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[Nyte Kitsune]

I approve of #49, a global chat, we have 1/2 of a global chat (CW), but when you're just doing quick play matches it would be nice to chat with other people (not in your unit) in between matches to maybe form a group, compare builds, or just chat to kill time in between matches instead of having to rely on things like twitter or teamspeak.

[Ketzer08]

Titles in the match…. you know: “guillotine”, “knight errant”, “liquid metal”, faction rank, owner of mech pack, etc. This is not necessary information during battle, and they obstruct vision. I want to see what mechs I’m going to face, I’m not interested in their titles. Displaying of titles should be toggleable.
Speaking of mechs and obstruction of vision, displaying of heroes names should be toggleable too. For example “HBK-GI” looks informative enough than: “GRID IRON LIMITED EDITION”.

[Aeon Veritas]

Dimento Graven, on 08 April 2016 - 09:35 AM, said:

24. I should probably put this in its own thread, though I'm betting someone already has: The new game mode Domination. EXACTLY WHY did you silly people almost always put the goddamned capture point EXACTLY where all the battles for every other game mode were already, most of the time, taking place? Seriously, GET CREATIVE. Don't put the capture point in the Caldera in Caustic Valley and Terra Therma. THAT IS STUPID ANYWAY, no, put it in a corner, change spawn points to be equidistant and force the battle to be AWAY from where the F "Theta" happens to always end up on the various maps.

Oh yeah!
Even better, create multiple loadouts of spawn and objective locations and put them in the same random selection as the daytime of the map.

Oh, and finally show us the actual values in the MechLab...

[Wonderdog]

How about a button or menu option to suppress the

**MASSIVE FLASHING RED** "Override" and "Critical Damage" HUD warnings.

#Wonderdog

[lazytopaz]

- Easy and visible way to discern which weapon went to what slot on mech and a way to designate their position E.G. I have Banshee-3M It has 3 LPL's + 1 SL on LT and 2 LPL + 1 SL on RT.
I wish I could define their placement as to specifically set both SL on lower torso while my LPL bein on high mounts.

- Same thing goes with general loadout setup. When I mouse over some part of my weaponry I'd like to have it highlighted both in loadout and on mech at the same time.

- And have this same highlight when setting up weapon groups.

Clan U/AC's 5 need some rework. C UAC 5 vs UAC 5. Clanner will do lot less damage, takes longer to shoot and dmg is spread through 3 bullets. Only thing appealing is the fact that it visually looks cool. Other than that... as much as I love the dakka I utterly despise it in Clan version.

[Dimento Graven]

Kassatsu, on 11 April 2016 - 12:47 AM, said:

Cockpit screens that actually work.

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Changing this to "More cockpit screens that actually work" because some do. Actually probably they all do, but there's a lot of repetitive/redundant info on them (when you can see 'em).

SmoothCriminal, on 11 April 2016 - 02:10 AM, said:

Agree - the pilot skills need a bit of an overhaul as true end game content. They should be streamlined and reworked. there have been countless threads on this already however... (and shouldn't be included on this list as it is not a small change!)

Yeah, but a dang filter removing all the crap we don't have, and/or that limits it to 'mechs that aren't maxed out, shouldn't be too much to ask for...

dario03, on 11 April 2016 - 03:11 AM, said:

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And most everything else that was posted in my similar thread from a couple of months ago
http://mwomercs.com/...t-changedadded/

I'll include your link in the list, because of the value of it.

TexAce, on 11 April 2016 - 03:42 AM, said:

We had a thread like this once, which was also recognized from PGI as valuable so some stuff in it was changed/added/fixed.

Do you want this to happen now too?
If so, think about your tone. Because with the current one its not very likely they will listen.
That's all I'm saying.

You are practically shooting yourself in the foot.

Again, it's been for over 4 f'ing years and some of this crap should be so incredibly simple and easy to do, as well as being damned common for this genre of game, there's absolutely NO excuse that it should be missing.

After a few years, it's time to be blunt, and rudely so, to get the point across that our patience has 'worn thin'.

If PGI can't take it, well, they picked the WRONG DAMN INDUSTRY to get into. Customers and players have, for the past nearly 50 years of the computer gaming industry, ALWAYS BEEN very acerbic, rude, and down right profanely crotchety. If they had some sort of bizarre idea that they'd be talked to like we exist in a damned 'My Little Pony' universe... Wow, just wow...

Anyway, I really don't have any expectation that PGI will see this thread. This thread is for US, THE PLAYERS.

Some of the things on the list have been mentioned in Town halls, we're just suffering the 'Soon™' phenomenon we've always suffered through on them.

Aeon Veritas, on 11 April 2016 - 05:00 AM, said:

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Oh, and finally show us the actual values in the MechLab...

I've added it to the list, but, could you elaborate on what you mean by this?

Edited by Dimento Graven, 11 April 2016 - 07:23 AM.

[rook]

How about letting us set the group leader instead of random assignment when the current group leader leaves.

Also, let us set lances and generally organize the group whatsoever.

[Dimento Graven]

rook, on 11 April 2016 - 07:30 AM, said:

How about letting us set the group leader instead of random assignment when the current group leader leaves.

Also, let us set lances and generally organize the group whatsoever.

Another one that pisses me off daily that I somehow failed to put on my original list...

[Lugh]

Working COLLISIONS and Knockdowns aren't on this list why?!?!

[DAYLEET]

All good ideas.

Dimento Graven, on 08 April 2016 - 09:35 AM, said:

5. A goddamned game log. A text log, generated locally on each player's PC (when they've enabled it), that shows who shot at you, from where, what they shot at you, range, what hit, for how much, where, if there was crits, and who you shot at, where,
range, etc., etc. With craptastic hit registry, HSR confusion and just the general 'mudiness' of some maps it's damned hard to tell if you were crit'd out by a single ERLL somehow, OR, if there was some other joker shooting at you. Edit: Also, maintaining the text chat from the game would be really cool here too. This would go a LONG WAY to help US THE PLAYERS, help you PGI troubleshoot various things.

This is almost a replay file, so lets rename it to REPLAY and have it server side and you have all your match you can go back and watch in spectator mode. Can't imagine saving the input of 24 guys to the main server would degrade gameplay and god knows id like to go back and watch my games with all the bells and whistle a replay has like pause, free movement, rewind, slowmo etc etc.


Hey PGI, lets have 4 months where the game is polished and improved for the better rather than just add more content. Finish whatever you are doing and then focus on usability of the game, then go back to add content.

[EurakaLi]

actual heat disparate rate in mech lab(it not rocket science) and other minor detail so I don't have to go to a external website and rebuild it everytime to check my heat /builds

able to clams events reward in the game clients ,enough to keep log in mwomercs.com and search for the location to clams my reward....and those reward will expires....

also pls give a big big signal on what event currently active,I live in a differ time zone,why on earth I have to convert the time zone everytime... just to check that event started/ended

toggle tag and machine gun plz

force-able close archer bay door asap after fire(or any other mech that have door and work the same) when locked and fireing-lrm,there 4 second cd on it I want it to close when not in use at close range combat situation...
(currently it stay open when u locked on somebody engaged and pressing the close door don't seem to work)

give some reward to light scout and narc-ing
there no scout light in game....

have some quick command quote ,e.g. UAV, enemy detected in G7 (ecm cannot R to show on mini map),under fire,someone behide us. pip point a location to show everyone to careful
like a red box on a dark edge you can circle it for a ecm sniper

able to have quick command quote like :I was overheated!,I got no weapons left!

able to tell which leg is destroy more easier(why I have to wait that yellow doll every time?)
should be as easy to tell as lose a arm,sometime those smoke on leg is not enough and everyone paint black...

somewhat better night version and heat version.I know if it too good everyone will just put NV or HV on...but currently it so so bad ,even US army today have better NV and HV version....I mean we got reactor and mech tech......wth those version tech gone worst then today...

it hurt my feeling playing in an future environment those NV or HV more like 1980 tech to me.

Lugh, on 11 April 2016 - 08:39 AM, said:

Working COLLISIONS and Knockdowns aren't on this list why?!?!

remove walk pass someone asap,I can wait collsion or knockdown but wth u can run through someone...don't make sense at ALL

Edited by EurakaLi, 11 April 2016 - 09:35 AM.

[Dibujor]

Another one that perhaps is out there but I can't seem to figure out.

When I assign weapon groups I want to know what weapons are in what side (left torso/arm, right torso/arm) so I can set the weapon group without having to enter the match or the training grounds and shoot to see wether I assigned the left/right mouse button correctly

[C E Dwyer]

Random Carnage, on 08 April 2016 - 09:13 PM, said:

Rear view cameras and wing mirrors.

like people look in their mirrors, or even mini map.
Some blind ***, in a Jagermech today let a Timberwolf get so close it's pilot could have got out and squeezed his junk..even after I'd started firing on the TBR he remained clueless to his danger, only me yelling jesus christ are you blind jager pilot, and the TBR twisting my damage hitting him, did he finally get a clue.

[Dimento Graven]

Lugh, on 11 April 2016 - 08:39 AM, said:

Working COLLISIONS and Knockdowns aren't on this list why?!?!

Probably because Russ keeps saying how 'impossible' it is to make it work the way they want, thus it not being "minor" or "stupid".

Has anyone else ever noticed that Russ NEVER explains what the difference in how it was working before was so different from their vision?

Seriously, I've yet to find any vids showing significant issues with knock down that weren't obviously related to massive differences in ping.

HOWEVER, I have added it to the list. Just put the last revision of the knockdown code back, please, HAYSOOS MARIMBA do we need knock down, BADLY!

DAYLEET, on 11 April 2016 - 09:07 AM, said:

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This is almost a replay file, so lets rename it to REPLAY and have it server side and you have all your match you can go back and watch in spectator mode. Can't imagine saving the input of 24 guys to the main server would degrade gameplay and god knows id like to go back and watch my games with all the bells and whistle a replay has like pause, free movement, rewind, slowmo etc etc.

What you're talking about though is not "minor" nor "stupid", AND in my opinion is something actually different than a local text log file. The uses for each would be different (though they also have a lot of uses that could over lap). I am adding it to the list however.

EurakaLi, on 11 April 2016 - 09:34 AM, said:

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toggle tag and machine gun plz

Can you elaborate more on a toggle for machine gun?

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force-able close archer bay door asap after fire(or any other mech that have door and work the same) when locked and fireing-lrm,there 4 second cd on it I want it to close when not in use at close range combat situation...
(currently it stay open when u locked on somebody engaged and pressing the close door don't seem to work)

While I've added this to the list, this actually sounds like a bug. If you can vid capture and submit it to PGI, that'd be cool.

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give some reward to light scout and narc-ing
there no scout light in game....

I didn't add this, I'm not sure I understand what you're getting at here, so if you could, elaborate.

My understanding is that there are rewards, but, if your team isn't taking advantage of your TAGs and NARCs and doing damage on what you've TAG'd and NARC'd, you don't get any rewards (at least that's my current understanding).

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somewhat better night version and heat version.I know if it too good everyone will just put NV or HV on...but currently it so so bad ,even US army today have better NV and HV version....I mean we got reactor and mech tech......wth those version tech gone worst then today...

it hurt my feeling playing in an future environment those NV or HV more like 1980 tech to me.

I didn't add this as there have evolved balance benefits for keeping NV and HV as craptastic as they are, and NV/HV are in game and working, but do feel free to post your own thread discussing why you believe they should be improved, I'll be happy to participate.

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remove walk pass someone asap,I can wait collsion or knockdown but wth u can run through someone...don't make sense at ALL

I didn't add this either. "I" can't walk through other players, even though it appears that there are certain players that have absolutely no issue walking through me whenever they "need" to. Again, this would be more along the lines of a bug report.

Dibujor, on 11 April 2016 - 09:39 AM, said:

Another one that perhaps is out there but I can't seem to figure out.

When I assign weapon groups I want to know what weapons are in what side (left torso/arm, right torso/arm) so I can set the weapon group without having to enter the match or the training grounds and shoot to see wether I assigned the left/right mouse button correctly

Yeah I posted that as "Dimento's Notes" on number 80.

Totally agree with you.

Cathy, on 11 April 2016 - 09:41 AM, said:

like people look in their mirrors, or even mini map.
Some blind ***, in a Jagermech today let a Timberwolf get so close it's pilot could have got out and squeezed his junk..even after I'd started firing on the TBR he remained clueless to his danger, only me yelling jesus christ are you blind jager pilot, and the TBR twisting my damage hitting him, did he finally get a clue.

Well the mini-map is only so useful:

First off - it's not scalable and sometimes the UAV icon, or strategic icons cover WAY to much of the mini map so you can't see any crap around you.

Secondly - It's not actually accurate. There are plenty of maps where HUGE obstructions are not placed on the mini map (Forest Colony comes to mind with some of those big rock spires out in the water, NOT being placed in the mini map).

That does bring to mind I need to add "scalable mini map and accurate mini map renditions of actual map".

Thanks!

[Lugh]

Dimento Graven, on 11 April 2016 - 11:57 AM, said:

Probably because Russ keeps saying how 'impossible' it is to make it work the way they want, thus it not being "minor" or "stupid".

Has anyone else ever noticed that Russ NEVER explains what the difference in how it was working before was so different from their vision?

Seriously, I've yet to find any vids showing significant issues with knock down that weren't obviously related to massive differences in ping.

HOWEVER, I have added it to the list. Just put the last revision of the knockdown code back, please, HAYSOOS MARIMBA do we need knock down, BADLY!

It's not impossible,that's just BS, they've done it already with Hit state rewind for weapons. If you can map a difference in ping position for Smallish objects, like lasers, ballistics and missles,and map it to various mech parts, it can't be that hard to do if for largish mechs. In this case you are just comparing two mech skeletons in real time.

They COULD. They just can't be bothered.

[Lugh]

I change the name on my mech for the Lulz.

Why can no one else see my babies name?!?!

[DivineEvil]

- In settings, a scrollbar switch for locally scaling sensor signatures (size of ally and enemy arrows, base and cap-point icons).

- In settings, a scrollbar switch for locally scaling targetting reticle elements (text, target frames, tracking icons).

- Blinking icons on GUI or Cockpit screens, replacing the obstructively large notifications of "CRITICAL DAMAGE", "INCOMING MISSILES" and "WEAPON JAMMED".

- In the game GUI and on all score-screens, designating a destroyed player as "LOST", not as "DEAD". Destruction of a mech does not automatically mean death of the pilot, and Battletech is not about people dying heroically, but about combat resources being lost.

- In settings, MainCamera focus option, allowing for game camera to follow Arm targeting reticle (like in Free-look mode, but without locking the torsos in place), or to follow torso crosshair (current default), however the player decides.

[Dimento Graven]

DivineEvil, on 11 April 2016 - 01:51 PM, said:

- In settings, a scrollbar switch for locally scaling sensor signatures (size of ally and enemy arrows, base and cap-point icons).

- In settings, a scrollbar switch for locally scaling targetting reticle elements (text, target frames, tracking icons).

- Blinking icons on GUI or Cockpit screens, replacing the obstructively large notifications of "CRITICAL DAMAGE", "INCOMING MISSILES" and "WEAPON JAMMED".

- In the game GUI and on all score-screens, designating a destroyed player as "LOST", not as "DEAD". Destruction of a mech does not automatically mean death of the pilot, and Battletech is not about people dying heroically, but about combat resources being lost.

- In settings, MainCamera focus option, allowing for game camera to follow Arm targeting reticle (like in Free-look mode, but without locking the torsos in place), or to follow torso crosshair (current default), however the player decides.

Added to list under --HUD Improvements.

Thanks!

[Alardus]

Dimento Graven, on 08 April 2016 - 09:35 AM, said:

EDIT: This was getting dang difficult to maintain, I want to see if this is any easier, plus it's no longer quite such a "wall of text" slapping you in the face when you read it.

--Unit/Friends List Maintenance (In Client)

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1. "Last Played/Logged In" date displayed next to each person in your friends list and your unit list. - Useful for maintaining your friend and unit lists.

2. Friend Categorization - I'd like to be able to create custom categories to organize my friend/uni lists, categories like "CW Drop Callers", "Good Player", "Tier 13 Scrub", "Prone to TK", "Alpha Company", "Bravo Company" (y'know stuff to organize people in the lore unit structures of BattleTech), etc. Then, when a person is online, the unit/friend lists are separated out into my categories (offline maybe I don't care since, what does it matter what category they're in).

28. [UNIT] names displayed on friends list (+invites). - credit Tarogato

21. An AFK tool for the friends list. - credit to Lorian Sunrider

--Unit/Friends List Maintenance (External)

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4. Off-line unit maintenance. The unit leader(s) should have access to a site that provides the ability to kick people from their unit, change ranks of people in the unit, setup "message of the day", AS WELL AS, provide information on each person in the unit: Tier, KDR, WLR, Last Played/Logged In, Avg. Damage/Match, Unit Rank, amount donated to unit coffers, etc. Once you get above 20 or 30 people doing this can become tedious and it's really necessary that PGI provide actual tools to do this.

38. Chat messages need to have time added so i can see did someone ask me to join CW 2 min ago or 1 hour ago - credit Ace Sellin

--Logging/Record Keeping

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5. A goddamned game log. A text log, generated locally on each player's PC (when they've enabled it), that shows who shot at you, from where, what they shot at you, range, what hit, for how much, where, if there was crits, and who you shot at, where, range, etc., etc. With craptastic hit registry, HSR confusion and just the general 'mudiness' of some maps it's damned hard to tell if you were crit'd out by a single ERLL somehow, OR, if there was some other joker shooting at you. Edit: Also, maintaining the text chat from the game would be really cool here too. This would go a LONG WAY to help US THE PLAYERS, help you PGI troubleshoot various things.

15. A setting you can turn on in controls that will automatically take a screenshot of both screens of the match results at the end of the match. - Credit Togun505

16. Add the following information for end of match: Average Damage for both sides, total 'mech weight for both sides.

26. Tiers displayed in game on the match results screen for those who opted in. - credit Tarogato

27. Stats API so that we don't have to log into our accounts to have a 3rd party programme collect them. - credit Tarogato

35. Oh, and then there's the website, where you can check out your mech stats, and they are sorted in no logical order whatsoever AND you can't filter them or sort them yourself. So, if you want to rank your mechs top to bottom in K/D ratio, wins / loss, or whatever - nope, that's apparently too complicated. And that one I asked for well over a year ago, got a "we're looking into that" response, and then nothing, of course. - credit oldradagast

86. REPLAY and have it server side and you have all your match you can go back and watch in spectator mode. Can't imagine saving the input of 24 guys to the main server would degrade gameplay and god knows id like to go back and watch my games with all the bells and whistle a replay has like pause, free movement, rewind, slowmo etc etc. Dimento's Notes: This isn't "minor" or "stupid", but I'm adding it, it's been 4 years so... Anyway, I'm keeping this separate from #5, simply because they are actually two different things. One is generated and maintained server side, the other, the text log file is generated client side and is used for other things. - Credit to DAYLEET

--CW Improvements

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6. Means of predefining drop decks for CW. We pick which 'mechs we want in each drop deck, they're valid as long as they meet the weight restrictions and are valid load outs. Then we can simply select drop deck A, B, C, etc.

8. How long are we going to have to deal with that "1:00" minute flash bug on ghost drop in CW?

--General Client Responsiveness

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7. A means of not going through all the damn splash screens when loading this game. After the first 10000 times we've logged in we know all about Nvidia's relationship to the game, we know PGI produced it, for F's sake, just let us log into the damn game already... we don't need to be clicking and pressing space repeatedly EVERY single time we log in.

10. Please let me skip straight to a match if I log in after being dropped out of one, an automatic reconnect setting that you could turn on in the options menu so you could go straight into a match without waiting for the mechlab to load would be awesome. - Credit to Satan n Stuff.

--In Game Communications

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3. NON-loss of text you're typing when observing another player. Seriously one of THE MOST frustrating things that occurs extremely often.

11. Scrollbars for the chat windows - Credit to zagibu

13. improve the in game chat:
Have dis/re connects and kills are displayed separate from chat messages (Dimento Graven's comment: In fact, I'd keep team disco/reconnect messages ONLY in the TEAM channel. The enemy shouldn't get to "know" which of the enemy 'mechs are incapacitated from the get go.) - credit Groutknoll
A way to scroll back chat text (in game text log would be good for review at a later time) - credit Groutknoll

36. VOIP self testing functions. Seriously, so many pugs trying to communicate, but we can't hear them..... - credit Big Tin Man

40. Chat enabled while searching for match - credit Talorien

45. I'm still waiting on that lostech "target next friendly mech" - credit to 80sGlamRockSensation David Bowie

46. GOD FORBID I know what condition their mech or loadout is.... - credit to 80sGlamRockSensation David Bowie

48. Target of target would be freaking nice, too - credit to Trauglodyte

54. implementing ctrl+arrows and ctrl+shift+arrows to move over/copy words in the chat. - credit Gattsus

92. Command/Comm 'rose' to communicate status: UAV, enemy detected in G7 (ecm cannot R to show on mini map),under fire,someone behide us. pip point a location to show everyone to careful, like a red box on a dark edge you can circle it for a ecm sniper, able to have quick command quote like :"I was overheated!","I got no weapons left!" - credit to EurakaLi

--In Game Immersivness/General Game Play

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9. How long do we have to deal with constipated drop ships that can't get 'mechs out the drop gate without getting stuck like so many multi ton'd dingle berries?

14. Crouching - Credit armyunit

30. Who was doing that unit/faction sheet music? Opting to have those scores played instead of what we have as an option. Dimento's note: Or add the ability to allow the players the ability to select what music we want played...- credit Afuldan McKronik

37. Rear view cameras and wing mirrors. - credit Random Carnage

42. 10k CBill reward for being Ready when match launches - credit Talorien

44. Also, better target pop-ups for UAVs. That you can be standing under one and never know that it is there is pretty pathetic. - credit Trauglodyte

47. Bonus points for "jettison ammo", "Crouch", "Passive/Acvtive Rdar", etc. - credit to 80sGlamRockSensation David Bowie

50. Add in grid overlay on the drop screen (the one where you see the enemy list first time and prepare for drop). There is a map on the bottom right. Put the grid overlay on top of it so people can coordinate and plan their strategy better while waiting. Some don't know all grids out of their mind.

Especially useful when dropping with coordinated groups in CW. - credit to TexAce

60. Bring back the old glowing eyes on the Atlas, and put them on a toggle. - credit to Sir Wulfrick

63. At nighttime, we have absolutely no external lighting from the mech. So, why not add headlights? It may not do a lot for gameplay, but it certainly would improve nighttime immersion. - credit to Matt2496

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64. Active vs Passive radar implementation Dimento's Note: Matt2496, you may want to elaborate on this point a bit. - credit to Matt2496

65. More cockpit screens that actually work. - credit to Kassatsu

Bonus: Potential VR support in the future that moves non-essential HUD elements to the screens (things like heat sinks remaining and their location, internal component HP, ammo locations, hell even your throttle and direction) when using VR, an extra toggle to move *ALL* HUD elements to the screens, and non-VR options for such settings as well.

68. A heat scale that actually makes sense. Why is 30 heat capacity with the 'correct' dissipation values so bad? Still waiting on an answer on that one. Kassatsu's note: Don't think these last two qualify as 'stupid' or 'minor', but whatever. - credit to Kassatsu

Bonus: No more ghost heat.

82. Some of this is not "easy" or "minor", BUT, I was reminded of it and wanted it added to the list: According to various lore and etc. accounts several 'mechs had the ability to turn 360 (not just the Urbie), and/or had the ability to 'arm flip' allowing their arm weapons to fire at targets towards their rear. We should have those 'mechs (Rifleman being one that readily comes to mind) have some accommodation to that. A clickable button to whip the 'mech 180 degrees to its rear, or the same sort of 360 torso twist option the Urbie has, either or.

85. Working COLLISIONS and Knockdowns - Dimento's Notes: Again another HOLY S*** WTFBBQ moment, something I complain about, daily, in game with lights jamming themselves up assault 'mech's asses, preventing them from being able to back up and completely untouchable - credit to Lugh

90. toggle tag and machine gun - Dimento's notes: Seriously you want a toggle for machine gun? Isn't that a weapons firing group? Maybe elaborate, not sure what you're asking for on the MG, BUT DEFINITELY understand the TAG toggle. - credit to EurakaLi

91. force-able close archer bay door asap after fire(or any other mech that have door and work the same) when locked and fireing-lrm,there 4 second cd on it I want it to close when not in use at close range combat situation...
(currently it stay open when u locked on somebody engaged and pressing the close door don't seem to work) - credit to EurakaLi

93. Able to tell which leg is destroy more easier(why I have to wait that yellow doll every time?), it should be as easy to tell as lose a arm,sometime those smoke on leg is not enough and everyone paint black.. - credit to EurakaLi

103. Area of affect damage when a 'mech dies due to over heating, our engine loss. The damage should be comparable to an arti strike.

--Mechlab Improvement

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12. The ability to SAVE FREAKING MECH LOADOUTS! - Credit to Aresye

25. Mechlab - Modules - The module type should be:
Mech Modules
Weapon Modules
Consumables

For whatever silly reason, you people decided that it'd be "keen" to sort the type alphabetically I suppose?

Yes, I absolutely acknowledge this is very 'minor' BUT, it gets annoying because natural tendency is that the order will match the layout on the lab section:

'Mech Modules
Weapon Modules
Mech/Weapon
Consumables

29. "Save configuration" button in mechlab, so we can swap between builds with only a 2-3 clicks. - credit Tarogato

31. Account wide camo unlocks... - credit to Narcissistic Martyr

41. Able to make mechs 'favourite' on Thumbnail and to sort by favourites (better than ready deck of 4 and can hide unused mechs) - credit Talorien

49. An actual global chat while you're in the mechlab. - credit to Cabusha

52. Be able to sell special mechs. - credit Gattsus

53. Have have icons showing the installed modules on mechs. - credit Gattsus

56. Be able to level up mech skills from the loadout page. - credit Gattsus

57. When selling omnipods, be able to tell the hardpoints they have. - credit Gattsus

58. Mechbay-like GUI for selling items and for mech skills. - credit Gattsus

72. Something that made modules easier to find or just a strip all modules from mechs option. - credit to dario03

74. The ability to designate some of your mechs as favorites and filter for them afterwards. - credit to DerMaulwurf

76. Oh, and finally show us the actual values in the MechLab... Dimento's notes: Can be a bit more specific on that? - credit to Aeon Veritas

78. Easy and visible way to discern which weapon went to what slot on mech and a way to designate their position E.G. I have Banshee-3M It has 3 LPL's + 1 SL on LT and 2 LPL + 1 SL on RT.
I wish I could define their placement as to specifically set both SL on lower torso while my LPL bein on high mounts. - credit to lazytopaz

79. Same thing goes with general loadout setup. When I mouse over some part of my weaponry I'd like to have it highlighted both in loadout and on mech at the same time. - credit to lazytopaz

87. Actual heat disparate rate in mech lab(it not rocket science) and other minor detail so I don't have to go to a external website and rebuild it everytime to check my heat /builds - credit to EurakaLi

--Skill Tree Improvements

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17. Skill Tree - Either remove Pinpoint, make it cost 1XP (in case they can't make it 0XP), or replace it with something that actually works that you have already figured out as a skill or module upgrade. - credit KodiakGW

34. How about a Pinpoint skill that does something other than waste 3,000 XP? - credit oldradagast

70. When you go into the skill tree screen, how about showing just the mechs you have? Or even, the ones you have actual skill points to spend.
It's freaking stupid having to search every time the mech you are leveling on that ginormous list. A lot of clicks for no apparent reason. - credit to Dibujor

--Weapon Improvements

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18. Put in Clan AC Cooldown and Range modules. We have UAC and LXB. Really, we are taking about a couple of lines of code. Copy/paste mostly. - credit KodiakGW

32. Please add IS AC/2 Cooldown module Dimento's note: I don't personally agree with this, BUT, I'll add it 'cause, reasons. - credit to Virtual Riot

69. The part about the weapons: Autocannons that are actual autocannons instead of battleship guns. Could also change up how lasers work as well, with shorter durations, faster refire times and less damage per shot to maintain their current DPS. Ripple-fire and soft locks on SSRMs. Kassatsu's note: Don't think these last two qualify as 'stupid' or 'minor', but whatever. - credit to Kassatsu

Bonus: Less poke and shoot gameplay using anything but specialized builds designed for it. More of that 'big bad mechs taking and dishing out beatings' feeling due to the lower spike damage potential and heavier reliance on sustained damage over time.

81. Clan U/AC's 5 need some rework. C UAC 5 vs UAC 5. Clanner will do lot less damage, takes longer to shoot and dmg is spread through 3 bullets. Only thing appealing is the fact that it visually looks cool. Other than that... as much as I love the dakka I utterly despise it in Clan version. Dimento's note on this: I totally disagree, and the fact that the Clanners get MOAR disorienting rattle and 'splosion flashes has a definitive strategic/tactical value, BUT, putting it in the list 'cause, REASONS - credit to lazytopaz

--HUD Improvements

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19. letting us see teammate's loadouts/damage ragdolls - credit Khobai

Option to change location of chat text (customizable game HUD, please) - credit Groutknoll
Option to in/de crease the amount of chat text displayed (customizable game HUD, please) - credit Groutknoll
Option to have global/team/lance chat text split in to different locations (ie all global messages go to 1 gui, team to another, and lance to a 3rd gui location) (customizable game HUD, please) Dimento Graven's comment: I remember when EverQuest's UI went fully user configurable, it DEFINITELY improved game play, more than 10 years ago AT LEAST) - credit Groutknoll

20. labeling waypoints on the compass heading bar so you can tell what waypoint youre heading to - credit Khobai

43. Someway to know what load out your team is running without wasting your time in chat. Example: just drove my Atlas in a game where even a couple of the Lights were running LRMs. Meant that I ended up having to push alone and got decimated because of it (that and the giant hipster douchebaggery that is the peak & poke fad). Would have been nice knowing all of that before I decided to go forward. - credit Trauglodyte

51. Have an icon for open/closed missile bays. e1itegamepro's notes on this: "There's a light in the cockpit that will turn red when the missile bay door is closed, yellow when it's opening or closing and green when it's opened." Dimento's response: Never noticed it, so probably it needs to be placed more 'visibly', and/or a HUD element would be nice. - credit Gattsus

67. Easier to read damage displays. What happened to the 'bar' displays from past games? I nearly always switched right to that version so I knew exactly how much HP was left on any given component on my target, rather than going "oh his CT is 'yellow', guess I'll go for his slightly more 'orange' legs". - credit to Kassatsu

Bonus: Self explanatory I hope. You have a MUCH better idea of exactly how much HP any given component has rather than trying to figure out if that RT looks slightly more orange than the LT. Dimento's Note: Not sure I agree giving specific percentages on enemy paper dolls, HOWEVER, putting them on OUR OWN paper doll might be extremely useful. - credit to Kassatsu

73. A customizable hud would be great but I think just a few small changes would be great. For instance override should have a little symbol or indicator light by the heat meter and a message of override engaged pop up next to the heat level warning when that comes up.

Critical damage indicator moved to down by your paper doll. Could still have it pop up in its current spot when it first happens but then have it go down there, or just go away or have a option of making it go away.
And I think in the large indicator area, shrink the messages down a little bit and have 2 different spots for messages. One for incoming missiles and one for other warnings, like mode specific base under attack.

Here is a highly detailed professionally made image of the examples I talked about (from a old thread I had).

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And most everything else that was posted in my similar thread from a couple of months ago http://mwomercs.com/...t-changedadded/ - credit to dario03

75. Titles in the match…. you know: “guillotine”, “knight errant”, “liquid metal”, faction rank, owner of mech pack, etc. This is not necessary information during battle, and they obstruct vision. I want to see what mechs I’m going to face, I’m not interested in their titles. Displaying of titles should be toggleable.
Speaking of mechs and obstruction of vision, displaying of heroes names should be toggleable too. For example “HBK-GI” looks informative enough than: “GRID IRON LIMITED EDITION”. - credit to Ketzer08

77. a button or menu option to suppress the

**MASSIVE FLASHING RED** "Override" and "Critical Damage" HUD warnings. - credit to Wonderdog

80. And have this same highlight when setting up weapon groups. Dimento's notes: Yeah I don't know how I forgot this, DEFINITELY WTFBBQ, we should have the weapon's LOCATION displayed ON THE HUD when we're setting up our weapon groups!!! There's plenty of f'ing space, NO MORE, wasting 3 minutes in a new match shooting weapons trying to figure out where the hell it is!! - credit to lazytopaz

95. Scalable mini-map. The current scale is hard set, and sometimes it'd be REAL good to widen the view, or zoom it in even further. - credit to Cathy for reminding me of this.

96. Update the mini-maps to be accurate of terrain and other objects on the map. For example, in Forest Colony, some of those HUGE rock spires out in the water, ARE NOT ON THE MINIMAP (or the strategic map either, I think). This can lead to some confusing issues where you're steering by the mini map for whatever reason and suddenly you look out the cockpit to see you've been walking into some very large terrain object that's not there in the mini map. - credit to Cathy for reminding me of this.

97. Allow everyone to see the name of our 'mechs. - credit to Lugh

98. In settings, a scrollbar switch for locally scaling sensor signatures (size of ally and enemy arrows, base and cap-point icons). - credit to DivineEvil

99. In settings, a scrollbar switch for locally scaling targetting reticle elements (text, target frames, tracking icons). - credit to DivineEvil

100. Blinking icons on GUI or Cockpit screens, replacing the obstructively large notifications of "CRITICAL DAMAGE", "INCOMING MISSILES" and "WEAPON JAMMED". - credit to DivineEvil

101. In the game GUI and on all score-screens, designating a destroyed player as "LOST", not as "DEAD". Destruction of a mech does not automatically mean death of the pilot, and Battletech is not about people dying heroically, but about combat resources being lost. - credit to DivineEvil

102. In settings, MainCamera focus option, allowing for game camera to follow Arm targeting reticle (like in Free-look mode, but without locking the torsos in place), or to follow torso crosshair (current default), however the player decides. - credit to DivineEvil

--Main Client Improvements

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23. Chat and invite notifications that are LARGE and more obvious than a little blinking button in an obscure corner location of the screen. Have a dang piece of the UI reserved that has a LARGE flashing light next to the words in LARGE text "INCOMMING MESSAGE" and another flashing light next to the words "GROUP INVITE". I still have times where that damn little "people" button is blinking and there's nothing that needs to actually be seen.

33. The Mech REady List from the original UI

(NOT talking about CW's ready list... im talking about this:

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Even found a great place to put this..

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- credit Lord Tsarkon

39. Shortcut from main screen to Pilot Skill Tree of current Mech (put a button next to the purple XP icon!!) - credit Talorien

55. Have a class% indicator PER server rather than a global one. - credit Gattsus

61. Now that we have actual dropships in the regular queues, why not change the "Play Now" to "Launch" instead? Every other mechwarrior game had this. - credit to Matt2496

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62. Add engineers to the mechlab. We have them in the academy, so why doesn't someone man the console in the mechlab? - credit to Matt2496

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83. How about letting us set the group leader instead of random assignment when the current group leader leaves. Dimento's notes - I don't think it's random, it automagically defaults to the next person that has been in the group longest, HOWEVER, OMFGBBQ YES, being able to THOUGHTFULLY control group lead would eliminate so many grouping inconveniences! - credit to rook

84. Also, let us set lances and generally organize the group whatsoever. Dimento's notes - Yes, being able to set the lance structure you want when you have 5 or more people in your public group would be abso-friggin-loutely fantastic. The random crap that the MM does to groups can actually be VERY anti-team play. - credit to rook

88. Able to claims events rewards while in the game client, it's not enough to keep log in mwomercs.com and search for the location to claim my reward....and those reward will expires.... - credit to EurakaLi

89. Update the announcements so that the date/time automagically reflects local TZ's. - credit to EurakaLi

--Game Mode Improvements

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24. I should probably put this in its own thread, though I'm betting someone already has: The new game mode Domination. EXACTLY WHY did you silly people almost always put the goddamned capture point EXACTLY where all the battles for every other game mode were already, most of the time, taking place? Seriously, GET CREATIVE. Don't put the capture point in the Caldera in Caustic Valley and Terra Therma. THAT IS STUPID ANYWAY, no, put it in a corner, change spawn points to be equidistant and force the battle to be AWAY from where the F "Theta" happens to always end up on the various maps.

SERIOUSLY, these are huge expletive maps, and you ignore ALL the other options.

Aeon Veritas' notes: Even better, create multiple loadouts of spawn and objective locations and put them in the same random selection as the daytime of the map.

71. Conquest shows the kill counter like the other modes. Just put the kill counter up there next to the resource counters. - credit to dario03

--Game Maps

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59. I'd also like to recommend/ask to have ALL the old maps renamed and put back into the map rotation for more "flavor", ala:

OLD River City
OLD River City Night
OLD Caustic Valley
OLD Forest Colony
OLD Forest Colony Snow

Seems like a cheap and easy way to add "content"...

--Match Maker Changes

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66. A battle value system to balance team sizes, mechs, weapons and faction/tech differences. - credit to Kassatsu

Bonus: PGI will no longer need to try to buff specific weapons on specific mechs to ridiculous levels for no reason whatsoever.

I'l
l cut you short at the weapons and say that for as long as games have been out, people have tried to find the most effective way to play it.

In brood war, its simply as it is. In sc2, people who were pro at brood war looked like noobs again. 15 minute 2-3 base zerg with hydras poking terran siege tanks from pro players? Yes. As the game progressed, people refined their play until it resembled brood war heavily: People did some harass but it was mostly 5-10 minutes of nothing happening until someone attacked with a "perfect" timing and unit comp. Paradoxically, blizz, like the people suggesting weapon changes, thought they could shake this up by adding more harasser units and lowering resources for first base.

In practice, what will happen, mark my words, is that after a while of this latest version of sc2 being out, people will find ways to cut off those aggressions and nothing much will happen in the first 10 minutes once again, and it will simply look as contrived and scripted as sc2 was before the changes and unit additons, and like brood war looks.

People will RUIN your cute little system of trying to enforce a stupid playstyle.

Running into the open guns blazing while being focused down is stupid playstyle. Poking is smart playstyle.

[TexAce]

All balance related points should be taken out of the OP since balance is an ongoing and ever changing thing.

Same for the last BV point. Seriously? how is that a "small fix"?

Edited by TexAce, 11 April 2016 - 03:42 PM.