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Popcat, on 11 March 2018 - 08:02 PM, said:

Does PGI actually release numbers so we can see them?

They did a few times, people.. called PGI all kinds of names because they didn't believe the numbers.

No surprise why they no longer do this.

[Nightbird]

It doesn't matter how the mechs are divided up... there will be meta mechs in that group and bad mechs in that group. Just accept that. There won't be a division of equal mechs

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JRcam4643, on 12 March 2018 - 05:28 PM, said:

Almost every dev talk I see they mention how small there staff is. Considering that what ever staff they have are also trying to make MW5 I can believe they are seeing the data. It just takes them a really long time to analyze it and do anything about it.

Actually they've been hiring a lot of people over the last few years, growing the team to clos eot double I think. They do actually have 2 teams, one for MWO and one for MW5

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Nightbird, on 12 March 2018 - 05:52 PM, said:

It doesn't matter how the mechs are divided up... there will be meta mechs in that group and bad mechs in that group. Just accept that. There won't be a division of equal mechs

More or less, you're dividing around 400-500 mechs into 7 groups.

But 7 divisions is too many according to some lol.

[Y E O N N E]

JRcam4643, on 12 March 2018 - 05:28 PM, said:

Almost every dev talk I see they mention how small there staff is. Considering that what ever staff they have are also trying to make MW5 I can believe they are seeing the data. It just takes them a really long time to analyze it and do anything about it.

Again, they nerfed the Locust 3V. They nerfed it with the Skill Tree by removing its modest energy range quirk (the only notable quirk it had really) entirely, and it was already so bad that it was absent from the battlefield. It is still absent from the battlefield.

Ergo, I find the claim that they have a solid grasp on 'Mech performance to be dubious when they do things like that.