Posted 01 December 2019 - 01:47 PM
Being a BattleMech pilot is one thing, Being a MechWarrior/ Merc is different.
As a pilot you work for someone and don't actually own your equipment, you get what your given and if you don't like it you whine and complain or get better and get better equipment and get a paycheck for your ability.
As a mech owner you are more like an owner/operator truck driver. business owner,
You get paid for the time, and use of your equipment, but the repair and maintenance cost are all on you. fuel is a negotiable item and you get paid for that depending on your contract agreement. Actually everything is negotiable and the contract agreement is the important part.
It's a GAME.. I know,
"I just wanna kill stuff and not have to think about anything else"
"I don't have time to grind my way thru the game and get better, I just want to throw money at it and have the biggest, baddest, most skilled mech and go blow stuff up. I don't want to have to actually think or learn to play . shut up and take my money"
blah...blah.. blah....
I've read it, I spent a day skimming the post all the way back to 2012, I see where pgi pandered to the whiny players, I see where faulty designs made the Spider dance possible, I heard about lurmageddon, I personally own an unskilled urbie with 4hmg and 2 med lsr and run into the middle of combat and walk away with 3 kills 2 kmdd and survived the match (yes grossly overpowered).
I have a Madcat II with 2 erppcs , 2 lrm15, and 3 heavv med lsr, and ams... if I hang back to lrm, people ridicule me for not sharing armor, (oh and I die because a stealth commando ran strait at me took a facefull of alpha and 2 extra erppc shots.. laughed, shot out my legs and ran away, and YES I HIT HIM) but I'm a lrm boat by the other players standards and I am not in the nascar run so, he's stupid, let him die. I got to the point if I see the Piranha running towards me, if he doesn't die from the alpha of erppc and heavy lsr that actually hit him (50 pts damage plus whatever missiles hit him) then just override and nuke yourself, because you just ain't gonna survive anyway, (drop artie and die, perhaps you might kill him but most likely not)
If I run up to the front line, I'm just a target and get shot up.... and everyone hide behind me not shooting anything .... or blocking me from retreating back when the rac5's start pounding me.... cool, biggest mech in the group dead with 90% of its ammo intact, that's good salvage to the other team when you loose the match.
or as usual I'm Last man standing against 7, "why is you mech fresh what have you been doing you lazy *&$^&*?"
"Oh, typical LRM boat, doesn't know what he's doing,"
What am I doing,, shredding armor from a distance so my team can kill the over armored enemy easier (can't do that no one will lock targets and keep LOS, "Lrm Boat will take My kill, waaaaaaa" oh well) , and when they fail (like usual) at least my under powered ERPPCs will have a snowballs chance of possibly taking down at least one of the 7 ... I have managed 3, not 7.
I don't really care about Kills (though fun when you get one), I care more about surviving, winning, achieving objectives, WINNING THE MATCH. You achieve that with teamwork, strategy, outsmarting the enemy (who are probably better than me on 70% of the occasions). A teamwork game with no teamwork is simply a deathmatch with no purpose. Go to Solaris if you want that.
Yup, a locust with a RAC2 is dumb, but I got 7 kills in 4 matches with it, died every time but it was actually fun, but I also popped UAV's and artied the enemy while I was scouting got a 385 match score, and nothing but "that's a stupid build" "your stupid to bring that".
I've said before I'm not and ELITE player, but I did achieve the Word of Blake standing Item in one of the recent event (500 match score in a round) in a LOCUST LCT-V1. so I can't be all bad. I've Cracked the 1198 damage with the Madcat (7 kills ,4 assist and the last man standing on assault against 3), 1800 with the Archer LRM boat (no kills) 6 KMDD 11 assists. I've saved the day 1 v 3 in a locust V1 on Plexes, Oh, I have the Stealth Pirates bane, very rarely use it, don't usually play with ECM unless I'm bored and want to hang around on the front lines SUPPORTING the assaults with my ECM and AMS if I have it. or am I doing that wrong to? I should be taking down the entire enemy team by myself in a Piranha... or an Urbie... wait I don't own the Piranha anymore.... never mind..
Game was fun for 2 months, the the creeping flaws in the play just get worse and worse. I see why there are certain players that intentionally do bad in matches to lower their pilot scores and stay in tier 5 and 4, (you know who you are and I have seen you do it) because new players are malleable, and don't whine and cry so much and the game is actually a little better in the lower tiers, at least more civil and ALOT less crybaby meta crap. Hell some of those players actually think the game has a purpose and play it with new to them tactics.... some fail, some are quite fun, at least they're different.... Tier 3---yaaa nascar again!!!!
I could go on about Flaws, this don't work, why no group drop , hard to get into a match with my friends, Faction play ( QP x4 with 5x waiting period, (but sometimes different maps, i guess))
matches in solaris are the same ole same ole. Assuming anyone is actually playing it.. Its a different game entirely in the arenas... hey it was different , it was fun till you run into the "Your build is stupid" crowd.... yup I'm done.
I even tried turning off chats, unhook the mic (I know defeating the purpose right) just use the cmd wheel play like I don't care.
You know what, I do care, I like to win, I don't mind losing, it is just a game but I do like seeing the Victory, and that ONLY happens with TEAMWORK... when its there, the game is fun, communication is the key, some of the tactics are dumb (NASCAR) some have been rather unique, maybe not the smartest tactics but new ideas on old maps, at least its different and new.. even fun... yea we lost a lot, but I had fun... not anymore...
"If the lower tiers are better then just start a new account and play down there...."
Done that.... worked for a week now tier 4 again... back to the bs.... not starting again... guess I'll go play in the real world
I like Battletech, I like Mechwarrior. This just isn't either of those games..... better luck next time. Perhaps MW5, but probably not.