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[nehebkau]

Logged in last night, feeling great that I had a couple of hours of free time for which I wanted to FW Prime-time on a Saturday Evening in NA ... <crickets><crickets><crickets>

nothing, nada, rein, zilch.

this sucks.

Alienized, on 29 July 2016 - 09:17 AM, said:

found all my original MW4 vengeance and mercenaries discs again....
exactly what i need now
listening to old atreyu and playing that stuff like few years ago.

I still have an extra shrink-wrapped set.

Edited by nehebkau, 31 July 2016 - 01:24 PM.

[Bud Crue]

nehebkau, on 31 July 2016 - 01:23 PM, said:

I still have an extra shrink-wrapped set.

How much and when will you ship?
Mine are all scratched up.

[UnofficialOperator]

Wow most infuriating game ever... guy keeps firing at a dc mech which is spinning around even after telling him not to. And of course because its spinning around, it takes a damn long time to get down. He says "I know, I just want to get the points"... like wtf seriously.

[C E Dwyer]

Being how I was in closed beta, I should have learned not to try to support people in Q.P yet another weekend where I get run out on by team, or I follow some idiot on a suicide run, trying to help

[el piromaniaco]

I play Q.P. most of the time, and very often i tend to try to support. Yes, it can be frustating.
But then, had this match just now. We lost (10/12), but i had a real good run with some other lights and mediums, intense action, dogfight at the end, last man standing.
Lost but loved it.

[Bilbo]

3xnihilo, on 31 July 2016 - 08:09 AM, said:

New strategy, use the Spirit Bear to flank wide and circle the enemy, then wade in from the back. Hope to do enough damage before you are focused down to earn a couple cbills and maybe an up arrow when your team loses. Apparently, I am the only person that runs brawler builds, so sticking with the team means hiding behind rocks until we all die to long range fire. Not so much fun.

I've been using this strategy for years. Sometimes times it works and sometimes it doesn't. Always more fun than waiting for the brawl to start and wondering if we about to get surrounded though.

[Alienized]

poor poor mad kat =( that 4 ppc sniper wasnt doing well on mining collective :S

[C E Dwyer]

I must repeat this each day.

I will not go into the circle in dominion mode, to be the target so the chicken snipers can hide at the back and try to look like they are good.

[Alienized]

Cathy, on 01 August 2016 - 01:26 PM, said:

I must repeat this each day.

I will not go into the circle in dominion mode, to be the target so the chicken snipers can hide at the back and try to look like they are good.

i done this with my 2 lrm15 + artemis/4 mpl catapult today
had to spot for myself.... the enemies kept running because hey, lrms and mpls? RUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUN!!!!
how can he dare to spot for himself!
was polar highlands i giggled a lot lol.

[3xnihilo]

Alienized, on 01 August 2016 - 01:31 PM, said:

i done this with my 2 lrm15 + artemis/4 mpl catapult today
had to spot for myself.... the enemies kept running because hey, lrms and mpls? RUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUN!!!!
how can he dare to spot for himself!
was polar highlands i giggled a lot lol.

I really need to get catapults sometime, since I like my archers and they are really just badly shaped catapults.

Bilbo, on 01 August 2016 - 07:51 AM, said:

I've been using this strategy for years. Sometimes times it works and sometimes it doesn't. Always more fun than waiting for the brawl to start and wondering if we about to get surrounded though.

What would be funny is if we dropped together in assaults while I was on my clan account: Peregrine Took. Nasty hobbitses

Edited by 3xnihilo, 01 August 2016 - 01:56 PM.

[Bilbo]

3xnihilo, on 01 August 2016 - 01:54 PM, said:

I really need to get catapults sometime, since I like my archers and they are really just badly shaped catapults.



What would be funny is if we dropped together in assaults while I was on my clan account: Peregrine Took.

Indeed. The stale jokes heard that day might even warrant a post in this thread.

[3xnihilo]

Bilbo, on 01 August 2016 - 01:56 PM, said:

Indeed. The stale jokes heard that day might even warrant a post in this thread.

Haha true!

[UnofficialOperator]

Cathy, on 01 August 2016 - 01:26 PM, said:

I must repeat this each day.

I will not go into the circle in dominion mode, to be the target so the chicken snipers can hide at the back and try to look like they are good.

Yeah +1

[loopala]

even better would be you 2 on mordor were i type "don't shoot the hobbits"...

and yes you need a catapult

from my glory days of lrmishing



this one is just boring lrming till about the 8 min mark then it is 6 on 1 cat and mouse. notice the don't shoot the hobbits in beginning chat

[jper4]

Cathy, on 01 August 2016 - 01:26 PM, said:

I must repeat this each day.

I will not go into the circle in dominion mode, to be the target so the chicken snipers can hide at the back and try to look like they are good.

I think this applies to me in every match. i'm 95% of the time in a brawler build in a situation where brawling is not preferred style of play. so either I
1) sit around for 10 minutes until we're surrounded and die,
2) move around watching flanks rear for lights and get chewed up because turning around to shoot them is beyond some players' abilities,
3)get bored and try to flank, sneak behind them myself- where I am promptly shot at by an enemy who is looking in the exact spot my 3 minute trip around the map has me positioned and get light swarmed. I then spectate someone who is on a hill the enemy is all facing who gets off 6 alphas before anyone bothers to look up
4) try to snipe, move, snipe again only to be shot before I can fire my first shot- light swarmed. enemy light starts sniping- ignored 90% of the match.
5) stand in the circle- no one else is within 500m of it cause-hey i'm there, no need for them to move. when this doesn't change after I die however...
6) see an LRM boat- charge LRM boat- get FFed down by enemy team. i'm in a LRM boat- light finds me- I get lrmed/lighted to death. team shows up once i'm dead.
7) peek and poke leading to a loss- new tactic needed- I run past team to push- team doesn't move an inch to support. til I run past and get half of them to turn around, die, and they turn back to face our team again
8) in fact- "team shows up after i'm dead" is pretty much the response to all my paying attention to flank/rear/support push/objectives efforts. I try to play their way and GOTO 1

and sadly I've found I just can't play the same mech/chassis for more than a half dozen games or so before I go nuts or start doing dumb things. tried urbieing for this light event- had a few decent games, lots of getting stomped though- didn't want to stop on a bad note so kept going but annoyed that I didn't have a good match so got more impatient so I had a bad match- wash, rinse repeat- usually I swap once I get my daily win. seems for me less lights= better urbieing. I did almost end up in the assault lance one match though which was kinda funny.

I suppose I should just go play something to get those last KMDDs out of the way to finish off the person challenge part of things.

[Plastic Guru]

Play mostly lights....currently an Urby with AC2 and 2 ML's....troll build.

Frozen City - Couple of PBs are already in the enemy's rear. So I try to help by watching our thin left flank and spotting for the LRM boats. HELLO? Anyone besides me know what the "R" key does?
Anyway...enemy starts a push into our weak left flank (Me and a Rifleman)....I lay down fire while withdrawing to several assaults who are sniping from behind a line of buildings.

Wham - HOLY CRAP...I kill a very beat up Catapult...Hooray for me !!

Uh-Oh...whole push is now targeting me

Evade back to the middle of the Assaults....

Enemy is fixated on me....don't even look at the big boys....Excellent!! GET EM BOYS!!

Nope...my whole team ignores the fight not 20m behind them and a couple of Sneaky Cheaters eat my lunch...

FFS!....I was RIGHT BEHIND YOU.....even the Rifleman just waddles by...


Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Plastic Guru

Edited by Plastic Guru, 02 August 2016 - 11:12 AM.

[Bulletsponge0]

the level of play in pug drops drops by the minute... its unbelievable...

[C E Dwyer]

Game focuses on damage and kills way way to much, and not on the objectives, pisses me off, as it means if you sacrifice to turn a team around, you get F all for it, while the ones that were not prepared to , get the damage and kills ergo, the reward for not much risk.

Bulletsponge0, on 02 August 2016 - 12:41 PM, said:

the level of play in pug drops drops by the minute... its unbelievable...

of course they do, PSR ensures this will be the case, and even worse in September, god knows what it will be like come christmas, but apparently P.G.I know best

[nehebkau]

I Can't even bring myself to log in and see if there is something going on in FW... I just would rather imagine I am missing some great battles than log in and find 10 people playing.

[Bud Crue]

Been reading the forums for most of the last two hours waiting for a POS client to get back to me (so I can finally head home). I gotta tell ya it just struck me tonight how many of the members of this community...even some of the saltiest and jerkiest of the lot...still often post some really good ideas, solutions, work-arounds, suggestions, advice, etc. regarding this game and ways that could potentially make it better. My whine, is that it just boggles me that PGI seems to ignore both the content of these forums and the vast and diverse potential of that this near rabid community of fans could provide them. Sigh.