draiocht, on 08 April 2015 - 01:08 PM, said:
I know I'm playing a multiplayer internet game, and all the crap that comes with it; but nevertheless, I've just been crushed.
Ugh.
How you can tell you've got someone using an alt account to sabotage your match:
1. The pilot either starts spamming nonsense while waiting for the lobby to start the match, or they never communicate at all
2. Once dropped they either disconnect and never reconnect.
3. OR, sit there AFK for however long the match lasts (connected according to ping just not doing anything)
4. AND/OR just charge in towards the enemy as fast as possible, dying but not doing any real damage, burning through 4 'mechs in less than 3 minutes of game play.
5. Then you come to the forums and find out that either:
a. They haven't even played enough games to have registered their accounts on the forum.
b. Their accounts were created within the last few weeks (sometimes THAT DAY).
There were quite a few doing it too.
I mean, SERIOUSLY, considering HOW LONG it was taking prior to LFG (I have no idea if that's actually shortened the wait at all), to actually get started in a CW match, do you REALLY think a person brand new to MWO would have the patience to wait that long, or, do you think they'd just click the "play now" button and wait a maximum of 4 minutes to be dropped into a pug match on the public queue?
No, you have to have some serious motivation to have that sort of patience to end up doing THAT BADLY once you got there...