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[Hoax415]

You cannot pilot any clan mech unless you are on a clan faction or clan daggerstar aka clan loyalist faction.

That is how CW will work at launch

[Scratx]

Hoax415, on 21 September 2014 - 06:42 AM, said:

You cannot pilot any clan mech unless you are on a clan faction or clan daggerstar aka clan loyalist faction.

That is how CW will work at launch

Correction : You cannot play any mech of the opposing faction in Community Warfare matches. The PUG/Group queue is unaffected.

[Mechteric]

iluvtofu, on 20 September 2014 - 11:50 PM, said:

How about letting Clans drop into a map dispersed and staggered, like at four corners of a map at 30 second intervals, and letting IS start out as a blob?

That way you don't have to change the mechs themselves and still achieve balance. How come I am so smart?

That's seriously about the worst idea I've ever heard.

[Richard Warts]

At the risk of sounding like a broken record, before anymore quirks/nerfs are given to Clan tech perhaps instead the IS could have a buff to its heat sink cooling efficiency. This would allow for us to stay in the fight longer before having to cool down plus the Clans would still have their advantages when it comes to range, higher damage output per alpha, and survivability. I don't think this would be a fix all to the balance issue but it would be interesting to see how it effects it.

[Kraven Kor]

Tabu 73, on 22 September 2014 - 04:55 PM, said:

At the risk of sounding like a broken record, before anymore quirks/nerfs are given to Clan tech perhaps instead the IS could have a buff to its heat sink cooling efficiency. This would allow for us to stay in the fight longer before having to cool down plus the Clans would still have their advantages when it comes to range, higher damage output per alpha, and survivability. I don't think this would be a fix all to the balance issue but it would be interesting to see how it effects it.

But that is kind of abhorrent to the lore; half of the tech advantage of the clans was 2-crit-slot DHS.

I could see IS Single Heat Sinks having a "higher heat capacity" or something, maybe. But IS should not be "more heat efficient" beyond their weapons generally producing less heat than Clan counterparts.

[Bront]

Why is this thread still stuck? It's over, why confuse the issue?

[Augustus Martelus II]

One thing everyone must learn about....it ain't about the mech....its about the pilot skills.

You can have the best mech with the best weapon loadout....if you don t know how to drive it....you ll lose.

[Gremlich Johns]

IS DHS should be 2.0x, not the current 1.4x of a single HS. I'd personally like to fit them in the legs of my mechs as well.

Edited by Gremlich Johns, 27 September 2014 - 12:42 PM.

[Augustus Martelus II]

Jeb, on 20 September 2014 - 05:29 PM, said:

I was just about to post almost the same thing...
I only got into a few clan vs IS matches, and I was in a kitfox without ecm...
Few problems:
-one match had 4 kitfoxes, 3 with ecm.... the IS team had 1 ecm which died early...
-another match had 4 timberwolves, and 2 stormcrows... probably the best two clan mechs currently in the game... I will be curious to see if we see more variety once the new clan mechs come out which might help some balance too...

Now here is the crazy thing... in one match, right at the start pretty much, an IS heavy comes running into the middle of the clan mechs and just stopped and stood there... I have seen lights run into a pack of enemys and try to distract them, but this guy didn't even try to fight. That meant the IS team was down a heavy from the start.

And on another match, a heavy and a medium did almost the same thing.. .clan got 3 kills early on (2 lights and a medium that tried to flank or something) and we had then moved on towards their main force... we come around the corner and the medium and heavy started to attack, then just stopped and stared at us... they were not disconnected as far as I could tell as they were moving a bit, but they almost just looked like they gave up and waited to die...

If I saw that in 2 of the 4 or 5 matches I played, then how many other matches had the same thing happen, which would mess with the win/loss stats?

Guess they done that for more ''Nerf the clans!!!''

[craevenwulfe]

Jazriel, on 16 September 2014 - 05:13 PM, said:

Who would have thought Mechwarrior Online was a thinking FPS game, lol

Bait the clanners in close to IS pin point raw power and crush the clanners

Why do you think the clan players will be more stupid than the IS players

[Jeon Ji Yoon]

Hoax415, on 21 September 2014 - 06:42 AM, said:

You cannot pilot any clan mech unless you are on a clan faction or clan daggerstar aka clan loyalist faction.

That is how CW will work at launch

For CW, but u can still make public drops

Gremlich Johns, on 27 September 2014 - 12:42 PM, said:

IS DHS should be 2.0x, not the current 1.4x of a single HS. I'd personally like to fit them in the legs of my mechs as well.

I agree with DHS should equal double but IS heat sinks should be 3 slots

[Hades Trooper]

Russ for this is even be worth the data mine when are you going to make it Clan vs IS, as these abomination mixed drops are not goign to give you true data readings when u got firestarters for example rushing in to mop up direwhale's shredding things.

For pete sake, bring on the pure clan vs IS already,