You simply cannot afford to count on your team mates. It wasn't PPC/Gauss that runs my fun driving Jenners. It's having 5 of the 12 mechs on the opposing team chase me far from the front and looking up to realize the rest of my team lost 11 vs 7 and i'm fuh-hucked.
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Started by Budor, Aug 24 2013 03:35 AM
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Posted 25 August 2013 - 08:20 PM
Obviously this is a problem, but you know? I never see it. I don't claim to be the best player in super-elite-elo brackets, but I AM a decent player with 2500+ drops under my belt.
9 of 10 of my matches are reasonably close, and it's extremely rare to have a single player or two dominate damage or kills. Both teams nearly always are pretty well spread, given of course that a couple early deaths(not unusual, a misstep in 12v12 can get you ganked FAST) will result in their having terrible numbers for that match.
I always wonder if this is just a confirmation bias thing? I mean, it does happen to me, now and then. I'll see the odd match like that. But I'm suspicious that people get the odd drop like that amongst a lot of normal closer matches then just remember the outstanding ones.
There's lots of perfectly legitimate reasons for that to happen, too, that are not just "everyone else on my team sucked". If an opposing team, for example, manages to advance their entire team on a small portion of your team - say, 10 of thiers vs. 4 of yours, those 4 are going down like {censored analogy}. Once that's happened, it's highly likely that the next 4 of your team they encounter will fare equally badly, leaving just a few players to wrack up decent damage done numbers before they finally are crushed as well or the opposing team elects to cap rather than chase.
That's just a well played match for the opposing team, and it happens. A small strategic mistake on one team coupled with a well organized push on the other and it doesn't matter how good individual pilots are, those who get caught first are the ones going down with pathetic amounts of damage done no matter how skilled they are.
9 of 10 of my matches are reasonably close, and it's extremely rare to have a single player or two dominate damage or kills. Both teams nearly always are pretty well spread, given of course that a couple early deaths(not unusual, a misstep in 12v12 can get you ganked FAST) will result in their having terrible numbers for that match.
I always wonder if this is just a confirmation bias thing? I mean, it does happen to me, now and then. I'll see the odd match like that. But I'm suspicious that people get the odd drop like that amongst a lot of normal closer matches then just remember the outstanding ones.
There's lots of perfectly legitimate reasons for that to happen, too, that are not just "everyone else on my team sucked". If an opposing team, for example, manages to advance their entire team on a small portion of your team - say, 10 of thiers vs. 4 of yours, those 4 are going down like {censored analogy}. Once that's happened, it's highly likely that the next 4 of your team they encounter will fare equally badly, leaving just a few players to wrack up decent damage done numbers before they finally are crushed as well or the opposing team elects to cap rather than chase.
That's just a well played match for the opposing team, and it happens. A small strategic mistake on one team coupled with a well organized push on the other and it doesn't matter how good individual pilots are, those who get caught first are the ones going down with pathetic amounts of damage done no matter how skilled they are.
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Posted 26 August 2013 - 11:51 PM
The Cheese, on 24 August 2013 - 03:40 AM, said:
What exactly am I looking at here?
a group of matches that were fairly close but were completely ruined because he doesn't know how to work with a team. notice that when the teams had an over all higher damage per teammate they did better. this is because they most likely had a more coherent attack. if you want that to be your team you should actually make an effort to communicate with them instead of just running of to kill whatever you can get clear shot on.
you were on the losing teams too. you are just as capable of shifting the match as anyone else. it isn't just about getting kills.
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