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[Gaussfather]

Seems like no one is playing PTS2... are any times better than others? Haven't been able to get a match yet. Thanks

[MischiefSC]

I'm there now. Waiting.

I'm even wearing something sexy. Someone come pay attention to me. I promise not to go absolutely batshit insane until after the 3rd date match.

[Night Thastus]

I want to play, but I can't, either because:

1: No-one is on

or

2: There is no reward for it. Which is mainly causing #1.

If they made a tournament, or just a reward, perhaps more people would get on. I sat in queue for 2 hours yesterday. I'm not going that again tonight. :c

[BarHaid]

I think that there is literally only one match happening. Last night the queue was 100% Light. No one else at all. Today (30 minutes ago) it was 40/60 Medium /Heavy; no lights, no assaults. I gave up after a twenty minute search. I'm a tier 4 pugger; I don't wait for matches ever. This is untenable, PGI. I WANT TO PLAY.

[ChapeL]

Yeah, seems the action happened on the first night and now people are back to the forums praising/bitching.

[GhostEel]

I found several games on the second day, but there seems to be a general lack of participation. I don't understand it for several reasons, one of which is that if there are 'Mechs you haven't had the time or funds to acquire or to skill up, then you can easily do that here. Another is that there *is* a reward, which is the contributing of usable data to the devs.

I guess that peops *really* like their weapons quirks.

This saddens me a bit because PGI has produced so much good work and not enough people are queueing up to help out with fleshing out the next phase of MWO.

[ChapeL]

I guess nothing short of a full fledged event with C-bill rewards to live accounts is going to draw people in. Then some would rather just sit back and *****...

[Charon DOC Stock]

We can create a contact list (here or in a dedicated topic) to add in the PTS so we can easily organize private match with the few people who are using the PTS.

(bad english, but i'm sure you have understood what i mean)

[TyphonCh]

Someone tweet Russ. That'll get his attention. I want to play on the PTS as well but I can't find a game

[Anyone00]

Let me play you the song of my people.

Yeah, the wait times are bad; probably just not a bunch of people on a test server.

I gave up after an hour.

Edited by Anyone00, 16 October 2015 - 05:10 PM.

[sycocys]

I let it sit for 45 minutes. If anyone wants to private drop and test specific stuff try to message me, or hop on live and message me an I can swap back over for a bit. Will be on for another hour or so. Until 10pm CST.

[BigBucket]

NooTreeno, on 16 October 2015 - 02:17 PM, said:

I found several games on the second day, but there seems to be a general lack of participation. I don't understand it for several reasons, one of which is that if there are 'Mechs you haven't had the time or funds to acquire or to skill up, then you can easily do that here. Another is that there *is* a reward, which is the contributing of usable data to the devs.

I guess that peops *really* like their weapons quirks.

This saddens me a bit because PGI has produced so much good work and not enough people are queueing up to help out with fleshing out the next phase of MWO.

Do not, my friends, become addicted to quirks. They will take hold of you, and you will resent their absence!

[BluefireMW]

I guess, the problem is, that a maximum quirk using build has problems to be played on this test.
The most are just playable because of the quirks.
I saw in the 2 games i made, some nice mechs. Battlemaster with 4 lrm 10 and 4 med. as example. I guess, without a lock that mech died, with almost all ammo not used.
Then the not indication of a hit, because of out of sight, is more difficult to be played.
ECM is not the god like equipment anymore and of course, if everyone is waiting for others to lock on, it's much more difficult because an assault on a hill can't spot for all anymore, because he gets no informations at long ranges.
Laserboats don't do the same damage anymore, and most of the mechs are laserboats in the meantime.

From my side, I like this kind of system on the PTS Server at present.
Close to stock, as my mechs are i just needed to use and had fun. First time since a long time.

Perhaps a button to get a stock mech fast on the PTS, would be an idea to make it easier.

I guess a 5 ER Large Laser Thunderbolt is close to be unplayable, like it should be.

Edited by BluefireMW, 16 October 2015 - 07:05 PM.