103 replies to this topic

[TheCaptainJZ]

I plan on getting it eventually, maybe within a year of release, depending on reviews, which will probably be artificially worse than the game objectively will be because of PGI hate. I personally like single-player and I can co-op with my brother which will be really fun. As long as the game is decent and enjoyable. Doesn't have to be absolutely stellar to have fun with my brother, but has to have some length to it at least.

[MischiefSC]

Y E O N N E, on 02 October 2019 - 05:15 PM, said:

It's worse than that.

Almost all "feature development" to the actual gameplay of MWO amounted to so many different attempts at re-arranging the same deck of cards. The only new gameplay feature they ever produced that was decent was the Training Academy, and that's not even the core game. The three or four game modes they produced were all universally panned, and mostly used recycled mechanics anyway. All of the Civil War tech is also recycling various mechanics, which is why none of the equipment that would require even marginally more work than copy+pasting an existing item and tweaking its stats were actually included. Solaris was always going to be a horrendous waste of resources because only a fleetingly small portion of the community actually wanted it in the first place. The icing on that sh*t cake is that the various infrastructure mechanics they put in place for Solaris could have been built and extended into the core game years ago and would have done a better job of match-making, building immersion, etc.

But no.

Solaris was doomed as soon as it was clear there was nobody to hold locks.

To be fair MWO code has.... issues. It was never going to be happy with big changes.

As to immersion, a F2P PvP game is always going to struggle with that. The players are the content and players, as a given rule, suck. While inverse kinematics would be cool the mechs are otherwise pretty amazing. Visually great, deeply customized individual audio, etc.

There's a lot of potential for MW5 to be way more immersive and engaging. We'll see how that pans out. The actual combat in MWO feels great and that's staying, so are the visuals and audio, etc. I absolutely get that people have a lot of history with MWO and translate that into assumptions about specific people at PGI and their personal ethics and attitudes and stuff but I would say MW5 is way, way less of a gamble than, say, any Bioware game is now or any Ubisoft game that's not out of Montreal.

[frumpylumps]

I'm not an entitled and spoilt man baby and MWO has treated me much better than other F2P game developers so I'm definitely not cancelling my pre-order.

What EPIC is doing is good for the industry. Steam needs competition and its a shame people are too stupid to see that.

Edited by frumpylumps, 04 October 2019 - 03:19 PM.

[Corvus Antaka]

Everyone deserves a second chance.

[DaZur]

Meh.. Kept my pre-order.

Regardless of how much I've soured to MWO over the last year or so I'm still and Battletech/Mechwarrior nerd at heart.

[RockmachinE]

I've play MWO since beta, I've never spent a cent on this game.[redacted]

I also believe PGI are bad game developers and lack technical skills. They don't know how to make something fun, and even if they did they lack the ability to implement it.

Also they seem to suck badly at sound design.

Edited by Tina Benoit, 07 October 2019 - 01:19 PM.
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[ShiverMeRivets]

Louis Brofist, on 05 October 2019 - 02:05 AM, said:

I've play MWO since beta, I've never spent a cent on this game. [redacted]

I also believe PGI are bad game developers and lack technical skills. They don't know how to make something fun, and even if they did they lack the ability to implement it.

Also they seem to suck badly at sound design.

So, you played a game for 6(?) years which means that either you really like the game, or a masochist (I’ll rule out the option that Russ has a gun to your head and is making you play). And after this you come to the company’s BBS to tell everyone that PGI are bad game developers, and you are even happy to announce that you paid NOTHING all these years - this is nothing to be proud of. Unless you have serious financial issues you sir should be hiding under a rock from the shame.

[RockmachinE]

The initial team that made MWO was quite different then what PGI is now. THEY have made a fun game and PGI's been riding (ruining, attempting to improve??) it ever since.

Free players bolster the population and are vital for a F2P games health and longevity. The whales provide the funds and the leeches provide the playerbase.

So no I'm really happy and proud of the free ride I got from this game and PGI has benefited from this relationship as much as I have.

Have a great day.

Edited by Louis Brofist, 05 October 2019 - 03:59 AM.

[General Solo]

I was always confused when people whinned yet continued to buy mech packs

[Fed0t]

Kept my preorder.
I really like MWO in terms of mechanics and have a lot of fun playing it, but i am more of single-player gamer, introvert and with almost no competitive urges at all so MW5 is more like my game.
I don't ever understand hate for PGI because as i see it they are genuine BT fans and provide a lot to recent revival of franchise.
They are not perfect, they are small indie devs but i really doubt that any other company were willing so much for new MW game to happen as they did.
I was so hyped in 2009 then that UE3 demo trailer dropped and i still hyped for new MW game now.
And i really like Atlas design from that trailer, maybe some modders will inject it one day to the game.

[ShiverMeRivets]

Louis Brofist, on 05 October 2019 - 03:34 AM, said:

The initial team that made MWO was quite different then what PGI is now. THEY have made a fun game and PGI's been riding (ruining, attempting to improve??) it ever since.

Free players bolster the population and are vital for a F2P games health and longevity. The whales provide the funds and the leeches provide the playerbase.

So no I'm really happy and proud of the free ride I got from this game and PGI has benefited from this relationship as much as I have.

Have a great day.

I see.
So you claim that you suffered through the years PGI has been destroying this game as a favor to PGI and to the paying customers.
How noble and altruistic of you.

Thank you.

[RockmachinE]

ShiverMeRivets, on 05 October 2019 - 07:26 AM, said:

Thank you.

No, thank you! How nice that someone's efforts are greatly appreciated, very kind of you to recognize that.

[Johny Rocket]

Having played all the original mech games which brought me to this game I was looking forward to a new campaign game especially one built off of the Mercenaries story line but will not be getting it until the Epic store exclusivity ends.

PGI pushed the community onto steam and now someone flashes them some cash and they bail on Steam, well, I'll have no part in it.

[C E Dwyer]

Kept my pre order

Don't give a damn about it being on epic or not.

Seems its ok for Microsoft to spy on you,
and amazon, google.

Seems it's ok for FACE BOOK to collect your data sell it on and have third parties data mine you

Its o.k for people to track you through ATM's and card payments in stores

but the sky falls down when/ if its the Chinese, whom already own half of the business developments in the states and europe

nah I'm keeping it, and won't have to listen to whining sheets all through my games

[Lynxx]

C E Dwyer, on 05 October 2019 - 05:14 PM, said:

Kept my pre order
Don't give a damn about it being on epic or not.

Did you get a Epic-Store Key yet? I also keep my pre order but no key and support is not answering my mails

[LTC Kilgore]

Based on PGI's track record... not unless it gets stellar reviews

[The pessimistic optimist]

Not happy about the epic store thing but not canceling my preorder. Epic store is bare bones and no were near as good as steam. I would love the epic store to be competition for steam but it is not even close. Right now epic is trying to get people using it's store by forcing them too and steam about to make that a lot harder for them. So maybe Epic will get off it's *** and make it's store well good.

[Prototelis]

ITT; Being "forced" to use a luxury item.

[The pessimistic optimist]

Prototelis, on 07 October 2019 - 04:03 AM, said:

ITT; Being "forced" to use a luxury item.

Are you calling the Epic store luxury item or the game? The epic store is definitely not a luxury item it's bare bones but yea video-games are a luxury item yea don't need them to live.

[Siegegun]

I will end up buying it. I will not preorder it though, I will wait till release then purchase. I do not care about epic store per se, I care about the way it was done however, rather backhanded and dislike the lies.