The Executioner is really odd for a Clan mech, as usually they're overgunned, not under. I mean, look at that Mad Cat A; it generates 48 heat on a full salvo, so the twenty double heat sinks at least make sense. Add walk or run movement (+1/+2 heat respectively), and you REALLY need that forty points of cooling.
I've only recently heard of Upgraded Battletech: 3057, which jumps the timeline up to the Clan Invasion. No idea if there's as deep of a pool for new mechs as RogueTech.
A lot of compounding issues: Balancing for mouse makes weapons too accurate, makes time to kill too fast, makes stop-and-pop shooting the go-to, and so on. It's actually been making a comeback of late, because PGI finally got their heads out of their asses and took on a group of autists from the community willing to help them balance it. It's still got a long way to go, but they've been making a lot of good progress over the last few patches.
I might consider getting back into it if that's the case. Had good times with a buddy before we both threw in the towel.
They haven't done anything crazy like reinvent the core gameplay (PGI is still primarily focused on MW5, after all), but they've been doing a lot with what they have to unfuck the meta (especially after PGI absolutely shit the bed with the patch in March). They just did a big mobility pass on the older mechs to get them up to spec with the mobility creep, and they're looking to do some work on rescaling and unfucking hitboxes in the near-ish future.
Oh, I know they're not going to do anything ridiculous like a big redesign, but I threw the towel in right after Tukayyid before things got truly horrible, so any improvement will be welcomed.
There's always been the issue of aim being OP with big alphas and that's arguably why armor values are so bloated and why they tarded out and put in Ghost Heat, but in the past they repeatedly chose bad solutions to problems and then shit all over players who tried to HELP them make better ones in PTS. The fact that they're finally doing something intelligent and letting the community actually help tells me the end times are nigh.
The funnest time in this game is when they used TT values in closed beta. Battles were a little quicker but they were fun as hell.
People whined about low TTK or something and they decided to increase armor/structure values drastically. Low TTK shouldn't even be an issue, and early on there was enough playerbase to ensure queueing for a new match didn't take forever while not hilariously taxing PGI's shit servers, but PGI had and still has this retarded rule that you can't re-drop in a mech if it's still in a match (even if the mech is dead as a doornail in that match). Ironically this problem only gets AMPLIFIED when you increase TTK and matches start getting longer as a result, but PGI wants to sell you mech packs so your mech is staying locked until match ends, fucko.
To be fair, that one comes from World of Tanks, which is pretty much the model for all of these F2P vehicle shooters.
Is he the same guy that threw a tantrum because a team of players kept knocking him down and laughing at him?
The very one.
Oh yeah. I remember that, actually. Paul also used to bring the most useless, retarded builds to games and throw massive shit fits when he got wrecked. I believe he always used a Catapult K2 if I remember correctly.
A K2 with 4 Medium Pulses and 2 MGs. Before you ask where his tonnage was, heatsinks/MG ammo and max engine, STD. For some reason Paul was obsessed with running heat neutral.
