Shredhead, on 10 July 2014 - 07:25 AM, said:
So, it's official and confirmed by Russ Bullock himself, no more groups in the solo queue:
1.) So, now I hope y'all can stop the bitchin' about the evil premades and play in underhive if you so like.
2.)To all the 2 man groups that feel let down because you (feel you) can't compete, do it like we did in closed beta; enter one of the many open TS Servers and group up with more likeminded people, they aren't hard to find and joining a unit is not necessary for that. 3.)Most of us are very welcoming to new and unexperienced players, and having some beers and banter going back and forth is part of the awesomeness of this community.
Awesome. While fair, I can’t say it doesn’t depress me.
As for your post, let’s break this down.
1.) You lost all credibility with me the minute you used the word ‘Underhive’. Some of us solo-drop because the people who consistently and seriously use the term ‘Underhive’ are not worth dropping with, at least in my opinion. Yes, some of the egregious whiners b!tching about Evil Premades were incredibly aggravating, but the Evil Premade folks certainly had their share of douche-spewers. This is GD. Sewage is everywhere on all sides of all issues.
2.) You’re not the first to say “SHUT UP AND HIT TS ALREADY, YOU GROGNARDS”, and you won’t be the last. Nor will any such amount of that convince me that the people doing the saying are worth dropping with. You claim to be such great folks to play with, but your attitude speaks volumes otherwise.
3.) No, the majority of the jabbering bassholes on this forum are
not welcoming and accepting of new/inexperienced players. Or even established players with seventy ‘Mechs in their shop who know what they’re doing just fine for the most part. If I’m not willing to fall in line, play what I’m told, and hit that ‘Ready’ button within thirty seconds of end-of-match on time, every time, I can take myself elsewhere, with very few exceptions.
Anyways. Now that I’ve gotten that out of my system…
This is particularly hard on two-man teams, as came up early in the thread. Listen up here, all the Nicholas Carlyles of the world, because this part is important.
My brother lives on an Army base at the bottom edge of Texas, while I live up at the top edge of Minnesota. I haven’t physically seen him in nearly three years. MWO was a way he and I kept in touch – we like to run two-man drops together, help each other come up with and test new builds. We catch up on life events and shoot the breeze with each other while we play, and prior to the MM update, it was great. Yeah, we took up our team’s 4-man slot, but that didn’t tend to matter much. We won, we lost, we did well, we got rolled. It all evened out in the end, and more importantly I could keep up with my bro. I got to play with the players I wanted to drop with, limited as they may be, I got to drop with whatever ‘Mech I felt like experimenting with, and everything was all right.
Now, however, our experience in the group queue is that we’re consistently thrown up against 10-man or 12-man groups as filler for a 4 and quad-2 hodgepodge mess, and we’re getting
wrecked every time we drop. Not even in good, honest fights, either – one match we had recently which has caused me to forever bar Skirmish from my drop queue involved the enemy team – shockingly enough, ten Davions and a couple of Lone Wolves – claiming a kill on HPG (normally one of my favorite maps) within the first minute, and then bunkering like badgers under the dish. When I try to organize the rest of the team into a concerted push to go in and pry them out of there, I am specifically told, and I quote:
“I’d rather wait fourteen minutes out here and let them rot than go in there and die for no reason.”
And we spend fourteen minutes sitting around like idiots while the Davion hole-squatters laugh in our faces.
That. Is.
Bullscheiss. And it happens all the time in the Groups queue.
No, “SHUT UP AND HIT TS ALREADY YOU GROGNARD” isn’t a solution. This is a game I share with my brother, not a game I share with my brother and also six dickbags who’re dictating to us what, where, and when to play and demanding that we ready up inside thirty seconds on the dot, every time. I don’t play this game to inflate
your W/L, I play it because I dig giant robots, and because it’s one of a small handful of ways I have to keep up with my family.
Is there anything we can do about it? No. Is there much Piranha can do about it? Not really. Make an exception for two-mans and the three-mans start screaming. Somebody has to be the lowest guy on the totem pole, and unfortunately that’s going to be two-mans. Sucks to be us, but I’m mostly prepared to just sigh and deal with it.
But the decided lack of understanding in this thread and many others, and the cold, scornful abuse, is sure not helping matters any, and ironically makes me feel an awful lot like putting up more fight than I currently am over how terrible things are for two-man groups right now.
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