Where Is The Social Part? How Do You Find Teammates ?
#1
Posted 09 March 2014 - 11:16 AM
I am a new player to MWO and after about 10 fights with random groupmates, which were fun, but severly lacked any tactical teamwork (at least on my side) I searched for some kind of "global chat" or a "hall" where one could meet other pilots and join a clan (or whatever player organized groups there are)... but there seems to be nothing like that!
And that's the thing I really dont understand! The developer say,that MWO is a tactical group game, but the game itself does not offer anything to find people who offer groups or are willing to team up together. Only if i already have them as friends I can chat with them, but how should I know who they are and if I would want to fight with them in the first place?
Am I missing something? I am a long time EVE Online player, a game where working together is also a key factor. There you have a global chat window, where you can talk to anyone and wehre you can join corp (clan) channels to communicate with certain groups. In EVE we were talking a lot BEFORE the battles how to outfit our ships and who will perform which role in an upcoming skirmish. For a game, like MWO that emphazises to fight as a team, I really would love to have something similar.
How did you guys find other people, who you wanted to play with? In the random groups I was thrown into there is almost no tactical talk about anything.
cheers
Chris
#2
Posted 09 March 2014 - 11:26 AM
(old) list of chat servers http://mwomercs.com/...e-chat-servers/
Inner sphere faction-oriented http://mwomercs.com/...s-inner-sphere/
Clan faction oriented http://mwomercs.com/...factions-clans/
Merc corp section http://mwomercs.com/...corps-outreach/
you're right that the game doesn't have any large social gatherings, but there is still a big community here, you just need to use the forum or services like NGNG to look for people
#3
Posted 09 March 2014 - 11:37 AM
Now that UI 2.0 is here you will start to see more things like chat/game rooms built into the game client itself.
For now, the community itself has to supply this sort of stuff.
#4
Posted 09 March 2014 - 11:55 AM
#5
Posted 09 March 2014 - 12:22 PM
#6
Posted 09 March 2014 - 12:33 PM
Look @ Redshifts links, he's posted the best resources for you already
Happy Hunting.
#7
Posted 09 March 2014 - 01:45 PM
If the game winds up featuring an in-game chat-place for players, one might think a scene like this would be pretty neat.
Until then, enjoy the forum. It's all we got.
#8
Posted 09 March 2014 - 04:18 PM
#9
Posted 10 March 2014 - 04:18 AM
Thanks again for your help!
Chris
#10
Posted 10 March 2014 - 10:14 AM
However, pay attention to who you play with in the game. If / when you run into some cool people that seem like fun, write down their names - or take a screen capture of the screen at the end of the match - and then send them a Friend invite.
#11
Posted 10 March 2014 - 03:30 PM
Gaianus, on 10 March 2014 - 04:18 AM, said:
Thanks again for your help!
Chris
Wish you would write an email to support and the devs stating that....
They're under the impression that players aren't concerned with things like this
#12
Posted 10 March 2014 - 09:30 PM
oldradagast, on 10 March 2014 - 10:14 AM, said:
However, pay attention to who you play with in the game. If / when you run into some cool people that seem like fun, write down their names - or take a screen capture of the screen at the end of the match - and then send them a Friend invite.
This is the best advice right here, I use a program called MSI Afterburner (it's a graphics card utility for overclocking but allows screen capture in any game/program) and anyone who looked promising I will message in the forums or send them a friend invite and get a feel for them and if they would fit my Clan.
Also as a side effect taking a screen cap at the end of each match allows you to track your progress with certain `Mechs or maps, etc (say add up all the damage dealt on Alpine in a Victor will give you an indication of how well you do with that `Mech and map).
#13
Posted 11 March 2014 - 06:39 AM
Sandpit, on 10 March 2014 - 03:30 PM, said:
They're under the impression that players aren't concerned with things like this
While this might sound sarcastic, I'm beginning to think it's true. The biggest indicator I've seen was the fact that they were surprised that the vast majority of drops were solo drops when there is no ingame way to find people to drop with. If the only way to even see the usernames of people you met during a match is taking screenshots, and the only way to chat is either during a match or with people you've already friended, how do you expect players to meet each other?
#14
Posted 11 March 2014 - 08:56 AM
if you are interested in a German player community, take a look at www.36thdieron.de or join out TS bop.4np.de.
See you there!
#15
Posted 11 March 2014 - 09:06 AM
Gaianus, on 09 March 2014 - 11:16 AM, said:
I am a new player to MWO and after about 10 fights with random groupmates, which were fun, but severly lacked any tactical teamwork (at least on my side) I searched for some kind of "global chat" or a "hall" where one could meet other pilots and join a clan (or whatever player organized groups there are)... but there seems to be nothing like that!
And that's the thing I really dont understand! The developer say,that MWO is a tactical group game, but the game itself does not offer anything to find people who offer groups or are willing to team up together. Only if i already have them as friends I can chat with them, but how should I know who they are and if I would want to fight with them in the first place?
Am I missing something? I am a long time EVE Online player, a game where working together is also a key factor. There you have a global chat window, where you can talk to anyone and wehre you can join corp (clan) channels to communicate with certain groups. In EVE we were talking a lot BEFORE the battles how to outfit our ships and who will perform which role in an upcoming skirmish. For a game, like MWO that emphazises to fight as a team, I really would love to have something similar.
How did you guys find other people, who you wanted to play with? In the random groups I was thrown into there is almost no tactical talk about anything.
cheers
Chris
Nail on the head, Chris.
You're too right, and we've been barking at the developers to include at least year 1999 in game chat support / social features for two years now.
If this community of us BT/Mechwarrior nerds wern't so diehard about this franchise, this game would have died years ago.
Edited by mwhighlander, 11 March 2014 - 09:06 AM.
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Posted 11 March 2014 - 09:20 AM
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Posted 11 March 2014 - 01:17 PM
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