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Monday Night Combat |OT| Some action on a monday night

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Stoney Mason

Banned
Full list. Patches and fixes and two new maps being added. For free. Awesome devs.

Due out in November, Spunky Cola Special adds two new maps, Spunky Cola Arena for the competitive 'Crossfire' mode and Survivitol Arena for survival mode 'Blitz.' Survivitol also brings a new mode of its own, "the incredibly frantic Super Sudden Death Blitz."

On top of that, the DLC will add the option for private matches as well as scores of fixes, map changes, balance tweaks and new features as detailed below.

Balance Changes

Assassin
Reduced damage done by the dagger to the Moneyball.
Increased the damage Assassins do after both dagger and sword lunge.
Normalized multipliers for both dagger and sword when doing damage from behind an enemy.
Reduced recovery time on Assassin's alternate fire grapple on the Dagger, Sword and Shuriken Launcher.
Fixed an issue that caused Assassins to do too little damage from front facing, alternate fire, Shuriken face slap grapple.
Sniper
Reduced the damage the Moneyball takes from a sniper rifle.
Reduced the skill drain rate of Sniper Traps.
Reduced the amount of juice gain from the sniper rifle damaging targets.
Support
Reduced juice gain from healing with the Heal/Hurt Gun.
Increased skill recovery time of level 2 and 3 of the Support's Air Strike.
Gunner
Reduced minimum damage on Gunner's minigun, making it less effective at long ranges.
Tank
Reduced the damage the Moneyball takes from the rail gun.
Other Balance Changes
Decreased effectiveness of Lazer Blazer Turrets vs players.
Increased effectiveness of RockIt Turrets vs bots.
Reduced cost of all levels of RockIt Turrets.
Greatly increased the cooldown time for Juice machines in Crossfire.


Bug Fixes and Gameplay Changes

Arenas
All Arenas:
Added game clocks to spawn rooms.
Added new opening and closing cinematics.
Added heat vents to top of spawn room tunnels.
Changed all jump pads to be non-enabled at the start of a match.
Steel Peel Arena
Added glass walls to break some long lines of sight.
Moved turrets in each base.
Moved some jump pads to help getting 'stuck-in-jump' loops.
Added game clocks to the inside of the dome.
Ammo Mule Arena
Added bridge supports to better protect turrets.
Fixed issue that caused AmmoMule to show up less often than intended.
Lazer Razor Arena
Added extra jump pads to get to the top level of the left side of both ends of the arena.
Fixed Bot Spawners showing usable by wrong team.
Fixed jump pads not lighting up green when active.
Grenade Arena
Reduced the number of juice machines so there are the same amount as other arenas.
Fixed Bot Spawners showing usable by wrong team.
Sprintz Arena
Added game clock to spawn room.
Added multiple round displays in the arena.
Added two more digits to round displays so that they show up to round 9999.


Tank
Fixed Rail Gun from being able to shoot through nearby walls.
Fixed various issues with the Jet Gun.


Sniper
Sniper Traps will now only freeze enemy Pros caught in the initial freeze trap explosion. An enemy Pro entering the area while the effect is active after the initial explosion will only be slowed. Traps work the same on bots as they did before.
Changed Flak visual effect to include team color and to have better performance.
Fixed issue where Sniper's Flak would damage players inside their spawn.
Fixed Snipers disappearing in the other view port in split screen when they are zoomed in with the Sniper Rifle.
Using bot spawners as a Sniper will now spawn two Scrambers.
Fixed issue where the sniper rifle, in certain instances, could shoot through walls .


Gunner
Fixed Minigun getting stuck with no ammo and not reloading.


Assassin
Assassins no longer make an audible hum to allied players.
Fixed an issue with the cloak sound not going away when the Assassin dies.


Support
Fixed an issue with Firebases that caused them to focus on a Moneyball they can't hit.
Reworked Heal/Hurt Gun code to make it more reliable.
Fixed griefing with Firebases: Firebases placed on an active jump pad or activating a jump pad with a Firebase on it will now destroy the Firebase.


Other Fixes and Changes
Fixed GapShots in Blitz from moving on clients when they are stopped on the host.
Reworked reload to greatly reduce the occurrence of having to restart reload when the reload animation was interrupted near the end.
Reworked the death UI so that it now displays the endorsements of who killed you.
Fixed players assisting in their own death.
Fixed Tank's and Gunner's jump jets staying on after a jump.
Fixed getting charged multiple times when using hazards and juice machines in high lag situations.
Changed money, kills, assists and deaths font in the scoreboard to add more emphasis on money making.
Fixed new round music riff and crowd cheer to play during Crossfire.
Changed formatting of numbers in the ticker to make them more readable.
Fixed seeing two Moneyballs in the end-game cinematic if the game ended without one being destroyed.
Fixed Bouncers playing their grapple animation when they charge at a player but hit a Blackjack.
Fixed Moneyball sometimes showing its shields when it has none.
Fixed players recovering health very quickly while juiced.
Various audio tuning for frequency and balance of sounds and voices.
More improvements to host migration to make it faster and more reliable.
More improvements to the party system when joining games and after host migration.
Reworked how random maps are chosen to be less repetative.


New Features and Additions
All Star Mode
Added a feature that allows players to go beyond level 99 by going back to level 0 and getting a new "All Star" icon next to their name.

Highlights
Added in 12 new highlights with associated ProTags.

Career Milestones
Added career milestones and ProTags for bacon pickups.
Added career milestones and ProTags for killing each type of class.

[TASTY PICKUP]
Added [TASTY PICKUP], a prize that drops and gives [SOMETHING AWESOME].
Added career milestones and ProTags for [TASTY PICKUP].

Club Tags
Added a 4 character 'Club Tag' that players can append to their name.

Other Additions
Added "South Paw" and "South Paw Tactical" control schemes.
Added multiplayer ready functionality so a game can start before the timer runs out if most players press X in the lobby and set themselves as ready.
Added several new loading movies.
Added a mascot head icon on the locker room menu denoting when you have a new ProTag from a highlight or career milestone.
Added many new Mickey Cantor announcements.
Added new effect for picking up bacon and [TASTY PICKUP].

Arenas
Added a new Crossfire Arena:
Spunky Cola Arena: A single lane arena that puts players into the action faster and guaranteeing more explosions, more shooting and more awesome!

Added a new Blitz Arena:
Survivitol Arena: Bought from Grandma Betty's, the Survivitol Arena is the next level of Blitz action. Small and deadly with two tiers of bot spawners will keep Pros on their toes!

Added a new Blitz Mode:
Only in the Survivitol Arena will you be faced with the deadly, the intense, the incredibly frantic Super Sudden Death Blitz!

Private Games
Added in new options for private games:
Set game duration
Set overtime duration, including 0 time for no overtime
Toggle buying bots
Toggle buying Juice
Toggle Bullseye spawning
Toggle using Hazards (Annihilator / Ejectors)
Choose specific or random map
Hazards on / off
Force random classes
Toggle use of custom classes
Toggle class changing
Class limits on all classes
Added IceMen Pitgirl to updated level intros/outros
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Princess Skittles

Prince's's 'Skittle's
The demo for this game really surprised me, it was quite fun but I haven't got the full version yet.. this kind of support is pulling me in though.

Are there female avatars or just men as usual?
 
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Diablohead

Member
Gunner's minigun losing damage over range more then it does currently is most welcome, that minigun was too good at all ranges especially as it halfs your movement speed when hit by just one bullet.

I think every change there is a positive, so awesome.

Princess Skittles said:
The demo for this game really surprised me, it was quite fun but I haven't got the full version yet.. this kind of support is pulling me in though.

Are there female avatars or just men as usual?
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If you only played the demo weeks back try it again now, the free time was raised from 30 minutes to 60 so you may have another 30 minutes to play again.

The game is amazing, well worth buying at £10/$15
 
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Shig

Strap on your hooker ...
Steel Peel Arena
Added glass walls to break some long lines of sight.
Moved turrets in each base.
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Thank GOD. The sightlines on that map were a total nightmare and invalidated all but one turret emplacement, snipers could just sit back at their spawn and control the map with impunity.
 
devon the dude

devon the dude

Member
Princess Skittles said:
The demo for this game really surprised me, it was quite fun but I haven't got the full version yet.. this kind of support is pulling me in though.

Are there female avatars or just men as usual?
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the only female class is assassin
 
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Diablohead

Member
Today was the final straw for me when it comes to players juice rushing your ball in overtime, it's such a lame and broken mechanic that it ruins so much of the game, why play the first 15 minutes fighting hard to get half the enemies ball down to only get rushed by a juiced assassin in overtime and lose in 10 seconds.

Maybe I am just pissed off at losing every match I had tonight by juicers but there is no valid reason for it.
 
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Pydte

Member
Diablohead said:
Today was the final straw for me when it comes to players juice rushing your ball in overtime, it's such a lame and broken mechanic that it ruins so much of the game, why play the first 15 minutes fighting hard to get half the enemies ball down to only get rushed by a juiced assassin in overtime and lose in 10 seconds.

Maybe I am just pissed off at losing every match I had tonight by juicers but there is no valid reason for it.
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This is so annoying. Even though they reduced the amount of damage the money ball takes from players in the latest patch, juice rushing is still an almost sure win.

My second gripe with the game is the fact that towers are not nearly good enough. It is ridiculous how players with juice can annihilate several towers in a base in one rush. Even when upgraded to level three, and with hacks from supports, the towers get owned in no time.

It isn't rocket science to figure out, that the amount of gold lost on towers doesn't correlate to the amount of gold spent on a juice vending machine. So unbalanced. Nerfing the effectiveness of juice when attacking structures, including the money ball, would fix a lot of things...
 
Rocky_Balboa

Rocky_Balboa

Member
Great game. Haven't played it for awhile though, but it's still great. Hopefully more people will pick it up tomorrow.

There was one thing that I fucking hate about this game. No indicator for the latency. I hate when they do that. Especially when you don't get to choose which game you want to join. I hope they fixed this, but it wasn't on the list. :(
 
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Emitan

Member
Moobabe said:
Is it ok to port-beg for this one yet :(
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I was port-begging Uber Entertainment on Twitter the day it released. This game is the only reason I turn on my 360 besides the occasional game of Halo Reach.
 
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nli10

Member
Will get this once the Indie Uprising is finished and I know how many points I have left.

Expensive month with all the sales too...
 
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krakov

Member
This game is completely broken, can't imagine how infuriating it would be to new adopters at this point. The new arena seems to work quite well with towers having decent protection, or more likely, less experience in the player pool. Someone send me a PM if they ever decide to remove Juice.
 
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Diablohead

Member
krakov said:
This game is completely broken, can't imagine how infuriating it would be to new adopters at this point. The new arena seems to work quite well with towers having decent protection, or more likely, less experience in the player pool. Someone send me a PM if they ever decide to remove Juice.
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Broken in what way? the complaint about juice rushes was heard and now there is a timer on buying juice, damage to the ball is again dropped so that's 2 nurfs it's had now, still strong but much more manageable imo.

New update is sweet, the spunky cola map is well made for quick battles and I can see it working well for 3 on 3 without a dull moment, some parts of the map feel empty and useless right now but once people stop rushing the choke points all the time it will balance out, hopefully.

I started playing tank again, he feels weaker now but then he was a huge powerhouse, still is.

Also, Uber now have a store where you can buy those 12" figures, tee's and some other misc stuff, not much but it all looks sweet.

uber_allstar_special.jpg
 
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krakov

Member
Diablohead said:
Broken in what way?
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I just feel the balance between offense and defense being completely off. Turrets are super fragile and almost every placement is open to cross map sniping, which almost any class can do. Juicing is just a really shitty mechanic that adds complete randomness to a pretty well tuned game, and even if you can't buy it you can earn it every other minute. Especially with a custom class, which is also random. Add in some random pickups and a dodgy matchmaking experience and it's hard to get a decent game going.

Also, as far as I've noticed since the update 9/10 games still go to overtime and then randomly gets decided. Unless maybe you'll be placed in a match with uneven teams, which happens all the time.

Or maybe it's just not for me, I had a great time in the early days of the game but can't stand it anymore. Maybe some of it has to do with the Support class which is the only thing I've been playing since the update. Not sure I have the patience to try some other things out.
 
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Diablohead

Member
I can understand all that as I was once bitching about it all, but the game feels so much better now then it use to, juicing is less of a problem though the assassins can go 3 hit turrets while juiced, something about that needs to be toned down.

Rocket turrets are now stronger in both attack and armour, cheaper too so they feel useful now.

The problem is that half the time your team just goes for kills instead of escorting bots or killing the enemy robots, that's the worst problem for me.

Oh and I love the new announcer speeches, you get one now for host migration :lol "this host migration was bought to you by ammo mule!" after the game resumes, I laughed hard as I was just not expecting it.
 
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firehawk12

Subete no aware
Anyone have any recommended builds? I haven't played in ages and all my classes were geared towards getting juice faster it seems. :lol

Also, the game needs some better matchmaking for Blitz. I just want to play, I don't care what playlist I'm in.
 
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Diablohead

Member
Monday Night Combat is coming to STEAM :D

http://store.steampowered.com/app/63200/

Monday Night Combat is available for a discounted pre-purchase today on Steam. Pre-purchasing will get you access into the Beta that goes live Thursday December 16th and continue until full release on January 17th, 2011.

Features:

-Choose one of six distinct characters and defend the Moneyball against waves of robots in Single Player Blitz Mode with six challenges and two maps.
-Play online in Co-op Blitz with up to four players, build turrets, upgrade your Pro and protect your Moneyball against armies of robots
-Play competitive Crossfire mode with six on six defending your Moneyball while taking down theirs aided by endless stream of robots in five maps including Spunky Cola Arena
-Fully customizable games including Dedicated Server support
-hundreds of Protags to unlock with Lifetime Earnings, stats, custom classes and Steam Achievements
-controller support
-Editor support (coming in January)
-new content (coming in January)
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Diablohead

Member
Beta is now up and running, 2GB install, there is a thread for the steam version already I think but since all the news has been here also, i've edited the op to alert anyone who actually looks at the first page :lol
 
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kuYuri

Member
Just tried out the demo, this game is surprisingly good! I didn't expect the shooting to feel as good as it does. This game is yet more proof UE3 can easily do a variety of graphical styles.

Also, it's currently on sale for 600 points on XBLM today only.

I'm super surprised this game is coming to Steam considering it's published by Microsoft. Considering Microsoft's direct competitor in the PC space is Steam, why release it on Steam and not GFWL?
 
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Sai-kun

Banned
This game isn't working for me, MP anyways :(

It was working earlier, but now it's telling me I don't have some DLC, so i can't connect to any servers.
 
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Weenerz

Banned
So trying to log onto a multiplayer server has resulted in either not having the same DLC as the server(how?) or it someone filling up 2 seconds after trying to join an empty server. Off to a great start.

This might teach me a lesson in buying games just for TF2 stuff.
 
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FatalT

Banned
Weenerz said:
So trying to log onto a multiplayer server has resulted in either not having the same DLC as the server(how?) or it someone filling up 2 seconds after trying to join an empty server. Off to a great start.

This might teach me a lesson in buying games just for TF2 stuff.
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Pretty much all the servers are old beta servers that haven't updated to the actual game yet. That's why you get that message. Ugh.
 
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Kai Dracon

Writing a dinosaur space opera symphony
There still seems to be a lot of legitimate bugs in the PC version. I tried playing LAN games here with friends, and when someone hosts the game, about 5 seconds after the game starts, the person who is hosting the game exits; their client just goes to the title screen, disconnecting everyone.

Saw a reference to this happening on the Steam forums too, so it's not just us.
 
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rexor0717

Member
Weenerz said:
So trying to log onto a multiplayer server has resulted in either not having the same DLC as the server(how?) or it someone filling up 2 seconds after trying to join an empty server. Off to a great start.

This might teach me a lesson in buying games just for TF2 stuff.
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Its a good game! I got it last night, and I've enjoyed the small amount of time I've put into it. Give it a chance.
 
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vocab

Member
Server browser is a cluster fuck. Ran into some ATI black texture corruption. The texture streaming at spawn is a joke (seriously, everytime?).

I'll wait a bit to see how this pans out. Interesting game, but very hard to get a game going at the moment.
 
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The Technomancer

card-carrying scientician
Okay, maybe I'm missing something incredibly stupid here, but on the PC version I can't join any servers. Found a few good looking ones with open slots and low ping, but I can't actually select any server at all to join. Clicking on it highlights it, but the highlight doesn't stick, and hitting join doesn't do anything. What gives?
 
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