Posted 20 September 2017 - 04:55 PM

Skills

Quirks/Skill UI

I've updated the MWO Loadout Simulator . Here's some of the changes:Skills are now supported using kitlaan's skill planner . To bring up the skills tab, click a mech's details link and click the skills tab. Then click load skills and paste a kitlaan permalink into the popup dialog.To hide the details panel, just click details again.As expected, skills have a pretty dramatic effect on a mech's dps. With the simulator, we can now see by how much. Preliminary tests seem to show that going all-in on the weapons tree gives about 10% additional sustained DPS, and about 5% with going all-in on the heat in the ops tree : KDK skills comparison (first KDK has no skills, 2nd kodiak is all-in weapons tree, 3rd kodiak is all-in on ops tree)(Note: your results may vary due to UAC jamming randomness. Go to settings->UAC Jam Method and set it to Expected Value to get the same results)I've also updated the quirks and skills display on the mechs so it displays the quirks/skills that have an actual effect first, and grays out which skills/quirks do not apply to the mech.This makes it easier to see which skills are actually taking effect, and which ones aren't. It sure would be useful to see something like this in-game *wink wink nudge nudge*.The app should now also have the latest patch data (2017 Sept 19), so you can check how your loadouts perform with the latest patch.I hope the changes are useful, and if you find any problems, let me know.

Edited by fat4eyes, 20 September 2017 - 04:56 PM.