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[Mister Smile]

Pain G0D, on 13 April 2018 - 01:12 PM, said:

I do hope Solaris adds in a royal rumble mode sooner or later . 12 mechs go in . 1 mech comes out .

Howard Finkel as announcer would be awesome.

[suffocater]

A nice and short event that was.

[Grus]

IllCaesar, on 13 April 2018 - 12:56 PM, said:

Yep, try hitting a 155 KPH Commando with that. I'll even make it fair by staying within the Dire Whale's firing arc.

you cant hit what you cant see lol

[MechTech Dragoon]

Give me patch notes or give me death!

[MrKvola]

Mister Smile, on 13 April 2018 - 01:46 PM, said:

Howard Finkel as announcer would be awesome.

Well, I guess we'll have to make do with George Ledoux.

[D V Devnull]

MrKvola, on 13 April 2018 - 03:57 PM, said:

Well, I guess we'll have to make do with George Ledoux.

Thankfully, George Ledoux is NOT a Consolation Prize. He's actually darned awesome, so it's great that we'll be having their voice come to MWO.



That said...

Mister Smile, on 13 April 2018 - 01:46 PM, said:

Howard Finkel as announcer would be awesome.

Who the heck are they? ....... I'll take George Ledoux for voice acting any day.



~D. V. "I don't think we need the other person's voice here." Devnull

[IllCaesar]

Grus, on 13 April 2018 - 03:34 PM, said:

you cant hit what you cant see lol

Yep.

All fear the drop bear Dire Star!

[Dee Eight]

Will the bolt ons affect the size of the hit boxes ?

[DFM]

Dee Eight, on 13 April 2018 - 06:17 PM, said:

Will the bolt ons affect the size of the hit boxes ?

I believe it said that if a weapon hits a bolt-on but not the actual hitbox, it does 0 damage.

[Tier5 Kerensky]

After seeing the mech list yes I'm quite hyped.

[Garran Tana]

George Ledoux is amazing Hope they get more of him in there, but on the same time - there was not a lot of Haven Kendricks voice :/
Overall HYPE!

[D V Devnull]

IllCaesar, on 13 April 2018 - 05:27 PM, said:

Yep.

All fear the drop bear Dire Star!

Go double-check the Forbidden Weapon Combinations in the Patch Notes. DireStar = Banned...

~D. V. "Sorry, but you can't do that in Solaris." Devnull

[Arkhangel]

DireStar wouldn't've been all that good anyways. anything that runs that hot would get its butt kicked in Solaris, not to mention you'd fry your own internals as well as shut down.

[Unnatural Growth]

I hope the game mode works out ok, for PGI's sake. They've invested a lot of themselves into this new game mode. If it does turn into a ghost town in 3-6 months, I'm not sure how PGI will recover. All their eggs in one basket now, as it were. Personally, I wish they would have invested this time/money/effort into making CW into the major game feature they first spun to us during the "reveal". Also, frequent new maps to existing modes would have been nice too. Help to keep the game a slight bit fresher than it is now. But it's their product, their call.

I do think it's going to be entertaining to watch some of these would-be Solaris Warriors getting their asses handed to them. And the subsequent ego wreckage that follows. So many who now have the luxury of blaming their "team" for "things" that go wrong in the match, resulting in them losing. Match after match, wreckage after wreckage. And no one else to point to for the "blame". Should make for amusing "human watching".

For me, I know I'm a terribad potato pilot, but this game holds very little interest for me anymore, and I don't care to invest much of myself into it. The life I lead offline is more important to me than the life I lead online.

I do wish they would introduce a full on Free For All mode. That sounds fun. Also, Solaris without melee just seems wrong to me. I'd love to see melee, even if it's only in Solaris. Might get me to try it just for that reason.

I do wish PGI well, hope this succeeds for their sake.

[Tordin]

DFM, on 13 April 2018 - 06:50 PM, said:

I believe it said that if a weapon hits a bolt-on but not the actual hitbox, it does 0 damage.

Yup. And if hit the bolton will fall off. So if you think some pilots didnt want their mechs paintjob to be scraped and dented, wait till you see glorified mechs hide in fear to aovid their mohawk fall off

[G 4 R R E T]

Anyone noticed that in the "Supply Caches"-Screenshot the text for "common supply cache" states that all assorted items are of the _un_common kind?

[D V Devnull]

Average Sloth, on 14 April 2018 - 05:29 PM, said:

Anyone noticed that in the "Supply Caches"-Screenshot the text for "common supply cache" states that all assorted items are of the _un_common kind?

Meh... It's just a "Teaser" Screenshot, so I had not paid much attention to details in the contents. Let's hope the final product cleans up on the text, as well as acts better than what the "Teaser" suggests.

~D. V. "It would not be good for a new feature to be that bad when released." Devnull

[MrKvola]

D V Devnull, on 13 April 2018 - 05:02 PM, said:

Thankfully, George Ledoux is NOT a Consolation Prize. He's actually darned awesome, so it's great that we'll be having their voice come to MWO.

Yup, forgot the sarcasm sign.

[Dee Eight]

Arkhangel, on 14 April 2018 - 07:47 AM, said:

DireStar wouldn't've been all that good anyways. anything that runs that hot would get its butt kicked in Solaris, not to mention you'd fry your own internals as well as shut down.

IF you pull off the one-shot kill... it might be viable because if the solaris mode operates like the other ones, damage to your own mech(s) stops the moment the match ends, and in a 1v1 that would be the moment you kill your opponent. So you could fire the volley, enemy explodes, immediate shut down, and then match ends before your own heat scale damage blows you up.

[G 4 R R E T]

Dee Eight, on 15 April 2018 - 01:45 PM, said:

IF you pull off the one-shot kill... it might be viable because if the solaris mode operates like the other ones, damage to your own mech(s) stops the moment the match ends, and in a 1v1 that would be the moment you kill your opponent. So you could fire the volley, enemy explodes, immediate shut down, and then match ends before your own heat scale damage blows you up.

As stated earlier, boating PPC or LL is not admissibly in Solaris 7. I am still curious how a rocket-heavy Bushwacker or Javelin (P1) will perform in 1v1. Either they rock or the will be steamrolled, but the idea is all over the place. Wish they had shown one of these builds in the NGNGTV streams


Edit: Both in Tier 4 with Zeus, Banshee or Highlander IIC as possible assault opponents
Edit2: Never mind, both up against the (ca|spla)tapult, which will probably have more impact on Div4

Edited by Average Sloth, 15 April 2018 - 03:32 PM.