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#1 Johnny Z

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Posted 22 January 2017 - 07:05 AM

When will proper DLC that adds real content be available other than mech packs?

Where is 1st person mechbay?

Where is sound update to not be ear splitting and bad sounds?

When is pilot eject animation going to be added?

How long until mechs go critical sometimes on destruction even if no damage is given?

When is tech balance going to be achieved?

When will atmosphere and story and lore be added?

How come no NPC's? Never heard of NPC's? Why doesn't the VIP request help now and then? When will NPC's be added to this game?

Thanks. :) maybe some other things that should be in game by now can be added by others.

Edited by Johnny Z, 22 January 2017 - 07:09 AM.


#2 Juodas Varnas

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Posted 22 January 2017 - 07:17 AM

Forget all that noise, where are my quadrupeds?!

#3 Johnny Z

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Posted 22 January 2017 - 07:29 AM

View PostJuodas Varnas, on 22 January 2017 - 07:17 AM, said:

Forget all that noise, where are my quadrupeds?!


"Well into 2017" may be a bit of a stretch but I went with it. :) Yes quads would be a great addition as well.

#4 Bud Crue

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Posted 22 January 2017 - 07:31 AM

Nice list. PGI can't manage to import Sarna description to the mechs; they can't be bothered to finish the text descriptions for the planets on the CW map. And you want all of that stuff?
If the use of Ctrl-c and Ctrl-v has proven too be too much effort, do you really think there is ANY chance of them providing atmosphere and lore? Animations and NPCs?

No.

#5 1453 R

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Posted 22 January 2017 - 07:40 AM

View PostJohnny Z, on 22 January 2017 - 07:05 AM, said:

When will proper DLC that adds real content be available other than mech packs?


Let's get some perspective here, eh?


View PostJohnny Z, on 22 January 2017 - 07:05 AM, said:

Where is 1st person mechbay?


MW5. Realistically, this adds nothing to MWO; people would enjoy it for a few weeks, maybe drop into it for videos or pictures for the forums or whatever, but after that it'd be a dead-letter feature that's nice to have but in no way essential.


View PostJohnny Z, on 22 January 2017 - 07:05 AM, said:

Where is sound update to not be ear splitting and bad sounds?


Matter of opinion? The sound design in MWO is just fine. It's not Award Quality or whatever, but it does the job perfectly well. No need to reinvent the wheel.


View PostJohnny Z, on 22 January 2017 - 07:05 AM, said:

When is pilot eject animation going to be added?


Commodity Warfare already eats up far more resources than it should. Adding an eject animation seen by a small portion of the population every now and then is a(nother) waste of time, especially when cockpits in MWO aren't built to properly break apart for ejection.


View PostJohnny Z, on 22 January 2017 - 07:05 AM, said:

How long until mechs go critical sometimes on destruction even if no damage is given?


I thought the forum community in general hated Mike Stackpole and exploding 'Mechs? Also if a nuclear reactor goes critical thirty feet away from you, I would in fact throw a fit if it didn't do some severe damage to your own machine. If you're going to do it, do it right.


View PostJohnny Z, on 22 January 2017 - 07:05 AM, said:

When is tech balance going to be achieved?


Shut up, Johnny. Permanently ongoing process and you know that. Nobody wants them to make any massive major balance changes before Skilltrees goes in anyways, it'd just be wasted effort since they'll have to redo it then, too. That and the Sphere is slated for a million new toys in summer. Maybe see if those help you before pitching another CLANZ OP fit.


View PostJohnny Z, on 22 January 2017 - 07:05 AM, said:

When will atmosphere and story and lore be added?


MW5. MWO is the shooty arena game, MW5 is where Piranha's going to take one more stab at giving people all the things they said MWO would be, since Piranha has learned that doing all of those things in a multiplayer shooty game doesn't work well. Also, just to be thorough...what, actually, counts as "Atmosphere, story, and lore"? First-person 'Mechbays? Sound re-engineering? Exploding 'Mechs?

I'd like it if Piranha hired a guy whose sole job was to repopulate things like the ComStar news feeds; make a little mini-website on the side players could subscribe to that's built to look like a BattleTech comms console or whatever. Daily news snippets and updates like we used to get, tie 'em into ongoing events if possible, hint at Things To Come, and just generally be a cool place to check out. But I understand why they don't want to spend money on that guy when they could be spending it on MW5, instead. Maybe post-MW5 launch. We'll see.


View PostJohnny Z, on 22 January 2017 - 07:05 AM, said:

How come no NPC's? Never heard of NPC's? Why doesn't the VIP request help now and then? When will NPC's be added to this game?


What NPCs? Where? At what point in a MWO match do NPCs make sense, beyond Angry Clan Man?


View PostJohnny Z, on 22 January 2017 - 07:05 AM, said:

Thanks. Posted Image maybe some other things that should be in game by now can be added by others.


I'm sure everybody has their pet list of changes they'd love to see. You want Real Content, let's talk about the total lack of Information Warfare instead of random bits of nonsense fluffery like first-person 'Mechbays.

#6 Hit the Deck

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Posted 22 January 2017 - 07:44 AM

We already have an NPC in the form of a white Atlas in the Training Ground.

Report says that a similar 'Mech is sometimes seen running on the battlefield.

Edited by Hit the Deck, 22 January 2017 - 07:45 AM.


#7 Davegt27

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Posted 22 January 2017 - 07:54 AM

I would be happy with enhanced imaging

#8 Bombast

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Posted 22 January 2017 - 08:40 AM

We are 6 percent of the way through 2017. I'd hardly call that 'Well Into.'

#9 Vellron2005

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Posted 23 January 2017 - 02:27 AM

OP, I hear you..

So much things clearly missing from the game that one would think would have been mandatory in early alpha..

Here's a few:

1) Immersion - that overall feel that we are battling a huge galactic conflict

2) Saving multiple loadouts of a mech

3) More than one or two soundtracks in the whole game

4) Instructions for how to play a specific game mode

5) Fighting over more than description-less dots in FW..

6) NPC's.. altho, I've seen people with celebrity names like Natasha Kerensky in-game, put them on my friends list even.. but I sorta expect them to lead games, drop call, and want to know more about them..

7) Descriptions of stuff in game - even directly copy/pasted from Sarna.. it would be a step in the right direction

But hey, it's not all bad.. PGI has actually implemented some of such "basic" things into the game after players requested them..

Things like:

1) Spinning mechs in the homescreen - proud of that one, since it was me who requested it Posted Image

2) Music in the homescreen - back in closed beta, the game was eerily silent

3) Cockpit monitors! Before, they were all black, or with that stupid auto signal-no sign.. took them YEARS for that one..

I can't think of more stuff, but I know there's more..

Edited by Vellron2005, 23 January 2017 - 02:29 AM.


#10 Lily from animove

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Posted 23 January 2017 - 02:31 AM

becasue theres just that much staff to do things.

therea re many ways besides mechpacks to monetize mwo, but for now it's emchpacks ebcasue people wanted it.

I wonder what happened about the other idea PGi rpesented yet, about customising the mech with individual parts.
Also, whats the state of custom decals.

#11 kesmai

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Posted 23 January 2017 - 02:50 AM

Buy the next mechpack and we might be able to discuss this further.

#12 a gaijin

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Posted 23 January 2017 - 04:49 AM

SInce CB I've kept wishing PGI would redo all MW2 Mercs Missions (and MW2 + GBL) just replacing the A.I. with players, putting that in an optional "campaign mode" for us.

Sigh...nope.Posted Image

#13 Bombast

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Posted 23 January 2017 - 04:54 AM

View PostStar Commander Horse, on 23 January 2017 - 04:49 AM, said:

SInce CB I've kept wishing PGI would redo all MW2 Mercs Missions (and MW2 + GBL) just replacing the A.I. with players, putting that in an optional "campaign mode" for us.

Sigh...nope.Posted Image


Can't do it for the same reason MW1-3 will never show up on GoG - Who owns it.

Specifically, MW2: Merc was developed by Activision.

#14 Oberost

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Posted 23 January 2017 - 04:55 AM

So you want to pay additional money for some features that should be included in the base game?

Wow...

#15 a gaijin

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Posted 23 January 2017 - 04:57 AM

View PostBombast, on 23 January 2017 - 04:54 AM, said:


Can't do it for the same reason MW1-3 will never show up on GoG - Who owns it.

Specifically, MW2: Merc was developed by Activision.

I know, but still disappointing.
Wish PGI would've bought the rights. ActiVision isn't doing anything with its MW content anyhow

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Posted 23 January 2017 - 05:02 AM

View PostStar Commander Horse, on 23 January 2017 - 04:57 AM, said:

I know, but still disappointing.
Wish PGI would've bought the rights. ActiVision isn't doing anything with its MW content anyhow


Believe me, I'd love it too. I'd love GoG to get MW3 as well (Though I don't know who in the hell owns that game. Microprose got gutted and sold off, and then all the companies that bought its guts got gutted and sold, so the people who own those games may not even know they do at this point).

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Posted 23 January 2017 - 10:23 AM

Waste of time.

New maps, please.

#18 Deathlike

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Posted 23 January 2017 - 03:17 PM

I thought someone (the OP) said this game was perfect.

You're asking a rhetorical question anyways.

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Posted 23 January 2017 - 03:19 PM

View PostBombast, on 23 January 2017 - 05:02 AM, said:


Believe me, I'd love it too. I'd love GoG to get MW3 as well (Though I don't know who in the hell owns that game. Microprose got gutted and sold off, and then all the companies that bought its guts got gutted and sold, so the people who own those games may not even know they do at this point).

So long story short, all of us who want a refurb & re-release of MW2 series are S.O.L.

I hope MW5M is so awesome it makes me forget MW2

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Posted 23 January 2017 - 03:28 PM

View PostStar Commander Horse, on 23 January 2017 - 03:19 PM, said:

So long story short, all of us who want a refurb & re-release of MW2 series are S.O.L.


Depends how old you are. Video game rights last for, what, 75 years? Maybe you'll live long enough for it to become freemium and someone to pick it up and modernize it.

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I hope MW5M is so awesome it makes me forget MW2


While it would be nice, I'd advice avoiding that kind of thinking for the time being. Hype is poison, and raising your hopes can ruin the game for you if it comes out and is decent but not great.





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