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[Weeny Machine]

Besh, on 30 November 2023 - 09:29 AM, said:

When criticism is blanketly equated with negativity, and told to shut up, something is going wrong .

You forgot to add "shut up spiced with...":
1. ad hominems
2. and belitteling (implied "get gut")
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[pbiggz]

Nine-Ball, on 30 November 2023 - 11:50 AM, said:

I dunno about you, but this last patch is pure garbage.

Doesn't really matter what they did with this patch because of the issues that make finding a match 10x worse.

So whoever f'd up and gave us the "cannot locate server and therefore your mech you wanted to use is now in limbo" needs to step forward and be counted.

are you playing on the EU servers because there's a known issue with them.

[KingCobra]

Servers are dead I have tried 20+ times in the last 30 min and zip will not connect to a game no matter which servers i choose or not choose.

[Jay Z]

feeWAIVER, on 27 November 2023 - 10:56 PM, said:

Stalker 5M with 5 aSRM6, 2 snubs wrecks.
Misery with 4 LL, 1 aSRM6 1 Snub.

I recorded 2 matches in each. I already had the 5M build, but had not tried that Misery build yet.

5M



Misery

Athom83, on 28 November 2023 - 02:45 PM, said:

RAC/5 + MRM-30 + 5 MPLs. With a LFE 300 and 5 DHS (2 in the engine) the RAC/5 is heat neutral so can just fire away, the MRM is good for opening up their armor, and the MPLs help with finishing off a component or subbing in as primary when the RAC is jammed.

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I had time to play 1 match in it. I think this build can be improved with an MRM40 and MXPLs for continuous fire.

Edited by Jay Z, 30 November 2023 - 02:42 PM.

[CFC Conky]

Not sure I like that LL Misery build.

Good hunting,
CFC Conky

[Zalin]

I do think the game is a lot of fun today. But something I have been noticing after coming back recently after a year being away, is just the amount of stomps I see in games now. Most games I play are like 12 to 2 and I feel that armor has become for the lack of a better word useless, so many builds are doing so much crap ton of damage.

For the first time ever in the history of MWO I prefer lights and fast mediums, I stay alive much longer in them. But because of that I'm having a blast with the little buggers.

[Alex Morgaine]

Bud Crue, on 28 November 2023 - 06:15 AM, said:

Jesus. And I thought my having 20 something Quickdraws was going a bit overboard!

didn't a drunk dev "gift" like 100 sunspider Cs to someone one time as a joke cause they were streaming a "i will not sell till i fully max all skills on the mech" run or something?

[Rosarius]

Jay Z, on 30 November 2023 - 02:41 PM, said:

I recorded 2 matches in each. I already had the 5M build, but had not tried that Misery build yet.

5M



Misery





I had time to play 1 match in it. I think this build can be improved with an MRM40 and MXPLs for continuous fire.

As you can quite clearly see here, the stalker is an unplayable mess and requires extensive buffs.

[Bennesto]

Rosarius, on 01 December 2023 - 03:29 AM, said:

As you can quite clearly see here, the stalker is an unplayable mess and requires extensive buffs.

Yes, buff Executioner while we're at it bc it is objectively a bad mech... ( /s for pepegas)

[Athom83]

Jay Z, on 30 November 2023 - 02:41 PM, said:

I had time to play 1 match in it. I think this build can be improved with an MRM40 and MXPLs for continuous fire.

I used to have MXPs in it until about a week ago, they ran just a bit toasty for my liking. Similarly the difference between the 30 and 40 was more for fitting an extra heatsink and getting an extra ton, the 40 definitely would be the better weapon to use but it wasn't 'pretty' enough for me in the mechlab.

[Xetelian]

I can only give anecdotes

Since 2012 I have put over ten thousand hours in, I know this because I have 5000 hours on Steam alone and the only real break I took was when clan Wave 1 dropped and it was miserable because I couldn't afford to buy clan mechs in that godawful pricing scheme

TTK is actually better now than when wave one hit and there was no ghost heat on a DWF with 6 to 12 damned cERLL

You can probably find my old 2014? 2016? posts where I asked if we could double armor again, they're really old posts though, and we basically did after several years by adding quirks and armor/structure skill tree
Maybe I'm 'on an island' with this but I feel the game balance has improved significantly since the cauldron took over

I'm not going to say everything they have done has been solid gold but they have done a lot of good and our weapons are being balanced faster now than ever and a lot less drastically

I felt there was way to much feast of famine and dark board balancing

Once the MG was really stupid powerful, then it was nerfed into the ground, this kind of balancing isn't what I want, I don't want to see weapons change that drastically

Remember the LRMageddon?
Remmeber when SSRMs targeted CTs?

So I'll be patient and wait for them to figure out how to bring the HAG into a better balance




Also, the STK is a solid mech, it did need the buff to its survivablity since everything else was being boosted, but it has been one of my favorites, and I used the Misery since it came out

[Rhaelcan]

MOPCKOE, on 23 November 2023 - 10:15 PM, said:

The inner sphere mechs are still lousy trash (I mean if you remove all the absolute garbage and take into account only playable chassis).

Short range builds are still completely useless in 2 out of 3 matches.

Waaa. Waaa, I cant use good builds to perfection so I cry that IS chassis is too weak.

Rhaelcan, on 02 December 2023 - 06:14 PM, said:

Waaa. Waaa, I cant use good builds to perfection so I cry that IS chassis is too weak.

Legit, If you know how to use the mechs correctly, you can do high as **** damage.

[Magrowl]

Nine-Ball, on 30 November 2023 - 12:52 PM, said:

No its NA as well since I have only NA servers selected.

oceanic server is the only one mostly functional right now but the server problem is of known cause and being worked on with a hot fix coming (allegedly).

[ScrapIron Prime]

Xetelian, on 02 December 2023 - 02:10 AM, said:

Remember the LRMageddon?
Remmeber when SSRMs targeted CTs?

So I'll be patient and wait for them to figure out how to bring the HAG into a better balance

Not the best examples, they nerfed those systems into oblivion, and I’m not confident that the upcoming adjustments to ECM will remedy them because the people proposing the changes express disdain for those weapons and the people that use them.

[LordNothing]

could it be that their servers are reaching their mtbf. i always assumed pgi rented servers and managed them remotely but its also entirely possible that its their own hardware and they haven't been doing regular maintenance. that perhaps all these years we never saw a server upgrade. and ive built at least four rigs since this game came out of beta. that would be a good way to build a house on sand.

Edited by LordNothing, 03 December 2023 - 10:38 AM.

[ScrapIron Prime]

LordNothing, on 03 December 2023 - 10:34 AM, said:

could it be that their servers are reaching their mtbf. i always assumed pgi rented servers and managed them remotely but its also entirely possible that its their own hardware and they haven't been doing regular maintenance. that perhaps all these years we never saw a server upgrade. and ive built at least four rigs since this game came out of beta. that would be a good way to build a house on sand.

Nope, mean time between failure would affect one server, not all servers. This is an everyone issue, so it’s core code. Their database objects explanation is totally plausible.

[LordNothing]

ScrapIron Prime, on 03 December 2023 - 11:19 AM, said:

Nope, mean time between failure would affect one server, not all servers. This is an everyone issue, so it’s core code. Their database objects explanation is totally plausible.

ive seen stuff fail in lockstep before. because it was all purchased at the same time and load balanced well. of course i made my post before i read the update.

still a case of building a castle on sand though. pgi's tradition of brute forcing all the things instead of hiring a coder to do it the right way. the biggest role of a lead developer is to tell the lesser devs no when they want to do something stupid. like let half your database cap be consumed by a feature most players dont even use. not having one its like lord of the flies.

Edited by LordNothing, 03 December 2023 - 08:21 PM.

[w0qj]

MANY thanks to everyone's STK-5M(P) referral!
https://mwomercs.com...inum-collection

My semi-skilled STK-5M(P) just had 6 kills and 900+ damage T3/T4 QP game...
on the Rubellite Oasis map...
(Did not have 6x kills for long time...)

STK-5M(P): 5x SRM6 + 2x Snub Nose PPC, LE300 engine

feeWAIVER, on 27 November 2023 - 10:56 PM, said:

Stalker 5M with 5 aSRM6, 2 snubs wrecks.
Misery with 4 LL, 1 aSRM6 1 Snub.

Jay Z, on 30 November 2023 - 02:41 PM, said:

I recorded 2 matches in each. I already had the 5M build, but had not tried that Misery build yet.

5M



Misery





I had time to play 1 match in it. I think this build can be improved with an MRM40 and MXPLs for continuous fire.

Edited by w0qj, 19 January 2024 - 08:06 AM.

[kalashnikity]

I'm happy with everything Cauldron has done so far, except for nerfing clan double heat sinks to adjust for their supposed failure to balance a couple of weapons. Which is just plan stupid. Frankly IS was performing just fine against Clan, there was no need to do that.

And the ongoing and unforgivable LRM shenanigans which I won't go into here, see the hide&seek thread, please.

[kalashnikity]

ScrapIron Prime, on 03 December 2023 - 10:15 AM, said:

Not the best examples, they nerfed those systems into oblivion, and I’m not confident that the upcoming adjustments to ECM will remedy them because the people proposing the changes express disdain for those weapons and the people that use them.

*openly express disdain

They deride "low skill low tier newbs who don't understand what a UAV is", yet it seems they are the ones who don't know how to deal with LRMers.

I rarely even use LRMS, and who doesn't hate getting LRMed to death, but to reflect their own words, "git gud"

Kill the narcer, shoot down the UAV, but I guess that's too hard to figure out for the 1%ers.

"Leave the rock I'm hiding behind? Unthinkable!"

VeritasSuperOmnia, on 23 November 2023 - 01:13 PM, said:

The game is in a much better place now than it was 4 years ago. A much larger variety of builds and playstyles are valid in quick play now.

PGI and the cauldron have done a pretty good job. Stop being so negative all the time. Enough is enough.

I've read these forums for years, crying like a bunch of teenage girls is what we do best.