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[R0B0TULISM]

Read May 19th patch notes. All I can say is:

U W0T M8?!?!

Seriosly, I can't even. Nerf Lights? WTFFFF. Lights are like 5% of the queue, because they are bad. They're fun if you know what you're doing and I often do well in them, but even good light pilots understand that if anything looks at you, you're basically dead if the other guy can aim.

But nubs be all like "omgz, that firestarter's headed straight for me, i r the d00med."

*****, please. Anyone who isn't a scrub-tier McNubcakes knows that if you've seen the light (get it?), you are already have an advantage in the fight. Shoot at it and it will die. Yes, HSR and hit detection are bad, but your aim probably is too. Just shoot it in the legs, or the side torso, or really anywhere and it will explode because of the XL it is running and the fact that it has no armor.

And the SCR/TBR nerfs... my god I didn't think i'd ever feel bad for you silly clanners (my primary account is IS, but I don't post on it anymore for reasons you are free to speculate about ), but I feel bad for you now. The agility/speed/hitboxes of those two were the main problems, but what does PGI do? Nerf their lazors, the only viable clan weapon (gauss excluded) in the current meta. It's not the crows and timbers' fault that PGI's sh1t balance changes resulted in the lazer vomit meta we have now; it's because all the other weapons got hit with the nerf bat repeatedly (SRM, PPC, Ballistics) , making lazers the only real choice for the discerning mechwarrior.

Meanwhile, the stalker 4n will laugh off its quirk reductions, and ffs the Derp Whale (it was never as bad an offender as the other two, but still) didn't even make the list. AND I JUST BOUGHT A GODDAMN RVN 2X on wednesday. But nooooo... that -30% laser duration made it god-tier lol, and we certainly couldn't have that.

Just stop PGI. Just bloody stop it. You clearly have proved yourselves fundamentally incapable of balancing your own game. It might honestly be better if you never patched/quirked/changed any thing again ever, and just kept the servers and client running the current version until the franchise license expires.

[FupDup]

In other news, incoming HBR/EBJ/SHC/ACH master race.

[Chagatay]

FupDup, on 16 May 2015 - 08:06 PM, said:

In other news, incoming HBR/EBJ/SHC/ACH master race.

I, for one, welcome our new (temporary) P2W overlords*


*I'll make do I guess basking in their awesomeness from afar

Edited by Chagatay, 17 May 2015 - 12:39 AM.

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FupDup, on 16 May 2015 - 08:06 PM, said:

In other news, incoming HBR/EBJ/SHC/ACH master race.

I know. it's like they don't understand that people will just switch to a different chassis' and continue to shoot many yellow lazers while laughing all the way to the bank

[Skarlock]

FupDup, on 16 May 2015 - 08:06 PM, said:

In other news, incoming HBR/EBJ/SHC/ACH master race.

You forgot the Executioner, because after the Dire Wolf nerfs, that thing is totally gonna...

Oh... Wait...

[FupDup]

Skarlock, on 16 May 2015 - 08:11 PM, said:

You forgot the Executioner, because after the Dire Wolf nerfs, that thing is totally gonna...

Oh... Wait...

Executioner? Pah, we already have WUBHAWK.

Edited by FupDup, 16 May 2015 - 08:23 PM.

[Ralgas]

Skarlock, on 16 May 2015 - 08:11 PM, said:

You forgot the Executioner, because after the Dire Wolf nerfs, that thing is totally gonna...

Oh... Wait...

I dunno, a 13e EXE-D may even replace Mr. whale

FupDup, on 16 May 2015 - 08:22 PM, said:

Executioner? Pah, we already have WUBHAWK.

wait till Wubecutioner drops!

Edited by Ralgas, 16 May 2015 - 08:30 PM.

[Soulscour]

I don't know why they're are improving quirks on clan mechs that are already considered the best. Wheres the nova buffs?

[El Bandito]

[Greenjulius]

I'm just happy my favorite crutch, the Loki, has come out unscathed... It seems ECM saved it from being seen by Nerf-Bot 2000!

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El Bandito, on 16 May 2015 - 08:43 PM, said:

Yes, yes very nice clevermeme.jpg, but c'mon, man. I still play my old jenners and such. I even break out the quickdraw when I'm feeling particularly masochistic.

However, the salient points of what I was saying are that

1) Lights don't need to be nerfed, like ever. I wish the other garbage tier lights were on par with the FS9 A/S, maybe then people would play them more. The idea that any light is FOTM is laughable, when they're consistenly the least used weight class.

2) Punishing the SCR/TBR for mounting lasers is silly; it was never the problem, and people will just put lasers on other things.

3) DAFUQ, WHO PUT THE NERFINATOR BACK IN CHARGE OF BALANCE??

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Greenjulius, on 16 May 2015 - 09:13 PM, said:

I'm just happy my favorite crutch, the Loki, has come out unscathed... It seems ECM saved it from being seen by Nerf-Bot 2000!

Edited by R0B0TULISM, 16 May 2015 - 09:23 PM.

[Lindisfarne]

Man, I was getting tired of all the stormcrows and timberwolfs but this is just insanity. I legit feel sorry for them, there is such a thing as being overnerfed. And the 2X was absolutely butchered - did literally anyone actively complain about that mech being OP?

PGI, seriously, what the hell are you guys doing?

[MechWarrior3671771]

"Lights don't need to be nerfed, like ever. I wish the other garbage tier lights were on par with the FS9 A/S, maybe then people would play them more. The idea that any light is FOTM is laughable, when they're consistenly the least used weight class."

Not your shield, baby. The FS is obviously unbalanced, and even with nerf it still will be. You can tell by how firestarter pilots will just stare down an assault they are running in on - its almost as if they are counting on their poor hitreg to shrug off damage.

[Sigilum Sanctum]

Fenrisulvyn, on 16 May 2015 - 09:45 PM, said:

"Lights don't need to be nerfed, like ever. I wish the other garbage tier lights were on par with the FS9 A/S, maybe then people would play them more. The idea that any light is FOTM is laughable, when they're consistenly the least used weight class."

Not your shield, baby. The FS is obviously unbalanced, and even with nerf it still will be. You can tell by how firestarter pilots will just stare down an assault they are running in on - its almost as if they are counting on their poor hitreg to shrug off damage.

A firstarter stared down my Dire Wolf; sprinting at it, last night as I unloaded volley after volley of UAC fire. He died rather quickly. Just last week one was pestering me around a corner when I was in my griffin 2N (quad ASRM6). I go to the next building he was about to sneak around and insta kill him with an alpha.

I don't have problem killing these things....

Edited by Sigilum Sanctum, 16 May 2015 - 09:52 PM.

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Fenrisulvyn, on 16 May 2015 - 09:45 PM, said:

Not your shield, baby. The FS is obviously unbalanced, and even with nerf it still will be. You can tell by how firestarter pilots will just stare down an assault they are running in on - its almost as if they are counting on their poor hitreg to shrug off damage.

Never have I once had a firestarter run in a straight line at me and been like "oh balls, there's no way i can win this fight, better rage-quit and uninstall."

My thoughts are generally more along the line of "Great, this nub thinks the admitedly ****** hitreg is going to save him from being an easy kill."

You'll never see me trying to face-tank an assault in the FS9, probably because I just assume my opponent actually knows how to aim, and the fact that basically anything is a better plan than running at an assault head-on as a light pilot.

Try getting out of scrub-tier ELO, and then tell me how OP lights are.

[Novakaine]

Good bye and good riddance enjoy your last weekend.

Edited by Novakaine, 16 May 2015 - 10:14 PM.

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Novakaine, on 16 May 2015 - 10:14 PM, said:

Good bye and good riddance enjoy your last weekend.

But doctor, I thought I had more time!

U wantz all my stuff?

[Mcgral18]

El Bandito, on 16 May 2015 - 08:43 PM, said:

There's a difference between complaining about a slight nerf...and having small lasers with durations LONGER than ERLLS.

Unquirked ERLLs. (1.3 VS 1.25)

[lsp]

Firestarters are op, but not becuase of quirks. They've always been op, due to hitboxes, hardpoints and hit reg. I'm glad they're getting some form of a nerf. They need it. When no other Is light mech is used, there's a problem. And pug land doesn't count.