Cw Is Monotonous.
#1
Posted 25 April 2015 - 09:55 PM
#2
Posted 25 April 2015 - 10:03 PM
XX Sulla XX, on 25 April 2015 - 09:55 PM, said:
Slow down. Relax. Do something else. Do something long and often enough and you will eventually get bored, tired, etc.
#3
Posted 25 April 2015 - 10:34 PM
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#4
Posted 25 April 2015 - 11:38 PM
#6
Posted 25 April 2015 - 11:46 PM
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Posted 25 April 2015 - 11:50 PM
#9
Posted 25 April 2015 - 11:56 PM
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Edited by XX Sulla XX, 26 April 2015 - 12:05 AM.
#10
Posted 26 April 2015 - 01:12 AM
There's only 2 types of people in the world and this is extremely obvious in online games. People who love routine and love doing the same thing over and over again. Those are people who love predictability, hate going outside of their comfort zone and only feel well being exposed to the same patterns over and over again. These types love CW.
Then there's people who hate routine and monotony, and loathe being exposed to the same patterns repeatedly. Those are people who need to be stimulated in different ways, the more creative types. Those people will dread something like CW.
That being said MWO is quite a monotonous game to begin with, were it not for the amount of chasis, loadouts and variety in this department it would be a terrible arena shooter with nothing to do. The only thing mechwarrior online has going for it is the endless combinations of loadouts, the maps are nothing to write home about, neither are the game modes.
Edited by Louis Brofist, 26 April 2015 - 01:15 AM.
#12
Posted 26 April 2015 - 01:27 AM
It will bring intelligent play as you'll have to work out how to split your forces and when it will give CW a method of role warfare, fast mechs can scout points before comitting forces the defenders have to decide, to split or concentrate.
This would work better in new maps, they could be more open but it would still give options, on the old maps.
light rushes are at least reduced and might become a thing of the past, because they can't take a cap point while a heavy unit is inside the box and will be forced to fight other mechs, the best built teams would have mechs of all weights as its an advantage to mix them up, because your still going to need lights to counter cap and stop counter attacking the points you need, by the other team.
Drop zones would be well defended and well away from the cap points, to prevent spawn camping.
counter attack might well not be needed, as winning a match would be so much harder, and taking a planet would be a real achievement, and I stress real achievement, that only the best organised teams would achieve. while the rest of us can have a good punch up, as it wouldn't center around those stupid doors
Edited by Cathy, 26 April 2015 - 01:29 AM.
#13
Posted 26 April 2015 - 03:27 AM
More like (all on normal maps):
1.) scout a map for a dropship to land
2.) defend the landed dropship
3.) scout strategic targets (just another match with some waypoints)
4.) attack a target (factory or orbital cannon)
defend dropship again, etc.
like a cheap mini campaign.
Would be MUCH more fun and MUCH less effort.
Edited by Paigan, 26 April 2015 - 03:28 AM.
#14
Posted 26 April 2015 - 05:32 AM
- game modes
differ hardly. Instead of promoting tactical gameplay it is usually to blow up the enemy mechs. The players are not really to blame. Take capturing nodes for example: the TTK of mechs is so low that it is safer to blow up the enemy team than splitting forces.
- maps
many of the maps are just...unfun. Some dynamic maps with random events would have been interesting and would have demanded flexibility of the players.
- weapons
laser spam...do I need to say more?
#15
Posted 26 April 2015 - 06:49 AM
They simply don't have the ideas, creativity and knowledge to make CW an interesting experience.
#16
Posted 26 April 2015 - 06:59 AM
And that really boils down to if they can figure out the server side logistics of having 4v4 matches sucking up tons of resources - because that's why we don't have smaller match sizes already. I wouldn't doubt that we see 4v4 get scrapped about 2 weeks before it launches.
Edited by sycocys, 26 April 2015 - 06:59 AM.
#17
Posted 26 April 2015 - 07:04 AM
XX Sulla XX, on 25 April 2015 - 09:55 PM, said:
You're playing four matches in a row on the same map in quick succession. Of course there are people who will get bored with this very quickly.
When not playing CW there are breaks in between, there aren't any limitations on 'Mechs, you fight different people each time, and you likely won't see the same map twice in four matches.
CW isn't likely to change. You're going to have to either suck it up or find a way to break up the monotony.
#18
Posted 26 April 2015 - 07:18 AM
Vxheous Kerensky, on 25 April 2015 - 11:40 PM, said:
Wait what? Nascar everyone turn left Pub matches do not feel monotonous?
I think this is all a matter of personal preference. Personally I'm with this guy.
For me it just feels like every pub match that's not conquest turns into a whirlpool TDM. I've had more fun doing CW pugs the last two days than most of the past couple months in random queue.
PS: if it's not counter-attack and CW turns into TDM, then offense is doing it wrong.
EDIT: TIL: no one remembers what arena shooters actually are
Edited by Shalune, 26 April 2015 - 07:20 AM.
#19
Posted 26 April 2015 - 07:40 AM
And game mode. Having to open the gates with all the defenders inside rather than having to fight your way to the base and capture objectives outside of it in the first place. Which also favors rushing the base objectives for victory rather than fighting. Maps that are more of an open world, with incentive to bring more diverse decks for different strategies, even if it was still 12v12, would be better.
And the lack of matchmaking. Especially when fighting is limited to a map with a full queue like Tukayyid while it's more difficult to do that when the queues are split in regular CW. We'd get better matches if group size and Elo were accounted for this week.
ETA: The most interesting match I've had so far was a Counter-Attack with my casual, mixed-skill unit against PUGs on Hellebore Springs. It was a relatively even match in skill. We slightly out-traded them inside the gate to get ahead on kills. Pushed in to a point we could take out the generator while holding off counter-attacks, then had a 10-20 minute reinforced fighting withdrawal over the relatively open terrain headed toward and in front of the spawn. It almost felt tactical.
We didn't win it outright in the mechlab or just have a stomp because one team was drastically out-skilled. Being able to reinforce quickly did make it a lopsided score in the end. But it took the full match and had engagement the whole way through.
Edited by Mizeur, 26 April 2015 - 08:00 AM.
#20
Posted 26 April 2015 - 07:42 AM
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