The Other Side of the Looking Glass - March 2, 2007

Two year old bug fixes are far more important than rah-rah events.  I am glad that time will be spent on that.

To be honest, I wasn't very impressed by the Anniversary Event last year.  I don't say that to be a jerk, but it appears that this Event business is just an irritating hassle to the MXO team.  Perhaps you could consider ditching it next year, or at least putting that concept to a vote.  I think most of us would much rather see some story-related thing happen somewhere near the anniversary date, rather than some related theme that never really plays itself out fully.

Hopefully, the Anniversary Event will be a good way to break a fully staffed LESIG 2.0 in.

Based on all of the recent PvP tournaments, all builds are pretty balanced. As a matter of fact, the tree with the most successes in PvP is a certain gun build. So why are you thinking MKT is overpowered? Fix the timers so that you can't stack neuro. Make sure knives work in interlock. There ya go. What's with all this family timer crap? What am I gonna do for the 8 seconds it is gonna take between each of my attacks? I don't have a melee or gun attack worth using as  MKT. I mean, I guess I'll save some IS, since MKT drains IS like no tomorrow and I have to wear all IS clothing and give up my entire resistance. Please consider ALL the factors in your testing the balance...besides the screwy interlock and complaints of not being able to use CTRL ALT to instantly escape, knife thrower is balanced. When I run into someone who knows what they are doing, it's always a close fight.

I guess I'll just wait for the patch and then start the feedback...

• Dying on a bench/chair no longer breaks the bench/chair.

thats great about all the bug fixs, and that the disguise puts you into spy style. Just a few more additions before the update comes out and it should be fantastic. Maybe get the disguise to drop once you receive damage?

And lets take a crack at those NPC's who seem to sploit every chance they get with there no-timer interlocking and free fire through walls.

Everything else is spot on and if the lag in DT is fixed i think this game can finally start to be promoted to the world again.

Yay for no slowness Downtown!!! =) (I love to do all my missions downtown ^^)

Well I loooooved the blue sky anniversary event! And even though there probably won't be anything like that again I am sure I will love this one too! I can't wait =P

The Matrix Online Turns 01 on March 22!

Hopefully we see luggables in effect on the anniversary event.

Smaller scale Anniversary event is FTW. I remember the horrible lag and confusion of last year's event (it was still fun, but it could be better). Sadly, though, I think I'll be out in Indiana at that time, without computer access

If the Downtown lag is fixed, I think the devs win the intarwebs.

Tbone]

Based on all of the recent PvP tournaments, all builds are pretty balanced. As a matter of fact, the tree with the most successes in PvP is a certain gun build. So why are you thinking MKT is overpowered? Fix the timers so that you can't stack neuro. Make sure knives work in interlock. There ya go. What's with all this family timer crap? What am I gonna do for the 8 seconds it is gonna take between each of my attacks? I don't have a melee or gun attack worth using as  MKT. I mean, I guess I'll save some IS, since MKT drains IS like no tomorrow and I have to wear all IS clothing and give up my entire resistance. Please consider ALL the factors in your testing the balance...besides the screwy interlock and complaints of not being able to use CTRL ALT to instantly escape, knife thrower is balanced. When I run into someone who knows what they are doing, it's always a close fight.

I guess I'll just wait for the patch and then start the feedback...

Hang on. I'm gonna have to ask this:

"What happens if you use a female RSI pill on a male RSI?"

Hang on. I'm gonna have to ask this:

"What happens if you use a female RSI pill on a male RSI?"

Did you know that you can't equip clothing of the opposite gender? 

 I am pretty sure that is how it will work with the RSI Pills.

I can finally get that tan I need, and now I can sit on any bench without fear of it being broken to show it off, grand.

And while sitting on my bench, well not my bench, I won't see one level 50 MKT taking out 3 level 50 MA's, all in IL.

Whatever happened to org ablities..?

FlaminMathew1 wrote:

Whatever happened to org ablities..?

Put on the back burner since they were HCFrog's idea, and now he's been adopted to do another project.

Tbone]

Based on all of the recent PvP tournaments, all builds are pretty balanced. As a matter of fact, the tree with the most successes in PvP is a certain gun build. So why are you thinking MKT is overpowered? Fix the timers so that you can't stack neuro. Make sure knives work in interlock. There ya go. What's with all this family timer crap? What am I gonna do for the 8 seconds it is gonna take between each of my attacks? I don't have a melee or gun attack worth using as  MKT. I mean, I guess I'll save some IS, since MKT drains IS like no tomorrow and I have to wear all IS clothing and give up my entire resistance. Please consider ALL the factors in your testing the balance...besides the screwy interlock and complaints of not being able to use CTRL ALT to instantly escape, knife thrower is balanced. When I run into someone who knows what they are doing, it's always a close fight.

I guess I'll just wait for the patch and then start the feedback...

I really hope the "event" is not on the 22nd, that's my mothers birthday =/

Walrus you better be at Fan Faire -_-

I liked the last anniversary event I actually felt it was the most uniquely matrix story of any of the events to date. But I'd rather have regular story events and/or content and/or bug fixes than some one off special.

Update 50 is looking very cool, the rsi pills are really needed to inject a bit of variety into peoples ongoing lives (2+ years looking identicle isnt fun).

'm playing a wait and see game with MKT, I think that it gets more critcism than it deserves as many players exploit the ease with which throws may be spammed - it has imo been blown out of proportion. As Tbone correctly points out, the factual evidence of tournaments is that in any 1 on 1 situation balance in the game is actually very close. Drastic changes are simply not required to any tree (except maybe patcher aoe) - a fundamental problem in CR2 is that numbers hold too much sway, no one dare be caught in IL and lose the advantage of the first strike - these are the real reasons so many builds now use sneak (its not actually mkt online at all, look at the loadouts on vector and its just that virtually everyone has sneak loaded and the cheaper ones exploit neuro as well - i have no issue with its reduced effect). The system is to much Zerg or be zerged and changes need to be made to reduce the abilty of numbers to stack up and overwhelm a situation, only then will a real balance of sneaked and non sneaked classes be properly met in the field......

I liked the last anniversary event I actually felt it was the most uniquely matrix story of any of the events to date. But I'd rather have regular story events and/or content and/or bug fixes than some one off special.

Update 50 is looking very cool, the rsi pills are really needed to inject a bit of variety into peoples ongoing lives (2+ years looking identicle isnt fun).

'm playing a wait and see game with MKT, I think that it gets more critcism than it deserves as many players exploit the ease with which throws may be spammed - it has imo been blown out of proportion. As Tbone correctly points out, the factual evidence of tournaments is that in any 1 on 1 situation balance in the game is actually very close. Drastic changes are simply not required to any tree (except maybe patcher aoe) - a fundamental problem in CR2 is that numbers hold too much sway, no one dare be caught in IL and lose the advantage of the first strike - these are the real reasons so many builds now use sneak (its not actually mkt online at all, look at the loadouts on vector and its just that virtually everyone has sneak loaded and the cheaper ones exploit neuro as well - i have no issue with its reduced effect). The system is to much Zerg or be zerged and changes need to be made to reduce the abilty of numbers to stack up and overwhelm a situation, only then will a real balance of sneaked and non sneaked classes be properly met in the field......

You are aware that an MKT can hit you with 4 high-level abilities in about six seconds. And, then jump out and neuro so you can't move.  And, then disguise and punt without you ever getting a shot in.  And, you think this is "blown out of proportion"?

RainKingX wrote:

You are aware that an MKT can hit you with 4 high-level abilities in about six seconds. And, then jump out and neuro so you can't move.  And, then disguise and punt without you ever getting a shot in.  And, you think this is "blown out of proportion"?

They're fixing the timer and neuro dart issues, but not nerfing Sneak Attacks that I know of. "Blowing out of proportion" is rampant in those exaggerations. Heck, a Sniper could one shot me if I sat down and told him where I was, just like a MKT can do the above only if you let it happen. Please keep on-topic to Tytanya's post and save your stories of PvP strategy failure / additional complaints for the new wave of anti-MKT threads that will appear when people realize that it's still possible for MKTs to kill someone after update 50.

ThBayamo wrote:

RainKingX wrote:

You are aware that an MKT can hit you with 4 high-level abilities in about six seconds. And, then jump out and neuro so you can't move.  And, then disguise and punt without you ever getting a shot in.  And, you think this is "blown out of proportion"?

They're fixing the timer and neuro dart issues, but not nerfing Sneak Attacks that I know of. "Blowing out of proportion" is rampant in those exaggerations. Heck, a Sniper could one shot me if I sat down and told him where I was, just like a MKT can do the above only if you let it happen. Please keep on-topic to Tytanya's post and save your stories of PvP strategy failure / additional complaints for the new wave of anti-MKT threads that will appear when people realize that it's still possible for MKTs to kill someone after update 50.

There's two exploits.  I don't know them (as I don't know any) that have nothing to do with me 'letting it happen'.  1. The one that allows you to punt despite the fact evade shield is up.  And, the other that allows the attacker to "bump" your shield away.  They all have to do with MKT.  It's not an exaggeration.  It's bad code.

RainKingX wrote:

ThBayamo wrote:

RainKingX wrote:

You are aware that an MKT can hit you with 4 high-level abilities in about six seconds. And, then jump out and neuro so you can't move.  And, then disguise and punt without you ever getting a shot in.  And, you think this is "blown out of proportion"?

They're fixing the timer and neuro dart issues, but not nerfing Sneak Attacks that I know of. "Blowing out of proportion" is rampant in those exaggerations. Heck, a Sniper could one shot me if I sat down and told him where I was, just like a MKT can do the above only if you let it happen. Please keep on-topic to Tytanya's post and save your stories of PvP strategy failure / additional complaints for the new wave of anti-MKT threads that will appear when people realize that it's still possible for MKTs to kill someone after update 50.

There's two exploits.  I don't know them (as I don't know any) that have nothing to do with me 'letting it happen'.  1. The one that allows you to punt despite the fact evade shield is up.  And, the other that allows the attacker to "bump" your shield away.  They all have to do with MKT.  It's not an exaggeration.  It's bad code.

Theres an ability called Disable Evasion that temporary disables evade sheilds so thats not an exploit.  Not sure what you mean by "bump".

Hm...I'm torn between having a good BIG 2nd event as in hindsight I really liked the Blue Sky one, ah ok Cryptos

and Veil didn't come thru all that well, but the rest of the characters did in the meetings I think. And killing scores

of Blue Masked extremists was pretty fun! Could have used a lesig team on each server to play a few of the more

inclined factors to save the Matrix, like Flood and Silver perhaps under the initial lighting up of the lights...ah

well...hindsight hindsight. On a second note I also agree that the bugs gotta go ASAP stance, because that

would then give off huge amounts of time for more fun! both to the dev teams for finding new things to do with

the existing engine,  but also to us players for not lagging as much anymore!

AND we would look better I leave it in the hands of THE MXO TEAM! You rock...now give us luggables DD

Cheers Synapze777

nvm