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[Revis Volek]

MechWarrior5152251, on 19 February 2015 - 01:53 PM, said:

You lose absolutely nothing for pushing R every once in a while. The guy is not asking you to stick your head up, just hit R. If you are willing to lose a match just because you don't like Atlas pilots mounting LRMs there is more than a few things wrong with you.

In the old reward scheme I used to always mount 1-3 LRM5s on my Atlas DDC. Gave me guaranteed assists when I couldn't get my slow ass AC20 on a target before teamates blew it up. It is a perfectly decent build, though not as meta meta as SRMs.

Why do I need to hit R when someone else has already done such a thing. Just slamming the R key goes through already locked targets or already exposed mechs (mechs in your LOS) and you can do that yourself. If i dont have LOS i am not targeting anything someone else has not already targeted. Ya know the old empty and filled doritos?

So unless I EXPOSE MYSELF I am not doing anything but being redundant. Not getting you NEW locks and not going to do work for you. If you want to stay with me and chat it up I will work with you. But I REFUSE to lock targets so no skill pilots can kill stuff from the spawn.


LRM atlas? haha some kids never learn. You also use an XL in that fatty?

Edited by DarthRevis, 19 February 2015 - 02:14 PM.

[HARDKOR]

Yokaiko, on 19 February 2015 - 01:55 PM, said:

I always hit R, which does very little for an LRM boat halfway across the map I've likely changed targets or covered before his birds have ANY chance of making it to target.

....this is why 99% of LRM boats are useless.

I rarely have a target locked. I check out where the damage is before I peek for a poke, but that's just using someone else's lock to get info. RARELY do I ever hold a lock that actually my own. In fact, if radar was turned off, I would do just as well, since I mostly target by eye and memory.

LRM's are mostly for noobs.

[Argann]

HARDKOR, on 19 February 2015 - 02:18 PM, said:

I rarely have a target locked. I check out where the damage is before I peek for a poke, but that's just using someone else's lock to get info. RARELY do I ever hold a lock that actually my own. In fact, if radar was turned off, I would do just as well, since I mostly target by eye and memory.

LRM's are mostly for noobs.

This is where you say, just kidding.

[WVAnonymous]

HARDKOR, on 19 February 2015 - 02:18 PM, said:

I rarely have a target locked. I check out where the damage is before I peek for a poke, but that's just using someone else's lock to get info. RARELY do I ever hold a lock that actually my own. In fact, if radar was turned off, I would do just as well, since I mostly target by eye and memory.

LRM's are mostly for noobs.

Or LRMs are effective ranged support weapons that allow application of force over a large area enabling others to brawl more effectively...
but hey all those 1000+ dmg rounds I have must mean I'm a noob
and all those ECM mechs are fools for wasting the weight when they could carry more ammo
and TAG is a waste
and NARC is a waste
and only lasers and ACs matter for "real pilots"...

[Argann]

At this point, I can't tell if some people are kidding, or are serious.

[MechWarrior5152251]

Now I see a contest brewing. If anyone has a post of them doing more than 1400 damage and still losing please post the screen shot! In the old days if you score over 1000 damage it used to be nearly impossible for your team will lose.

Edited by MechWarrior5152251, 19 February 2015 - 02:31 PM.

[Argann]

MechWarrior5152251, on 19 February 2015 - 02:29 PM, said:

Now I see a contest brewing. If anyone has a post of them doing more than 1400 damage and still losing please post the screen shot! In the old days if you score over 1000 damage it used to be nearly impossible for your team will lose.

I remember, back in the day damage use to be topped by catapults with just a pair Lrm 20's, before ECM was implemented. I believe the flight path of missles was a lot different.

Edited by Argann, 19 February 2015 - 02:40 PM.

[Almeras]

Bhael Fire, on 19 February 2015 - 10:39 AM, said:

Honestly, I wish they'd just get rid of Elo altogether and let the chips fall wherever they may...it couldn't be worse than a matchmaker that is constantly — and intentionally — trying to ruin your fun.

Logged in just to like your comment. ELO is just one of those things that doesn't work currently and ruins games more than not for more than casual players.

You can be the best pilot in the game and you still have a theoretical limit (ammo, heat, armour) to how much you can carry no one get go beyond that and its much lower than most people/PGI realise (just play a private 4vs4: one with 3 needing carrying and one team 4 of averages)

[Primetimex]

Is my ELO so high that when I do 557 damage on my own in one pug match the rest of my team can't even break 100 damage each some are only single digits???

[Mcgral18]

MechWarrior5152251, on 19 February 2015 - 02:29 PM, said:

Now I see a contest brewing. If anyone has a post of them doing more than 1400 damage and still losing please post the screen shot! In the old days if you score over 1000 damage it used to be nearly impossible for your team will lose.

I had one! Then....I erased the harddrive...don't seem to have uploaded it either.

It seems the next best/worst recorded are only 1100-1300 and a loss.

Are those acceptable?

[WVAnonymous]

MechWarrior5152251, on 19 February 2015 - 02:29 PM, said:

Now I see a contest brewing. If anyone has a post of them doing more than 1400 damage and still losing please post the screen shot! In the old days if you score over 1000 damage it used to be nearly impossible for your team will lose.

Can't find any losses with damage over 1182, which is a screenshot I took for the Carry Harder thread a while ago.

[MechWarrior5152251]

Anything over 1000 damage with a loss is within the spirit of this rant thread.

[Yokaiko]

MechWarrior5152251, on 19 February 2015 - 02:29 PM, said:

Now I see a contest brewing. If anyone has a post of them doing more than 1400 damage and still losing please post the screen shot! In the old days if you score over 1000 damage it used to be nearly impossible for your team will lose.

I have a 1300 damage 4 kill loss, but I'm on my phone so you'll have to wait.

[Mcgral18]

It's not the right one, but it is one:


Group queue might disqualify it though.

This one is all PUG LIFE: