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[DoucheNugg3t]

lets put the range at 460, maybe 495 skilled, attacks your heat, cool down seems good and let the IS Shaaakk have some missile hard points so you can play like a 95 ton assault mech not some hill hugger playing pokie-mech in a 95 tonner, I will support that on the battlefield and with my wallet

[Lepestok]

Rhaelcan, on 21 August 2025 - 04:31 PM, said:

MW5 is a completely different engine. I don't think you realize how badly this game is coded, a lot of people, cauldron people, and a pgi developer, have said it is nigh impossible.

The engine of this game does not support hand animations? Or it is impossible to write in it, that when you press the left button of the mouse, damage is inflicted at a distance of 5 meters?

[KursedVixen]

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Lepestok, on 21 August 2025 - 07:02 PM, said:

The engine of this game does not support hand animations? Or it is impossible to write in it, that when you press the left button of the mouse, damage is inflicted at a distance of 5 meters?

More than likely the people who even knew how to code it for this engine are gone or working on other projects.

Edited by KursedVixen, 21 August 2025 - 08:45 PM.

[Lollerisms]

Lepestok, on 21 August 2025 - 07:02 PM, said:

The engine of this game does not support hand animations? Or it is impossible to write in it, that when you press the left button of the mouse, damage is inflicted at a distance of 5 meters?

Given what I've been told about the MWO engine, there are not enough personnel hours available to get melee working in a satisfactory manner in this game.

Edited by Lollerisms, 21 August 2025 - 10:22 PM.

[SATAN 666]

Ttly, on 21 August 2025 - 11:50 AM, said:

https://i.imgur.com/VJeBKet.mp4
It's 2 minutes into a match so that Blackjack has to be pretty fresh, but even disregarding that, it can do its entire damage up to 400m-ish range anyway.

Very balanced, yes. A Duelist/HGR Fafnir but with armor, more firepower, and even speed.
It's okay though because that 80 damage is only every 10 seconds right?

Dude....it looked like a headshot to me. You should buy this mech and try yourself how "powerful" it is

[SATAN 666]

CwStrife, on 21 August 2025 - 03:30 PM, said:

The railgun is exactly the type of meta weapon the compies want. A direct damage (with some splash) that is a high pinpoint alpha to nuke out mechs, one projectile no chance of it spreading like a HAG 40 would. I witnessed continually (on my team and opposite) of this railgun one shotting mechs to the floor one after another after another.

My arguement is still that over the years the weapons have become more powerful while armor values remain stagnant. This isn't a game we are playing against an AI where it doesn't care if it gets smoked constantly, just my opinion that you could raise armor values across the board on all mechs due to the fact weapons have become OP and this isn't a board game it's a real time shooter. The overwhelming problem with it is just the range it's got. It is exactly what the cauldron wants and what regular players despise. An 850 meter optimal with 2000 meter max is pretty absurd and just allows this mech to sit in the back and pick people off like crazy.

Negative points aside, didn't bother me much facing them. Def got my *** handed to me but took some over confident bullsharks out as well.

In real war you can be killed from 2000km or even more , so this is still far from reality. A good sniper rifle can kill from 3 km . MWO is a very easy game where you can be hit multiple times before you are finally dead.

Edited by SATAN 666, 21 August 2025 - 11:13 PM.

[SATAN 666]

DoucheNugg3t, on 21 August 2025 - 05:51 PM, said:

lets put the range at 460, maybe 495 skilled, attacks your heat, cool down seems good and let the IS Shaaakk have some missile hard points so you can play like a 95 ton assault mech not some hill hugger playing pokie-mech in a 95 tonner, I will support that on the battlefield and with my wallet

Then it is even worse than Heavy PPC, why would someone need it? Let the people choose their tactics how to play.

Edited by SATAN 666, 21 August 2025 - 11:13 PM.

[SATAN 666]

Kray76, on 21 August 2025 - 08:21 AM, said:

Sorry, but the whole thing sounds like ********.
It means more sniper idiots camping around in every game. They do nothing else the whole time but sit somewhere and camp for a kill.
Also, it puts out a huge amount of damage with one shot. That means you only have a very short face time, so you can just hide and wait until it’s reloading.
I think this is one more reason not to play anymore.

Lets replace all weapons with pebbles that deal 0.1 dmg so that we have enough time to live and shoot at each other.

Edited by SATAN 666, 22 August 2025 - 12:13 AM.

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I just logged in to say that 4 responses above me are so cringe I want to gouge my eyes out.

[SATAN 666]

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[Kray76]

SATAN 666, on 21 August 2025 - 11:07 PM, said:

Lets replace all weapons with pebbles that deal 0.1 dmg so that we have enough time to live and shoot at each other.

It’s not about that. It’s about the stupid camper. I could buy this mech and camp as well, but that’s boring for me. Nowadays I’m already forced to either camp or take a mech with which I can hunt the camper. But neither option is what I like. So I don’t play if it’s all about campers. And they have now a weapon more, for even more camping.

[SATAN 666]

people are also camping with ERlasers or LRMs , the others choose to nascar. This game is f2p - if you like it , you can buy some mechs to keep the game alive.

[Glymbol]

Seriously you are comparing 40 pinpoint damage with 1000m range and gauss projectile speed to LRMs? Also added +12 +12 damage, so shielding with an arm won't help to protect damaged side torso.

Half a team is hiding in cover already, usually in a low ground hole, entire match like that. This weapon will only make it worse.

Edit:
I've got cockpit destroyed with railgun today, congrats for the shooter. I guess I'd better get used to this.

Edited by Glymbol, 24 August 2025 - 05:06 AM.

[Kasumi99]

Not a fan of non-canon weapons making an appearance.

It's bad enough that double heatsinks are 1.4 heatsinks, rather than being what the name suggests, but bringing in a weapon created by Microsoft, of all companies, really does go beyond the pale.

It is therefore particularly unfortunate that PGI brought in a non-canon weapon with a OTT weapon profile without first seeking the opinions of the players, and have taken RW money for it.
If it had been brought in without that latter aspect, the problem could be rectified by simply removing it from the game.
But they have, in effect, taken RW money for it, which makes removing it impossible without some serious problems, and even balancing it to address the valid concerns of players will now be difficult without drawing criticism from those who shelled out money for it.
Either way, MWO is going to lose regular players over this.

If PGI wanted to bring new weapons into the game, there were much better options they should have considered: Mech Mortars, Streak LRM, ELRM, Arrow IV, Thumpers, Inferno SRM... the latter 3 of which are 3025-tech, and all of them are canon

Edited by Kasumi99, 25 August 2025 - 12:24 AM.

[Ronbo]

My take, is its the closest to Long Tom we are going to get........

[DEFENSE TURRET]

Some of the things PGI did to "balance" the Railgun was add an Insane amount of heat that gets generated when the RG is fired.... AND you cant get cored past orange without the RG detonating and killing your mech. Overall, keep the Railgun
Also, I don't really care if MWO is 100% lore-accurate, but I do care if MWO spirals into a mess of non-cannon mechs and p2w legends.

Although I do own the WarGoul and VoidKiller, So I guess I don't really have a say in this thread about the balance of the RG.

[Ttly]

DEFENSE TURRET, on 20 September 2025 - 06:26 AM, said:

Some of the things PGI did to "balance" the Railgun was add an Insane amount of heat that gets generated when the RG is fired.... AND you cant get cored past orange without the RG detonating and killing your mech. Overall, keep the Railgun Also, I don't really care if MWO is 100% lore-accurate, but I do care if MWO spirals into a mess of non-cannon mechs and p2w legends. Although I do own the WarGoul and VoidKiller, So I guess I don't really have a say in this thread about the balance of the RG.

The heat only really slightly slows its effective fire rate (if you don't want to overheat) slightly below the listed cooldown. Otherwise it's not that detrimental.

SATAN 666, on 21 August 2025 - 10:46 PM, said:

Dude....it looked like a headshot to me. You should buy this mech and try yourself how "powerful" it is

Doesn't change how it's an pinpoint 80 damage alpha when the previous record for pinpoint was 45-50ish with 2HGR/3HPPC.
Had it hit the CT/ST instead you wouldn't be able to do much for the rest of the match anyway, all without need for much exposure from the Railshark's part.