The adjustments to the maps, are fantastic. I like having more options as far as where I want to go and how I'm going to get there. I'm the type of person that loves to work around other people to go flank or get in from behind. More options to do so now, that's great.
But the problem I'm seeing here is that things are being changed a little too drastically.
The new bruiser mech looked like my perfect setup. Tanky, and capable of putting out some DPS. Except that the Vulcan now overheats your mech in less than 10 seconds, it feels like. Perfectly fits the "bruiser" name though. Prepare for only assists, if you're going to play it. You simply can't kill anything without overheating.
But that could be a problem solved with upgrades and optimizations right? Not exactly.
While it's nice seeing some degree of drawback for an upgrade, I feel like "What's the point?" I don't feel the need to purchase any upgrades because the upgrade itself just isn't enough to justify spending the points, and then having a drawback - as well as barely doing anything as far as "upgrade" goes. The optimizations are even worse, barely doing anything.
If I picked up ALL of the heat reduction optimization and upgrades, I'd only have 7.56% heat reduction. With a whopping 1.56% of that coming from optimizations. All of the extra time I gain firing by that percentage is nullified by the 1% damage reduction on the upgrade.
Another thing on Optimizations, the only tree that looks even remotely worthy of skilling into is defense. Why? Because of the revamped optimizations that one point that adds 3.5% armor is awesome, the only other one that increases your armor being in the movement tree, for an astounding 0.9% boost - for three points.
Having leveled the Assault, Sharpshooter, and Infiltrator classes in both CBEs 1 and 2.. I feel like the changes made were way too drastic. The sharpshooter for instance, is useless in my opinion. The slug rifle is so inaccurate now, I have to be right next to my enemy to hit him with it not zoomed in. While it was buffed in some ways, it still doesn't justify playing it. In order to hit anything at a distance, you have to be zoomed in limiting your field of view, while also making it retarded hard keeping up with the fast paced nature of the game in such a shaky, too hard to understand view.
The assault for the most part feels unchanged.
I can't comment on the infiltrator as of right now, maybe later. But this is just my overall .02 so far.
More things of note - Why is the server browser gone? Why are all of my mechs gone? Why did my stats get reset? This is still a CBE right? Why bother reseting anything. I can understand wanting to do the mechs because of the amount of changes, but still.
The most noteworthy of these changes being the server browser. Why remove that at all? That's like taking a plus from the game in my opinion, one that doesn't need to be removed. It's like deciding to make your game a little worse because of no reason, although I'm sure you do have one... whatever it is.
Edited by Trakel, November 20 2012 - 05:34 PM.

 

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