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[Jody Von Jedi]

Bishop Steiner, on 19 October 2014 - 09:03 AM, said:

lol.

Yeah I still get people blowing me up over month old posts that I corrected like 2 posts later..but they don't bother to read past the bad post first.

It's fixed now.

[Tarzilman]

Russ Bullock, on 17 October 2014 - 08:16 AM, said:

I do not have an ETA yet...

Hi Russ!

Do you instead have any ETA when we'll finally get the visual customization for the Awesome?

Edited by Tarzilman, 19 October 2014 - 12:37 PM.

[A banana in the tailpipe]

Tarzilman, on 19 October 2014 - 12:36 PM, said:

Hi Russ!

Do you instead have any ETA when we'll finally get the visual customization for the Awesome?

Longgggg overdue.

[ARamaLamaDingDong]

Tarzilman, on 19 October 2014 - 12:36 PM, said:

Hi Russ!

Do you instead have any ETA when we'll finally get the visual customization for the Awesome?

After the mess that is visual customization of the Catapult and now the Cent's gun arm, I hope they never touch the Awesome.

The Awesome is awesome looking right now and I couldn't stand seeing an AWS with PPC barrels as tiny as the Catapult's.

[Bishop Steiner]

Tarzilman, on 19 October 2014 - 12:36 PM, said:

Hi Russ!

Do you instead have any ETA when we'll finally get the visual customization for the Awesome?

lockwoodx, on 19 October 2014 - 12:41 PM, said:

Longgggg overdue.

ARamaLamaDingDong, on 20 October 2014 - 05:57 AM, said:

After the mess that is visual customization of the Catapult and now the Cent's gun arm, I hope they never touch the Awesome.

The Awesome is awesome looking right now and I couldn't stand seeing an AWS with PPC barrels as tiny as the Catapult's.

Careful what you wish you may regret it
Careful what you wish you just might get it .........


just ask the poor K2 and it's itty bitty PPC nipples.

[AlmightyAeng]

Bishop Steiner, on 20 October 2014 - 08:41 AM, said:

just ask the poor K2 and it's itty bitty PPC nipples.

That's sh1tty. Pity the itty bitty t1tt1es.

Edited by Ghost Badger, 20 October 2014 - 08:53 AM.

[Aeromaxout]

Since we are messing with the geometry of the CN9...



The CN-90-9X: 2x AC10, 2x ML, 2x Class 3 Jump Jets, and ECM. I can dream, right?

[Metus regem]

Aeromaxout, on 20 October 2014 - 11:45 AM, said:

Since we are messing with the geometry of the CN9...



The CN-90-9X: 2x AC10, 2x ML, 2x Class 3 Jump Jets, and ECM. I can dream, right?

Did a Cent have sex with a Hunchback IIC in a drunken back ally haze to spawn that?

[LordKnightFandragon]

Metus regem, on 20 October 2014 - 11:50 AM, said:

Did a Cent have sex with a Hunchback IIC in a drunken back ally haze to spawn that?

No, a group of 8th grade Centurions mugged a group of 5th grade Hunchbacks and took their humps.....

Its why we have 6ML and LRM equipped Hunchbacks.......

Edited by LordKnightFandragon, 20 October 2014 - 11:56 AM.

[Roadkill]

FupDup, on 17 October 2014 - 10:10 AM, said:

The quirk will be 40%, the cooldown module is 12%, and the fast fire skill is 5%. So, they combine for a 57% reduction. Maths:

2.5 (base cooldown) * (1-0.57) = 1.075
10 damage / 1.075 seconds = 9.3 DPS (which is still pretty significant, given than the AC/20 has a default DPS of 5.0...)

Too many pages to wade through to see if anyone else has corrected this...

Yes, it will be +57%. No, that doesn't mean a 57% reduction in cycle time.

PGI is confusing things. What they really mean is cooldown rate, not cooldown. +57% cooldown rate means that the LBX on this Cent will fire at:

2.5 sec / (1 + 0.57) = 1.59 sec.

This was clarified via twitter when someone asked Russ if +100% cooldown means that the weapon fires twice as fast and Russ said yes. 2.5 sec / (1 + 1.00) = 1.25 sec or twice as fast.

[Bishop Steiner]

Metus regem, on 20 October 2014 - 11:50 AM, said:

Did a Cent have sex with a Hunchback IIC in a drunken back ally haze to spawn that?

if so it should happen more often.

Roadkill, on 20 October 2014 - 12:29 PM, said:

Too many pages to wade through to see if anyone else has corrected this...

Yes, it will be +57%. No, that doesn't mean a 57% reduction in cycle time.

PGI is confusing things. What they really mean is cooldown rate, not cooldown. +57% cooldown rate means that the LBX on this Cent will fire at:

2.5 sec / (1 + 0.57) = 1.59 sec.

This was clarified via twitter when someone asked Russ if +100% cooldown means that the weapon fires twice as fast and Russ said yes. 2.5 sec / (1 + 1.00) = 1.25 sec or twice as fast.

wait...clear as mud communications about mechanics from PGI? Wheres the chalkboard!!!!

[Logan Hawke]

Bishop Steiner, on 20 October 2014 - 12:52 PM, said:

if so it should happen more often.


wait...clear as mud communications about mechanics from PGI? Wheres the chalkboard!!!!

At least they're trying, and they're learning

[Kmieciu]

Centurion always looked good in the mechlab, but anyone who tried to use ballistics quickly found himself running around with only 2xML. I remember when it was introduced back in the closed beta. After a couple of days everyone stripped the gun arm and mounted SRMs instead.

As a competitive player I say: make the ballistic arm as tiny as possible. You won't be able to use those quirks with your gun arm missing...

Edited by Kmieciu, 21 October 2014 - 12:29 AM.

[totgeboren]

Roadkill, on 20 October 2014 - 12:29 PM, said:

Too many pages to wade through to see if anyone else has corrected this...

Yes, it will be +57%. No, that doesn't mean a 57% reduction in cycle time.

PGI is confusing things. What they really mean is cooldown rate, not cooldown. +57% cooldown rate means that the LBX on this Cent will fire at:

2.5 sec / (1 + 0.57) = 1.59 sec.

This was clarified via twitter when someone asked Russ if +100% cooldown means that the weapon fires twice as fast and Russ said yes. 2.5 sec / (1 + 1.00) = 1.25 sec or twice as fast.

Yeah, glad to see you point that out. When people wrote 2.5*(1-0.57)=1.075, I was like; "So 100% give you a 0 second reload time eh?"

However, 1.25 is still a crazy fast reload time for the LBX.

Kmieciu, on 21 October 2014 - 12:27 AM, said:

Centurion always looked good in the mechlab, but anyone who tried to use ballistics quickly found himself running around with only 2xML. I remember when it was introduced back in the closed beta. After a couple of days everyone stripped the gun arm and mounted SRMs instead.

As a competitive player I say: make the ballistic arm as tiny as possible. You won't be able to use those quirks with your gun arm missing...

Definitely. The LBX buff is cool, but I don't see how any CN9 variant ment for brawling could be competitive with a big gun in the right arm?
I run my -D with an XL360, 2*MG+2*SRM6A+2*MLAS, because more than machine guns in that arm is just a waste of tones 5 min into the game.

Edited by totgeboren, 21 October 2014 - 01:22 AM.

[Karl Streiger]

Kmieciu, on 21 October 2014 - 12:27 AM, said:

Centurion always looked good in the mechlab, but anyone who tried to use ballistics quickly found himself running around with only 2xML. I remember when it was introduced back in the closed beta. After a couple of days everyone stripped the gun arm and mounted SRMs instead.

As a competitive player I say: make the ballistic arm as tiny as possible. You won't be able to use those quirks with your gun arm missing...

no AC on the Centurion?
I should add -that the former "Zombie" Status and the fast loose of the arms was a problem with the hitboxes.
I hardly went down in a Centurion with a missing right arm (the left maybe gone)
Have more problems at the slower rated AL and A Centurion. The YLW is a sweet dream - and the AH will become a dream again

ok considering the "face" mod - the dream could become a nightmare - couldn't we keep the old Centurion with rocket flaps and the big bore cannon - rather than the CN9-AL weapon canister?

But i would never call me competive - you can't have style and be competive - imho its more important to have style. Even run Mechs in Titanium White - instead of camo

Edited by Karl Streiger, 21 October 2014 - 01:40 AM.

[Jeffrey Wilder]

Bishop Steiner, on 20 October 2014 - 08:41 AM, said:

just ask the poor K2 and it's itty bitty PPC nipples.

Talk about nipples.

Can't stop laughing when I see a Summoner with 2 ACs sticking out of it's chest or rather HER chest like nipples

[Bishop Steiner]

Karl Streiger, on 21 October 2014 - 01:38 AM, said:

Even run Mechs in Titanium White - instead of camo

Bob Ross approves.

Kmieciu, on 21 October 2014 - 12:27 AM, said:

Centurion always looked good in the mechlab, but anyone who tried to use ballistics quickly found himself running around with only 2xML. I remember when it was introduced back in the closed beta. After a couple of days everyone stripped the gun arm and mounted SRMs instead.

As a competitive player I say: make the ballistic arm as tiny as possible. You won't be able to use those quirks with your gun arm missing...

Really?

Seems an awfully sweeping statement to a guy who spent all of Closed Beta in a CN9-AH or a YLW. And most of Open Beta in a YLW or CN9-D. All of which had heavy ballistics in the RA.

Maybe if more people REALLY knew how to twist and time shots, they would keep that arm longer?

Always loved Splat-Zombie CN9s. Use my AC20, XL Engine and MPL to pop a leg or their LT while they spread missiles all over my mech. Then while they are limping and impotently going "pew pew" finish them off, or leave them for the rest of the team while I find another victim.

[Malleus011]

I appreciate the effort and resources that go into these 'mech retrofits.

The loyalty skin especially looks excellent.

As for the retrofit - I'm afraid I'm among the ranks of those who find this unappealing - and not just for a small AC/20 barrel. A great deal of MWO's appeal is visual; the design and artwork of the game's Battlemechs are one of its strongest selling points.

Thus far, 'mechs which have undergone this treatment have always lost visual appeal. Some have lost quite a lot (the Catapult) and really need to be revisited. It seems to me that the retrofits are not being delivered to the standards of art design and appeal that the original designs were delivered with. This is a much less appealing Centurion than the first model.

Granted, making the weapons modular is a design challenge, and it takes time and resources to refit these assets. However, we've seen with the Clans that it is possible to be modular and appealing at the same time. I'd very much like to see that standard of art direction applied to the retrofits - even if it takes more time.

If that isn't possible due to resource limitations, I'd like to see the original geometry made available as a selectable option. I'd much rather drive a big-barreled K2 or small-box Cat or missile door Cent than he new retrofitted version.

Ideally, the old geometry (and new options) could be made available as store purchases to allow us to customize the looks of our 'mechs even further - but I realize that option lies much farther in the future.

[VagGR]

what i dont get is why mess up the camos...have you seen teh how the tigerstripes looks now oin the cent!?....horrible

[Flying Blind]

Flying Blind, on 17 October 2014 - 05:33 PM, said:

Calling it right now: if there is an Urd and Skuld then Urd is the Atlas and Skuld is the King Crab. It totally fits

Called it! Nailed it!