Ryan Steel, on 15 November 2013 - 12:19 PM, said:
It's not just that. All the guys on our TS have been noticing some really off gameplay lately. As a skilled player yourself, you know what it means to know the game through and through, right to its soul. You know how many shots you need to take a certain mech out, you know where their hitboxes are, so on and so forth. End Crescendo started a thread a couple days ago expressing his grievances with the game. We are not damaging what we're hitting. 2 days ago I had my 732 vs 2 last enemy mechs (a treb and a spider). While the treb was at around 450 meters heavily damaged I fired off a 45 alpha at him for 0 damage. As he approached I then fired a 35 alpha for no damage and he finally closed in on me. Kaffeangst was dead and was spectating, which means he was witnessing my aim server-side. I landed each and every one of my hits on his mech and it did absolutely no damage. When he closed in on me, I had 8 rounds of gauss left and he had an open red left torso. I nailed my gauss hits on his open torso and not only did it not register damage, but it didn't even register the hit (red crosshair) for all 8 remaining rounds. Kaffe confirmed that I had landed these hits while spectating me and was aghast. This is a first person shooter game that does not allow you to damage what you aim at. When it comes to doing damage to me I take tons of it. It's not like a few months ago where not only would i not register damage to the enemy, but they would not register on me either. No, now I get hit for damage commensurate with the weapon being used and I do none in return a good chunk of the time.
The worst part is that I accrue massive amounts of heat with no beneficial trade-off. I'm willing to manage the high heat penalty that comes with using 3 PPCs but it's unacceptable for me to pay the penalty in heat without being able to damage what I hit.
And because we are so connected to the game in terms of our depth of understanding of it, we know that something has been done in the past ~3 weeks. We're absolutely certain of it. It's not just me. Between hit detection, weird lagging bugs, ridiculous FPS spikes and the worst matchmaking that I think I've ever seen (and believe me, we've bested the odds against us in the past. We've emerged victorious in instances where we were designed to lose), we think we're being trolled by the devs. I've solo dropped against Luna Wolves, SwK, and SJR in a medium mech and to top it off, I had not a single top tier player to back me up. This is BS. I've ridden the worst storms that this game has had to offer and I've never posted a complaint thread about it ever, until now. Every single person on our Lords TS no longer feels like the game is fun anymore as we get screwed mutliplefold:
1. We can't find a match in our assaults without a person in an alt account dropping with us and after we submitted support tickets we were told to pilot mediums
2. We are not damaging what we hit, which is basically taking one of our strongest strengths (crack aim) and rendering it inert
3. We get shot in the back by our teammates, sometimes critting our weapons and a good percentage of our shots are blocked by said teammates. We get blocked into killboxes.
4. We face 12 guys that are great players vs the 4 of us and we get dropped with the absolute worst players I've ever seen.
~3 weeks ago there was nothing we couldn't overcome, even running a 2 or 3 man. We tanked damage for the team, we went 1v12, 2v12, 4v12 and carried our pugs successfully even against a full team of good players. We did damage to what we hit. We hardly lost. We were finishing nights with 25-1 W-L with 25 KDRs without a sweat. Of course we want the challenge, but make it hard, not stupid. It looks like there's some players here that know what I'm talking about. They've done something, what I do not know, but something is wrong.
Mister Blastman, on 15 November 2013 - 12:36 PM, said:
Your sentiments echo mine exactly.
I thought it was just me who is getting screwed on hit detection this past week. I've had some obscene moments where I'd face off against an enemy mech up close, they'd have a red CT, I'd have him plus two others on me and I'd fire salvo after salvo into the red CT and not a SINGLE SHOT would count for any damage. Over and over.
I'd get blown up of course and the enemy would walk away laughing at my rubber bullets. This has happened MULTIPLE times every single night and I dare say I'm having damage dropped every single drop repeatedly. It's disgusting.
Some enemy damage is being dropped, but it is rare. So rare I'd say that 99.99% of enemy shots that hit me do damage but on rare occasion it won't. Statistically speaking this is impossible, right? That my damage would be dropped constantly but theirs not?
I'm glad ya'll are seeing the same things that I am. Teammates backshotting, bad matchmaking, poor damage, all of it.
I love running my mediums but damn, it is impossible to carry in a BJ-1 versus four highlanders and four miseries.
I said this months ago. It's why I stopped playing. Only about a third of my hits registered. Glad you guys finally caught up to my level.
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