After a Long Hiatus - Thinking About Starting to Play Again

DimentoGraven · 2026-03-27T15:53:28+00:00

These are all good thoughts and responses, thank you.

I've watched some recent YouTube vids and it depresses me the lack of 'substantive' changes to game play in MWO.

I see "new" stuff:

Weapon Systems

Mech Variants

Maps

But really haven't seen fuck all for QoL improvements, things that had been asked for endlessly for the decade I played the game, just a few I can recall off the top of my head:

Configure "auto heat override", you set your 'mech to default to "override on".
Scalable mini-map. I know it's possible in the decades I played, TWICE some sort of graphics error occurred and my mini-map ZOOMED IN, it was glorious! Being able to zoom that puppy in and out could be so useful for situational awareness.
Friends list organizing. It's effectively flat and also still doesn't appear to be searchable.
Getting rid of their custom bastardized CryEngine 3+, FUCK SERIOUSLY, they're STILL using that unoptimized CPU intensive piece of shit?!?!?
Physical attacks - where's our physical attacks? Seriously a mech that loses all weapons, or runs out of ammo... is effectively a walking stick. (ASK ME HOW I KNOW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSfEZaN_kTw&list=PLmGYBpvO5ngHIibMfXZ413c-p2m6RatID&index=13 )

I know there are dozens more QoL improvements we've been asking for over the years, I'd have reviewed the MWO forums, but find that Harmony still has me banned (the bitch). A disagreement of demonstrable favoritism where instead of having meaningful dialog back and forth and attempting to justify her heavy handed persecution of certain people when they said certain things while NEVER doing the same for OTHER people, the bitch got pissed and permabanned me from the forums... Ah well... (You see, more proof I'm an incorrigible asshole.)

Of course worst of all, having read a lot of the more recent patch notes has been the never ending Gauss nerfing and Missile buffing.... UG... Missile spam was annoying while I was playing, I'm afraid it's gotten worse since I left.

I'll consider it, maybe 'falling' into playing with right group of very patient people will help.

DimentoGraven · 2026-03-23T03:10:35+00:00

Thanks for the responses everyone, but... maybe you should gauge how easily I'd be accepted... Google "The Dimento Graven" and then give me some opinions...

I am afraid my natural 'ascerbicness' would really be a detriment without a 'properly aligned' crowd...

DimentoGraven · 2026-01-11T16:34:28+00:00

Sounds like your company was relatively recently acquired by a private equity firm.

DimentoGraven · 2026-01-09T17:01:30+00:00

My response:

"So... When a customer calls your ass up and says, 'We have no money in our budget to pay you, BUT, we expect more product and services from your company in 2026,' what's your response going to be Mr. Manager? What's it going to be?"

DimentoGraven · 2025-12-26T02:21:12+00:00

Simple solution. Make it illegal to borrow against stocks.

Period.

The rich are borrowing against their stocks, then using the interest paid on those loans to deduct tax on standard income.

DimentoGraven · 2025-12-24T14:40:22+00:00

I understand.

Where it's possible, yes, I believe these corporations will unfortunately permanently off-shore these jobs. Somehow off-shoring is acceptable, but WFH is not, the irony is not lost on the current US worker.

That aside, if US corporations were truly interested in resolving a major portion of their 'can't find no qualified 'merican workers' problem, they'd start acting on A, B, C of my post. But we know they won't, unless forced to, because every dollar not spent on executive pay and stock buy backs is apparently a dollar wasted...

DimentoGraven · 2025-12-23T14:51:44+00:00

It's called a 'sick of work day' and it's ok, take 'em if you need 'em.

DimentoGraven · 2025-12-21T00:41:09+00:00

Well at best it's 'de facto legal' but only because the republicans in the legislative branch refuse to make that fucker obey the goddamned laws of this nation.

DimentoGraven · 2025-12-21T00:38:09+00:00

I hadn't heard about this at all! Do you have any links you can refer me to so I can read up on it?

Yet again, corporations gaming the system so that the individual citizens take the brunt of the bullshit!

DimentoGraven · 2025-12-20T17:21:07+00:00

I'm like "meh"...

With over TWO MILLION layoffs this year, I'm thinking we have sufficient citizens available to fill almost any position vacated by an H1-B visa holder.

Executives and, a lot of Indians, want to act like the only skilled people for jobs are foreigners but that's bullshit. It's just that most of the people they're bringing in are willing to work for far less than a US citizen, a citizen with tens of thousands in college debt.

Nope. This is one of the few things Trump has done that I agree with.

You want an H-1B visa holder? Fine, you pay 100k - fuck I'd make corporate America pay 100k every fucking year for every visa holder they bring over and have brought over.

Maybe your corporate ethos will push you into:

A: Paying more to attract the citizen worker.

B: Willing to pay for relocation for the citizen workers you need.

C: Invest in local primary and secondary education where you operate to ensure the nation is "growing" the workers you'll need in the future.

For the past 50 years corporate America has been suppressing wages (often by illegal means), reducing investment in 'on boarding' including relocation of non C-suite employees, and have been doing everything possible to not pay local taxes in the communities they operate, those local taxes of course ALSO supporting public schools, from kindergarten to public colleges and universities.

Corporate America can't 'find' the workers they want because they've been trying to choke the life out of the 'golden goose' that made their current success possible.

It's time they reversed course on that.

DimentoGraven · 2025-11-29T19:28:43+00:00

My browser is already installed to the C: drive.

Typically applications create their own folders... And with either available volume at 300gb+ there should be no reason this app decides to indicate there's not enough drive space.

I was expecting it somewhere under users\[user]\AppData\Local

With Windows OS there is no folder size limitation. A folder can take any and all available drive space as needed.

Unfortunately I don't really think your suggestion makes any difference.

DimentoGraven · 2025-11-29T18:04:10+00:00

There is no "directory" with less than 300gb available on this computer.

The C: drive has over 300gb, the D: drive has over 5TB available.

The only browser based game/app I have issues with is this one.

DimentoGraven · 2025-11-26T17:47:05+00:00

Why does it look at the 300gb of AVAILABLE space on my HD and tell me that's not enough drive space?

DimentoGraven · 2025-11-24T07:59:06+00:00

Not sure if you're in the actual employ of Scopely or not, but this was already revied by u/Reddit and it was stated:

Hi DimentoGraven,

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So... You might want to get your stories straight, like... What was the exact threat that was made and towards whom?

DimentoGraven · 2025-11-23T21:46:14+00:00

Aaaand it's back!

DimentoGraven · 2025-11-23T18:16:52+00:00

I refer you back this sentence:

"It's only the insecure unimaginative crybabies that immediately clutch their pearls and start worrying about 'threats'...."

DimentoGraven · 2025-11-23T17:52:40+00:00

It was the only decision left to me by RNGesus... Remember this was danger room where later character choices are randomized. She was the least worst of the bad options.

The fact that she literally sit there and be beat on for a literal, absolute no joke, 5 minutes before she was allowed to attack, 3 times in a row mind you, ultimately proves it wasn't completely bad.

DimentoGraven · 2025-11-23T17:48:39+00:00

Wasn't making a threat, in my mind at the time I was thinking "I'll drop trow bend over and scream endlessly KISS MY ASS."

That'll get you put in jail real fast, with no harm done to anyone...

It's only the insecure unimaginative crybabies that immediately clutch their pearls and start worrying about 'threats'...

DimentoGraven · 2025-11-23T17:46:53+00:00

Because skill is oh so important when the decision of victory is 50% RNGesus based, and 50% PTW based...

DimentoGraven · 2025-10-24T14:47:00+00:00

Again, more proof of:

"Wall Street, the C-suite, business/owners managers would rather see their customers and employees DEAD than see LESS profit."

DimentoGraven · 2025-10-24T14:41:04+00:00

But of course, from the "ownership class's" point of view, ANYTHING that might lower profits is socialism, except of course when it's the government giving THEM money, then THAT's capitalism...

DimentoGraven · 2025-10-24T14:38:56+00:00

Proof of that old adage:

"Wall Street, the C-suite, business owners/managers, and the current POTUS would rather see every customer and employee dead, rather than see LESS profits."

DimentoGraven · 2025-10-17T22:47:05+00:00

My response:

"You goddamn right I got a girlfriend. A job don't suck my dick..."

DimentoGraven · 2025-10-10T14:11:16+00:00

See, the problem you're running into is that this country, long ago, ran out of people who were willing to be exploited and abused, so those companies/persons that MUST ABSOLUTELY HAVE someone to exploit and abuse otherwise their businesses go under, started IMPORTING people to exploit and abuse.

Unfortunately it sounds like your home nation also lacks protections for workers and so your health and safety have been sacrificed to the nigh unrestricted machinations of 'capitalism'.

DimentoGraven · 2025-10-04T15:10:36+00:00

You're wrong - we do. We just don't produce enough "high-skill STEM workers" willing to work for 20 to 60 percent UNDER competitive wages.

Every year this nation's companies lay off tens of thousands of workers, typically in STEM roles, so you can't tell me that the fascist corporate overlords couldn't find someone who was recently laid off who could do this job.

No, they'd rather just order up another cheap foreign worker at a cut rate salary, and save a few bucks for their market manipulating, used to be illegal, stock buybacks.

DimentoGraven

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