Mechwarrior Online

[Merusk]

Shitty shit shit teams this morning.

6 games, almost all of them my team ran off solo and got wiped out within the first 5 mins of the match.  The worst was my assault match on River City where I called out *exactly* where the enemy was and everyone ran to the island and camped.  So they capped us while my team sat with thumbs up their asses and my spider got raped by a Raven.

ed: Evening is better but all the "fags" and "ppc sniper fag" comments come out.  Oh how I long for social tools.

anyway I'm on for a bit if anyone else is around.

[Arthur_Parker]

MechWarrior Online Interview (Bryan Eckman) GDC 2013

Interview mostly about community warfare.

[Segoris]

Any highlights for those unable to watch currently?

[Ironwood]

Watching Lynsey try to maintain her interest is funny.

[Arthur_Parker]

Any highlights for those unable to watch currently?

Three phases, nothing major new mentioned, he's saying there will be non-fluff stuff to fight over, which I think will be tricky.  Need more details really.

[Shannow]

Login, get in a match, take two shots while driving at max speed both hit my right torso and I die.

Fuck. This. Game.


Oh and guys, if we are going to group on Mumble , can we actually talk up where we are going , who we are targetting etc. I'd do it but frankly I suck, there's no point on being on voice comms if we aren't actually going to use them.

[HaemishM]

Watching Lynsey try to maintain her interest is funny.

She looks like she's searching for the good-looking mimbo at the bar while this total nerd is showering her with horndog spittle.

[Merusk]

Login, get in a match, take two shots while driving at max speed both hit my right torso and I die.

Fuck. This. Game.


Oh and guys, if we are going to group on Mumble , can we actually talk up where we are going , who we are targetting etc. I'd do it but frankly I suck, there's no point on being on voice comms if we aren't actually going to use them.

Sucks, but Shit Happens.  I got headshot in my Catapult yesterday by a Cataphract from 1000 yards away. 

Talking is always a question of someone having the sack to just start doing so.  While we're all congenial here it's different if you have to actually talk and shyness seems to overtake many.

[Ironwood]

Usually it devolves into 'Shit that guy fucked me and didn't even charge'.

Zetleft and I just had a convivial afternoon of utter humiliation.

But it was fun.

[Segoris]

Three phases, nothing major new mentioned, he's saying there will be non-fluff stuff to fight over, which I think will be tricky.  Need more details really.

Thanks, saved me the time of watching someone sound interested from what it sounds like.

Login, get in a match, take two shots while driving at max speed both hit my right torso and I die.

Fuck. This. Game.


Oh and guys, if we are going to group on Mumble , can we actually talk up where we are going , who we are targetting etc. I'd do it but frankly I suck, there's no point on being on voice comms if we aren't actually going to use them.

Sucks, but Shit Happens.  I got headshot in my Catapult yesterday by a Cataphract from 1000 yards away. 

Talking is always a question of someone having the sack to just start doing so.  While we're all congenial here it's different if you have to actually talk and shyness seems to overtake many.

What Merusk said. I'd go one step further and say you could always try leading instead of waiting for others (if you aren't already taking the initiative) as that usually works wonders in my experience. That, and I like hearing myself talk non-sense and see who actually still listens sometimes

[Zetleft]

Usually it devolves into 'Shit that guy fucked me and didn't even charge'.

Zetleft and I just had a convivial afternoon of utter humiliation.

But it was fun.

Yeah I was not on my A game sorry.  But I just got back from my eye doctor.  New prescription for the win.  Probably not but whatever likeyousaid fun anyway.

[Ironwood]

http://mwomercs.com/news/2013/04/637-isn-news-flash

Mon. April 1st, 3050: Raving MechWarrior found in downtown Solaris VII hospital claims "Cloned space fascists" destroyed his lance, company. States they rode 'giant forest lupines' into combat.

Heh.   

[Falconeer]

Anyone else thinks the Titan April's fool is really weak, and they could have done so much better (probably generating lots of angst in the process, though)?

[Shannow]

Anyone else thinks the Titan April's fool is really weak, and they could have done so much better (probably generating lots of angst in the process, though)?

No, they're just playing to form. (plus the fact it's still on the frontpage on April 2nd....oh Piranaha please FOR THE LOVE OF GOD CHANGE.)

[Ironwood]

Looks like some cool stuff incoming.

Who's up for it once the servers are back ?

[Segoris]

That cool stuff mentioned by the Wood of Iron. These are the pre-emptive patch notes so something may still not make it in.

Air strike consumables and modules
updated heat and night vision modes
Highlander hero, which actually looks decent (hard points in the immediate spoiler)
some more shitty cockpit and paint stuff I haven't bothered to look at yet but will most likely be overpriced.

Full pre-emptive notes:

[Shannow]

    - Plays a music clip from its head-mounted external speakers after an enemy kill

That makes it worth it right there. 

[Njal]

I just had my screen go berserk in game using relatively old nVidia drivers (306.something). So you may need to update your drivers after the patch.

[Falconeer]

What's the tune like? Bagpipes?

[Ironwood]

I just had my screen go berserk in game using relatively old nVidia drivers (306.something). So you may need to update your drivers after the patch.

They put out a facebook update pre-patch telling people that updated drivers are next to godliness.

I suspect this was on purpose.

[Ironwood]

That Highlander model is God awful.  MW4-type God Awful.

 

[Falconeer]

I must agree. It's not the pink, it's the model. Really... ugly.

[Slayerik]

My video drivers have been freaking out when I get close to another mech....alt tabbing repairs it, but I'm DLing new drivers now. Hope it helps

[Segoris]

The pink will make it stand out too much if night vision/heat vision are still too good to pass up (won't be on to check out though), otherwise the hardpoints are kind of nice. It's a good change of pace having to worry about another left-handed Mech imo. Everything is either balanced or right-handed (or right-sided, whatever). Or, rather, "potentially" left-handed since unless they neglect the missiles for bigger ballistics, that left side is going to hurt

[Falconeer]

My video drivers have been freaking out when I get close to another mech....alt tabbing repairs it, but I'm DLing new drivers now. Hope it helps

Same here 

[Merusk]

Heat Vision has been nerfed hard.  Everything is Grey now and it looks more like IR-scopes than heat.  I haven't seen a mech glowing enough to stand out from the landscape yet.   The range on it was nerfed pretty hard, too.  NightVision has a better draw distance.

Night Vision was cleaned-up so it doesn't get as much glare and the picture is clearer.  it looks more like what you see out of a modern NV scope/ cam instead of a 1970s "starlite" scope.  Still uncormfortable to use in any twilight situation.

[Segoris]

Bleh. I understand the need to reduce heat vision's effectiveness, but that sounds awful

[Zetleft]

Well I crash just as much after this patch as before.  So at least that didn't get worse. 

[Raknor]

Man this patch screams for some QA before release.

[OandA]

Placing the new hero mech 250 mcs higher than the second highest ammount of mc than you can buy in one step is quite a dick move, imho.

[Shannow]

Rather enjoyed rolling with the AWS-8Q last night. The PPC just feels like one of the most satisfying weapons in the game.

[Merusk]

Placing the new hero mech 250 mcs higher than the second highest ammount of mc than you can buy in one step is quite a dick move, imho.

Ha! I hadn't even caught that. Quite amusing.

[Zaljerem]

Anyone done much with consumables? I've been using the Cbill coolant ones ... nothing amazingly game-breaking but fairly useful ... anyone tried artillery/air strikes yet?

[Falconeer]

Placing the new hero mech 250 mcs higher than the second highest ammount of mc than you can buy in one step is quite a dick move, imho.

Ha! I hadn't even caught that. Quite amusing.

It's more than 30 dollars for a mech. It's irritating.

[Ironwood]

Crashing now.  A lot.  Never crashed before and it's really fucking irritating.

Just dumps out.  No error, no nothing.  Like the thing wasn't ever running.