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[Weeny Machine]

JediPanther, on 28 March 2019 - 01:38 PM, said:

Too bad there are mechs with only missiles and making that condition would make that mech useless. If the rule of 3 to master a mech was still in effect without those other variants with more than one hard point type you'd royally piss off players to the point of rage quitting when they suddenly find they blew most if not all their space bucks on a now useless mech such as http://CPLT-A1 Stock

Pretty hard to find matches when a poor game design decision like your idea could cost a lot of players. Not everyone has the time to group up or to do a 20-50 minute fw. Some people really have only so much time for video games.

Poor game design decision? Yeah, and you think that sitting half a map away safe and cozy behind several obstacles yelling for locks to shoot targets and locking down dynamic gameplay or making ECM prevalent is a brilliant design decision? Thank god you are no game designer

Also, thanks for ignoring the proposed changes which I added. But hey, you needed a strawman. Now cry on

Edited by Bush Hopper, 29 March 2019 - 10:56 AM.

[Prototelis]

HammerMaster, on 29 March 2019 - 09:32 AM, said:

Name all the people that can't see a stealth mech.
Saying that I can't is a dig that is blind in of itself.

You and most of the people beef encounters in tier 5.

[HammerMaster]

Hazeclaw, on 29 March 2019 - 10:51 AM, said:

I don't hate anything

because I enjoy various playstyles in this game, and like to see some resemblance of balance between them so nothing becomes obscenely good or easy compared to everything else

as such I call out misinformation and half truths from people that generally play only one thing and constantly argue for it being stronger to see their personal scores improve, even to the detriment of the community as a whole

Where's your proof that all I do is LRM?

Prototelis, on 29 March 2019 - 10:56 AM, said:

You and most of the people beef encounters in tier 5.

Surely. Please.

[John Bronco]

JediPanther, on 29 March 2019 - 10:37 AM, said:

Exactly when did "You use lrms on a mech! That makes you a lrm-er! "You're a lrmer!" become something akin to na zee hate against other players acceptable?

Sometime around mid-2013 if memory serves, of course LRMs were FAR less effective back then so it wasn't as hot of an issue.

[Toothless]

Novakaine, on 27 March 2019 - 12:34 PM, said:

few things are more irritating than english speakers misusing cyrillic letters in order to evoke Russian tones.

P's are R's.
Я's are Ya's.
Д's are D's.
G's arent in the alphabet.
И's have a mostly i sound but depend on their place in the word.
D's arent in the alphabet.
LRM's suck.

[death390]

Bud Crue, on 29 March 2019 - 09:18 AM, said:

Just as a matter of record over the last year:

April 2018 - LRM velocity upped from 160 to 190. (Buff)

July 2018 - LRM launchers heat reduced from .6-.2 depending on size. (Buff)
Clan spread was increased. (Nerf)

August 2018 - LRM lock assistance cone (angle) tightened by 50% (Nerf)
Artemis nerf, ECM rang buff to 120, Narc cooldown increased by 50%. (All arguably nerfs)

October 2018 - Heat changes, namely dissipation increases (Buff to all but disproportionately so to LRM)
ECM changes to Artemis directed at SRMs (not relevant to LRMs) but Artemis spread bonus increased to 30% (Buff)

March 2019 -LRM velocity increased another 30. (Buff)
LOS lock time reduced 20%. (Buff)
IDF lock time dependent on range (Nerf)
IDF spread increased 20% (Nerf)

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So while I don’t deny that there have been some nerfs over the last year, there have also been some pretty clear buffs, especially in terms of the all important LRM velocity. The heat decreases and then subsequent increases are a wash with a net benefit provided by the dispation improvements that we all enjoy. Artemis changes I think are just as impactful to SRMs as they are to LRMs (perhaps more so as applied to SRM6 builds). So yeah, overall I think LRMs have been buffed more than nerfed, and certainly buffed more than any other class of weapons.

actually you made an error on the 2019 patch. Base IDF lock time increased by 10% flat, DF lock time decreased by 10% AND both are affected by Sensor range vs target.
additionally the LRM velocity "increase" is the Direct fire arc change because the arc is lower the move "faster".

AMS also got a 33% area increase.
Tag now gives IDF LRMs a DF lock timer (20% faster than IDF but 0% faster if have DF) making it a non-item for LRMs to actually use themselves.
Narc has issues with the timer being so low that you can only get 1-2 salvos (non-chainfire) before timer breaks.