17 replies to this topic

[Stayger]

Yeah MWO needs more Weapons for a more diverse play style at the moment there aren't many at all and due to that it makes this game more frustratring than fun all the time i see laz0r boats balistics sun-heat PPC's and streaks.... this game needs new weapons badly if this continues longer this game will lose ALOT of players in the future.But please PGI give a spare time to have ideas for new weapons and try to make weapons more useful can't have everyone with the same weapons all the time due to them being more powerful than most (ah yes i have seen incoming buffs to flamers and MG but this might be a very wrong mistake:Light mechs will spam Flamers nonstop at a heavy mech till it's unable to fire anything at all while the Light mech is pew pewing with it's small lasers and destroying it in pieces.... in short this favor's the light mechs by the looks of it:)



And sorry if you guys don't understand the example above my english sucks

[TheCaptainJZ]

The weapons are all canon. They aren't inventing anything. probably never will.
Edit:
Also, what other kinds of systems are there? You have laser, ballistic, missile, and in different sizes.

Edited by TheCaptainJZ, 11 December 2012 - 02:37 PM.

[Stayger]

Then that means this game is already dead in that case

[stjobe]

MWO is based on a 30+ year old board game called Battletech; there's a setting to take into consideration, and in that setting the weapons we have are the weapons there is. Until the Clans invade, that is.

So no, MWO doesn't need new weapons badly.

[Pancakeman]

I'd like to see addition weapons, not new one.

[Commander Gravey]

[One Medic Army]

There's plenty of variety:
SRMs
Streak SRMs
LRMs
Lasers
Ballistics in varying degrees of fast and slow fire
PPCs
LBX 10

Now look at most shooters:
Gun which shoots bullets
Gun which shoots lots of little bullets
Big heavy gun you can't reload
Special gun(s) which typically aren't used often or for long.

[Wolfways]

AFAIK there are different "versions" of weapons made by different companies, like the light autocannon, or heavy large laser...stuff like that. But they are all still variants of the current weapons.

Stayger, on 11 December 2012 - 02:35 PM, said:

in short this favor's the light mechs by the looks of it:)

Welcome to MWO.

[Stayger]

Yes there are weapons but you can't even use most of em.Gauss cannon LRM's worthless to use MG and somewhat an flamer which should be doing something?

[soarra]

Stayger, on 11 December 2012 - 02:37 PM, said:

Then that means this game is already dead in that case

sigh plz go back to cod or bf or whatever fps you came from then.
based off a table top game.. more weapons will be added as the timeline moves along

[Smeghead87]

I'd like to see them make all the current weapons viable before adding new ones. However I do feel there are certain gaps in the armoury. For example, machinegun takes up 1.5 tons if you account for ammo, and the next best thing is the AC2 which takes up 7 tons, again accounting for ammo.

I don't know if any amount of machine gun buffing can truly close this gap. And the machine gun does need some serious love.

[Jack Corvus]

The game will start to feel more diverse over time as more mechs with unique handling characteristics are added and the weapons are tuned. For example, the electrical disruption caused by PPCs is currently entirely missing (but coming, we are told). And we could use more levels for sure, but again, that's all coming down the pipe.

[TheCaptainJZ]

Stayger, on 11 December 2012 - 02:47 PM, said:

Yes there are weapons but you can't even use most of em.Gauss cannon LRM's worthless to use MG and somewhat an flamer which should be doing something?

So really, you aren't complaining about the number of weapons but on the usefulness of them. That is a balancing thing that will always be a work in progress. I'm sure guass and LRMs will become useful again in the future.

[Stayger]

I don't play COd nor BF at all they are not interesting and there are far too many games like them MWO is Mech MOFPS which is pretty cool.

Very well i'll wait and see just what MWO is going to become Moderators can close this thread now.

[soarra]

gauss and lrm's are fine. MG and flamer are pretty useless right now

[xxx WreckinBallRaj xxx]

This is what we've been trying to tell people. I think people are slowly starting to get it though.(Because threads like this are being made) What little diversity and differing roles we had before is now gone. Before this awful patch, they were few, but at least they existed. Now however, it's just pewpew online. It's Brawler Online. Medium Lasers and AC 20s. Large Lasers and AC 10s. No one's going to use an AC 2 anymore. No one's going to use a LRM anymore. Most people don't even use a Gauss anymore, because sniping is pointless and if you brawl with it there's a good chance it'll flat out kill you. ER weapons were already limited in value and rare but now with sniping as an obsolete role, you'll rarely see them in games either. No smart pilot is going to use any of these things except for however long it takes them to realize the weapons are trash. They're just going to stack the cookie cutter 270 or 450m weapons and that's it. I try to tell people, they dumbed down the game. They watered it down. It's just gotten easier, simplar, less dangerous, less exciting. Worst of all, it's gotten boring. When you completely gut roles and weapons in a game, you run it into the ground. This patch was so horrible and so damaging to this game that it honestly reminds me of Blizzard and all the horribly stupid design decisions they did with WoW for PvP balance every year. But go ahead and zerg to 300m and pewpew all day long, you fanboy brawlers. When that finally gets old, you'll come around.

Edited by Bluten, 11 December 2012 - 02:57 PM.

[stjobe]

Bluten, on 11 December 2012 - 02:54 PM, said:

It's Brawler Online. Medium Lasers and AC 20s. Large Lasers and AC 10s. No one's going to use an AC 2 anymore. No one's going to use a LRM anymore. Most people don't even use a Gauss anymore, because sniping is pointless and if you brawl with it there's a good chance it'll flat out kill you

So this last match on Caustic, me in my CN9-A and a Cat were sniping off the rim. I killed an Awesome with my UAC/5, the Cat killed a Phract with his Gauss. I shot my last UAC/5 rounds at a 3xPPC Awesome and then charged him with my 2xML, 2xSRM-6 and killed him.

Meanwhile, the rest of our PUG team were trading LRM fire with the rest of the enemy team, picking them off one by one.

In other words your hyperbole is just that, hyperbole. Take a break, you sound like you need it.

[Dakkath]

Closing at the request of the OP.