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Dear MWO Forums,

I know this sounds too good to be true but...

I've just finished a quick pass at how much the screen shakes for all weapons. I showed the results to Bryan and he was like "OMG this isn't an earthquake simulator!". So I went back and tuned the numbers down to something more respectible and they seem to be a lot better.

The amount of screen shake will be reduced quite a bit. The only "big" hit will be from the AC/20.

The next thing I want to tune before pushing these numbers out for testing is the amount of smoke generated by AC fire in general. Again, I'll be working with the artists on this one to see if we can come up with something that doesn't make you blind yourself when firing the ACs.

One other update... I've sped the AC/20 up from 750 to 900 m/s. This means the lead time you need to put on targets is about 20-30% less and you should be able to put more rounds on target when playing in a fast paced match. The other ACs will scale up from there.

On the SSRM direct front, another fix has gone in where the SSRMs will now use arm and leg joints as viable lock-on targets. This spreads damage out more. I'll be working with David B on testing to see if the current implementation of SSRMs along with the reduced cockpit shake and smoke reduction will be enough of a nerf to help counter the SSRM effectiveness without having to directly hit damage/cooldown/heat etc.

New numbers will be coming out soon and again.. I'm not giving you a direct date but we should be able to get this stuff into testing within the next week.

-Paul

p.s. then there was a pillow fight. :ph34r:

Also Humor haben die Jungs ja xD

aber klingt alles ganz gut. Gerade die SSRM könnten damit wirklich etwas weniger stark vertreten sein. Wobei GoW mit seiner Schadenstabelle eigtl recht hatte... Mal schauen.

Die neue UAC5 ... meine Lieblingswaffe

http://mwomercs.com/forums/topic/73536-weapon-balancing/

Gauss Rifle Update:

This Gauss Rifle change is going live Dec. 4th.

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Gauss Rifle is going to become very fragile.

The Gauss Rifle is going to have it's internal health dropped substantially.
Once armor surrounding a Gauss Rifle has been removed, there is going to be a high probability that the Gauss Rifle will detonate via critical hits when that component gets hit by enemy fire.

Update:

The above mentioned AutoCannon changes, NARC change and TAG changes will be in the Dec. 18th patch.

Next on Deck:

The PPC/ER-PPC/Large Laser/ER Large Lasers will be investigated with possible heat nerfs..buffs.. (whichever you prefer in terms of LOWERING heat generated by these weapons).
Possible damage buffs may be coming up as well for these weapons.
I've been looking at Machine Guns lately (because they're equipped on my griefer Mech) and decided to make each bullet do 500 damage. :ph34r: Ok.. seriously I'm looking into either a very slight damage increase or to make them crit at a higher rate with a crit damage boost. What does that mean? When you blow off the armor on a component on an enemy Mech, every shot done to internals from a machine gun has a chance of doing much higher damage than normal. I'll be working with the engineers on this and will update you as we progress on this.
Flamers... who hates flamers? I hate flamers... the engineering behind this needs to be reworked to get them to a place where I'm happy with their performance. Again, working with the programmers to get this working and will update when I can.

Stay tuned and I'll let you know of progress made on any of the above.

Zitat von Arion Kerensky im Beitrag #21

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Update:

The above mentioned AutoCannon changes, NARC change and TAG changes will be in the Dec. 18th patch.

Next on Deck:

The PPC/ER-PPC/Large Laser/ER Large Lasers will be investigated with possible heat nerfs..buffs.. (whichever you prefer in terms of LOWERING heat generated by these weapons).
Possible damage buffs may be coming up as well for these weapons.
I've been looking at Machine Guns lately (because they're equipped on my griefer Mech) and decided to make each bullet do 500 damage. :ph34r: Ok.. seriously I'm looking into either a very slight damage increase or to make them crit at a higher rate with a crit damage boost. What does that mean? When you blow off the armor on a component on an enemy Mech, every shot done to internals from a machine gun has a chance of doing much higher damage than normal. I'll be working with the engineers on this and will update you as we progress on this.
Flamers... who hates flamers? I hate flamers... the engineering behind this needs to be reworked to get them to a place where I'm happy with their performance. Again, working with the programmers to get this working and will update when I can.

Stay tuned and I'll let you know of progress made on any of the above.

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ppc gefällt mir jetz schon gut im phract, aber die wird ja sowas von fotm! nice :) hatte aber auch liebe nötig.

Concerning the Large Laser, ER Large Laser, Large Pulse Laser, PPC and ERPPCs:

The Large Laser was pretty much on point where we wanted it in terms of heat generation. A proper scaling has been done to the rest of the mentioned weapons (i.e. they have all been reduced in terms of heat generated).

You will see these changes in the next patch on Feb 5th and the exact numbers will be in the patch notes.

The PPC/ERPPC vs ECM
Hitting an ECM enabled Mech with a PPC/ERPPC will disable the ECM functionality for 5 seconds.
After 5 seconds, full ECM functionality returns.
If an ECM is disabled and the ECM enabled Mech is hit with a PPC/ERPPC again, the 5 second counter resets to 5. It will be possible for a very skilled PPC/ERPPC shooter to disable ECM on a Mech for as long as they can keep chain hitting the ECM Mech.
This will be going live on Feb 19th.
The modules "Sensor Range" and "Advanced Sensor Range"
Will now affect ECM by increasing the detectable/targetable range of an ECM equipped Mech.
"Sensor Range", the first tier, will allow players to detect/target an ECM equipped Mech 15% further away than normal (200m > 230m)
"Advance Sensor Range", the second tier, will allow players to detect/target an ECM equipped Mech 25% further away than normal (200m > 250m)

How this affects gameplay:
Normally an ECM equipped Mech can only be detected/targeted between 180m-200m. I.e. there was a 20m buffer where SSRMs/LRMs could lock and fire.
With Sensor Range, that buffer is now 180-230m. A total of 50m buffer.
With Advanced Sensor Range, that buffer becomes 180-250. A total of 70m buffer.
Players will have an additional 50m of space to target and fire guided munitions on ECM enabled Mechs.
This too will be going live on Feb 19th.


In other news:

The crit system is taking a while to test and implement properly. We not only have to set crit chances, but we need to also adjust the health of every item equipped to a Mech. It is now at a state where we will be looking at how durable each weapon should be. Since this takes a lot of reiterative testing, this is a time consuming undertaking and will be a while before we can drop it on to the live servers. Again, I'll update you when we know more.





Ja Geil

SSRM pewpew toter Raven

PPC wahrscheinlich eher für den Fatlas DDC gedacht.
Ist ja nicht wirklich einfach einen Raven mit einer PPC "dauerhaft" zu treffen, während der DDC Atlas wohl singen wird "it's raining PPC...."