Thinking Outside of the Tesseract

Wave 7 is coming out soon for X-Wing Miniatures . As a person that sides with Scum, I wasn’t ... well... I was underwhelmed by the offerings in Wave 7. Most of all I was underwhelm with the Kihraxz Assault Fighter . If you confuse like me on how to say it, I was told it's pronounced ‘ki-rax’. Fantasy Flight Games spend a great deal writing up and comparing the Kihraxz with the X-Wing . So I don’t need to do recap that. But I like to play Scum, not Rebels. If I wanted to field X-Wings, then wouldn’t I play the Rebels with their all round fighter? Kihraxz doesn’t have extra crew or a droid slot like the X-Wing, so it lacks synergy in both attack and defense. The X-Wing lately has been weak for survivability. More it just feels like a Scum version lesser version of the X-Wing, but for same points. I had high hopes for the Kihraxz, which don’t feel like they will be answered.  The M3-A Interceptor of the last Wave was highly customizable with a title card t...

Today Mechwarrior Online nerfed the AC 2 . Basically why? Well I have the following suspicions. Mechwarrior online held two tournaments lately Mediums verse the World and Faction Challenge . In that they had rewards for the top players that scored highly on their formula. Guess what, there was cheating . Thats not really a surprize. But I’m sure something came out of that investigation, into how people cheated and what were truly successful players. To what lead that success was most likely that it was the AC 2 was the weapon of choice. I didn’t play in the Faction Challenge. I did do a lot of analyst competing in the Mediums verse the World. Best results, Shadow Hawk, 3 AC 2s and nothing else. Rank 139, sadly only top 5 won. I was only 700 points away from the winner. Now I’m old and my APM sucks these days. I’m sure if I was 25 again and put more time into the game, I would of been in the top 5. But who cares when there were numbers to crunch! I took di...

So smaller posts are better and I’m breaking up my discussion about, Why PGI should hire me , into smaller posts.. So Soon, some posts on Battlefield Gameplay Changes!

Weapons, Weapons Everywhere (boy do PPCs stink) What’s the problem with introducing clan weapons to the Mechwarrior Online Game? Well, let’s look at I the Inner Sphere and Clan ER Medium Laser . ER Medium Laser Heat Damage Damage per Heat Range Tons Criticals Battle Value Points Inner Sphere Tech 5 5 1 360m 1 1 108 Clan Tech 5 7 1.4 450m 1 1 62 +40% +25% The Clan Tech version of the same laser does 40% more damage and has +25%. One improvement would a huge advantage, but two is huge. The problem with Clan weapons is there are weapon systems where there is across the board improvement in performance over the Inner Sphere weapons. Weight, firepower, cooler running, etc. Each adds up to give Clan Mechs more firepower per ton than the Inner Sphere Mechs. So the problem is: how do you balance weapons that are kilogram per kilogram better than what in the game already? Starting with Mr. Inouye’s Post , On the ER Large Las...