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[Kyle Polulak]

Greetings MechWarriors,

Several members of the community recently offered us a list of features and changes they felt would greatly improve the game. We took it upon ourselves to review this list and generate a poll for you to help us assess desirability on some of the listed items.

As we analyzed the list, our focus was to to be on features which were low-risk, could be easily accomplished en-route to CW, and/or were not otherwise earmarked for later in the pipeline.

To give us an idea of which feature requests to focus on and their priority, we have two similar questions posed before you. The first asks which you would like to see most of all (single-choice). The second asks which others are of great interest to you (multiple-choice).

We are eager to see your votes! We will be closing this poll next Tuesday at approximately 4PM PDT.

[Nothing Whatsoever]

Awesome.

I'm hoping for Hardpoint Ordering, lets see how the vote goes!

[AgroAlba]

Go go ammo explosion sounds!! I really miss the old sounds and cockpit shake as the ammo cooked off. Really awesome.

[Pygar]

Better filtering options in the Mechlab would also be a nice addition. (no more trial mechs clogging my mech bay please.)

I voted for some kind of streamlined system for reloading consumables between matches as my high priority request otherwise- that one really drags down team play a lot.

Edited by Pygar, 18 June 2014 - 12:41 PM.

[mack sabbath]

FOV slider would be great, no idea why it isn't already in game in settings, so much else is.

[NUK3]

Color coded Death-Messages ftw! Well, actually I'd like to see everything at some time!

[Jman5]

Ugh this is so hard to choose! So many features I want! I ended up choosing color coded death messages, but it was very close to several others.

Some like FOV slider I don't really care about because it's programable in the user config file.

[Monky]

Custom hardpoint ordering is #1 - I ASSUME this means being able to choose which weapon goes in which hardpoint when multiple hardpoints are available in that section.

Consumable auto restock is #2, - Definitely needed but doesn't hurt the actual play experience like #1 does

Target Destroyed is #3 because this is feckin mechwarrior, c'mon. TARGET DESTROYED.

Awesome poll btw

Edited by Monky, 18 June 2014 - 12:49 PM.

[CyclonerM]

AMS toggle! Bindable mouse wheel!

[Treysef]

First the AMS toggle, then hardpoint ordering, then everything else, please. Gotta get cleaned up before CW!

[Noober]

This is a great list, difficult to choose between restock, AMS toggle, hard point ordering and fov slider!

[Neanot]

Also, toggle TAG.

[Parihelion]

A filter or sort option for the mechlab please.
Or better yet.. allow us to break our one big list into smaller groups.
Kinda like folders. Let us name them and drag/drop mechs between folders (or dropships/bays/stables what have you).
I have at any one time 10-15 mechs stripped and not being played, all those @#$@#$ trial mechs, plus a few I might have equipped but not being played (the old 6 PPC stalker comes to mind). I might have some I have equippend and need XP for so I want them selectable. ETC ETC

Edited by Parihelion, 18 June 2014 - 12:53 PM.

[Prezimonto]

All of the above, please!

[Rebas Kradd]

I went with hardpoint ordering because it, along with group chain fire, has the most potential to change the game, i.e. how people customize and play. Could open up a lot of new things.

But I could have told you even without this poll that those two, plus auto refill for consumables (way less clicking in Mechlab) were going to be the top three options.

My only question...why EITHER paperdoll or HTAL? Why not both? It's not like those other "No Signal" screens are doing anything...

Thanks for the poll, PGI!

Edited by Rebas Kradd, 18 June 2014 - 01:03 PM.

[MechB Kotare]

I would be interested in invisible walls removal. In new maps. In new IS chassis....

[Nicholas Carlyle]

Way too much fluff.

How about a proper in game chat system? So I don't die telling someone they are NARC'd.

How about you finish UI2.0, fix the mech lab and add the social features you said you were working on?

All of the stuff in your poll should take a month max if you have decent programmers. So I refuse to vote.

Oh yeah... New maps. Every month. Like you said you would... Half a freaking year later.

[Samziel]

Mouse wheel binding. In MW4 I always had weapon group 4 at up and 5 down when scrolling the wheel. Of course this is not necessary for those who have more buttons on their mouse, but it would help with zoom as well.

[Rebas Kradd]

Nicholas Carlyle, on 18 June 2014 - 12:58 PM, said:

Way too much fluff.

How about a proper in game chat system? So I don't die telling someone they are NARC'd.

How about you finish UI2.0, fix the mech lab and add the social features you said you were working on?

All of the stuff in your poll should take a month max if you have decent programmers. So I refuse to vote.

Like he said, all that stuff is already earmarked for later in the pipeline. That's why it's not in the poll.

[Conductor Rarity]

Hardpoint ordering is the big one, however I'd like to see everything on this list at some point.

Color coded Death messages and chat names would be second then HTAL for 3rd (I'm Color Blind, sometimes I have a hard time telling what my or my enemy's armor values are at, this would help considerably), then toggle-able ams and tag is another big one for me.

Edited by Rarity HD, 18 June 2014 - 01:04 PM.