Interesting changes projected for the April patch, to say the least. I think we can all agree that PGI doing something rather than nothing--especially anything involving input from the actual community--is a step in the right direction, yes? Good! Glad we can agree on something!
However, here are my concerns regarding what has been posted:
"... geometric re-scaling across all chassis in order to reduce the overall scale of ‘Mechs (particularly 35t+ chassis) and directly increase survivability."
1. Does this mean there shall never be a return to the glory days when most lights were not the size of mediums? Is the lowest performing, least played class being ignored yet again, ensuring most light chassis will continuuuuuue to remain useless until the eventual, inevitable cold death of the universe?? Hast the Cauldron/Gulag a dearth of actual light pilots??? ... Maybe I am overreacting, the 35 tonners actually are the most hit-box fawked of the lights...
2. We all like shiny new things. But when I see things posted like, "with the end goal of increasing TTK" alongside buffing almost everything... I haz confuse. Yes increasing agility of mechs and reducing hit boxes will increase TTK, but not not nearly so much as it would (if at all) if you are literally buffing every old thing at the same time.
Does it not seem faaaar more simple to simply nerf the 3 or 4 weapons that were deemed as the current meta, buff 2 or 3 things, make 3 or 4 net-neutral tweaks, and THEN add rescale and agility changes to ensure you are actually increasing TTK whilst simultaneously shaking up the meta and making more weapons actually viable? The entire litany of changes just reads like this to me: POWERCREEP.
3. Conspiracy time. I recall a recent dev post vowing to unmerge soup queue (please let's not rehash the pros/cons here). No mention in the sprawling April update post about this critical change which is on the minds of so many. You choose: is such topic innocently beyond the scope of the balance-oriented post, or have the powers that be realized that, 'once such a thing has been done, it can not be undone'?
What say you mechsluts, is old Deadpool off his rocker again?
Edited by Capt Deadpool, 02 April 2021 - 08:19 PM.