March 10 2011 Patch

Downloading it now! Can't wait to see what it is!

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Monday Night Combat Updates

Update 5 3/10/11

Summary
This update focuses on the new player experience. With the influx of players coming from PAX East we wanted to make sure that the new Monday Night Combat fans get to play with other new fans without getting rolled over by veterans. With the new All-Star Rating system players will be able to get an idea of their skill level vs the others on their server. The balance adjustments to armor endorsements and the default class changes were aimed at continuing this goal by making the newer players live longer but the veteran players, who are usually armed with custom classes, be more in balance when they use these endorsements.

New Features
All-Star Rating System - The All Star system is a system to rate players so that they have more visibility into the overall skill level on each server. The All Star Rating is a continuously adjusting five star rating. Play well, itll go up. Play poorly and itll go down. We will improve the system in future updates as we get feedback and data.
New Outlander Gear!
New Penny Arcades Cardboard Tube Samurai Uniform for Assassin!
New Taunts while wearing Outlander Gear!
: New votekick functionality. A player initiates a vote by typing in the console. PLAYER can be the player's name or their player number from the . Once a vote is in progress, other players type or in the console. If ? of players vote to kick, the player will be removed and not allowed to return for some period of time. The exclusion period increases greatly with each subsequent votekick.


Fixes
Fixed issue with grapples after getting knocked into the air
Fixed rare case of Assassin getting a back grapple when she is actually in front of her target.
Fixed Ping display in scoreboard
Dedicated blitz servers immediately end rounds and return to lobby when all players have left the game.


Balance
Reduced the benefits of armor endorsements for Assault, Support, Sniper and Assassin.


Adjustments
New Game Summary display before the end game scoreboard
Altered the default Assassin and Sniper builds to include armor endorsements
Increased the chance of JuiceBot spawning during a game in honor of PAX East


Dedicated Server
Dedicated Servers can set the Max Star Rating for the server by adding ?MaxStarRating=[0-4] to the commandline options. This is a zero based index so the actual value is +1 the entry (ie 0 = 1 star)
Updated commandline and UI support, updated batch files to support AllStar Rating

Balance
Reduced the benefits of armor endorsements for Assault, Support, Sniper and Assassin.

as long as i can still survive a front grapple with silver armor as a support/sniper, i can deal

other then that, THANK YOU FOR THE GRAPPLE FIX!!!

Votekicking and less tanky assassins? Shweeeet. :mrgreen:

Good players will get horrible ratings if it's decided by players.

what are the exact changes to armor? as in gold silver bronze stats how much HP does it now give? cause this could change my assault build majorly

oh and how much is the DLC on PC going to be?

It means have no armor now. so.....Gold RoF/Silver accuracy/Bronze Critical shot.

Thats a bad idea.

Can't as Sniper.

Any word on the actual numbers of the change? I'll go digging for hostilebalance myself if no one has, but right now I probably don't have the time before work. Also have been told one of my friends tried to play and after one match was refused access to all servers.

BAL_END_ARMOR_1_L =75
BAL_END_ARMOR_2_L =150
BAL_END_ARMOR_3_L =225
BAL_END_ARMOR_1_M =75
BAL_END_ARMOR_2_M =150
BAL_END_ARMOR_3_M =250
BAL_END_ARMOR_1 =100
BAL_END_ARMOR_2 =200
BAL_END_ARMOR_3 =300

Not going to be home to play tonight. Can someone tell me how the votekicking actually works? I mean, it seems like a step in the right direction, but not giving server admins any control over it is probably a step right back, no? From the way it's worded, it sounds like any individual can initiate a vote for a kick at any time on any and all servers. No batch command to turn it off or alter how many people are needed to initiate the vote, etc.

So, as soon as someone gets a little peeved that they are getting owned or whatever, they're going to spam the whole server with having to vote on kicking someone? Cooldown between instances of voting? God, I hope there's at least that. I also hope that if there is a cooldown that it's for each individual player, otherwise one person could start a meaningless revenge-vote and then everyone else would have to wait before a potentially meaningful vote could be issued.

What does the L, M and lack thereof signify? Light, Medium, Heavy? Which classes are which?

L = Sniper and Assassin
M = Support and Assault
lack of = Gunner and Tank

Support may be L, somebody correct me I don't usually pay attention to the Support.

Let me correct my self now if you dont have armor 3 your in trouble. I know some people have silver that's a bad idea.

:cry:

looks like it's back to RoF/Ammo/Reload...

by the way, the bronze crits is sort of a bad idea, just put in clip size, xeno even said himself clip size would probably help more but he just likes the bronze crit

i dunno. just played a game as gold armor and silver RoF and the difference for the shotgun was terrible for me. sure i could survive a bit more, but it didn't matter since my timing was so off for my shotty.

played a game with the ol' RoF/Armor/Skill and things are a bit alright. I have to be loads more careful now that i can't go rambo support...

(mind you i still healed my teammates, but honestly now i really have to rely on them a bit more, which come to think about it is alright by me, so long as they're mostly competent)

I will never use no armor on assault ask xeno how well it worked vs good players in the private match he played vs futtbuck's team not sure when he will learn to use gold armor for at least privates. I was just saying what xeno's class was because majority of the players will be playing pub's.