Mcchuggernaut, on 04 December 2013 - 07:40 AM, said:
Ok, so I had another one of those **** games on Terra Therma where this spawn nonsense happened. Next time this configuration occurs I will take a screenshot and show what I mean. Basically, f you are the right-most lance in this particular setup and anything heavier than a medium you are screwed. You have to get over some mountains to the left or do a huge backtrack to catch the other two lances because they tend to merge and not ever want to backtrack and go back and around the mountains to meet you. Either you spend the whole game looping back to chase them and maybe arriving near the end of the game if you haven't been found, mobbed, and killed, or you go through the center crater and usually meet at least two merged enemy lances who have the high ground and are subsequently slaughtered. This time I explained on chat to my team what would happen, and that they would lose a lance if they didn't form up. They ignored me, charged off, lost our cut off lance, then got ***** by a team a third larger than ours. Honestly, it's so certain of a loss I will be sorely tempted to quit the match next time I see this particular cluster-**** of a setup on that map. And I have never quit a game before till I was dead or we won. That's how bad it is. But if it is certain to just end with a loss, no C-bills, experience, or FUN, what's the damn point?
Remember this when you choose to play a slow assault and make them even slower by throwing a 255 engine in, so you can max out all the weapon hard points.
Seriously, this game is all about choices. You can't expect to lean to one extreme and never have to deal with the disadvantages that go along with it. Assault mechs carry the most armor in the game. As such they have trouble with hills and inclines. This is a bigger problem on some maps than others. Everyone knows this. If your lance mates run off and leave you, then you just got stuck with a crappy lance. It's going to happen. No changes of any kind will insulate you from that possibility. Find some friends to drop with. It cures a lot of ills.
I might also suggest you start such matches with something like, "Hey guys, I have trouble getting started on this map. Mind hanging back until I get up this hill?"