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[bad arcade kitty]

a recent game, i managed to get a very damaged streakcrow alive from the river in the river city while being shot by 2-3 assaults with a lot of extreme twisting

a comment in the chat from one of those assaults 'no skill streakcrows everywhere'

yeah, it's those streaks saved me, sure :3

p.s. met 2 intentional team killers, one killed me because he didn't like my criticism of his game plan, the second one killed a teammate because he disliked his name and also i met a possible wallhacker, nice week end games

[Alienized]

bad arcade kitty, on 19 July 2015 - 03:33 AM, said:

a recent game, i managed to get a very damaged streakcrow alive from the river in the river city while being shot by 2-3 assaults with a lot of extreme twisting

a comment in the chat from one of those assaults 'no skill streakcrows everywhere'

i partially agree with that guy. they are no skill crows in case of aiming. you dont have to face time which you have to do with every other weapon system. even lrms need to be facetimed when shooting to an enemy without cover in between.
with streaks you can pre-lock, move around the corner, fire and immedialty twist and run so you are in no danger.
you dont even have to aim for it. auto-hit IS no-skill.

having said that it should not make your piloting skills look worse the thing is, if you can aim very well streaks are just the worst weapon to use with lrm's. hence the no-skill

[FatYak]

Todays whine...no matter how hard i try...i cannot make jenners work for me =(

[Spr1ggan]

Sarlic, on 19 July 2015 - 03:01 AM, said:

While i agree on your points above.

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Will never stop piloting the Atlai!

Haha. I do pretty well only if its supported. Then i rack about enough damage to be satified.

But the problem is that it's that stupid curve. The one day nobody gives a crap and i do 200-400 damage. And then suddenly we have folks who are willing to think alone and play around Assaults and then i rack up to 800 plus.

It's just that the stupid that 9/10 matches goes like apesh*t and the last match is very entertaining because you know that people are not pressing W the whole time.

I care about the 9th match out of the 10. The rest is just pissing me off or getting on my nerves.

I will never stop piloting the Atlas, but i will quit the game if i don't like the new quirks and or Russ mentality of E sports

I appreciate your thoughts and concerns!!

You should try the Banshee.

[Bulletsponge0]

Sarlic, on 19 July 2015 - 02:24 AM, said:

Let me start that this game has pretty good solid core gameplay. The game is fun at times and when you are in a unit the game is pretty positive.
You get to know other nice, friendly people and ofcourse you like to pilot big, stompy and fat robots!

I love pilioting all of my Atlai.

But..

I am getting more worried by the day.

I sit in the que for -god- who knows how long que. I play for 1 or 2 minutes and get the team decides without acknowledging to NASCAR the whole map again. Perhaps even to spaaaacceee.

Or when you spawn in a heavy clan lance. Mucha fun..

Seriously this is getting on my nerves and it's getting worse. The speed of the gameplay is killing it for me. I cant keep up (and i think load of others) with the main pack anymore. No matter how hard i try:

I can try to cross and cut lanes but it always takes atleast a good chunk of my Atlas due that lasers/gauss combo mechs. I try to go counter wise and get my fingers crossed that the other people who are running half the map gets there in time before i get killed.
Then we have these lance people who just run away when you are fighting on the frontlines.
I haven lost count on how many times i simply get screwed over when i can't keep up.

Growing mad balls tired of this idiocity around here just because you are a fast clanner / mech does not mean you should leave other people behind!

Heck, i cant even kill or damage properly just because folks like to run as fast as possible to location X and alpha as much as possible to get -their- rewards. My kills and damage are in no were consistent anymore. It fluctuate pretty up and down.

I have been noting down about 8-10 matches this morning:

Up to 9-10 matches had signs of NASCAR and screwing people over. From all sides.
Avarage NASCAR is about 2-3 rounds.

It either result in a total win or a total loss and or atleast 1/3rd of the lance annihilated.

This seriously has to stop. Now. Or i just have a good reason to wait for new bigger maps and a overhaul of a reward system and or i avoid the weekends from now on.

What gives?

didn't stop you from wrecking me in my warhawk last night

[Sarlic]

Spr1ggan, on 19 July 2015 - 05:18 AM, said:

You should try the Banshee.

Believe me. I would love to, but it isn't the mech or pilot (in this case, i am piloting it)

I'm really trying my best. I know i can do it, but i hate to say it: most of the times it's the teams fault when they lead a tunnelvision and just don't think about the fatty in the back.

(Sure, everyone have his or her bad days/weeks/streaks or w/e.)

It's like people don't care anymore. To say it harsch.

Back in Beta the slower pace gameplay was much better and everyone tend to stick with the 'fatties'. Because the speed difference between mech was much less. Only lights had much more speed.

Another example just a few matches ago:

I disarmed the last Thunderbolt with my Atlas, stripped him and got him a zombie. Me and a EBJ was left. 50% on the EBJ and i had about 30% i think. Medium lasers in my CT left.
The TDR was pretty much far away from his other lancemate
I told the guy to leave the TDR alone and while i said that i had the other one enemy remaining a lock on.
So what does this idiot do? He went for the TDR and killed it, because he wanted to.

Look i dont ask much, but thinking was nice. I told specifically not to engage, because the other had more priority *because weapons* we could have taken it down.

I got killed by the last one and so he as well.

Typical sign of a pug scrub who doesn't care.

Edited by Sarlic, 19 July 2015 - 06:37 AM.

[Bulletsponge0]

why....why...why??

Why won't PUG ever shoot a damn enemy UAV out of the sky? Do they want their teammates to get crushed by LRM or focused fire when they round a corner is a misguided attempt to try to steal kills? Are they simply incapable of recognizing a UAV in the air? are they such bad shots that they cannot hit it? are they just simply that oblivious to the situation on the battlefield that they have no clue what is going on??

Edited by Bulletsponge0, 19 July 2015 - 07:38 AM.

[draiocht]

Sarlic, on 19 July 2015 - 03:01 AM, said:

It's just that the stupid that 9/10 matches goes like apesh*t

Yep, that seems to be the fair ratio.
(never mind any want for reasonably cohesive aptitude on both sides... 1/50 or so?)

bad arcade kitty, on 19 July 2015 - 03:33 AM, said:

one killed me because he didn't like my criticism of his game plan

Moreover, it's always more difficult to dissuade the pu-group after the initial bad plan has been called for. (Lots of "mechcommanders" lately basically feeding their team to the enemy. Somewhat conspicuous. )

FatYak, on 19 July 2015 - 04:00 AM, said:

Todays whine...no matter how hard i try...i cannot make jenners work for me =(

Side-whine: Lots of players think of the jenner's new side torsos as a buff, but I regard it as a double=nerf. Too large and well-defined to skimp a ton of armor there anymore, but not strong enough to survive an okay-aimed high alpha anyway~

[The Mech behind you]

Weekends

Weekends... when my WLR drops from 1.1 to 0.2. Makes me woder what my WLR would be without weekends.

Weekends... when there are more people with <100 dmg then >200 dmg on your team.

Weekends... when your lights deal more damage and kill more stuff than your assaults.

Weekends... when the other team pulls out the cheapest of tricks and still score victory.

Weekends... when the MM always puts you on the recieving side.

Weekends... when matches where your team is leading by 4+ kills suddenly get lost in less then a minute.

Weekends... maybe not the best time to start skilling up a new mech.

[Bulletsponge0]

Norman Kosh, on 19 July 2015 - 08:07 AM, said:

Weekends

Weekends... when my WLR drops from 1.1 to 0.2. Makes me woder what my WLR would be without weekends.

Weekends... when there are more people with <100 dmg then >200 dmg on your team.

Weekends... when your lights deal more damage and kill more stuff than your assaults.

Weekends... when the other team pulls out the cheapest of tricks and still score victory.

Weekends... when the MM always puts you on the recieving side.

Weekends... when matches where your team is leading by 4+ kills suddenly get lost in less then a minute.

Weekends... maybe not the best time to start skilling up a new mech.

wekends....so many l33t snipers out there missing with every shot...

[loopala]

why did nobody tell me the panther 10p was such a fun lrm mech? not as much fun as a locust lrm dingy but right up there

[Bulletsponge0]

weekends.....where teammates don't give a damn who they shoot, and usually end up doing more friendly fire damage than damage to the enemy

[loopala]

BTW lag is a bit worse then usual today. 3 games has everybody screaming "HACKS!" when it is just good old fashioned lag and teleporting

[Bulletsponge0]

loopala, on 19 July 2015 - 10:09 AM, said:

BTW lag is a bit worse then usual today. 3 games has everybody screaming "HACKS!" when it is just good old fashioned lag and teleporting

data center issues according to Russ' twitter

[The Mech behind you]

Bulletsponge0, on 19 July 2015 - 09:59 AM, said:

weekends.....where teammates don't give a damn who they shoot, and usually end up doing more friendly fire damage than damage to the enemy

Yeah I know that guy, too. Me getting into a poition and waiting for the other group to peek over the hill or around the corner. Standing a whole minute there alone not moving when suddenly a 'teammate' approachs me from behind. Aiming on that mech over there and alphaing half of its firepower into my back

Edit: I also know his brother. Same situation, standing alone and waiting for the baddies to show up. Trading some shots. But in that one situation where I have to get back into cover he shows up right behind me blocking me.

Edited by Norman Kosh, 19 July 2015 - 10:53 AM.

[Bulletsponge0]

Norman Kosh, on 19 July 2015 - 10:50 AM, said:

Yeah I know that guy, too. Me getting into a poition and waiting for the other group to peek over the hill or around the corner. Standing a whole minute there alone not moving when suddenly a 'teammate' approachs me from behind. Aiming on that mech over there and alphaing half of its firepower into my back

Edit: I also know his brother. Same situation, standing alone and waiting for the baddies to show up. Trading some shots. But in that one situation where I have to get back into cover he shows up right behind me blocking me.

I know that guy, his brother...his cousins, uncles, nephews, aunts, grandma, etc...

[FatYak]

today whine....i finally have to admit it...i just cant pilot a thunderwub to save myself =(

EDIT - Very next match, 7 kills......why cant i do that all the time??

Edited by FatYak, 20 July 2015 - 01:02 AM.

[Alienized]

why am i literally the only guy caring about the rear of my team....
just done it again in frozen city.
my bad feeling was once again correct. 4 mechs in our rear while my complete *team* just stared at C3.
i yelled B4! in teamchat, nothing happened. so i took the beating once more.....

did we win? yes.
the sad thing is that some people still think it is a given thing to win. i was raging hard that no one even looked at the map as i spotted them and came to help. one guy did the usual "11:4 and this dude complaining"
some people should get lashed to a slave stick until they know why they got carried to a win.

[Spr1ggan]

The drop i just had on canyon omg lol. I'm playing a scrow with 6 cmpls so working flanks and getting damage in without being noticed is what i'm looking for. Anyways my team start the usual camping the middle. So i drop into the canyon and start getting some good trades against an exe and another mech.

Then all of a sudden my team decide to turn their backs to enemies up top and all follow me into the canyon. 3 mechs obliterated as soon as the backs turned. We end up losing. Man these idiots that can't think for themselves for postions etc and just follow follow follow. Same idiots that in their assaults try following the lights when the match starts.

Edited by Spr1ggan, 20 July 2015 - 11:08 AM.

[3xnihilo]

Spr1ggan, on 20 July 2015 - 10:48 AM, said:

The drop i just had on canyon omg lol. I'm playing a scrow with 6 cmpls so working flanks and getting damage in without being noticed is what i'm looking for. Anyways my team start the usual camping the middle. So i drop into the canyon and start getting some good trades against an exe and another mech.

Then all of a sudden my team decide to turn their backs to enemies up top and all follow me into the canyon. 3 mechs obliterated as soon as the backs turned. We end up losing. Man these idiots that can't think for themselves for postions etc and just follow follow follow. Same idiots that in their assaults try following the lights when the match starts.

Had this happen on Crimson. I was in a commando when the "Base is being captured" alert went up so I scurry back to find a cicada 3m there. I keep him busy until a Hellbringer shows up and gets the kill, and we turn around to find an atlas and something else slow there too... They left the scirmish going on at the saddle to chase a base cap? Why?!?!