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[Kiljaro]

I remember when PGI added burn time to lasers so they weren't instant. I huge concern....ghost heat also...more realistic. You got that fixed, Then we went thru a long period of trying to balance missiles remember that? All that angst and strife. PGI balanced that. Then there was the obvious difference between Clan and IS, without Batchcall out of balance. PGI added mech quirks and xl engines. Balance restored. Now, you sell boats. Now instant killers with rail guns or ? frickan AC2's that you allow the boat. Sell it even. Give away a ton of BSK-3 for practically no effort. Yay. Thank you for that. These pilots want us to hold THEIR target, tank it for them. When asked, well you know what the answer is...and the audacity to ask for locks without a knife in the boot.

Ok, neat toys. PGI, you sell us all these mechs....yet we have the same damn maps. After decades. Frozen City you count as how many?

If we can't have an end game that works, please give us maps...every month....until there are 100.

Edited by Kiljaro, 22 October 2025 - 01:53 AM.

[Kiljaro]

I've played canyon alot. Over 3100 times. MORE maps. You may make more money.

[Ekson Valdez]

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[LordNothing]

agree on maps.

ac2 boats arent exactly ruining the game for anyone. they are just high sustain dps boats that can be defeated by using cover. though they do make effective brawlers in a pinch unlike almost all other range boats. bane is stupid powerful but its a glass cannon, shoot it.

Edited by LordNothing, 23 October 2025 - 04:35 PM.

[GreyNovember]

The Monkey's Paw curls.

Wish granted.

You now have more maps but nobody ever picks them, because demonstrably, people want HPG, Canyon, and Snow-Not-Canyon.

Sometimes Mining.

[LordNothing]

GreyNovember, on 23 October 2025 - 04:43 PM, said:

The Monkey's Paw curls.

Wish granted.

You now have more maps but nobody ever picks them, because demonstrably, people want HPG, Canyon, and Snow-Not-Canyon.

Sometimes Mining.

people want maps where they have memorized every last inch of it, every bit of cover, every ramp, every camper nest. kinda wish it was a new map every time, sort of like mw5 but better, then it becomes a test of tactics rather than how well you memorized the map.

[Sinistrum]

LordNothing, on 23 October 2025 - 04:34 PM, said:

agree on maps.

ac2 boats arent exactly ruining the game for anyone. they are just high sustain dps boats that can be defeated by using cover. though they do make effective brawlers in a pinch unlike almost all other range boats. bane is stupid powerful but its a glass cannon, shoot it.

It seems as though there was a time that the RAC boats were becoming kind of a thing, I don't see it as much except with the occasional bushwacker, did they nerf the RAC a bit?

If you don't mind getting up close and personal a CGR-1A1 with a targeting computer MkV and some zestiness from a light engine is a menace.
Unfortunately, now is not the time for that play style.

[LordNothing]

Sinistrum, on 24 October 2025 - 10:29 AM, said:

It seems as though there was a time that the RAC boats were becoming kind of a thing, I don't see it as much except with the occasional bushwacker, did they nerf the RAC a bit?

If you don't mind getting up close and personal a CGR-1A1 with a targeting computer MkV and some zestiness from a light engine is a menace.
Unfortunately, now is not the time for that play style.

racs give you bursts of more dps. but ac2s have sustain capability. there are a few meta-ish rac5 builds, as meta as a low alpha build can be anyway. i had a fun time with my apache. best ac2 boats are all 100 tonners so racs can also be used on smaller mechs. i suspect the ac2 boats will get better results as a lot of teams are going to be at stand off ranges, and you can trade those as long as your ammo holds out (it won't).

Edited by LordNothing, 24 October 2025 - 04:21 PM.

[kalashnikity]

Bane with 3xUAC5 + 3xUAC10 is so __________ that I made a thread about it a while back.


There is no IS mech that even comes close to that Bane build.

AFAIK

[Moadebe]

A little bit of wishful thinking about maps from me are randomly generated maps with a fog of war.

Id say allow us to choose mission type, biome, and our mechs at drop. Let every map be randomly generated with fog of war on the minimap/battlemap.

Would allow actual scouting and intel to be effective. Nobody would be able to know the strong points of a map. Communication would immediately be vastly more important. Would also raise a surprise factor and a sense of tension until the enemy was found.

It would IMMEDIATELY shake everything up.

Could we do it in MWO right now? Nope. Not even close. Could it ever happen in the future in a different title. Maybe. *shrug* anything is possible.

Just wishful thinking.

[LongStem]

You guys want more maps... we've all played the same maps 3000 times yet still to this day most matches default to rotation or setting up in tactically disadvantaged positions. I wish we would use comms and utilize more of the maps, there is some great terrain that never gets played.

On boating... I was annoyed by it too... the damage creep made some of my old favorite mechs feel useless...
Like always with the game, you gotta adapt and adjust to keep up with the jones's. Get a bane, get a gausszilla.. find an obscure heavy no one plays and load it with an ac20 and 3 snubs all about hard hitting builds now, either ranged, or heavy hitting to support yourself while the ranged assaults sit back.

[pattonesque]

LordNothing, on 23 October 2025 - 04:34 PM, said:

agree on maps.

ac2 boats arent exactly ruining the game for anyone. they are just high sustain dps boats that can be defeated by using cover.

sorry mechdads do not know how to use cover except to cower

[Moadebe]

pattonesque, on 27 October 2025 - 08:21 AM, said:

sorry mechdads do not know how to use cover except to cower

Its not an exclusive thing.....seen supposed "compies" do it too.

[pattonesque]

Moadebe, on 27 October 2025 - 11:39 AM, said:

Its not an exclusive thing.....seen supposed "compies" do it too.

I mean sure fine, the majority of the (aging) playerbase of this game would rather lose the game than actually engage the enemy on their own initiative

[Rondoe]

kalashnikity, on 26 October 2025 - 07:25 PM, said:

Bane with 3xUAC5 + 3xUAC10 is so __________ that I made a thread about it a while back.


There is no IS mech that even comes close to that Bane build.

AFAIK

Which Bane is that?