Sarlic, on 15 August 2014 - 08:55 AM, said:
Tell me what yours is instead of useless one lining. Its not the small problems. Get the bigger picture. Like Bryan Ekman said about modules and a storm of rage went about that.
I see where they are headed with the expanded models, and I like the idea - different modules for different kinds of things, and the number of modules could be different depending on the role of the mech.
However, the execution leaves much to be desired.
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I am skeptical about CW which you should aswell. There are loads of other things which needs to be adressed first. Why spending resources on CW while we still have no proper VOIP support? Just to name a example.
The faction CW 1.0 stuff should have been put in a long time ago, IMHO. The CW 1.0 stuff, then VOIP so that your built teams can talk to each other in game.
I've found, however, that most in game VOIP pales in comparison to teamspeak or skype, so I personally would rather use that. Point taken though, VOIP would make pugs a bit less chaotic.
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Do you see the problem here?
The game has deeper problems then those two. But then again, so did the first Wasteland 2 beta. It's been slow process, and the problem is, they've kept trying to come up with mechanics to balance certain weapons (LRMs, PPCs, Gauss), some of that having to do with convergence, some of it to do with the difference between a board game and, what is in effect, a FPS. Certain mechanics don't work when you go from board to first person/sim.
Hit boxes, for example, needed to be changed, weapons needed to be altered in how they performed, Ect, ect, ect, and while I won't say they have done nothing, I will say I would have liked faction and VOIP stuff a lot earlier in the process.
While I love my Battletech and Mechwarrior, I have a ton of other games to play while they get MWO balanced working in a way that is conclusive to having groups of people roaming in mechs.
I'll still play. I still do. I don't always drop clan (And when I do, I find that while I do tend to do more damage, my own skills as a pilot still suck and it shows). I don't always drop with LRM boats (I'm actually starting to really like some of the direct fire weapons).
While yes, I agree, they needs to be more, clamoring about it won't change the rate at which they work. Rehashing the same stuff again and again won't make them work faster.
I can think of a ton of things that the player base -could- do to help - submitting maps, for example - giving them free release to do what they want with them without having to pay or credit the fan who made it for them. -But- that creates it's own problems.
No good solutions, but solutions none the less.
--GT
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