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#41 1Grimbane

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Posted 07 February 2016 - 11:11 AM

Looks like a good place to stick this on ole' johnny's thread....


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Posted 07 February 2016 - 11:51 AM

View PostWrathOfDeadguy, on 07 February 2016 - 02:29 AM, said:

Considering that coolant flush was an ability that was just included as a basic gameplay element on every single 'Mech in every other Mechwarrior title until MWO came around...


Actually, no. MW1 didn't have them. Neither did MW2. It was added in MW3.

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...yeah, coolshots are stupid. Somewhere between the titles reactor coolant apparently became lostech.


Actually, Battlemech coolant booster systems do exist, but they actually require being equipped to a Mech and take up critical spaces/tonnage (and notably cannot be mounted on Omnis). Dumping part of the coolant in a 'Mech without replacing it actually -reduces- heat removal, rather than increasing it, canonically speaking.

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Posted 07 February 2016 - 11:56 AM

View PostJohnny Gorbachev, on 07 February 2016 - 08:56 AM, said:


Ur right, ill probably go buy premium now since the game isn't pay2win, my conscience is now cleared. Now I can finally afford to grind modules and buy consumables without sacrificing one or the other, hell I might even have a chance in CW! With my extra alphas in brawls surely.... wait, no, it can't be, did I just pay to get an extra alpha? When previously I couldn't afford it? I must be imagining things...

Anyway, KODIAK BOYS??!??! AMMIRITE?

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Every post's use of selective knowledge points more and more to troll alt acct on an agenda.



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Posted 07 February 2016 - 12:00 PM

View PostJohnny Gorbachev, on 07 February 2016 - 01:03 AM, said:

defend that whales.

*coolshot 18


Um, no? Mainly because you can unlock the Cool Shot 9 to become the 9x9 which gives it the exact same cooling abilities as the 18? For free? I.e. - you can do it through normal grinding? It was one of the first things I did once Modules were introduced. To this day, I still haven't used MC to purchase a Cool Shot.

How on earth is that P2W???

OP is nuttier than a Payday candybar.

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Posted 07 February 2016 - 12:15 PM

The gating for the upgrade is pretty large... at least for when you're starting out.

Effectively for all the consumable upgrades, you spend 15k GXP to gain double the output. That's kinda insane.

10k for the Cool Shot 6 is competing with the 40k base Cool Shot 9... where the money invested makes no sense until the upgrade.

Same things can be said for the non-upgraded consumables - it's not worth spending 40k on the consumable until it is upgraded. Effectively, there's no reason to use consumables when you're starting out - this is a bad handicap - very similar to the efficiencies changes (prior to the recent nerf, the difference between basic and an elited out mech is pretty significant in some/many areas).

So, while it isn't P2W, but the barrier to entry for a new player is pretty bad when it comes to consumables (and a lot of other things).

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Posted 07 February 2016 - 12:26 PM

View PostBishop Steiner, on 07 February 2016 - 11:56 AM, said:

Every post's use of selective knowledge points more and more to troll alt acct on an agenda.

i've seen a certain user that likes the "ammirite" suffix on sentences before
therefore:

i contend that johnny gorbachev is the user...."that dawg" of clan wolf

Edited by 1Grimbane, 07 February 2016 - 03:03 PM.






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