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[DjPush]

Ran into two players tonight.

First match. They were in King Crabs. They ran around the entire match shooting at walls and then shut down half way through. One doing 10 dmage and the other doing about the same.

Second match they were in Jenners. Spent the whole match running in front of friendly assaults and then stopping in front of them to hinder their movement. All the while saying "excuse me sir" over VOIP. (I was in an Atlas). At the end of the match, one of them did 7 damage and the other did 1 damage.

You know who you are and I have the matches recorded. So PGI will get a little email from me and we can see what happens.

Anyone else run into situations like this?

[MechaBattler]

Screenshot it. Send it to support.

I've played in matches with trolls. I've reported it. Don't know if anything happened.

It's kinda hard to dissuade trolls in a free to play game.

[Fleeb the Mad]

Ran into a pair last night with similar antics in two consecutive group matches.

Similar stuff, except both games ended up with their team largley self destructing as they began overtly TKing.

[FETTY WAP]

Had a guy in CW today that died pretty early.. then proceeded to eject as soon as he could from the rest of his 'mechs. Forgot to report because we had a crazy backdoor ending or something.

why am i telling you this

[Chuck Jager]

It takes multiple complaints so if you are on VOIP get others to do it., They may get a warning after one night or a couple of months.

[627]

just waitin for a "don't drink and drive" campaign here...

Most interesting thing is that you met those guys a second time. Group queue?

[Xetelian]

I'm not in group queue often. However solo queue is not without trolls.

Had a guy hop on my back and ride me into battle giggling hysterically over coms and the moment I get within 600m of an enemy boom he explodes.

[Vellron2005]

The first time arround, I would have just ignored them.. the second time around, I would have head-shotted them and Voiped, Ooops, my pardon good sir! or "Yo face, goddammit!, or maybe something like "Did I do thaaat?"

Team Kills be damned.

Trolling is not cool and deserves an AC20 to da face.

[Speedy Plysitkos]

you mean griefers ? what they did wrong ? (if you mean they didnt participate on game, bro its in EVERY game.) or what they did wrong as you call them griefers ?

Edited by Titannium, 14 July 2015 - 11:54 PM.

[William Mountbank]

I dropped in an LRM boat last night.

Hope no one reported me...

[The Iron Chancellor]

Xetelian, on 14 July 2015 - 10:55 PM, said:

I'm not in group queue often. However solo queue is not without trolls.

Had a guy hop on my back and ride me into battle giggling hysterically over coms and the moment I get within 600m of an enemy boom he explodes.

That.....sounds hilarious actually.
At least it was purely self-destruct on his end, there are much worse things.

Like surviving the whole match only to die to friendly fire in the last second because everyone are trying to get that last kill like a pack of sharks with blood in the water, even though there is no reason to risk ff in the vast majority of those scenarios. (On second thought not a really good example, let me try that again)

A better example of griefing though is someone calling arty strikes on teammates when they see they're heavily injured.
Had that happen to me sometimes on a losing team, someone's temper goes AWOL and decides to waste cbills both by team-killing and using consumables to do so.

[Joseph Mallan]

DjPush, on 14 July 2015 - 09:05 PM, said:

Ran into two players tonight.

First match. They were in King Crabs. They ran around the entire match shooting at walls and then shut down half way through. One doing 10 dmage and the other doing about the same.

Second match they were in Jenners. Spent the whole match running in front of friendly assaults and then stopping in front of them to hinder their movement. All the while saying "excuse me sir" over VOIP. (I was in an Atlas). At the end of the match, one of them did 7 damage and the other did 1 damage.

You know who you are and I have the matches recorded. So PGI will get a little email from me and we can see what happens.

Anyone else run into situations like this?

Every day and almost everywhere I go. There is someone like this.

[Random Carnage]

Just leg them and drop their status and location in open chat. They'll be picked off soon enough and you don't take the TK penalty. In the mean time, at least they contribute slightly by diverting enemy attention (and potentially ammunition) for a minute.

[TWIAFU]

Joseph Mallan, on 15 July 2015 - 01:14 AM, said:

Every day and almost everywhere I go. There is someone like this.

Why I stay out of solo and only drop with friends. How many more of these wonderful players will we get with Steam?

Wondering how long til someone comes and says the 'griefer' did nothing wrong because he "participated"?

[Speedy Plysitkos]

what is griefer ? can you answer ?

[DjPush]

Titannium, on 15 July 2015 - 04:45 AM, said:

what is griefer ? can you answer ?

Someone who intentionally sabotages a game just for the sake of ruining other player's experiences.

[Speedy Plysitkos]

DjPush, on 15 July 2015 - 04:53 AM, said:

Someone who intentionally sabotages a game just for the sake of ruining other player's experiences.

and now.

can you imagine, there are newbies, who have no fricking idea, what they are doing ? like shooting buuldings, because they COULD be destructible (as they saw this in other games) ?
and then, how will you describe TKiller ? griefer ? nooooooo.
And how will you describe, game, where 11 of 12 players widely spread over the map, that there are 11 rambos, nobody listenying to any order, moveplan ? 11 griefers ?

Edited by Titannium, 15 July 2015 - 05:05 AM.

[Johnny Z]

Funny, I also ran into two greifers yesterday hurling insults in all caps, for much of the match.

[Appogee]

William Mountbank, on 15 July 2015 - 12:38 AM, said:

I dropped in an LRM boat last night. Hope no one reported me...

I reported you. Are you banned yet?

Vellron2005, on 14 July 2015 - 11:14 PM, said:

... the second time around, I would have head-shotted them

I too favor vigilante justice. However, a kindly gamemaster advised me that PGI would decline to deputise me in that capacity.

[PurpleNinja]

People getting upset because of online trolls.

That's new.