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[Rampancy]

CW is an absolute blast. It's really, really fun.

Stick with your team and you won't get wiped in seconds, and there are enough things to do that even as a poor player you can find a role. Scouting/communicating the enemy's position is EXTREMELY important in CW, since the defenders need to be ready for any big push and the attackers need to be looking for chinks in the armor of the defensive positions.

[Senor Cataclysmo]

Give it a chance. I'd say have a look before you write it off based on the opinions of others.

Most of the stuff I've seen about it is *generally* positive, with a few niggles here and there. But y'know, its one day into the beta. I'm sure if LL turrets are found to be too punishing, they'll be tweaked. I did see one thread about spawn camping. I'm sure if it becomes a big problem it'll get tweaked so its much harder to spawn camp.

I wouldn't let it worry you unduly.

[Remarius]

Fun so far but yes there is a clear experience gap between players. Its very obvious when theres a crew with carefully selected mechs, modules, max experience and communicating. That said I've not seen any obvious farming. Defending is much easier currently as you don't need to do specific tasks.

Edit: Spawn camping seems odd as the dropship will defend and I've seen it kill people.

Edited by Remarius, 12 December 2014 - 02:43 AM.

[MischiefSC]

Have had a whole bunch of drops and it's been very fun. You need to drop with 11 other people either in the same group or a syncdrop. You'll fill matches very, very quickly.

[-Natural Selection-]

Its great until you have to fill 4 spots with solo guys. Then it goes to hell because they don't listen

[Karamarka]

I played 11 games or so for Clan Ghost Bear

I saw no enemy 12 mans

We have one 10 man, the match ended up being 48-32 or something similar

It's fine

[Lily from animove]

if fun means winning then you better get a big unit and skilled players to have fun.

otherwise if you don't mind losing and you are here for roboaction, CW is still the most funny of all the current ways we can battle with mechs.

Edited by Lily from animove, 12 December 2014 - 05:07 AM.

[NextGame]

its great when you actually get a drop to happen, but they are few and far between

[Moriquendi86]

Wait times and FPS drops are bad. I've only managed to play 1 real game but we have managed to stop Atlas + King crabs assault from 10 man in heavies and mediums in early stage of the game. They have lost steam after that and we won quite nicely. But holding off that initial assault felt really awesome.

[MischiefSC]

I've had a few incredibly dramatic matches, brutal meat-grinders that went back and forth. We won the last one with a zerg rush with our final line of mechs - 4 people pushed into the gap we'd been making for 20 minutes, drawing full attention while the rest of us zerged the other entrance and destroyed the objective. Brutal and well fought to the end.

It was all pretty awesome. I have no complaints.

[Thunder Lips Express]

I'm enjoying it, i have only played 3 games, with two of my friends, we won once, lost the second but it was very close, and the final game was against a 12 man WoL and our pug group didn't get stomped.

[HlynkaCG]

DjPush, on 11 December 2014 - 11:18 PM, said:

Is CW an elitist thing? I don't consider myself a "hardcore" or that good of a player. Do you survive long enough to at least enjoy it or are you dead in seconds?

I've made 3 drops solo now and done ok for myself.

[StraferX]

CW is DOA

Honestly I have had a very good time, exciting new content released early, for the humanity thanks PGI.

It has bugs and needs work however there is also vibrant color and strange horrific plumes of acidic steam.
Attacking is not easy as it is meant to be difficult to overtake someones territory, defending is not easy either as you have several angles to be attacked from.

Give it a go before listening to the sayers of nay, have patience and this BETA will develop into something wonderful.

[LordKnightFandragon]

The FPS issue is insane, its border line unplayable, atleast for me, many others note high FPS drops...

I only played once as Defense as Wolf against a Puggy of FRRs, attacking seems to be pretty much suicide unless you are very coordinated. Its very easy for defense to just sit on the other side of that wall against an unorganized group and kill off 10 mechs before you cross the gate...which we did.

The Turrets accounted for about 6 enemy mechs that tried to go for the ODG. They are absolutely murder. I feel they should 1 be lessened just a touch, and maybe ungunned a bit, from LL to maybe 2xML 1xSRM4. But idk how it plays out when a moderately organized group plays it.

I can see a good group making a coordinated rush through the gate, rather then sitting on the other side, maybe using arty and airstrikes to clear the area on the opposite side, maybe using JJ mechs to get a foothold....and groups wont splinter off and die to the turrets...sooo..idk. But attacking seems to be near impossible.

But, was it fun? You bet your mech it was. It was the first time I saw any kind of "game" in this game. The puggy TDMs just feel like im playing some average skill blob bots against my side's own 10 skill bots and its a curb stomp...

Edited by LordKnightFandragon, 12 December 2014 - 04:34 AM.

[Siegegun]

OP you should play and make your own judgments rather than listening to the forum. It is a ton of fun. I am not experiencing any of the lag issues others are. So far the only thing that's terrible for me is the wait times. Also this is the brand new beta release of CW. It will change.

For me it is a lot of fun.

Edited by Siegegun, 12 December 2014 - 04:39 AM.

[aniviron]

I guess if you're playing against a HoL 12 man it's probably not fun.

Personally, I've been having an absolute blast, the last 10 games have been the most fun I have had since closed beta. Sure, it's gotten laggy, yeah, we got wrecked twice. But it's always been fun.

[Mott]

Walluh, on 11 December 2014 - 11:13 PM, said:

Of course it's gonna favor the defenders, or planets would get steamrolled constantly.

It doesn't favor defenders though.

For example: I'm with a merc corp that accepted a FRR contract. When we choose "defend" missions we have just as high a chance to drop into a map with the directive to "counter attack" as we do to "defend the base".

That's weird and wonky. IS cannot really attack the clans due to the clan range advantage at this time. It'll take some serious strategy... but that doesn't really come into effect at any time because we're pigeon-holed into attacking through x-gates. Where the clanners can all line up to defend with erppcs and gauss and drop you before you're anywhere close enough to fire your own weapons.

[Thorqemada]

IS vs IS and Clan vs Clan should be pretty good if you get Groups of a similar mix of Players.

Clan vs IS...........mhhhh..........

[Codestar]

Mickey Knoxx, on 12 December 2014 - 02:50 AM, said:

Its great until you have to fill 4 spots with solo guys. Then it goes to hell because they don't listen

That will be because they don't have voice comms! It makes a massive difference to CW. Typing does not cut it!

[Muffinator]

DjPush, on 11 December 2014 - 11:06 PM, said:

I haven't had the chance to drop in one yet. However, the reports from team mates and forums are convincing me that I probably don't want to. Is it really that bad?

"I've arbitrarily made up my mind without bothering to try it myself, please help me validate my opinion"