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[Goose]

'Cause I haven't: Two games there were close in hours of play is ether the old normal, or within margin of error …

I can't even say it's talking longer to find matches.

[SUBZERO8K]

I haven't noticed any improvement in match quality, but it's definitely taking longer to find matches.

[Foxfire]

Yeah... it hasn't made a bit of difference.

[Shadey99]

I've only played 3 games so far, but my results were: new players game 1 (I killed 2 and nearly killed 5, no way else killed anyone on my team), tactically questionable team that were overwhelmed on tourmaline (team split around the middle and one arm meet 2/3rds of the enemy team and were taken down), third was a solid team in an assault game...

[Alcom Isst]

I've been having a fair time in several matches. Most of the recent matches went around 8/12, though there was a cap win, a base rush win on River City, a conquest cap, and a depressing 3/12.

Edited by Alcom Isst, 17 September 2013 - 04:53 PM.

[Chavette]

I have... I get the same people more, as the grouping is tightened, but the games are much closer, I'm happy with it.

Edited by Chavette, 17 September 2013 - 04:54 PM.

[Kitane]

Hmm..I think I saw a same share of reasonably close games and stomps as before the patch.

Though there were two unusual things:
1) The Hunchback P was freshly elited and I caused some serious carnage in at least half of the games. 1/3 of games were in 700-1000 teritory, also my first 1k+ match in a Hunchie...

2) I've lost almost every single match this evening, usually with my team taking 3-4 losses right at the beginning of the game and at least half of the team dying with less than 100 damage.

Tbh, it felt like I fought against lower ELO enemies than usual. Or maybe the elited Hunchie made that big of difference. Or I just had a great day...

[Drasari]

No change. Just had a game where we had one assault, two heavy rest mix of medium and light. Other team had 3 atlas, a stalker, highlander, two Ilya, and a jagger with the rest lights and mediums. Not even a courtesy spit.

[Psydotek]

MM? Movement model? Are 'mechs still getting hung up on pebbles?

[Vassago Rain]

I saw the same dudes all evening, and had to wait upwards of 3 minutes before each game, but I never got stuck with 8 players against 11.

That's about it.

[Krivvan]

Games will still end in 12-1 stomps even if the teams were absolutely perfectly balanced. It's because of the way the game works. As mechs go down, the amount of firepower that a team has goes down significantly. Often times how a game begins can spell doom for a team.

[Rathmere]

Four games so far. Close matches in all of them. More importantly the weight of each team seemed to be closer than before.

[Cerlin]

This has worked great for me and mine. Especially as it comes to tighter weight balancing. My mediums feel less out of place. This is greatly appreciated. I also had many more competitive matches today.

[Deathlike]

It's still generally lopsided, plus my match wait time is generally longer.

I'll wait for a few days to get a better feel (with ELO adjustments), but it's really starting to be undesirable playing solo PUGs these days.

Edited by Deathlike, 17 September 2013 - 10:45 PM.

[Johnny Reb]

No, however, I see drops with alot of new players going solo. Gets better later but still alot of new players and a few I know are good. Trying, to level up a lrm boat its been frustrating, still got the 2x win a night 4 times tonight, on my V he is 11K xp waiting for the others!

[Goose]

Chavette, on 17 September 2013 - 04:54 PM, said:

I have... I get the same people more, as the grouping is tightened…

[John MatriX82]

Nope, it now fails to find matches even if you launch solo. I don't even want to imagine when setting up 2-3-4 mans groups.

12 mans was more decent, but when we set up an all light and medium 12 mans we couldn't find anybody, even if there were at least other 5 groups playing.

[Pat Kell]

trying to drop solo now seems much more difficult. In a group, we launch first time every time. Going solo I can have 3-4 "failed to find match message". Kinda wanting to go back to the old way so I can play more than once every half hour when I am solo dropping...oh well

[Bromineberry]

It felt better yesterday. Most of the games have been quite close, only one roflstomp.

BUT, this is for some reason nothing unusual on a patch day. On a patch day and a short time after it, I usually get the best matches. I guess it's becaue many people buy new mechs, don't have all the skills unlocked and/or are trying new loadouts. It will be interesting to see, how maches are a week after patch day. By then, it has usually gotten much more "roflstompier".

[Appogee]

I'm still seeing some ROFLstomps, though not as many as previous. (Used to be 90%, now 60%).

It is taking much longer to find some matches but I don't mind that when the matches are closer. (Better a long time finding a good match, than quickly finding a bad one.)

The above is based on about 10 matches... not a big sample.

My main source of dissatisfaction with MWO for three months now has been having so many noob players on my team, on the mistaken belief that I will somehow be able to compensate for them in a match against premades. Only rarely am I and a couple of other experienced players able to compensate for having half to a third of a new players in trial mechs.

Edited by Appogee, 18 September 2013 - 02:22 AM.