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We will be rolling out a hot-fix today, Thursday February 18th, scheduled for 4:00 PM PST [Midnight UTC], with the following fixes:

• Flamers will now remember the rate at which they were generating heat within the firing 'Mech, for a period of 4.75 seconds after a Flamer is disengaged. If a Flamer is engaged within that 4.75 second time frame, the rate at which the Flamer generates heat in the firing 'Mech will continue from where they left off. After that 4.75 second time frame (if no Flamer has been engaged) the heat generation value will decrease as usual, according to the cooling efficiency of the 'Mech.
• Note: The rate at which a Flamer generates heat in the firing 'Mech is a shared value, and applies to all equipped Flamers.
• This adjustment should address the issue where pilots could 'feather' or macro-ize Flamer trigger inputs to a point where they effectively became 'heat neutral'. A graph showing the approximate effect of this 'feathering', along with the effect of the above change, can be found here.
• Fixed an issue with DirectX auto-detection with certain GPUs.
• Fixed an issue where grouping of Weight Classes was not working correctly in Solo queue.
• Fixed an issue where the LCT-1V [P] was missing the Machine Gun Rate of Fire +20% Quirk.
• Fixed an issue where Energy Quirks for certain Inner Sphere variants were greater than 10%:
• HGN-733P
• RVN-4X
• WHM-6D
• WHM-BW
• ZEU-9S
• Fixed an issue where the Beam Range Boost for the Targeting Computer MKII was 4% instead of 5%.
• Stalker: Fixed an issue with the appearance of LRM-5 and SRM-6 weapons.
• Stalker: Fixed an issue with the appearance of hardpoint caps in the Right and Left Arm.

veedubfreak posted:

OH poo poo GUYS, WE MADE THE WORST WEAPON IN THE GAME USEABLE. MUST HOTFIX.

Why does pgi hate fun.

Unhappy Meal posted:

So when did we lose the narrative where we were exploiting something clearly exploitative, and making fun of Russ for denying anything was wrong?

Drythe posted:

Pgi is stupid, how is anyone surprised. They literally made the game unplayable for two years before.

E: like, exists for a reason.

Drythe posted:

The game was dead for two years, they have shown they are very dumb about many issues, and was bought because they were dumb years ago.

Idgi

E: also the drat helios users still haven't been banned, which is even more annoying than the drat flamer poo poo.

Sharks Dont Sleep posted:

Literally no one has Aspergers. It was removed from the DSM years ago. It's not a diagnosis and while topically we remember it as one - as the years go by it's going to become more and more meaningless and about as effectual as saying "I have the vapors" or "my black humours are unaligned, give me leeches!"

Drythe posted:

lol get hosed the rest of you

Banano posted:

So 19 when are you going to ban the large number of people you have acknowledged are cheating in your game?

Thronde posted:

Quoting this to find later to try.

starkebn posted:

guys, it's obviously not just the same people cheating all the time, there are hundreds of new people cheating every day and they have to keep monitoring to catch them all.

Two weeks

Or at least... that's what I think.

Washout posted:

Time to start a betting pool, I'll take "Russ is a liar and it's not going to happen".

Der Waffle Mous posted:

TjyvTompa posted:

Shhhhhhhh

Drythe posted:

19 how do you stand working there

DancingShade posted:

http://mwomercs.com/forums/topic/222197-there-will-not-be-a-ban-wave/

And deleting threads discussing it

Olesh posted:

Since the game is actually fun for the moment, I don't mind throwing the occasional $20 PGI's way.


There's pretty much no way that this variant isn't going to be some kind of bananas. It's the first mech that has more than 6 missile hardpoints and it has the tonnage to make meaningful use of them in bulk.

With Endo-Steel and an XL 340 you have 32.5 tons and 27 slots to play with. If you keep the stock XL 280, you get 39 tons to play with. You'll be able to dump your missile load incredibly fast, although it's worth mentioning that it's going to run hot as balls. You won't shut down from an alpha strike, though, which means you can alpha people in the face or back and scuttle away giggling at the 103 damage alpha you just dropped. I'm seriously doubtful that we'll see any meaningful quirks on this mech.

What I'm saying is, expect pubbies to be rolling out the gates with no Endo-Steel, 9xLRM5s, and 17.5 tons of ammo.

That Gobbo posted:

I'm glad I picked up that 3 AMS Kit Fox.

Astroniomix posted:

I'm not sure LRM spam needs to be any more ineffective than it already is.

Astroniomix posted:

The issue is there is nothing LRMs do that a large laser doesn't do better.

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An Obvious cheater posted

If it's anything like last time they will do an amnesty program. Hopefully they will again. As much as you hate cheaters I understand people make mistakes. I am guessing you would even get a few people who were not even on the ban list to just stop doing this too.

Yolomon Wayne posted:

So LRMs are both useless and at the same time overpowered.
Also AMS counters LRMs so theyre useless, but you should never ever take AMS cause its useless.

Im stil lhaving good success on my 2x3xLRM5 MadDog, the reload is baller.
Especially when the team is blobbing up and you cant direct fire anywhere that is NOT the backside of a friendly.
But ill never again field LRMs higher than 10 again, ive learned that.

Still i think i will at one point try an archer with 9xLRM5 and chainfire.
I will call him either "Nebelwerfer" or "Stuka zu Fuss", havent decided yet.

Internet Explorer posted:

Thanks for the suggestions.

Also, it would be nice if there was an arm lock toggle key. It's jarring going to something that has nothing in the arm mounts.