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[RavWielki]

I just saw this video from october 2012, i dont know maybe its just me, but old graphics seems to be much better in some circumstances, also animations (eg. look at Atlas animations when he is hitted hard). What was happened ???

https://youtu.be/hh_K6rT477I?t=13m4s

Ok imo MWO in 2015 have much more polished mech textures, better rocket flight path but this is only my opinion.

[Juodas Varnas]

Game was downgraded by a huge degree to play better on toasters. (It's still horrible on toasters, but it looks ugly now)

[Merit Lef]

Is it just me or does it seem like TTK was real long in the video?

[El Bandito]

Just spectated a Stromcrow player in my team. His FPS must have been 2-3, cause things were warping all the time and he could not hit anything. Why the eff are people playing MWO on toasters and screwing over their teammates? Go play MW4 or something if one needs his MW fix.
I personally waited months after the CB opening, just so I could buy a good rig to play MWO.

Merit Lef, on 06 October 2015 - 10:34 PM, said:

Is it just me or does it seem like TTK was real long in the video?

This is back when Atlas and Stalkers were considered the biggest hitters. Add to the fact that it was 8v8, and pulse lasers sucked balls, and there were no weapon quirks, the TTK was naturally higher.

Edited by El Bandito, 06 October 2015 - 10:38 PM.

[Alistair Winter]

Game is 3 years old, so they'll be bringing those things back any day now.



Aaaaany day now.



Just you wait.



inb4 Vassago posts his standard copy-paste collection of Beta screenshots. Or I guess he stopped posting. But yeah.

[Juodas Varnas]

Merit Lef, on 06 October 2015 - 10:34 PM, said:

Is it just me or does it seem like TTK was real long in the video?

Yeah, back then it was a "Thinking man's shooter", it was slow-paced, visceral, meaty and downright the best Mechwarrior game i've ever played.
Now it's Brainless Alpha-spam online: Clan wars edition.
Oh, how i miss the beta...

[LordKnightFandragon]

Game was better looking cuz PGI didnt have 101 tons of fog all over everything.

[Ex Atlas Overlord]

Juodas Varnas, on 06 October 2015 - 10:45 PM, said:

Yeah, back then it was a "Thinking man's shooter", it was slow-paced, visceral, meaty and downright the best Mechwarrior game i've ever played.
Now it's Brainless Alpha-spam online: Clan wars edition.
Oh, how i miss the beta...

If you look up truth in the dictionary... you'll find this quote

[stoogah]

El Bandito, on 06 October 2015 - 10:34 PM, said:

Just spectated a Stromcrow player in my team. His FPS must have been 2-3, cause things were warping all the time and he could not hit anything. Why the eff are people playing MWO on toasters and screwing over their teammates? Go play MW4 or something if one needs his MW fix.
I personally waited months after the CB opening, just so I could buy a good rig to play MWO.




This is back when Atlas and Stalkers were considered the biggest hitters. Add to the fact that it was 8v8, and pulse lasers sucked balls, and there were no weapon quirks, the TTK was naturally higher.

Some people have massive fps drops since patch/hotfix. Also IIRC there was no stalkers in 2012 - only atlas and awesome.
I love the gameplay in that clip... slow, no instagib, every single medium laser counts. You could tank some dmg in a medium mech.... god dammit! Now I have to go and play a game where poking around a corner for 1 sec will end with cored ct or at least destroyed st.

[Anarcho]

Yeah... it was better. Bring back the cockpit shake too, missiles and ballistics have to shake the hell out of your mech...

[Moldur]

It looks like movie quality compared to what we have now.

[627]

El Bandito, on 06 October 2015 - 10:34 PM, said:

Just spectated a Stromcrow player in my team. His FPS must have been 2-3, cause things were warping all the time and he could not hit anything. Why the eff are people playing MWO on toasters and screwing over their teammates? Go play MW4 or something if one needs his MW fix.
I personally waited months after the CB opening, just so I could buy a good rig to play MWO.




This is back when Atlas and Stalkers were considered the biggest hitters. Add to the fact that it was 8v8, and pulse lasers sucked balls, and there were no weapon quirks, the TTK was naturally higher.

And no DHS.

You couldn't even fire 4 MLs together, or at least not 3 times in a row. And those were the backup weapons. Just look at the hunchies in the vid, they struggle with some ML and 2x LRM10.

Yeah, heat management was a thing back then and TTK was really long and good. It was hard to kill an Atlas. That was an achievement - and if two or three Atlas come around a corner you were more or less screwed.

everything was better in the past, even the future....

[Alistair Winter]

627, on 06 October 2015 - 11:00 PM, said:

everything was better in the past, even the future....

That's a fantastic quote. Did you paraphrase Nir Hod, or did you come up with that now?

[Alek Ituin]

El Bandito, on 06 October 2015 - 10:34 PM, said:

...Go play MW4 or something...

You just reminded me that I have MW4:Mercs DL'ed...

Time to run my CUAC/20 Urbie on Solaris.

[jss78]

El Bandito, on 06 October 2015 - 10:34 PM, said:

Why the eff are people playing MWO on toasters and screwing over their teammates?

Because we can't slip a new PC past the CEO (read: wife).

I think we need a support thread, somewhere next to The Daily Whine.

[Khobai]

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Is it just me or does it seem like TTK was real long in the video?

no broken clan weapons, no broken 12v12, no broken quirks/modules... so yeah TTK was much longer.

[Karl Streiger]

Juodas Varnas, on 06 October 2015 - 10:22 PM, said:

Game was downgraded by a huge degree to play better on toasters. (It's still horrible on toasters, but it looks ugly now)

The funny thing is MWO in CB run much more fluently with better graphics as it does now.
So it didn't worked much

one reason for the longer TTK - see the laser volley of the hunchback disperse - when he try to keep the Jenner in aim?

jss78, on 06 October 2015 - 11:46 PM, said:

Because we can't slip a new PC past the CEO (read: wife).

I think we need a support thread, somewhere next to The Daily Whine.

this 100% this
the other DHS and the increased heat threshold together with the option of ES increased the damage output exponential.

[Narcissistic Martyr]

RavWielki, on 06 October 2015 - 10:19 PM, said:

I just saw this video from october 2012, i dont know maybe its just me, but old graphics seems to be much better in some circumstances, also animations (eg. look at Atlas animations when he is hitted hard). What was happened ???

https://youtu.be/hh_K6rT477I?t=13m4s

Ok imo MWO in 2015 have much more polished mech textures, better rocket flight path but this is only my opinion.

They downgraded the graphics (especially the extremely CPU intensive physics engine) a lot to expand their potential customer base to more casual players who didn't have an i5 and a GTX670. Personally I don't see why I couldn't have the good graphics pack while the people who didn't blow a grand or more on a rig get what we ended up with but whatever.

Merit Lef, on 06 October 2015 - 10:34 PM, said:

Is it just me or does it seem like TTK was real long in the video?

I believe that video predates DHS, Pulse lasers, XL engines and especially before the OP Clan tech BS (which ruined battletech and killed the franchise IMO).

[Speedy Plysitkos]

chm. fog is new PGI meta. screw it i say.

[GreyNovember]

To be fair, I played the new Caustic just now with all settings on low.

Game STILL looked damned good.