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[Gaussfather]

OK, logged on to play a few games since the new patch... and guess what? About 80% of the games wound up being in FROZEN CITY ((ARGGHHHH)!

The oldest and most despised map that is in the game. The one where you get constantly stuck on "stuff" and the visuals stink etc.

So, the mob is just laser boating and wants the coldest map option... is that what this tells us?

Maybe I'm being nostalgic but I have a memory of fun times with this game... about the time when Victors and Highlanders were still fun to play. Since then its gotten less and less entertaining to the point where I'm not sure this rebalance will help.

Anyway, while the map choice is a good idea... maybe PGI needs to put frozen city on the list less frequently because everybody wants that cool mech more than anything else... ad naseum.

Edited by Jman88, 11 November 2015 - 11:58 PM.

[Mazzyplz]

so what you want is manifold ad nauseum instead?

[Tuis Ryche]

No, map choice is horrible because, other than the very rare 'troll vote', the final map is very easy to predict. The plan, it seems, is to make the final map as random and varied as possible by tweaking the vote.

Reminds me of a certain map selection system that was already in place.

The mode vote, though, that **** needs to go, too.

Edited by Tuis Ryche, 12 November 2015 - 12:06 AM.

[Speedy Plysitkos]

frozen is sickness of current leet noobs. i never vote frozen.

[Phashe]

4 out of 5 laser spammers like snow for their mechs.

There was someone b!tching about laser meta here somewhere... let me look for that post...

[El Bandito]

Jman88, on 11 November 2015 - 11:57 PM, said:

Maybe I'm being nostalgic but I have a memory of fun times with this game... about the time when Victors and Highlanders were still fun to play.

Hah! That was the worst time for MWO. It was only Victors/Highlanders/3D/quad PPC Stalkers or GTFO. Poptarting PPFLDs, poptarting PPFLDs everywhere. It was during the poptart craze when MWO had lost many of its Founders.

You think current meta is limited? It's nothing compared to the suckiness that was in 2013 and early 2014. You think nascaring is bad? It's nothing compared to the "standing still in one place and jump shotting until cows go home".

Oh, and there was no class limitation, so have fun if you drop against mostly Assault mechs.



I'll take what we have now over what we had then, any given day. Any. Given. Day.

Edited by El Bandito, 12 November 2015 - 04:14 AM.

[adamts01]

Voting for maps and game modes is bad.

Combining the limited players left how they did was good.

Fixing the maps and modes that were least picked is best.

[MeiSooHaityu]

It's a myth, Frozen City doesn't get picked more than any other map, and that other maps are commonly picked over Frozen City....



At least that is what I was told by many players when I mentioned it was happening to me last weekend. I'm not sure I buy that yet.

[Narcissistic Martyr]

El Bandito, on 12 November 2015 - 03:14 AM, said:

Oh, and there was no class limitation, so have fun if you drop against mostly Assault mechs.

I was a jenner pilot at the time so those matches were great fun for me.

Not quite so much fun for the poor assault pilots though.

Edited by Narcissistic Martyr, 12 November 2015 - 03:06 PM.

[ZippySpeedMonkey]

Sadly, I agree with the post.

In most of the games I've played since the patch it's been mainly the cooler maps, and mostly (90%) skirmish.

I haven't played on Terra Therma once, and in my opinion this is a very bad thing for overall gameplay.

Why you may ask ?

Well it's quite simple. Since people are by choice shying away from the hot maps, it's allowing them the build high heat / high Alpha mechs, and never have to worry about being in serious difficulty should they drop on one of the hot maps. Terra Therma, and the maps like served the purpose of keeping mech builds somewhat honest in that they would randomly come up and punish those who built the aforementioned types of mech.

PGI needs to go back to the old style of game mode where both the map and game mode are randomly chosen. If people don't like playing a certain type of game, then let them deselect it.

Don't punish me by making me play one type of game, over and over again. I actually liked playing all the game modes. The randomness of what came next helped build both better players and better all around mechs...

Edited by ZippySpeedMonkey, 12 November 2015 - 03:23 PM.

[MechWarrior3671771]

I bet the same crowd that always picks Cold Skirmish for their laser vomit are the same ones who went ballistic over the PTS nerfs to laser damage.

[Homeskilit]

I pick Frozen City so I can brawl with a bit of sniping and flanking.

Edited by Homeskilit, 12 November 2015 - 04:13 PM.

[jss78]

I've actually found myself voting for Mordor instead of Frozen, and I really hate Mordor.

Just so sick of Frozen by now. I never figured that map's considered the best thing since sliced bread.

[Gaussfather]

I think we/PGI have it backwards... maybe it should tell us the MAP/mode chosen randomly, and give us 20 seconds during the countdown screen to select our mech!

[Mystere]

El Bandito, on 12 November 2015 - 03:14 AM, said:

Hah! That was the worst time for MWO. It was only Victors/Highlanders/3D/quad PPC Stalkers or GTFO. Poptarting PPFLDs, poptarting PPFLDs everywhere. It was during the poptart craze when MWO had lost many of its Founders.

You think current meta is limited? It's nothing compared to the suckiness that was in 2013 and early 2014. You think nascaring is bad? It's nothing compared to the "standing still in one place and jump shotting until cows go home".

Oh, and there was no class limitation, so have fun if you drop against mostly Assault mechs.

I'll take what we have now over what we had then, any given day. Any. Given. Day.

I don't know about you, but those were fun times as far as I was concerned. I was shooting clay pigeons, wolf packing Steiner scount lances, etc. etc. etc.

[El Bandito]

jss78, on 12 November 2015 - 04:22 PM, said:

I've actually found myself voting for Mordor instead of Frozen, and I really hate Mordor.

Just so sick of Frozen by now. I never figured that map's considered the best thing since sliced bread.

See? People do get sick of playing the same maps over and over, and they vote for different maps. System is working as intended.

[Mystere]

El Bandito, on 16 November 2015 - 08:24 PM, said:

See? People do get sick of playing the same maps over and over, and they vote for different maps. System is working as intended.

It is not working if the people sick of not getting what they like are not around at that same time.

Edited by Mystere, 16 November 2015 - 08:31 PM.

[MechWarrior3671771]

Its going to be ironic if the Steam crowd become the new majority. They will quickly learn that the MWO meta is laser vomit Skirmish on Frozen City. Just as our own majority is finally tired of it.

[Chados]

Tonight it was HPG, over and over and over, with ERLL and gauss sniping from the top of the wall by invisible enemies immediately as you entered the station from the outside.

Boring!

[El Bandito]

Mystere, on 16 November 2015 - 08:31 PM, said:

It is not working if the people sick of not getting what they like are not around at that same time.

But most of them are still around, and those who had left will come back as soon as the patch goes live with weighted voting system.

Edited by El Bandito, 16 November 2015 - 08:45 PM.