100mile, on 18 November 2013 - 10:56 PM, said:
No the only stat that matters is Win Ratio....Yes I realize that depends on your teams...but isn't that the point? If you can maintain a high win ratio even when you pug...doesn't that mean you are being extremely effective at supporting your team...which by the way is the basis for this game...
Agreed for performance of the player as a whole. I agree completely.
But by "performance" the original poster is referring to people like myself who say: "zomg my build is so good, look at mah score!" Which is a way to judge whether or not the mech's build is or weapons are good. Not whether the player is good. Win/loss can't help determine if the build itself is good.
For example I could have a win/loss ratio of 5,000,000/1. But I could also have 5,000,000 deaths and a single kill. Doesn't say a thing about my mech's build.
I could pull out a score like this, and say my blackjack is incredible everyone should try it. But what's to say the two enemies weren't afk players? (They weren't, but you get my point). 8 small lasers, btw.
But if I go into matches and rack in a thousand damage and multiple kills consistently, it says something about my mech.
Like this from my infamous Heavy Metal rig.
Edit: The match below can be found on this
video. The build's basics can be found at the start (it is time skipped in as it's part of the Battlegrid tutorial vid in which I'm trying, during a match recording the instructions live, to teach people how to use the battlegrid.)
Or these, from my AC/2, AC/5 + 2 streak Trebuchet Joke build.
A single image doesn't mean much. But when the results are consistent, it can say something towards the performance. However, even with consistency, what if these were two matches out of 9,387? Truth be told both Trebuchet shots here are when my entire team had essentially fallen and left me to clean up and in both cases I am completely out of ammo (the build has 2 tons of ammo per weapon and it burns fast). But how would you know? You wouldn't.
This is why I prefer video myself.
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If you want to really be able to gauge the performance of a build, run it. Have several similarly minded people pick up a build and just roll with it at the same time and get their impressions.
For example, the
flamer Awesome. (
Vid 2)
Or Lordred's unnamed
fast attack Cataphract. (
Vid 2)
Edited by Koniving, 18 November 2013 - 11:38 PM.