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[Rias CoPilot]

So far I have been having a blast in this game. The major firepower these big ass mechs have makes the rest on the field feel puny like I can squash them like a fly. These mechs seem like the op stuff in this game from what I can tell... although I only have 5 matches so far. The other big mechs, like I think it was the Big wolf named mech, really can hurt me though.

Also following what the people tell me to do when I am in matches has led to this record so far. If I was left to my own devices I wouldn't know where to go.

Questions:
1. Why does my mech get so hot when I fire all of my Large Pulse lasers on my Banshee but firing 3 at a time is much less hot.
2. Why do teammates tell me I stole their kills I did more damage than most teammates one game and they still complained at me.
3. Is this game going to throw me in with even worse teammates because I get more kills and do more damage?

Edited by Rias CoPilot, 23 March 2015 - 07:08 PM.

[Trolzylulzy]

Rias CoPilot, on 23 March 2015 - 06:57 PM, said:

Questions:
1. Why does my mech get so hot when I fire all of my Large Pulse lasers on my Banshee but firing 3 at a time is much less hot.
2. Why do teammates tell me I stole their kills I did more damage than most teammates one game and they still complained at me.
3. Is this game going to throw me in with even worse teammates because I get more kills and do more damage?

1. There is a system in this game called "Ghost Heat" that restricts the maximum number of the same type of weapon you can fire at a time. The way they do this is if you fire an amount of weapons over the threshold, you gain "bonus" heat from firing too many weapons. For Large Pulse Lasers the threshold is three, so if you fore more than three LPL's, you incur a ghost heat penalty and generate bonus heat.

2. People are stupid and think that kills matter in this game. (They don't) All that matters is that the enemy dies, adny ou win, regardless of who gets the kills.

3. Generally if you do more damage/get more kills, your ELO will go up, and therefore you will be placed with better people. Generally the highrt up you go in the rankings, the more professional players you will meet, and by professional, I mean they know that the objective of the game is to win, not to get kills. (although, there are always exceptions.)

[TheCaptainJZ]

1. The developer's name for it is "Heat Scale," but "ghost heat" is the common term used by players. Also note that many similar weapons are linked together, so the Large laser, Large Pulse Laser, and ER Large Laser all count towards the same threshold. Firing with a 0.5 second delay gets around it which is the delay between weapons set to chainfire mode.
2. You are probably playing with players at a lower skill level right now who seem to care about such things more. At higher levels, you probably won't see this much, if at all. I never do and I'm not anywhere near the best players.
3. Short answer is no. It doesn't work that way.
Long answer is that the Matchmaker only cares if your team wins or loses, not how much damage or kills you had (though obviously that should have an impact on the outcome of the match, just not definitively). Each player has an Elo score, one for each weight class (light, medium, heavy, assault). Starting value is below average and I believe is locked until after your first 25 matches. When picking players for a match, it tries to pick ones with similar Elo scores. Then the average of the two teams is computed and the higher average is predicted to win. If that team does, in fact win, the Elo scores of each player change slightly or not at all but if the team expected to win doesn't, then the Elo scores of the actual winning team go up and the scores of the actual losing team go down. How much the scores change is based on how large the difference in the average Elo scores between the two teams was, The Elo system works most effectively over the course of many matches (like hundreds) so don't expect it to give you perfect matches all the time. Winning streaks and losing streaks can and do happen. This is a complex game with many variables affecting the outcome of a battle.

Edited by TheCaptainJZ, 24 March 2015 - 12:37 AM.