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[Bud Crue]

Bilbo, on 21 April 2017 - 04:47 PM, said:

If you aren't a large group in the queue you are going to have a bad time. I learned this long ago. If you are trying to teach people in the group queue, you really need to run a low level account so the tier average doesn't just throw you to wolves. Otherwise you should just run private matches to get the new guys' feet under them in a somewhat controlled environment.

Oh I know, but lately it has been far worse than usual.

Speaking of which, man, I swear there is no reason to even run two-thirds or more of the mechs in this game. A cute little 3LPL Crab or Quickdraw...oh your wee little 33 points of damage...so cute. Then WHAMMO, 2 Gauss and 1 or maybe 2 PPCs right in a side torso and you're either out of the game or soon will be when the Arctic Cheetahs and Locusts finish off the the bigger threats. Group queue is no longer a place for playing with your friends. It is a place for our meta running overlords to kick sand in the face of the proverbial 98 lb weaklings that the non high PPFLD mechs represent. I sure hope the new comp queue draws off some of these folks.

To wit:
I had a match wherein a guy running a 2Gauss 1 ERPPC Night Gyr (caustic) one-shotted 4 enemy mediums and a Jenner IIc in a row by poptarting and then wrecked a couple others one right after the other. Can't imagine the frustration of those players, running up the slope to die without baing engaged by any other mechs. All but one got an alpha in against the NG, but it didn't matter. It just shrugged off the damage.

What is a flucking Quickdraw against that!? Hell what is a Marauder against that? More and more I am seeing teams of exclusively Hunchback IIcs or Novas with a wolf pack of Arctic Cheetahs or Locusts and 3 Night Gyrs and occasionally a Kodiak 3 or Mad IIc or a Battlemaster, and the damage out put is just off the charts. And that's it. I haven't even seen even a Timberwolf or Ebon in weeks...what's a Warhammer? That's a mech you say? Never seen one. These are good mechs, hell great mechs, but they are nothing compared to the alternatives that are currently dominating play. And then here I am playing a 60 ton "meta" build Quickdraw with a 33 point alpha and it is literally a joke compared to what most folks are running.

Edited by Bud Crue, 21 April 2017 - 07:50 PM.

[Bilbo]

Bud Crue, on 21 April 2017 - 07:49 PM, said:

Oh I know, but lately it has been far worse than usual.

Speaking of which, man, I swear there is no reason to even run two-thirds or more of the mechs in this game. A cute little 3LPL Crab or Quickdraw...oh your wee little 33 points of damage...so cute. Then WHAMMO, 2 Gauss and 1 or maybe 2 PPCs right in a side torso and you're either out of the game or soon will be when the Arctic Cheetahs and Locusts finish off the the bigger threats. Group queue is no longer a place for playing with your friends. It is a place for our meta running overlords to kick sand in the face of the proverbial 98 lb weaklings that the non high PPFLD mechs represent. I sure hope the new comp queue draws off some of these folks.

To wit:
I had a match wherein a guy running a 2Gauss 1 ERPPC Night Gyr (caustic) one-shotted 4 enemy mediums and a Jenner IIc in a row by poptarting and then wrecked a couple others one right after the other. Can't imagine the frustration of those players, running up the slope to die without baing engaged by any other mechs. All but one got an alpha in against the NG, but it didn't matter. It just shrugged off the damage.

What is a flucking Quickdraw against that!? Hell what is a Marauder against that? More and more I am seeing teams of exclusively Hunchback IIcs or Novas with a wolf pack of Arctic Cheetahs or Locusts and 3 Night Gyrs and occasionally a Kodiak 3 or Mad IIc or a Battlemaster, and the damage out put is just off the charts. And that's it. I haven't even seen even a Timberwolf or Ebon in weeks...what's a Warhammer? That's a mech you say? Never seen one. These are good mechs, hell great mechs, but they are nothing compared to the alternatives that are currently dominating play. And then here I am playing a 60 ton "meta" build Quickdraw with a 33 point alpha and it is literally a joke compared to what most folks are running.

I'm somewhat lucky. My favorite mech to play is still somewhat viable playing in the manner I enjoy playing it. Slow brawlers are a dying breed though. One of these days I'll spend more time hiding behind a rock than I spend fighting in most games. When I actually have to wait five minutes before I can shoot at anything effectively, I'll be well and truly done with this game.

[C E Dwyer]

Now if Ted had come here and whined about people dissing his LRM boat it would be a post to add to the 519 pages of gripes.

but he had to go and post his whine in General and paint a big big target on his head.

oh the whine bit of this post.

Use the right frikin section when you post

[Trenchbird]

The6thMessenger, on 21 April 2017 - 06:40 PM, said:

Dear Teammates.

Stop. Bringing. LRM. Kodiaks.

No, don't stop bringing them. I enjoy watching them die under combined firepower when the company they supported wilted in front of them because the assault wasn't armor sharing or doing efficient damage.

[loopala]

Cathy, on 23 April 2017 - 01:01 PM, said:

Now if Ted had come here and whined about people dissing his LRM boat it would be a post to add to the 519 pages of gripes.

but he had to go and post his whine in General and paint a big big target on his head.

oh the whine bit of this post.

Use the right frikin section when you post

but the powers that be hide our wonderful whining thread from the view of the unknowing.

so now folks have to go on a quest to find the nirvana that is the daily whine. much easier to just post in the general area and suffer the flames....

and to think this not the first time the powers that be have buried this thread....

Edited by loopala, 23 April 2017 - 07:34 PM.

[Bud Crue]

Spent the weekend, mowing, picking rock out of fields, clearing brush, prepping the smaller gardens, fixing a tractor and doing other tiresome but necessary chores. All done Sunday evening and feeling wiped out. Just wanted an hour or two of MW and a few drinks on Sunday night before having to go into "work".

God damn internet was out. It's still out. That is my whine.

Edit: To continue my whine: So my ISP (Centurylink) has as usual when we go through this routine said everything is fine. Next step is to send a tech, who will determine that my modem/router is bad and then provide me with a new one, which will last about 6 months and then I get to do this again.

Rural internet sucks, and my only alternative is going back to satellite service which is even worse.

Edited by Bud Crue, 24 April 2017 - 06:50 PM.

[Steel Raven]

Tried to get one more Incursion in, get snipped by a Gauss Bear. The opposing team had some decent sniper and there I am in a brawler on Tundra. I don't mind getting cored by a Meta Build, not the first time but then some punk as had to post 'stop making excuses.' You got cored before me, bro. Whats your excuse!?

I was scoring 500-700 in previous matches but yeah, I'm sure I just suck and it wasn't the Kodiak who took out damn near a quarter team.

[themadmanluv]

welp when you want an incursion match and you get to log in 3 hours before the end of event to do the last 4 missions.... AND. NO. SINGLE. INCURSION?! FOR 3 HOURS?!
and i never saw a roughneck on enemy teams either lol. some times i didnt had the time to go search for them tbh

THEN........... YOU SEE THRESHOLD EVEN WENT FROM 9 TO 7! COOOME ON! (got to 5 lol)


(btw i am a returning user, for anyone that ever saw MikeTheDestructor that's me. so knowing how painful to see a lrm assault is.... but a Kodiak with lrms is even worse than any other assault with lrms lol. heck, you know that Awesomes do exist? use them for lrms please. or just dont and use something else lol)

[Windscape]

finals are in a few weeks I'm scared

[Zergling]

Windscape, on 25 April 2017 - 07:29 PM, said:

finals are in a few weeks I'm scared

Good luck!

[Kasumi Sumika]

"I'm too afraid to enemy scratch my mech paint so I will be sniper and hoping all my teammates become my meatshield!"

Gauss+ERPPC meta that very far away from team in nutshell

[Lhunara]

Kasumi Sumika, on 26 April 2017 - 03:58 AM, said:

"I'm too afraid to enemy scratch my mech paint so I will be sniper and hoping all my teammates become my meatshield!"

Gauss+ERPPC meta that very far away from team in nutshell

LOL. Yeah, in a recent match this guy told me to L2P when the whole team was too scared to stand in the circle in domination.

My little Locust-1V was struggling to drive off enemy lights, fighting larger mechs and this guy wanted me to go stand in the circle alone.

Give me a break.

[Windscape]

Zergling, on 25 April 2017 - 07:40 PM, said:

Good luck!

Thank you!

[jper4]

so played 2 hours yesterday and got 3 incursion matches (well ok only one actually got voted for but at least the option was there). took about 8 hours of play to get the "play 5 incursion matches" award (yes I hit the match score on all of them so no missed matches- thanks AMS).

one odd thing that I was somewhat happy about though- had several matches where one or both teams tried this odd tactic of moving all the time TOWARDS the other side. unfortunately for about half of those matches I had my LRM mediums out so I couldn't take advantage of the brawls that took place expecting the usual "aaaaah my paint's scratched <flees 300m to the rear>" style of play more commonly seen.

[Bilbo]

Knowing that I suck at this game after a twelve pack, one would think that I would quit before diving into the second. One would be wrong. I apologize for the collateral damage.

[Bulletsponge0]

just had a drop where an LRM mauler complained that a dual gauss mad IIc wasn't sharing armor..


that made me LOL

[Baron Blitz Fokheimer]

Last time I played a few days ago (last day of event): loss streak of 6, a win, another loss streak of 8.
Trying again today: 1 win (where I got no kills), and on the 7th loss so far.

Getting somewhere around 2.5 kills per match on average. The mech I'm using now has about a .35% win ratio, and I don't think it will get any better.

Just makes you think "why not spend your time on something else?" sometimes. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Edit: 2 more wins, about 15 more losses.O

Oh, and most matches are 12-3, or worse. Wins too, not just losses.

Edited by Baron Blitz Fokheimer, 29 April 2017 - 06:00 PM.

[Korak18]

Lhunara, on 27 April 2017 - 02:38 AM, said:

LOL. Yeah, in a recent match this guy told me to L2P when the whole team was too scared to stand in the circle in domination.

My little Locust-1V was struggling to drive off enemy lights, fighting larger mechs and this guy wanted me to go stand in the circle alone.

Give me a break.

I was there for that. Sad really...I told the peep to get in there with the assault he was in and rest of team to stop hiding...
Indicitive of most of my matches lately...which is a sad testiment to the level of potato out there..MM working as it should..all is well nothing to see here...

[Bulletsponge0]

the cowardice in pug drops is reaching unprecedented levels

pugs would rather lose than actually risk getting their mechs scratched, or helping a teammate by focusing fire...

[Bulletsponge0]

How long has escort been a game mode for now? 6 months? a year?

How is it that pugs still haven't figured out that you can't defend something by hiding 500m behind it??


Its amazing the lack of awareness and knowledge of what the goal of each game mode is....