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[Caboose30]

All I have to say is this is exactly what I wanted. Simple answers, even one word, are better than no answers at all. Thank you so much for posting this! I'll start referring to this when I hear people asking or complaining about stuff that's addressed here.

[Homeless Bill]

Vernius Ix, on 22 January 2013 - 07:22 PM, said:

No Garth, I do not know that "these guys are working hard." Nothing ever seems to change. The **** that was broken in closed beta is broken now. NOTHING SEEMS TO CHANGE!

Seriously, dude, could you be a bigger ****? They voluntarily put a damn good effort into answering our questions, they're working like crazy re-writing a bunch of their systems, they're a small, inexperienced developer, and you clearly have no idea what game development is like. Maybe you should take a break and see what things look like in a few months.

[miscreant]

Homeless Bill, on 22 January 2013 - 07:53 PM, said:

Seriously, dude, could you be a bigger ****? They voluntarily put a damn good effort into answering our questions, they're working like crazy re-writing a bunch of their systems, they're a small, inexperienced developer, and you clearly have no idea what game development is like. Maybe you should take a break and see what things look like in a few months.

Although that advice was for somebody else, i will take that advice and take a few months off.

In 3 months they should have enough time to release 1 more map...which I'm sure is all we will have.

Edited by miscreant, 22 January 2013 - 08:12 PM.

[Zaptruder]

Thanks for the Q&A answers. Thorough, and much appreciated.

Game is exceedingly fun when working as intended.

[Haitchpeasauce]

This is excellent. Thanks for the updates and for clarifying many questions.

[BR0WN_H0RN3T]

Thankyou Bryan,

Overall I'm very happy with the quality of response. Now, you've got my attention again. Credit card usage is pending.

[eRudenas]

Is there a plan to have an Asian or Austraian server? Right now we people in Asia and Australia have a native ping of 250 m/s which is pretty much hurting us ingame specially during heated games and has a huge effect on the outcome of games whether in assault or conquest mode. What I have observed is that a team with players having low pings almost always wins against a team with relatively high pings.

[Agent of Change]

Holy crap,

wow, Thank you.

That is more concentrated dev feed back in one place than i've seen in a while. I greatly appreciate teh time and effort put forth in giving us a glimpse at the plans and your thinking.

[Delas Ting Usee]

White Bear 84, on 22 January 2013 - 02:40 PM, said:

Would love Asian servers... ...ping from all the way down under is pretty bad Actually quite excited about the answers to the camo questions.. ..really want to splash my mechs with paint!!!

Asian Servers please!
Wondering if PGI plans to market heavily in like China, South Korea, Singapore, etc - HUGE player base.

[Delas Ting Usee]

headbasher, on 22 January 2013 - 07:21 PM, said:

are you really that concerned about your stats?

It affects player behavior.

Also, as I had forgotten to in my last post in this thread - to the CR team - a BIG thanks!

[Gargoth]

Thank you for your time to make this Q/A thread, it was nice reading.

And also, good bugsplat

[Gorasus]

Bryan Ekman, on 22 January 2013 - 01:09 PM, said:

I generally don’t take it to heart any more, especially when comments come from someone who has 100s or 1000s of posts. It’s the guy who has 1 post that I’m worried about. It took something significantly good or bad for them to come and make a post, and we tend to listen to them more carefully.

This is my first post, and it's my first post because till now, I haven't seen any words or actions from PGI that would seem to imply that you actually cared about what the player base has to say.

This latest 'Ask The Devs' post has gone a long way to convince me otherwise. You're at least listening. Now prove it with actions.
In my opinion, the most pressing things in the game which need attention are the following:

Netcode.
There are a lot of not-great players in the game and players who are also new. When starting any new game, you have to figure out how to aim, and with the hit registration being so off, it's hard to learn how to land hits, let alone become consistant. Almost every match I've played in the past month has been weighted towards light mechs lagshielding. These two things greatly hinder new players trying to start out, and and make me extremely frustrated (I would consider myself above average for aiming skill, with obvious bias accounted for).

ECM
When coupled with light mechs and netcode, ECM forms a triad of misery. With lights warping around and rubber banding through objects occasionally, it's difficult to tell where a light actually is. Since you can't tell where they actually are it is difficult to aim. Even when you visually see your lasers impacting you can't trust your peepers, so you have to have a target lock to be able to determine if you are actually hitting. ECM prevents this, further complicating things.
A suggested interim change would be to mimic MW4. MW4 ECM was powerful, but not dominating as it is in MWO.
MWO maps(small) and play style(no respawn) are such that everyone must get into a tight group, or you lose. Every mechanic in the game is favourable towards a solidified group moving as one. As such, the interpretation of guardian ECM providing coverage out to 180m is not accurate in it's effect upon the new, different game that is MWO. Any final fix should include a smaller range, and not as complete of an effect. Also one other quick point: the TAG laser is just light, there should be no reason for TAG not workign under 180m, unless you intend to also make small, medium, and large lasers also not work against ECM under 180m. It's all just light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation.

Knockdowns
I haven't had the chance to play with this, but it would be glorious. There is nothing more frustrating than lining up an AC-20 on my hunchy-4g and smacking a commando in the face (with visual and ragdoll hit confirmed), only to see them zip on past at 120kph. The kinetic force of the AC-20 round, coupled with the convergence speed of the commando should send that little ****** into a world of hurt, creating a damaging effect much greater than the AC-20 round would be capable of by itself. Think Civil War muskets...if you got hit in the arm by a musketball, your arm would get ripped off at the shoulder...if you were lucky.
Also, lasers should be able to knock down mechs. Mechs stay upright because of thier gyroscope. Gyroscopes can be overloaded by any number of means, whether it's a kinetic impact, or a sudden and rapid loss of mass caused by laser damage. A simple way to implement this would be if any certain part of a mech registered a certain percentage of damage in a set timeframe, your gyroscope has a chance of overload.

There are a lot of other things that I would like to see happen, but at this point I'm going on longer than I think I'm warranted.

The first two points, netcode and ecm changes are absolutely neccessary, and knockdown comes a close third.

[Lonestar1771]

The thing I don't understand is how he literally didn't say ANYTHING we didn't already know and yet people are like "Thanks PGI for the update!" "You guys are the greatest and I appreciate everything" "I'm gonna name my first born after you guys".

People act like he took time out of his busy schedule to throw us a bone. This is his JOB. He is paid to inform us about the game and to drive up interest, and yet it's like pulling teeth to get anything out of PGI.

The community is and has been upset and you are STILL ******** where you eat, but it's all good because you took some time out of your normal work day to do your job and sprinkled some copy and paste smoke and mirrors PR drivel (which was late) in here and assume it's all good.

I know things get delayed and not everything is as easy as it sounds, but when you consistently fail to follow through on things that you as a company have stated will be done, you can't blame the community because we are out spoken and not afraid to call as they see it.

I don't care what happens behind closed doors or what "actually" happens in the office. Perception is everything, and PGI and IGP have consistently let the community down and in some cases blamed us for their failings (beta fatigue my ***).

Call it trolling, whining, entitlement, or whatever else the "cool" kids call it these days, I don't really care.

TL;DR: It's not us, PGI, it's you.

Edited by Lonestar1771, 22 January 2013 - 09:12 PM.

[mekabuser]

Remember Garth et al, the rainbow of emotions you see indicate passion and an OVERWHELMING desire for the game to succeed BEYOND expectations. ..
iow, i enjoy the game, yet in MY mind, its 20% complete.. I think, and hope you guys view present development at about the same rate.
What that means, is this game can truly become a classic.
Appreciated the flood of answers, only collisions made me wince, but if netcode improves, thats enough.. Let the pseudo light pilots enjoy a few more months.

Remember, every thing you see here is FAR FAR better than crickets on your forums.<which are very nice btw>

[Adridos]

Delas Ting Usee, on 22 January 2013 - 08:47 PM, said:

Asian Servers please!
Wondering if PGI plans to market heavily in like China, South Korea, Singapore, etc - HUGE player base.

I thought Asians were mostly into Jpanese mecha.

[twibs]

Adridos, on 22 January 2013 - 09:14 PM, said:

I thought Asians were mostly into Jpanese mecha.

I thought Asians were mostly into Video games in general.

[Boaz Roshak]

All thought I do not like some of the answers they were valid and legitimate answers thank you. I would have much better liked an answer of “ECM is something we are aware is an issue” instead I am left feeling like for the most part you like how it is and do not see how broken it is for effect and being out of place in the time line what you gave us is much more akin to the Angel.

Edited by Boaz Roshak, 22 January 2013 - 09:22 PM.

[Grey Black]

Yay! I may have something to rage about! I was starting to feel left out PGI!

Stat wipes: Mech XP too or just KDR, WL, assists, etc.? Cause grinding my Cataphracts was a *****, and doing it again would be... unpleasant.

[Deathz Jester]

How do I even ask a question, to have answered on the Ask the Devs? lol

[Mechwarrior Buddah]

Shumabot, on 22 January 2013 - 01:54 PM, said:

How are you more excited than before when the majority of the answers are copy pasted "sometime later this year" answers from the last time they did this..?

what were you expecting lol
dates? a Timeline that they would then have to follow up on? That doesnt work well around here

Bryan Ekman, on 22 January 2013 - 01:09 PM, said:

I generally don’t take it to heart any more, especially when comments come from someone who has 100s or 1000s of posts.

nice to know we're being listened to huh?

Homeless Bill, on 22 January 2013 - 07:53 PM, said:

Seriously, dude, could you be a bigger ****? They voluntarily put a damn good effort into answering our questions, they're working like crazy re-writing a bunch of their systems, they're a small, inexperienced developer, and you clearly have no idea what game development is like. Maybe you should take a break and see what things look like in a few months.

clearly, two wrongs make a right here.

Gorasus, on 22 January 2013 - 09:05 PM, said:

Knockdowns
I haven't had the chance to play with this, but it would be glorious.

here is that "glory"
http://youtu.be/4K2QF70H2hc

Edited by Mechwarrior Buddah, 22 January 2013 - 09:53 PM.