Welcome Mechwarriors, except you loyalist scum. So successful was Part 1 of our anti-loyalist plan that we thought we’d release the patch notes for next month early. For those loyalists who are still holding out hope after all these years we wish to state the following. We understand that the Battletech universe is an epic space opera about the titanic struggles and political intrigue of Great Houses and Clans alike, but……. we assure you that we will only be focused on mercenaries and mercenary BEHAVIOUR.
Removal of Faction Camo & Cockpit Items: Last patch we successfully prevented players form showing their preferred faction loyalty on the unit tab and forum profile picture. This patch we intend to go further and remove any way a player can show permanent loyalty to a faction.
New Mercenary Camo & Cockpit Items: To drive story mode, we want to help Mercenary units to pretend to be loyalist. To do this we are introducing Camo and Cockpit items which are only available to Mercenaries. These items will automatically morph into the faction they currently hold contract for.
Loyalists: Last patch we forced loyalists to play like Mercs, but we want to go further. Anyone who joins a story mode faction without first selecting Mercenary will have to pay MC to join a game. They will also be dropped out of the drop ship from higher up and land in lava.
Mercenary: These guys are almost perfect, but we are not quite there yet. With the latest patch Mercenary unit can accidently end up fighting each other. Mostly this happens because one Unit doesn’t get the memo. To prevent this, we are going to allow a unit caught on the wrong side to make an emergency change.
Freelancers: We have tried very hard to stop new players from getting into faction warfare, but we want to go further. Freelancers will be renamed to Seals. Mercenaries will receive bonus XP and C-Bill for base rushing, gen rushing and drop camping Seals. To help Mercenaries do this we will be increasing their drop deck tonnage.
Loyalty Program Changes: As we hate people who are loyal by nature, we have decided to stop encouraging loyalty in all forms. Even to us. As of now there is no loyalty program. If we want people to play this game, we will pay the price they demand in MC.
Loyalty Mechs: As loyalty is a disgusting concept we will be renaming (L) variant Mechs to (MS). They will be henceforth known as Merc Star mechs. Each MS mech will have a safe zone around it. Should a non-mercenary player enter this zone they will immediately be prompted with a message to join a Unit, get on Voip and drive only Meta Mechs. Players failing to do this will be kicked from the game and all their XP and C-Bills awarded to the Merc unit.
Loyalist Decal: The loyalist decal will be reworded to “**** You Loyalist Scum”. All Mercs will have this decal unlocked for free.
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Ok now I’ve vented somewhat, look I appreciate that we finally got some development hours spent on Faction Play. Ya!!! Despite my rant, I do think that PGI has their heart ion the right place. I just wish they would have thought the execution through a bit more. As it stands it is a big FU to Loyalists.
Edited by SeventhSL, 21 May 2019 - 10:38 PM.