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[Jon Gotham]

Shar Wolf, on 27 September 2014 - 09:12 PM, said:

The whine?
Given a Dire Whale or a Trenchbucket - which one makes more sense to drop that many missiles on?!

But it's quicker self gratification to kill the smaller mech! They getz their killz fastorlolz!!!!one!!!

[Catra Lanis]

Why don't people help each other out? Today I was in my favourite mech, Raven-2X. I had a Firestarter, a Spider and a Cicada all over me. I managed to all but finish the Firestarter off and put a dent in the two others. Considering my feeble skills I was kind of proud but the fight took almost two minutes. What did my teammates do? They were very close by and when I blew up they moved down the Cicada and Firestarter. Were they taking bets on how long I'd last?

[Jon Gotham]

Catra, it's just poor situational awareness. that and position are the two biggest keys to success in mwo. Most players have neither.
You are right to be proud of your fight though, make 'em remember you:)

Edited by kamiko kross, 28 September 2014 - 01:13 PM.

[Kodyn]

Well, in my morning hours may be a language barrier, not sure what the excuse is the rest of the day lol. Sunday's a slow MWO day I guess, or the day most new players have time for it...or yet again, my elo, heh. Still the same tactics, or lack thereof from overnight, rushing thetas, rushing up to saddle in crimson then sitting there, dying one at a time without even turning away...

I really can't whine too much though, got 3 days premium time friday night with the super easy challenge, so at least I'm making more CBills off losses than otherwise, still having 100k+ games for the most part, or close, with the losses. My only whine is that I'm still 2 mil from my next mech, then need another 5-6 mil just to finish it out with proper engine and upgrades...so I'm stuck in this grind til the end lol.

[Bulletsponge0]

Kodyn, on 28 September 2014 - 01:24 PM, said:

Well, in my morning hours may be a language barrier, not sure what the excuse is the rest of the day lol. Sunday's a slow MWO day I guess, or the day most new players have time for it...or yet again, my elo, heh. Still the same tactics, or lack thereof from overnight, rushing thetas, rushing up to saddle in crimson then sitting there, dying one at a time without even turning away...

I really can't whine too much though, got 3 days premium time friday night with the super easy challenge, so at least I'm making more CBills off losses than otherwise, still having 100k+ games for the most part, or close, with the losses. My only whine is that I'm still 2 mil from my next mech, then need another 5-6 mil just to finish it out with proper engine and upgrades...so I'm stuck in this grind til the end lol.

i'm about 40 mil from rounding out my stable...not counting upgrades......

(and not counting the king crab either)

[Alaskan Nobody]

Kodyn, on 28 September 2014 - 01:24 PM, said:

whine is that I'm still 2 mil from my next mech, then need another 5-6 mil just to finish it out with proper engine and upgrades...so I'm stuck in this grind til the end lol.

Similar to Bullets above, but I have found myself rebuying all the mechs I ever sold off recently.

The Catapults because they were on sale at the time (for Cbills!)

The Jenners and Commandos?
Because the Light que is the smallest so that is the one I lean towards.


Do not sell off mechs if you have empty Mechbay(s)

EVER.

[Moonlander]

What is up with all the team killing? Has it always been like this? I can't refrain from retaliation. If you're going to take me down 10% health, I will alpha you in the Dire.

[Kodyn]

Love dying to FF, while I'm standing still, there are no enemies next to me, and the team is up 8-2....either people need to learn to aim, or they really gotta fix the rubberbanding and whatnot that's causing people to FF so much lately, it's getting a little nuts.

[IraqiWalker]

Kodyn, on 29 September 2014 - 03:09 PM, said:

Love dying to FF, while I'm standing still, there are no enemies next to me, and the team is up 8-2....either people need to learn to aim, or they really gotta fix the rubberbanding and whatnot that's causing people to FF so much lately, it's getting a little nuts.

I was hammered by a friendly direwolf non-stop a few nights ago. In their defense, it was because the blue arrow over my mech disappeared, and they thought I was a hostile charging them from the caldera.

Luckily posting in chat "stop hitting me" made them stop, and they promptly apologized. However, my mech was too weak after that. Thank God he wasn't using one of my designs, I would have died immediately. Although I think they hesitated a bit when they noticed I wasn't returning fire. They kept hitting me until they got the message on chat.

Edited by IraqiWalker, 29 September 2014 - 04:51 PM.

[mad kat]

The team mate in his grid iron iirc who decided to start shooting me last night. He managed to core me so i reluctantly gave him four medium lasers (half an alpha) in return to his right torso from my bj-1x (i know i shouldnt of) before being able to escape and swear at him over team chat where he realised his mistake. Again apologies for swearing at you mr team mate but you took my rather healthy blackjack to ctr and right torso cored as i tried to escape.

Edited by mad kat, 29 September 2014 - 11:52 PM.

[Jeffrey Wilder]

There has been a rise in Dire Whales due to the cbills version, that's what I want to comment on.

Met a lot of inexperienced whales that

1) Serves as a good block for the enemy
2) Keep shooting the back of their teammates
3) Whine when they die without seeing where everybody is moving to

[Kjudoon]

Moonlander, on 29 September 2014 - 10:09 AM, said:

What is up with all the team killing? Has it always been like this? I can't refrain from retaliation. If you're going to take me down 10% health, I will alpha you in the Dire.

I watched one guy kill 3 teammates in a single match during a base rush in a giant scrum. 2 within seconds of each other.

New players or just plain jerks are not checking fire for the foreground OR background.

[Moonlander]

Kjudoon, on 29 September 2014 - 10:42 PM, said:

I watched one guy kill 3 teammates in a single match during a base rush in a giant scrum. 2 within seconds of each other.

New players or just plain jerks are not checking fire for the foreground OR background.

I'm talking more about right at the beginning of the match when everyone is together.

[mad kat]

Jeffrey Wilder, on 29 September 2014 - 10:37 PM, said:

There has been a rise in Dire Whales due to the cbills version, that's what I want to comment on.

Met a lot of inexperienced whales that

1) Serves as a good block for the enemy
2) Keep shooting the back of their teammates
3) Whine when they die without seeing where everybody is moving to

You are completely right. The direwhale pilots appear to have a superiority complex going believing they are gods on the battlefield. They don't seem to give two hoots who's in front of them when they fire. then spend the rest of the time hiding.

Maybe they all drive BMW's, Audi's and merc's and spend their spare time being roadies?

I had another match yesterday where i was in a brawl in my ylw i took heavy damage lost my ac20 so beat a retreat. What did the direwhale behind me do? keep firing hitting me more than my ex target trying to kill steal.

Edited by mad kat, 29 September 2014 - 11:55 PM.

[Kjudoon]

My last match of tonight on Canyon network, we were up against a team with 2 Dire Whales. I got them both. The Stalker Pilot, who is a teammate of mine who took the wrong color shirt that match almost settled my hash and we won by lead on the clock. There is something truly satisfying about killing Dire Whales with an LRM Griffin.

Edited by Kjudoon, 29 September 2014 - 11:55 PM.

[Kodyn]

At least it's staying consistent, and i'm not the only one noticing it...

By consistent I mean I've had serious amounts of FF in solo queue more matches than not, including some matches where I took way more FF than enemy fire, and have been team killed twice more since last post...I am noticing it is often Direwhales, so I guess that's likely part of it, bad, new whale pilots who don't know how to aim it or stop firing...ever, but in some people's defense, the rubberbanding thing is definitely the cause, because I've still been seeing mechs jump around all over, and if my mech is doing that in my team's view, then they may not realize it sometimes..

Then you get the guys who sit there shooting at a dead enemy mech that's clearly a smoking pile on the ground, for a good 10-30 seconds after, as half the team proceeds to get shot in the process...

[Alienized]

everytime i engage a direwhale frontal with my banshee i am utterly surprised that i come out alive most of time...
are these cbill whale drivers so scared if someone even dares to face them frontal?....

[Rear Admiral Tier 6]

Aliisa White, on 30 September 2014 - 12:13 AM, said:

everytime i engage a direwhale frontal with my banshee i am utterly surprised that i come out alive most of time...
are these cbill whale drivers so scared if someone even dares to face them frontal?....

3 AC5 banshee is still really nasty,with the cooldown modules its just murderous,try them!

[Alienized]

uhm... no. got 2 ac2 + 1 lbx10. so if my other torso gets blown up i still can use these guns because i have the ammo there too... cased. 3 ac5 need all the space in the torso means it can be made damn useless if the other torso gets shot off. i dont like such things.

[nitra]

just bad games today .... seems like nothing worked in my favor .

my only options was to stick with the team but that was annoying as they always did the same ol shift left shift right do nothing routine..

so sick of team play. sit wait 7 minutes then go play the chase spider the rest of the 7 ...

guess ill just pick my lrm boat maybe grab a hot cocoa and ill finally have relaxing game of mech warrior ..

these last few games has been nothing more than an exercise frustration.

Edited by nitra, 30 September 2014 - 06:37 PM.