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[A Headless Chicken]

I may or may not have ever known who you are, may or may not have been on good or bad terms with you guys, but it's always sad to see what the game has become. Go free.

[Fae Puka]

the happy cries of "I'm off for more whisky" . . . happy times

[MovinTarget]

MummyPig, on 27 July 2018 - 10:26 AM, said:

the happy cries of "I'm off for more whisky" . . . happy times

especially when we were queued so that we could do terrible things to an unattended mech...

[Jon Gotham]

DaUgh1701, on 23 July 2018 - 03:50 PM, said:

probably because PGI isn't punishing 'cheaters'. I've seen too many headshot kills from across the map.
or maybe because PGI is too busy making new mechs and not new maps? (sure it's a business, but you have to keep the game current) I've dropped my playing time quite a bit and pretty much only play on Sundays now, unless there's an event and my small clan doesn't play much anymore either. It just isn't as fun anymore

Likely due to over focus on super solos. No focus on team play nor social tools. If you keep encouraging super solo, that's what the players become.

[MovinTarget]

Bah, I feel like it was their attempt to be all things to everyone. I understand why, being F2P, every dollar counted. The problem is that they couldn't just pick one path and make the game great. If there was ever a need for a PTS it would have been when clans came out (but the realization that the new tech would completely obliterate IS tech would have affected sales). CW was hyped on promises that just couldn't be kept, and while there was good stuff, by the time it arrived, many that had been patient were also bitter.

Oddly, if they had initially more mechs out, developing S7, then QP, then CW would have made hella more sense from a balance/tuning standpoint, focusing on 1v1, 2v2, then moving into force multipliers in a team setting, but, alas, hindsight is 20/20....



...or 50/50, depending on who you ask...

[50 50]

What were the chances of that happening?

[MovinTarget]

Meh I'd give it 60/40....

[Lovas]

Damn Pug, you don’t have to disband the unit just to get rid of movin target!


Another sad day. :salute: IDI

[N I K O L A I]

It was nice to see you on battlefield and always fun to play with or against you guys when i was playing MWO. Sadly that was almost a year ago. I hope some good developer buy rights for Mechwarrior in the future and make the game that minority of 90% players and Batttletech fans wanted to play. Until then good luck and salute.

[Xaat Xuun]

Another one bites the dust - Hidden Citizen

[Xetelian]

GBxGhostRyder, on 24 July 2018 - 07:31 AM, said:

The reason 500,000 + player quit after closed beta is (PGI WONT LISTEN TO ITS REAL COMMUNITY) and instead relies on FALSE WANTS AND ADVISE FROM A FEW top comp players and its self.

So what do you all expect? Russ and PGI took the Whales to the bank long ago now there is only dolphins left to fund the game when PGI said FFFFUUUUU we don't care what you have to say. LOL LOL LOL.

That is the silliest post I've seen in a while.

Please be trolling because the community, a lot of mediocre to top players put together a balance update that would shake up the meta and change the game and make a lot of bad weapons good and fine tune some of the better weapons and it was scrapped and PGI is cherry picking little bits of it and going "Look see, it doesn't work" instead of implementing it all so it would work in synergy.

[Syso69]

One more disbanded unit... my respects to all IDI pilots o7
Battletech community deserves a better MWO, hurts to watch how many nice people dropped it since skill tree & CW 2.0 introduction & how latest LRM buffs delivered final blow on adequate part of game population.

Edited by Syso88, 31 July 2018 - 11:28 PM.

[Surn]

Went to Comic-con in San Diego, met some nice battletech board game players....

not a single MechWarrior or video game related battletech group to be found

A single comic-con event would likely bring 1000 new players.

[The Basilisk]

This thread after engine desync, after skill tree, afte longtom and it would have made me thinking....but now...admidst the summerlul....in a "fans of the franchise only" B or C rated shooter that is more than 5 years old....well considdering how badly things have gone since its closed beta that actually was pretty fun and promising it is quite fascinating HOW MANY PPL ARE STILL HERE SPENDING MONEY !!!

[MovinTarget]

Lovas, on 31 July 2018 - 03:45 PM, said:

Damn Pug, you don’t have to disband the unit just to get rid of movin target!

He did, I had all teh passwords for the unit and pics of him doing unmentionable things to a keg of whiskey...

[Dreadcore]

I would like to thank xXPUGXx for all the work he put into IDI and all the members who made such fun to play. There are so many great wins/losses/sillyness and converastions that would melt brains that I foundly think of with IDI but it is time to call a close to MWO for me. I stuck with MWO well past its best for IDI and wish that PGI had progressed down the path of simulation rather than team death match. I have played a couple of times since Solaris 7 dropped and I too have decided it time to uninstall MWO.

My arms, covered in a sheen of sweat, hang at my sides. The fight has gone from me. I feel the stillness of my BattleMech, its reactor dead, cold, and lifeless. While hitting my harness release I look at my good arm as goose bumps start to form on my exposed skin, slowly I reach up and remove my Neurohelmet . I turn it to face me, looking with an appraising eye at this tool or war, this link to technological godhood. Its weight has always been reassuring but today it feels heavier than it ever did in the past. I turn and placed it in the storage locker, standing as much as my cockpit will allow and make my way to the egress hatch. I hit the release and wait as it cycles open, looking up as I have done countless times before to the stencilled words above the hatch. Dreadcore stare back at me. The hand written addition underneath says ‘Got your back’, they always did. I step out into the chill air and climb down the chain link ladder. It’s like I’m watching from a distance, it’s not me, it’s a warrior broken by battle.

Dreadcore, a name to inspire the rookies and fear into the enemy, or dread at my core when I considered what we had to do in war. It shouldn’t have ended like this.

Farewell mechwarriors, I hope to see you in the future. o7.

Edited by Dreadcore, 01 August 2018 - 09:35 AM.

[MovinTarget]

Dread,

I shall miss giving our enemy's a fighting chance by "softening" up the legs of your Locii...

[Der BierVampiR]

Dreadcore, on 01 August 2018 - 09:35 AM, said:

I would like to thank xXPUGXx for all the work he put into IDI and all the members who made such fun to play. There are so many great wins/losses/sillyness and converastions that would melt brains that I foundly think of with IDI but it is time to call a close to MWO for me. I stuck with MWO well past its best for IDI and wish that PGI had progressed down the path of simulation rather than team death match. I have played a couple of times since Solaris 7 dropped and I too have decided it time to uninstall MWO.

My arms, covered in a sheen of sweat, hang at my sides. The fight has gone from me. I feel the stillness of my BattleMech, its reactor dead, cold, and lifeless. While hitting my harness release I look at my good arm as goose bumps start to form on my exposed skin, slowly I reach up and remove my Neurohelmet . I turn it to face me, looking with an appraising eye at this tool or war, this link to technological godhood. Its weight has always been reassuring but today it feels heavier than it ever did in the past. I turn and placed it in the storage locker, standing as much as my cockpit will allow and make my way to the egress hatch. I hit the release and wait as it cycles open, looking up as I have done countless times before to the stencilled words above the hatch. Dreadcore stare back at me. The hand written addition underneath says ‘Got your back’, they always did. I step out into the chill air and climb down the chain link ladder. It’s like I’m watching from a distance, it’s not me, it’s a warrior broken by battle.

Dreadcore, a name to inspire the rookies and fear into the enemy, or dread at my core when I considered what we had to do in war. It shouldn’t have ended like this.

Farewell mechwarriors, I hope to see you in the future. o7.

o7 Dreadcore,

only as a suggestion: If you want to try another Mech Game which is (sadly) not Battle Tech based, keep an eye on Vox Machinae. At the moment i am playing the closed beta and it has potential. Although it takes a lot of its immersiveness from the vr factor i believe it can offer a lot of sim characteristic. It's developed by passionate independent developers. Fun fact: i believe they are even canadians.

[MovinTarget]

On a completely unrelated note...

Do you wanna buy a mechpack?

[TooDumbToQuit]

Well, you sound like you had a lot of fun. I do not see any purpose in the game. It is easier to play this than other games. Not well, but you can rip off 15-20 minutes with little thought.

When I started it was an FW event and that was all I knew. And I no longer if ever saw a point in it.

The Unit I'm in has changed and has gone up to 180 players but it is just a collection of guys and not a "team".