Zero crashes here (for me or my brother), the only issues I've had is issues joining multiplayer games. We usually get 4-5 multiplayer matches in before it starts refusing to connect and we have to restart the game. Then it's back to normal.
I don't see the game holding my attention for long however, the 4 mech limit is terrible. I've got a King Crab build I run for people silly enough to play unlimited. 3 short range Kings and 1 long range. I've yet to lose, half the time I come out with all 4 mechs intact. The lighter mechs don't have the room for enough long range weaponry to take it down while staying out of range. So they have to get in close-ish. Once they get to melee range, they lose their mobility advantage, which means every single hit from the King is going to hit like a freight train.
Don't play unlimited you say. Fine, I'll just run a partial lance. Require full lances. OK, I'll just run 3 lights with nothing on them as filler. So far we've done at least a dozen matches just trying to find a counter. The King (running Bulwark/Juggernaut pilot) can take out lighter mechs reliably at a 4:1 ratio. The only one that came close was 4 lights running heavy on flamers. He lost one before getting within flamer range. The other 3 failed to get the King to heat shutdown point on the first attack, which allowed me to get a critical amount of damage to one of the remaining 3.
When you have a build that has no hard counter, and requires enforcing rules/limits to stop it, you've failed as a strategy game.
Crashes mostly stopped after updating my GPU drivers to latest.
Is that a build that the AI can't deal with, or are you ROFLSTOMPING in multiplayer? AI be dumb ,yo.
Kinda reading between the lines on the recent dev AMA, and looks like due to limited size of the team there are some limitations in full compatibility. Not using Windows 10 looks to be the biggest, and from user murmur, AMD products may also be suffering.
Multiplayer. There isn't an effective way to counter the unlimited build. It's possible I just need to fight better people but in my opinion there's some serious flaws in the mechanics.
I have seen upwards of 6.5-7GB RAM usage on Win7 Ultimate 64bit. I probably won't be in an upgraded OS until next year or so (planning a new VM based setup, where I will keep this Win7 as a VM and setup a Win10 as a VM, and use GPU passthrough, only using one of the Winows versions at a time so I can keep playing some of my much older games which no longer have support on Win10).
Sounds like your builds are basically cheesing the stability mechanics. In the tabletop game "stability" is resolved every turn. Taking damage above a certain threshold triggers a piloting skill check, with more damage making the check more difficult but piloting a larger mech making it less difficult. This game basically forces you to choose between skipping your turn and falling since there's no other real counter for stability... and falling is practically a death sentence due to pilot injury + called shots (both penalties not incurred in the TT).
That crab would probably be better with 3x LRM 15. Wouldn't miss 5 missiles and free up a lot of tonnage/heat. Might even be able to jump up to dual AC5 at that point.
Yeah, LRM 15's were almost always better than 20's due to the fitting requirements. Switching to 3x LRM 15's would save 4 tons, 1 crit, and 3 heat. Bumping up to 1 AC5 though might be a problem due to how much heat they have in this game vs classic rules (and video games which followed classic rules). An AC5 in this game creates 10 heat (vs 1 in classic rules). That might not be an issue except that if you baseline other weapons heat vs classic rules, it seems to be a huge nerf. For instance, the classic rules to video game ratio of heat for LRMs is 1:3, SRMs is 1:3 - 1:4 (starts at 1:3 and moves to 1:4 for SRM6), Lasers are 1:5, 1:3.3, 1:3.75. The small autocannons taking the huge nerf, with AC2 being 1:5, AC5 1:10, AC10 1:5, AC20 1:3.57.
Truthfully, the only thing standard smaller AC's had going for them was their low heat. For the weight, you can put a PPC+2 heatsinks-2 crit slots instead of a AC5+ammo and be doing more damage and double the instability damage (assuming no restrictions on weapon mount points).