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[Jabilo]

So I joined a game late and rushed to the final battle which was two on two.

I am running a Griffin with 1 x ppc and 1 x ERPPC.

It comes down to me and a raven.

Now this dude eats me a live for one simple reason.

I miss him clean shot after shot after shot.

Well, my hands were cold, I had caffeine shakes and my FPS was in the toilet.

On top of these feeble excuses I sucked hard.

I took a volley of abuse in that game, some friend;y and some not so.

But I would just like to say sorry for losing the game - I am not normally that bad - honest!

Anyone else had one of those games?

[Girth Fillmore]

I think everyone's had one of those games. I had one the other night where an enemy Firestarter was running around our team with 8MLAS, chewing the legs off of us, and I missed 2 EASY AC20 shots to his back because I was hesitating on the trigger.

I was yelling a little bit

Edited by Girth Fillmore, 03 May 2014 - 11:31 AM.

[Ardney]

Yes, everyone has had those games. The key is to never apologize and insist that the other 11 people caused your loss.

[Garegaupa]

If I was to make an apology for every time something like that happened to me, I'd be quite busy, I'm afraid... Everybody has good games and bad games. In my career of playing online games, it's happened more than once that I've played one great game and received praise from my team mates, only to mess up completely in the very next game and receive a thorough verbal trashing. It's just the way of things.

As for those complaining, I just ignore them completely and move on. "He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone..."

[Lysander Davion]

_{I would say 10% of my games are like that but in between I have good ones aswell.. dont worry too much, things like this do happen..}

[Koniving]

Jabilo, on 03 May 2014 - 11:26 AM, said:

Anyone else had one of those games?

Had similar games but not quite like that. I do have a tip for you. Pack on a BAP and at least 2 Streaks, and you'll never have a problem where you can't hit a light ever again.



As for my own version of that, I believe this can demonstrate it. I had this Hunchback harassing me for at least 6 minutes. Made requests. "Help me." Premade group, so used Voice for my lance mates. Too busy getting kills. Text to the random players. Too busy chasing faster mechs. So here I am, tanking this Hunchback's shots. Not fast enough to escape. Can't show my back or I'll die instantly (almost no armor back there). Making request after request for help for at least 6 minutes.

I shortened the video quite a bit.


What it taught me is something that you, too, could learn and use. Always have a backup weapon that functions differently. Doesn't matter what it is, so long as it can do something that your main weapon cannot do.

[BOWMANGR]

I had a horrible experience two days ago.

There is me in my Stalker with my LRM15s, my streaks and my medium lasers. The match starts in Caustic, everyone goes right, I'm one of the slowest mechs so they started leaving me behind. The mode was Assault.

I was just getting out of the water when I see at least 3 enemy mechs at my far left shooting at me with PPCs and large lasers. I knew that if I kept going straight they will just wreck me so I did an 180 and tried to get back to the relative safety of the base turrets while using the chat to scream about mechs flanking us.

3 mechs listened the rest just ignored me. While I was returning to base I got hit with every long range weapon there is and i just looked in my radar for blue triangles closing in my position to draw some fire off of me. It was agonizing. But unfortunately the blue triangles that came back were so few that I realised that the enemy team has gone into "the zone", you know when they absolutely give chase to get the kill no matter what. One of them was SO bent to kill me that he drove straight into the base turrets and MY crosshairs where he died immediately.

My Stalker lost its Right torso after receiving so much firepower and I finally made it behind the big rock of the base. They finally stopped engaging me but half of my mech was wrecked and I haven't even fired more than three times. It was disappointing and I knew that they knew I was behind the rock so I just sat there waiting it out until reinforcements arrived.

Fortunately, those who continued forward came around after circling the crater and flanked them and we started winning the match. I took a few potshots here and there.

Finally, at the final stages of the match here I was with a battered Stalker, ~160 LRMs remaining and 2 Medium Lasers. My teammates were a Quickdraw and a Hunchback, all puggers like me. The enemy was a legged Quickdraw with PPC behind the ridge hill near the central crater.

Dead teammates were screaming on the chat for the medium mechs to lock the quickdraw so that I can rain my LRMs on him but the Hunchback was apparently a newbie who didn't even know where he was going and the other teammate managed to achieve a lock but shot the crippled enemy at the same time therefore giving up his position. This caused the enemy to shoot back ofcourse and the friendly quickdraw lost and regained lock erratically because he was going in and out of cover. I lost some LRM volleys because of this. Meanwhile the chat was flaring up because the Hunchback was going sightseeing in a different direction.

It was SO frustrating. I chatted mentioning to the friendly quickdraw to just LOCK him from a hidden position WITHOUT shooting at him and KEEP the goddamn lock but as soon as I pressed enter he died.

And there I was, a critically damaged Stalker, with about 100 LRMs against a crippled quickdraw with jumpjets and PPCs on higher ground while my other remaining teammate didn't knew what he was doing.

I was furious with how an 11-9 lead was starting to transform to a humiliating defeat in the hands of a critically hit LEGGED quickdraw because of non-existent cooperation between PUGers.

The chat was starting to understand that the Hunchback was a lost cause and they yelled at him to just hide so that we may win via kill count as the score was 11-10 at that time. And then he actually went and charged the Quickdraw!!! I was amazed at how this player managed to do the exact opposite of what he was supposed to do each time.

Then my patience threshold was reached and I charged to hoping that the Hunchback will at the very least HOLD the friggin lock for 30 seconds in order to let me use my LRMs AND maybe reach the ridge in time to use my medium lasers to finish him off. His remaining leg was in the yellow.

And the Hunchback get in the other side of the ridge and....stopped there while I was approaching 400m behind him. The quickdraw used its jumpjets and saw me, so I started to get hit with PPC blasts while my LRMs were locking but not long enough to home in. I chatted to the Hunchback "CHARGE FFS!!" and he did nothing. The Quickdraw continued poptarting me and a well aimed PPC blast killed me.
THEN the Hunchback moved. He WAITED for me to die, I have no other explanation. He then promptly managed to get over the ridge and face the Quickdraw face to face...


...and brawled with a LEGGED Quickdraw with a yellow leg shooting him in all torsos, while chat was exploding with HIT THE LEG comments. The Quickdraw destroyed the hunch and then cored him in a fight that was AGONIZINGLY difficult to watch...

We lost a match. I guess that Quickdraw pilot would have a hell of a story to tell to his friends. Sometimes your feelings get the better of you. I had no reason to charge him but so many bad tactical decisions were made by my teammates in such a short time frame that it clouded my own judgment which in turn led me to do a tactical error myself.

I was furious with myself, with that Hunchback, with the whole world. For 2 minutes, then I was in another match and all was well with the world again.

[Jabilo]

Am feeling somewhat better now thank you

[ShinVector]

Just keep that feeling of 'I could have done better' and improve your game dude...
It takes lots of time and practice.

Edited by ShinVector, 03 May 2014 - 02:08 PM.

[Hanz Blitzer]

I hate games like that. I had a mech in my cross-hair at about 500 meters. He had a cherry red right torso, and I was accurately tracking that section. I clicked the mouse, and my aim went right out the window. My gentle mouse movement became an unsightly jerk, and my two er large lasers missed him entirely. He reached cover, and his teammates turned to face me. I died shortly thereafter.

[MortVent]

I got health issues with my hands, so gunnery takes a bit of effort for me (but getting better).

So I let folks know I'm not the best gunner early on, but I try. If nothing else I make a good dmg sponge most times

[Keeshu]

Everyone's had days where their accuracy went to crap. Usually for me it's during the winter because my hands go so friggin cold and I haven't warmed them up that much. Though, my computer isn't the greatest, so it can be difficult to aim sometimes when the frames start to skip more than usual.

My problem is for the times where I get too aggressive, leading me into the enemy team. Specificly, whenever I want to follow 1 or 2 heavys/assaults in hopes of getting an ambush. Usually it's a horrible idea since you'll most likely be outnumbered, but the matches where you take out half the enemy team with that 1 or 2 other people it is so worth it because the enemy team doesn't see it coming because. Makes me feel like a badass, and makes me have more respect for the other person I was with.
Lately I've been too aggressive, and sometimes getting under 100 damage (particularly when I turn around a corner and get alpha'd by 2-4 people and die in less than 2 seconds which always makes me go "wait wut?" since usually I usually survive for a long time when fighting people... Though usually when that happens the rest of my team around that area die soon after even if I tell them about it), and those are the most embarassing matches. I generally try to stick with the team, they are always nearby too.

[HimseIf]

i should apologize. Overheat in front of 2 atlas. Die because i am dumb. i cannot understand why i am so bad.

[Rear Admiral Tier 6]

That Quickdraw-story sounds kinda familiar

[King Arthur IV]

it is oky to like the D more then others.