March 10 2011 Patch

Haven't played it yet, but can already assume what's going to happen:

-Complaints about the armor change being unnecessary (trufacttho)

-Decent to Above Average players will get kicked for "hacking"

-Decent to Above Average players will not get to play with friends at the same level in any pub match (same teams)

Other than new gear, I don't see much change. It feels a lot like a newbie awareness patch and that's kind of...not exciting.

Also where's the editor?

I was saying this for assault but im sure your playing pub's support in pubs rof, armor, skill is good.

I have to say, without extensive testing though, that I can't entirely agree to an update with the intention to ease on new players, the summary reads a lot like "we simplify the game in favour of inexperienced players".

Not only that, it'll require a change in endorsements to survive things usually survived before as light classes and this just forces people to either have gold armor on every class (something some people may not be entirely fond of) or to go for more cookie-cutter builds and I really doubt that this would make it easier for new players.

But hey, I'm on pills don't mind me

skill pill?

Flu pills, no derail here boss.

what do you recommend for competitive support setup then?

Armor/RoF/Skill? Or perhaps something completely different?

also sorry Grimbar, I couldn't resist. do get well soon

On one hand, I want to say that you've already bought the game and some new players haven't, so from a business standpoint it benefits them more to cater to new players. Look at WoW, super easy game, billions of dollars annually.

On the other hand though, if the current players don't stick around and get friends to play, they will have to advertise with money they (seemingly) don't have.

Only me who got almost all servers greyed out and unable to join any? I applied the update to my client, connected normally to a server, did a few rounds, then wanted to change server and now I can't join any, might have to do with the all star rating req?

It's an issue with the rating req.

Near as I can tell, servers are assuming ?MaxStarRating=0 if you don't set it at all. Also, the values are wonky. I had to set ?MaxStarRating=6 on our server before someone with this issue could join.

The ranking system seems a little...broken?

In the first game I played I went 0-1-14 with 1 bot kill. We lost the game and my rank went from 2 up to 3.

Then my second attempt at earning a 1* backfired quite badly...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoDc_9PZYQ4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pdsSGkLULU
....
:ugeek:

That's pretty weird, without changing the command line my server was showing with a 5 stars req and I couldn't join.

I couldn't see our server's stars req before I moved the value to 6, but I know sF Agent couldn't join with it not set, and couldn't join with the value=4. As soon as I set it to 6, he could get right in.

Well...

This I know: My disconnect problems haven't been fixed yet.
I didn't really expect anything so... I guess, i'm fine?

Also, so...
Every server's configuration is faulty now? :I

skill/ rate/ armor

The disconnect problem is yours and yours alone bro.

Yup changed it to 6 and iirc it shows a 2 stars rating req now, but people can join with a rating of 5, only non greyed out server for me and a lot of other people too apparently...

i'm assuming this means a less offensive support, but considering this is for comp, and means you have a competent team to protect you as you heal them, i can dig it. shall give it a go later (just wish i had more custom class slots for it)

Exactly what I'm seeing.

I really hope the rating restrictions don't kill my server choice There's only a few with decent pings already.

Does anyone have any numbers on survival for the light and medium classes when using gold/silver/bronze armor against the assault L3 bomb?