Mad Porthos, on 09 July 2017 - 10:11 AM, said:
Hey Kon, just want to point out that they have not demonstrated that at all.
I know what you mean, but they made the claim.
"ATM"
Lock on code, etc.
I admit they claim they fixed that aspect under the claim that they stopped Artemis from enhancing MRMs and ATMs (there wasn't a caveat stating "We didn't fix ATM lock on code."
Granted their specific phrase is: "Artemis upgrade no longer improperly applies a bonus to MRM's, ATM's, and Rocket Launchers."
The bonuses it applies are spread, lock on time acceleration, missile course correction counts ("tracking strength"), and whatever else it might be.
PGI should not and cannot make the claim, unless they fixed "ALL" the bonuses that Artemis applies. If they haven't, they really need to get on that band wagon, otherwise they will nerf ATMs completely unnecessarily due to the bonuses that Artemis gives to ATM, gimping non-Artemis users.
Much the same as they have done to Streaks by way of Streaks receiving numerous unnecessary changes for exactly the same reason (
the infamous "CT-only" streaks missed about 20% of the time, but because of Artemis enhanced Streaks always hitting their target, we got the "random spread" Streaks and a new "never miss, physics defying" mechanic just prior.)
Now I know this goes into asking too much despite the years of play and hundreds of dollars, but I really miss the pre-'Classic' LRMs.
You know the ones... Those were awesomely useful yet beautiful, insanely fast yet dodgeable, spread yet very deadly, slow to reload yet tactically viable. Those were what LRMs should be. Those are what LRMs were. And then PGI did what PGI does, which is redoing what they already did and making it worse in the process, all because they went with 180 missiles per ton instead of the canon 120 missiles and then threw in 80% free R&R on ammo, which meant it was the only cost effective way to play, leading to a long string of completely unnecessary nerfs and tweaks and code rewrites just to drop R&R anyway.
Edited by Koniving, 09 July 2017 - 01:53 PM.