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[SlightlyMobileTurret]

Another PSA: If in a Dire turret and in doubt, press 0 and GTFO.

I got legged on Crimson and things were never the same again. (Then again, The hail of dakka that blotted out my screen was more merciful than the rain of laser vomit that would have ended me a few months ago)

Edited by Keshav Murali, 01 October 2016 - 05:53 AM.

[Bulletsponge0]

its kind of sad when an SRM adder is consistently doing the most damage, getting the most kills on the team

[SlightlyMobileTurret]

I just ran into you. My hunchback size firestarter was rekt by your adder.

[3xnihilo]

My banner in my sig stopped working

[mad kat]

Even now in higher tiers i'm still getting people walking up behind me and parking and using me as a meat shield and people just generally clustering so effing close together that the collision detection goes mad and you get stuck.

why do seemingly even experienced players feel the need to run right up behind a friendly and sit there while he's being shot at.

[3xnihilo]

3xnihilo, on 01 October 2016 - 07:45 AM, said:

My banner in my sig stopped working

Hey, it came back

Whine: I had a 1 hour block to play MWO this afternoon and I had unstable connection issues the whole time. So, I had to spend another hour moving my router and and making Ethernet cables to get the new computer connected on a hard line.

Anti whine: now I have a good stable connection and acceptable frame rate! Life is good. (Until I lose another round of MWO then I will be back here to complain again )

Edited by 3xnihilo, 01 October 2016 - 06:02 PM.

[loopala]

i wonder as i hear of more and more whining from the higher tiers about stoopid play, if the rule (to which i am the exception that proves the rule) if you play enough games everybody will be tier one has run it course and we now have bad game play bleeding into the upper tiers. are lame players, 800m min LRMers, Assaults that never assault, the players to whom i am just a meat shield to, and other less then honorable non brawlering play styles playing enough games that now they are tier 3 plus? on the bright side i am seeing much more team play down here in the under hive of tier 5. more and more drops with folks using the mic for, OMG OP, actual team play. More and more games with pilots willing to charge the guns in mass and if we go down, we do it trying not hiding. is the tier system geared toward selfish neutered players who hide and only trade armor at the end of the game? Is the K/D ratio all it is cracked up to be? is damage numbers and kills the real measure of a Mechwarrior? ....

[Fox With A Shotgun]

HSR is so ******** when dealing with high speed projectiles at close ranges. Never know when the PPC shot is going to be 'fast forwarded' or not. Especially against the reduced size locusts...

[SlightlyMobileTurret]

I was accused of using a macro because I was in a direwolf and killed a cored out sleipnir.

"Die, Macro noob" after I was overrun by six mechs.
Apparently, he finds it hard to believe that UAC35 can generate a bullet storm without a macro.

I have a 3 button mouse and fire 3 and later weapon groups with my keyboard. Nothing's changed in that for a year.

[3xnihilo]

loopala, on 01 October 2016 - 07:08 PM, said:

i wonder as i hear of more and more whining from the higher tiers about stoopid play, if the rule (to which i am the exception that proves the rule) if you play enough games everybody will be tier one has run it course and we now have bad game play bleeding into the upper tiers. are lame players, 800m min LRMers, Assaults that never assault, the players to whom i am just a meat shield to, and other less then honorable non brawlering play styles playing enough games that now they are tier 3 plus? on the bright side i am seeing much more team play down here in the under hive of tier 5. more and more drops with folks using the mic for, OMG OP, actual team play. More and more games with pilots willing to charge the guns in mass and if we go down, we do it trying not hiding. is the tier system geared toward selfish neutered players who hide and only trade armor at the end of the game? Is the K/D ratio all it is cracked up to be? is damage numbers and kills the real measure of a Mechwarrior? ....

I think the player population might be so low that there is a much greater degree of mixing tiers going on by the MM. So, you don't get tier 1 matches, tier 2 matches, and tier 3 matches with a couple pilots from a different tier tossed in to make up any short falls. Instead, you have MM just dumping all the tiers together and making matches. So, someone basically really bad, like me, will regularly see tier 1 players in my rounds. And, I do. Or at least I see enough tier 1 forum warriors to infer that it is happening pretty consistently. Also, for reasons I am not sure of, tiers 4 and 5 reward aggressive play to a much higher degree than the other tiers. So, you spend all the time grinding through those tiers using one set of skills and tactics only to find that they don't work when you jump to tier 3, which exacerbates the problem of a tier 3 playing like a worthless noob compared to a tier 1.

Anyway, that is my theory

[jper4]

well don't forget 3xn that we have the best/worst of all worlds here in tier 3. we can go up to tier 1 and down to tier 5 each match so basically we can pretty much get anyone while the T1s only have to worry about us "lowbies" at the worst. I agree T4/5 reward aggression more because you're more likely to run across more different builds where aggression can pay off. in T1/T2 you get the super sniper/LRM fests where 90% of the people are non brawlers so any attempt for said bawler to get close enough to do anything means running the gauntlet of enemy fire while your sniper/LRMers just sit back and keep doing their thing and you die.

on the plus side had a canyon match yesterday- was pretty even maybe 3-3 with both sides doing the theta poke and peek. I was in my 2ML/3SRM6 KTO-18 for that elusive KMDD (it's really tough in lights- took about 5 matches in my oxide, after failing with everything else-ok urbies, before I got one) they had 2 or 3 snipers flanking us on the ridge. one guy finally said- "push the hill". having larned my lsson I waited until 3 or 4 assaults moved up into theta before I started my banzai charge. ran past them- yellow CT hellbringer- alpha-dead. uav up, saw a hunchy to the side turning towards me away from friendly fire, 2 alphas- dead. at this point i'm past the enemy team to take some shots at the LRM stalker in the back of their line while they turned to start shooting me so I turned back and ran back to the team as it poured over the crest. timby 1v1 on the side of the hill with a friendly- 2 alphas- dead. 3 kills in 30 seconds or so. just missed the killshot on a couple others but 2KMDDs just under 500 dmg and we won 12-5. think I was around 38% at the end

I logged after that for a bit since I used up my fate tempting for the day at the thought of a push where everyone actually pushed instead of me pushing alone and dying horribly.

[3xnihilo]

Stuck in Pittsburgh today and tomorrow, so 2 days I won't get my points for the event

[Cole Slaw]

A friendly night gyr decided to focus fire me out of nowhere.

That was nice.

I totally still have faith in this game's community.

[Fox With A Shotgun]

An open letter to assault and heavy pilots:

You need support from enemy lights. We light pilots and medium pilots understand that. You also need locks for your cowardly lurms. We also understand that, despite how little protection those give for us footsloggers in the front lines. You're slow, and need to be walked to your destinations. We also get that. You also think that shooting down UAVs is beneath you, and it should be the job for faster, lighter mechs, even if you have ERMLs or ERLLs in your arms. We get that too. We get that you're also too slow to quickly spot the enemy mechs without taking return fire in the process.

But what we don't get is...for all the things that we do for you, is it too much to ask that you do your duty and PUSH the enemy lines? Does it cost too much to repaint your armour plates that are mostly untouched, while the rest of us get wrecked by enemy fire?

Until you do your duty, we simply don't see any reason why we should do ours. We've contacted the enemy lights and come to the agreement that our fatties are simply cattle that must be harvested. Your rear CTs are theirs to penetrate as they see fit, as their fatties are to us.

Yours truly,

Union of Light Mech Pilots.

Edited by Fox With A Shotgun, 02 October 2016 - 05:51 PM.

[SlightlyMobileTurret]

LRM assaults need to be sent to the Daring one and his Splatlas for treatment.

Regards,
An actual assault mech pilot

[Kasumi Sumika]

Even you Carry much Harder as you can and getting Highest Scores on your team, but if your majority your teamates is suck you will still lose badly.

[Dar1ng One]

Keshav Murali, on 02 October 2016 - 06:04 PM, said:

LRM assaults need to be sent to the Dar1ng one and his Splatlas for treatment.

Every time an assault boats LRM, a star falls from the sky....

Mmmmmmm..... yes

Mech-Cellent!

[Bud Crue]

Haven't played my BKs since the re-scale and nerfing. Brought one of my favorite's out this morning just to see if I could get a quick KMD for the event. So while I know better than to play before my morning coffee, I figured this would be just a quick in and out and then I would be done. Ended up playing 4 QP matches. 1 win 3 losses. No KMD. That's not the whine though, this is:

I only once broke 300 damage. Last match before giving up: 86. I know I am bad, but as one example: I watched the reticle turn red while in an exchange with an Ebon. I dropped four 50-ish point alphas on it and two intermittent volleys from 2LPLs, or so it appeared, then turned tail and ran when 4 of his buddies appeared. After I died, I figured at least I would get the KMD off of that Ebon (if he got killed too), and then I saw the damage: 86 points, yet I appeared to drop 250ish points on it. How is that even possible!? BK's don't really spread and I was clearly registering hits. I know I am bad at this, but sometimes even my own ineptitude does not fully explain the extent of terribad I can be. sigh.

[SlightlyMobileTurret]

I bought the BKs after rescale, they're not bad, but they're nowhere near their glory days.

I've gotten very good scores with them, and they spread damage well, but they're very inconsistent for me. So much so that I'd rather be in my stormcrow.

Just keep playing them till you get used to them again. It isn't as bad as you might think, since there's a world of difference from what it was and what it is.

[jper4]

Bud Crue, on 03 October 2016 - 03:31 AM, said:

Haven't played my BKs since the re-scale and nerfing. Brought one of my favorite's out this morning just to see if I could get a quick KMD for the event. So while I know better than to play before my morning coffee, I figured this would be just a quick in and out and then I would be done. Ended up playing 4 QP matches. 1 win 3 losses. No KMD. That's not the whine though, this is:

I only once broke 300 damage. Last match before giving up: 86. I know I am bad, but as one example: I watched the reticle turn red while in an exchange with an Ebon. I dropped four 50-ish point alphas on it and two intermittent volleys from 2LPLs, or so it appeared, then turned tail and ran when 4 of his buddies appeared. After I died, I figured at least I would get the KMD off of that Ebon (if he got killed too), and then I saw the damage: 86 points, yet I appeared to drop 250ish points on it. How is that even possible!? BK's don't really spread and I was clearly registering hits. I know I am bad at this, but sometimes even my own ineptitude does not fully explain the extent of terribad I can be. sigh.

I've been noticing this a lot as well. get into a trade with something. I alpha three times in the CT, he alphas once. my CT is orange internals with twisting, his armor is yellow. also died to a steak hit to my front CT, rear CT armor still not down to internals while I had my back to the mech chasingand shooting them at me.