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[Tipid]

I wonder if it would be a good idea or not to have a check box for dead chat in the options. Probably was already suggested.

[AntharPrime]

ShinobiHunter, on 06 November 2014 - 03:18 PM, said:

I have no clue who James Tiberius Kirk is, so I'd say you're right one that one

I think we found an alien infiltrator. Pop culture icon like this should not be missed by anyone on the planet with an internet connection much less from someone who claims to be from the USA.

[ShinobiHunter]

AntharPrime, on 06 November 2014 - 06:06 PM, said:

I think we found an alien infiltrator. Pop culture icon like this should not be missed by anyone on the planet with an internet connection much less from someone who claims to be from the USA.

Well I googled it. Star trek was a little before my time

[AntharPrime]

ShinobiHunter, on 06 November 2014 - 06:19 PM, said:

Well I googled it. Star trek was a little before my time

Blashpemy! Star Trek is timeless. SoH tuHmoH tuQ.

Edited by AntharPrime, 06 November 2014 - 06:26 PM.

[ShinobiHunter]

Sorry, but Star Trek is old And I didn't have tv growing up.

[MountainCopper]

Sethliopod, on 06 November 2014 - 08:57 AM, said:

And I'm curious if you even read past the 1st sentence of my post.

[ChapeL]

I'd like to see a chat channel that gets enabled for you when you die. There you can chat with your dead buddies ( and perhaps even enemies.. but that's another story ) Actually, that channel would be the ONLY one you can use while dead... so the rest of us still fighting don't have to deal with your angst and insults when we do things differently from you.

I had this game recently where I became the target of someone's "attention" for "hiding" my crippled Mad Dog in the cave on Forest Colony. What the genius didn't realize is I was actually luring the Raven picking me off into an area where its mobility would be impaired. Sometimes dead people need to understand we can think for ourselves. Having some respect for others would go a long way but hey, this is the internet...

[Rufus Ingram]

ShinobiHunter, on 06 November 2014 - 06:19 PM, said:

Well I googled it. Star trek was a little before my time

Come on. There has been new Star Trek on tv almost constantly from 1988-2005 and the second reboot movie was last year. Timeless.

[FETTY WAP]

Sometimes, when everyone goes everywhere on a map like Alpine.. it hurts my feelings.

[Brody319]

was playing a trial spider for the lels, my lance mate spider charged in and died almost instantly. He decided to spend the rest of the match telling me to push R to lock, to charge in and shoot them, and blaming the team for being bad.

[Mark Brandhauber]

Poor teams exhibit the following classic mistakes
mop up mentality; "we'll let those guys, engage then roll up and finish the enemy off"
Lack of awareness; "look squirrel ! get it!get it!"
No aggression "but they got lrms!"

[Metus regem]

AntharPrime, on 06 November 2014 - 06:23 PM, said:

Blashpemy! Star Wars is timeless. SoH tuHmoH tuQ.

Fixed that for you ...

But yea, Star Trek has been on in one format or another since the 60's/70's... either in new shows / re-runs or movies....

[Rhaegor]

Nothing is better than seeing some graveyard zombie bitching about how he is dead because the team sucks. Love it, every single time.

[Metus regem]

Rhaegor, on 10 November 2014 - 02:52 PM, said:

Nothing is better than seeing some graveyard zombie bitching about how he is dead because the team sucks. Love it, every single time.

Last time I saw that, I was in a Locust, and he kept telling me that I was a bad pilot since I wouldn't get stuck in....

So I asked him, "Since you are a mech god, why are you dead, and I am carrying your ass?"

[RazorbeastFXK3]

It does kind of suck all the fun out of the game when anyone goes on a rant about how their team blows and how everyone should have followed the unspoken plan. Then it really hurts when they start sucking all the strategy out of the game by adding their personal opinions about how "bad" a weapon setup is that they're spectating or calling out the location of their remaining team members.

Or like a broken record they start chanting "just go in and die, ur th last 1 noob, wut r u waitn 4? u suk, end it alrdy, (etc)"

When they don't realize that it might possibly be that player's very first active battle in a personally customized 'mech that they thought would totally rock but came across a new scenario/situation where their setup only worked 50% at best.

The main problem is that the ones going on the mindless rants just don't sit back and think. Would be awesome if we could just hit a button and mute the offender instead of just shutting down all textbased comms. Like a voting process.. "Who wants (target player) to revoke their text rights for the remainder of the battle?" and if it's over half a unanimous vote.. (excluding the offender's vote) the offender gets muted, yay! Might be a bit much but.. nothing's perfect.

[Metus regem]

RazorbeastFXK3, on 10 November 2014 - 03:23 PM, said:

It does kind of suck all the fun out of the game when anyone goes on a rant about how their team blows and how everyone should have followed the unspoken plan. Then it really hurts when they start sucking all the strategy out of the game by adding their personal opinions about how "bad" a weapon setup is that they're spectating or calling out the location of their remaining team members.

Or like a broken record they start chanting "just go in and die, ur th last 1 noob, wut r u waitn 4? u suk, end it alrdy, (etc)"

When they don't realize that it might possibly be that player's very first active battle in a personally customized 'mech that they thought would totally rock but came across a new scenario/situation where their setup only worked 50% at best.

The main problem is that the ones going on the mindless rants just don't sit back and think. Would be awesome if we could just hit a button and mute the offender instead of just shutting down all textbased comms. Like a voting process.. "Who wants (target player) to revoke their text rights for the remainder of the battle?" and if it's over half a unanimous vote.. (excluding the offender's vote) the offender gets muted, yay! Might be a bit much but.. nothing's perfect.

I had that happen in my first game, as soon as I told the guy that I was new, he became very helpful, telling me to go for the leg of the Raven I was chasing down in a Dragon....

[Astrocanis]

Jody Von Jedi, on 05 November 2014 - 05:31 AM, said:

I couldn't agree more. I'm not a "noob" and I don't appreciate being called one. It is funny to see these so called experts rant and rage against their own team. I'll usually respond with something like, "Big talk from a dead guy." It will either shut them up, or it will make it worse.

Just a word or caution, you might want to go back and edit your OP. There is a rule against naming and shaming other players in the Code of Conduct.

Jody

I have been taking an enormous amount of friendly fire since the rewards change. If I am to be required to stick with my team but that makes it unsurvivable I guess I must be punished with much lower rewards payout. And yes, I complain a lot when I have sundry parts blown off by my own team.

[Kain Demos]

Astrocanis, on 10 November 2014 - 03:39 PM, said:

I have been taking an enormous amount of friendly fire since the rewards change. If I am to be required to stick with my team but that makes it unsurvivable I guess I must be punished with much lower rewards payout. And yes, I complain a lot when I have sundry parts blown off by my own team.

Wow, I'm glad I'm not the only one to notice this. I've mentioned it in-game a few times but most people say "like that's new" in response. It just seems there is a mad race for kills now and if I brawl with someone I likely take more damage from my team than the dude I'm brawling with, its crazy.

Over the weekend I had a few encounters that were so infuriating it makes me hate the ban on "name and shame" here because their behavior and response when called out was deplorable.

[Angel of Annihilation]

Rhaegor, on 10 November 2014 - 02:52 PM, said:

Nothing is better than seeing some graveyard zombie bitching about how he is dead because the team sucks. Love it, every single time.

Except that this happens quite offen.

I get killed because my team is too dumb to not stand right behind me and prevent me from backing into cover.

I get killed because the team suddenly sees I am taking fire and decides it want to be someplace else and leaves me to die instead of supporting me.

I get killed because my team can't take a second to look at the minimap and figure out we are being flanked and that only one mech (me) is trying to prevent this from happening.

I get killed because....well I could go on but I think I got my point across.

So yeah sometimes I rant and rave when my team does something stupid that causes me to die needlessly or our team to lose out of obvious stupidity. More often though, I just spectate silent because I know I am the reason for my demise and occasionally I will point out to the entire team just how boneheaded I was because I managed to do something massively stupid that got myself killed.

Edited by Viktor Drake, 10 November 2014 - 05:21 PM.

[ZippySpeedMonkey]

I just tell them to be a good corpse and stay silent....I don't see dead people, so I definitely shouldn't hear them...