Zephyre, on 19 June 2013 - 06:25 AM, said:
And this is where you show your complete ignorance. Its not just about tonnage, its the class of weapons combined with the armor that is the problem. I'm no dummy, and I've been around since early beta. So were the other 3 in my lance. I don't solo drop because yeah, its a huge disadvantage being alone and off comms.
That game was brutal and lasted all of 4 minutes. That's a loss of two mechs every minute. That translates to overwhelming firepower, and I can promise you we didn't just walk up and get destroyed one at a time. My mech lasted all of 10 seconds. Yep I was first over the ridge, I expected to take a beating, I didn't expect to lose half a mech in one salvo to 5 assaults.
With that said, Don't be a d-bag and claim I and my lance don't know what we're doing.
Frankly if we go back to TT (cringes at bringing TT rules into a real time game) Matches were based on BV (Battle Value) of mechs and components. So if either side had 5000 BV to work with you ended up with roughly the same tonnage and firepower. The game came down to skill of the operators, and yes, some times dumb luck of the dice rolls.
The current "match making" system is borked even worse than the old 8 randoms tossed together. I've seen way too many matchs where you have a lance of lights and mediums going up against heavies and assaults. Its garbage and it needs to be looked at.
Where i show my ignorance? Do not start to insult me! At least i know why i lost, when i lost.
- YOUR team got stumped down by a better team.
- They were focusing fire where you were just showing up one by one (it seems). So you didnt even let them a choice but to single slaughter your team.
- They did 3 times as much damage as your team (this is 200% more damage compared to the 17% weight difference)
- I assume the 4 Liao Player in Lance Alpha were premade as well. So they dropped in 4 mechs with PPC and Gauss and were playing together as team with focusing fire and staying together. You were not.
- They used the Spider for scouting (i guess, when i see the damage). Your Spider pilot use it for damage.
So you didnt had: Awareness, teamplay and weight on your side. This is like a Goliath with 3 missing legs. And you wonder why you fell down?
Even if they would have the better and more weapons, you did 1/3 of their damage!!!! Your average damage is at lousy 88. Even if they would focus one of your mechs, and need around 10 sec to take him down, the rest of your team did NOTHING this time it seems. You got slaughtered because you were playing to bad, not because the weight of the mechs was bad. I would even admit you lost because the matchmaking placed you against a better, more experienced team. But NOT because of the weight of the mechs.
To be honest, the result would have been the same if they had 3 Cataphracts instead of the 2 Highlander and 1 Stalker.
And i would love to see a BV match over weight balanced match as well! Because this way the trial mechs are handled like they should. A Stock Atlas is less worth as a full tweaked Jenner with XL, ES, FF, DHS, Master XP with modules. And this should be reflected in the "worth" of the mech in kind of BV or something. But we are not talking about trials against custom Mechs on your match.
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With that much SSRM in the field, CTS are all anyone would be hitting.
