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[Kamiko Kross]

D A T A, on 01 August 2023 - 05:53 PM, said:

good, people are having fun

"Some" people are having fun.

[LordNothing]

ive had fun with my new toys. but that feeling wears off and you realize that the game gets even more and more shallow as the game turns into a soulless, depthless, fatmech pixel aligning contest.

[LordNothing]

the check engine light, on 02 August 2023 - 08:08 PM, said:

And there's really no dialing it back now, they can't remove hardpoints. They KNEW it was going to happen, too.

oh theres something they can do, give more lights and mediums the same treatment.

[LordNothing]

the check engine light, on 02 August 2023 - 08:18 PM, said:

They're not going to go back and make people's existing stables like that. They might roll out more legendaries to that effect.

When a dev paints themselves into a corner this hard it's because the exit door is right behind them.

shut up and take my money. they release a light legendary il get it even if i have to rent out parts of my body to the gentlemen at the fishing boat dock.

Edited by LordNothing, 02 August 2023 - 08:22 PM.

[LordNothing]

the check engine light, on 02 August 2023 - 08:28 PM, said:

I'm not giving them more money to play the FOMO game.

They better make bank on everyone else, I'm not putting up with that. This is bad behavior and I won't reward it.

the goodies that come with the legendaries are also helping me win the pokemechs game. its actually kind of an exisitential crisis for me. i figure i need to pick up 50 mechs, 20 standard and 30 heroes, and i will have effectively caught them all. there will be a number of c, s, and p variants i dont have, but i will have the std variant. special bonuses become pointless because there are no longer cbill sinks, and c mechs are pointless because everything is mastered. only thing i can do at that point is chase numbers and shoot for the skill ceiling. since i really dont enjoy the stress of that kind of play, i will probibly just get bored and go elsewhere.

for me at least, the end times are nigh. unless they do something to mix up the stagnant game.

Edited by LordNothing, 02 August 2023 - 09:49 PM.

[foamyesque]

ThreeStooges, on 01 August 2023 - 07:43 PM, said:

They are? Huh. PGI doesn't give a **** as long as you buy the newest ALPHA-META-instawin mech or just do this type of builds.

The 4HP has been able to do that build for ages. The stock build in the store is already 3/4s the way there. Swap the ERPPCs and MLas for snubs, trade the SHS for DHS, chop a JJ.

[Captain Caveman DE]

the check engine light, on 02 August 2023 - 08:08 PM, said:

And there's really no dialing it back now, they can't remove hardpoints. They KNEW it was going to happen, too.

they can always add 'negative' quirks if things get out of hand.
or buff their 'worse competition mechs'.

not saying they will, but they could. in the end I trust the cauldron to balance things out. they've done a good job on that on most things, no need to claim that the sky is falling right now.*



*Still, my Spirit-bear looks in envy at those brawling stonerhinos and wants some goodies, too

Edited by Captain Caveman DE, 03 August 2023 - 07:51 AM.

[Chloe Cole Kerensky]

I've been seeing games with 50% assaults, but numerous pre-existing mechs can pack AC20/2*SNPPC/MRM30 (or mrm40)

I've been using that loadout to good effect recently, it deletes assaults effectively.

[sycocys]

As far as I've seen the queue has been roughly normal - 20,25, 30, 25.

Drops haven't been out of control, but I don't drop into many/any t4/5 matches, you get further up and more people have realized that mobile mechs with slightly smaller alphas are better than plodding statues.

[RockmachinE]

sycocys, on 04 August 2023 - 03:59 AM, said:

you get further up and more people have realized that mobile mechs with slightly smaller alphas are better than plodding statues.

This is incorrect. T1 players will play anything that's meta, more than any other Tier...that's a part of the reason they're top Tier.

T1 is chock full of assaults even a couple of weeks after the release. Just checked, played 1 match, was 40-50% assaults, disconnected. This is the meta now. Its more of a "hard" meta as its not the result of weapon balance, but the result of pure hardpoint and pure DPS bloat.

[Chloe Cole Kerensky]

RockmachinE, on 04 August 2023 - 09:02 AM, said:

This is incorrect. T1 players will play anything that's meta, more than any other Tier...that's a part of the reason they're top Tier.

T1 is chock full of assaults even a couple of weeks after the release. Just checked, played 1 match, was 40-50% assaults, disconnected. This is the meta now. Its more of a "hard" meta as its not the result of weapon balance, but the result of pure hardpoint and pure DPS bloat.

Lots of people playing their new Legendary assaults, and the Stone Rhino is a new Chassis, (still has that new mech smell) and lots of people playing their old assaults in order to teach those new assaults a lesson in low center of gravity.

It'll go back to normal eventually, especially if PGI releases some light or medium Legendaries some day, eventually, maybe...

:::holds breath:::

[DoucheNugg3t]

the check engine light, on 26 July 2023 - 03:59 AM, said:

The GZ is pretty pants-shittingly scary with quad LB20X if you get caught on a blind corner, the Gauss/AC10 hybrid is overall much nastier. Stone Crusher is racking up fairly obscene numbers most of the time but it gives off less of a ******** vibe. Possibly because lasers don't sound like a freight train slamming into your mech.

Koloss is bugfuck nuts if you can't keep it nice and far away. Insane levels of laservomit on some other variants, the only SR I'm not overly concerned about is the one people keep turning into an ATM/LRM boat.

GZ and Koloss both capitalize HARD on the new map.

LOVE my GZ

[foamyesque]

the check engine light, on 04 August 2023 - 12:04 PM, said:

Also every match where a group of lights tried to wolfpack was a fairly disastrous loss barring one where an Urbie lance derped out, got scrubbed while everyone else did pretty alright and secured a win.

I've actually had some real nice matches in my shiny new K9 against all these new assaults. People underestimate how much damage is coming in, it feels.

[foamyesque]

the check engine light, on 04 August 2023 - 03:47 PM, said:

The RAC5 K9 is fun, but I honestly prefer the UAC5.

UAC5s got its advantages but that ROF quirk for the RACs is amazing. Slap on a small laser support package and you can shred people's armour incredibly quickly, and sustain it for a surprisingly long interval.

Edited by foamyesque, 04 August 2023 - 03:54 PM.

[LordNothing]

run a uac10 on my cop can.

[Captain Caveman DE]

tried my k9 with the new quirks, rak5+medlaser.
oh boy..



it may not be the best build in the world, but when you leave every match you're in with a wide grin, you're doing sth right.

[VeeOt Dragon]

exactly, any match you have fun in is a good match and any build that brings you joy is a good one (ok as long as you are at least doing average in it)

[MrMadguy]

I personally miss old Open Beta times, because teams were much heavier back then. Why? Because matches with heavier teams are slower and more positional, rather than deathball/nascar lighter ones. Deathball/nascar tactics - are this game's biggest cancer.

[Captain Caveman DE]

VeeOt Dragon, on 05 August 2023 - 12:17 AM, said:

exactly, any match you have fun in is a good match and any build that brings you joy is a good one (ok as long as you are at least doing average in it)

600-800dmg in proper matches and the ammo gets short at that point.

MrMadguy, on 05 August 2023 - 01:00 AM, said:

I personally miss old Open Beta times, because teams were much heavier back then. Why? Because matches with heavier teams are slower and more positional, rather than deathball/nascar lighter ones. Deathball/nascar tactics - are this game's biggest cancer.

dude, we had 75%assaults a few days ago, and I've seen 65-70 nearly every match since the new assaults dropped.
turned down the last few days, thankfully, but still.

[VeeOt Dragon]

yeah my RAC5 K-9 tends to run low on the ammo if a match goes long, is why i have the 2 ER SLs on it. i have thought about upgrading to from the LE to and XL and seeing if i can fit a couple more in there.

not sure if the whole Assault bloat has died down any as i haven't booted up the game since i completed the event. (man i wish they would add a "Kill X Mech X times" thing to the new mech events (the ones they put up when they drop a new mech pack). it would be nice to get something for fragging all those shiny new mechs)