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[Kain Demos]

Also, it has been a long time (since early CW release) since Russ mentioned adding fluff for the planets on the CW map screen. I think he even said someone had been assigned the task back then.....I can't recall any updates on this. I know there are many planets but only a small portion have a rich history in the lore so a lot of it can be invented from scratch. Hell, I am sure people in the community would be glad to help.

[draiocht]

Alexander Garden, on 09 July 2015 - 01:08 PM, said:

I'm trying to put more effort into this aspect of our write-ups, and over time you're going to see more of this. Just need to strengthen my BattleTech-fu a little more before getting into the more lore-dependent stuff.

Great to hear!

Even if at some minimal level, to clear up some new players' confusion about clan mechs being for players in "clans"... which mwo refers to here as "units"... which may be in issue....

[jss78]

Alexander Garden, on 09 July 2015 - 01:08 PM, said:

I'm trying to put more effort into this aspect of our write-ups, and over time you're going to see more of this. Just need to strengthen my BattleTech-fu a little more before getting into the more lore-dependent stuff.

Great to hear that you're looking into this! I think ideally adding a bit of lore fluff would extend beyond just Hero mechs. E.g. any mech model could use a few sentences about stuff like year or introduction, battlefield role, and factions most commonly using it -- viewable as you browse through them in the client. Just to make that huge BT lore backdrop better visible in the game. The hardcore TT veteran segment know that stuff by heart anyway, but for a lot of the others it'd better immerse the player into the context of why all the fighting is taking place.

Lore fluff fuels imaginations, and that in itself can help keep people fascinated by the game and keep them playing.

[Bulletsponge0]

just had my first drop on new river city...

man that map looks great... was too busy fighting/exploring to check if I was having any hit to my fps though

[Bill Bullet]

Read Alexander Garden's post and noticed he "liked" the fiction pieces I wrote. Giggled like a dope for about 5 minutes. My whine is that I did this while at work and now my co-workers think I'm crazy (er)

[IraqiWalker]

signal, on 09 July 2015 - 09:24 AM, said:

Honestly that was the first time I've ever been legit pissed off in MWO, all I said to him was that he has succeeded in me not giving anyone any ECM on purpose now and then I ****** off because even staring at that ******** name on the score board ran up my blood pressure.

..I did actually give ECM cover when it was appropriate afterwards though, because I didn't want to ruin other players' fun just because of one {Richard Cameron}.

But seriously, he:
-had the nerve of stating that he will teach me how to be a team player this way
-dared to not only shoot a team mate, but in the back
-ran a Mad Dog, which is a mech I adore and honestly would've rather stuck him in a Daboku
-put himself out of a close support position (in a mad dog which despite having a crap laser vomit build, did have some srm's) all the way to a ridge to whine at me uselessly, thus
-making himself a useless hypocrite as at least I was busy disarming a Cataphract while he
-did nothing

meh

Please tell me you reported the doofus.

Alexander Garden, on 09 July 2015 - 01:08 PM, said:

I'm trying to put more effort into this aspect of our write-ups, and over time you're going to see more of this. Just need to strengthen my BattleTech-fu a little more before getting into the more lore-dependent stuff.

You don't need to do this. Much like Bullet Bill. I would do this for every chassis in the game, and I'd do it for MC.

[Bilbo]

Bilbo, on 07 July 2015 - 06:49 PM, said:

My game now crashes every third match. I found that on some maps I'm getting over 200 fps on low settings at times, and this causes my video card to overheat and blue screen windows. Adjusted settings to ensure that doesn't happen and now I just randomly crash to desktop and get an fread error afterwards. Sweet.
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So....I've got bad RAM. It took me two weeks, a clean windows install, and a ridiculous amount of temp monitoring before I thought to check the RAM. I am ashamed.

New RAM has me back in the game. SWEET!!!!

[IraqiWalker]

Just had a match where DONTOR was on my team. I think my Elo is going up. Which I view as a bad thing. Am I awful for thinking that?

[Bilbo]

IraqiWalker, on 09 July 2015 - 06:00 PM, said:

Just had a match where DONTOR was on my team. I think my Elo is going up. Which I view as a bad thing. Am I awful for thinking that?

The higher you go...the harder it gets(in some ways). Your team mates will be better but so will be the enemy. I'd vote for better team mates every time though.

[3xnihilo]

I had alienized on my team once. I am pretty sure it was one of my those times matchmaker threw him in with a bunch of scrubs and said "carry hard". And he did, of course.

[FatYak]

Todays whine.... still failing to do damage to mechs standing still

Edited by FatYak, 09 July 2015 - 07:31 PM.

[Alienized]

3xnihilo, on 09 July 2015 - 06:33 PM, said:

I had alienized on my team once. I am pretty sure it was one of my those times matchmaker threw him in with a bunch of scrubs and said "carry hard". And he did, of course.

its like that most of times. all these tryhards tryign to win by camping somewhere, then lemmingtrain after a medium mech that was about to flank..... and suddenly such medium mech (me) had the full enemy team in front.... thats how life goes. assaults hiding in the back, mediums leading.

[Bilbo]

Alienized, on 09 July 2015 - 11:02 PM, said:

its like that most of times. all these tryhards tryign to win by camping somewhere, then lemmingtrain after a medium mech that was about to flank..... and suddenly such medium mech (me) had the full enemy team in front.... thats how life goes. assaults hiding in the back, mediums leading.

You and I live in two very different worlds. There are apparently no mechs in the game that are faster than an Atlas, on my team at least.

Edited by Bilbo, 09 July 2015 - 11:29 PM.

[Alienized]

Bilbo, on 09 July 2015 - 11:29 PM, said:

You and I live in two very different worlds. There are apparently no mechs in the game that are faster than an Atlas, on my team at least.

you seem to get that wrong. if you travel a far wide route to flank an enemy with an atlas then you do something terribly wrong in the first place.
whoever does that with a slow mech ... should think about their own mistakes.
i often wait some time to move but then no one ever moves. its a plain shootout which i cant do with most of my mechs.
i have to move and flank BUT if the complete team (slow and faster mechs alike) then most mechs are pretty damn useless. thats why you dont see them alot on the field and no quirks will help them.

its like *oh he is moving somewhere, lets move with him!* and dont look at the mechtype. no brain behind decisions. and all the sudden mechs that cant tank anything are the frontmech simply because the rest of the team decided to move behind that one moving mech. cowering in the rear.

[signal]

IraqiWalker, on 09 July 2015 - 04:13 PM, said:

Please tell me you reported the doofus.


You don't need to do this. Much like Bullet Bill. I would do this for every chassis in the game, and I'd do it for MC.

The whole thing happened quite a while back, I didnt even know that was a thing, but when I considered it I already forgot his username.

[3xnihilo]

Alienized, on 09 July 2015 - 11:02 PM, said:

its like that most of times. all these tryhards tryign to win by camping somewhere, then lemmingtrain after a medium mech that was about to flank..... and suddenly such medium mech (me) had the full enemy team in front.... thats how life goes. assaults hiding in the back, mediums leading.

Haha, this is so true. I hate when I decide to scout or get behind the enemy to do some "chase the squirrel" in a locust or spider and suddenly realize I half the team followed me and I am leading "the charge" not stealthily getting behind enemy lines I guess I need to be better about staring my intentions to my team...it just seems obvious if you are in a 60-70kph mech don't follow the 170kph mech across the map.

[jper4]

dare to step into group play yesterday. lost 11 straight matches only three of which were close. I was thrown off by the amount of "going forward" in these matches and didn;t really do too well in most of the matches as a result. but I do have to say, there was more communication in PUG matches than there were among the groups that day.

[Alienized]

3xnihilo, on 10 July 2015 - 09:24 AM, said:

Haha, this is so true. I hate when I decide to scout or get behind the enemy to do some "chase the squirrel" in a locust or spider and suddenly realize I half the team followed me and I am leading "the charge" not stealthily getting behind enemy lines I guess I need to be better about staring my intentions to my team...it just seems obvious if you are in a 60-70kph mech don't follow the 170kph mech across the map.

its so obvious that it happens to me every battle... BUT the obvious thing for my team stops at "oh theres a guy running at 130 somewh.... fk it lets follow him!* (desperatly crawls behind at 60kph)


*sigh*

no communication can help the lack of own brains. it really cant. you can tell them what they have to do and they do it all wrong most of times. like tourmaline desert. 2 (!) king crabs with dual gauss sitting at G5 (!) 2 squares behind the rest of the team. i decided to go on a suicide ambush against a lrm maddog (sorry again Zyne i told you :S)

its not puglandia anymore. its douche-landia.

[IraqiWalker]

Tanar, on 10 July 2015 - 09:36 AM, said:

dare to step into group play yesterday. lost 11 straight matches only three of which were close. I was thrown off by the amount of "going forward" in these matches and didn;t really do too well in most of the matches as a result. but I do have to say, there was more communication in PUG matches than there were among the groups that day.

Wow. Okay. We need to organize sometimes to group up. Trust me, when I play in the group queue, everyone tends to chime in more.

[Jon Gotham]

Tanar, on 10 July 2015 - 09:36 AM, said:

dare to step into group play yesterday. lost 11 straight matches only three of which were close. I was thrown off by the amount of "going forward" in these matches and didn;t really do too well in most of the matches as a result. but I do have to say, there was more communication in PUG matches than there were among the groups that day.

I see the opposite.99% of my pug matches are silent-unless I stay up and play in us primetime. There are a lot of voipless puggers in group queue now though, plus in euro primetime I think language is a big factor. It shouldn't be but I think it is.
Had two CRACKING pug CW games tonight. One on Kamiko and one on Song. Both teams actually talked to each other and worked together, it's game like this that utterly shame the solo q into being what it is-DREADFUL.
Hats off to Willbaron in my Is drop for being a patient and excellent drop caller o7