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[Garth Erlam]

Q: I noticed that MWO implements lasers as a steady beam of light. When you fire this movable beam, how is the damage applied? Is it entirely upfront (only the initial hit matters), applied evenly over time. (100% of the damage if your beam remains on the enemy the entire duration, and 50% damage if you lose tracking half way through the laser cycle), or is it more of an exponential curve (the initial hit counts the most, but to gain the full 100% damage you must remain tracking the target)? [Allied]
A: Lasers do damage over time, and must be held on target. You can literally do (small amounts of) damage to an opponent’s left arm, left torso, centre torso, right torso, and right arm with a single laser shot. That said, it'll be a tiny amount to each area. [GARTH]

Q: Will the THG-11E Thug and its variants appear next in Mechwarrior Online? [Will9761]
A: I cannot confirm or deny it, but I personally would love to see it. Great main variant, too. [GARTH]

Q: So my question is. Is it also possible to evade the LRM with pure speed or jump away? [Nash]
A: You can't entirely evade with speed, but Light 'Mechs get hit far less often; especially at extremely high speeds. So yes, you can essentially 'evade' them, but it is hard. [GARTH]

Q: Are the current random beta key invitations for founders truly random, or is the data we entered regarding our computer systems taken into consideration as a weighting factor? [Rashhaverak]
A: Entirely random. [GARTH]

Q: My sister and I will be playing next to each other. She wants to be a commander, with me defending her, what type of command orders will she give to help me gain points while just waiting for the enemy to come to us [fluffypinkbunny]
A: Probably things like "Mom knows you didn't really do your laundry" and "If you're going to go to that party, make sure Dad doesn't talk to Steve - he always gives everything away." [GARTH]

Q: How many Urbanmechs does it take to change a lightbulb? [Feindfeuer]
A: Essentially infinite, as they have no hands. [GARTH]

We hope your question was answered, and if not, we hope you try again.

Cheers,
Garth

[Bishop Katana]

Thx for the answers...

[Skwisgaar Skwigelf]

Thug, Thug, Thug, THUG!

[General Veers]

Give the urbie an A/C that shoots lightbulbs; then how many!?

[Sunny0]

Thanks!

[Cattra Kell]

THG-11E Life

*Edit* I'll just show myself out for that joke...

Edited by Cattra Kell, 25 July 2012 - 12:32 PM.

[Redshift2k5]

A little underwhelming

Oh well

[Rhyshaelkan]

Much of this could be found elsewhere. No real answers given out. There were some good questions this round too. I am disappoint.

[ExAstris]

Rhyshaelkan, on 25 July 2012 - 02:39 PM, said:

Much of this could be found elsewhere. No real answers given out. There were some good questions this round too. I am disappoint.

QFT.

[Will9761]

Thank you for answering wheather its a yes, no, maybe or can't say. I'm good.

Edited by Will9761, 25 July 2012 - 04:33 PM.

[Graives]

Yeah... The next question I'd like answered is... Are these ATD's intended to actually answer real serious questions or just reiterate old info and joke around? Cause that's all I got out of this.

And did anyone notice way less questions were answered this time than previous ATD's?

[Buso Senshi Zelazny]

This was very disappointing. Hope they answer some real questions next time

[Xathanael]

I'm all about that...

[BigRob]

You have got to be kidding.
It took you guys this long for that?

EYEFINITY YES OR NO.

[Serpentstar]

So when is the next Ask the Dev, because that answer was kind of unfulfilling and very brief for the number of questions answered?

[Mechxican JAKE]

I love how every time they waste a perfectly good answer on stupid sh!t about urban mechs. Its getting real old real fast and to who ever says "urbie" instead of urban mech is fu*k*ng retarded as well.

[Karyu]

Thanks for answering essentially one question...

[TrentTheWanderer]

I'd like the REAL answer to the command and experience system question.

[TheSilverCrow]

sounds awesome to me!! lasers are the way to go for a majority of fight i take it lol

[Ens]

ask the devs 12....

when?