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[Flaming oblivion]

Vassago Rain, on 21 May 2014 - 03:48 PM, said:

Missiles are this functional right now.

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Yes. You can push your eyeballs back in now.

Not sure what I was watching there tbh., What's the deal PGI ?

[Pyrrho]

Vassago Rain, on 21 May 2014 - 03:48 PM, said:

Missiles are this functional right now.

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Yes. You can push your eyeballs back in now.

I... uh... wait. What?

[Ninthshadow]

Vassago Rain, on 21 May 2014 - 03:48 PM, said:

Missiles are this functional right now.

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Yes. You can push your eyeballs back in now.

The hell did I just watch...

[Pyrrho]

You saw it here first! Your missiles are more likely to kill you than take off an enemy's arm!

Then again.... when did that get recorded?

[Bilbo]

Pyrrho, on 21 May 2014 - 03:58 PM, said:

You saw it here first! Your missiles are more likely to kill you than take off an enemy's arm!

Then again.... when did that get recorded?

My guess would be before they turned of the splash damage.

[Pyrrho]

Bilbo, on 21 May 2014 - 04:01 PM, said:

My guess would be before they turned of the splash damage.

They never actually turned it off. IIRC, Paul had it narrowed to .05m or something trivial. In the video, it looks like the Shadow-hawk is in full on clipping mode with the target. Just curious, though, Vass what more can you tell us about this little gem?

[wanderer]

Vassago Rain, on 21 May 2014 - 03:48 PM, said:

Missiles are this functional right now.

View My Video

Yes. You can push your eyeballs back in now.

LOL. Your SRMs are actually splashing BACK on you for hideous levels of damage while inflicting nearly nothing on the target. Guess it reads it's damage reduction for distance code as "hurt you even MORE" if the range is a negative and/or it's attempting to divide by zero.

[vortmax]

Vassago Rain, on 21 May 2014 - 03:48 PM, said:

Missiles are this functional right now.

View My Video

Yes. You can push your eyeballs back in now.

Duplicated this on my HBK-4SP. However, it only worked vs. a CN9 target dummy. Have to move up so that the AC10 arm is in your chest, then fire point-blank. Nearly took my own head off with 4 volleys of 2xSRM4.

[ackstorm]

Thanks PGI! Look forwarding to having balanced missiles back. Any chance we are going to get an explanation of what happened?

[Tsig]

ackstorm, on 21 May 2014 - 04:09 PM, said:

Thanks PGI! Look forwarding to having balanced missiles back. Any chance we are going to get an explanation of what happened?

They've already given a possible reason. They put some code in for the Clan LRMs with the last patch. That's the only thing that they changed in the patch that had to do with missiles, so it's the only possible culprit.

[Koniving]

Cest7, on 21 May 2014 - 01:46 PM, said:

What Broke? More details plz.

Details.
All missiles adopted a scaling damage range: full damage at max range, 0 damage at 0 meters.
Closer you were the less you did.

[Flaming oblivion]

well I'll be able to log in once its fixed.@Koniving- And ofcourse firing missiles at 1k range with there travel speed and your ability to hold a lock even with bap and adv sensor range and adv target decay is desirable .

Edited by Flaming oblivion, 21 May 2014 - 04:19 PM.

[FactorlanP]

ackstorm, on 21 May 2014 - 04:09 PM, said:

Thanks PGI! Look forwarding to having balanced missiles back.

Are you expecting that SRMs will actually work correctly after this Hot Fix? Or by "balanced" do you mean how they were on Monday?

[Koniving]

Nikolai Lubkiewicz, on 21 May 2014 - 04:01 PM, said:

The hot fix is scheduled for 6:30PM PDT / 9:30 PM EDT / 12:30 AM UTC

I feel this can't come fast enough. I'd like to use my Trebuchets.
Thank you.

[Deathlike]

Koniving, on 21 May 2014 - 04:16 PM, said:

Details.
All missiles adopted a scaling damage range: full damage at max range, 0 damage at 0 meters.
Closer you were the less you did.

Well, Vassago's video (linked a couple times in this thread) is showing major hilarity in self-dealt splash damage.

[Koniving]

FactorlanP, on 21 May 2014 - 04:17 PM, said:

Are you expecting that SRMs will actually work correctly after this Hot Fix? Or by "balanced" do you mean how they were on Monday?

Monday most likely.

Deathlike, on 21 May 2014 - 04:18 PM, said:

Well, Vassago's video (linked a couple times in this thread) is showing major hilarity in self-dealt splash damage.

I was too pissed off to do real testing at my own expense, with my premium time draining during this whole fiasco. Two days right down the drain.

[Morgana]

wanderer, on 21 May 2014 - 04:04 PM, said:

LOL. Your SRMs are actually splashing BACK on you for hideous levels of damage while inflicting nearly nothing on the target. Guess it reads it's damage reduction for distance code as "hurt you even MORE" if the range is a negative and/or it's attempting to divide by zero.

I actually killed myself with my own streaks. I swear they bounced off the back of a Raven's rear torso. There were no other mechs around, especially not within streak range. Yet it read I killed myself with streaks. Glad to hear this got resolved.

[FactorlanP]

Koniving, on 21 May 2014 - 04:17 PM, said:

I feel this can't come fast enough. I'd like to use my Trebuchets.
Thank you.

It's funny. I haven't played for at least a couple months. I just got involved with a new Table Top group at the local game store, so I've been kind of BattleTech pumped for the last couple days. I was going to actually play yesterday, and then today... But no way I am logging in until they clear this disaster up.

[Vassago Rain]

Bilbo, on 21 May 2014 - 04:01 PM, said:

My guess would be before they turned of the splash damage.

Splash was never turned off. They simply made it 5 cm.

[Vassago Rain]

Pyrrho, on 21 May 2014 - 04:03 PM, said:

They never actually turned it off. IIRC, Paul had it narrowed to .05m or something trivial. In the video, it looks like the Shadow-hawk is in full on clipping mode with the target. Just curious, though, Vass what more can you tell us about this little gem?

The cent has his arm almost clipping through the shaq's CT, who then shoots the arm. Magically, the confused missile code decides that hardly any damage should be dealt to the 48 lifepoint cent arm, while splash combined with normal SRM self-ouch swiftly depletes shaq's 101 CT lifepoints.

Here's the same SRM load versus a different target.

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Pyrrho, on 21 May 2014 - 03:58 PM, said:

You saw it here first! Your missiles are more likely to kill you than take off an enemy's arm!

Then again.... when did that get recorded?

About 3 hours ago.