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[Roosterfish]

Happens all the time in pug matches. Usually I just go all beserk like and try to take one with me when it happens.

When I do get support from my team mates I'm usually surprised.

[Anndy]

qwerty, on 05 November 2013 - 06:36 PM, said:

it is not just atlas pilots that suffer that yesterday i had almost the full team behind me a dragon, spider and a jenner poped up i keepet going (to my Death) and got smashed as the pugs looked on (yes LOOKED ON) after i died and hurt the dragon and leged the jenner and the spider ran away thay decided to move the dragon killed 2others befor he died.

shame on you pugs shame.

i don't get it, it's like they wanna wait and see how badly you get slaughtered before they decide what to do

Roosterfish, on 05 November 2013 - 08:42 PM, said:

Happens all the time in pug matches. Usually I just go all beserk like and try to take one with me when it happens.

When I do get support from my team mates I'm usually surprised.

yep go all out and pray you cause some good damage, sad thing is when your team does decide to help it usually devastates the enemy team but 90% of the time your team would rather watch

[Bront]

I've said it before, but the difference between leading a charge and looking like Leroy Jenkins is simply if your teammates (usually PUGs) follow you.

I think my favorite example of this is I was playing with 1 friend, we had worn the team down fighting by the com ridge on Alpine, and I called for a charge. I then proceeded to lead just my friend in the charge, and died, and THEN the PUGs followed my friend onward to victory. We won that game 12-1

Edited by Bront, 06 November 2013 - 09:44 AM.

[WVAnonymous]

http://www.youtube.c...bed/bjighCDPt-k

The bantha pugs travel in a straight line to conceal their numbers.

edit: Pasted the link into the link box, but it doesn't link. Hmmm.

Edited by WVAnonymous, 06 November 2013 - 03:03 PM.

[Stingray Productions]

WVAnonymous, on 06 November 2013 - 09:50 AM, said:

//www.youtube.com/embed/bjighCDPt-k

The bantha pugs travel in a straight line to conceal their numbers.

edit: Pasted the link into the link box, but it doesn't link. Hmmm.

It looks like you forgot the http: in there.

Edited by Stingray1234, 06 November 2013 - 01:57 PM.

[Xeno Phalcon]

Everytime I see this thread I think of a zombie apocalypse, if you see everyone running you should probably run too.

[Kjudoon]

Mycrus, on 05 November 2013 - 05:32 PM, said:

Get a boar's head and roll at 71+kph

mmmmmm... I love Atlai... They're like giant LRM magnets. Once I get LOS or they lose their ECM... all mine baby. Don't run. You'll only die tired and embarrassed.

Boar's Head. It's what's for dinner.

[Anndy]

been playing the trial blackjack and i think i like being small a lot more, the thing hits hard and can run away pretty quick so i seem to stay alive much longer doing a bit of solo work then jumping in to support when fights actually break out

[WVAnonymous]

Stingray1234, on 06 November 2013 - 01:56 PM, said:

It looks like you forgot the http: in there.

Thank you sir, solved in one sentence.



http://www.youtube.c...bed/bjighCDPt-k

The bantha pugs travel in a straight line to conceal their numbers.

Edited by WVAnonymous, 06 November 2013 - 03:04 PM.

[Reza Malin]

Kjudoon, on 06 November 2013 - 02:11 PM, said:

mmmmmm... I love Atlai... They're like giant LRM magnets. Once I get LOS or they lose their ECM... all mine baby. Don't run. You'll only die tired and embarrassed.

Boar's Head. It's what's for dinner.

Missile boats, they are great to panic the {Scrap} out of when you flank them in a Boar's Head. Love it when you alpha them in the rear armour and they have that wtf moment. Then boom, pop. Thats all she wrote.

Its swings and roundabouts, that all boils down to how good your team is. Without a team that backs your play, be it flanking or targeting for LRM's, your words are nothing but noises in the air.

[ManaValkyrie]

Fade Akira, on 06 November 2013 - 07:02 PM, said:

Missile boats, they are great to panic the {Scrap} out of when you flank them in a Boar's Head. Love it when you alpha them in the rear armour and they have that wtf moment. Then boom, pop. Thats all she wrote. Its swings and roundabouts, that all boils down to how good your team is. Without a team that backs your play, be it flanking or targeting for LRM's, your words are nothing but noises in the air.

On the flip side, plenty of D-DC Pilots who think that cause I have LRM's they can move slowly or stand still and then get but hurt when I manage to still kill them without tag using missiles, usually having taken out the ecm side torso with missiles first.

[Blacke]

Yes I dumb fire LRM's all the time and have gotten very good at hitting nonmoving and even mechs that are charging me.

[Cactus In The Rear]

Here is an idea that i didnt see buy a light mech and remember this:do not be the one being shot. It will teach you to be aware of where your team is since that is the only way you can live.

[Roosterfish]

ManaValkyrie, on 07 November 2013 - 09:45 PM, said:

On the flip side, plenty of D-DC Pilots who think that cause I have LRM's they can move slowly or stand still and then get but hurt when I manage to still kill them without tag using missiles, usually having taken out the ecm side torso with missiles first.

Or when you're running a Multirole Catapult A1 and you charge them.

[Samual Kalkin]

Anndy, on 05 November 2013 - 01:35 PM, said:

56 but yeah pretty much death every time and the worst part is that i draw all the dam fire anyway so there's no reason for my team to scatter and not at least open up on a few of them

Get used to it if you like assault mechs. Things might change if you are good enough to get out of the bottom end scrub/loser ELO brackets where I reside, but I've never been there so I don't know. It's only pixels, but most people are so scared of a death messing up their K/D ration that they will die cored through the back while running rather than fight and ohm'god maybe actually win the fight. I've lost count of how many times I've engaged to help so-called "teammates" only to have them run away as soon as I pull agro. Or I'll hit the flank and as soon as the enemy turns toward me, my side will scurry for cover and hide.

[sneeking]

team is not the only way lite can live, iv had full on stand up fights for whole matches in a spider. one time I was even last man standing. it can be done

[Zallin]

Samual Kalkin, on 08 November 2013 - 02:01 PM, said:

Get used to it if you like assault mechs. Things might change if you are good enough to get out of the bottom end scrub/loser ELO brackets where I reside, but I've never been there so I don't know. It's only pixels, but most people are so scared of a death messing up their K/D ration that they will die cored through the back while running rather than fight and ohm'god maybe actually win the fight. I've lost count of how many times I've engaged to help so-called "teammates" only to have them run away as soon as I pull agro. Or I'll hit the flank and as soon as the enemy turns toward me, my side will scurry for cover and hide.

Pretty much this sadly

They don't want to die and their actions end up getting both their team and themselves killed, I've seen nearly entire pugs cower in mech humping sessions in a corner of the map while me and one or two others try to fight, only to watch the cowards die once someone decides its worth the c-bills to call in a arti strike.

In fact the last match I was just in (arctic map), I broke off from my team to draw fire from a long range group, pulled behind a ridge to dodge some lrms and got ganked by a quickdraw who spotted for the lrms, in a normal situation the Quickdraw out in the open like that would have been dead in seconds from crossfire from the team behind me - instead -all- of them opted to hide behind a hill and then spent the entire match hiding there getting picked off one by one, I'm almost certain that most of them didn't break 100 damage (left in disgust after watching them for about 3 minutes).

Don't know why its gotten so bad suddenly, it certainly wasn't nearly every 3-4 matches like this 2 months ago.

But yeah, try and keep with the group it won't save you or win the match, but you might have a chance to take a mech with you and shame your team after you die.

[sneeking]

they are chicken shixts with no balls, don't they know its a game and nobody actually gets hurt. why do they run ?

too many times iv been holding my own against an enemy only to lookup and find five of my own colour ran away from just three approaching, I stay I fight I die but I don't run with them.

[Geek Verve]

Koniving, on 05 November 2013 - 01:48 PM, said:

I find myself singing this often.

Lol, good one, but at least go with the (IMO better) original:

[The Boz]

I honestly feel like herding cats is more efficient than attempts at teamwork with MWO PUGs.