Mechwarrior Living Legends Beta has gone 0.2.0

[Acanthus]

Thoughts?

Version 0.2.0
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Balance
- Can now use cbill transfer manager while inside a vehicle
- Reduced NARC lock on range from 1000m to 800m.
- Owens now has C3 on all variants.
- Owens now have MASC on B and C variants.
- Warhammer speed has been increased slightly.
- Increased refire rate on SRMs.
- Increased refire rate on StreakSRMs.
- Increased LBX5/10 damage.
- Increased price of most ammo types.
- Decreased MASC speed increase from 50% to 40%.
- Tweaked control performance of all aerospace.
- Greatly increased AC/RAC damage against BA and aerospace.
- Slightly increased spread on RAC2/5s.
- Increased RAC overheat time.
- Rebalanced Rank salaries including starting salary.
- Rebalanced accleration factors on mechs.
- Increased height threshold for applying fall animations on mechs.
- Firebomb and TBolt reload times greatly increased.
- Decreased gauss damage agaisnt aerospace, to prevent guarenteed one shot kills.
- Increased damage and heat of Clan ERPPC.
- Increased speed on both Sulla and Shiva.
- Updated Warhammer configurations.
- Updated Puma configuration.
- Updated Hawkmoth configurations.
- Updated Shiva C configuration.

Bug Fixes
- Stumps on destructible trees are now destructible.
- BA flamer now functions correctly.
- LRM/Streak offsets are now applied when unlocked or guided by tag/narc.
- Reticule targeting now reliable.
- Calliope turrets now properly fire all visual effects on remote clients.
- Fixed multiple ammo reload bugs.
- Laser orientation on remote clients fixed. Vehicle TAG laser now works as intended.
- Tracers orientation on remote clients fixed.
- Missle trails now align to physics direction correctly.
- Fixed ghost MASC sounds on cougar.
- LRMs now adjust descend distance based on height to target.
- Ejector seat is now one shot for both original owner and thieves.
- Mechs do not instantly stop on ejection anymore.
- Joystick x-axis now properly supported.
- Joystick sliders now properly supported.
- Joystick POV switches now properly supported.
- Joystick throttle on mechs now behaves sanely.
- New joystick commands for each axis 'raw' and 'invraw' to send joystick commands without sensitivity.
- When using a joystick, game writes Joystick.cfg file to active profile.
- New min and max variables per joystick axis that allow users to map custom ranges into -1.0 to 1.0 range.
- Fixed corruption of vehicle hud when hitting ESC to go to the main menu.

New Features
- Cheat protection system added.
- Current release uses new installer.
- Prices on all vehicles are now calculated based on chasis, equipment, weapons, and armor.
- C3 computers will now chain together to give even more range.
- Main menu now displays mod version.
- Directional indicator on hud for nearest tag/narc.
- Terrain intelligent bomb sight.
- LongTom projection system.
- Improvements to aerospace controls to allow both percision and speed.
- Rank/Score/Income now scales with how many players are on the server.
- Manpack PPC now has some serious kick to it.
- Lock on cone reduced.
- Lock on timer added which allows you to break line of sight for a short period of time.
- Friendly NARCs and TAGs now show up on the radar/map.
- Added command invertMousePitch to invert pitch on aerospace in game.
- Added analog control of leg turning for relevant devices.
- Added more formal support for gamepads like the xbox360 controller.
- Default actionmap includes mapped functionos for gamepads.
- VTOL booster now angled to move player forward in most situations.

New Content
- Added Osiris to Inner Sphere mechs.
- Added Novacat to Clan mechs.
- Added Thanatos to Inner Sphere mechs.
- Added APC.
- Added Longtom to Innersphere tanks.
- Added MRM20, MRM30, MRM40 missile launchers.
- Added laser based anti-missle system.
- Added Frostbite map.
- Updated Extremity.
- Updated Clearcut.
- Updated Inferno.
- Updated Sandblasted.
- New RAC5 sound.
- New RAC2 sound.
- New sounds for Sulla.
- New nuke particle effect.

Optimizations
- Performance optimizations on desturctible trees.
- Optimized server performance on laser guided missiles.
- Optimized server performance on explosions.
- Optimized server performance on vehicle flamers.
- Optimized RAC sound channel usage.
- Optimized LBL sound channel usage.
- Various map optimizations.

Known Issues:
- Inferno currently has a misplaced killzone at 500 m height which kills VTOL pilots.

Torrent of current client: (You must delete the old client before installing the new one)
http://www.mwlldownload.com/download/MWLL-OpenBeta-Full-0.2.0.exe.torrent

 

[DarkForceRising]

My first thought is "Woohoo, a Nova Cat!"

Seeing as the copy of Crysis just came in today, I'll be trying this out over the weekend, most likely.

 

[yuppiejr]

Nice, I was just getting ready to reinstall after a machine rebuild and opted to wait until the patch hit this week hoping I'd finally finish the single player Crysis campaign in the interim... might not make it.

Love the changes - hopefully some of the server side fixes will correct the server/client lag that makes BA so hard to kill since I see they didn't modify their hitbox to compensate according to the notes.

GREAT MOD for those that haven't tried it yet.

 

[Hyperlite]

great! just finished crysis, i'll give this a shot.

 

[JPS35]

Does this mod have a single player campaign yet?

 

[ZzZGuy]

Well, I used the Long Tom tank and it's devastating!

Now most people who use it in public matches will either be firing blindly, shooting point blank or trying to get line of sight.

But I played a match on marches with a friend spotting for me and found I could reach across the entire map. A near miss will cripple a assault mech, anything lighter just goes boom. If you get someone good at aiming this thing working with a spotter anything standing still (like say, missile boats) are toast. You can even get one at the start of the match if your spotter goes in BA and gives you his credits.

 

[GoodRevrnd]

Does this version seem significantly less stable than the previous to anyone? The missing audio bugs are back, I get random missing textures that may or may not pop in and out, and sometimes entire sections of the hud will just disappear.

 

[Acanthus]

Does this version seem significantly less stable than the previous to anyone? The missing audio bugs are back, I get random missing textures that may or may not pop in and out, and sometimes entire sections of the hud will just disappear.

They are working on a hotfix for it, some of the DEVs were on one of the heavy load servers last night asking questions.

 

[DarkForceRising]

Does this version seem significantly less stable than the previous to anyone? The missing audio bugs are back, I get random missing textures that may or may not pop in and out, and sometimes entire sections of the hud will just disappear.

The first time I joined a match, half the textures were missing. I restarted and it was fine.

My gripe with this mod is that it seems to take more computing power to run than Crysis does. Well, that and I can't figure out how all the weapons/mechs work without trying them out.