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[InnerSphereNews]

Public Test Session 2.0 - Alpha Balance Series

LIVE SOON

Friday 5:00PM PDT (0:00 UTC), August 17th - Monday 10:00AM PDT (5:00PM UTC) August 20th

Greetings 'MechWarriors!

The Alpha Balance Series PTS 2.0 will be going LIVE starting today for the weekend!

All the details of this PTS session can be found on this thread on the PTS sub-forums.
Including a reviewable list of Mobility Changes here!

Rewards

To thank you for your time and feedback, we will be sending out a reward for your participation in this Public Test Session 2.0 to all players who have played at least 10 matches with minimum of 50 Match Score on the PTS client this weekend.

The following prizes will be distributed on Monday after this PTS Session has ended:

- 2,000,000 C-Bills

- Demon Girl Cockpit Item

[Nishivion]

Could it be the first Cicada again? I happened to miss that one. :/

[Rhialto]

Aaaarrgh! I will be missing it by a day...

Edited by Rhialto, 17 August 2018 - 03:10 PM.

[Ahh Screw it - WATCH THIS]

Why on Earth would you have this at the exact same time you have a FP event?

[Pope RW]

Hard pass

[Hiten Bongz]

When I click for details it just takes me to the PTS 1.1 info page.

I just wanna know what kind of drastic over-nerfs we can expect this time? Is it too much to ask to throw some buffs to under-powered/under-utilized weapon systems while we're at it...ATMs, SRMs, small lasers, AMS, etc.? Why do you keep ignoring real issues such as the PIR-1 MG spam, the PSR system, LRMageddon, etc. and still try to stubbornly move forward with these unnecessary laser nerfs?

Are you not aware that these kinds of proposed "changes" (nerfs) are the exact thing that's driving away your playerbase? Stop focusing on nerfing things that aren't a real issue, and start buffing bad weapon systems and making actual content (maps, not just mechpacks), you know, to keep players playing.

Have you not seen your metrics lately? Rapidly declining player numbers over the course of the summer...[not] coincidentally starting around the time you dropped that first golden nugget of PTS Alpha Balance 1.0.

Who on God's green Earth is running the show up at PGI, and letting these kinds of things even happen in the first place?

They didn't just blanket nerf all da lazorz this time, bois!

Edited by Hiten Bongz, 17 August 2018 - 08:23 PM.

[NUMBERZero1032]

Bad timing with a FP event.

[Jackal Noble]

So it starts today, but there is 0 info on what is going on. What do you do during the week or from the last PTS to this one?

[justcallme A S H]

40mins notice and no values to look over?

Come on my dudes... What's going on?

[NUMBERZero1032]

Very curious to know if the event people know what the PTS people are doing, and vice a versa.

Also curious to know if the PTS people know what the PTS contains. PTS notes hello?

Edited by NUMBERZero1032, 17 August 2018 - 03:28 PM.

[process]

Gimme the deets!

[SilentScreamer]

Original post has changed once already...it had a link to PTS 1.1 info.
Guessing details on PTS 2.0 wil go live in 30 min when the server goes online.

[IronEleven]

justcallme A S H, on 17 August 2018 - 03:23 PM, said:

40mins notice and no values to look over?

Come on my dudes... What's going on?

Proofreading, hopefully.

[process]

Looks like 0.2 for DHS, 0.14 SHS. Looks like 0 added heat capacity for both.

My Hellbringer's 4 cERML 2 HLL alpha overheats on Tourmaline, goes to 95% heat on Polar. Heat efficiency went from 1.35 to 1.46.

Edited by process, 17 August 2018 - 04:26 PM.

[Jman5]

Argh, I knew this would all go down the week I'm out of town.

[YUyahoo]

Hard to be able to know what to watch for when we dont know what values PGI changed in this round

[Radkres]

Anyone look at Twist speed Cause it looks different? o.O

[ShooteyMcShooterson]

Is this the one where some new weapons get linked together for heatscale or something like that?

[Paul Inouye]

Please hold... they're trying to get the details and a spreadsheet of mobility changes up for you ASAP.

[Paul Inouye]

Details on changes are here: https://mwomercs.com...-balance-pts20/

Spreadsheet link still TBD.