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[MovinTarget]

Dee Eight, on 27 July 2017 - 11:57 AM, said:

Too bad... when the heat bar jams at 100%, the heat damage stops occurring even if you keep alpha striking as long as you don't have the override activated.

Yes you are right, too bad I'm not abusing an exploit that someone will be invariably offended by and report me for cheating (because in the spirit of the ToC it *WOULD* be cheating) or get frustrated and quit the game...

but you know, *shrug* anything to get a better score right?


RIGHT?

[D V Devnull]

MovinTarget, on 27 July 2017 - 05:42 PM, said:

Dee Eight, on 27 July 2017 - 11:57 AM, said:

MovinTarget, on 27 July 2017 - 04:54 AM, said:

I was having weird issues with heat, not dropdecks. I finally ran the repair tool and cleared caches. While I did not find any problems, my heat issues suddenly disappeared..

Too bad... when the heat bar jams at 100%, the heat damage stops occurring even if you keep alpha striking as long as you don't have the override activated.

Yes you are right, too bad I'm not abusing an exploit that someone will be invariably offended by and report me for cheating (because in the spirit of the ToC it *WOULD* be cheating) or get frustrated and quit the game...

but you know, *shrug* anything to get a better score right?


RIGHT?

Sounds to me like a BUG needing a Fix that's long overdue. At least that one has NOT hit me yet.

Also long overdue is the bug we're having with Dropdown Menu Scrollbars in areas like the Camo Select screens right now. That danged Scroll Bar should NOT be returning to the top when the actual scroll position is further down.

And then there's the delay on War Horns when a player makes a Killing Blow. Who didn't watch the sound precache?

Heck, where's the End-Of-Vote Sound?

~Mr. D. V. "A bit rattled by Bugs that are perceptually obvious..." Devnull

[MovinTarget]

Its not really a old bug, I think it came along with the new tech.

[Poptimus Rhyme Wallace]

Nah, the 100% heat no damage bug have been exploited by Direstars months back, not sure if anyone figured out how to trigger it manually thou, so hardly an exploit IMO.

[MovinTarget]

Poptimus Rhyme Wallace, on 28 July 2017 - 07:23 AM, said:

so hardly an exploit IMO.

Dee Eight, on 27 July 2017 - 11:57 AM, said:

Too bad... when the heat bar jams at 100%, the heat damage stops occurring even if you keep alpha striking as long as you don't have the override activated.

Apparently won't stop people from trying... and if they fail, they are screwing their team, if they succeed, they can exploit it to excellent effect...

I am NOT saying Dee is exploiting this as his comments seem to be more of "I wish I had that 'problem'"... but it exposes a mentality that players have often that to stumble across a situation that is OBVIOUSLY unintended, there is nothing wrong with exploiting it.

Yes, I am delving into a grayer area of right vs wrong or fair vs unfair, however, the slippery slope of exploiting of personal benefit shouldn't be just shrugged off.

If it were one single mech or single variant, that would be one thing, but this affected all my mechs so yeah, I could have made stupid builds like a 12 HL Direstar *WITH* lots of armor still so it wasn't a one hit wonder. I'll be honest I almost always have Override on so I never noticed any "benefits", but even still...

...sh!t ain't right...

Edited by MovinTarget, 28 July 2017 - 07:58 AM.

[Six Barrel]

Would be nice if you get your servers straight! Giving a event where you have to play FP and the servers are just sh***

Edited by Six Barrel, 28 July 2017 - 08:03 AM.

[CyanEyd]

PGI, I have participated in Faction Warfare events before, but this one is by far the worst because of the drop deck bug that keeps happening! It's never happened to me before in FW. Are your coders going to fix it anytime soon? It is extremely annoying, especially given that it takes so damn long to get a match, and then to complete the match! My FW matches so far have been cut short at least 3 times by this bug, and at this rate I'll not accumulate enough Match Score to collect all the rewards by the time the event is over on August 3. Please please please fix this aggravating crap.

[Thanos]

Ok, my two cents. The FW/CW is complete BS! Granted I haven't played since just before the cw but this is absurd! Elitist ****** telling people what to do, how to do it, and threatening players if they don't...wtf?!? I'm good at listening and doing, decent at coms but seriously? This is absolute bs! FW/CW is a freaking Zerg/Alpha-fest there's no finesse, no real talent just alpha moar better.

<apologies, i haven't played in quite a while but this really is BS! such a disappointment from the game i played in '98.>

Edited by Thanos, 28 July 2017 - 08:02 PM.

[D V Devnull]

Thanos, on 28 July 2017 - 07:59 PM, said:

Ok, my two cents. The FW/CW is complete BS! Granted I haven't played since just before the cw but this is absurd! Elitist ****** telling people what to do, how to do it, and threatening players if they don't...wtf?!? I'm good at listening and doing, decent at coms but seriously? This is absolute bs! FW/CW is a freaking Zerg/Alpha-fest there's no finesse, no real talent just alpha moar better.

<apologies, i haven't played in quite a while but this really is BS! such a disappointment from the game i played in '98.>

I get how you feel. I used to play MechWarrior's 2nd & 3rd PC games with the Single-Player Campaigns myself. Tactics and timing are lost arts here in MWO, particularly with PGI setting round times that result in an overload of hurrying. Add to that...

• poor balance, to the point of battles being lopsided from the start
  (via Missing Quirks & Bad F.W. Tonnage Settings, which are making Inner Sphere Mechs rather Overpowered in general)
  
• the occasional toxic lunatic
  (and the massive trouble they cause the community in general)
  
• lack of value of any DPS-type weaponry
  (like you said, it's a bit of a "Hit-and-Run Alpha-fest")
  
• an unnecessary nerf to LRMs, and the free reign given to Sniper-types by that
  (particularly in light of the Rotary AC & Adv. Tactical Missile, along with too many others... PGI really should add back 50 Meters of BaseLine Range to those, because too many weapons outrange them right now)
  
• too many people thinking that you can play this like "Halo"/"Counter-Strike"/"Call Of Duty"/"TitanFall"/"Hawken"
  (WHEN YOU REALLY MUST NOT THINK THAT WAY, OR YOU DIE!!!)
  
• a Skill Node system that really only helps Meta-Boaters
  (but NOT the Non-Meta Casuals that PGI says they were trying to help)
  
• plus quite a few other things that I'm sure I've not mentioned here

...and MWO is really an ugly mess. Heck, I'm getting smashed enough during this Event that I feel like there was NEVER a chance to get the Faction-type Camo for at least one Chassis of the Mechs I have. Worse, I feel that way even though I've been doing a reasonable job putting my full effort into rounds, and STILL putting up with Real Life things happening!!! Right now, I also feel like there's no justice to be gained, no honor to be earned, and no awesome things to acquire.

~Mr. D. V. "Even worse, I hear rumor that PGI is dishonoring themselves by shunning the Clans like this." Devnull

[Ronin48]

the mc prices do not reflect the sale? am i missing something?

Edited by Ronin48, 29 July 2017 - 10:56 PM.

[C E Dwyer]

Well if nothing else has been achieved by this event, it's proven without a doubt what a stupid idea re-spawn in Q.P would be.

[Koniving]

B0ll0, on 24 July 2017 - 09:15 PM, said:

In Germany we would say you need a tin foil hat because of your paranoia...

[MovinTarget]

Cathy, on 30 July 2017 - 02:05 AM, said:

Well if nothing else has been achieved by this event, it's proven without a doubt what a stupid idea re-spawn in Q.P would be.

Domination and skirmish are a bit lame, yes, to me the biggest thing is that this mode really requires coordination. That is a hard thing with pugs but without the pugs there would be no population...

So i just accept it and make the most of it...

[Bolter01]

I am about to unlock the pattern. Have played completely as a PUG IS.
Had some good matches for the most part, hand full of rubbish ones and a quite a few great IS stomping of dirty clanners!
lots of fun! with some simple coms from competent cammander a good win aint so hard o7

[Bolter01]

Davion pattern on ANH has glowing marking on the models neck, is this correct?

[Dee Eight]

The heat bug has something to do with the shaders/FE files that a repair run clears out, as well as when a patch happens. Mine went away during the last patch but I spectated a hellbringer early tonight that was experiencing it. I did reported it in details to technical... lord knows when they'll fix it.

Edited by Dee Eight, 30 July 2017 - 11:20 PM.

[Tier5 Kerensky]

But that bug has to be a visual one right? Previously you said you can fire as long as you want without taking overheat damage and such when the bug happens, but that can't really happen now as heat and all damage stuff is handled serverside?

Unless it's server side bug? But then it really can't be related to anything client side and the client will just report the heat correctly if due to the server side bug heat doesn't increase or decrease and the mech doesn't take heat damage.




I've played 92 games now qualified with about 5 not qualified(under 150 score), I remember two of those games were againts kcom though I also had a third game againt then on the same session in which I did manage to get over 150 score. I got two days left on my IS deserter period so I think I can play few games with Clan contract too.

I've been slightly hindered by not having so much good IS mechs, in particular I got only 3 heavies, so I've been using mainly two assuls plus two mediums or medium and light. I can make much better decks with my Clan mechs as I have much more of them of different classes and weights.

Edited by Teer Kerensky, 31 July 2017 - 06:33 AM.

[PanzerTC]

Finished. I will play some more to level my faction rep some more. Had fun on most of the games. I just wish PGI had things posted in a 30-60-90 format giving us some sort of idea when the events will happen. All things considered I tried the new tech, bought some more mechs and 2)0+ warhorns.

[CH4CH]

Twilight of the clans...
As playing as the Clan Royalty, I can't finished this event. I won many games in this event, but the score keeping at 130 average. I will reconsider my side to go back to IS again!!!

Edited by CH4CH, 03 August 2017 - 07:15 PM.

[Appogee]

I'm @10,350 Match Score but, because I don't actually like faction camos, I really don't care whether I get to 12,500 or not within the next 24 hours.

Que Sera.

Edited by Appogee, 02 August 2017 - 07:12 AM.