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[Valasharia]

I realize there are other posts regarding this, but I just thought I should add my own two cents, as a large number of players seem to lack common sense and courtesy during a match.

I'm talking about annoying your teammates by firing your weapons near their feet or in their general area when you start out. Not only is it annoying, but it is likely that you will actually hit a teammate every now and then.

Then there is the bad habit some players have of jumping in in front of a teammate during battle. Not only does this take away a teammate's firing lane, but you're likely to get shot up the backside. I run a Dire Wolf armed with four UAC10s. Jump in front of me when I am firing and you're going to suffer some serious damage; in fact I have earned several team kills thanks to players doing this. Instead select a lane of fire that does not interfere with your teammates.

Finally try not to crash into a teammate during the game. I know it only cause minor damage, but why do it at all? It is highly annoying to start a match down one percent because one of the idiots on your own team can't drive.

[Random Carnage]

It never ceases to impress me when a teamie has a whole zone in which to manouver yet they manage to run straight into my Dire - and then in many cases appear to act as though I should have moved my 100 tonne arse out of their way.

[TwentyOne]

Random Carnage, on 11 September 2015 - 11:17 PM, said:

It never ceases to impress me when a teamie has a whole zone in which to manouver yet they manage to run straight into my Dire - and then in many cases appear to act as though I should have moved my 100 tonne arse out of their way.

If only you could give them a little nudge out of the way

[Nightshade24]

shoot a guy with 1 LRM missile under min range because he backed up into you? he turns around and TK's you for friendly fire.

[MechWarrior3671771]

Had a guy step in front of my little Raven on Caustic and take maybe 3 pts pulse damage. So to "teach me a lesson" he stripped half my torso armor. Sadly, next time he went to the rim to poke, someone who may have looked like a Raven blocked his retreat and he ate several PPCs, Gauss and Missiles. Then he stepped into an Arty Strike that may have been fired by a Raven behind him. It made me really really sad.

[LordNothing]

i kind of have to say of the things mentioned in the op, you can put into one of two categories. intentional/avoidable hazzards or a (hopefully temporary) lapse in situational awareness but no implicit wrongdoing. the person that shoots at your feet is worse than the one who falls off a bridge and lands on a volley of laser vomit.

take the humble light mech, running around and trying to be part of a formation at the same time is at cross purposes. on one hand if you stop to take a spot in formation you are suddenly many times easier to kill or otherwise maim. but if you move like all lights should, you sometimes, often unavoidably, end up in a bad spot, such as between an assault and its quarry. most of the time i have the time to choose a path about the formation that puts me behind everything, but sometimes there is a mech obscured or out of my fov that always seems to start firing when i cross in front. and at 150kph your situation can change from safe to screwed in a matter of seconds.

sometimes you catch air and have to contact ground again to regain control, sometimes you are running from missiles or escape a lock and are willing to run through a laser beam to find cover. even missing a mark during a jump can be bad. like one of my spiders has full jets and another has only one, i once got them confused and accidentally landed in front of a friendly dire instead of the building on the other side. a misstep caused me to fall off of my perch and in front of a firing line.

some might consider it bad or rude but when it comes right down to it, its what it means to be a light pilot. yelling at us doesnt help and just takes your focus off of the game. so try to forgive an occasional lapse in situational awareness, light pilots cant survive many of them.

[El Bandito]

Valasharia, on 11 September 2015 - 11:09 PM, said:

I'm talking about annoying your teammates by firing your weapons near their feet or in their general area when you start out. Not only is it annoying, but it is likely that you will actually hit a teammate every now and then.

Then there is the bad habit some players have of jumping in in front of a teammate during battle. Not only does this take away a teammate's firing lane, but you're likely to get shot up the backside. I run a Dire Wolf armed with four UAC10s. Jump in front of me when I am firing and you're going to suffer some serious damage; in fact I have earned several team kills thanks to players doing this. Instead select a lane of fire that does not interfere with your teammates.

Finally try not to crash into a teammate during the game. I know it only cause minor damage, but why do it at all? It is highly annoying to start a match down one percent because one of the idiots on your own team can't drive.

This is why I love my Battlemasters and Banshee-3M. My weapon mounts are so damn high, whenever I test weapons or if suddenly an ally gets in front of me, all my wubs simply go over the guy and hit the target.

Long live high mounts!

[Chuck Jager]

I test all my weapons in the training ground before the match. If in a hurry I set the fire control in mech lab. Kinda like using turn signals in a car

[LordNothing]

weapon testing kinda just shows poor weapon discipline. its ok from time to time but at least step out of formation and check your radar to do it. if your showing off that you just bought several million cbills in uac20s, there is no point, chances are everyone who has been playing already owns 10 of them.

[Yokaiko]

Fenrisulvyn, on 12 September 2015 - 12:02 AM, said:

Had a guy step in front of my little Raven on Caustic and take maybe 3 pts pulse damage. So to "teach me a lesson" he stripped half my torso armor. Sadly, next time he went to the rim to poke, someone who may have looked like a Raven blocked his retreat and he ate several PPCs, Gauss and Missiles. Then he stepped into an Arty Strike that may have been fired by a Raven behind him. It made me really really sad.

I miss knockdowns, people respected the bigger mechs back then, or they ended up watching the mech stand back up.

[RustyBolts]

My biggest pet peave. DO NOT PARK BEHIND ME. I swear I can be standing in an open field and some jackass will park his mech right behind me.

[Yokaiko]

RustyBolts, on 12 September 2015 - 05:24 AM, said:

My biggest pet peave. DO NOT PARK BEHIND ME. I swear I can be standing in an open field and some jackass will park his mech right behind me.

If I take shots because I can't back up that person generally feels it.

[Yellonet]

LordNothing, on 12 September 2015 - 04:46 AM, said:

weapon testing kinda just shows poor weapon discipline. its ok from time to time but at least step out of formation and check your radar to do it. if your showing off that you just bought several million cbills in uac20s, there is no point, chances are everyone who has been playing already owns 10 of them.

I usually test my weapons to see what kind of heat they generate on the current map. I'm not as 1337 as you that I can remember all combinations weapon/map/mech in my head.

[Vellron2005]

Yeah, it sucks when people "just crack a few off" on the begining of matches.. They annoy everyone and often hit someone (I once lost 5% of my rear armor becose somebody's horsing around)

Also, people should really learn not to walk across someones fireing line..

[Soultraxx]

I dont pilot lights very often as Im pretty terrible in them, but when I do its like to stay with the group to chase of enemy lights.
However, despite my good intentions, the front side of assaults and buildings become magnets to me.

I always try to be aware of firing lanes, mech positions around me and nearest cover, yet when the balloon goes up I always manage to trap myself in a building cubby or run flat out into the front of a friendly assault just as it alphas and sends me into the next life.

Luckily I dont run lights very often

[Vlad Ward]

Nightshade24, on 11 September 2015 - 11:45 PM, said:

shoot a guy with 1 LRM missile under min range because he backed up into you? he turns around and TK's you for friendly fire.

This is why we have VOIP and text chat.

If an F-350 cuts you off on the road and you respond by throwing a water balloon at his back window, what do you think will happen?

Do you think he'll notice the water balloon was harmless, realize his mistake, and apologize?

Or is he more likely to slam his brakes, step out of his abhorrently oversized truck, and beat the ever living **** out of you?

Yellonet, on 12 September 2015 - 05:33 AM, said:

I usually test my weapons to see what kind of heat they generate on the current map. I'm not as 1337 as you that I can remember all combinations weapon/map/mech in my head.

Word to the wise: Ambient Map Temperature only affects Engine Idle Temp and Heat Dissipation Speed.

Your actual Heat Generation does not change. If firing 2 PPCs generates 31% heat on Frozen City, it will generate 31% heat in Terra Therma (assuming your actual Mech did not change)

Edited by Vlad Ward, 13 September 2015 - 11:42 PM.

[Jungle Rhino]

Vietnamese road rules apply in MWO - largest mech has right of way.

...now why don't mechs have horns? THAT's a module I would pay to equip!!

[Speedy Plysitkos]

OP, all described by you is truth and happening.

and some people get rly nervous. i was a witness, when someone shot "not accidentaly" someones leg. That shoted guy, then killed 2 own KGCs, just for the 3 points of damage, then the rest of the team killed him.

score 0-3 , enemy team screaming like WTF is happening there....

[Nightshade24]

Vlad Ward, on 13 September 2015 - 11:38 PM, said:

This is why we have VOIP and text chat.

If an F-350 cuts you off on the road and you respond by throwing a water balloon at his back window, what do you think will happen?

Do you think he'll notice the water balloon was harmless, realize his mistake, and apologize?

Or is he more likely to slam his brakes, step out of his abhorrently oversized truck, and beat the ever living **** out of you?



Word to the wise: Ambient Map Temperature only affects Engine Idle Temp and Heat Dissipation Speed.

Your actual Heat Generation does not change. If firing 2 PPCs generates 31% heat on Frozen City, it will generate 31% heat in Terra Therma (assuming your actual Mech did not change)

VOIP doesn't work if they disabled VOIP or do not speak the same language.

Text doesn't work if they do not read that language or read before acting- or even acting after you said it and going along the lines of "that's what you get for hitting me" after you apologies and said it was not intentionally or even major.

[Brollocks]

Everyone makes mistakes at times, but yeah, I see it an awful lot too, and they either just don't care or they have no ally-awareness, which is just as bad.

Sometimes there isn't a lot of room and we are all in each others way, and in those instances If I want to peek around a corner I'll wait for the flashing streaks of death to stop before doing so. Some don't seem to give a damn about that, they want the kills to buff their l33t stats.

If I see it's a mistake I'll always pull my guns away, but if it's a blatant don't care if I get in your firing line, you can kiss goodbye to your rear armor.