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[Bulletsponge0]

Whats up with the insanely timid teams today??

[Bill Bullet]

Oh look, new Mastery Bundles, or as I like to call all of them "Witch* Bundles". I'm all for paying money to buy Mechs or MC or colors/camo but buying skills is just weak sauce.

*W=B,

Edited by Bill Bullet, 26 June 2015 - 10:57 PM.

[bad arcade kitty]

had the most shameful death ever today... i don't even sure if i want to talk about it

ok, it was a decent game overall, i did something like a couple of kills, a few assists and 800+ damage, was one of those who turned the battle to our side (we still lost by cap to their lone jenner though), but the death.... so, i just killed some enemy and shot a few salvos (ssrm-6*5 streakcrow) at their exe and was very hot, there was an enemy panther fighting our light nearby, i shoot it with alpha... and shut down to overheat, the panther killed that light while i was starting the mech back and decided to flee, i pursued, thought i was cool enough to alphaed again... i was wrong, i shut down again, the panther turned to me and began to shoot with a lone mg, her only weapon left i think, i started the mech again, yes i know i could get back, twist, w/e, shouldn't have used alphas, i thought that panther would die to the next alpha, so i alphaed.... i was wrong, i shut down again, panther survived and i died to the lone mg while being shut down, it was so shameful ;_; the panther was killed by a nearby gauss scavenger

Edited by bad arcade kitty, 26 June 2015 - 11:51 PM.

[IraqiWalker]

Bill Bullet, on 26 June 2015 - 10:56 PM, said:

Oh look, new Mastery Bundles, or as I like to call all of them "Witch* Bundles". I'm all for paying money to buy Mechs or MC or colors/camo but buying skills is just weak sauce.

*W=B,

How do you buy skills with them?

[Sarlic]

IraqiWalker, on 27 June 2015 - 12:10 AM, said:

How do you buy skills with them?

Hows your Atlas coming along? Do you enjoy or curse it?

[Jon Gotham]

The thread concerning 4 man size group limit, is this serious?
If PGI do this, I think that's it for me and mwo. this casual thing has gone on far enough....

[jper4]

I know exactly what you mean mad cat. I lost track of how many times yesterday I go to help someone out. get stuck fighting 4 enemy mechs while the other person dies or bales and seconds after I die the rest of the team proceeds to arrive and plow through the mechs that just killed me.

I also seem to be the only person on our side that ever gets focused on. had one guy chase me around the map for about 6 minutes of the match. I go back to our team he's still shooting me (teammates of course ignore him completely). run past them as he disengages and start shooting something else. 30 seconds later from the other side of the map he's shooting me again. I finally die (he had range edge) and of course 20 seconds after that he dies. happened in multiple matches from multiple people.

I go into squirell mode. I R each of them to warn how many coming and they chase me back to the team. team ignores the treats to LRM something 900m away. I die and suddenly team is yelling about being flanked. I chase a squirrel (i'm a light so my job) other team has 6 mechs shoot me.

go capping on bog. theta contested we have 6 mechs there, other side has 2. they leave, we cap and leave. seconds later other side is back capping. of the 6 of us only me and an awesome turn around. the same two ecm lights there with MPLs. we end up dying since we're in a crossfire and whenever I tried to la of course they both followed me so stayed with the awesome- who just kinda stood there. we die- the two lights are the last two left on the other side and soon die. another habit of mine- staying with a group but being the only one who gets killed by focused fire.

and of course any sort of aggression is a death sentence. 5 of us on caldera playing peek and shoot (2 assaults, 2 heavies and me in a brawling griff). shooting at two enemy mechs. I move slowly over the ridge while the two enemy are behind cover, going slow enough for the assaults to keep up. engage the two enemy pushing past the first to give its RT to the following assaults. end up dying as I get targeted and a lone LRM boat start firing. I turn to duck behind the big guys following...and they're still peeking over the ridge shooting me in the back. I die.

also any light i'm in always has a heavy standing directly behind me (and hitting me with their fire of course) while i'm trying to target and run/retreat from return fire.

someone suggests an alternate strategy for alpine. half the team goes along, other half goes to the hill as usual. one person wonders if this is a good idea- makes no other suggestion an goes off on his own, dies with 0 damage in a hellbringer. we lose, "man that was a stupid plan you stupid noobs"

HPG- new strategy- everyone hide behind the wall by the spawn point and contest nothing. about a lance worth of us actually move forward to scout and harass. we all die and wonder why everyone else is still hiding- was 5-4 us at that point since we managed to mess up a lot of the enemy before dying. we end up winning 12-9 because other side either came at them 1 by 1 or sat in the open for our LRMs and had no arty t make the tightly clustered group pay for being so tightly clustered. one of the hiders goes on to proclaim the geniusness of their method.

alternate gripe- why is it the mech i'm just trying to get my double xp win for the day and move on because I don't do well in them results in 6+ match losing streaks before finally getting a win. then the chassis I enjoy/do well with get the win in 2 matches or less.

[C E Dwyer]

loopala, on 24 June 2015 - 07:44 PM, said:

Yep always a bit timid, but as of late it seems worse then normal. I mean both teams camping and poking from 800m for 15 min. Well except for me getting cored out in the back in the first 2 min while I atempt to engage the reds at reasonable range for an ac20

Yup cause corner poking at 800 meters is such a better game than pop tarting at 400 meters

Now my whine, I keep getting in the top three high scorers in my hero Vindicator, which is enough to make a grown man cry, but in a game where I came second to a TBR by 37 points and the Assaults were the last two mechs standing, WE allegedly, left them hanging out to dry

kamiko kross, on 27 June 2015 - 06:43 AM, said:

The thread concerning 4 man size group limit, is this serious?
If PGI do this, I think that's it for me and mwo. this casual thing has gone on far enough....

My wallet is closed for sure if this happens, I still got Premium time to burn before I wipe MWO off my hard drive

[3xnihilo]

They are going to fix hitreg, now my lights won't work anymore...

Just kidding the trick to lights has always been don't get shot, it will be a shock though for the pilots that thought tanking like an atlas was a viable light strategy, I guess. I am hoping this means my lasers will register more at 169kph cuz if it does it is going to be the heavy/assault pilots trying to figure out what happened.

[Bulletsponge0]

so sick of my teams on caustic feeling the must run one complete lap around the crater before they will fight.

of course, they always circle away from the assaults so we lose them in the first 2 minutes of the match....

[IraqiWalker]

Sarlic, on 27 June 2015 - 05:34 AM, said:

Hows your Atlas coming along? Do you enjoy or curse it?

I curse not having 2 others on hand to help me elite it. It will take me a long while before I can say I'm a good atlas pilot. The thing doesn't pilot like other assaults. However, when I do get to drop an alpha in someone's face, it's always very satisfying. I can almost see the look on their faces when I twist back to stare them down. There's this one second of realization that dawns on them, and they start to back out, right before they get punched in the face.

kamiko kross, on 27 June 2015 - 06:43 AM, said:

The thread concerning 4 man size group limit, is this serious?
If PGI do this, I think that's it for me and mwo. this casual thing has gone on far enough....

[draiocht]

I'm starting to think that when somebody requests a "push",
everybody understands something differently of it:

push... our position forward!
push... our area of fire forward!
push... into open brawl!
push... your mech ahead as bait to draw the enemy out!
push... your mech ahead of mine to shield me!
push... the 's' key to retreat! this is scary!

i dunno.... it's pretty ambiguous.

[Wildstreak]

Teams in Assault who rush a base without destroying turrets. Does not matter if my team wins or loses.

[CyborgDragon]

Just had a close game on Bog, came down to our Stalker versus the enemy Zeus. The Zeus had depleted his AC and LRM ammo and only had a single medium laser left, our Stalker just ran out of LRM ammo and was down to his 4 medium pulses. The Zeus was fairly fresh and our Stalker had an open-orange right torso and red armor on the left. The Stalker was shielding himself with his right side between pulse volleys, so naturally I assumed he had a STD engine and was protecting his left side/CT...

Nope.

He had an XL and we lost... to a Zeus with a single MLas.

Edited by CyborgDragon, 27 June 2015 - 09:59 PM.

[Wrathful Scythe]

Yesterday I thought "Hey, why not try to get 1st place with the Hellslinger" and then came psichih0lic around with his +4000 points in the Hellslinger challenge.... man that's just not doable for me.

Congratz on the matches. Have seen you once with around 1200 dmg and a ton of kills. Seems that there were more of those matches.

[Sarlic]

Aren't they just doing it by group farming?

Edited by Sarlic, 28 June 2015 - 12:24 AM.

[C E Dwyer]

Sarlic, on 28 June 2015 - 12:24 AM, said:

Aren't they just doing it by group farming?

Dar1ng One, on 28 June 2015 - 01:12 AM, said:

Yes

Good for them.

Its within the rules, its allowed.

Still think they should seperate team and solo play in events and tourney's

Currently the leader boards show it as if that's the best of the best pilot, but it aint' its the guy who was helped farm kills and victories.

I'd love to see who really is the best pilot, the one that exclusively did it all on their own.

The boards have no bragging rights over skill, just shows the better pilots whom had the most help.

Yes its a team game, but its like the up and coming CW event there are great pilots but everyone knows that MS will win the team event because they have the most members, and there are some truly bad MS pilots that hang on the tails of the ace pilots in their unit

[Neutron IX]

Humility, thy name is Rip, leveling up his new Anansi.

Seriously, it's making me feel all like...

Spoiler

[3xnihilo]

Rip Snorgan, on 28 June 2015 - 11:07 AM, said:

Humility, thy name is Rip, leveling up his new Anansi.

Seriously, it's making me feel all like...

Spoiler

Man, wish I could get on today. I could run my Cataphract with your Anansi. We could be the bane of all the poor teams unfortunate enough to get stuck with us.

Ps. Xl255, lrm5, erllas. . . You can thank me later.

Edited by 3xnihilo, 28 June 2015 - 11:27 AM.

[Spr1ggan]

I think PGI or someone needs to release a vid about the in game map and force the majority of this community to watch it. Clockwork Orange style with their ******* eyes clamped open.