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[cazidin]

Greetings MechWarriors. Today I have a simple question. Why does IK keep getting pushed back? At this rate, PGI's credibility won't have a leg to stand on!

[Requiemking]

I don't know. Although, Waves 2 and 3 are getting new variants, possibly Cbill variants of the heros....

[cazidin]

Requiemking, on 10 April 2017 - 07:12 PM, said:

I don't know. Although, Waves 2 and 3 are getting new variants, possibly Cbill variants of the heros....

...yes! Maybe if we buy enough mechpacks, PGI will do something!

[Requiemking]

cazidin, on 10 April 2017 - 07:12 PM, said:

...yes! Maybe if we buy enough mechpacks, PGI will do something!

Wow, I just noticed the new maps segment as well as the part about the Quickdraw and the Victor getting weapons geometry fixes.

[Karl Marlow]

Do we really need a salt thread over something that has zero impact on the game and you are rarely even going to notice outside of posing for screenshots. I want it too but get a grip.

[Lupis Volk]

IK?

[chucklesMuch]

cazidin, on 10 April 2017 - 07:09 PM, said:

Greetings MechWarriors. Today I have a simple question. Why does IK keep getting pushed back? At this rate, PGI's credibility won't have a leg to stand on!

I don't really mind about IK, its very low on my list of things I waiting for PGI to work on/release.

[N0ni]

cazidin, on 10 April 2017 - 07:09 PM, said:

At this rate, PGI's credibility won't have a leg to stand on!

Duke Nukem Forever's multiplayer was so great though! *sarcasm*

[Moonlight Grimoire]

Lupis Volk, on 10 April 2017 - 07:23 PM, said:

IK?

Inverse Kinematics, it is a thing where a mech or character's feet follows the ground. So in MWO you wouldn't have say a mech standing on an incline supported by nothing, instead it's toes, ankles, knees, and legs would adjust to follow the terrain. The issue PGI says they have is that the lag compensation system they have has weird interactions with IK which has kept it being pushed back for about a year now. It is something they want back since they keep getting it mostly working and it just kind of just by the sounds of it a bug hunt for exploits or some such.

[Carl Vickers]

Im more worried that IK is going to drop frame rates even further than what we see almost every patch. IK would be nice but I would much rather they improve performance rather than drop us 10 frames per patch, more on the newer maps.

[Juodas Varnas]

They're probably pushing them back to release them with Quadrupeds simultaneously!

Right guys?

[Snazzy Dragon]

Requiemking, on 10 April 2017 - 07:14 PM, said:

Wow, I just noticed the new maps segment as well as the part about the Quickdraw and the Victor getting weapons geometry fixes.

Better late than never, I guess

[jjm1]

Juodas Varnas, on 10 April 2017 - 09:30 PM, said:

They're probably pushing them back to release them with Quadrupeds simultaneously!

Right guys?

I have it on good authority that Quadrupeds will be released just after unipeds and centipedes.

[Acehilator]

IK in 90 days ™

Let's see if they can break the FW record

[Appogee]

The great irony is that they had IK in MWO... and removed it.

Edited by Appogee, 11 April 2017 - 04:50 AM.

[Bud Crue]

...a leg to stand on.


Caz, you started a salt thread just for the sake of setting up that line?

My what a lame attempt at humor. Gimped even.

[Marius Romanis]

pretty sure my legs nearly getting destroyed in FP/CW by dropships missdropping me is more important than the angle the feet sit on visually and its not even mentioned in the roadmap.

[The Basilisk]

Juodas Varnas, on 10 April 2017 - 09:30 PM, said:

They're probably pushing them back to release them with Quadrupeds simultaneously!

Right guys?

What is this thing with you and Quads.. ..some kind of wiered animal like machine fetisch

[Athom83]

cazidin, on 10 April 2017 - 07:09 PM, said:

Greetings MechWarriors. Today I have a simple question. Why does IK keep getting pushed back? At this rate, PGI's credibility won't have a leg to stand on!

Booo, not punny.

Seriously though, the reasons I can see why it keeps getting pushed back is coding issues while interacting with the game physics. Also, dynamic hotboxes following the legs trough possibly very odd angles. The legs can potentially glitch into the torso when you're sideways on a steep enough incline/decline. Et cetera. Things like this takes experience and manpower to do properly. Both are things PGI is lacking at the moment. They haven't done this for any of their other games before, and how many of the ~65 people they have are working on it and have done this before?

Edited by Athom83, 11 April 2017 - 06:45 AM.

[Coolant]

content over graphics