All iN, on 30 October 2014 - 07:32 PM, said:
I appriciate the tips, but as I was closed beta tester of this game, played every single other MW game, things you say, although true, won't help me out.
You'd be amazed what one can do once they learn how to intuitively and instinctively start to know how they can't help the team best. This is a very hard skill to learn, as it is very easy to just "rambo" out on your own. The best thing you can do for your team, which should help make it seem less "instagib", is to try and coordinate your team, even a little bit. Some plan (especially at the start of a match) is better than no plan. And, on top of that, a bad plan is even better than no plan at all.
Some games you will get a team you click with, and that's when you will seem to do a stomp. Elo can't predict when certain players, their mechs, and their play styles will mesh well.
Some games, you will get a team that, from your perspective, seems to be doing everything backwards and standing still getting killed. Once again, those people may have good Elo scores, but MM can't predict when a player doesn't have the right playstyle for a team or map (or just a bad game).
This is a complex game. Complex makes it harder to provide any aid about what you are honestly seeming to ask. I can give advice (which you probably have already heard, or already try to use yourself), but without more specific details, not much more.
As far as addressing the "new players next to advanced players" department, new players are all assigned a base automatic neutral Elo, which technically is well above their real playing skill Elo. However, this is done not to throw them into a tank of hungry and vicious sharks, but instead so that they might learn from more experienced players as well as have more experienced players try to provide advice and help the new players.
While on the subject of Elo, I wish to mention that I did a little experiment a while ago, I created a brand new account (for stock mechs only). Let me just say, I instantly noticed the Elo difference between my main account and my new account. Lets just say, I forgot how annoying it is for people to get right behind you... and then stop. Preventing you from backing back up into cover. So, Elo does help, at least to some extent...