Posted 05 May 2014 - 07:38 PM
Had a few bad matches last two days. But eh, thats not unusual. Had one tonight where roughly 5 of my team was actually looking at the radar and trying to seek the enemy. The other 7, which sadly was two atlas, a battlemaster, jager and I think hunchie and whatever, while the aware was a cicada, my Protector, and some lights. We were on Alpine, and didnt go up the hill(even though we were on that side of the map) and went down south road.
i was pleased at first, I hate Hamburger Hill. We got to the bottom of the mountain on the south road, and discovered some enemy in the long ravine, blew away a Illya, and scared off a jager and a spider.
Then i see our jenner, on top of the mountain with a hunchie in its sights. I backpedal up the south road a bit, and tell jenner to try to draw him to the edge so we can blast him. Jenner cant convince HBK to run to the slope, but Kintaro goes full on, misses the edge a little and ski slope slides right down 200M in front of me. LOLBLAST. Lights converge, HBK then joins in, and then a shadowhawk with streaks. There are now 5 of us, though we are light(besides me) and 3 of them...no wait 4 now...wait 5? Big OL fuzzball going on.
I eventually get quadruple teamed, though I put down the kintaro during the fray and legged the shadowhawk, exposed one side torso. Got a few in on HBK too. Our lights took a beating, one is down, jenner and a raven are fighting. Now its 7 of them, vs 3 of us. See, even though the radar had been flooded with red triangles and multiple targets, our Atlas posse decided to march towards the base. Yes, the giant fuzzball started less then 300M behind them, and they just moved on out. The rest of the match was just painful to watch, the two atlas, i am not sure they had a HUD running, their team mates got picked off one by one by enemies 150M from them as they tried to fire ML at stuff 600M away, ignoring the radar completely. I observed battlemaster, he put up a good fight, unsupported, and as he was cored(got triple teamed though he got one of the mediums he was fighting) his Atlas pal had his back to him not even 100M away. A boarshead, firing 3 MPL at a jager on a ridge way out using PPCs.
But, those matches like that, I can count on one hand from the last few nights. Most have been at least decent, and many have been really solid fun. I had one on mordor, I bought one of the last two dragon variants(mastered fang, flame, and 1...C? I forget like last year in the spring) I put off forever, 1N I think. Loaded it with ppc in arm, ppc in torso, ac10 in other arm, 12 DHS and XL300. It runs hot, and not as fast as some, but is wicked fun on chain fire with a potent alpha down range on unaware targets. I dropped for it's second match on mordor, and team and enemy team was cracking jokes right up until shots fired. Match started out as around the ring flanks, but as we got a small lead, the enemy bigguns went into the ring to defend. We assaulted through 2 different doors with much smaller force, but with bigger numbers. banshee and atlas and a spider were at the door I was near, with a SHD and Tbolt up front as i finished off a catapult with another SHD well below. I went up the hill to assist my team assaulting the door, got a few solid strikes in, and then Banshee saw me. He had a dakka loadout, and some lasers, and went to town on my fat face(the ol truck hood CT of dragons) I retalliated with alpha strike, but he had the better of me. Team mates had gotten distracted by spider that jumped over our heads and was trying to shoot us in the back(didnt last long) so I had Banshee attention all on me. I ended up overheating in a desperate alpha to try to blow his exposed side torso, but I must have fell a few points short because he kept it. "Oh man, thats it for me" As I am getting plugged, betty yelling at me about critical this and that.
Then, T bolt sees whats going on, and litterally walks in front of me as a shield and eats banshee fire for 3 seconds while I restart. he litterally saved my ass, no chats or VOIp or anything. He of course was firing at banshee too, at point blank face to face. Banshee got thrown off his pace, prolly with the bloodlust in his eyes after all the wrecking I did to him that he couldnt finish me while I was so close. He throws it in reverse, T bolt had come to a stop, and had torso twisted to the far left so he likely didnt see the banshee back off as he was trying to spread out dmg to now save his own hide. It was too late for banshee now, he had his CT open now, and soon as he got 5M in between himself and my tbolt savior I alphastriked his ass into oblivion. Overheat again, but no matter, it was down, and we both were up. dust ourselves off, and push in to attack atlas that was distracted on other side of the ring.
it was a great match, and most said as much at the end. A match like that can make up for 2 terribad ones IMO, especially when the majority had been decent to begin with. So put me in the boat with others here that have seen a solid improvment in quality of fun lately.
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Appogee, on 05 May 2014 - 03:47 AM, said:
