Wolfways, on 19 September 2014 - 02:46 PM, said:
No idea, I've never heard of him. But it's kind of a waste of an Atlas imo, and tbh a missile boat that slow can't get into good firing positions fast so won't be firing much.
He's a hell of a player who rakes 1000 damage in games as if it was a piece of cake. Happens to put videos up in youtube aswell. That's why I can tell he's a heck of a player.
And I doubt he's got a low ELO. I'd say with the way he plays he must have a pretty high one. And he finds guys running that stuff, which means that being a high ELO player means nothing in wether you find scrubs or not. The sorry lame excuse about hte ELO you all are constantly pulling is nonexistant, yet you don't even notice it. Probably because you're too used in farming in 12 groups, and never play in single queue. You get great players in some games, you get absolute noobs in others.
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You, and other LRM haters, keep missing the point. Saying you are a bad player because you die repeatedly to LRM's is not an insult, it's just a fact. If you cannot avoid the majority of LRM fire then you lack skill.
I don't die repeatedly by LRMs. I think they're EZmode and unfairly powerful for the skill required, though, and I do think they're gamechangers of a scale no other weapon is, and should be carefully tuned accordingly.
Anyway, about your repeated claim about being "killed by LRMs due to lack of skill" I'm going to name an instance that just proves you wrong. You know, scientific method. A thesis is proven wrong the second you pull out one, just one, instance where it doesn't apply. And the instance I'm going to name I'm not making up. It's actually in a video in youtube everyone can see if they look for it.
Me in an Orion 1K. Weapons 2 MLs, 2LLs, AC20, 10 SRMs. Holding one of the hilly sides of the crater at Caustic, on the extreme side (square D5 of the map). Enemy is trying to push past the corner with a Direwolf, Orion-K(c), Atlas, Cicada and lord knows what else. After several tries I'm one of the only 2 left there holding the corner vs a Direwolf, an Atlas, and Cicada (at least). Of course all of them are hurting from previous tries to push, but if they come in and I'm not smart, they'll just run over me. And I'm holding vs those odds in an Orion-K.
By, I'd say smartly, moving and popping at the right moment and right situation with those three peeking out and trying to get me, I kill the Direwolf, I severely damage the Atlas and Cicada and force them back. Noone is able to core me as I didn't allow them to put a clean shot on me.
Then the LRM rain began. Cicada was still popping out now and then. Repeatedly I forced him into cover, but each time he tried a shower of those blasted EZtools fell upon me. I had Radar Deprivation, btw, but it helped for nothing as each time the cicada popped and wouldn't hide until they hit, the LRMs were coming my way. I couldn't withdraw as score was tied, team was barely holding elsewhere, and if I did so I would give a flank open for the enemy to come and crush us (and besides I was in a slow mech, no way I was going to give my back to a corner where I knew a Cicada was, and an Atlas could follow on his heels. I'd been dead in seconds if I stopped covering that zone)
So I'm tactically tied. I can't withdraw from the spot. I'm constantly moving to difficult things for the Cicada and LRMs but as they autoaim, who the hell cares. They hit me anyway. I'm technically hiding but there's a guy spotting me each time he pops, no matter I'm putting a lot of hurt on him each time he does. I'm hiding behind a hill twice the size of my mech but LRMs still come so steep that that hill counts for nothing. There's -NOTHING- I could do there to avoid the inevitable lurm shower. Only thing I could do is what I did: turn around each time LRMs came to spread damage, and kill the cicada. I did both.
And for the record: I survived. With all the torso armor gone yellow side torsos (STD engine so no worries) and red central torso. Literally one more missile in my CT and I'd been a goner but with the Cicada gone the LRM boat couldn't keep shooting and I could finally relocate.
Yes you'll say "oh but he didn't kill you then why do you complain?". Well , because luck, only sheer damned luck, saved me that one. Just one more missile or Cicada hit and I'd been a goner. Only because the LRM shower.
One Orion holding off against a DW, Atlas and Cicada and what almost killed him were LRMs. THat's why I complain about the damned things. They shouldn't be that effective. They just are EZmode for people to kill people who they won't be killed otherwise. How do you suggest to "not die to LRMs" in that situation, pro?. because it's a VERY common situation for you to be tactically stuck on a place, being forced to present fight, sometimes holding against superior forces just by playing smart, yet being subjected to a constant rain of hell from someone who's smoking a lucky strike behind a hill while he clicks the mouse. It's not just a fair skill-reward balance, it's infuriating, is not correct balance, and is - UNFAIR -.
tell me that's a balanced weapon and I'll tell you to f... off. As I said it only takes one wrong instance to prove a thesis wrong. Your thesis about "LRMs only killing people because they're unskilled" , hence, is proven wrong. And you with it.
(and yes the whole sequence I've described can be seen in a video in youtube. That's just one that if anyone puts in doubt he'll be embarrased as can be proven. But I have A LOT of stories like that one to tell where smart defence against superior rushing odds doesn't die to the pushing mechs but to the Lurming ezmoder sitting 900m away behind a hill with the enormous ammount of skill required to just click his mouse).
Edited by ramjb, 19 September 2014 - 03:23 PM.
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