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[SgtMagor]

Hold still Santa has a present for you.

[MauttyKoray]

Bishop Steiner, on 21 December 2014 - 09:41 AM, said:

- Give the Energy Pods Reduced Heat Generation.

Spoiler

In lore, one of the many aspects of the Summoners success, was it was a cool running mech in all configurations. Well, anyone who has tried to build around the 2 Energy point arms, knows the Summoner is not cool running. And surprising to me, was just how quickly the stock version heated up with a single ER PPC, especially once the Cooldown Module was added. The Mech simply cannot boat energy weapons, so unlike the WubVomit or 3x ER PPC Thunderbolts, there is little chance of this getting abused.

- Not enough Hardpoints. Inflate a few carefully selected Pods, or add new omni pods.

Spoiler

Another one with some potential to go south. But simple truth is, the Summoner has neither the tonnage for truly big gun, nor hardpoints for lots of smaller guns. It's stuck in a truly tough spot. But I can't tell you how often simply having 1-2 more missile hardpoints in the LT would have made a world of difference in the effectiveness of the mech. But being able to pack a pair of SRM6s in the LT, a quad of ER Mlasers in the Arms and a UAC5 or LB-10X in the RT would make it much more effective an ambush hunter.

I believe these 2 are the best suited to balance out the Summoner. As said it was supposed to be a cool running chassis in all its stock configs, but MWO's heat scale begs to differ on that fact. Giving the energy pods some quirks for that would help it immensely. As for the hardpoints, there are some additional omnipods for a few mechs floating around in the game files that I saw people found and believe we'd actually be better off with some extra omnipods instead. (2E torso? 2M torso? 1B/1E torso? 2B Arms? 1B/1E arms? I'm not sure whats available canonically)

Edited by MauttyKoray, 22 December 2014 - 04:05 PM.

[Bishop Steiner]

SgtMagor, on 22 December 2014 - 04:04 PM, said:

Hold still Santa has a present for you.

yeah, lovin that part, lol

[F4T 4L]

FupDup, on 22 December 2014 - 01:08 PM, said:

An example of "creative" hitbox allocation might be the Awesome, the posterchild of hitbox problems in MWO. Here is how the MWO mechlab displays the mech's arm hitbox:

Wait. How do I review hitboxes in mechlab? I had no idea that that's possible..

[Mcgral18]

F4T 4L, on 22 December 2014 - 04:52 PM, said:

Wait. How do I review hitboxes in mechlab? I had no idea that that's possible..

UI 1.5

LosTech

[1453 R]

God I miss the old, not-horrible U.I...

Now that CW's out of the way, can we get a proper U.I. pass? Please? We don't need UrbanMechs that soon, do we..?

[Xythius]

1453 R, on 22 December 2014 - 05:09 PM, said:

God I miss the old, not-horrible U.I...

Now that CW's out of the way, can we get a proper U.I. pass? Please? We don't need UrbanMechs that soon, do we..?

Burn the heretic!!!

[FupDup]

Wait, is that Urbie art official? Sauce?

EDIT: Found it on NGNG.

Edited by FupDup, 22 December 2014 - 07:36 PM.

[Wintersdark]

1453 R, on 22 December 2014 - 05:09 PM, said:

God I miss the old, not-horrible U.I...

Now that CW's out of the way, can we get a proper U.I. pass? Please? We don't need UrbanMechs that soon, do we..?

We need Urbanmechs yesterday.

I also miss the old UI ,though. I liked the old mechlab.

FupDup, on 22 December 2014 - 07:26 PM, said:

Wait, is that Urbie art official? Sauce?

EDIT: Found it on NGNG.

PGI emailed that out in their newsletter with a free week premium time.

[lsp]

hybrid black, on 21 December 2014 - 09:43 AM, said:

1 er PPC 1 gauss =1000 + damage matches with 3-4 kills in the hands of a good player

Yeah, I don't see how. That's less than 30 damage. It's rare that I even see direwolfs or other assaults break 1k.( and by rare I mean never)
800+ with 3 kills in a medium, and I do 44 damage.

Edited by lsp, 22 December 2014 - 09:20 PM.

[mogs01gt]

lsp, on 22 December 2014 - 09:19 PM, said:

Yeah, I don't see how. That's less than 30 damage. It's rare that I even see direwolfs or other assaults break 1k.( and by rare I mean never)
800+ with 3 kills in a medium, and I do 44 damage.

It's because the game last a lot longer without much brawling.

[Bishop Steiner]

lsp, on 22 December 2014 - 09:19 PM, said:

Yeah, I don't see how. That's less than 30 damage. It's rare that I even see direwolfs or other assaults break 1k.( and by rare I mean never)
800+ with 3 kills in a medium, and I do 44 damage.

eh, not really.


All it takes is a long drawn out match, and usually stupid competition. That was done ins an Orion with 1x AC10 and 4x aSRM4, no backup weapons. I was actually down to 2 ac shots, no srms.

I got quite a few of my clan account breaking 1000 too, mostly in my Warhawk.

[lsp]

Bishop Steiner, on 22 December 2014 - 09:42 PM, said:

eh, not really.


All it takes is a long drawn out match, and usually stupid competition. That was done ins an Orion with 1x AC10 and 4x aSRM4, no backup weapons. I was actually down to 2 ac shots, no srms.

I got quite a few of my clan account breaking 1000 too, mostly in my Warhawk.

That's crazy good in a Orion even.
http://i.imgur.com/2xRSF7w.jpg

Edited by lsp, 22 December 2014 - 10:13 PM.

[Bishop Steiner]

lsp, on 22 December 2014 - 10:13 PM, said:

That's crazy good in a Orion even.
http://i.imgur.com/2xRSF7w.jpg

thanks. That the Wubverine? I heard those things can be mean. Dang good score in any medium.

[lsp]

Bishop Steiner, on 22 December 2014 - 10:19 PM, said:

thanks. That the Wubverine? I heard those things can be mean. Dang good score in any medium.

Yeah, love it =).

[InspectorG]

Bishop Steiner, on 22 December 2014 - 10:19 PM, said:

thanks. That the Wubverine? I heard those things can be mean. Dang good score in any medium.

You havent Wubverine yet?

Y U NO?????

Get one, put 3 LPL.

Almost as fun as a Locust.

Dont lose that right arm though or fun is over.

[Bishop Steiner]

InspectorG, on 22 December 2014 - 10:36 PM, said:

You havent Wubverine yet?

Y U NO?????

Get one, put 3 LPL.

Almost as fun as a Locust.

Dont lose that right arm though or fun is over.

WVR...too....ugly.

[FupDup]

Bishop Steiner, on 22 December 2014 - 10:44 PM, said:

WVR...too....ugly.

It's not how it looks on the outside that matters, it's how it looks from the inside view of the cockpit that matters.

[Bishop Steiner]

FupDup, on 22 December 2014 - 10:45 PM, said:

It's not how it looks on the outside that matters, it's how it looks from the inside view of the cockpit that matters.

nope. I'm too vain

Edited by Bishop Steiner, 22 December 2014 - 10:45 PM.

[InspectorG]

Bishop Steiner, on 22 December 2014 - 10:45 PM, said:

nope. I'm too vain

Do it !!!!