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[Alaskan Nobody]

Loup de Guerre is on sale.... but not far enough.

[Grimvid]

Careful Mott your good luck could be cancelled by Bullets bad luck

[Macksheen]

It's already cancelled by mine.

[Podex]

Wow, just had one of those 0-12 games that everyone has been talking about. It was brutal.

[loopala]

having mixed bag results dropping pug (which is all i do), but not too far out of normal. early day/mornings CDT (zulu -5) good matches 1 to 1 win lose with some very good close games and the occasional 3-12 or so stomp. as the day turns to nights well the stomps get more and more till the real killers show up then it is 90% stomp, with me on losing side more then not. now i have been seeing some interesting games that stay 4/5 or so for 5 minutes, give or take, then wham it goes 12/6 before you know it your team has been shot out from under you. not too much different except for the 4/5 then bam 12/6 bit. i guessing this is a 4 man pug drop were 1 4 man is taken out early then the other 4 man cleans up.

YMMV

[Jon Gotham]

Update to post #876

Today's whine is....playing solo is more fun than playing in a group.
Noticed that games were usually quite close with few premades.....all this does is allow fairly decent players to go on a Rambo-style rampage.
Your team like a bunch of wasted sheep? So is theirs! Get to a good spot and farm away.......can't wait till I take my 12 ER laser Nova out.....

I play in group queue get forced against tryhards spamming cbills at you on cooldown, or 8+ cheese meta builds. They seem to think casual matches are tournament matches. MUST.WIN.AT.ALL.COSTS.....

One thing I have noticed is that voip makes more of a difference in group queue than solo. Before, you might have 4 peeps on enemy team talking with maybe another 2 man group. Premade would usually counter premade.
In group queue when your team is comprised of smaller groups who don't talk vs an 8&4 or 10+2 or a 12 the difference is astounding, it's like a force multiplier.
With old MM yes sure the premade had an edge slightly, but that could be cancelled out by the 8 puggers-in group mode.....nope.

I feel now I have to bring my A+ game every time I play in group mode, treat every casual match as if I'm in a tourney, only bring certain mechs and loadouts etc...not very relaxing.
So the whine is, PGI has turned the team game into a solo game-if you want to relax.

But the one + note is, the solo queue is now easier for me to excel in with less premades...I think a major crying spree is incoming from the confirmed soloists out there when they realise .....
I'd love to see in game voip now and force EVERYONE into the group queue. A lot of the solists are laughing their socks off at the whines of casual group players, they are enjoying the fact we are having less fun because us evil premades "stomped" them unfairly. So now we are getting stomped (casual 2-4 groups) it's very funny and we "deserve it."
They cry about one 4 man group....wait til they get a 12.....

I'd LOVE to see them in the group queue.....

Edited by kamiko kross, 05 July 2014 - 03:45 AM.

[C E Dwyer]

Shar Wolf, on 04 July 2014 - 10:40 AM, said:

Baldur's Gate and Baldur's Gate2

(not to be confused with Baldur's Gate:DA, which had absolutely nothing to do with the others - rather like Mechassault compares to Mechwarrior)

Yeah I couldn't remember it exactly, when I replied, I knew I'd get corrected at some point was better when it was simply Baulders gate I thought

[Macksheen]

Given that Boo was a giant space hamster, totally possible to run across him in while driving a mech ... yes?

Daily whine: I want the ability to squelch annoying people in-game. I don't want to see their chats.

[TercieI]

Mott, on 04 July 2014 - 01:01 PM, said:

Turns out I could just be a good luck charm. Seems every time I log in I hear my team griping that they've been on a losing streak. A couple matches with me and the wins, money, women, fame and champaign are flowing!

Wake me when it's champagne.

Bulletsponge0, on 04 July 2014 - 01:23 PM, said:

friend request sent

You're welcome any time.

Edited by Terciel1976, 05 July 2014 - 04:04 PM.

[Bulletsponge0]

nothing will register hits for me reliably today...not CERPPCs, not lasers, not CSRMs+artemis

heck, others have spectated me and have seen it too

about 50% of my shots today that hit actually registered as hits..and only about 50% of those actually did damage...

[Podex]

I noticed that. Numerous games where I should have gotten at least 300 dmg, and came out with less than 100. I also killed a Jenner aiming about 20m ahead of him. Low ping games, too. They said that the server was messing up earlier. Maybe that was it.

[Alaskan Nobody]

Podex, on 05 July 2014 - 06:07 PM, said:

They said that the server was messing up earlier. Maybe that was it.

Here is hoping!

[Bulletsponge0]

Shar Wolf, on 05 July 2014 - 07:58 PM, said:

Here is hoping!

look at the video posted in the hit reg feedback in the patch feedback section...

[Jon Gotham]

Ok arty strike/airstrike derpers! Listen up!
Repeat after me:

"I must use skills, not cbills"

[FatYak]

Bulletsponge0, on 05 July 2014 - 05:09 PM, said:

nothing will register hits for me reliably today...not CERPPCs, not lasers, not CSRMs+artemis

heck, others have spectated me and have seen it too

about 50% of my shots today that hit actually registered as hits..and only about 50% of those actually did damage...

Yep, hit reg today was abysmal. Dual gaussed a shutdown jenner in the face at less than 100, round went though him and exploded in the dirt on the other side.

SRM's were a waste of tonnage

[draiocht]

kamiko kross, on 06 July 2014 - 03:45 AM, said:

Ok arty strike/airstrike derpers! Listen up!
Repeat after me:

"I must use skills, not cbills"

From what I've seen, there's skills-not-cbills being used in the solo queue! Sort of..!

I worry that I've been playing this game all wrong... that all this time, I should've been charging at the first red rectangle I see... blast that red rectangle in the center before the 9 competitors do! (The other 2 friendlies being super-slow assaults.) It seems to work half of the time. But then there's those rare games where players act "normally", and I'm confused all over again.

Edited by draiocht, 06 July 2014 - 08:16 AM.

[Bulletsponge0]

FatYak, on 06 July 2014 - 08:01 AM, said:

Yep, hit reg today was abysmal. Dual gaussed a shutdown jenner in the face at less than 100, round went though him and exploded in the dirt on the other side.

SRM's were a waste of tonnage

just put 4 gauss into the cherry red CT of a kit fox..and...nothing...he proceeded to kill me with an ERML

[Jon Gotham]

draiocht, on 06 July 2014 - 08:15 AM, said:

From what I've seen, there's skills-not-cbills being used in the solo queue! Sort of..!

I worry that I've been playing this game all wrong... that all this time, I should've been charging at the first red rectangle I see... blast that red rectangle in the center before the 9 competitors do! (The other 2 friendlies being super-slow assaults.) It seems to work half of the time. But then there's those rare games where players act "normally", and I'm confused all over again.

Lol, whilst I appreciate the sarcasm:) You know what I meant:P

[Podex]

FatYak, on 06 July 2014 - 08:01 AM, said:

Yep, hit reg today was abysmal. Dual gaussed a shutdown jenner in the face at less than 100, round went though him and exploded in the dirt on the other side.

SRM's were a waste of tonnage

Yep, it's beyond messed up right now. The three alphas that I planted dead center of a Cataphact alone should have issued more damage that I got in my last game. This doesn't include the all the other shots I took throughout the game. Something has been seriously wrong since the last patch.

[Kjudoon]

In absence of a real whine: I'm glad I didn't play any MWO this weekend. I think I avoided a stroke/nervous breakdown (nerfous breakdown really) myocardial infarction brought on by high blood pressure.

If hit reg went to pot plus all the standard bad weekend play plus the MM group fiasco. I'm sorta happy I'm missing it.