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[Patrick Seto]

Crashes constantly. Entering matches you see players dc'ing, or get locked and wander off. Black screens of death (in a variety of frustrating flavors). Yellow huds of death. Fps bugs. Lagshield exploits. Locked up in mechlab.

Horrible unbalancing of ECM. ECM coded to be beyond what TT rules are. You know, canon. PGI blowing off customer concerns. PGI censoring topics they don't want to talk about (not just talking about civility and respect for other posters). Really not the way to foster community.

I love Battletech, have played a ridiculous amount of Btech themed computer games over they years. And when MWOMercs came out I was ecstatic. And I know it's dubbed "Open Beta" but PGI is taking money, and as players we deserve more stability and playability than this.

I'll come back if/when the game is better balanced and stable.

Have fun with the pew pew.

[MadcatX]

So...

Can I have your stuff?

[yashmack]

wait til the 18th and try again
they just posted an update in the command chair that they have completed testing on fixes for performance including the crash to desktop, UI overlay bugs, and low FPS
might not eliminate them completely but it says there should be improvement

http://mwomercs.com/...ost__p__1587423

[Cerlin]

Why dont people just take a couple weeks off? this game changes so fast. I did that, came back and I like what I see.

[Broceratops]

Just take some time off. I took a few months off during closed beta and I was pleasantly surprised when I came back. If you play this every day it does get boring right now unless you really like the IP.

[xRaeder]

MadcatX, on 11 December 2012 - 07:49 PM, said:

So...

Can I have your stuff?

If only this game had any semblance of a social mechanic then maybe.

[Webber]

Disconnect yourself from comparing tabletop rules with this game. This is a game that is converting mechanics from a turn-based 2D game into a first person 3D game in real time. Some things MUST change.

[Patrick Seto]

yashmack, on 11 December 2012 - 07:52 PM, said:

wait til the 18th and try again
they just posted an update in the command chair that they have completed testing on fixes for performance including the crash to desktop, UI overlay bugs, and low FPS
might not eliminate them completely but it says there should be improvement

http://mwomercs.com/...ost__p__1587423

Thanks for the info! That would at least alleviate some of the pain. Some of the issues would still exist (such as ECM being way more powerful than canon, that PGI is trying to stick to, and rendering LRM/SSRM obsolete) but playing every game with some combination of players from both sides dropping or otherwise being rendered useless due to bugs is getting really old. I'm not actually raging but how they've treated hot topic on the forums has trended me disillusioned and not very motivated to post or read forums. The gameplay (instability of the game and balance) has rendered me unenthusiastic to spend my time playing. I love the IP, have more BT books than I care to admit, and there really are a great number of aspects that make mwomercs great - stellar graphics, controls, tech support (at least in my experience), the IP of course...

I suppose I'll try dipping my toes in the mwomercs pool again in a month or two and see if things have changed for the better. Sorry Madcat I can't give you my stuff!

[Dakkath]

Closing because this is basically a non-constructive discussion / rant thread.

Edited by Dakkath, 12 December 2012 - 12:30 PM.