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[Signal27]

As my registration date indicates: I started playing the game in open beta, when people seemed to only play heavies and assaults for a few years straight. Back then, the chief complaint was that mediums were the worst class to play because they didn't have the speed of lights and nowhere near the firepower or armor of heavies and assaults. Worse still, if you dropped a big engine into a heavy then it could keep pace with any medium and still have more armor and firepower to boot.

I returned to the game a few days ago, and every single time I log in I'm surprised to see that more people are playing mediums than they are assaults - although heavies still rule the PUG queues, but sometimes I see that people are almost in mediums as often as they are in heavies. What changed to encourage this? The quirks they assigned to mediums? Or did assaults get worse, as a class? Or something else?

For the record, I don't mind it at all because I mainly played mediums back before it was cool to do so.

Edited by Signal27, 27 July 2016 - 08:50 AM.

[Elizander]

Viper released and recent medium event. Some days heavies still take the bulk of the mechs in play.

[Signal27]

Elizander, on 27 July 2016 - 08:51 AM, said:

Viper released and recent medium event. Some days heavies still take the bulk of the mechs in play.

Oh, so it's just a passing thing? Yeah I remember when the Crab released and it was the same.

[mogs01gt]

The queues are typically:
50% Heavy
20%Assault
20% medium
10%Light

Sometimes the lights get down below 10 though...