PGI, I’m a huge fan of you all and the game. I’m probably in about $500 over the last 1.5 years. Also, I’m a veteran game dev as well, including a big design presence in the MP boards on Gears of War. I get what it’s like dealing with balance issues, and you can’t please everyone.
But please, respectfully, you have to stop swinging the quirks around so wildly like this. I literally just bought 9 mechs last week in the sale (and bought MC for new mechbays for them, and even bothered to buy paint schemes for them) and days later you gimped many of the very mechs you just had a discount event to sell me. I haven’t even actually played any of my 3 Blackjacks yet, I spent my first days finishing up basics on the Centurions, which ironically just had my favorite one smacked around.
Then there’s the Battlemasters, which are pretty rarely seen in the wild; this wasn’t a mech that was being abused in the first place.
My bigger general issue though, is the degree you’re adjusting these quirks. You’re taking things that are at a 50% quirk and cutting it to 0%. If you want to make an adjustment, I get it, but you’re completely changing the character of the mechs rather than scaling them to a more measured degree. It’s not a balance thing, you’re redesigning mechs at this point. In many cases quirks are the major purchasing decision when deciding what we purchase. If you think the Locust is too small for the game, scale it up *some*, and bring the quirks down *some*, but keep the spirit of the mech that people bought it for.
If I buy an “energy variant” of something like the Centurion, or the BJ-1X, please, don’t just remove those aspects.
Regarding the Black Widow and Spirit Bear examples, mechs that you know were bought with actual cash, they need to be especially out of line to keep being debuffed repeatedly. This is the patch that genuinely killed my interest in buying mechs in the future.
I think I’m done paying real cash into the game, but I'm even done bothering to pay C-bills and grind to level them up. That cycle is just soured. I just can’t trust the degree to which they’ll change out from under me, and our time grinding these mechs matters. I know I would not have bought half the mechs I did last week had I seen the spreadsheet.
I have to echo the previous comment that patch notes are something I dread, not something I’m excited about.
Edited by Jaegon, 19 July 2016 - 11:09 AM.