but you CAN get it, if you work on it!
Is it a perfect Aim?
No. That will help, but its not as important.
Is it a perfect knowledge of every Mech, and all the maps?
Neither, those might help too, but its not what i mean,
what i am Talking about is a single virtue:
Patience.
Patience is KEY in this game.
Storytime
I had a Match yesterday on Caustic, we did start in the Southern Spawn, Assault mode.
Two guys on our Team, tried to direct our Forces into Solid Positions, but it did not help much,
as we took Positions, we faced an enemy, which was entrenchted and in pretty Solid cover, you couldnt take a shot without
eating return fire of at least two machines.
So, our two Leaders did Call out to return to our Base and dig in.
As usual only half of our Team did listen.
So i took on Command, and issued Defense Orders for our 3 Lances arround the Base perimeter, next to cover and
did repeat to "Fall back, dig in, grit your teeth and Let em come for us"
we had been down 4 Mechs allready, vs. 1 death Mech on the enemy Team, and to add insult to injury,
two of my Lances Mechs, our last two Assaults (Victor and Atlas) did plain and simple REFUSE to listen to the Orders.
Our Atlas Pilot even did go as far as Insult us, calling us names for retreating, charging alongside the Victor uphill against 11 Enemys while he told us "OMG im doing 900+ Damage EACH game! im so Pro at this!"
He went down rather fast, is was underwhelming to watch it...
So there we sat, in our Base, behind some Rocks...
just 6 Pilots in Their machines in rather Bad conditions, facing still 10 Enemy Pilots...
and we did wait, patiently...
as the time hit 2:30 left, the enemys did descend upon our little rag tag band, in a perfect long drawn battle line,
from the maps Center to the eastern part of the map, they moved down the Mountain....
So, in one last act of defiance, we threw our Mechs into the Fray, starting out at their Flank from the west,
i was leading the charge, in my trusted Grid Iron, just not caring about anything,
taking a stroll along their lines, giving them all i had left, and damn, sometimes that Lady dies hard,
took them a Solid 40 seconds to take my Grid Iron out, while my Team just CRUSHED them,
we threw them in a complet dissaray, turning the kill counts from 6:2 for them into 7:8 for us,
pressing onward, the remaining members of my Team, managed, to end the match, with 20 seconds remaining on the clock, with a solid 9:12 for us.
Thats what Patience is worth in this Game,
Dont try to force something, WAIT for the enemy to make ONE single mistake and capitalize on it.
As Sun Tzu said:
Those who look to fight first, and look for victory second, are doomed to fail,
thus, you need to look for victory First and go to fight, second.
Edited by Androas, 21 April 2014 - 10:58 PM.