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I hate its rate of fire.

L2P scrub.

Dual LBX?

If you want a brawler just throw an AC20 on there already.

2 er large
1 ac 20
3 streak
is my ddc of choice. Good at any range, and the streaks will keep you alive long enough against the little guys to line up a ac shot.

80 matches to go!

Then it'll be kitting out the D-DC, purchasing DHS for those that need it, and maybe saving for a few XLs before saving for my next Atlas (probably a K? still not entirely decided on that)

I wouldn't use xl on your ddc imo. Just start saving for your next atlas.

The XL isn't for my D-DC, I know that'd be silly.

But my locusts could do with XL195s, my spiders could probably do with some, as could some of my Catapults (though that'll be what the 300 in the K will be for!)

Some Locusts and Catas need DHS too.

 Deathshead420 wrote:

If you want a brawler just throw an AC20 on there already.

2 er large
1 ac 20
3 streak
is my ddc of choice. Good at any range, and the streaks will keep you alive long enough against the little guys to line up a ac shot.

I really dislike (er) large lasers for brawling, LPL's however.. Then again, I also don't like streaks, having to get a lock is too big a negative for me, requires me to be facing things too much.

Honestly, if you can aim at all and have some basic trigger discipline, SRM4s to 6s are better every time, I think.

I run dual 4packs on my Raven 3L, firing alternately with the 3 ML. Average @150 damage per match.

So patch in progress.
Mostly just 4x3 and private matches being implemented.

Just wanna grind to my atlas! xD

Hi all, so I just redownloaded this game, its been like 6 months. lookin for folks to play with, any of yall still play regularly?

Also, is the CBill earnings still crap?

See ya out there

The game is like it should have been on day one! We can finally play private matches! Wippeee!

*Day one is litrally day one. This means that clan warfare is not considered a day one feature\

C-bills will always be slow to earn. If you didn't have enough money, that means your life is clearly taking up too much of your time.

 Lagfest wrote:
Hi all, so I just redownloaded this game, its been like 6 months. lookin for folks to play with, any of yall still play regularly?

Also, is the CBill earnings still crap?

See ya out there

I'm not especially good, and I average roughly 80,000c-bills a match.

That's around 150 matches to get an Atlas from 0 C-Bills. (Around 25-30 hours)
A Locust (cheapest) about 20 from 0 C-Bills. (Roughly 3-4 hours)

So it could be worse.
Can potentially bash out an Atlas in a weekend if you don't do much else.


I play semi regularly (though possibly not in the same timeframe as you), but feel free to add me in game (Ovion).

Just coming back after a hiatus...ran with the 71st Nostradamus for a couple months back at the end of '13-'14.

Piotr Grey is my pilot name, so feel free to add me, currently working on my Battlemasters.

Sent

I forgot how to mech :(

I hang out on the NGNG, MercStar and clan wolf teasmpeak most of the time.

Also, I'd suggest registering on mwolobby.com It's a way to find people for private matches and kind of doubles as a general chat.

Too bad this game is doomed to failure. I just read through the updated matchmaking system, which IF you want a private match where you can pick the weight classes and map and size, purchase premium time. End of the fething line there for me. This game is a flaming wreck now.

WOW Calm down.

My clan had a great time with the private launcher. You don't need to purchase premium time to use it, you just need 2 out of 12 people to have it.

 VermGho5t wrote:
Too bad this game is doomed to failure. I just read through the updated matchmaking system, which IF you want a private match where you can pick the weight classes and map and size, purchase premium time. End of the fething line there for me. This game is a flaming wreck now.

Lolwut. That's not for matchmaking it's for private lobbies.

The reason why launching without full teams has been made a premium function is because it puts extra load on the servers, devs have talked about this before.

VermGho5t wrote:Too bad this game is doomed to failure. I just read through the updated matchmaking system, which IF you want a private match where you can pick the weight classes and map and size, purchase premium time. End of the fething line there for me. This game is a flaming wreck now.

Yeah. It's a pretty reasonable request to be perfectly honest (especially if you actually read the thing, instead of frothing at the mouth).

For private matches that straight 12vs12, that are basically the same as public (random map, 4x3) except you have a choice in all 24 players.

For private matches that are 12vs12, but you want to set:
The Map, Tonnage Limits, Match Time, 3PV on/off.
Then ONE person (the group leader of group 1) needs Premium Time active.
1 in 24.

Additionaly, For private matches that are 2-23 people, then the Group Leaders of both Group 1 and Group 2 must have Premium Time.
So that's 2 in 2-24 for that option to be available.

Of all the things you could complain about with the game, this is what you chose.

There's a number of other things, but gentlemen, keep drinking the cool-aid.

I really would have thought that the 'only 50 Gold Timberwolf packages left!' announcement would have evoked more ire. I am far more upset by the idea that there are that many people willing to pay 500 bucks for a skin for a game than I am for custom matches being a pay-to-customize thing.

Thank the Goddess thy can't really pay to win! I'd be totally outclassed.

 VermGho5t wrote:
There's a number of other things, but gentlemen, keep drinking the cool-aid.

We're not saying there aren't flaws, but this is hardly anything big, anything unexpected, or anything unreasonable.

Requiring 1-2 people out of 24 have Premium Time isn't really that harsh, and has a reasonable argument for WHY it's that way. (They're apparently going to switch to 'private match tokens' later instead of premium time).

The game is however improving, even with its flaws (slower than it should, but at least it is).

Yes UI2.0 is clunky and irritating, yes we need Community Warfare, and a slew of other things promised, but the core game is at least fun and solid.

That said, judging by your comments, you obviously haven't read things through, made rational decisions or even attempted to rationalise your standpoint, prefering to make snide remarks.

I think its shenanigans too.
Thats why I wont give them money...
However I still enjoy playing and that part is still free.

You can keep your hater-aid, im not thirsty.

One thing most of the haters don't seem to get is how small the dev team behind this game actually is.

but the core game is at least fun and solid

I agree, dare I say I'm even getting used to UI 2.blo.

It's a free 2 play game, of course there's going to be those 'give us 50 bucks for this game-changing aspect' deals now and again. It's insane that anyone would pay 500 dollars for digital product...then again, anyone who's played an MMO for any length of time can speak to that, myself included.

But I think where the problem's arise is when you shell out the money for the game, like most people do for MWO (mechbays, hero mechs, camo types, paint, and other MC related gear), you don't get any true updates to the game aside from aesthetics. This might be fine for most, but the problem with MWO lies with the dev's, not their marketing group.

They justified an almost 2 year beta with 'we're trying to make it better!' cries and then 'launched' the thing without it even having key pieces they said it would have. UI 2.0 was suppose to be launched with the game, as was private matches, as was skirmish mode. They're there now, so that complaint is moot I suppose, but I find it curious that a strictly MP based game launched with ZERO community support aside from forums (which are a given in most cases), blatant coding errors and glitches, and the fix times for some of these things have been atrocious.


All that said, I love this game. Truly and utterly, I'm a fan. I have to take breaks from time to time given the silliness that crops up every now and then, but all in all, I really like the current setup. Of course I think they should have spent the time creating a 50-60 doillar Mechwarrior game with a campaign and MP support and then released xpac's, but eh...beggars can't be choosers I suppose.

So...anyone down for getting some 4 man's going?

Meh, they aren't getting another dime from me until Clans are properly implemented along with factional warfare. Doing the same missions over and over for no reason is boring as hell.

New hero mech will probably be in tonights patch.

It's a quickdraw with a balistic slot in each arm, missile slot in each side torso and 2 energy in center torso. Ams on left torso and can use jump jets.

Probably the first hero mech I'll be buying right at release, quickdraws have become my favourite mechs lately so can't wait to have on with balistics.

The anti-PG sentiment in game is very interesting. Its not just on the forums and such by trolls as the few hardcore fanboys would like you to believe. Someone asked if anybody had bought any of the clan packs during the launch wait in several matches last night. Not a single person said yes. Overwhelmingly though, there was a sense of betrayal from players that did buy previous packages that PG has not fulfilled their promises to the players and until those promises were met, they would not get another dollar.

The biggest complaint by far was no faction warfare. This should have been released when the game went live. They have been promising this since before beta. In fact the beta version of the game is still the set up we have now, battle after battle of non-linked missions. Whoop-dee-doo. Instead they give us private matches, who the hell cares about private matches? Give us faction warfare. Stop everything else you are doing PG and give us faction warfare. Clans need to be secondary, new mechs need to be secondary, new GUIs need to be secondary, weapons tweaks, new maps, new game modes, anything else, calmly place it on the desk and go work on getting factional warfare as was promised years ago.