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[HoundOfCullan]

The top of the leaderboards for the current tournament are really high.

I'm not a terrible player. In solo queue I'm always at (or near) the top of the match score. While writing this I'm some place around 35th on the board. To get to the top I would need 3 solo kills a game for every game.

Assuming you didn't do even 1 point of team damage let's guess at the numbers in a pug drop:

800 damage (800/15) = 53

2 solo kills = (30 + 20 + 10)X2 =120

10 kill assists (10X9) = 100

Win = 10

Survive = 10

Total = 293 X 10 = 2930

For me that would be a really good game, and that's still not enough to get to the top of some of the leaderboards. Crazy!

[Bongo TauKat]

That and why is the IV Four not listed on the hero mech list?

[Yokaiko]

Bongo TauKat, on 06 June 2015 - 04:16 AM, said:

That and why is the IV Four not listed on the hero mech list?

They wanted old crappy heros.

[MeiSooHaityu]

Yokaiko, on 06 June 2015 - 04:17 AM, said:

They wanted old crappy heros.

Old? Yes. Crappy? Not all of them.

Some chassis might be, but the Ilya Murromets and Yen Low Wang are still good and productive chassis. The Ilya has shown me that it can Still wreck.

The leaderboard is crazy. I made it as high as 29 yesterday evening. I might not be in the top 50 today :/

Edit: 64 this morning.

Edited by MeiSooHaityu, 06 June 2015 - 04:25 AM.

[Monkey Lover]

Yokaiko, on 06 June 2015 - 04:17 AM, said:

They wanted old crappy heros.

Good hero mechs are coming on a later event. No one would buy this junk if the good mechs were 50%

Edited by Monkey Lover, 06 June 2015 - 04:27 AM.

[Joseph Mallan]

HoundOfCullan, on 06 June 2015 - 04:12 AM, said:

The top of the leaderboards for the current tournament are really high.

I'm not a terrible player. In solo queue I'm always at (or near) the top of the match score. While writing this I'm some place around 35th on the board. To get to the top I would need 3 solo kills a game for every game.

Assuming you didn't do even 1 point of team damage let's guess at the numbers in a pug drop:

800 damage (800/15) = 53

2 solo kills = (30 + 20 + 10)X2 =120

10 kill assists (10X9) = 100

Win = 10

Survive = 10

Total = 293 X 10 = 2930

For me that would be a really good game, and that's still not enough to get to the top of some of the leaderboards. Crazy!

I don't normally play anything but Atlases.

So the fact that after 5 matches in either a Wang or Ilya I'm in just over 1,100^th place on the 2 boards, does not surprise me.

Yokaiko, on 06 June 2015 - 04:17 AM, said:

They wanted old crappy heros.

Who are you calling an Old and Crappy hero?

Edited by Joseph Mallan, 06 June 2015 - 05:52 AM.

[Monkey Lover]

MeiSooHaityu, on 06 June 2015 - 04:24 AM, said:

Old? Yes. Crappy? Not all of them.

Some chassis might be, but the Ilya Murromets and Yen Low Wang are still good and productive chassis. The Ilya has shown me that it can Still wreck.

The leaderboard is crazy. I made it as high as 29 yesterday evening. I might not be in the top 50 today :/

Edit: 64 this morning.

haha ilya is a barn door without jj. All it can do is 3x ac10 that's it.

[Joseph Mallan]

Monkey Lover, on 06 June 2015 - 04:28 AM, said:

haha ilya is a barn door without jj. All it can do is 3x ac10 that's it.

Then how do I have 2 Large and an AC20 on mine?

[MeiSooHaityu]

Monkey Lover, on 06 June 2015 - 04:28 AM, said:

haha ilya is a barn door without jj. All it can do is 3x ac10 that's it.

And that's why you fail. Trying to run 3 A/C10s is a terrible build. You run fragile and slow. Put that build in any mech of the same weight and it too will be terrible.

Joseph Mallan, on 06 June 2015 - 04:29 AM, said:

Then how do I have 2 Large and an AC20 on mine?

Always an option. I think Bishop also said he was running that. I do like the dakka-ness of the A/C5s though.

[ScoutMaster]

#3 ilya here, yep, just gonna stand here and be awesome.

[MeiSooHaityu]

ScoutMaster, on 06 June 2015 - 04:44 AM, said:

#3 ilya here, yep, just gonna stand here and be awesome.

Not a bad accumulated score for an old and crappy hero mech. Good job.

[El Bandito]

OP, if you are solo player you will almost never get to top score. The top guys usually play in groups and feed kills to one guy. Then they get like 3500 score at the end of the day.

Edited by El Bandito, 06 June 2015 - 04:52 AM.

[ScoutMaster]

That's silly, I got my position 100% solo.

[Yokaiko]

El Bandito, on 06 June 2015 - 04:50 AM, said:

OP, if you are solo player you will almost never get to top score. The top guys play in groups and feed kills to one guy. That's how it always been.

Basically, once the score passes 2400 you need 3 solo kills two other kills and a couple top damage dealt to move the board.

[Catra Lanis]

El Bandito, on 06 June 2015 - 04:50 AM, said:

OP, if you are solo player you will almost never get to top score. The top guys usually play in groups and feed kills to one guy. Then they get like 3500 score at the end of the day.

Sounds hard in the solo queue but I guess if you are in a big unit with lots of members and do lots of drops you'll often end up having a couple of people from the same unit by law of average.

[Richard Hazen]

I was 52nd on Oxide when I went to bed last night, now I'm over 100.

[El Bandito]

ScoutMaster, on 06 June 2015 - 04:51 AM, said:

That's silly, I got my position 100% solo.

Let's see if you can keep it then. The event is still young.

Edited by El Bandito, 06 June 2015 - 05:13 AM.

[HoundOfCullan]

I bought the Death Knell just for this tournament. I had saved up 1375MC from other tournaments and at 50% off I thought what the heck.

I'm actually enjoying the little guy. I've got a LL, 2MPL an XL195 and full armour. I don't find the mech crappy at all.

[Joseph Mallan]

MeiSooHaityu, on 06 June 2015 - 04:34 AM, said:

And that's why you fail. Trying to run 3 A/C10s is a terrible build. You run fragile and slow. Put that build in any mech of the same weight and it too will be terrible.

Got the XL280, 3 AC10 and Endo... 3 tons left for ammo. FFA wouldn't give enough mass and taking armor off seems a bad trade for ammo of a medium range gun. I don't see how to make it durable.

[HoundOfCullan]

El Bandito, on 06 June 2015 - 04:50 AM, said:

OP, if you are solo player you will almost never get to top score. The top guys usually play in groups and feed kills to one guy. Then they get like 3500 score at the end of the day.

It's not even kills that get you the points though, it's solo kills. Without solo kills there's no way to get the numbers required for the top of the board. And it has to be multiple solo kills every game.