Mechwarrior Online

[Ironwood]

Why is this still down ??

[Kail]

I also really, really like what people are doing with the Kit Fox.  He's a wee shit.

Can you elaborate on this a bit?  I'm still trying to get the hang of this game and lights look cheaper than the other mechs (not to mention the Kit Fox is the only buyable clan mech at this point) but I generally fail pretty hard in my Locust.  I think I remember Falc saying something about an ECM equipped Kit Fox, but all the versions of it I can see all say "no" for ECM.

[Falconeer]

The Locust is not a Light 'mech, it is, unfortunately, a death trap. The Kit Fox is an Omni 'mech so while you can't find a specific variant with ECM, you can mount on its right arm the right arm of the C-variant, and that arm alone has 3 AMS slots and an ECM one. This is interesting since the C variant is not available per se, but some of its component are. So you can buy ANY Kit Fox, and then purchase the "C" Right Arm separately, and there you go.

[Typhon]

Is this still offline?  Every time I tried to patch today I got the "down for maintenance" message.

[Falconeer]

Uh? Not at all, I am playing. Weird..

[Ironwood]

You need to change DNS.

The Patcher is fucked for some regions.  Switch to 8.8.8.8 and patch.

It's utter wank.  Typical PGI Shit.  Even tho it's not their fault.  The Cunts.

[Hoax]

So I've played less than 10 games but:
-Ghost heat is terrible. Stupid. Does nothing to fix anything and is literally the worst.
-They have made Alpine even worse with the jump jet and climb speed changes. I wouldn't have thought it was possible but they did it.
-I have played the lava map and the Total Annihilation Core planet map (outer space, metal thing) and both of them are bad like Alpine. They make your mech feel like its around 7' tall at best. Its awful. How come these maps are so bad?
-Dear god the mechbay is just.. wow.
-The social feature is still incompatible with playing the game. Nice.

For real. Fuck this game. It doesn't even feel like big robots. Robots sure but little tiny ones. Even with the FOV change so that you definitely feel like you are in a cockpit. I'll try for another day or three but I can't see this working for me. The game just isn't very good, the maps are worse and these guys make a mess of every change they make.

[Ironwood]

I logged in last night after patching and got humped 12 games  in a row.

It was horrid and shocking.  Teammates consistently sucked and I was top damage in about 9 of those games.  3 times in a goddamned fucking Kintaro.  With Clan teammates.

HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE.

I think, honestly, this is turning into a game where you need a team or you live with frustration.  On Game 11, I got so pissed off with Zoomed in Cunts shooting my Stalker in the back that I just turned round and headshot the ShadowHawk that was doing it.

I mean, I'm in a Stalker, for fucks sake.  Doing about 10kph.  Backing off Slowly.   If you don't have the fucking vision to see what's going on around you....

Anyway.  Very bad MechWarrior night.

[Falconeer]

Few videogames can make me go to bed with such a sour taste in my mouth like this one. Some nights are just awful. Yesterday though was good for me, at least until I played solo. Then I teamed up with my son and a RL friend and we got demolished by being put in the group queue versus apparently better groups then ours.

Seriously, the "solo" queue is all kinds of random, so you go from winning 12-0 and playing like a god, to losing 0-12 without even the chance of firing a single weapon. But even with the ELO handicap, the group queue isn't any different except maybe for being even more brutal on average, and at least there's a lot of matches in between those two extremes even though I tend to forget them when raging about being wiped over and over.

I don't feel that MWO is unique in this, every single arena game I played in the past few years has been the same: get random decent teammember and you are in for a good fight. Get random imbeciles and you want to hurt humans. Smite and DOTA are perfect examples, as you get stuck into a game with complete idiots for 30-40 minutes and there's nothing you can do other than just suck and hate.

[Samprimary]

alright, let's get together and fail together today.

4pm eastern?

[Falconeer]

That's cool, assuming I can make basic timezones calculations, it should be 10pm here and 9pm in Great Britain. I'll look for you in game.

[Ironwood]

I should be on at 9.

We got comms somewhere ?

[Sir T]

9pm UK time I can do. Care to have me join you guys for hurt and pain?

ANYVAY, last night was a doozy. Map forest canyon, guy says to head down to the tunnel to gatch them coming in one at a time, I say shure. I had been watching some Godzilla movies so I delt the need for sise so I brought along my Misery. SO there we were, and then a Daishi (dire wolf) and a 3 or f other clanners appear at the other side fo the falley to the tunnel. I duck back and forth fire,m fire again and again, then I wonder wehy the rest of my team who were all around me werent firing...

And then realized they ahd all buggered off back out of the valley and were standing around in a clump, leaving me and a centurion to square off against 2 clan assaults, a Nova, and something else.

The other thing I not=iced is that I WAS FUCKING PRISTINE!!!

How the fuck can you be shot at by several clan mechs including a fucking DIASHI!! and have ZERO shots hit on a goddam Stalker!! while I a guy who does not play a massive amount and with a crappy aim anyway is landing damage with my massive triple large lasers and LB 10. AND the 4 clanners were busy hiding from me as the Cent and I were oh so threatening to them ya know. AAAGH. Eventually I turned around and ran back to my teammates and ov course they took the opportunity to run out when my back was turned and core me from the back. Newb mistake on my part but Jeez

Next game was in toxic valley and my team contented themselves with sitting around the caldera and I and a raven had to run around sturring things up as I hate turtling. And I definitely scored more hits than I got back despite being shot at by dual dire wolves at one point.

And the sad thing is I cant remember how to use the zoom feature. Clanners cant aim for shit.

[Falconeer]

I love the storie from the field. Especially the ones about idiots.

And yes you are more than welcome tonight. One cool thing is that now there are no group limitations anymore, so the more the merrier. One shitty thing is that we'll be destroyed until we uninstall. But it's gonna be fun.

Also, install Ventrilo edit: MUMBLE (not Ventrilo) in case we get on the same server we were on last time.

EDIT: We are on right now if anyone wants some f13 action.

[Samprimary]

i am so there, i can only just sometimes see friends on, because reasons?

[Ironwood]

Alas, currently involved in an Elena disaster.  If I can get out of it, I'll be there !!

[Sir T]

Samprimary achievement unlocked - Gold Diashi kill.

[Samprimary]

i have a long history of gold daishi hunting

[Samprimary]

we saw you for like, a second, irnwood

[Falconeer]

It was a lot of fun to merrily die together over and over, especially in Alpine. We should do this more often (and more people should join).

[Ironwood]

we saw you for like, a second, irnwood

Yeah, sat down, joined your group then drama kicked back in.  Never breed, it ruins your gaming. Long weekend now tho so it might still happen!

[Falconeer]

Anyway, Merc Corps creation is coming in August. I think the f13 Merc Unit will be a lot of fun to put together, no matter how small. I also heard it'll take about 275M to buy a Dropship, but I am sitting on 110M and counting right now, so it should be doable, eventually I guess.

[Ironwood]

You're sitting on WHAT ?

I have 20 and that's a fucking miracle...

[Falconeer]

I am not particularly proud of it, or especially good (at all). In fact, for how much I play, I am terrible at the game. But that value is just a combination of Premium Time, Hero 'mechs, and lots and lots of playing. The "stats" page says I've played 3500 matches, and that's without counting the first 6 months of beta when the stats weren't tracked which would probably bring the total up to 5000 or so.

I also checked the "Game modes" tab of the Stats page for some more data, and turns out since stat tracking is active I've earned a total of 414M, which means I spent so far 309M on 'mechs, parts, modules, upgrades and so on. Which is much more than I thought considering I have about 85 'mechs but most of them are Founders (4), Phoenixes+Sabers (6x3=18), Clans (24), and Heroes (7), meaning I didn't use Cbills to get them. So out of 85 I've only paid for 32 'mechs with Cbills although you still have to pay for their upgrades and parts, double heat sinks, engines, etc.

[Ironwood]

You have about 85 mechs.........

You're reaching Arthur Parker levels mate.  Dangerous.

[Falconeer]

I've met Arthur Parker a couple of times in the game in the past two weeks. It seems like he just abandoned f13, but he still plays MWO from time to time. Too bad he's gone.

Anyway, Samprimary is sitting on 70M! Considering he has about three 'mechs, can you imagine how many Stalker games it took him to get that much? 

[Merusk]

Sam's good, and the Stalker is a really solid mech so not as many as you might think.  My stalker was a money earner and I'm terrible at keeping damage on one section.

[Lantyssa]

I'm poor as dirt, but then I run around in lights half the time, and suck in my heavies the remainder.

[Shannow]

Got one shotted by a direwolf about 1 minute into a match last night. So much for clanners who can't shoot...BAH!

[Ironwood]

Take comfort in the fact that he probably stripped the back off a teammate trying to get you.

[Samprimary]

In one match i was watching a person piloting a daishi, carefully threading it backwards around a pillar into cover while keeping fire on the exposed front of a mech charging it.

I chided him for breaking the rules; daishi players have to be incompetent as a counterbalance to their loadout, or the game's balance is just out the fucking window dude

[Ironwood]

Ach, there are good Clan players out there.  It just seems that the greater percentage of them.... aren't.

[Falconeer]

Accordingto Bullock, they sold 25000 Clan Packages, with roughly 50% of those being Masakari (the 240$ ones). That alone would be 240$ x 12000 = 2.880.000 $

[Shannow]

25000??? 

[Falconeer]

That's what he said on NoGutsNoGalaxy. Of course, he could be lying. I heard humans do that a lot whenever it's convenient to them.