11 replies to this topic

[ClannerBannaner]

Is there a way to disable the blinding black smoke you have over your cockpit when you're getting lrm'd? or is this a "feature?"

[El Bandito]

Turn down "particles" and "effects" setting to Low. Best you can do. There are more "invasive" modifications you can do to your game to make effects even less felt, but that might get you banned.

Edited by El Bandito, 08 April 2017 - 10:59 PM.

[ClannerBannaner]

El Bandito, on 08 April 2017 - 10:58 PM, said:

Turn down particles setting to Low. Best you can do. There are more "invasive" modifications you can do to your game to make effects even less felt, but that might get you banned.

Really wish there was a way around this because the effect in of itself is nauseating.

[El Bandito]

ClannerBannaner, on 08 April 2017 - 10:59 PM, said:

Really wish there was a way around this because the effect in of itself is nauseating.

Working as intended. LRMs are by design suppression weapons. Same deal with smaller class ACs. Try to move forward or sideways when hit by them. Less visual obstruction that way. If you go straight backwards, you won't be able to see crap.

Edited by El Bandito, 08 April 2017 - 11:01 PM.

[Shifty McSwift]

I will just take this opportunity to complain about LRM screen shake rates, they are too dam high.

[El Bandito]

Shifty McSwift, on 09 April 2017 - 01:15 AM, said:

I will just take this opportunity to complain about LRM screen shake rates, they are too dam high.

That's partly true. For example, 20 LRMs hitting you at once should feel pretty strong. On the other hand, 5 LRMs hitting you should not feel strong. However, PGI, in their infinite wisdom, had somehow decided that the shake (impulse value) for all launchers should stay the same. Therefore chain fired LRM5s hit just as hard as chainfired LRM20s. SRM2 hits just as hard as SRM6.

WHich is utterly stupid, considering the fact ACs have different impulse value--which means PGI understands that bigger gun hits harder--yet they did not implement that on missiles for some reason. Another reason to scoff at PGI.

[Shifty McSwift]

El Bandito, on 09 April 2017 - 01:21 AM, said:

That's partly true. For example, 20 LRMs hitting you at once should feel pretty strong. On the other hand, 5 LRMs hitting you should not feel strong. However, PGI, in their infinite wisdom, had somehow decided that the shake (impulse value) for all launchers should stay the same. Therefore chain fired LRM5s hit just as hard as chainfired LRM20s. SRM2 hits just as hard as SRM6.

WHich is utterly stupid, considering the fact ACs have different impulse value--which means PGI understands that bigger gun hits harder--yet they did not implement that on missiles for some reason. Another reason to scoff at PGI.

Exactly, even if you are just being hit by 1 at a time in a broken stream it is comparable to being hit by ac10s or ppcs. There should definitely be shaking, but at those lower rates it is way OTT.

[ClannerBannaner]

I'm okay with getting an lrm 20 volley and it shaking my mech like a small child. Because 20 rockets slamming into you should feel like that. What you stated above, however, I cannot agree with more.

[FroyOi]

Getting hit by twenty is enough to cause a pilot check.

[Clownwarlord]

I have more of an issue when a dakka build just pummels around the cockpit preventing me from seeing anything but a strobe of orange, yellow and red.

Since this is in the game can we have back the old flammers so we can blind people at close range as well?

Edited by Clownwarlord, 09 April 2017 - 04:59 AM.

[Willard Phule]

FroyOi, on 09 April 2017 - 04:55 AM, said:

Getting hit by twenty is enough to cause a pilot check.

So not relevant, ESPECIALLY with PGI's approach to the game. Their whole matchmaking system, whether it be Elo or PSR, is almost set up like it's based on matches played as opposed to actually knowing what you're doing.

Besides, without knockdown, "failing a piloting check by default" can't be done either. It'd be cool, though.

[Ghogiel]

El Bandito, on 08 April 2017 - 10:58 PM, said:

There are more "invasive" modifications you can do to your game to make effects even less felt, but that might get you banned.

Nope. PGI has outright stated that changing your GPU rendering options is 100% perfectly fine. Not to mention completely undetectable even if they cared, which they don't.