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[dillsOn]

Hi all...

I got a Nova Prime as my first mech. I didn't do any research just wanted to scoop up a clan mech. Anyway, regardless of the chassis, my suggestion applies to many mech varients.

With the nova prime, it's really cool that you can pack on 12 lasers. It's really not COOL that the only way to fire them is an Alpha Strike or Chain Fire. My suggestion is to give mechwarriors the ability to further customize their weapon systems with Group Chain-Fire ... Let me illustrate

I have Six lasers on one arm of my nova prime, lets say, we're looking at my left-arm weapon group (group 1)

[1]23456 C ER-Small Laser
[1]23456 C ER-Small Laser
[1]23456 C ER-Small Laser
[1]23456 C ER-Small Laser
[1]23456 C ER-Small Laser
[1]23456 C ER-Small Laser

I can currently fire all six lasers at one time, or cycle through one at a time. My suggestion is to let users define the cycle that chain-fire uses... I would like to fire two or 3 of the small lasers in a group at a time so ...

[1₁]23456(1st click)
[1₁]23456(1st click)
[1₂]23456(2nd)
[1₂]23456(2nd)
[1₃]23456(3rd)
[1₃]23456(3rd)

Or I could fire 3 of the lasers at a time
[1₁]23456\
[1₁]23456 | -- 1st shot
[1₁]23456/
[1₂]23456\
[1₂]23456 |-- 2nd shot
[1₂]23456/

In the end it's up to the developers on how they implement this; I could see it easily done with color-coded bounding boxes ...
This gives the user more control over how much power and heat they can generate in the cyclical chain fire mode. I feel like this is a huge part of the game that is missing and would improve user experience hugely. I couldn't find the suggestion any where in the box already. Has this been considered in the past? What's your thoughts?

edit, added subscripts because I don't know how to change the color, changed words.

Edited by dkcc85, 23 December 2015 - 01:59 AM.

[XphR]

You are not alone, but sadly we are also not great in numbers (or have not found those who wish for the same). However, multiple bins per group would make the fire systems of mechs so much more customizable and just screams MechWarrior:Online Please!

And you are right the forum search feature is one strange beast, so here are a few of the other threads if you would like to join in there as well(some times it takes waking up a zombie to get attention of more people).

<Oct 03 2014> <Oct 09 2014> <Mar 06 2015>

I believe there were other but, as I did not post in them I do not have them in my history.

[dillsOn]

Thanks, great work. I've opened a new topic with a poll and referencing these topics and two more...

[XphR]

as opposed to another poll, it would be better to attempt to draw continued attention to the already created poll. Also the wording in your poll is quite biased and leading making it look like less of a serious request.

[dillsOn]

Alright I've fixed the poll. I also am garnering attention to the previous discussions by creating a list of similar ideas under the poll where you can find illustration I made and information about what my personal suggestion is. According to the poll I made 4 of 5 players would like more control over the weapon chain firing.

[XphR]

dkcc85, on 05 January 2016 - 06:39 PM, said:

Alright I've fixed the poll. I also am garnering attention to the previous discussions by creating a list of similar ideas under the poll where you can find illustration I made and information about what my personal suggestion is. According to the poll I made 4 of 5 players would like more control over the weapon chain firing.

Now if we can funnel about a thousand people into the vote we could have the start of a good metric. Bucketed chain firing in my opinion does make the mechs feel much more like configurable war machines.