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[aniviron]

This looks like it's going to be an awesome patch again. Looking forward to it.

[Monkey Lover]

More buffs to op clan mechs and the the few pos clan mechs will never get used.

Edited by Monkey Lover, 06 July 2015 - 05:24 PM.

[Alexander Garden]

A few River City images that didn't make the cut for the patch notes header image!

[Axeface]

These clan AC changes without any quirks to the dire....

I have seen people pull 3500 (or maybe not) damage in pug queue with dakka whales.... they are very good mechs, they have always been very good mechs - now??

Many of the other changes are excellent, but that specific thing I am worried about.

Edited by Axeface, 06 July 2015 - 06:18 PM.

[Monkey Lover]

Alexander Garden, on 06 July 2015 - 05:25 PM, said:

A few River City images that didn't make the cut for the patch notes header image!

A+ job PGI artist.

[Blight111]

What a great set of patch notes/fixes. Love pretty much everything you've done, including rolling back a bit on TBR nerfs. (PS I don't own a TBR.)


Except removing the spinning Jag corpse. Sad face.


Thanks for an impactful patch, full of tweaks and fixes that matter.

[Greenjulius]

Alexander Garden, on 06 July 2015 - 05:02 PM, said:

The following info has been added to the Patch Notes for tomorrow:

Energy Weaponry

• PPC velocity increased to 1100, up from 950
  
• ER-PPC velocity increased to 1200, up from 1050
  
• Clan ER-PPC velocity increased to 1200, up from 1050

So this means we once again will have the AC5+PPC meta. 1150 speed for AC5s, 1100 for PPCs. And jump jets on assaults are getting a decent buff.

You know what that means... The (possible) return of the Dragon slayer 2xAC5, 2xPPC. I wonder how it will measure up in the age of clam laservomit.

Edited by Greenjulius, 06 July 2015 - 05:46 PM.

[Matthew Ace]

If there's any PGI staff reading this... Any chances we could get a preview of the geometry changes? Really can't wait to see the Awesome.

[Wintersdark]

Rushmoar, on 06 July 2015 - 04:39 PM, said:

Additional hits to a legged 'Mech will no longer slow it back down to 15km/h

Didn't know this was in MWO.

it's a major change, though it looks minor. As things stand once legged, you're pretty much done as continued fire holds you at 15kph. 40 doesn't sound fast, but it's still nearly 3x the speed. It matters.

[Wintersdark]

Kiiyor, on 06 July 2015 - 04:58 PM, said:

Hmmm.... I wonder if a 6AC2 DireWhale will be viable, now that it's all front loaded. 2 non-ultra shots in .72 seconds (without cooldown modules) is 24 damage... hmmm.

Clan dakka looks insane.

well, on the dakkawhale it does. The other clan mechs we currently have struggle to mount any significant quantity of ballistics.

Keep in mind, Clan ballistics where terrible. With the volley Duration reduction from not long ago and now this, they should be usable, but not "insane".

Keep in mind, every weapon looks bad ass when boated to Direwolf levels.

[Pariah Devalis]

Wintersdark, on 06 July 2015 - 05:49 PM, said:

well, on the dakkawhale it does. The other clan mechs we currently have struggle to mount any significant quantity of ballistics.

Keep in mind, Clan ballistics where terrible. With the volley Duration reduction from not long ago and now this, they should be usable, but not "insane".

Keep in mind, every weapon looks bad ass when boated to Direwolf levels.

That said, I think my 3xUAC5/3xERMLas EBJ is going to be knocking on people's doors pretty hard tomorrow.

[Kiiyor]

Alexander Garden, on 06 July 2015 - 05:25 PM, said:

A few River City images that didn't make the cut for the patch notes header image!

Viona needs the most epic of high fives for those redesigned trees. They look amazing.

Please pass on my high five! ALL THE HIGH FIVES.

[bad arcade kitty]

Kiiyor, on 06 July 2015 - 04:58 PM, said:

Hmmm.... I wonder if a 6AC2 DireWhale will be viable, now that it's all front loaded. 2 non-ultra shots in .72 seconds (without cooldown modules) is 24 damage... hmmm.

Clan dakka looks insane.

but why?

c-uac 2 and c-uac 5 have the same dps but c-uac 5 run significantly cooler and dire whale can pack 5 or even 6 of them with no problems

[Kageru Ikazuchi]

I was going to do my normal "respond to everything" shtick, then realized how long it would be ...

Most of this is pretty damn amazing ... River City (new), Breakable Objects, Jump Jets Class I boost/thrust increased, Spider Leg hit meshes have been fixed, 'Mechs now display sparks and generate audio effects when colliding with geometry, Turrets have been removed from Assault Game Mode, Clan Autocannons and Clan Ultra Autocannons have had their number of projectiles per volley reduced, AWS-CDA-COM-DRG Weapon visualization passes, Host State Rewind Fixes and Improvements, optimizations ... Reduced uptream 40-45% ... downstream 20-25%, Fixed an issue where 'Mechs could sometimes be seen through walls under Thermal Vision, PPC-ERPPC-CERPPC velocity increased ... Thank you, thank you, thank you.

This is weird ...
- Dynamic Time of Day ... each quadrant condenses its 6-hour duration into the match duration ... (Testing Grounds ... run through all of the above cycles once) ... I'll hold off on passing judgment until I see it, but six hours crammed into 15 minutes seems like too much

These are interesting ...
- Thunderbolt "Top Dog" TDR-5S-T Quirks: Armor Strength (Full Body), Structure Strength (Full Body): +12.5% ... this will be more "Awesome" than an AWS ... can tank as much damage as a pre-quirked 80-tonner, goes faster, better hit boxes ... very interesting to see how this will play out.
- Autocannon/10 - Ammunition per ton increased from 15 to 20 ... I have never quite figured out why the AC/10 gets a bad rap, other than it's not an AC/20 or a U-AC/5
- Quirk Changes ... Timber Wolf, Stormcrow ... especially with the new buffs to Clan AC's, this will be very interesting.

Edited by Kageru Ikazuchi, 06 July 2015 - 06:09 PM.

[Kali Rinpoche]

Yet another great patch! I had to reread the patch notes because I thought it might have been a July fools joke! As long as the PPC changes don't bring back pop-tart meta, I'm extremely happy.

Keep up the good work.

Edited by Kali Rinpoche, 07 July 2015 - 12:42 PM.

[Odanan]

Axeface, on 06 July 2015 - 05:29 PM, said:

These clan AC changes without any quirks to the dire....

I have seen people pull 3500 (not cw) damage in pug queue with dakka whales.... they are very good mechs, they have always been very good mechs - now??

Many of the other changes are excellent, but that specific thing I am worried about.

3500 damage in public matches? Are you sure? 2K it's plausible (I use to do 1.5K), but for pulling up 3.5K... Jeez... that would need alone a lot of ammo.

[Jerry Archer]

Wow! Guys, really excellent work you've done!

[Axeface]

Odanan, on 06 July 2015 - 06:03 PM, said:

3500 damage in public matches? Are you sure? 2K it's plausible (I use to do 1.5K), but for pulling up 3.5K... Jeez... that would need alone a lot of ammo.

I have been looking through my screenshot directory for the game in question, I think I might be mis-remembering but I have found a 2k+ game, among many of my own 1k + games in dakka whales - so even so... i'm worried about giving clan ac's a buff without addressing the dakka whale.

[The Choppa]

Everything in this patch looks great! Very cool

[Zookeeper Dan]

Great job! So much good stuff.

I can't wait to load up my Cicada X-5 to see how many missile tubes it has (keeping my fingers crossed it's 6+)!