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[FDJustin]

So shutting down actually does cool you faster? I asked people a few times, but no one seemed to know the answer. And testing it, it seemed like it helps a tiny bit, but it was hard to measure. I need a stop watch...

[ZeromanIR]

Thanks Kon, that video with the explanations actually helped a lot. To be clear, I wasn't insulting your videos, just saying that I don't understand the game well enough yet to know why you do some of what you do when playing. Target priority, zonal armour is taking some getting used to too after WoT where you aim for weakspots but reduce a global HP pool as opposed to lowering HP on different zones. I'm confident it will come, just not yet. I'm hoping to have a little time off next week so may check in here again and see if anybody wants to hold my hand through a few matches.

Thanks to everybody that has posted, it's been a real help.

[Gyrok]

ZeromanIR, on 07 September 2014 - 01:52 PM, said:

Apologies in advance to any mods that see this as a repost, I originally put this post at the end of another topic that had just about finished but nobody replied so I thought I'd float it again as I did actually want some feedback and answers to my queries.

I'm new to MWO, sort of. I purchased a Founders Pack way back when they were first offered. Mainly to support a game that was carrying on the Mechwarrior franchise (and Classic Battletech) that I had so enjoyed playing years earlier. Unfortunately at the time I didn't even install the game as I was just starting to get into World of Tanks and didn't have the time to devote to another game.

Two years later, I find myself needing a break from WoT. I still love the game but struggle to enjoy it recently, those of you who play it also will probably know what I mean. I have amassed decent stats in that game, I'm one of the "green" players with a decent WN8 to show for my troubles.

And my mind turns back to the $80 I dropped on MWO 2 years ago. And...all my experience in WoT counts for nowt. lol That's putting it too strongly, my knowledge of the importance of flanking, positional and map awareness have all held me in good stead. Unfortunately MWO is a much faster paced game, needing much more twitch reflexes than WoT, plus I have yet to learn the maps and what strategies are effective to be successful. Knowing the maps seems to be absolutely crucial to this game and that's not something you can cheat or buy your way to so there's a long painful learning curve ahead of me. So I suck and my stats are terribad so far. But I am trying to get better, watching YouTube vids to get an idea of tactics, reading the forums etc. I can tell it's going to be a long and painful experience for me and the teams that get stuck with me. But I'm OK with that, I know this type of online game needs a little dedication to improve, plus I'm already finding it much friendlier than WoT is. There's much less raging in chat (don't think I've seen "fu siema noob" yet) and people are generally willing to help when you ask in chat at the start. No, the game isn't perfect but the consensus seems to be that it is improving slowly and that, plus my aforementioned love of all things Battletech, will keep me interested for long enough to decide if this game is for me or not.

A few questions:
1. Any decent guides to help new players out there?
2. Any groups that you can drop with that help newbies improve their skills?
3. Recommended YouTube channels to watch to improve my skills? I have watched a few but it's like watching unicum players replays in WoT, the top 1% of players have skills that I can't understand, much less hope to replicate. Plus I'm still trying to get my head around the game mechanics to understand why stuff works the way it does.
4. How much of a difference does eliting a mech make? I'm playing mainly lights as they were my preferred class in WoT and have been having some success but I'm hoping that the difference between stock and elited skills is like that between a 50% and 100% + skills crew in WoT.

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