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[sandshrew]

I don't know where to post this, seems like it could fit around 5-6 places, but this...





For reference, the comic on the left was made by Alex Wolfe. In April.

This was probably the single most disgusting match of MWO I've played to date - simultaneously the only time Terra Therma wasn't a cap-fest for me. PPC+Gauss still king, unaffected by heat penalties and undeterred by 2.0 SRM damage. Thank god there are plenty of low-elo players who run anything else, I couldn't play this game otherwise.

Edited by sandshrew, 31 July 2013 - 11:41 PM.

[Budor]

10/10, would read again

[Khobai]

Dont worry theyre making PPCs generate +1 heat. Im sure that will fix them, because clearly heat is the entire problem, and not the fact they can do 30+ damage to a single location and instantly hit even light mechs from across the map.

[Sephlock]

He's like a modern day Nostradamus...

Edited by Sephlock, 01 August 2013 - 12:14 AM.

[El Bandito]

Nice. I just had similar fight in Therma when we just waited at the base on top of the ridges and slaughtered the enemies when they arrived. Boring as hell but was the only way not to get capped.

[sandshrew]

added for redundancy (I hope)

Edited by sandshrew, 01 August 2013 - 12:05 AM.

[jakucha]

And that's why we need and are getting tonnage limits.

[Corvus Antaka]

haha 8 *** jumpsnipers sitting in a volcano.

fix the jumpjets, fix the ppc/gauss issue, and "voila" everything is ok again.

until 3rd person?

[Homeless Bill]

It's almost like heat was never the answer...

[Xie Belvoule]

OMG LOL

Thats my lance on the hill, we dropped 4 Highlanders with PPC/Gauss. Pir Hsah is a damned good shot too!!!

El Bandito, on 01 August 2013 - 12:01 AM, said:

Nice. I just had similar fight in Therma when we just waited at the base on top of the ridges and slaughtered the enemies when they arrived. Boring as hell but was the only way not to get capped.

Actually Bandito, that's because that was us you dropped with.


Their are no words to describe how awesome it is that my Lance is now a meme.... oh wait yeah their are.....


CLAN META RIDES AGAIN!!!


You have my permission to use our names uncensored.

P.S. This curbstomp brought to you by the HeadHunters of Davion.

Edited by Xie Belvoule, 01 August 2013 - 01:23 AM.

[jakucha]

Xie Belvoule, on 01 August 2013 - 12:54 AM, said:

OMG LOL

I'm going to feel sorry for you guys when the tonnage limits come.

[Unbound Inferno]

sandshrew, on 31 July 2013 - 11:40 PM, said:

I don't know where to post this, seems like it could fit around 5-6 places, but this...





For reference, the comic on the left was made by Alex Wolfe. In April.

April sounds like so long ago... but its only 4 months. We've been at this for near 7 months now with that being the picture, so its actually to be more truthful a portrait of life, where PGI imitates it and makes a map for it.

Minor technicality, but still - good point.


PGI seems to think PPC/Gauss Stalkers and poptarts are the way to go and just caters the game for it.
I'd /sarcasm that, but its a sad truth really...

[Pir Hsah]

Said PPC's didnt generate enough heat and stacked inappropriately without heat buildup did some patches and boom the same QQing. We excelled because we worked together swtiched targets and focused. Basiclly, didn't act like sheepmechs and go roam the fields,, LRMS seem to be a decent pinning device to a Jumpsniper and besiding it was WAY more over powered when the rounds were 45 points of dmg instead of 35 at a lesser rate.. Sandshrew thanks for the epic screenshot hommie!
Teamwork! :)Any if your thinking hey, I wanna steamroll kids like that too, come check out the HeadHunters of House Davion . Thanks for the 15 seconds on the stage.


Pir

[sandshrew]

Do you want to play like that? I don't know. Everyone in our 4-man quit playing MWO for the night after that, it was too disgusting. Terra Therma is actually a worse map than Alpine and this match was a glaring reminder that higher elo brackets are where fun goes to die. (as a point of interest, if we had done the same META APPROVED strategy, the game would have been a 0-0 draw, somehow even LESS fun than what actually happened.)

A lot of players have seen this and had the same reaction - unlike us though, a lot of them won't come back to play it again later.

[JokerVictor]

Came back from a 3 month break last night, dropped with a couple DV8 fellers.

I'd offer a detailed list of my impressions, but it's really not worth my time. This game is playing worse than I remember it, the maps continue to get more corridor shooter-ish (Terra Therma looks straight from Quake 2), there's artificial bloated complexity literally everywhere now, and the movement code is insanely frustrating and poorly implemented.

But hey, my CTF-3D poptart still wrecks face. Wooo, progress!

Right then, back to Arma.

[MaddMaxx]

Pir Hsah, on 01 August 2013 - 01:47 AM, said:

Said PPC's didnt generate enough heat and stacked inappropriately without heat buildup did some patches and boom the same QQing. We excelled because we worked together swtiched targets and focused. Basiclly, didn't act like sheepmechs and go roam the fields,, LRMS seem to be a decent pinning device to a Jumpsniper and besiding it was WAY more over powered when the rounds were 45 points of dmg instead of 35 at a lesser rate.. Sandshrew thanks for the epic screenshot hommie!
Teamwork! :)Any if your thinking hey, I wanna steamroll kids like that too, come check out the HeadHunters of House Davion . Thanks for the 15 seconds on the stage.


Pir

It is surprising that we never see that on any other Map eh? Like, say on Alpine perhaps and its Comm Tower of Doom (above Epi).

Agreed. Team work is OP, it should be NERFED. LOL!

[Xie Belvoule]

MWO, where I learned the truth about despair, as will you. There’s a reason why this game is the worst hell on earth… Hope. Every man who has downloaded and played it over the months has looked up to the developers and imagined balancing the meta by tweaking a few numbers on a spreadsheet. So easy… So simple… And like shipwrecked men turning to sea water from uncontrollable thirst, many have died trying to convince the devs. I learned here that there can be no true despair without hope. So, as I terrorize MechWarrior, I will feed its players hope to poison their souls. I will let them believe they can survive this meta so that you can watch them clamoring over each other to “stay in the sun.” You can watch me torture an entire game and when you have truly understood the depth of your failure, we will fulfill Paul’s destiny...

[Zack Esseth]

Oh, Xie and Pir. You guys ran my favorite build and killed people without me. That sounds like fun. As for all the wieners in here. Heat is the problem, that damage at range is fine, that damage kept up like it is in a brawl is dumb. ErPPC need to go back to 15 heat. THat would be +4 from where we are at right now. But PGI still doesn't think that the base heat is the problem. It would be nearly imposible to brawl with 31 or a 46 point heat alpha, but hey, Im no dev. Its not my game, I just play it.

[Agent 0 Fortune]

jakucha, on 01 August 2013 - 01:21 AM, said:

I'm going to feel sorry for you guys when the tonnage limits come.

Don't worry about Davion, besides PPC poptarts, they also run 150kph wolfpacks.
Those guys are on the cutting edge of Meta, exploiting and abusing every aspect of the game. All for the greater good! otherwise PGI wouldn't know things were broken.
They are true metasexuals

[Vassago Rain]

It was foretold.