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[Titan Osis]

This game is fantastic and 90% of forum topics are whining about balancing problems that aren't really problems or repeating things that have already been commented on by the devs and have a plan of action in place to resolve as quickly as they can.

I see a ton of complaints about ECM however I don't have that much of a problem with it. Sure it makes you undetectable up to a certain range, doesn't allow missile lock, so adapt. If you're running solo, don't take a dedicated LRM boat because you don't know if your team will have a tag or enough ECM to counter theirs. Learn to shoot balistics and manage your heat. Learn the different projectile speeds and lead your targets.

Heres a tip, if a mech overheats, instead of continuing to move, hit full stop and alpha strike it in the face or back.

CYCLE FIRE YOUR WEAPONS HOLY @#$%, I see soooo many people just alpha striking over and over and its disgusting to watch because you overheat in 3-4 volleys. Don't use group fire unless you have a clear shot at someone, you'll just overheat.

As far as game development, weapon balancing, and matchmaking goes here's what I think. Netcode is obviously being worked on as the devs had said time and time again, they have a dedicated team specifically for this and its not something you just crank out in a week.

Weapon balance seems fine to me at this point. There are quite a few builds that are quite wicked to run into if you get caught all by yourself (6xSRM6 cats and 2xAC20 cats come to mind, I get wrecked even in my atlast by those). Over all though I think they have balanced the weapons close to what table top rules are. I'd like to see a little buff to LBX AC's but I think streaks are fine and I play lights a lot.

Matchmaking right now is pretty lopsided I do agree and 4 man groups do tend to just dominate games. I guarantee the first time they implement a new version of matchmaking with an MMR (match maker rating) or ELO there will be que times and people will just start complaining about that. I played a lot of Hero's of Newearth and the community bitched about the same things.

In conclusion, shut up, the game developers are busting their ***** on this game and do in fact (contrary to popular belief) give a flying #$%@ what the reasonable people thing and what they want the game to be. As they say, "Rome wasn't built in a day" the same applies here. The game will get better over time and there will always be whining from noobs. Developing something like this is going to take time and honestly I think the time frame they set for themselves was unrealistic and they bit of a bit more than they can chew.

I also feel like they might be slightly more on schedule than they lead on to be. They might have a bunch of the clan mechs/tech developed/being worked on already and they just aren't telling us because if they give us a expected time line people will just start their whining again if they aren't able to meet it.

So, stop your bitching and let them handle it, if you don't like the game, you don't need to spend money on it! I however love it and will continue spending money on it to get what I want out of it.

[Cole Allard]

Long text...dont worry, you'll change your mind in 4 weeks maximum

I agree with you, a lot of people need to learn how to critic before posting, but...this is a free accessible forum for a F2P game. What do you expect?

[Felix]

I loved the game before they started to mess it up, and I have spent a good deal of money on it already as you can see from my forum tag, so I will keep whining if I want to k thx. We are supposed to give them feedback on the game, not be a bunch of idiotic yes men.

Also I would appreciate it if you would stop whining about whiners.

[Inertiaman]

If you're going to start a paragraph with "in conclusion", make it the last one and conclude something in it.

[QuantumButler]

>This game is fantastic

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Edited by QuantumButler, 21 January 2013 - 03:18 AM.

[GODzillaGSPB]

QuantumButler, on 21 January 2013 - 03:18 AM, said:

>This game is fantastic

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hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahaahahahahahahhaahahah

Careful, your sanity fell out.

[Vassago Rain]

Dear livejournal...

[John Norad]

Your standards must be very low if you call a game with that many technical problems and missing features 'fantastic'.

Can MWO be fantastic? Definitely yes.
Is MWO currently fantastic? Hell no.

Take off your pink glasses and learn to differentiate. The forum is meant for feedback. If some of the feedback is negative, then that's that. If the devs would prefer to only read praise and no criticism, they should say so.
And we don't really have to talk about the fact that some of the negative topics are exaggerated or just horrible and some of the positive topics are fanboy'ish, blind and outright non objective.
Q.e.d.

[bob1234567890]

please blow PGI harder... I am sure they like it when delusional people post delusional topics

[JSparrowist]

PrestonCDawg, on 21 January 2013 - 02:58 AM, said:

This game is fantastic

I stopped reading right there. There are enough white knights on PGI's behalf already.

Can it, OP, you're opinion was invalidated in your first sentence.

[Thirdstar]

I agree, the OP should stop whining.

[Lightfoot]

I am a Beta Tester. I agreed to whine to the Devs about bugs and imbalances that I found as part of my continued access to the Beta. I agreed that the proper place for this would be the forums.

Look, the Devs want your views and feedback, just be polite about it.

[PurpleNinja]

PrestonCDawg, on 21 January 2013 - 02:58 AM, said:

This game is fantastic and 90% of forum topics are whining about balancing problems that aren't really problems or repeating things that have already been commented on by the devs and have a plan of action in place to resolve as quickly as they can.

What do you expect?
Maybe we should discuss the psychological side effects of long exposure to low frame rates and yellow filters.

[Max Immelmann]

good luck with that OP

[Ilwrath]

bob1234567890, on 21 January 2013 - 04:11 AM, said:

please blow PGI harder... I am sure they like it when delusional people post delusional topics

They sure do. That is why they are hanging out on the shitsite reddit. Reddit means blow *** in some foreign language.

But they do post here too, not so much these days because they have lots and lots and LOTS of work to do.

Edited by Ilwrath, 21 January 2013 - 04:53 AM.

[MustrumRidcully]

No. The beatings will continue until morale improves.

[Arafinar]

In conclusion, I dont think you are working Dev shaft enough
in a whining post about people whining......its beta ffs and with
that is a God ( or whatever you want to envision) given right to
B**ch as youve proven.

Edited by Arafinar, 21 January 2013 - 05:13 AM.

[Raidyr]

I like how every single morning we get one of these threads.

Can't you guys just bump yesterdays? Or the one from the day before? I know life is hard when your emotional state is tied to the criticism your favorite video game developer gets (during a beta test, no less) but surely there are better outlets?

[Omigir]

John Norad, on 21 January 2013 - 03:28 AM, said:

The forum is meant for feedback.

The Suggestions and Feedback section of the forum are for feed back. Not the general discussion.

[Inertiaman]

That's fine, we're discussing how crap the game is.