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[MavRCK]

I won the first (might have been the second) Microsoft Zone MW4 1vs1 tournament. Was Maverick of DC then HFH.

Edited by MavRCK, 13 December 2012 - 09:50 PM.

[starmax]

[GaussDragon]

MavRCK, on 13 December 2012 - 09:50 PM, said:

I won the first (might have been the second) Microsoft Zone MW4 1vs1 tournament. Was Maverick of DC then HFH.

Wait, what? When were you in HFH?

[stoler x]

bump, mw3 mw4 L-skull-svt here, come one guys lets do this

[starmax]

OK Zone Players from way back.. What do you think about MWO?

[CheebaMech]

Cheebamech checking in. Hi all.
MW:O? Good but still needs improvement imo. Luckily it's beta so there is hope.
/s

[n r g]

3n3rGy here....

can anyone give me insight as how this game is compared to the mw4 Veng & mercs we remember? I still remember BZ & VL!

I purchased the BETA access and the game felt very SLUGGISH, and it felt like it lost that "FPS" element with the flying jump jet sniping, and pop tarting on foot via Nova Cat....

I play alot of Battlefield 3 now, so please check out my channel if you get the chance:
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MavRCK, on 13 December 2012 - 09:50 PM, said:

I won the first (might have been the second) Microsoft Zone MW4 1vs1 tournament. Was Maverick of DC then HFH.

Were you that Maverick that owned the T.A.C.O website?

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DerelictTomcat, on 10 October 2012 - 04:18 PM, said:

Had a lot of good times sitting in a room spamming for cdts. Many good conversations and foolish arguments. I did like pushing the +members and the automatic chat filter tho.

The zone is the reason this game still has this following.

DerelictTomcat was my zone generated name. I've also gone under DSF_Abominus and later while moving into MW4 and multiple games to follow as FFF_Asmodeus.

I need a better sig...

Asmodeous, I remember you SO MUCH to the extent that I remember you ran a Black Knight with JJ and 5er LL almost ALL the time! Great times!

FFK ClouD, on 12 October 2012 - 06:04 AM, said:

Reverse throttle button was great...it needs to make a comeback along with the other bindable % throttle buttons.

So I agree with a lot of your review but I have a few minor issues with some of the things in there:

I entirely disagree that it feels like mw3 slowed down. We need those jump left and jump right buttons for that to really happen. I was a bit harsh in my own review but it's just how I feel. From a competitive stand point there's little reason to even bother with MWO which is kind of sad. You're talking about joystick so that might be NICE but we all know mouse and kb have always been superior. You had a few holdouts in MW3 but they got stomped. It was fun to use joystick in the single player but not so fun when you got your happy *** handed to you online :c)

The Joystick players in Mech3 that were competitive used joystick + mouse. Joystick for torso turn...throttle...jump jet and used mouse to move the target reticule...because it was un-hinged from the center of the screen and someone without the ability to move the crosshair was at a severe disadvantage.

You make a good point that you have to know when to fight and when to run...however there is no pilot skill involved in that process. Maybe recognizing that it's time to run is a good skill but even then I doubt it's usefulness (unless a building/hill is around but even then...)

Like if you get caught off guard you are just going to die. Especially if you can't out run anyone that you ran into. You might say it was a tactical error but that works both ways. It was more likely the enemy team with a tactical win. People seem to forget that there is an enemy team in this game and sometimes they make the right decision. Risk/Reward of MWO feels broken to me...if you get caught out you should just sit there and put some damage on because you're dead anyway. Run away and you die plus put no damage on.

There's a such thing as a point of no return in this game which bothers me. You can't skillfully maneuver you're way out of a 3v1 situation unless you are in a mech that's fast. A fast mech is something you ARE not something you are skilled at which is an important distinction to make. New game modes won't stop the fundamentals from applying.

I care about the game so that's why I am pretty harsh on it but it should be called Battletech online not Mechwarrior. The word Mechwarrior would imply that they "game-ified" the battletech universe which isn't happening. Just doubling armor isn't good enough.

That's the reason I also disagree with your last point...I think they are on the wrong track. It would be nice to make it a game first battletech 2nd just like every mechwarrior that's ever existed. This is not something you just fix...this is a fundamental flaw of game vision and it's probably too late for them to even fix it without making a LOT of paid founders mad.

FAxDankCloud of Forsaken with NinJa?

[GaussDragon]

3N3RGY, on 29 January 2013 - 07:45 PM, said:

Asmodeous, I remember you SO MUCH to the extent that I remember you ran a Black Knight with JJ and 5er LL almost ALL the time! Great times!



FAxDankCloud of Forsaken with NinJa?

Gonna start playing this game now?

[x MIRAGE x]

So far this game is turning out to be ish.

[r3flexez]

GaussDragon, on 29 January 2013 - 08:22 PM, said:

Gonna start playing this game now?

I played it with Onlashoc, and saw some familiar faces. (took a break from Battlefield 3 PC, which I have been playing exclusively, competitive (CEVO), since the past year).

The game felt very sluggish, and I was a bit sad, the old poptarting or pop sniping strategy/aspect of gameplay felt "gone".


Maybe I'm just stuck on the old nostalgia, but I'm hoping the game can provide that same "FPS " aspect of fast, strategic, sniping combat action, instead of just slow, fat, gigantic sluggish mechs :/

So amazing that so many old players came back, especially considering most of us were 13-17 years old at the time, and we still purchased PC's to return the greatness that is Mechwarrior !

speaking of that, does anyone know if anyone has any old videos from the MSN Gaming Zone on Youtube uploaded? Either league games or screen shots, from the days of BZ or VL, HBx or DoM days!

And where's Le0 Showerz

Edited by XxEnErGyxX, 30 January 2013 - 05:24 PM.

[GaussDragon]

XxEnErGyxX, on 30 January 2013 - 04:56 PM, said:

Maybe I'm just stuck on the old nostalgia, but I'm hoping the game can provide that same "FPS " aspect of fast, strategic, sniping combat action, instead of just slow, fat, gigantic sluggish mechs :/

I know what you mean, but it's gonna be this way. Depends what mech you take and with what engine. Some heavy snipers go pretty quick but they'll be more viable when they unfuck the netcode and balance out the heat a bit more.

[SilentWolff]

XxEnErGyxX, on 30 January 2013 - 04:56 PM, said:

The game felt very sluggish, and I was a bit sad, the old poptarting or pop sniping strategy/aspect of gameplay felt "gone".

Its still there. You can poptart pretty damn well with the right mech and a good feel for how the throttle works.

[xxREVxx]

XxEnErGyxX, on 30 January 2013 - 04:56 PM, said:

And where's Le0 Showerz

He has been reborn. If you are worthy I will introduce you to him.

[SilentWolff]

PoisonWolf, on 30 January 2013 - 05:42 PM, said:

He has been reborn. If you are worthy I will introduce you to him.

I call BS. He would of contacted peeps in KE already

[GaussDragon]

PoisonWolf, on 30 January 2013 - 05:42 PM, said:

He has been reborn. If you are worthy I will introduce you to him.

I second that BS call.

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PoisonWolf, on 30 January 2013 - 05:42 PM, said:

He has been reborn. If you are worthy I will introduce you to him.

What do you mean "reborn"?

And wouldn't Crov4x know where he went? I remember them being best friends back in the days, the dual tag team of DoMx(dragons of morgoth), aka "Twin 1" and "Twin 2".

Man, still remember it to this day. Le0's novacat and Crov4x's Mad Cat. A Lethal tag-team!

I'm sure Le0 would remember me; I was like 14 at the time and would bug him 24/7 for tips on the game and mouse and keyboard settings *blushes*

Oh, and some of you MAY have seen this already, but it's for the Old MSN Zone Players

Check it out, you may even see your name in some of these videos!:

[GaussDragon]

3N3RGY, on 30 January 2013 - 09:30 PM, said:

What do you mean "reborn"?

And wouldn't Crov4x know where he went?

Man, still remember it to this day. Le0's novacat and Crov4x's Mad Cat. A Lethal tag-team!

I've been in touch with Cro, he was briefly playing this game but has disappeared. Someone mentioned that Le0 has other stuff going on but knows about this game. I have to send Crovax an e-mail again to see what's up on his end.

[GaussDragon]

3N3RGY, on 30 January 2013 - 09:30 PM, said:

Also, that video was awesome. I can see that Cro submitted a lot of old screenies of the HFH days to CrazyBolt for that video. Haha, Invader ZIM and Badass were always hilarious in NHUA opens. Neuro briefly on our roster to test something out hahaha, totally forgot about that. Man, so many of my old wings and TONS of current KaoS members in that vid. *tear

[Corvus Antaka]

I miss the MSN zone that was some awesome times, back then the internet had chat lobbies everywhere.

Sad to see how the internet has devolved since then