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[Deathlike]

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Like Where's Waldo, what do you think was wrong with this matchup?

The game was close. It was competitive... but the matchup in itself would never work on a map like Alpine.

It didn't help that one 3L was warping on my screen.

The match ended with a teammate's Atlas. I believe I managed to leg the last 3L with an ERPPC in the water, so I guess we were lucky.

Discuss.

Edited by Deathlike, 06 March 2013 - 11:51 AM.

[Baltasar]

With the current matchmaker, it seems mos to of the games are pretty balanced weight wise, however, I have seen games similar to this where it has been weighted one side over the other. Now, that said, a lot of theses games were close (guess Elo was working to a degree), unfortuantely there were times when it was pretty much no contest. Dropped on alpine where we had no lights and one med. in conquest mode. Sure, we decimated the other side's heavy force, but the other teams 4 lights easily out capped us on that map. So, where the skills might be balanced, the fact that not having any of a weight class can be detrimental.

Edit: That said, I haven't seen a lot of these matches where it wasn't close. Probably, about as often as base capping with out ever seeing the other team.

Edited by Baltasar, 06 March 2013 - 12:00 PM.

[Xie Belvoule]

Deathlike, on 06 March 2013 - 11:45 AM, said:

http://imageshack.us...713/mwowtf.png/

Like Where's Waldo, what do you think was wrong with this matchup?

The game was close. It was competitive... but the matchup in itself would never work on a map like Alpine.

It didn't help that one 3L was warping on my screen.

The match ended with a teammate's Atlas. I believe I managed to leg the last 3L with an ERPPC in the water, so I guess we were lucky.

Discuss.

[Phalanx100bc]

Trust me if you were 4 man+Solo going against 8man all the Atlas's and 3L's would be on the same team...talk about fun.

[Volume]

Clearly the matchmaker is considering a 3L equivalent to an Atlas.

Sounds about right.

[Hedonism Robot]

The new matchmaker is worlds better with ELO. Many times I get placed on a game with no assaults and we still destroy the other team. While tonnage and team comp do play a big part they do not determine the game. The assault mechs in this game are much more balanced then previous mechwarrior titles where the game was decided mostly on tonnage. It's not uncommon for a skilled hunchback pilot to kill an atlas and dish out more damage than all the assualts on his team for instance. I prefer matches equated on ELO first.

[Deathlike]

ELO is certainly helping the matchup.. that I can't deny. It's what those matchups are on a particular map (especially Alpine) would actually be a significant detriment to the system itself. Just play the same matchup on Alpine, and this would almost be assured of a cap win on the other team if they played it correctly.

[Shozen]

Weird stuff can happen. Last night we dropped in a 4 man and our entire 8 man team was CTF-3D's. The other team got mad at us as if we had decided to make this magic happen somehow.

[Volume]

^ from like five minutes ago.