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#9561 martian

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Posted 08 May 2021 - 08:15 AM

View PostSpeedy Plysitkos, on 08 May 2021 - 08:03 AM, said:

Ok, so I noticed when you regulary play, you get those "caches". I got some common and also uncommon. Is there a higher level too ? Something like legendary cache with something special ?


Essentially, the higher level caches contain more cockpit stuff (you know, flags, hanging items, etc.).

You can read those descriptions:

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Posted 08 May 2021 - 08:36 AM

View Postmartian, on 08 May 2021 - 08:15 AM, said:


Essentially, the higher level caches contain more cockpit stuff (you know, flags, hanging items, etc.).

You can read those descriptions:

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OMG, did you alrdy have the mech from 2 days ago started event ? Holyyy Posted Image Posted Image

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Posted 08 May 2021 - 08:42 AM

View PostSpeedy Plysitkos, on 08 May 2021 - 08:36 AM, said:

OMG, did you alrdy have the mech from 2 days ago started event ? Holyyy Posted Image Posted Image


It has not been so difficult. In a day or two you will earn it too. Posted Image

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Posted 08 May 2021 - 09:05 AM

Worth noting that Solaris has its' own supply caches.

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Posted 08 May 2021 - 10:10 AM

View PostSpeedy Plysitkos, on 08 May 2021 - 08:36 AM, said:

OMG, did you alrdy have the mech from 2 days ago started event ? Holyyy Posted Image Posted Image

That mech had been a prize some years ago as well, though with it tricked out as it is, I'd be willing to bet they got the real deal. I just remembered because my alt is a dedicated IS pilot who'se never purchased a clan mech and yet has that very mech sitting in the mech bay as spoils of war.

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#9566 Speedy Plysitkos

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Posted 08 May 2021 - 11:09 AM

Another question. Back in 2016 there were rumors, that PGI will add humans into garage moving around the mech (they will move on the basic ground ofc), so that you can truly see the size of the mechs compared to real people. Is this still in plan ?

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Posted 08 May 2021 - 11:38 AM

View PostSpeedy Plysitkos, on 08 May 2021 - 11:09 AM, said:

Another question. Back in 2016 there were rumors, that PGI will add humans into garage moving around the mech (they will move on the basic ground ofc), so that you can truly see the size of the mechs compared to real people. Is this still in plan ?

I think that PGI staff is busy with the work on MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries.

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Posted 09 May 2021 - 09:27 AM

View PostSpeedy Plysitkos, on 08 May 2021 - 11:09 AM, said:

Another question. Back in 2016 there were rumors, that PGI will add humans into garage moving around the mech (they will move on the basic ground ofc), so that you can truly see the size of the mechs compared to real people. Is this still in plan ?

Not as far as we know, no.

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Posted 09 May 2021 - 10:56 AM

View PostSpeedy Plysitkos, on 08 May 2021 - 08:03 AM, said:

Ok, so I noticed when you regulary play, you get those "caches". I got some common and also uncommon. Is there a higher level too ? Something like legendary cache with something special ?


Never ever should you open common cache. Reasons.

#9570 Speedy Plysitkos

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Posted 09 May 2021 - 01:38 PM

Ok now for the other 2 games modes.

Back in 2016 faction play has neverending mm, which takes for example 10-15 minutes to enter 1 battle. (this was and still is unacceptable for me)
Is this still a thing ?
How long are ques for FP and Solaris ?

#9571 Leone

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Posted 09 May 2021 - 02:44 PM

Uhhh...... Not checking on Solaris. Way too much waiting with no pay off.

As for Faction Warfare, wait times.... vary. Sometimes there are no matches, and so little reason to wait, save to bait others to wait with you, which could be a while if'n it's not a prime time. Other times it's great with a few full teams dropping and pugs filling out the queue... Only, if you're pugging sometimes you'll have a full group waiting for the enemy to queue up and a full group'll join the wait on the same faction and then someone on your team'll leave for some weird reason (Maybe to switch sides to get that match in) and the matchmaker'll remake your group with a new pug but whilst doing that'll let the full team launch instead whilst you continue to wait...

Joining teams makes for faster Community Warfare drops.

15 minute waits are not unknown to me whilst pug dropping, even during busier times due to above style reasons. That said never hurts to check the queue between matches and join if you see it reading 12/9 or some such.

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Edited by Leone, 09 May 2021 - 02:47 PM.


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Posted 09 May 2021 - 06:03 PM

View PostSpeedy Plysitkos, on 08 May 2021 - 11:09 AM, said:

Another question. Back in 2016 there were rumors, that PGI will add humans into garage moving around the mech (they will move on the basic ground ofc), so that you can truly see the size of the mechs compared to real people. Is this still in plan ?

I sorta remember that. That never panned out, but they did add a camera button so you can sorta walk around the mechbay yourself with a camera at ground level. It's not real great. The walk around the mechbay idea was transferred to MW5 I believe (I have not yet bought it, though that does show in the first teaser, but that was all scripted.)

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Posted 10 May 2021 - 11:05 AM

Ok, thats all for returning player so far. Ill stick to PUG......
Thx for helpi guys.

#9574 Speedy Plysitkos

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Posted 11 May 2021 - 01:46 AM

eh, one more.

I just have in my team Brios, which is Tier 1, twitch streamer.
hows that possible ? I thought Tier 4 couldnt meet 1.

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Posted 11 May 2021 - 02:23 AM

View PostSpeedy Plysitkos, on 11 May 2021 - 01:46 AM, said:

eh, one more.

I just have in my team Brios, which is Tier 1, twitch streamer.
hows that possible ? I thought Tier 4 couldnt meet 1.

The smaller the number of active players is, the wider the matchmaker has to spread its nets to assemble the game.

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Posted 11 May 2021 - 02:26 AM

I'm pretty sure the gates are very unlikely to open that far these days.

However you may see a trier 1 player in a group that has like low-tier viewers of their stream in it, pushing the entire group lower.

We don't know exactly how group ratings are evaluated in terms of tiers, but it seems to maybe be an average of its members.

Edited by Gagis, 11 May 2021 - 02:27 AM.


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Posted 11 May 2021 - 05:07 AM

View PostGagis, on 11 May 2021 - 02:26 AM, said:

I'm pretty sure the gates are very unlikely to open that far these days.

However you may see a trier 1 player in a group that has like low-tier viewers of their stream in it, pushing the entire group lower.

We don't know exactly how group ratings are evaluated in terms of tiers, but it seems to maybe be an average of its members.


Aha. So thats how twitch streamers got their viewers. And +they look so good in tier 4.
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Posted 11 May 2021 - 09:06 PM

Brios does look good in T1 matches, either Posted Image

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Posted 11 May 2021 - 10:52 PM

Okay, so, not sure I remember everything correctly, but here's what I recall about the match maker. Far as I can reckon, it spends about a minute trying to match three of each weight class in each tier for a match, maybe looking at where it can hedge some weight just to get a drop in. After which the flood gates open, a tier up and a tier down are available, and let's get a bit looser on those weight classes. A minute after that and it throws in the towel and releases two tiers in each direction and just tries to make sure folk get to play the game.

At this point, a nominally 'Tier 3' match could have pulled players from tier five and tier one. So, you shouldn't see a tier one player, unless matches are getting sparse, or there's too many folk sitting in heavies and the matchmaker start just throwing 'em out willy nilly just so folk stay engaged.

Granted, all this was as of two years ago. Things might've loosened up even more since. Not sure myself.

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Posted 11 May 2021 - 11:42 PM

It has been rebuilt since. It now has gates of +-1 tiers by default and doesn't much care about tonnage.





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