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[Staplebeater]

Was recording last night for youtube and got this match while dropping with my Devil Dogs. This is as close as i have ever seen one. I am in my Heavy Metal (build)

Was pretty crazy and i did pretty well in my heavy metal too

[Ranek Blackstone]

http://steamcommunit...s/?id=135267658

My closest game.

750 to 744 in a conquest game.

[Satan n stuff]

Closest match I've had ended in a tie with two atlases killing each other.

[Roadbeer]

Closest match I had was a tie back in CB when the time ran out.

[Rebas Kradd]

Closest match I've had was on Conquest in Tourmaline, two of us against two of them. One of the enemy was capping at Sigma and getting close to the win, so me and my mate finished off our target and hightailed it back to Sigma - in heavies. There was a Cicada harassing us all the way, carving up my rear armor, and my mate never saw him. Eventually the Cicada noticed that my mate was in even worse shape, so he ran over there (out of my LOS) and finished him off, leaving me last man standing as I approached Sigma.

I plod into the cap area halting their points at 745, waste the Dragon hiding behind the drill, then turn around just in time to alpha the returning Cicada, who had fortunately chose a straight-line angle of attack. Game over.

Edited by Rebas Kradd, 07 April 2013 - 11:48 AM.

[Tenzek]

Last week I lost 746 to 750, then the very next game I won 750 to 748.

I've also seen time run out on a match where my side won the tie-break by tonnage with a heavy left against a light.

[Nidhoggr]

I once lost a conquest match on Apline 750 to 750, no joke. If only we had been one step faster. I believe we had 3 mechs left and they had one light left. We capped more by splitting up so it accelerated our cap gain but was just shy of catching up to theirs.

[Malora Sidewinder]

That was pretty painful to watch.
lack of positioning and missing really easy shots frequently.

the enemy team sucked something absolutely awful.

[Rippthrough]

Nidhoggr, on 07 April 2013 - 11:58 AM, said:

I once lost a conquest match on Apline 750 to 750, no joke. If only we had been one step faster. I believe we had 3 mechs left and they had one light left. We capped more by splitting up so it accelerated our cap gain but was just shy of catching up to theirs.

....and I won one 750 to 750.....wasn't a Spider on the other side was it?

[Urdnot Mau]

I had close games like this too. One 749 (me) to 750 and another one 1 vs 1 with both players killing each other at almost the same time where the enemy team got the victory.

[Grayseven]

Had a 750 to 749 in Alpine, with the enemy having a light ECM mech left and our side having heavies and assaults. I moved my Fatlas into Kappa at around 740 to 741 as a team mate did the same elsewhere a little before and managed to pull out a victory at the very last tick.

Lots of fun that game was.

[Budor]

The closest match i ever had was on tourmaline today. I brought my TDK got some kills did ~830dmg and was left as the lastone with 1 afk on each side.

I went for cap but while at it (dead) teammates told me i was on our base so i went to the right one and while capping began to pound the AFK stalker standing there while our afk/ctd-ddc was doing circles somewhere on the other end of the map.

I felt like you feel when you are the only hero left securing the close win. Than i decided to test the shutdown override mechanic and somehow went to far...

The afk DDC prolly won by cap, idk cause i disconnected lmao at the rage in teamchat.

Edited by Budor, 07 April 2013 - 01:56 PM.

[Otto Cannon]

Just had a close one where the only survivor on our team was a zombie Centurion with no weapons, he finished the cap by hiding behind the cap marker as the enemy Stalker tried to laser him to death from about 10 metres away.

[Staplebeater]

Malora Sidewinder, on 07 April 2013 - 12:38 PM, said:

That was pretty painful to watch.
lack of positioning and missing really easy shots frequently.

the enemy team sucked something absolutely awful.

[Levi Porphyrogenitus]

I've been in a few 749-750 Conquest matches, and I've been in a few mutual-last-kill draws. For that matter, I've been in some Assault matches where one base was just a sliver and the other got capped. Depending on how you define close, there are also the ones where someone just misses ninja-capping and then his team goes on to lose by dying (like, one tick away from finishing the capture).

[ShadowbaneX]

Had two close ones. One was a 750 vs 747.

The other was different. It was Alpine and my team was mostly heavies with a centurion and some assaults. Everyone moves out and me, in a CAT-K2, am up in the lead. I get to the top of the hill looking down and I don't see much. This set off an alarm. I did spy one Stalker, but it was a ways away and moving south, not towards. So I turn around and start keeping an eye as my team moved out to D5. Alarms bells started getting louder and louder so I keep a watch, and start advising to get the team turned around and heading back, but still nothing until: "Base is being captured"

Dammit Betty!

I look over and there are 3 or 4 speedy mechs (Commando, Jenner, Cicada), dropping down off the cliff and my only thought was: I didn't know you could get up there. I hit all ahead full and make a b-line for the cap zone (standard 260 engine, but I've got the speed tweak) and it's going to be close.

25% captured...50% captured...75% captured...90% captured.

There's a sliver left, a tiny sliver...dammit, I'm not going to make it...I need an 10 seconds to get there and I've probably only got 5.

...and then I see the Centurion on my team come speeding by on my left flank and it just barely manages to make it in to the cap zone just in time to prevent the cap!

YES!

I plow in there 5 seconds later and begin blasting with my uAC/5s. The lights engage a little, but they don't have the firepower and the rest of my team is closing quick. Manage to leg one of the lights and take him out, the rest peel off as their team is knocking on the front door.

Myself and a Stalker park ourselves in the cap zone as a brawl ensues with both teams mixing up, and good thing as a Spider pays us a visit a few times to see if we were dumb enough to leave the thing undefended.

We managed to clean up on the brawl and win rather handily after that, but dear god, another couple of seconds and we wouldn't have made it back in time.

This makes me think, if the heavies on the other team had come out and engaged my team in any way, we never would have made it back in time to the base. In was only because there was no one else out there that we started to fall back. If there were any enemies even just taking pot shots at us...the cap would have succeeded.

[Peiper]

I was the "funking spider." That was a fun match, but a few times it looked pretty bleak. We ALMOST brought it back at the end, making it a great fight!

"Zyllos, what are we gonna do?" lol That was me freaking out. I am used to piloting big mechs; I think playing in my spider turned me into a nervous Nelly. Then again, if you aren't nervous in a spider, you're probably dead!

It really is a challenge to pilot a Spider and have ANY effect on the game, other than capping. The weapons payload is pitiful. If it wasn't for ECM, I'd have been just about useless. Both our friendlies and opponents were scattered all to hell in that match, making for an interesting skirmish. Because the enemy were scattered, as a spider, I was afraid to approach the conquest nodes alone, so I opted for harassing the enemy mechs as much as possible and keeping them within my cloaking device bubble so they couldn't see the big guys coming up behind them. But sometimes the big guys never came and I just had to bug out before I was swatted. It would be interesting (though probably ultimately frustrating) to see what the other half of our team was doing while we were fighting in the water. My warning that 3 were in the tunnel was not meant to have everyone go TO the tunnel, but to continue on together where we could pound the other 5 no matter where they were. But the unpredictability of the pugs made the game far more interesting. That it came down to a final enemy mech at the end shows that the enemy wasn't working together much at all, and that is what allowed us to have the successes we did have.

[Malora Sidewinder]

Staplebeater, on 07 April 2013 - 02:21 PM, said:

alright, fine, i'll offer constructive criticism.

Your biggest weakness was mid-range ballistic shots. what i saw over and over is that you'd line up the shot, hesitate, and then take the shot and miss.

just line it up and shoot, one easy motion.

[PocketAces]

Closet match was Assault on Forest Colony. There I was in my legged and battered Flame, and took out the last three mechs. 360XL, 2 ML, 2LL, and SSRM only maps I ever have trouble with heat is Caustic and Tourmaline. Dragon FTW!

[Anjian]

I had a 747 to 750 in one game. In my lifetime in this game I also experienced two ties (7-7) as well.