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Topics covered:
Coming February 16th Patch:
4 new maps for private match only - Premium required - "Solaris" competitive play
Rifleman release
Clan targeting computers are getting a buff - "fairly significantly better"
MASC has been buffed - in some cases 2x - Shadowcat and Executioner
Quirks - Most focus was on Clan "dogs", Also Clan negative quirks are being removed, Blackjacks getting a balance pass, Inner sphere energy range quirks reduction
Flamer is getting a new graphical effect update - wooohooo!
Ability to remap the spectator controls
Stalker Mechlab retro-fit
Caustic Valley pass removing some obstacles that impede movement
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Other Townhall Notes:
Classic Mech Pack - Kodiak (100 Ton) with the first Clan Hero Mech (Clan Ghost Bear yay!) Hero will likely be a MASC build
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Community Warfare Phase III:
Content should be complete Late Feb
Prob not March, more like April 19th (80 to 90pct likelyhood)
Russ: No matter how much they try, there is no way to intermix group players with solo players without unbalancing the match
Approx 10% of the player population plays CW
According to Russ: "We need to try and separate the queues and see if it works"
- solo queues are players with no unit tag and no groups are allowed, also freelancers (freelancers can drop on any side for any faction for a single battle contract) - unit queue organized groups go into the group queue as well as tagged players, one man merc units with a tag count - there will be no PSR matchmaking for CW
New MC rewards system - An amount of MC per planet per battle window, and a lifespan to how long a planet earns MC - For example 1MC per planet - 3 windows x 1 = 3MC per planet per day - Unit leader can assign the MC to the members in any way he sees fit - if unit switches faction Planet income is lost
Total number of planets being contested should be 10 or under - every faction will vote who they are at war with - there will be a single planet under contested for each faction that declares war - this should consolidate players into battle queues
Cost of recruiting will grow as a unit gets bigger - this is designed to dis-incentivize the zerg units, will also prevent gaming system by dropping unit tags and re-tagging
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Rescaling mechs is a huge job =p 1 full work day per mech, full retexture and animations for just a 1% scale change
Half the mechs in the game need rescaling
Quirks will have to be revisited - For example 82% global volume shrinkage on the Nova
Catapult getting a full remodel
March April time frame for first mechs, changes released a few a time
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New pilot model coming in March
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Website coming for team sign ups for the pro-gaming competition, leaning towards 8v8 matches
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PGI is now working on a single player MechWarrior game
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Some stuff about Oculus Rift - Basically have to redo the whole game
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March - Changes to conquest game mode, new game mode Domination / King of the Hill, Assault game mode is going to have full blown bases on each side
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April'ish new map - Public Queue - Grim Portico theme
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PGI has its own custom anti-cheat program made in house
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Pilot Skill Tiers - In pub queues (Quickplay) - max two tier difference - to reach tier one you have to keep your match score above a particular threshhold
Feb Roadmap: https://mwomercs.com...bruary-roadmap/
Full 4 hr Town Hall:
Shout out to Imperius for this link:
https://www.reddit.c..._summary_recap/
Edited by M4LX WMD, 31 January 2016 - 11:31 PM.
