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[Mothykins]

No, really, I'm not sure what happened last Patch, but suddenly my damage numbers with Machine Guns dropped to all new lows. I went from averaging 150-200 on a bad game in my 1V to averaging around 50-100 damage on a GOOD game. And it's not just ELO messing with me, or me playing badly; My Jenner D, which I normally get 300+ damage in is still preforming admirably. It may just be me yet, as I am a singular person and as such, only one point of Data, but what the heck is going on with these things? Is anyone else having these issues?

Edited by Cavale, 08 October 2014 - 08:56 AM.

[DEMAX51]

I dunno - I played my Ember a few games last night and it seemed normal to me.

[Asyres]

DEMAX51, on 08 October 2014 - 09:00 AM, said:

I dunno - I played my Ember a few games last night and it seemed normal to me.

Ditto. Ember's fine.

[LT. HARDCASE]

I still see Arrows out here shredding people, so they seem fine.

[Mothykins]

Huh. This requires more testing then...

[Coolant]

problem with mg's has always been the range...bring on the Light MG's....

[nitra]

might be hit reg ... was having issues with hit reg last night .

was point blank on a spider facing its back to me ... slow backing in to me ...

fired two large pulse lasers into its back it went red . fired second set into its back .. no damage recorded .....

this is not the only battle but its the most concrete. example

[Abisha]

you do know they not designed for armor stripping right?.
if you use them against lets say stalker,atlas,Direwolf you wasting your time.

[Mothykins]

Abisha, on 08 October 2014 - 09:22 AM, said:

you do know they not designed for armor stripping right?.
if you use them against lets say stalker,atlas,Direwolf you wasting your time.

The fact that my Damage dropped by 50% is not indicative of me using machine guns incorrectly. I am well aware they are crit-seekers for internals. /:

That said, they've always done their rated damage against armour, so a bank of four of them, while not great, should still output the normal damage numbers.

So, unless there's some stealth patch note I missed where Machine guns now do half damage VS armour or something, I think that this comment is pretty silly.

[Duncan Jr Fischer]

To OP. The hotfix has been announced right now, they say there were some bugs with EoR statistics. Maybe your damage numbers are normal, and it's just a bug that it is displayed wrong..

Abisha, on 08 October 2014 - 09:22 AM, said:

you do know they not designed for armor stripping right?.
if you use them against lets say stalker,atlas,Direwolf you wasting your time.

The man says he plays the MG lights all the time. I guess he knows how to and how not to use them, especially if he gets 300+ average.

EDIT.
Speaking of MachineGuns, recently I've seen MGs bugged on a Spider in my team. He couldn't stop them and they kept firing all the time, even when the ammo ran out (or maybe it started when the ammo ran out), and even when the Match ended the MGs still kept firing and firing. And it wasn't just a visual bug, I was badly open in many places and I winced every time this guy was moving near as my mech's components were blinking going darker.

Edited by Duncan Jr Fischer, 08 October 2014 - 09:37 AM.

[Monkey Lover]

Maybe something do to with the modules. Try with or without them.

[FupDup]

MGs had their damage nerfed by 20% when they had an alleged "hit detection fix" added in. *Supposedly* the amount of new damage registering was able to counteract that damage nerf, but in actual practice it didn't. MGs have been noticeably weaker post-Clans than they were pre-Clans. Part of this may be due to the fact that reducing the base damage also indirectly reduces the critical hit damage they do to internal structure, given that the crit damage is multiplied from the base damage.

[Mothykins]

FupDup, on 08 October 2014 - 09:59 AM, said:

MGs had their damage nerfed by 20% when they had an alleged "hit detection fix" added in. *Supposedly* the amount of new damage registering was able to counteract that damage nerf, but in actual practice it didn't. MGs have been noticeably weaker post-Clans than they were pre-Clans. Part of this may be due to the fact that reducing the base damage also indirectly reduces the critical hit damage they do to internal structure, given that the crit damage is multiplied from the base damage.

The issue is more recent than Clans. As in, this Patch is when suddenly I'm doing half Damage. Still, worth noting.