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[Davegt27]

The Chassis Challenge is over how did you do?

Was it luck, or your load-out tell us why

A little humor helps also

[Bilbo]

Not quite there yet. Midnight PST tonight.

[3rdworld]

I didn't play.

My score reflects this.

[Mothykins]

I played for one day.

That's it.

Ranked 28^th

[Josef Nader]

Extremely poorly.

Hit a bad losing streak this weekend, and I kept swapping mechs around because I have a hard time playing the same thing over and over again, especially when it's not working well, so I don't have more than 1-2 wins in any given chassis.

Doesn't help that my network kept dropping out mid-match and my computer kept crashing.

Ah well. It was just a rough weekend.

[Davegt27]

There are some amazingly good Mech pilots out there, I could use some lessons lol

[Gallowglas]

I didn't even bother. The idea of shunning my fellow Wolves to do solo drops all weekend for the strong possibility of no reward at all just wasn't appealing to me. I prefer getting to shoot big, stompy robots with friends who do coherent things and communicate them.

[MadPanda]

It's still going on....

[Sorbic]

lol Thanks Bilbo, I had made the same mistake in thinking it was over. Of course not paying attention pretty much sums up the entire tourney as far as I'm concerned. I forgot to opt in until shortly before going to bed on Friday. Had my best ever match in a Locust on Saturday only to later learn that only wins count... Thought the tourney ended at 10am only to realize (wrongly) that it ended at 11:59am, and now am realizing it actually ends at midnight. ugh zug

The lesson I SHOULD learn is to pay attention and stop skimming/multitasking.

[Budor]

I dropped in crows yesterday and landed 2nd, hope ill stay in the top 10 for some free MC. Doing Dire drops now on this account but i do not really care if i even enter the top 10 because the scoring system encourages a rather dumb style of play.

The level of rage in general chat, in some matches, is pretty amusing though!

Edit: Worked out landed 6th in Crows and 1st in Whales.

Edited by Budor, 28 October 2014 - 05:11 AM.

[Remarius]

Spent the weekend with my family and enjoyed every moment.

[Bilbo]

Sorbic, on 27 October 2014 - 11:44 AM, said:

lol Thanks Bilbo, I had made the same mistake in thinking it was over. Of course not paying attention pretty much sums up the entire tourney as far as I'm concerned. I forgot to opt in until shortly before going to bed on Friday. Had my best ever match in a Locust on Saturday only to later learn that only wins count... Thought the tourney ended at 10am only to realize (wrongly) that it ended at 11:59am, and now am realizing it actually ends at midnight. ugh zug

The lesson I SHOULD learn is to pay attention and stop skimming/multitasking.

I actually thought it ended at 10am PST as well. That will teach me to skim the announcement. On the bright side, I get to work on my Orion score after work.

[Lyoto Machida]

Umm...it's still going on.

Cavale, on 27 October 2014 - 11:20 AM, said:

I played for one day.

That's it.

Ranked 28^th

Played 20 games total in an Orion...ranked #11 at the moment.

Bilbo, on 27 October 2014 - 11:49 AM, said:

I actually thought it ended at 10am PST as well. That will teach me to skim the announcement. On the bright side, I get to work on my Orion score after work.

Orions? Not worth the trouble. I'd go for something else if I were you...just saying.

[Bilbo]

Lyoto Machida, on 27 October 2014 - 12:09 PM, said:

Umm...it's still going on.



Played 20 games total in an Orion...ranked #11 at the moment.


Orions? Not worth the trouble. I'd go for something else if I were you...just saying.

It's not the only thing I'll be working on, besides...I ain't skeered.

[Wrathful Scythe]

As someone who rarely drops two times in the same mech I've done poorly of course.
I don't think I will Opt-in next time, if there are no rewards

[Foxfire kadrpg]

I might return to it tonight, but I think I've hit my plateau. As of this moment, I'm rank 25th Dragon Pilot with 1,691.

For me, it was a great nudge to actually concentrate on gameplay, where I normally just flit from mech to mech without much thought of improving between matches.

Habits that were improved:

Pressing Q to identify multiple targets. If I saw one side of the map with a light, and another side with a Dire, I made the assumption the bulk of the force was with the Dire and kept my guns pointed that way.

Firing with my direct fire weapons more. It's easy to sit back and wait until your LRMs deplete on an indirect target, but while it might feel like free damage, it's an INefficient means of team damage, unless you are a LRM boat, which Dragons cannot be.

Strafing! This was a BIG improvement I made. "People just don't know Dragons" is something I keep saying: Dragon's torso twist is generous, the arms ridiculously limber, and even with a 300 XL engine, you can move pretty quickly out of bad situations. I learned to make shots at 500 - 600 while moving perpendicular to my foe. This resulted in a LOT less return fire.

Looking for weaknesses. Another bad habit is to leave modules on a mech you aren't playing. With Target Info gathering, MPulse lasers and especially Guass, I had a lot better opportunity to secure a kill. I just needed to look for it.

Inferring enemy movement: this is probably the big reason players have a bad match in PUG: they don't think about targets they don't see. After a few matches on a map, you should be vaguely aware of where your enemy starts, where they can get to in the very first minutes of the match, and if you're actually THINKING about it, you can see them before they see you.

I don't mean to turn this into a lecture about playing Dragons in pug matches, but gosh darn it, I love my low teir mech, and I think others would enjoy it too if they realized you have to be quick and sneaky to stay out of view and be where you can deal direct fire damage.

[TheStrider]

Put in an attempt Friday night. Made top 5 in Trebuchet, but by Saturday morning I was out of the top 10. I'd have had to beat my best win by 20-30 points to be back in the competition.

Oddly enough, I had not 'blow out' games like I typical do with the chassis. (7M 3xML + SRM16) Had lots of decent games, but few kills. Tons of assists, but the competition favors kills.

[Milocinia]

I was 5th in the Cent table but dropped to 6th. Still plugging away but I doubt I'll get any higher.

I had a Wang but sold it for some reason. The free AH made me realise what a great chassis it is and how it fits my style of play perfectly so I went and bought the Wang back via the Cent mastery pack. Most of my scores are probably from the Wang but with a possible couple from my 3xLL AL.

If I had time I would have a go with the Treb 7K as I had great success in that much maligned variant (with a strange loadout too). That was when it only had 2x2 missile tubes in its arm though and I had 2xSRM6 loaded in there. Chain fired you would fire a volley of 2+2+4+2+2 SRMs which I used to love due to that particular mechanic. 2xML and 2xMG completed the loadout.

Still going to try and get my Wang up the table though but it's going to take some killer matches now which is unlikely as I'm definitely moving up the ELO side of things.

~ Sigh down to 7th now and I'm getting pretty frustrated. Not getting great teams so posting a lot of losses and not only that, my match score is consistently high yet this isn't taken into account. It's just damage and kills end of.

Massive rethink of your tourney scoring format needed PGI. Why not use match score?

Edited by Kyocera, 27 October 2014 - 01:24 PM.

[Davegt27]

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I might return to it tonight, but I think I've hit my plateau. As of this moment, I'm rank 25th Dragon Pilot with 1,691.

For me, it was a great nudge to actually concentrate on gameplay, where I normally just flit from mech to mech without much thought of improving between matches.

Habits that were improved:

Pressing Q to identify multiple targets. If I saw one side of the map with a light, and another side with a Dire, I made the assumption the bulk of the force was with the Dire and kept my guns pointed that way.

Firing with my direct fire weapons more. It's easy to sit back and wait until your LRMs deplete on an indirect target, but while it might feel like free damage, it's an INefficient means of team damage, unless you are a LRM boat, which Dragons cannot be.

Strafing! This was a BIG improvement I made. "People just don't know Dragons" is something I keep saying: Dragon's torso twist is generous, the arms ridiculously limber, and even with a 300 XL engine, you can move pretty quickly out of bad situations. I learned to make shots at 500 - 600 while moving perpendicular to my foe. This resulted in a LOT less return fire.

Looking for weaknesses. Another bad habit is to leave modules on a mech you aren't playing. With Target Info gathering, MPulse lasers and especially Guass, I had a lot better opportunity to secure a kill. I just needed to look for it.

Inferring enemy movement: this is probably the big reason players have a bad match in PUG: they don't think about targets they don't see. After a few matches on a map, you should be vaguely aware of where your enemy starts, where they can get to in the very first minutes of the match, and if you're actually THINKING about it, you can see them before they see you.

I don't mean to turn this into a lecture about playing Dragons in pug matches, but gosh darn it, I love my low teir mech, and I think others would enjoy it too if they realized you have to be quick and sneaky to stay out of view and be where you can deal direct fire damage."

sounds like good advice

[WonderSparks]

I have no idea how my status looks (no idea how to check lol) but I can tell you I was NOT the best Quickdraw pilot I have ever seen. XD