Dak Darklighter, on 19 November 2015 - 07:33 PM, said:
The more I see these ridiculous overpriced packages and sales, all I can think is that you guys must be financially going down the tube, or just getting more greedy. All we've seen for about 2 months now is packages, sales, premium time, colours, balance patches and map voting. What is happening with the decal system? Is that ever coming? What's the situation on map overhauls, or new maps? And this supposed 4th gamemode? Will we ever see Solaris? The only notable progress you guys have made in 2 months is some changes to the Academy. A lot of us are overstocked on mechs. We don't want to buy more, we would rather see some progress, and not the kind that involves changing some values on weapons!
102 USD for 30 dollars for the light pack (will not even go in depth about how the others quickly escalate in worth. (especially the assault pack, which beats a la carte worth quite a lot as well as the rifleman/ warhammer/ etc packs)
Still cheap compared to games like war thunder, star citizen, etc... where WT you would pay 40 dollars for just the premium vehicle alone and 15 day premium. No extra bays, no extra skins or colours or anything... just the vehicle...
ever since 2012, The prices and values of everything has done nothing but go up and up. This is still better value than most packs out there...
Decal system is being worked on and the UI is already finished to accommodate it- you can see it in the cosmetic tab as a darkened out button saying 'decal'. You have to remember there are A LOT of mechs in game, and a LOT of decals in BT lore, It will take time to assign them all.
The map overhauls are going steadily. Currently Alpine peaks and /or Terra therma are targeted, due to how hard it is to make this map better due to bad player performance on it (ie neglecting to do anything besides go middle). So they are trying hard to make it better and not make it worse. (which trust me, from the info I gathered on the early Alpine peaks redo- it did get worse... hence why they pushed it back and caustic valley gone in front of the cue)
New maps are not a priority while these map redo's are out- which are essentially new maps. I can barely recognise forest colony. CW has stopped getting more maps until CW 3.0- however a batch of new maps are already made to accommodate the new game modes.
The 4th game mode has been pushed back a bit due to experimentation / re-introduction of the voting system. As well as management of to keep assault game mode or to remove it for the attack/ defend dropship mode they wanted to do. Due to the fact assault is treated like a skirmish with an option of winning if the enemy hides all match.
Let's look at all the archievements that has happened in the past year and a half or so...
A lot of changes has occurred this year that has changed the game besides 'adding a new mech' or 'changing stat of a weapon'.
I could make a list but I already did it previously. I should mention not every month will be as productive as the earlier ones in terms of output- the devs are working hard on the PTS, CW 3.0, Decals, the new game mode, and making new redo of maps as well as working on but not limited to ai's, the single player campaign (on the side burner until CW is finished or at a nice state), Solaris VII (planning stages,on side burner until CW is finished or at a good state). etc. Those do not randomly pop up every month. They said it themselves this will be relatively non-eventful month and that the following will be quite heavy in new stuff. Patience.
stocky0904, on 19 November 2015 - 08:23 PM, said:
those packages are not for us (the current playerbase). Those packages are for the new steam people. AND ONLY FOR THEM. the steam release short before x-mas is a good idea to get some x-mas money from our new players. and with those bundles they will get something usefull to work with during holidays. ...and mastering mechs isnt so important anymore due to the dec1st patch with the rebalance nerfs. ... but those bundles are overpriced indeed. 15-25-35-45$ would have been better.
That would be criminally under priced.
15 dollars is the same price to get a 100% stock raven 3L with MC.
LET alone a champion with 30 days premium, a champion build that'll give extra c-bills, as well as a arctic cheetah and 2 mech bays, 2 skins perma unlocked for both chassis, etc....
25 dollars to 45 is also criminally cheap. They might as well just give them away for free if it'll be that cheap.
(Also I am buying the 30 dollar pack. and considering the 60 dollar pack considering it has 2 100 ton assaults for 60 dollars while 1 hero 100 tonner is 50 dollars)
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ECM no longer blocking locks, and reduced range. all it'll do is make locking time take longer.... maybe people'll actually learnt to, you know, take cover behind things, or angle armor... or the ton of things OTHER than lock-blocking ECM that screw LRMs. it's also going to be a godsend for IS MechWarriors in CW as well. you clanners rely on your ECM rather than pilot skill to live most of the time, and like 60% of the mechs you field all the time in there are ECM equipped (at least, Jade Falcons and Wolves do). ECM's made your lives too easy, time to learn to use cover and such to your advantage like your better pilots already do.
