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[Vellron2005]

Dear PGI, here's a quick reference list of all the little fixes and changes that you need to do to clean this game up a bit:

1) Supply caches - Let us open them immediately after they are earned - no need to go to inventory. Just a simple "ding" - You won these cool things.

2) Unit panel, news panel, mech info panel and tier ranking panel on the home screen need to stay closed after you close them. Close them once, and they need to stay closed until you open them - no matter if you were in a match or restarted the client. This bug was a "know bug" when the panels came out, and you still have not fixed it.

3) Dancing decals bug - the decals still dance around on moving mech parts, especially arms and legs. They clip through mech geometry. One fix is to reapply them, but it doesn't always work. You need to fix this.

4) The long tom is history. Our boys can't network our satellites to artillery. Please, stop embarrassing yourself and fix a simple sound file. Just use the one from incursion mode that says "we have Jammer"

5) Mad Cat II still has graphical errors on the kill counter display. Every single one.

6) The betty / angry clansman still tells us the enemy took theta 25 times in a row.

7) Automatic reward redemption - if you have an event that has condition X for reward Y, make it so that reward Y is redeemed as soon as condition X is met, no need to redeem manually. If reward Y requires player choice, such as pick a mech, give this choice after drop, but with "choose later" option.

8) Increase amount of lighting on Terra Therma. It is a visually stunning map. Shame one must always see it in shades of green (nightvision)

9) Fix the store bug where whenever lots of items are on sale, it opens in a very long list of mechs that goes out-of-screen to the right side, and can't be scrolled.

10) Fix the portal so that people can patch it normally without needing to do things manually and mcguyver it so much so they can play PTS

11) Pre-match loadout loading - we can save loadouts now.. why not be able to load them in while waiting for drop in the lobby?

12) Right now we can play with the loadout of a mech in the shop.. even test it in testing grounds.. save it.. but.. why can't we BUY IT? Just add an "add to cart" button that let's you buy the edited version of the mech, with all the pricetags of buying the add-ons and weapons, and selling all the stuff that was on it by default.

13) Many of the tool tips we see while the map is loading are out of date. You might add some more

14) Enable in-game VOIP with your group while in the lobby and before everyone is readied-up. Would never need TS or Discord again. Mute buttons present, just like in-game voip when dropped into a match.

15) Make it so that if a player gets disconnected or closes the client, while his mech is still locked in a game, when the re-launches the client, it automatically skips the "nvidia" and "pgi" intro logos, and doesn't automatically show the news panel (keep it closed as per point 2).. Would significantly cut down on reconnecting time, and prevent those pesky 3 minute disconnect penalties.

16) Do not award disconnect penalties for players who exited a match because of loss of connection or server kicks. It's stupid and unfair to get a penalty for the game kicking me to sign-in or desktop while I still hear in-game VOIP, and then making me wait 2 minutes between drops.

17) Realize that when you make a "front end of car" bolt-on, that looks bigger than an Atlas's shoulder pad, and an actual on-map car can fit in it 4 times, its ridiculous. Please.. don't do that..It kills any semblance of immersion.

18) Please, rethink bolt-ons as a feature.. most of them are ridiculous. Only a few have any logical sense.. but an Atlas with wings, huge halves of cars on it's shoulders, horns on it's head, and a submarine strapped to it's back is just ridiculous. Might as well make it's AC20 shoot clowns. I'm not saying give up on bolt-ons. I'm saying, make bolt-ons that make sense in the timeline, that add to the beauty or epicness of the mech, not make it look silly or clownish. Here are some examples: Spikes, different looking shoulder pads and armor plates (that don't affect hit boxes), glowing eyes, and alike.. Remember all the different Atlas head pictures you showed us while doing cocnept art? Keep that in mind. None of those heads had horns on them.

19) Give old mechs like Atlas, Awesome, Highlander, Catapult and such newer textures. Looking at the paint on a Highlander and on a Mauler - the highlander misses out.

20) While you are retro-fitting weapons.. make all missile weapons everywhere look like the hornet's nest missile boxes on the Executioner's arm.. not just a box with brownish dots painted on it. Actual tubes with missile heads inside - just like on the Executioner.

Hope this gets seen by the right people..

[Kaeb Odellas]

Please turn down the muzzle flash effects on autocannons and MGs. It's rather difficult to shoot accurately when your own weapon blinds you every time you fire it.

[Rhialto]

You missed one.

[FupDup]

WE HAVE THETA!

[Jman5]

21. Just end the match if the last player has been disconnected all game.

22. Turn down the volume on the Splash screen advertisements when you start the game.

23. Add a Clan/IS filter in the store page.

[vonJerg]

WE HAVE THETA!

[Thorqemada]

MWO - from Beta to Theta!

Edited by Thorqemada, 10 September 2018 - 01:18 PM.

[stealthraccoon]

Hunchback needs fully dynamic hunch visual update; NEED MOAR SWAYBACK!

[Khobai]

scout mode needs to show a map indicator where the dropship is going to land instead of the green smoke that impossible to see.

I also think scout mode needs to contribute directly to capturing planets at a rate of 15 scout mode matches = 1 invasion match.

[Novakaine]

Crusader.

[Khobai]

Novakaine, on 10 September 2018 - 03:58 PM, said:

Crusader.

"would you like to buy a mechpack?" is not my idea of a comfort fix

[Wing 0]

What the game needs help on is this god damn game engine. This game has never been optimized or cleaned up for VERY LONG TIME. Every time a patch comes out, the game gets more slower and stuttery after every god damn patch. They need to fix this problem. Devs here wont work on fixing framerate issues. HBS does a better job with optimizing BattleTech and PGI don't seem to have a clue on what they are doing with MWO.

[Vellron2005]

Rhialto, on 10 September 2018 - 08:35 AM, said:

You missed one.

Correct! The shadows definitely need fixing.. it has issues with anything not part of the core mech geometry.. so weapon bay doors, bolt-ons, and such..

Jman5, on 10 September 2018 - 10:08 AM, said:

21. Just end the match if the last player has been disconnected all game.

22. Turn down the volume on the Splash screen advertisements when you start the game.

23. Add a Clan/IS filter in the store page.

21 - might be difficult, because if the player reconnects, it can technically still change the outcome, so it's difficult to gage..

22 - Oh yes please! Those are speaker killers..

23 - Yes please!

Novakaine, on 10 September 2018 - 03:58 PM, said:

Crusader.

Totally NO.

Not a fix, not a cleaning up.. we have enough mechs...

[Jackal Noble]

You’re not a dictator. If dude wants a Crusader tobacco kproce rhe game, that’s his call.

[Vellron2005]

Jackal Noble, on 11 September 2018 - 01:07 AM, said:

You’re not a dictator. If dude wants a Crusader tobacco kproce rhe game, that’s his call.

Didn't say he can't get it.. Said this topic is not for "I want new mechs" - it's for "This error, bug or feature has been needing a fix or to be made better for ages"

Khobai, on 10 September 2018 - 03:49 PM, said:

scout mode needs to show a map indicator where the dropship is going to land instead of the green smoke that impossible to see.

I also think scout mode needs to contribute directly to capturing planets at a rate of 15 scout mode matches = 1 invasion match.

The side that needs to reach the dropship get's it shown on the map.. The enemy side doesn't.. and I see no reason why that would change.. how or why would they get that info? If they can't directly see the smoke, they would have to have a satellite o ship above.. and they don't (they star on he ground)

Edited by Vellron2005, 11 September 2018 - 01:16 AM.

[JediPanther]

Give me the 200mc option to go back to using predator style thermal vision mode.
Color blind mode instead of a reticle that just changes shape.
Font color change option for my mech hud because even a kindergartner knows yellow text with a yellow background is bad. At least I can read the clans' mech huds.
Quick change hot swap my favorite load outs for my most used mechs. Sure I can rearm a mech within 3minutes in a group drop but a hot swap button would be faster.

[KodiakGW]

Vellron2005, on 10 September 2018 - 04:22 AM, said:

1) Supply caches - Let us open them immediately after they are earned - no need to go to inventory. Just a simple ding - You won these cool things.

No. I’m hoarding them for now in hopes that they will remove the 1000 CBill reward, bring back smaller MC rewards for the common and/or uncommon ones (25MC wouldn’t kill sales of MC), and update the bolt ons to include more than mostly tusks. Sick of tusks.

Otherwise, list looks OK.

Vellron2005, on 10 September 2018 - 04:22 AM, said:

17) Realize that when you make a front end of car bolt-on, that looks bigger than an Atlas's shoulder pad, and an actual on-map car can fit in it 4 times, its ridiculous. Please.. don't do that..It kills any semblance of immersion.

Should have just made it front and back of Demolisher tank. Would have fit scale better, and been more appropriate.

[Jman5]

Vellron2005, on 10 September 2018 - 11:47 PM, said:

21 - might be difficult, because if the player reconnects, it can technically still change the outcome, so it's difficult to gage..

I have many thousands of games played over the years and I can't think of a single time where the last player was a disconnect who came back and then won the game. And I nearly always stick around after death.

I don't think it's worth inconveniencing and boring everyone else just for these 1 in a million edge cases.

You could go further and only do it when a player has been disconnected all game.

Edited by Jman5, 11 September 2018 - 11:01 AM.

[Viking Yelling]

Vellron2005, on 10 September 2018 - 04:22 AM, said:

Dear PGI, here's a quick reference list of all the little fixes and changes that you need to do to clean this game up a bit:

1) Supply caches - Let us open them immediately after they are earned - no need to go to inventory. Just a simple "ding" - You won these cool things.

2) Unit panel, news panel, mech info panel and tier ranking panel on the home screen need to stay closed after you close them. Close them once, and they need to stay closed until you open them - no matter if you were in a match or restarted the client. This bug was a "know bug" when the panels came out, and you still have not fixed it.

3) Dancing decals bug - the decals still dance around on moving mech parts, especially arms and legs. They clip through mech geometry. One fix is to reapply them, but it doesn't always work. You need to fix this.

4) The long tom is history. Our boys can't network our satellites to artillery. Please, stop embarrassing yourself and fix a simple sound file. Just use the one from incursion mode that says "we have Jammer"

5) Mad Cat II still has graphical errors on the kill counter display. Every single one.

6) The betty / angry clansman still tells us the enemy took theta 25 times in a row.

7) Automatic reward redemption - if you have an event that has condition X for reward Y, make it so that reward Y is redeemed as soon as condition X is met, no need to redeem manually. If reward Y requires player choice, such as pick a mech, give this choice after drop, but with "choose later" option.

8) Increase amount of lighting on Terra Therma. It is a visually stunning map. Shame one must always see it in shades of green (nightvision)

9) Fix the store bug where whenever lots of items are on sale, it opens in a very long list of mechs that goes out-of-screen to the right side, and can't be scrolled.

10) Fix the portal so that people can patch it normally without needing to do things manually and mcguyver it so much so they can play PTS

11) Pre-match loadout loading - we can save loadouts now.. why not be able to load them in while waiting for drop in the lobby?

12) Right now we can play with the loadout of a mech in the shop.. even test it in testing grounds.. save it.. but.. why can't we BUY IT? Just add an "add to cart" button that let's you buy the edited version of the mech, with all the pricetags of buying the add-ons and weapons, and selling all the stuff that was on it by default.

13) Many of the tool tips we see while the map is loading are out of date. You might add some more

14) Enable in-game VOIP with your group while in the lobby and before everyone is readied-up. Would never need TS or Discord again. Mute buttons present, just like in-game voip when dropped into a match.

15) Make it so that if a player gets disconnected or closes the client, while his mech is still locked in a game, when the re-launches the client, it automatically skips the "nvidia" and "pgi" intro logos, and doesn't automatically show the news panel (keep it closed as per point 2).. Would significantly cut down on reconnecting time, and prevent those pesky 3 minute disconnect penalties.

16) Do not award disconnect penalties for players who exited a match because of loss of connection or server kicks. It's stupid and unfair to get a penalty for the game kicking me to sign-in or desktop while I still hear in-game VOIP, and then making me wait 2 minutes between drops.

17) Realize that when you make a "front end of car" bolt-on, that looks bigger than an Atlas's shoulder pad, and an actual on-map car can fit in it 4 times, its ridiculous. Please.. don't do that..It kills any semblance of immersion.

18) Please, rethink bolt-ons as a feature.. most of them are ridiculous. Only a few have any logical sense.. but an Atlas with wings, huge halves of cars on it's shoulders, horns on it's head, and a submarine strapped to it's back is just ridiculous. Might as well make it's AC20 shoot clowns. I'm not saying give up on bolt-ons. I'm saying, make bolt-ons that make sense in the timeline, that add to the beauty or epicness of the mech, not make it look silly or clownish. Here are some examples: Spikes, different looking shoulder pads and armor plates (that don't affect hit boxes), glowing eyes, and alike.. Remember all the different Atlas head pictures you showed us while doing cocnept art? Keep that in mind. None of those heads had horns on them.

19) Give old mechs like Atlas, Awesome, Highlander, Catapult and such newer textures. Looking at the paint on a Highlander and on a Mauler - the highlander misses out.

20) While you are retro-fitting weapons.. make all missile weapons everywhere look like the hornet's nest missile boxes on the Executioner's arm.. not just a box with brownish dots painted on it. Actual tubes with missile heads inside - just like on the Executioner.

Hope this gets seen by the right people..

Jman5, on 10 September 2018 - 10:08 AM, said:

21. Just end the match if the last player has been disconnected all game.

22. Turn down the volume on the Splash screen advertisements when you start the game.

23. Add a Clan/IS filter in the store page.

24.

FupDup, on 10 September 2018 - 09:21 AM, said:

WE HAVE THETA!

YES.
Ever since I started posting here I've just wanted small tweaks to game systems(including weapon systems).
Then PGI decided they wanted to completely change Clan lasers, Gauss, and heat management systems, with literally no reason other than prerogative.

[WrathOfDeadguy]

Jman5, on 10 September 2018 - 10:08 AM, said:

22. Turn down the volume on the Splash screen advertisements when you start the game.

How about adding an option to just disable the load-in splash screen and popups altogether if you've bought one or more Mechpacks, or purchased a certain amount of MC, or really just put over X amount of money into the game for any purpose at all? I don't want adverts thrown in my face, and after sinking hundreds of RealBucks™ into the game, I bloody well shouldn't have to see them anymore.

Also:

25: Remove the "activate premium time" button from the in-game UI. All it has ever been is a shady attempt to get players with banked time to accidentally waste all of it in one go.

Edited by WrathOfDeadguy, 11 September 2018 - 01:04 PM.