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[Lozruet Gravemind]

This is my first post so please bear with me.

Ive been playing less than 24 hours and already have had huge problems with people AFKing, leaving the match to be a 7, 6, or even a 5 on 8. One thing that I think makes this rediculous and why people abuse it is because you get Cbills even for LOSING. Now yes the prices on Mechs and weapons purchased with Cbills is incredibly high but this is still a Beta and I hope by the time this goes live things will change.

Personally I think that the whole Cbills for losing should be removed and the Cbills for winning should be reduced. Of course if this was done they would have to adjust the entire games cost (Mechs, weapsons, and Modules). But rewarding people for just clicking launch and then going to watch 15 minutes of TV is really stupid.

Ive been an avid BT/MW fan for at least the last decade and a half and have to say that while I want a new MW game badly this one falls into the CoD stupidity range when it comes to gaming the system.

Edited by Lozruet Gravemind, 06 December 2012 - 05:03 PM.

[Walk]

Welcome to the forums! If you know what's good for you, leave now. You will encounter so many whiners and lots of false information.

A lot of discussion has already happened on this topic, pretty sure one forum goer has a dedicated thread concerning new player experiences and this is one of the prime issues, sure he's gonna come in here and link you to it at some point.

Edited by Walk, 06 December 2012 - 05:05 PM.

[Hellspwan]

While it does not fully explain all the AFK's, I have had several crashes to desktop just after clicking launch. I have reloaded the game and found that my mech was in battle, so to you I was AFK.

Also, there are bugs such as the black screen, the yellow screen, and no hud that can also account for what look like AFK players, but they are either disconnects or just riding the match out.

Let's also not forget that nasty "real life" stuff that comes up from time to time... Kids/wife screaming, phone calls, dog puking on your bed, whatever.

[Tyene]

I like where you are going but remember if you lower the payout of losing/winning and the cost of mech proportionally, not much changes for the farmers.

[Child3k]

There needs to be a rejoin-function. Even independent-games like Guns of Icarus manage to have something like that ...

... but, since this falls into the netcode-network-programming-department, I say: Fix the netcode first and take it from there.

Edited by Child3k, 06 December 2012 - 05:36 PM.

[Baed]

I've been dropped from a few games myself and I have to say it's really frustrating. I don't really hold it against anyone when that happens. However when a mech forces itself to overheat and die, now that is annoying. I think the people doing that should get no C-bills and get stuck with the repair bill for the match.

[pjnt]

New player starts playing.

A few games in, notices a problem.

A problem people have been yelling at the dev for ages to fix.

Devs don't fix it.

New player stops playing.


Way to go PGI. 2 months and counting.

[Duncan Fisher]

Lozruet Gravemind, on 06 December 2012 - 05:02 PM, said:

This is my first post so please bear with me.

Ive been playing less than 24 hours and already have had huge problems with people AFKing, leaving the match to be a 7, 6, or even a 5 on 8. One thing that I think makes this rediculous and why people abuse it is because you get Cbills even for LOSING. Now yes the prices on Mechs and weapons purchased with Cbills is incredibly high but this is still a Beta and I hope by the time this goes live things will change.

Personally I think that the whole Cbills for losing should be removed and the Cbills for winning should be reduced. Of course if this was done they would have to adjust the entire games cost (Mechs, weapsons, and Modules). But rewarding people for just clicking launch and then going to watch 15 minutes of TV is really stupid.

Ive been an avid BT/MW fan for at least the last decade and a half and have to say that while I want a new MW game badly this one falls into the CoD stupidity range when it comes to gaming the system.

True. For now though, you might as well take advantage of it. There's 8 guys on the other team too, if you hop in a light and skirt the edge to the enemy base right at the start, you have a decent chance of catching a free kill for yourself