Mechwarrior Mercenaries 5: Single player inside!

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@Soapyfrog

For single player being able to kill mechs efficiently is kinda the point of the game

You don’t think you could kill mechs effectively unless you can combine small weapons into huge ones?

I mean, the overall selection of weapons actually has specific weapons designed to enable that kind of capability.

Again, that’s kind of the point of a weapon like the AC20.

@Soapyfrog

Should you be able to kill an Atlas by taking out only 20% of its armour? Yes.

But should it be as easy as it is? Because it’s pretty easy.

@Soapyfrog

Remember when they added weapon accuracy while jumpjets were firing in MWO (a necessary and good change for various reasons imho), one of the effects was that it pushed jumpsniping out of the reach of the average player.

Really? The average player couldn’t figure out that you need to stop during your JJs for a brief moment before firing your weapons?

On some level, making more complex mechanics that players need to internalize isn’t a bad thing. It’s the act of learning those mechanics that gives a game depth, and makes it worth playing.

If everything is easy when you first start playing, then the game isn’t good. There’s nothing to get better at.

@Soapyfrog

taking away weapon accuracy is just unnecessary sandbagging that will hurt worse players worse than it will hurt good players anyway.

But we aren’t talking about just making every weapon random in it’s precision.

We are just saying that you can’t for 4 medium lasers to achieve the exact same effect as an AC20.

You could still use an AC20 and achieve the exact same effect. Or hell, you could use the medium lasers, you’d just have to land 4 times as many aimed shots, and deal with the additional exposure of your mech.

Do you really think that being forced to make such choices as a pilot would reduce your fun? Wouldn’t it give you a deeper, richer environment in which to play?

@Soapyfrog

That’s a lot of words to say you want a particular feature in Mechwarrior which almost nobody else really wants.

ALso… this…
we’re just talking here, dude. If you don’t wanna talk about it, that’s cool. Like I said, I don’t think there’s any chance at all PGI would implement any of this anyway.

Is there anything that you think they should change compared to past incarnations of mechwarrior, or should it just stay the same in your mind, with updated graphics? It seems like you’re arguing that the old game was good enough.

In terms of “no one wants it”, do you really think you’ve got a super good grip on that? I mean, based on what, a few posts in the MWO forums? How many people even still play that game? The steam charts have it at less than 600 concurrent players these days. Maybe you need to expand out beyond that group a bit.