in this case 3/3/3/3 and 1-group per team). Announcing it as a BETA and test will help your reputation. People then assume that there will be issues instead of assuming the product to work flawlessly and complete.

Also, have a method of reverting the patch quickly and easily for when the "Beta Feature" period is over.

Similar to you Public Tests, but a lot more wide-spread and a much larger player count.

[cSand]

Harathan, on 20 May 2014 - 01:27 PM, said:

Yep, Niko is doing a fab job. But if you think spending $400 on something doesn't entitle you to an opinion on that thing, then you have more money than sense.

Hey I didn't say that, of course you can have an opinion

but over reaction is over reaction no matter how you slice it

Edited by cSand, 20 May 2014 - 01:30 PM.

[Calamus]

cSand, on 20 May 2014 - 01:25 PM, said:

I don't actually. Ultimately, this isn't a big deal

sh*t happens

get over it

Yea it sucks that you can't play right now but god forbid you have to do something else while they fix a problem

Niko is doing a good job at least of letting us know what's going on

So yea


Just calm down everyone, your precious gaming time will be back soon enough and you can commence freaking out about other petty issues once again

If only this was an isolated incident you might have a point. 1.5 years ago I might have taken the same position you are now.

[TKSax]

up to 15mins waiting for a match in a medium right now...

[mad kat]

Managed two games (where we were promptly annihilated due to a crap team) and still sat here waiting for a match to connect......

[Calamus]

TKSax, on 20 May 2014 - 01:30 PM, said:

up to 15mins waiting for a match in a medium right now...

Just log off. There's no point in beating your head against a wall, until they get it fixed. And it's not socially or legally acceptable to beat their heads against a wall.

[Harathan]

cSand, on 20 May 2014 - 01:29 PM, said:

Hey I didn't say that, of course you can have an opinion

but over reaction is over reaction no matter how you slice it

But then over-reaction is entirely subjective mate. For $400, I'd turn up at someone's doorstep. People only hand wave because they've got it into their heads that because it's a video game, we should expect it not to work. We *shouldnt* expect it not to work.

That being said, I would'nt blow $400 on a video game, so....

[Rubidiy]

It's just an impression after 10-15 drops, but matchmaker seems to work pretty well so far. My team was roflstomped once, but because of a good reason. Same was when my team roflstomped enemies. Other matches were pretty equal.