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[Taxxian]

First: My opinion
I like the new system much better than the old one, it works fine and I can calculate the penalty without calculator or external tables and charts. Great work!

Second: What needs to be adressed

1) It is still GhostHeat! I understand you don't like popping up numbers in the UI, that would kill immersion. But we need to see our penalties somewhere.
We get heat penalties for lowering Energy below 0, yet the bar is from 0 to 30... that makes no sense! If you allow energy from -120 to +30 the "Energymeter" should have a range likewise.
The same with Heat, we get damage for Heat more than 100%, so why does the gauge stop right where it starts to matter?

2) SRM4 and SRM6 should not have different energy/rocket ratios...

3) Why can I chainfire lasers as fast as I want, but SRMs and ACs only one every .5sec? The only reason might be your old self resetting .5sec GhostHeat timer... the timer is gone, so please unlock fast chainfire for all weapons!

Edited by Taxxian, 30 August 2016 - 02:55 AM.

[Tiantara]

- Yeap.

1. I wrote about same problem and hope that we see it on next PTS iteration.

Spoiler

Tiantara, on 25 August 2016 - 04:01 AM, said:

- After some plays with overdepleted ED pool and some overheating on my Atlas and Dire Wolf... I got and idea about some visual add-on to HUD.

So. Don't took that too seriously its just an example based on screenshot.
I have no time to redraw whole HUD close to original.

A
- No heat, or little heat according to map temp.
- Full energy pool (30 ED points)

B
- Some heat (after alpha, chainfire, missile launch...)
- Depleted energy pool (0 ED points)

C
- Heat and overheat (and how much of it)
- Overdepleted energy pool (-10 \ - 18 ED points)



That can help understand how to play, what to use and in what danger your mech now.
We got penalty for overdepleted ED - let us see how much.
We got shutdown or override heat damage - let as information how much overheat we have. lets say - 115% = death of engine and 101% - damage and shutdown at exact 99% or 100% of heat.
Something like we have in MASC on Shadow Cats. We can use it, but in some overuse we got damage to legs.
Same here.

3. Some mech have delay mechanics to launching rockets. Like Archer, Catapult and all other who have protective cover. You need to open them by "/" before chainfire.

Edited by Tiantara, 30 August 2016 - 03:16 AM.

[Taxxian]

Tiantara, on 30 August 2016 - 03:12 AM, said:

3. Some mech have delay mechanics to launching rockets. Like Archer, Catapult and all other who have protective cover. You need to open them by "/" before chainfire.

Thats not what I mean, if you chainfire 6 Lasers as fast as you can you can actually fire all 6 in under 1s, if you use srm or ac no matter how fast you click your mousebutton, only one projectile every .5s emerges...

You can actually circumvent this behavior by using one weapon group per weapon. And for that you will sometimes need more than 5 fingers per hand, so people use makros...

Edited by Taxxian, 30 August 2016 - 03:50 AM.

[Troutmonkey]

Taxxian, on 30 August 2016 - 03:46 AM, said:

Thats not what I mean, if you chainfire 6 Lasers as fast as you can you can actually fire all 6 in under 1s, if you use srm or ac no matter how fast you click your mousebutton, only one projectile every .5s emerges...

Yup, and it's been that way since well before ghost heat. No idea why

[Tiantara]

Taxxian, on 30 August 2016 - 03:46 AM, said:

Thats not what I mean, if you chainfire 6 Lasers as fast as you can you can actually fire all 6 in under 1s, if you use srm or ac no matter how fast you click your mousebutton, only one projectile every .5s emerges...

- I dunno... by double tapping in chainfire srm go pretty fast. Same with AC... and UAC...

[Jman5]

Last I checked, the fast firing for chainfire was not possible in the PTS.