Come all who want balance. Place your thoughts. Lets do this.

What does that have to do with anything? Any mech has the potential to carry. Some are harder to do that in than others though.

 

I have very little issues with "balance" in this game. Maybe tonnage in FP.
Yeah,... maybe that.

But on your points:
ISUAC10 is too powerful. Increase to 3 bullets.
Haven't seen issues yet, but haven't seen the ISUAC10 often. Cannot comment
Small Pulse damage values too low for clan and IS. Please return original damage values, and change other values (Heat, Range) to maintain balance.
I only boat those and still do well with them
Heavy lasers have too much duration.
Negative, heavy lasers with shorter burn would be gamebreaking
Heavy Machine Guns are doing too much damage on the shadowcat. I
brought this up in PTS and it was not fixed.
They hurt, yeah, yet are very circumstantial. Did you see the same on JM6 or BJ-A?
Heavy Gauss has worthless range, Please increase effective range to
350 m. (Nobody is taking that and doing well.)
I like heavy gauss exactly where it is, thank you
Light Gauss shouldn't have a charge time... Makes no sense.
Charge time never made sense. But in the light of the initial implementation it makes as much sense as on other gausses
Hunchback 4P with 6 light PPCs is messed up visually.
Already tweeted that to Russ
A lot of the clan weapons are trash, they are under preforming and need a buff.
Clan armory is now: ATM + back-up
Take a look into increasing ACCEL, DECEL on certain heavy mechs.
Maybe
PLEASE NERF ARTY, AIRSTRIKES.
Maybe
BAP shouldn't cancel stealth armor like ECM, 90m bro. 90! Meters!.
Agreed
Airstrikes are better than rockets. It has minimum range of 50 m and one use. Can't even core out an assault with 4 of them from exact minimum range.
Agreed
All the new lasers are the same color. Can't even tell if I'm getting shot by a different one. Kind of s****y
Don't care

You had some valid points there. Good read!

 

@PyckenZot

That's fair.

You can do well with them, they just take way too damn long if your not boating 8 million of them.

Your speaking of a problem that was already a problem already. Large lasers, medium lasers combo, but I respect that. You've just analyzed the most OP thing about the clans. Currently the only thing that I see that works.

They were way better on the test server. I've seen the difference.

Have you actually used it effectively? If you could choose between a heavy gauss and a ac20 which would it be?

Still dumb. I could be running them on an annilator. This charge time makes me switch quick. I stall. I don't fire. If I was a macro cheese patata then id be a happy firetruck.

hahahahahaha

Haven't tried ATM. Won't because lock.

Big maybe. (just look at MRBC... its stupid.)

Thumbs up!

Wasn't expecting that. But nice.

Well when you can't tell whether someone is tickling you or punching you in the mouth... which is relative to balance.

 

My bad I fixed it The Verge.

 

I honestly think they are trying to make the new mechwarrior game on unity just so they can swap the engine that current mechwarrior runs on.

 

I would like to point out that shooting rac5s is literally is the heat equivalent of having a rac5 that shoots medium lasers instead of bullets. IE: I don't think they support mixed weapons. Which is a problem of its own.

 

I should say it feels like it. I tried to run a 4xmrm10 rac5 combo and it was horrid. That's with just mrms. They are already supposed to be pretty heat efficient.

 

On my enforcer 5P drummer boy they are pretty amazing, but that's literally no other weapons at all. I can't even imagine the peeps running lasers with this. It's gonna hurt DPS by a lot just even teasing with lasers.

 

It's just that I was trying to get my brother back into the game. I don't frequent clan mechs a lot. I was trying to convince him that the clans are still good. (Used the timberwolf as it was his favorite mech, he's not as good as me) I ended up slapping together 3 different weapon types (A arctic cheatah/ Spirit bear tiberian sun viceroid combination], and let's just say that this was the only build out of all of them that can actually hit a strafing target (Like a commando). The only other answer is straight laser vomit. That's if your piloting something with a lot of lasers or doing the heavy large laser combo. (Maybe I could have run a lbx instead) My point is - clan weapons should not be this screwed up. This causes all kinds of balance problems and you just end up with some magic school bus weapons, where every time you fire your clan weapons you have to do the ritual. (And by that I mean offer a blood sacrifice to the blood god)

 

You mean that you consider the build ineffective if it can't hit one of the fastest mechs in the game while it strafes you? Most Timber Wolves don't really concern themselves with Lights. I've had no issues with Timber Wolves being any weaker than before; though I use weapon setups that aren't min-maxed. The key thing is not "Are clans still good" - here's a hint; they are - the question is "are you having fun with the game."

 

Yeah if I want a challenge and i want to try out the megaman zero 3 sword slice everytimei shoot for effect, but for the potato that just hopped into the frying pan vs me in my turd 2 medium pulse spider 5v that guy is literally reaching at his computer trying to force choke me.

 

Unless you consider lock on weapons as the goto weapon in that situation.... Which i dont ever want to touch because its literally a kiddy ride at a rolller coaster ride for me

 

You should see me in the boom raven.. hehehe or even my flaming hot 12 flamer nova with heavy machine guns

 

Nearly all of these "balance" points seem entirely based on gut feelings and a one-sided perspective.

This is will be like arguing with POOTY all over again (a waste of time).

If you really want to discuss balance, try picking something specific to discuss, what's wrong with it (maybe some data to back up your case), and how you plan to fix it while considering the total impact a change would have across the game, both on a casual quick-play level and competitive level.

So far, my experience regarding your points in the OP have been quite the opposite, or at least non-issues.

I've brought up balance points in the past, focused on the paper numbers AND the in-game results, discussed solutions and speculated on how that would impact the game. Without going that far, nothing will change. You'll just be ranting about something you dislike.

 

You have a point about doing the math for everyone, which is great if your a mathmatician. Not all things can be explained through equations. There's the human element, that random variant that I have to somehow explain through words.

 

If we were all robots and we could aim weapons like AI... Then the numbers would all be perfect on paper..