10 replies to this topic

[Chill Bill]

Have been playing a CQ Atlas D-DC since beta.... Have been doing pretty well. Lowest scores in 300's. Every once in a while break 1,000. Usually somwhere in the middle..always some kills (yeah, there's the occassional bomb where I die out of the gate).

Was away from the game for 2 weeks. Just returned a few days ago and I can't get out of the gate. Had to doublecheck my armor levels....drop within minutes... also oppossing team ALWAYS forming death ball & mowing team down or shooting from range in a tight group (+LRM's). Can't do range. If I try to break away to circle around, the lights eat me up like pirhana.....broke 300 once & 500 once in 20 matches.....

Strange... can't figure it out..... time to retire?

Edited by Chillbill, 01 March 2015 - 08:46 PM.

[Tesunie]

Nothing dramatic has changed in the last 2 weeks besides Voip. Maybe your enemies are using Voip to coordinate more than you are use to?

Besides that... Nothing has really changed...

[AlmightyAeng]

Tales of your epic awesomeness have reached the enemy, and now they madly scramble to take you out as soon as possible.

Well done, sir.

[Void Angel]

Nah, you're just rusty - and jumping into the game on a Challenge weekend, so there's a lot of bad teamwork. Get a mic and make use of the new VOIP integration - be nice, and don't get into arguments, and you'll find your team's performance will usually improve.

There's still some games where people are dumbtarded, but if you use voice coms to coordinate your teams, it'll work a lot better.

[Havyek]

This weekend seems to be the worst I've see to be a slow assault.

Entire group charges to get that kill, and the assaults are left behind to get wolfpacked by lights.

Should be better Monday night unless PGI extends the challenge.

[Chill Bill]

Thanks for the helpful & humorous replies. We'll see what rustoleum and next week brings...

[Sewman]

I feel your pain buddy. I took my VTR-9S / VTR-DS out for the first time since they were nerfed from their meta-pedestal. I went on a 2 day losing binge where I could barely squeak out 300 damage. I tried all sorts of builds and then realized that the Victors have had their time in the lime light and they're going to take a nerf break.

So yeah, these losing streaks happen to other people as well, but I think your losing streak was caused by the type of players attracted by the tourney.

[Vlad Striker]

PGI release some quirks believe it makes light mechs more attractive. But result is they give quirks to aces of lights and do not attract attention others

[Jeffrey Wilder]

Let VOIP do it's job of pushing down the ELO ladder, it's working for me so far

[Tarogato]

It's the weekend event: earn 50 points to win a free Adder. You need a kill to earn a point, so everybody is playing crazy aggressive to get their kill and assaults are slow easy prey for them. I would just stay away from playing assaults until the event is over, it still has about 10 hours left on the clock.

[FerrolupisXIII]

it isnt a recent change by any means, but the general level of firepower on the field is FAR higher than what it was even 6 months ago. with the introduction of IS quirks and mechs like the King Crab even some IS mechs can deal frightening amounts of damage in a very short time.

For example i think little of going after an Atlas in my ThunderWub (MPL Thunderbolt) and while it can be very unpleasant i can do so much pinpoint damage without overheating I'm usually confident in taking the kill. even 6 months ago i would have ran away yelling at my team to help me out.

That isnt even talking about the Direwolf builds that can core an atlas in 2 shots.