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this thread is meant to discuss some issues new players (like me) might have with this game, so this is not a rant thread, just my attempt on constructive criticism. I am sure that some of it has already been adressed in other topics, so if you have more informations or if there's already a fix on the way, let me know and I will edit.
I played the game back in beta, and since about two months I started to play again.
So don't expect things like complainments about a steep learning curve, since I simply forgot if i had troubles learning the game in beta :D
I would consider myself as a solid player in mwo, and generally an experienced gamer. I very much enjoy the game, even bought two bundles and some MC-stuff.
So, let's start, I'll try to sort it a little bit:
Group Menu:
Wow, this is one of the most complicated and unintuitive group-menus i had to deal with, and here's why:
- Why doesn't the game create a group automatically when you invite people to a group? (read also next point)
- There should be a switch to select whether the group is for CW or pugs, noone likes to disband a group just to get it together again with the same players.
- Why can't I set "group launch" to automatically start when everybody is ready?
- Why can't I automatically set "ready" when my mech is out of the current match. (I like to browse while waiting for a match, and the game flashes in the taskbar when the map is loaded, so i expect no afk issues here)
- There should be a possibility to invite whole groups, or join up with other groups instead of disbanding your current group and then joining the other CW group.
- Pressing "not ready" to ready up is kinda counter-intuitive, is it?
- Make the "leave group" button smaller, red, and move it to another position. I can't tell you how often people have to re-invite me, just because my brain thinks the "big blue button stands for ready" :D
- Why can't I promote people to be group leader? Because inviting "xXDárkWârrìör98Xx" who is not on my friends list might be a little pain in the ass. Yeah, i know about LFG, but promoting people is a common thing in groups since forever.
Mechlab and inventory:
- We need a possibility to search for equipment mounted on mechs. I don't want to check every single mech just to find that damn XL295 engine or that Seismic Sensor
- You should have a window that shows the model of the mech and the exact hardpoint locations (high torso hardpoints, low arm mounts etc.)
- Why are there two hardpoint numbers just above each other, in the same bodypart-box?
- You should change the hardpoint counting to "0 out of 2" or "1 / 2" instead just counting down the occupied hardpoints.
- Why, and this is a big WTF, why is the engine list not sorted? Yeah, i can sort by tons, but come on, just throw all the engines in like this? This is a mess :D
- Moving Eequipment / weapons from one hardpoint to another doesn't work, instead it throws the stuff back to the inventory.
- You should be able to sort all cockpit items by "available", "owned", etc
Before a match / mech selection:
- Mech selection settings (e.g. no trial, only owned etc.) should be saved, and as far as I heard this will be the case in an upcoming patch.
- I'd really like to see a "random mech" button, which randomly picks a mech respecting the choices I made in the selection screen, so if I select "trial" and "clan", it picks from this pool.
- Why can't I chat / do other stuff while waiting / searching for a game?
Map selection / random map issues:
- This is a big one, I know. This game might have a small playerbase, and letting people select maps would make people wait forever. But at least let us downvote 2 maps we absolutely dislike, this would make the game far more enjoyable and give the devs raw feedback about maps that need to be redesigned!
- Merge percentages for maps with different times / seasons. If I don't like River City, it doesn't matter if it's 0400, 1000, 1600 or 2200, it's still the same map. So right now there are 12 different locations, so each one should have 8,3% chance to be chosen in the first roll, the season / time selection should follow after the location has been chosen.
During the match:
- why can't I turn on the score board while walking by pressing "w"? The only possibility for this is to press "0", but when trying to chat while walking the "0"-solution keeps failing from time to time. This is no keyboard limitation! Pressing more than 3 buttons would be, 2 work everywhere!
- Is the playerbase really that small that we have to team up with people using exotic input methods like steering wheels, joysticks or only keyboards? No pun intended, but you perform far worse with these. Yeah, I might have had a very low elo back then :)
- ECM-distribution: this one might be a personal conceit, but either you have 3+ ecm on your team or none, in the last case with the enemy team having 3+ ecms. This issue has of course changed since the arctic cheetah invasion. Maybe the devs have some numbers that prove me wrong.
- Does AMS actually grant you any points / xp / c-bills? Why not, and why should I use it if the others dont bother bringing radar depriviation? (not my opinion, I like carrying ams)
General issues:
- Why isn't my last active chat tab saved and I land back in unit-chat after leaving a game?
- There should be a master volume setting
- You should be able to open the menu and leave the game by pressing the escape-button
- The friends list could update more often
- "connecting" takes forever
- Please remove "Arm Reflex" from the skills and replace it with "Torso Jaw"
Oh my, this was a big one, and no tl;dr here. Just like I said in the beginning, don't see that as
a rant. The entire post is meant to be constructive criticism, and most of the issues, especially the group menu, could be fixed very quickly.
Please correct me if I am wrong on anything, I will keep this thread up to date during european times :)
Edited by Fitchi, 16 August 2015 - 12:37 PM.
