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[Queek Head Taker]

I can be an *** somtimes in mwo... infact I turn off my chat so i don't start ranting at my team. How do you guys handle horrible teams or just stupidity? Do you just take it and whatever or do you keep a stress ball next to your computer or a punching bag? Sorry if I have ever been rude to anyone in the past. STOP BLOCKING ME WHEN I"M TRYING TO FALL BACK!! seee there I go again! I will try to be more constructive from now on. Queek.

[Mcgral18]

and

PUG LIFE


describe my typical reactions. With the occasional overreaction...but let's look past those.

[sycocys]

There is actually a pretty simple solution to this and it doesn't involve turning off your chat systems.

Join a group. Unit would be better, but just hopping on a factions TS hub or the LFG channel and communicating with the 11 other players on your team will improve this situation 1000 fold.

[Narcissistic Martyr]

I laugh to avoid crying. I mean it's either that or start ranting or raving like a lunatic and frankly that's not good for my already stupidly high blood pressure.

[RunWithRandoms]

Try to keep this idea in your head.

It's smarter to help the foolish, than to expect the foolish to help you.

Also, if it helps.

A bad plan fully followed in better than the best plan half followed.




These two combined should save your sanity in pug life. The following link is a 1 hour example of this in action.



Can you hear the exasperation ever so slightly hidden in my voice?

[Sarlic]

Most thing i get annoyed about is something gets ignored.

This morning i shot down three UAVs by myself before i typed something that players should really look up more often scouting for UAVs (which in that regard i feel like the only one)

Or another fine example in yesterdays match on Crimson when i said that the enemy was pushing the tunnel hard with a rush. Whole team agreed somehow to derp around in B area and shatter around like flies on the side exit running away from the fire when everyone was getting picked one by one to die.

That was a roll. A sweet delicious steamroll from the enemy.

The ignorance was lack of teamwork was great that day.

Edited by Sarlic, 06 December 2015 - 01:24 AM.

[AlphaToaster]

Sometimes in the solo queue, when the time is right, but the team just won't move forward. Things are looking good, the other team is on their heels or hot, armor sizzling. But something is wrong. And now they're dying instead so they're scared. They won't move but if they move they can fight to live, but they won't move. I'm squirreling with the enemies' attention and it's just not going to happen.

I'll just leave this here.

Edited by AlphaToaster, 06 December 2015 - 01:29 AM.

[Jun Watarase]

I start whipping the urbie next to my computer.

[LordNothing]

if i decide for whatever reason i dont like my team, i try to go lone wolf and get me a solo kill. sometimes even using other people on my team as bait. sometimes you just want to go into the woods alone and kill something.

but for some reason some people think its a good idea to follow me while i do this. im stalking around in my ac20 maurader the other day, using my seismic sensor to find victims, when a light and a couple mediums form up on my six. one of them seemed to be shooting in the air for no reason (no, its not a uav), another kept bumping into me while im trying to stalk down a king crab. of course they see the crab and run in front of me to go kill it first, now the crab is shooting at me, seeing me as the main threat, but the friendly mechs zooming around in between its very hard to shoot without doing team damage. needless to say i get cored out, then i watch the crab systematically take out the other 2 mediums, while the light runs away in terror. had they not been there, i would have got the first shot right into the side rear torso, either killing it out right or disabling half his weapons.

[John Archer]

Jun Watarase, on 06 December 2015 - 01:33 AM, said:

I start whipping the urbie next to my computer.

They make great, 'Whipping boys'.

[Sandpit]

I send another email to PGI asking them to give me an MC module that allows me to have my monkeh co-pilot fling poo on anyone I don't like. Constantly
The entire game
Enemy or friendly
With unlimited range like arty
just rain down a pile of monkey poo on them

That's how I deal with them.

Edited by Sandpit, 06 December 2015 - 03:52 AM.

[Soultraxx]

If I die because of someone elses stupidity I might be a bit annoyed, but usually I just suck it up.

Its only a game after all and I can get into another game quick enough.

[Death Proof]

I find out where they live and lounge-out naked in their yard.

[PurpleNinja]

Queek Head Taker, on 06 December 2015 - 12:47 AM, said:

...horrible teams or just stupidity?

You mean every PUG match, right.

[Sjorpha]

I only get that upset about my own stupid mistakes, and then I punch my desk.

Others mistakes/bad play I can get annoyed with, sometimes enough to warrant a solitary eyeroll or writing some advice in chat. But I get more annoyed at people complaining unconstructively about their team after dying. When people write things like "stupid team" etc. in chat, what exactly do they think they are accomplishing with it apart form making the world a little worse to live in?

Obvious newbies getting to grips with the game mechanics don't annoy me at all, if I see someone shooting LRMs below minrange in a stock build I just tell them that LRMs have a 180m minrange. I think it's really important to be tolerant and helpful to genuinely new players. It's much more annoying with players who are obviously experienced but choose deliberately to be useless or selfish, like hiding in the back to save armor during pushes and so on.

[Davegt27]

Queek Head Taker, on 06 December 2015 - 12:47 AM, said:

I can be an *** somtimes in mwo... infact I turn off my chat so i don't start ranting at my team. How do you guys handle horrible teams or just stupidity? Do you just take it and whatever or do you keep a stress ball next to your computer or a punching bag? Sorry if I have ever been rude to anyone in the past. STOP BLOCKING ME WHEN I"M TRYING TO FALL BACK!! seee there I go again! I will try to be more constructive from now on. Queek.

I don't have to turn off my chat PGI does it for me

[Charronn]

Was in my Marauder on Caustic the other night engaging the enemy along the ridge line when a full assault lance appears.I turn to get down and I literally couldn't move.
I was stuck with this idiot behind me who just stood there totally blocking me.I gave up trying to move and waited to die.
He knew what he was doing.Man I was pissed and after the game I sent him a friends request,he hasn't accepted of course.
He was a founder and was in another Marauder so he wasn't a new player.
I just don't understand some people.
Pug life eh..

[Alistair Winter]

I turned off chat for a while. It's kind of like being on anti-depressants (from what I gather) in that it takes away the lows, but it also takes away the highs. You miss a lot of fun chat, sometimes.

The trick to not being a jerk, I think, is to pretend you're in the same room as the people you're playing with. Because if we were at a LAN party with 12 strangers in one room and 12 strangers in another room, it's not like anyone would be calling each other morons and idiots for taking 1% health off their mech by accident. You wouldn't scream "F*** OFF, YOU RÉTARD!" if someone grazed you with a medium laser.

Humans haven't evolved to be nice to each other on the internet, so it takes a lot of effort to behave the same way with people on the internet as you would if they were face to face with you.

[Unnatural Growth]

Charronn, on 06 December 2015 - 04:47 AM, said:

Was in my Marauder on Caustic the other night engaging the enemy along the ridge line when a full assault lance appears.I turn to get down and I literally couldn't move.
I was stuck with this idiot behind me who just stood there totally blocking me.I gave up trying to move and waited to die.
He knew what he was doing.Man I was pissed and after the game I sent him a friends request,he hasn't accepted of course.
He was a founder and was in another Marauder so he wasn't a new player.
I just don't understand some people.
Pug life eh..

Maybe he was thinking the same thing about you? Maybe he saw you "pushing", and was attempting to join your push? Maybe he was sitting there thinking "Geeze, why the hell doesn't this moron push? Why is he just standing there getting rekt? Move dammit move!" Maybe he's just as ticked off at you for blocking him?

I'm not saying that's what happened, but did you try using comms? So few do it's kind of sad. I will join up and push if I see someone else going. Often times if I see an assault start to go over the ridge or whatever, I will join up with them and ride shotgun. What my expectations are is that the assault will continue the push once fully committed, and not stop and back up again. Sometimes they do, and sometimes they don't. I personally try to stay slightly behind and to one side in case they do stop or pivot or whatever. But I'm trying to keep an eye on them, and fire on targets, and also trying to watch for idiot teammates that like to walk in front of my guns while I'm zoomed in.

And I'm liking my Marauders so far, the mostly stock STD engine build on the R is quite tanky. 2 Marauders working together can wreck some serious face. If you guys would have been better coordinated, and together on comms, you may have been able to decimate that lance together.

All I'm saying is that guy probably thought you both were going to push through and wreck some face. Last thing he expected may have been for you to stop, turn and run away.

[Mister Blastman]

I had a medium 'mech look up at my assault yesterday and expected me to move out of the way. I laughed and stood still.