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Number19 can you please since my petition to add the Piranha into the game, tia.
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Almost miss the days when I was heavily considered for a volunteer mod on the forums. Then someone decided a goon mod was a bad idea. 
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It's nice to have you back as a presence in the thread again, it really does help to have a little window into the goings-on in Vancouver.
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I come and I go based on my workloads but I'm always reading or at least skimming. If something really needs to get to me there are goons who know how to get my attention.
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Dec 5, 2016 23:47
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They shine the 19 signal into the night skies?
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aniviron posted:They shine the 19 signal into the night skies? It involves sacrificing a virgin Urbanmech. It's not a pretty process.
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aniviron posted:They shine the 19 signal into the night skies? They tap on 19's shoulder at work and tell them a server cluster is on fire.
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Thronde posted:It involves sacrificing a virgin Urbanmech. It's not a pretty process. Plus they're so naive and trusting, we don't have many virgin urbies left. (Damned robosexuals) I have to admit, though, I'm actually kind-of looking forward to the escort mode, in the same way that after staring at a wall for years, looking at a totally different wall is actually kind-of interesting.
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And the ones that aren't naive and trusting...well...
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I'm not terribly convinced about Escort mode, if the VIP mech is a bot with a static path people are just going to find a good spot to setup along it that forces the enemy to walk into the firing line. If a random player is chosen to pilot it then I'm more hopeful it won't be terrible camping snipefest.
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Yeah I'm getting the bad feeling that escort mode is going to be the mode every single person or group running a sniper/lrm setup is going to vote for once it's in. The Polar Highlands of modes, if you will.
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Oh Snapple! posted:Yeah I'm getting the bad feeling that escort mode is going to be the mode every single person or group running a sniper/lrm setup is going to vote for once it's in. I mean this could possibly be eased by scouting ahead and harassing/flanking the firing line from the side, though who knows. My bigger concern is that it would be piss easy for some rear end in a top hat in a Shadowcat or Spider to just whittle the thing's legs away from a distance and be really hard to counter. Like against players they can take safer routes or cover, but the dumb AI mech won't bother and its only gonna take like 10 PPC shots max to tear a leg off, can your team stop one fast rear end in a top hat from firing 10 times over the course of a match? edit: christ, can you imagine running a locust wolfpack on offense? Nice mech you got there, how many 5-6 SPL alphas can it take to it's back that won't be twisting. Ash Rose fucked around with this message at 06:00 on Dec 6, 2016 |
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I've been picturing super-fast lights doing drive-by NARCing of the VIP myself. I'll be really interested to see how Escort works, but I'm expecting it to be bad. Really bad.
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Q_res posted:I've been picturing super-fast lights doing drive-by NARCing of the VIP myself. I'll be really interested to see how Escort works, but I'm expecting it to be bad. Really bad. I mean, this is one of the times ECM and AMS can really shine, since being an ECM bot and just staying close to the VIP will block any NARC on it. Of course, you'll have no idea which side you'll be on when you choose the mode and you will have already chosen your mech, so lol.
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Ash Rose posted:I mean, this is one of the times ECM and AMS can really shine, since being an ECM bot and just staying close to the VIP will block any NARC on it. You won't get rewarded for it either.
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Q_res posted:I've been picturing super-fast lights doing drive-by NARCing of the VIP myself. I'll be really interested to see how Escort works, but I'm expecting it to be bad. Really bad. People will be trying to defend their escorts with LRM boats from 1km away with no LOS and complaining that it doesn't hold locks on the entire enemy team for them. The mechs being "escorted" will die horribly every time.
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I'm very interested in the quick play game modes being brought into faction play with dropship reinforcements also possibly being a thing in those matches. A drop on quickplay maps where I get to play both locusts AND atlases in the same map!? Surprise Giraffe posted:is this doable with the mauler 2p? with the xl I mean (I tried standard and couldn't take it) http://mwo.smurfy-net.de/mechlab#i=328&l=143c3121acdf0b3789d126d57c054da01736278e I threw this together. Personally I have no idea how well it would run, and it is significantly less meaty than the boar's head and slower by 4kph. I think tmerc tried something like this at one point and iirc he did okay with it. -20% heat generated on lpls is pretty awesome though. Commoners fucked around with this message at 09:11 on Dec 6, 2016 |
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It was Grim Plexus, which was late summer I think?
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Oh Snapple! posted:Yeah I'm getting the bad feeling that escort mode is going to be the mode every single person or group running a sniper/lrm setup is going to vote for once it's in. I hope it's like the old Counter-Strike VIP mode where the VIP player gets to play as a waddling fat dude with a pistol So really, just
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The VIP is an AI controlled Atlas.
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I'm just looking forward to getting my 100mil or so i've blown on modules due to how much of a pain in the rear end it was to find them between builds. And on the subject of shameful amounts of xp. My Illest Murdermets topped 1 million xp, and my timbro is around 780k xp.
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Skoll posted:The VIP is an AI controlled Atlas. I wonder who in their right mind over there thought this was a good idea.
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Make the VIP a spider using the older net code, boom, problem solved.
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Number19 posted:I don't know all the specifics. I've been pretty disconnected from the dev side of the house in the lead up to Mech_Con. The thing is, if all mechs have uneven max values, then the new system is no different than the current. For example, if a grf-1s can have 30% max laser bonuses but a hbk-4j only get 10% max laser bonuses, you pretty much made the choice for them. That's really no different than what we have now, we're just putting our grind in the quirks instead of standard bonuses.
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Skoll posted:The VIP is an AI controlled Atlas. It should be that final end boss Cheat Atlas crammed with magical star league tech from Mech Assault 2, so when it looks at you it breathes a literal death ray. That should cut down on the rushes a bit.
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Commoners posted:I'm very interested in the quick play game modes being brought into faction play with dropship reinforcements also possibly being a thing in those matches. http://mwo.smurfy-net.de/mechlab#i=328&l=975d26f931ce4a57de04ef6b48cb30d190a5763d Really tempted to do this again. It felt so wrong selling it last time How the gently caress is VIP mode going to work? What's to stop the enemy making GBS threads 2 erppcs fuckers all over it to core it out in seconds? Surprise Giraffe fucked around with this message at 12:41 on Dec 6, 2016 |
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Artificer posted:I wonder who in their right mind over there thought this was a good idea. Russ' kid probably. DancingShade posted:It should be that final end boss Cheat Atlas crammed with magical star league tech from Mech Assault 2, so when it looks at you it breathes a literal death ray. That should cut down on the rushes a bit. That would actually be fun and challenging, and we can't have that.
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Surprise Giraffe posted:How the gently caress is VIP mode going to work? What's to stop the enemy making GBS threads 2 erppcs fuckers all over it to core it out in seconds? The map will consist mostly or entirely of a narrow canyon / tunnel / urban street, with non-climbable cliffs / walls / skyscrapers on either side and lots of narrow turns. I don't have any specific information, but this is how 99% of games implement escort missions and I don't expect PGI to rock the boat in that regard.
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Death Star trench retextured in "rock" with a bazillion NPC turrets.
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DancingShade posted:It should be that final end boss Cheat Atlas crammed with magical star league tech from Mech Assault 2, so when it looks at you it breathes a literal death ray. That should cut down on the rushes a bit. The one with FIVE MEMORY CORES?!
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DancingShade posted:It should be that final end boss Cheat Atlas crammed with magical star league tech from Mech Assault 2, so when it looks at you it breathes a literal death ray. That should cut down on the rushes a bit. It'll be a modified 7S, with a head energy hardpoint mapped to the cool eye. It will be nigh-unstoppable.
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Please tell me that for the sake of any new person playing this game that trial mechs will keep some of their quirks. If not then lol welcome back to the trial dragon level of starter mechs.
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Wait what? Are they removing quirks? Or is this like the game of telephone that caused me to ask this same question a while ago when it wasn't true?
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Is the Cyclops (currently) lovely? They apparently just made it available for C-bills (or will be in a few hours anyway). I've always liked how that goofy 'Mech looks and I don't already own any Assaults.
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BattleMaster posted:Wait what? Are they removing quirks? Quirks and modules are being replaced with a skill tree
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BattleMaster posted:Wait what? Are they removing quirks? They are removing quirks and modules, refunding you the cbills and xp and work them into a new skill tree that looks to be a horrible grind compared to the current skill tree. Also no more 3 mech rule which is good! Its going to be interesting and I think in the end better than what we have currently but in the beginning I have a feeling it will have a rough start.
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Oh, I thought that the tree was supposed to replace just modules and the current "trees" which aren't actually tree-like. Disappointing that they're going after quirks as well since I thought that was a fun way to differentiate 'mechs.
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Drone posted:Is the Cyclops (currently) lovely? They apparently just made it available for C-bills (or will be in a few hours anyway). I've always liked how that goofy 'Mech looks and I don't already own any Assaults. Other than the 4uac5 one which is real bucks, I have not been impressed. The Child Protective Services with all the uac5s in the world bearing down on someone is pretty fun. But don't give  money.
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Commoners which builds do you like on the Gargoyle, I'm going to buy one since I don't have to worry about buying 3 anymore.
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