Starting out MWO under the moniker "The Knight of Dawn", mostly because of my long love affair with Mecha.
So what faction and weight class should I choose? I was thinking about Inner Sphere and a Light Mech, but I want to get input from you guys.
I don't know shit about factions, but I did watch some videos from a good, accomplished player who was basically trying to teach things to new players, and one thing I learned is that light mechs aren't for newbies to the game. Their lack of armor is definitely offset by their speed, and you can do some interesting things with them, but they require great control to succeed. Because if you get hit, you FEEL that lack of armor.
But hey, if you like a challenge and are already great at Mechwarrior games, I guess you can go ahead and go be a light mech. Being a heavier mech does make it easier to start off with, though, and then you can buy a light mech later.
Well, the Patcher refuses to work and it won't play. Son of a bitch.
I forgot MWO existed. After reading your first post I went to got download it and try it, but now that the patcher is up it says the patch download will take 20 hours or more. Fuck that. I'm not waiting that long. Besides it might fuck up like you said, or it will stop when my laptop goes in to standby and have to completely restart.
As I was waiting for the installer to download I was hype as shit to get to finally play a mechwarrior game again. My fucking piece of shit internet connection has killed the hype. Have I mentioned my damn internet connection bullshit? It can usually sort of play online games, but anytime I try to download something it shits itself. Like when me and my friend are on Xbox Live and are switching to a game and find it needs a sizable patch downloaded, like Battlefield. Ok, fine. My friends download took ten minutes. Mine took all damn night, and we ended up not getting o play the game we wanted to fucking play, because once it finished, he had all of ten minutes before he had to get offline and go to bed.
What I hate the most is that this is the best we can get and have no hope of getting anything better in the near future at all. It took a petition and a hell of a lot of phone calls to get them to install this much. Before it was either dial up, or satellite, which wasn't any better than dial up. The internet company knows we have no other choice, so the can be dicks all they want. About a year ago the internet would go down all the time, for no apparent reason. When the guy the company sent to look at it came here looked at the junction box or whatever it is, he said their previous "upgrade" to what it is now was done be basically hotwiring an old used semi-broken board or something to the existing shit system, somehow making it less shit. He pretty much told us it was a dubious set-up. It got "fixed" in that the internet doesn't go down daily, but it is still down every once in a while. The internet company are a buch of cheap ass motherfucker who refuse to even properly upgrade the system to what I think is the lowest speed available from most other companies in other areas.
A while back the Australian government was getting shit for planning to only upgrade the countries internet system to a certain amount. Everyone was screaming at them about how abysmally low it would be and how it would hinder the countries economy. Out of curiosity I looked at the internet speed I was getting at the time, it being a good day. I found it barely pushed a fifth of whatever the Australian governments proposal was. What other people called abysmally slow, was still over five times what I was getting on a good day. On a bad day I wish I had fucking dial up.
By the way, the patch is in total a size of 4107.13 MB. Currently, an hour after it started, it is at about 230 MB. Somehow the ETA shown is now about 10 hours. I don't know how that works. Besides, my internet speed fluctuates so much normally that the ETA on downloads is normally jumping all over the place.
This post ended up being a lot longer than planned.
