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[Joseph Mallan]

Kernfeuer, on 08 November 2012 - 09:36 AM, said:

Lrm skillZ? hmm dont get it
the only skill an lrm boat player need is to make sure they work as team and have an good spotter to get targets..thats all.In opposite an enemy brawler who wants to distract them gets fast blown by the Lsr hand of god,forget to mentioned that maybe some other mechs(lsr boats brawler and so on)protect them,and anyway even in a group ams protect ur not against an incomming swarm from more then 1 lsr boat..so what..run and cover huh? nice joke.

so i really hope they tweak that an bit then so if it is right now..they should rename it in Rocket warrior online

And your LRMs make it so I am shooting at them while you are closing with my allies or myself to do your job. We all have a place on the Battlefield, understand the rolls and appreciate that they are there to support you.

[MadMurphy]

UraniumOverdose, on 08 November 2012 - 08:42 AM, said:

Even though it's getting fixed, it's a real nice indicator of the caliber of player we deal with in MWO. No one chooses to abstain from LRM's until they are fixed. Everyone uses them knowing they are completely broken. With a community that actually had any merit, we wouldn't see any lrm boats in a game. Instead most of us have to sit out and wait until the game is fixed.

I hope PGI learns from this experience, when you release a patch that forces players to sit out your game until it's fixed.......

I'm in a clan of nearly 400 people and although a lot of people jumped on the lrm spam wagon ... a large number of us did not. I've played brawlers & hit and run mechs before the 6th patch, during and will after. I want to compete.Not play put the red circle in the yellow box to win without skill ,without shame, so my epeen feels good about itself. I think the majority of us want this.

The people in my clan who love their lrm boats all the time had mixed reactions on the patch as well. Some couldn't not talk in ts3 due to their grin interfering with their capacity for speech and others were as disgusted (eventually) as what I believe the majority of us are. I lost some respect for the people who jumped on the lrm spam wagon because "if you can't beat them join them".However,not all of us did.

Mechwarrior has typically been a thinking persons tactical shooter/simulation. Yesterday's patch unfortunately showed not everyone currently playing this game embraces that as fully as others do. Please do not throw all the community under the the same rock as these people.

[Tombstoner]

Taryys, on 08 November 2012 - 09:24 AM, said:

I think the entire point of this thread is that LRMs are broken.
Patchfix is coming today.

even with a "fix" LRM's with good spotting will kick your *** every time. all the fix will do is extend your life expectancy from 10 seconds to 30 seconds.

you need to use cover and speed to get into brawling range until then LRMS are going to eat you alive.

[Taryys]

What he said.

Joseph Mallan, on 08 November 2012 - 09:40 AM, said:

And your LRMs make it so I am shooting at them while you are closing with my allies or myself to do your job. We all have a place on the Battlefield, understand the rolls and appreciate that they are there to support you.

[Rokuzachi]

LRMs are broken right now, but that doesn't change that people don't know how to play the game.

Even after they're fixed, people will still continue to brawl in the open, get rained on, and then cry that LRMs are OP. The amount of people (pre and post broken LRMs) that choose to get in duels out in the largest open space on the map, when there are obviously LRM-toting mechs around, is kind of astonishing. Also astonishing, the team that lets a Centurion (correct, not a light) run into their midst, and takes 4 of their guys over a minute to drop him while they get ripped apart from LRMs.

Long story short; yes LRMs are broken right now. No, the fix won't save bad or new players from them and people will still cry about them.

I'm sure some people have had a rough time during the LRM bug, but I just haven't seen it. I've been playing my 4G, SP and my SRM6 A1 through it and have been able to do about as well as I normally do with a little extra caution.