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[Lorian Sunrider]

While watching Sean Lang's newer vids, he is reading the twitch chat and mentions the new balance/battle value system hitting the test servers as soon as September 11th. Did I miss this news somewhere else?

I know in the September Road Map it says the 22nd for full deployment I believe.

Found in this video at about 4:40

[Scout Derek]

Lorian Sunrider, on 08 September 2015 - 07:54 AM, said:

While watching Sean Lang's newer vids, he is reading the twitch chat and mentions the new balance/battle value system hitting the test servers as soon as September 11th. Did I miss this news somewhere else?

I know in the September Road Map it says the 22nd for full deployment I believe.

Found in this video at about 4:40

September 11th as in "Okay guys, we want you to test it out and see how it is" on the MWO test server.

And no, you didn't, in fact, if it's true, then you got secret news

[Bilbo]

Scout Derek, on 08 September 2015 - 08:10 AM, said:

September 11th as in "Okay guys, we want you to test it out and see how it is" on the MWO test server.

And no, you didn't, in fact, if it's true, then you got secret news

Nothing secret about it. It's in the roadmap post as early September for PTS, and I'm almost certain Russ mentioned he hoped for PTS by September 11 on twitter.

[Lorian Sunrider]

Scout Derek, on 08 September 2015 - 08:10 AM, said:

September 11th as in "Okay guys, we want you to test it out and see how it is" on the MWO test server.

And no, you didn't, in fact, if it's true, then you got secret news

Yeah I figured on the test server. After the successful Academy test I imagine this will be equally as popular for people to check out if not more so.

Had to double check on it being news though as I never read the forums on the weekend. So after a long weekend who knows what I missed.

Bilbo, on 08 September 2015 - 08:16 AM, said:

Nothing secret about it. It's in the roadmap post as early September for PTS, and I'm almost certain Russ mentioned he hoped for PTS by September 11 on twitter.

Fair enough. I don't use Twitter except for hockey and that's only for Draft Day, Trade Deadline and Free Agency. So unless Russ said it on one of those three days I wouldn't have seen it haha.

Just the first time I heard a specific date for the PTS.

[Scout Derek]

Bilbo, on 08 September 2015 - 08:16 AM, said:

Nothing secret about it. It's in the roadmap post as early September for PTS, and I'm almost certain Russ mentioned he hoped for PTS by September 11 on twitter.

Well, like Loran said, I don't use twitter much either except to check up on things once in a LONG while.

[Monkey Lover]

I only have a tweeter account because i want to see what is happening with this game. No other reason.

I really hope they do the balance testing this week.. I really want to know if they plan on balancing load outs and not just mechs.

Edited by Monkey Lover, 08 September 2015 - 09:43 AM.

[Kira Onime]

Well, last I checked the road map, the rebalance was suppose to hit live servers on the 22nd.

[Bilbo]

Monkey Lover, on 08 September 2015 - 09:43 AM, said:

I only have a tweeter account because i want to see what is happening with this game. No other reason.

I really hope they do the balance testing this week.. I really want to know if they plan on balancing load outs and not just mechs.

I just have a few select pages bookmarked. You don't even need an account.

[Monkey Lover]

Bilbo, on 08 September 2015 - 09:50 AM, said:

I just have a few select pages bookmarked. You don't even need an account.

If you don't have an account you can't spam Russ

[Cyborne Elemental]

Yep that is the plan, 1-2 weeks prior to the public patch rebalance Russ said he's going to fire up the test server for data collection and fine tuning last minute changes.

The patch was set for the 22nd, so far everything seems to be on track.

[Agent 0 Fortune]

Monkey Lover, on 08 September 2015 - 09:43 AM, said:

I only have a tweeter account because i want to see what is happening with this game. No other reason.

I really hope they do the balance testing this week.. I really want to know if they plan on balancing load outs and not just mechs.

I tried twitter for this purpose, and added email alerts so I didn't have to actually visit their website, unfortunately all I learned was that Russ follows Coldplay, and they tweet a metric shitton, and for some reason twitter thinks I should be notified about it every time, even though I don't follow them. So now I am back to getting my news second/third hand on the MWO GAME forums.

As for balance, the PTS seems like a poor location to test balance, not enough players to get any meaningful feedback. Just drop it in production and tweak as required.

[Lorian Sunrider]

Bilbo, on 08 September 2015 - 09:50 AM, said:

I just have a few select pages bookmarked. You don't even need an account.

I almost wish we had a thread that was just updated with Russ's relevant tweets only haha.

[Appogee]

As far as I can tell, all that is going to happen is they are going to re-quirk Mechs based on a more extensive assessment of their strengths AND make their quirks less specific to weapons, more related to their roles.

I have a funny feeling that, purely coincidentally of course, Mechs that few people own will suddenly become 'must have' additions to the hangar.

Somewhere in the distance, a ghostly cash register chimes...

Edited by Appogee, 08 September 2015 - 10:00 AM.

[Bilbo]

Lorian Sunrider, on 08 September 2015 - 09:56 AM, said:

I almost wish we had a thread that was just updated with Russ's relevant tweets only haha.

We used to. Helmer quit updating it and no one else wants to take the time.

[Monkey Lover]

Lorian Sunrider, on 08 September 2015 - 09:56 AM, said:

I almost wish we had a thread that was just updated with Russ's relevant tweets only haha.

Developer Tracker when it used to be updated.

[KodiakGW]

It would be nice if we could have a pre and post-Balance 2.0 spreadsheet to compare which mechs got a nice buff, and which ones were hit with the nerf bat. I tried to start one by copy/pasting out of Smurfy for the pre-patch spreadsheet. Way too much work moving info around fields, and I couldn't use % as a delimiter for import.