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[cazidin]

Greetings Mechwarriors. Today I have a few simple questions. When will the next town hall be and what would you like to ask? Personally, I will once again bug them for an answer about the Command Console buff, progress report on Ghost Heat II and if the Kodiak will receive any hitbox or quirk changes.

[TLBFestus]

Are you excited about the tournament, how you scheduled it, and placing severe limits on the number of players so that half the games over the MONTHS it takes to play will be default wins?

[Bud Crue]

If they plan on taking any action regarding the current population imbalances in FP and if yes, what those actions will be and when.

[Juodas Varnas]

Something something quadrupeds?

[Sjorpha]

What is the future plans for Faction Warfare?

[Alan Davion]

Bud Crue, on 24 May 2016 - 07:54 AM, said:

If they plan on taking any action regarding the current population imbalances in FP and if yes, what those actions will be and when.

Unless they decide to completely redesign all the maps to not make them so obscenely choke-pointy and easily gamed by whatever team has the more defensible position on the map, then no, they probably won't be addressing the piss-f***ing-poor population numbers of FP.

Not to mention the fact that FP is absolutely abhorrent to new players unless they join one of the top-tier-ultra-elite teams that play the game like it's a damned job.

FP was a good idea, handled extremely poorly, if for no other reason than the game simply does not have the population to sustain it.

Now, if we had fully AI controlled mechs that might be one thing, but the maps would still need to be completely redesigned.

I mean hell, look at Planetside 2, it's got exactly 3 maps, but they're honking huge. There are too many damned maps in FP, because seriously, the most immersion breaking thing I've ever seen is playing on Vitric Forge with it's blue freaking sun/star, and then playing on literally any other map in the same system, and oh, hey, suddenly it's a standard yellow sun/star.

I mean WTF?! Really?! There cannot be more than a dozen or so systems in the entire Inner Sphere that have blue dwarfs as their star, and yet every system in FP has a what, 1 in 6 some-odd chance of dropping on that blue star map, while all the other maps are yellow stars?

I just... Ugh. I don't think there are any words invented yet for the sheer disappointment I feel for the FP game mode.

[Spheroid]

They need more time between town halls. The last one sucked. People only watch for the mech reveals now.

[Alan Davion]

Spheroid, on 24 May 2016 - 08:25 AM, said:

They need more time between town halls. The last one sucked. People only watch for the mech reveals now.

Pretty much this, yeah.

[Tom Sawyer]

single mech with several variants buy you will?

Ok June Town Hall......

[Gas Guzzler]

Huntsman or Black Lanner announcement most likely.

Still hoping the game ruining "GH2" is scrapped.

[Alan Davion]

Gas Guzzler, on 24 May 2016 - 08:58 AM, said:

Still hoping the game ruining "GH2" is scrapped.

So... You'd rather have the still game ruining, easily worked-around GH1? Yeah, let's keep the game in the stinking cesspool it's in for longer.

Great plan.

[Triordinant]

Now that they have 3 month roadmaps it's possible that Town Halls will be every 3 months as well. They don't need a Town Hall to announce new 'mechs.

[Gas Guzzler]

Alan Davion, on 24 May 2016 - 09:10 AM, said:

So... You'd rather have the still game ruining, easily worked-around GH1? Yeah, let's keep the game in the stinking cesspool it's in for longer.

Great plan.

Easily worked around? You mean I can fire 8 ERLL at once circumventing ghost heat? TELL ME HOW PLEASE??

How do I fire 6 PPCs at once?

How about 12 cER MLs?

How about 5 cLPLs?

How about 6 cER LLs?

How about 6 IS LPLs?

If Ghost Heat is easy to work around, I should be able to alpha all of those at once with no penalty. Tell me how please.

Oh, you mean mixing in those low range, lower damage/heat efficiency, medium lasers to reach a similar damage output is the workaround? Yeah, great work around, those MLs are super useful at 800 meters.

The gameplay aspect of this game is fine as is, it doesn't need some bs mechanic aimed at roflstomping a meta that has been expired for 6 months because people still whine about it. Don't waste time on BS like that, instead looking at increasing the depth of the game, with more information based consumables (like seismic decoys), game modes (like Union/Overlord Drop Ship defense!), making Faction Play more interesting, Solaris, etc. That is what the game needs. Not more mechanics to restrict the meta to SRMs and Ballistics (see "UAC-10s OP" thread) when it is already spread to those weapon systems.

Seriously "GH2" is a huge unnecessary waste of time.

Edited by Gas Guzzler, 24 May 2016 - 09:34 AM.

[Jon Gotham]

Same old question:
Are you going to implement any tools in game to encourage grouping and recruiting?
Do you have anyone employed to look after this aspect of an online game? I only ask because there seems to be very little focus on social/team play in mwo these days......

This may be fourth or fifth time asking these questions...

[TercieI]

Since we know it's a mech pack a month, can you tell us when it will be a light? It's now way overdue. I've been patient. I'm done being patient.

Edited by TercieI, 24 May 2016 - 09:50 AM.

[cazidin]

Gas Guzzler, on 24 May 2016 - 08:58 AM, said:

Huntsman or Black Lanner announcement most likely.

Still hoping the game ruining "GH2" is scrapped.

I'd rather they scrap the cache but keep Ghost Heat II. Atleast Ghost Heat II could have a few good ideas that reduce alpha strikes.

#Scrapthecache

Triordinant, on 24 May 2016 - 09:10 AM, said:

Now that they have 3 month roadmaps it's possible that Town Halls will be every 3 months as well. They don't need a Town Hall to announce new 'mechs.

Sounds lazy.

[Gas Guzzler]

Jon Gotham, on 24 May 2016 - 09:45 AM, said:

Same old question:
Are you going to implement any tools in game to encourage grouping and recruiting?
Do you have anyone employed to look after this aspect of an online game? I only ask because there seems to be very little focus on social/team play in mwo these days......

This may be fourth or fifth time asking these questions...

They would probably say they did with the LFG tool, faction chat, etc, but I'm not sure what else they can actually do, aside from have resources on the website like Teamspeak channels and stuff. They could probably have some more attention grabbing links to recruiting forums as well..

cazidin, on 24 May 2016 - 09:51 AM, said:

I'd rather they scrap the cache but keep Ghost Heat II. Atleast Ghost Heat II could have a few good ideas that reduce alpha strikes.

No thanks, GHII will only reduce the meta to non-alpha based weapon systems that are already meta. We need a diverse meta, not wasting development time giving it less variety.

The supply caches I could take or leave, arguable also a waste of time, but it should be less time and won't impact the game negatively.

Edited by Gas Guzzler, 24 May 2016 - 09:54 AM.

[CK16]

Ball park answer to a time jump would be nice to hear. Not when it happens it happens. What would they predict in a reasonable time frame. Not an exact date but like you know about what 1 year? 2 years? Ect.

[Karl Marlow]

Melee combat and the Axman Mech pack. When?

[Cy Mitchell]

1. Now that you have scrapped the poorly thought out and implemented FP solo queue idea after a whole week, do You (PGI) have an alternative idea to introduce new players to FP? The current first experience for most players is getting your butt handed to you by units in landslide defeats over and over again. It is not fun for anyone whether you are on the winning side or the losing side. The majority of players try it a few times and then go back to QP never to return. The solo queue if done properly could have been the training ground for FP which would in turn produce a larger population that would stay around.

If resources continue to be spent on FP then there needs to be a way to introduce new players to FP and make it an enjoyable experience and conducive to learning the mode before being subjected to the coordinated unit beatdowns.

2. How is development progressing on the mechanic to limit Alpha strikes? This needs to address all the one button Alpha strike builds not just laser vomit. Alpha lasers generate a lot of heat and use a lot of energy. Recharge time and cool down time should increase and the numbers fired together increase. Ballistics and SRMs have to be reloaded. Time to reload either of those should increase dramatically as the number of weapons that have to be reloaded simultaneously increases because ammo needs to be moved from one part of the mech to the weapon and the number of conveyance devices in the Mech are limited.

Suggestion: Reduce firing rate following Alphas based on recharge and reload. Add additional negative effects for exceeding heat thresholds such as slowed movement speed, slowed torso twist, impaired sensors and targeting, increased jamming and slower energy weapon recharge.

Edited by Rampage, 24 May 2016 - 10:25 AM.