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[Homeless Bill]

When someone calls for a tunnel rush on Alpine.

[SteelJaws]

I was going to say you know its bad when i'm on your team, but I see that's been said.

So I'll go with, "You know your ELO is bad when the other team consists of Cardboard Cutouts and you still lose!"

[Aim64C]

Fenris Krinkovich, on 02 March 2013 - 10:20 AM, said:

Because knowing how ambient temp affects the heat output of your alpha strike isn't useful information.

You know your ELO is bad when players use alpha strike.

Alpha is only supposed to be used when you can afford to overheat - or when you can't afford to fail in destroying the target.

That said - I will occasionally fire a weapon or two for the hell of it. Put on a light show for the other team to guess at.

[Sifright]

Aim64C, on 02 March 2013 - 03:27 PM, said:

You know your ELO is bad when players use alpha strike.

Alpha is only supposed to be used when you can afford to overheat - or when you can't afford to fail in destroying the target.

That said - I will occasionally fire a weapon or two for the hell of it. Put on a light show for the other team to guess at.

< always alphaing all the time.

[The Cheese]

When the only Ravens in the match are 2X and 4X.

[Wintersdark]

Homeless Bill, on 02 March 2013 - 05:09 AM, said:

You got the only three kills on your team in a Spider 5V, and one of them was against a 3L that literally stood in one place the entire fight.

You know, this is one of the more interesting aspects of Elo. It's kind of cool to rate yourself in different weight classes by the calibre of opponents you face.

For example, I do very well in my DRG-FLAME and kitties, and tend to end up in awesome battles with great players and precious few terribad players.

However, I'm plain bad with Mediums' and Assaults, mostly because I have very few matches since Elo started data-tracking with both, and most of those I did have were levelling matches with random builds, further dropping my Elo score there. Thus, when I clamber into an assault for a random match, it makes for absurdly hilarious battles filled with the Steering Wheel Underhive, wherein players die from being out of bounds regularly, and do things like run up to my atlas, and stand in front of me motionlessly firing. In lights and mediums. I see the occasional A1 SplatCat, and have taken on 2 at once. Simultaneously. In my Atlas. This is not because I'm particularly good(I'm not), it's an indication of just how bad my Assault Elo rating is. That someone can be so bad to be that low in a Splatcat is mindboggling.

It pays to have one weight class, then, with a terrible Elo rating just so you can get a good laugh at just how ridiculous things can be - so you don't forget what the game was like before Elo.

Edited by Wintersdark, 02 March 2013 - 03:58 PM.

[Flashback37]

You know your ELO is low when the matchmaker can't find a match you're good enough to play in.

[Groumph]

"You know your elo is bad" when on caustic, your team decide to take Theta in the crater (freely), then go purposly out of cover to fight other team coming from Epsi...

Thats make me sad.

[Vilheim]

You know your ELO is bad when you are allowed to run around in a Hunchback 4-P with 9 medium lasers and have nobody make a concentrated effort to take out your right torso.

[SuomiWarder]

You know you Elo is low when the opposing team actually makes plans via screen text....using the all chat function rather than team.

[OneEyed Jack]

You know your Elo is bad when you're teamed with people that make comments like:

Albert Cowboy Teuton, on 02 March 2013 - 05:26 AM, said:

you know your ELO is low when people on your team "test" their weapon at the start of the match.

Because the theory that good players are never in new mechs or running new load-outs and would like to see how a weapon/group affects heat, or the firing point of their weapons in relation to POV, requires an obvious intentional refusal to access higher brain functions.

Bishop Steiner, on 02 March 2013 - 05:59 AM, said:

still trying to figure the whole ELO thing......

cuz lets say my ELO sucks (which I can assure you, in Assault mechs, anyhow, it does)...

but the other 3-7 people I drop with all have good ELO.... then conversely, wont the other team have a single poo ELO pilot, and 7 good ones?

Hence, since there is no guarantee I will even run into and face the other crap pilot.... how the eff does it really "balance" anything? (And what does it prove if I roll out and nab 5 kills that match against the ELO masters?)

I dunno.. probably an easy answer... but I guess I never needed some online scorecard to measure how good my Wang is...

As someone else said, it's supposed to balance the teams as a whole, rather than individual players. Furthermore, it's supposed to try to get all the players from within a certain (undisclosed) range of scores, but it's still new and being tuned. Also their may not be enough players withing that range currently seeking a match. If it can't find a match quickly, it begins looking at increasingly broader ranges so as to find 16 and get the match started.

If you feel that you're significantly below par in the current match, pick someone you think is better and stick to his flank, shooting his targets.

[Deathlike]

You know your ELO is bad, when the last two mechs on the field has a favorable matchup on one side and then facepalm when the match totally goes the other way due to pure incompetence.

Edited by Deathlike, 02 March 2013 - 04:31 PM.

[Albert Cowboy Teuton]

OneEyed Jack, on 02 March 2013 - 04:22 PM, said:

Because the theory that good players are never in new mechs or running new load-outs and would like to see how a weapon/group affects heat, or the firing point of their weapons in relation to POV, requires an obvious intentional refusal to access higher brain functions.

If he's trying a new loadout, he's bound to underperform. it may not be ELO related but still not desirable on your side.

[ferranis]

I still testfire at the start of each match (only lasers of course), habit from ye old days when the weapon effect loadin caused a little stutter. So there.

[TheGreatNoNo]

Demoned, on 02 March 2013 - 06:48 AM, said:

you know your ELO rating is low when

DukeNukem is on your team

Now he COULD have decent ELO, even with his non-stop suiciding, if his team wins. We need more jokes relating to this player. I do not know of a match that his corpse was not in, kind of does not feel the same without his corpse smoking/clogging up the place.

[Fajther]

You know your elo is bad when you tell the pilot that hasn't moved from the start of the match to press w, and then they start moving forward.

[Fajther]

SuomiWarder, on 02 March 2013 - 04:21 PM, said:

You know you Elo is low when the opposing team actually makes plans via screen text....using the all chat function rather than team.

I know my elo is bad when I have done that.

[The Cheese]

You know your rating is low when you're that guy who goes to "just take a peek" over the top of the ridge.

[TheGreatNoNo]

The Cheese, on 02 March 2013 - 08:29 PM, said:

You know your rating is low when you're that guy who goes to "just take a peek" over the top of the ridge.

What about around it?

[Tickdoff Tank]

If you see me on your team... your Elo really sucks. And I am still bringing you down.