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[Odanan]

Possibly new chassis? Nice!!!

These are essential:

• WASP
  
• CRUSADER
  
• FIRE MOTH
  
• STONE RHINO

If I had to choose just one, it would be the Crusader:

[Bulletsponge0]

Daeron Katz, on 29 January 2021 - 10:08 PM, said:

I have no idea how long it will take. Could be a week, could be a month, could be more. I have to investigate the current status on Monday.

Not concerned about how long the fix will take, am concerned that this bug has been reported for years and it is just now being put onto a list for a possible fix

[suffocater]

Alreech, on 30 January 2021 - 11:03 AM, said:

Playing Mech Nascar with 11 random dudes against other 12 random dudes get's better with a new engine?

Entirely different problem. But if PGI gets the game in a better state, than this ancient and modified to death engine will hinder it more than it already does. Technical performance is pisspoor.

Edited by suffocater, 30 January 2021 - 06:46 PM.

[Rhialto]

Saved By The Bell, on 30 January 2021 - 11:38 AM, said:

Terra Therma ! I like it! Do not delete it.

Have you seen it yet? I've payed like 30 games and it was not offered once.

[Rhialto]

Daeron Katz, on 29 January 2021 - 08:40 PM, said:

I will add Classic Terra Therma to the list a bit later tonight.

Have you forgotten? Haven't seen it yet and I've asked in some games and nobody reported playing it.

[Bulletsponge0]

InnerSphereNews, on 29 January 2021 - 06:29 PM, said:

Greetings MechWarriors!














Gameplay

• Increase Requirement for Reconnection from 2 to 4 minutes - DONE
  
• Examine Match Scoring (AMS) - MARCH

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That is most certainly NOT "Done".

[account redo v1]

Spheroid, on 30 January 2021 - 11:58 AM, said:

cERPPC are fine



Mechlab fail

It's my requests. You don't have to play competitively to have fun. That's how I feel about it. I'd just like it to be a little more viable. It's fine if you disagree.

[PocketYoda]

Some of it looks interesting but imo no new content equal dead to most customers..

At least keep up with new Mechs and Maps.. Maybe new weapons.

Edited by Samial, 30 January 2021 - 09:45 PM.

[General Solo]

Improved match making will keep me around

[Enamillion89]

WAIT! I forgot to mention a *Field of View* cockpit slider for an update request!!

[nuttyrat]

Enamillion89, on 30 January 2021 - 10:07 PM, said:

WAIT! I forgot to mention a *Field of View* cockpit slider for an update request!!

Do you mean the one that is already in the game?

Edited by nuttyrat, 30 January 2021 - 10:25 PM.

[crazytimes]

Can I make a suggestion?

Show the mech you picked when it gets to the map selection screen. It can be 5 minutes, several drinks and 4 news articles between clicking match, and actually getting one. My memory isn't what is used to be.

[nuttyrat]

For those wondering why some of the items marked "Done" are actually not in the game yet. Chatted with both Daeron and Chris on my stream after the roadmap was released. They both mentioned that most of the items marked "Done" are ready to go into a patch (Feb or March) so are not in the game yet. When I asked Daeron about it he said he was rushing to get the roadmap out so needs to go back into the post for some cleanup.

Bulletsponge0, on 30 January 2021 - 08:02 PM, said:

That is most certainly NOT "Done".

Rhialto, on 30 January 2021 - 07:28 PM, said:

Have you seen it yet? I've payed like 30 games and it was not offered once.

[Eurystheus]

ZortPointNarf, on 30 January 2021 - 12:53 PM, said:

AMS, don't leave home without it.
I run AMS on 90% of my assaults, about 75% of my heavies, 50% mediums and about 30% of my lights.
I can count the number of times I've been lermed to death on one hand (2k+ game hours)
If more players bother packing it, it would be so much more effective, I often find myself in matches with just myself and one other lone ranger packing it.

I think if AMS contributed more to score and revenue it may incentivise players to use it instead of chasing pure damage.

One thing that needs adjusting is the insane impact flashed from ballistics, the shaking I get, the blinding not so much. Would actually make sense to add a blinding light effect to lasers and missiles as they explode.

In my experience AMS is less a Mech defensive weapon and more a team defensive weapon. I can get LRM and ATM hits on a Corsair with 4 AMS if I have LOS on it. Where AMS really makes a difference is when a team has a lot of it and is taking indirect fire. And by a lot, I mean if the team has one Corsair with 4 AMS on it near my target I'm not going to get any hits if I don't have LOS.

[Alreech]

suffocater, on 30 January 2021 - 06:46 PM, said:

Entirely different problem.

Gameplay is the core problem of MWO.

Solo Quickplay is 12 vs 12 Teamdeathmatch with no respawn but random teams that are disolved after each match.
No one gives a dam about teammates that aren't with the team next match, especially if you risk to lose your only Mech in the match by helping them.
That leads to the NASCAR gameplay: you leave behind the slow mechs of your team to kill the slow mechs of the enemy team, because you make more matchscore that way than staying behind to defend "your team".

Group Quickplay was unbalanced due the variable Group Sizes of 2 - 12 players, .
Faction Play has the same issue, and the rewards in Faction Play are a joke (Hamster Hueys, srsly?)

None of those problems are caused by the engine, and can't be fixed by changing the engine.

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But if PGI gets the game in a better state, than this ancient and modified to death engine will hinder it more than it already does. Technical performance is pisspoor.

Technícal Performance of MWO is fine on my PC:
Xeon 1231 (yes, a server CPU)
16 GB Ram
R9 280
I run it on 2560x1440 fps.
can't run Mechwarrior 5 with more than 24 fps in Full HD

So switching to a more modern engine won't make the game run faster on older PCs.
Instead many Players would have to upgrade their PCs to match the higher requierments of the new engine.
Also no Engine support out of the box all the stuff a Mechwarrior Games needs, so the new Engine would be needed to modifed too.

[Alreech]

Odanan, on 30 January 2021 - 06:07 PM, said:

Possibly new chassis? Nice!!!

These are essential:

• WASP
  
• CRUSADER
  
• FIRE MOTH
  
• STONE RHINO

If I had to choose just one, it would be the Crusader:

Non of those Mechs are sensible choices for MWOs Quickplay:

Wasp / Fire Moth:
20 ton light mech that takes away a light mech slot in the match maker better used for a 35 ton light mech.
Probably not faster than a Locust (Wasp) or better armend than a Piranha (Fire Moth).

Crusader:
In the best case a 65 ton Mech with high mounted Missle Hardpoints in the arms for 2 MRM 40.
You can build that with a Catapult.
Or even better with a Quickdraw IV or a Warhammer 7s (torso mounted missles, can use the arms to shield).

Stone Rhino:
You can run 2 Toros Mounted Gaus & 2 Arm mounted large Pulse Lasers in the Kodiak KDK-3, and that's still worse than the usual loadout of 4 ACs

[Alreech]

DAEDALOS513, on 30 January 2021 - 12:00 PM, said:

So having lurmageddon on a handful of maps (and ruining them imo) is ok as long as both side have lurms? Not my idea of fun..

Is dropping with an short range brawler against a team of LRM Mechs on Alpine peaks your idea of fun?
Or dropping with an LRM mech in Solaris City?

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also this is qp pugs.. good look relying on everyone to bring ams/ecm..

At the moment you have to rely on the luck that at least one of you teammates is running an ECM or AMS mech if you are put against a LRM team on a large open map.

The ability to choose such a mech after the mapvote removes that luck.
Yeah, some players may still be not choosing an Mech with AMS, but at least it has nothing to do with luck.

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I sure don't use ams because I feel it's ineffective on it's own. They really should buff ams.. even when we each run ams in a 4-man with ams nodes, it's pretty damn weak against a heavy lurm boat that knows that alpha'ing is better than chaining.. let alone against 2 or 3 boats.. IS side doesn't even have that many good ecm mechs like clan and clan can ominpod their ecm component to other chasis..

You can combine ECM with AMS & LRMs.
Archer Tempest, Griffin 5N, Stalker 3FB can run ECM & LRMs.

[Kai Allard-Liao]

Would be cool, if we can have Decals with National Flags, for placing at our Mech-Shoulder for example.

[Alreech]

Kai Allard-Liao, on 31 January 2021 - 05:14 AM, said:

Would be cool, if we can have Decals with National Flags, for placing at our Mech-Shoulder for example.

Great idea, can i get a national flags for Palestina, Taiwan, Tibet, North Macedonia, the turkish republic of Cyprus, ect to spice things up?
On a second thougt, MWO doesn't have factions in quickplay, so real world nationalism could replace "that missing feature".

[Tommy Atkins]

I wouldn't mind seeing decals depicting rank insignia, both in-universe and real life.

I've got a vision of my Wolverine sporting sergeant's stripes.