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[Catra Lanis]

Got any tips on how to rein myself in? For some reason I often find myself at the front brawling in a Shadowhawk with gauss. I don't know how it happens. I think I'll hang back and provide support/surpression but before I know it...

Edited by Catra Lanis, 05 June 2015 - 06:02 AM.

[3xnihilo]

Catra Lanis, on 05 June 2015 - 06:02 AM, said:

Got any tips on how to rein myself in? For some reason I often find myself at the front brawling in a Shadowhawk with gauss. I don't know how it happens. I think I'll hang back and provide support/surpression but before I know it...

You and me both, I find myself trying to brawl wih 2mpl and a bunch of lrms. I guess at least I am not 1500m behind my team lobbing missiles out beyond their effective range

[loopala]

Rip Snorgan, on 04 June 2015 - 10:07 PM, said:

PuGland tonight is not so hot...

~~~snip~~~

How do these things happen?

life of a scout. if i had a nickle for every time i set the reds up and nobody noticed.... well i could buy a shiny new locust

Catra Lanis, on 05 June 2015 - 06:02 AM, said:

Got any tips on how to rein myself in? For some reason I often find myself at the front brawling in a Shadowhawk with gauss. I don't know how it happens. I think I'll hang back and provide support/surpression but before I know it...

leg a friendly assault or 2 so they can't back up and leave you hanging?

[Alienized]

loopala, on 05 June 2015 - 06:53 AM, said:

leg a friendly assault or 2 so they can't back up and leave you hanging?

cant see a reason to that since most assaults dont move much anyway once they are in camping position. back and forth, back and forth. thats all they do for whatever reasons.

[Neutron IX]

kamiko kross, on 05 June 2015 - 04:27 AM, said:

Because simply put, your team mates were not very god at the game. Had an 18 game loss streak on gw2 yesterday on all but 2 games I was either top or second best player. All I did was watch my teams get their arses handed to them in embarassing ways.
A few of the games I tripled the next guy's sown score, on one me and the top scorer quadrupled our next team mate's score.
Competitive games NEED better match makers frankly. The mm in mwo fails ultra hard to provide balanced matches in the solo queue.


*edit* apologies for the self aggrandizement of my post

Well, on the bright side of things, I did manage to bump into IraqiWalker, in a different match on Tourmaline, and we got a solid win out of it. So it wasn't ALL bad.

[3xnihilo]

Alienized, on 05 June 2015 - 07:07 AM, said:

cant see a reason to that since most assaults dont move much anyway once they are in camping position. back and forth, back and forth. thats all they do for whatever reasons.

And it is never good enough to back up just into cover. they need to keep backing up until they run into the med/light mech that was trying to push with them and give support. I have spent huge chunks of matches trying to get out of the way of the three assault I thought I was going to give light support to, only to find that they spend most of the match blindly reversing. It isn't so bad in a locust, but an unelited shadowhawk is like turning a cargo ship around.

[Bulletsponge0]

3xnihilo, on 05 June 2015 - 08:40 AM, said:

And it is never good enough to back up just into cover. they need to keep backing up until they run into the med/light mech that was trying to push with them and give support. I have spent huge chunks of matches trying to get out of the way of the three assault I thought I was going to give light support to, only to find that they spend most of the match blindly reversing. It isn't so bad in a locust, but an unelited shadowhawk is like turning a cargo ship around.

reverse is OP, plz nerf (seriously..nerf it NOW)

[jper4]

in my urbie on caustic, see an atlas taking fireon the hilltop, ecm phrat right near me with a t-bolt on the ridge as well. i peek over just see the awesome backing into the caldera and a lone stream of lrms coming from the next rise over- other lrms are coming from a couple hexes away. i go after the awesome who is all of 300m away isolated figuring we can take him out (cent had joined us), rush the lone lrm mech on the other side then hit them from the flank with a solid hitting force

as we were behind 0-2 we needed to do something to change things since we were getting lrmed to death. so i advance and take a few shots at the awesome to pry him from the corner while i beeline for the lrm boat "knowing" that when the awesome comes after me the big guys will rip him apart.

he takes the bait and i go for the stalker beyond the hill, take out a side torso but start thinking i'm taking a lot of fire as a couple enemy troops pop over to help the lrm boat so i start doing the urbie rereat- run forward full speed while still shooting and see a twolf and cent start pursuing me as lrmamgeddon strarts falling on me, but i'll get back to the team shortly and can use the ecm to break the locks. hmm i should have reached them now as i lose a side torso myself (yea std engine) and twist back to the hill i was rushing back from and see...the four mechs all standing along the ridge still in a perfect firing line not shooting at anything. i die and we lose 2-12.i do about 150 dmg and am fourth on the team...

another urbie match- frozen city chasing a lrm cat who's down on jenner highway lobbing lrms while being harrassed by by firendly lights. they all vanish before i get there but hey i'm in a good position to flank, go up the side ramp. rip up a hunchy who doesn;t realize i'm behind him before he gets away- get a few shots at some ecm lights with their backs to me before return fire forces me to back away. idsrupt their lines a bit so our guys can take over. peek and shoot again and see a whale and a griffin now on the ramp with me- ok a decent sized flanking force we can do some damage...except the whale just peeks and shoots and blocks off anyone else from shooting. griffin only moves when i do and i can't get by the whale. next thing i know we have seven mechs all on the ramp with us (we're shockingly down 0-5 at this point) all doing their best terra therma impersonation.
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finally i have had enough and type out "ok if no one's actually going to do anything i guess it's up to the urbie to make the attack"and charge out. of course by now their entire team is facing the ramp so i run out, help the whale kill another whale while of course everyone is shooting only at me. decide to try and take out an ecm raven before i die. i die and spectate the other 6 still milling around in the ramp. we lose 0-12.

also biggest ranbt goes to firefox which has forced me to take 40 minutes to type this because the page has been loadithis page has been connecting the entire time despite refreshes and whatnot and only lets me type about five words at a time before it needs to pause and catch up.i need a new PC....

[Sarlic]

Tired of a broken module and consumable system: because it's not rolewarfare in any way.

[Catra Lanis]

Alienized, on 05 June 2015 - 07:07 AM, said:

cant see a reason to that since most assaults dont move much anyway once they are in camping position. back and forth, back and forth. thats all they do for whatever reasons.

Seen this too and when they do they back across half the map so you have to doge them. One Stalker was just goinb back fort back forth and sometimes rotating on the spot.

[IraqiWalker]

Rip Snorgan, on 05 June 2015 - 07:47 AM, said:

Well, on the bright side of things, I did manage to bump into IraqiWalker, in a different match on Tourmaline, and we got a solid win out of it. So it wasn't ALL bad.

That was a good match. It was one of the better ones that night.

Catra Lanis, on 05 June 2015 - 11:39 AM, said:

Seen this too and when they do they back across half the map so you have to doge them. One Stalker was just goinb back fort back forth and sometimes rotating on the spot.

Spoiler

Where will you be when the acid kicks is?

[jper4]

Bulletsponge0, on 05 June 2015 - 08:41 AM, said:

reverse is OP, plz nerf (seriously..nerf it NOW)

but if you do that assaults will only have the "stand still" option to choose from on their speedometers.

[Bulletsponge0]

forgot how fun the Death Knell is

[3xnihilo]

Bulletsponge0, on 05 June 2015 - 03:18 PM, said:

forgot how fun the Death Knell is

#neverforget

[IraqiWalker]

Bulletsponge0, on 05 June 2015 - 03:18 PM, said:

forgot how fun the Death Knell is

That reminds me. I'm buying the little sucker right now. It'll have to remain in queue behind my Novas, Summoners, and LCT-3V respectively.

Edited by IraqiWalker, 05 June 2015 - 04:25 PM.

[Neutron IX]

3xnihilo, on 05 June 2015 - 03:56 PM, said:

#neverforget

This feels like the right song for this weekends Death Knelling...(not an actual official video, but works pretty well mixed with the movie clips )

[Bulletsponge0]

Rip Snorgan, on 05 June 2015 - 04:26 PM, said:

This feels like the right song for this weekends Death Knelling...(not an actual official video, but works pretty well mixed with the movie clips )

Edited by Bulletsponge0, 05 June 2015 - 04:30 PM.

[3xnihilo]

LAG!!!! I don't know if I have something running here that is screwing up my connection or if it is server side, but it is impossible to hit a teleporting mech

[Bulletsponge0]

3xnihilo, on 05 June 2015 - 04:39 PM, said:

LAG!!!! I don't know if I have something running here that is screwing up my connection or if it is server side, but it is impossible to hit a teleporting mech

my ping has been jumping between 50 and 1400 all night

[3xnihilo]

Bulletsponge0, on 05 June 2015 - 05:12 PM, said:

my ping has been jumping between 50 and 1400 all night

Guess I will have to apologize to the kids for the "What the heck are you guys watching on your iPods" rant.