Mechwarrior Online

[Falconeer]

Not sure if it matters, but ping being much better in North America, when you have lots of non-American players in your matches you have an advantage. That, and most of the competitive scene being NA anyway as far as I know.

[satael]

Also alot of players seem to be just trying to get wins and not caring about how well they do in the game (so just quickly charging the enemy).

[Ironwood]

The Premium time just shoots the money and exp up.  It's rather awesome.

Shame it just kicks in tho.  I would have liked to Choose my days !

[satael]

Finished the challenge but damn it started to feel like a grind in the end. 

[Ironwood]

Try mastering all 3 kitfoxes.  That's a grind.

[Falconeer]

I did it in 91 games. 50 wins, 41 losses. All the games with IS Mediums. I'd say it took me roughly 15 hours /played (including queues and all).

[Falconeer]

These fuckin idiots. I don't know what's wrong in their brains that force them to always do the stupidest thing possible. I understand that they need money, but how good is that money if everyone who is not paying it is leaving the game? And remember, this is the day the Nova becomes available for Cbills. Do you have an idea of how many more Novas and Direwhales there will be starting tonight? NOT TO MENTION THE STUPID RANK 5 WEAPON MODULES.

[Ironwood]

YEAH, THAT'S TERRIBLE AND AWFUL AND TERRIBLE, HARUMPH HARUMPH HARUMPH.

Where's my credit card ?

[Falconeer]

I hope you'll wait all night every night in queue for the rest of your life. 

[Ironwood]

Why should MechWarrior be any different than the rest of my life ?

 

[Falconeer]

List of Rank 5 weapon modules.

They all cost 3M Cbills to buy, and about 3500 GXP to unlock.

[Ironwood]

The Nova B is utter, utter shit.

Also, fuck those weapon modules.  That's not even trying to hide a grind.

[Falconeer]

24 hours downtime tomorrow!  

Greetings MechWarriors,



We are scheduling an estimated 24-hour server maintenance for Thursday, August 28th, 2014 beginning at 10AM PDT / 1PM EDT / 5PM UTC. The reason for this downtime is to transition the game and services onto our new data center.

During this period of server work, you will still have ways to enjoy some ‘Mech action!

We will be opening the Public Test Server to all players so that you can try out the latest version of the next patch.

As an added bonus, we are also making all MC-only Clan Mechs available for C-Bills during the Public Test for new players to give these a try!

Remember that what happens on Public Test stays on Public Test: Your battles, scoring, stats and more will not be recorded onto your live account once the test is over. Also note that the Public Test is a separate installation from the regular game client.

Please note, the Public Test server system runs on less provisioning that the live game servers do. While we are not anticipating major issues out of this, we are expecting that some players may experience difficulty finding a match during peak times due to resource limits on those test servers. If you happen to find a “Cannot find match” error message, we ask if you could continue trying to launch until a match is made.

For those who will be unable to join the Public Test for any reason, we recommend checking out our friends at No Guts No Galaxy, who will be streaming throughout the test / downtime to bring even more Mech action right to your screen. You can also check out the plethora of other channels on both Twitch.tv and hitbox.tv!

We recognize that this is an unusually long maintenance window. As such, we will also be providing all players with active premium time during the maintenance/test an additional 24 hours on their live account after the maintenance has completed.



Thanks for your support!

[satael]

Atleast the reason for it seems valid (changing datacenters) though I wouldn't be surprised if something unexpected happened and the downtime was extended (or even some data was lost) . 

[Falconeer]

Or the new datacenter happened to be worse than the old one.

[Falconeer]

Hello MechWarriors,

As you are hopefully aware by now, tomorrow will be perhaps our largest downtime ever. This is to accommodate the move to our new data center. There are many advantages to the new data center such as being more cost effective while at the same time potentially offering greater latency performance to many our non NA customers. Besides that, there are a couple of really important reasons why you might want to make the effort to download the latest Public Test Client here and participate tomorrow...

De-sync Bug: This public test will have our latest improvement to the Crytek networking code to work properly for MWO. It would be very helpful if we could get as close as possible to regular Thursday population levels to see if indeed the issue has been improved/resolved. To be clear we can't be sure of the impact of our change until we see the bug in a high load environment, similar to live production. Also keep in mind that this isn't a fix to remove all lag from the "Internets", but to specifically address the de-sync bug.

Clan weapon balance test: As you know we have a large task on our hands to figure out the very best way to handle balancing Clan vs IS before the competitive aspects of CW come online. Over the past weeks we have been running various tests, and this public test, will be the latest one. In fact the last time we made a change to Clan weaponry there were plenty of people that stated we should do that on the test server. Well here it is, on the test server and ready for you to test. I am going to avoid telling you any of the details of what has changed. I am going to avoid telling you any of the details of what has changed. My hope is that you get to try these changes out and share your first-hand experience with us before the numbers lead to any preconceptions. Even with these changes, the Clan weapons still do more damage, have greater range, for the same or less heat, tonnage and crit space. In short they still very much fulfill the promises as originally stated on how the Clans would look and play. Within a week of the completion of this Public Test, I will follow up with another post on exactly what direction we will be taking on Clan vs IS balancing.

So basically, 24 hours long "mandatory" test of Clan weapon balance changes (likely nerf). Interesting.

[Lantyssa]

"Clan matches only end 12-4 now instead of 12-0.  STOP NERFING ME.  IS ARE ALL NOOBS.  THAT'S WHY WE'RE SO MUCH BETTER."

[satael]

The server transfer is off to a MWOish start with the test server being nowhere and the main server still being online right now (to quote their intentions from the announcement: "Public Test will be available at 11:00 am PDT and Live will go down at the same time.") 

[Ironwood]

Just went down.

[satael]

Just went down.

Yeah, just noticed I was kicked out while posting the message.

[Falconeer]

Weapon changes up on the test server.

Note: It's possible a new build could go up before downtime begins.

ERLL
Heat reduced to 8.0 from 8.5
Duration increased to 1.5 from 1.0

CERSL
Heat increased to 3.0 from 2.0
Range reduced to 150/300 from 200/400

CERML
Heat increased to 6.0 from 5.0
Range reduced to 400/800 from 450/900
Duration reduced to 1.25 from 1.3

CERLL
Damage reduced to 11.0 from 11.25
Heat penalty reduced to 4.0 from 12.0
Heat increased to 10 from 9
Range reduced to 740/1480 from 890/1780
Duration reduced to 1.6 from 2.0

CSPL
Heat increased to 3.4 from 2.4
Range reduced to 150/300 from 180/360

CMPL
Heat increased to 6.0 from 5.5
Range reduced to 330/600 from 400/800
Duration reduced to 0.85 from 0.9

CLPL
Damage reduced to 11.6 from 11.8
Heat penalty increased to 4.0 from 2.8
Heat increased to 9.0 from 8.0
Range reduced to 525/1050 from 600/1200
Duration reduced to 1.2 from 1.3

CLRM5
Cooldown increased to 3.5 from 3.25

CLRM10
Cooldown reduced to 3.5 from 3.75

CLRM15
Cooldown reduced to 3.5 from 4.25

CLRM20
Cooldown reduced to 3.5 from 4.75

CSSRM4
Cooldown reduced to 5.0 from 5.25

CSSRM6
Cooldown reduced to 6.0 from 7.0

UPDATE: Test Server is not working, so it will be online later today and there WON'T BE the Clan weapon changes that they advertised.  P G I

[Falconeer]

Test server is UP. It will be up for the next 20 hours or so, and you get tons of Cbills and MC to experiment with there, so it's good if you want to see how the Clan 'mechs perform and equip them any wya you like. They didn't push the weapon changes yet, but they said that in the previously published list the cooldown for Clan LRMs was a typo.

[satael]

Well, it seems that it will take some time for the migration to finish...surprise surprise (it would actually have been a small surprise if they had managed to stick to their schedule) 

[Falconeer]

A Davion sale is in progress. 35% off. I just bought three Banshees and saved about 6 Millions.   

[Ironwood]

Mastered all the Kitfoxes, now working on all the Novas, which is strangely proving easier and much more fun.

The Prime is a fucking raging heatbeast, the S mounts some rather cool UAC2's which gives nice Dakka and the B let's me get in close with some cool machine gun fire.

I won't be bothering buying the Summoners, I shall save my dosh for the Daishi.

No idea when the rest of the Clan mechs will get released, but we'll see.

Also, I've noticed that seeing IS mechs in game is becoming a much rarer thing....

[Falconeer]

Summoner is September 10, Direwolf is September 28.

I like the Nova too, but it's going to be hit pretty hard by the next round of nerfs apparently.

[Ironwood]

I'm really not sure why.  Ghost heat already fucks it up massively and it's basically an easily damaged Clan skeleton with lots of lasers.  Why the nerf ??

The Daishi on the other hand is an utter fuckbeast.  I watched as our one, sporting 5 or six UAC5's just fucking MURDERED everyone in sight.  If it can target you, it puts out a rate of fire that shreds you.

I also got one shot by some Daishi bastard who was clearly mounting a lot of fuck you weaponry - instantly killed Nova.  It's just an absolute killer that's only threatened by lights and missiles.

[Falconeer]

They are not really targeting the Nova, as the nerf is for the Clan ER Medium laser. But as a result out of all Clan 'mechs that hits the Nova the most.

[Ironwood]

Ah, right I see.

Won't affect me all that much.  I find just running with Meds makes for a shitty play experience, so I supplement with Ballistics and Small lasers.

What's the plan ?  Are they going to increase the med laser duration ?  Because that utterly fucked the Large laser for me.  Just no fun at all.

[Falconeer]

This is what they tested on the PTS a few days ago, but of course they might change it all again by the time it goes live.

Note: It's possible a new build could go up before downtime begins.

IS ERLL
Heat reduced to 8.0 from 8.5
Duration increased to 1.5 from 1.0

CERSL
Heat increased to 3.0 from 2.0
Range reduced to 150/300 from 200/400

CERML
Heat increased to 6.0 from 5.0
Range reduced to 400/800 from 450/900
Duration reduced to 1.25 from 1.3

CERLL
Damage reduced to 11.0 from 11.25
Heat penalty reduced to 4.0 from 12.0
Heat increased to 10 from 9
Range reduced to 740/1480 from 890/1780
Duration reduced to 1.6 from 2.0

CSPL
Heat increased to 3.4 from 2.4
Range reduced to 150/300 from 180/360

CMPL
Heat increased to 6.0 from 5.5
Range reduced to 330/600 from 400/800
Duration reduced to 0.85 from 0.9

CLPL
Damage reduced to 11.6 from 11.8
Heat penalty increased to 4.0 from 2.8
Heat increased to 9.0 from 8.0
Range reduced to 525/1050 from 600/1200
Duration reduced to 1.2 from 1.3

CLRM10
Cooldown increased to 4 from 3.75

CLRM15
Cooldown increased to 4.5 from 4.25

CLRM20
Cooldown increased to 5 from 4.75

CSSRM4
Cooldown reduced to 5.0 from 5.25

CSSRM6
Cooldown reduced to 6.0 from 7.0

[Falconeer]

Patch coming Friday, with Clan weapon tweaks. Also, this weekend there will be a lance-oriented challenge. We could be forced to group up this time. 

[satael]

Patch coming Friday, with Clan weapon tweaks. Also, this weekend there will be a lance-oriented challenge. We could be forced to group up this time. 

I'll probably be around if someone wants try some lancing 

[Ironwood]

Yar, me too.

[Sir T]

Feck, that could make me log in for some light mech tanking. maybe we should arrange a time for some detonating?

[Hoax]

I don't know if anyone in US timezones plays anymore but Stock Era Wednesday which starts around 9PM EST (often early) and rotates through a variety of interesting and very nerdy mech availability lists could use some more players.

Here's the thread, there's a google doc and a schedule which is all you need to know which mechs will be allowed:

http://mwomercs.com/forums/topic/157860-stock-mech-era-wednesdays/