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[Luscious Dan]

Kodyn, on 26 February 2016 - 10:13 AM, said:

Seeing a lot of posts in this thread by people claiming to be "stuck" in PSR..

Sorry to break it to you, but if you're stuck, you belong there. If you're getting top damage, multi-kill matches, and still losing PSR, or staying the same, you're lying, or you have a reportable bug. When you do 400ish dmg, you'll always get at least equal, more than that, plus some kills, you will go up in PSR even on a loss. I have it happen all the time.

If you're better than your team, and actually putting out a worthwhile performance, you will still go up in Tier even if you lose 100% of the time. If you're saying otherwise, you're completely full of crap.

You can easily get 400 damage in a loss and go down in PSR. If your match score is 400+ then yeah it will always be going up, even in the case of a loss.

[Kodyn]

Luscious Dan, on 26 February 2016 - 11:23 AM, said:

You can easily get 400 damage in a loss and go down in PSR. If your match score is 400+ then yeah it will always be going up, even in the case of a loss.

Ok, you're correct. 400ish damage is usually around the required match score, so I think that's why I hung up around that number. You can also do it with 300+ damage and 3+ kills I think. There's multiple ways to achieve it, my point was mainly that it's achievable, so that even if you're experiencing losses, it won't ultimately hold you in a lower tier.

[Barkem Squirrel]

Kodyn, on 26 February 2016 - 10:13 AM, said:

Seeing a lot of posts in this thread by people claiming to be "stuck" in PSR..

Sorry to break it to you, but if you're stuck, you belong there. If you're getting top damage, multi-kill matches, and still losing PSR, or staying the same, you're lying, or you have a reportable bug. When you do 400ish dmg, you'll always get at least equal, more than that, plus some kills, you will go up in PSR even on a loss. I have it happen all the time.

If you're better than your team, and actually putting out a worthwhile performance, you will still go up in Tier even if you lose 100% of the time. If you're saying otherwise, you're completely full of crap.

Try getting stuck in tier 5, doing tons of damage, kills with the loss or turn the corner and find over half the enemy team right off the bat with a win. Lets just say I dropped to just under 200 games below 50% wins from being a few games over 50% wins. Currently I am have almost erased this deficit. It got so bad that I just started to play derp builds (flamer locust, AC 20 raven) and guess what I started to move like a rocket out of tier 5 and now at the top of tier 4 and I was just having fun. So I got a few new mechs and mastered them, where I was averaging 400 to just over 500 damage per match (all IS mediums). One thing I have been noticing from mid tier 5 to top of tier 4, people play as a team better in the matches.

One thing to note, the 400 damage is a very good cut off for if you stay the same in a loss. Now +800 damage, kill half the team with the loss you will go up, just not that much. It is the 800 damage matches, kill half the team with a win is where you really start moving up the ladder.

So win more than you loose and try for 400 damage and you should move up constantly.

[Felicitatem Parco]

This is not a thread about how PSR works.

Let's stick to the Town Hall.

[Cy Mitchell]

Cranky Puppy, on 25 February 2016 - 05:16 PM, said:

Hey, it is a good thing we can talk about

BASE CAPPING COWARDS

WE NEED BASE DEFENSES BACK...TO MANY PEOPLE WANT TO JUST SIT AND CAPTURE BASE AND NOT FIGHT.
THIS GAME IS CALLED MECHWARRIOR ONLINE----EMPHASIS ON WARRIOR---NOT BASE CAPPER COWARDS!!!

Fight and DIE with GUNS BLAZING!!!

You make more money by creating damage and less money just running to a opponents base to get the win.

Apparently they should only have one game mode, Skirmish.

[Cranky Puppy]

Rampage, on 26 February 2016 - 12:29 PM, said:

Apparently they should only have one game mode, Skirmish.

PGI needs to bring back BASE DEFENSE...this is a Simulator Game....well supposedly. BASES SHOULD HAVE THEIR OWN DEFENSES.
PERFECT EXAMPLE....in CW Defend/Attack mode, the BASE has LASER TURRETS.

Now, if the enemy wants to Capture the BASE in ASSAULT MODE, enemy should face some BASE TURRETS. Maybe even put Additional C BILL Bonus for destroying turrets, don't know if it had that option before.

This game is graphically beautiful, I will admit that, however game play wise it is lacking in many things that cause players to leave and find other games. Compare MW4 Mercs, A DECADE OLD GAME but still fun,...you had bases with missile turrets, track vehicles like tanks, and helicopters to defend objective. They were easy to take down, but did provide a challenge and opposition to deal with.

Assault mode should not be an easy win to just walk up to the base and stand on it. I would be happy if PGI would just put up ONE Laser Turret...something to deter an enemy mech.

One laser Turret is good enough, if the lone surviving mech is desperate to return to base for protection then the enemy should be able to take out the turret and kill the last mech for the win.
If the LAST mech is powered down or disconnected, then base defense should be disabled so time would not be wasted searching for and capture occurs. I think these suggestions are a good compromise.

Edited by Cranky Puppy, 26 February 2016 - 01:25 PM.

[GI Journalist]

I'm interested in hearing how Phase 3 of Community Warfare might reduce wait times for drops and end the possibility of being dropped into an empty match in Faction Play.

[HUBA]

oh nice we are already on the right topic

I have a question for tonight: Have you considered to make the Assault game mode asymmetric, meaning one side attack and the other side defends?

[mikerso]

I will say this base defenses were a fun and good idea. Base capping can have many strategies. Those saying they are doing it because they hate the map, learn to play all the maps and the game suddenly becomes better. I sometimes cap to divide the enemy team. Eventually someone will come to check on the base. Sometimes I am alone and sometimes I'm not. Saying it is cowardly to cap, is not necessarily a fair assessment. It is a strategic decision that sometimes requires awesome piloting skills and sometimes guts.

[Jack Shayu Walker]

Cathy, on 26 February 2016 - 01:58 AM, said:

Its based on how well your team plays on the whole, as if your team wins, its impossible to not gain on the bar, as long as you take part half way good you'll progress.

It is as people have said before virtually an XP bar, based for the most part on how much you play, not how good you are.

Something a skilled players says : p

Jaded as it might be.

I play with old farts who've been playin' regularly since beta, many still stuck in tier 3.

[testhero]

El Bandito, on 26 February 2016 - 02:13 AM, said:

Someone ask Russ about AC2 cooldown modules. Should be peace of cake to implement, and is very much needed.

Yeah and make it only available to havoc helicopters where AC2's belong.
Next up missing Pilot skill; TAG range Modules and Flamer cool-down!

Zerberus, on 26 February 2016 - 06:26 AM, said:

Because prolonged survival is not incentive enough? 0.o

I understand where you´re coming from, and don´t get me wrong, I would like to see more AMS in use, but I don´t think applying a c-bill reward that anyone would care about to passively shooting down missiles is the way to go, because that would push the pendulum too far in the other direction........

I thought that was what the protected Medium/light/heavy was all about?
letting someone get free xp/c-bills just by running a Jester or other Multi AMS mech would have big balance implications. Don't get me wrong I like having teammates that run AMS but am weary of giving XP for just carrying a piece of equipment. a very small tiny c-bill reward would probably be ok

Rick Windwalker, on 26 February 2016 - 08:25 AM, said:

Suggestion for a future feature:

Give us dumb european folks GMT time zone specifications when you guys announce things



Thank you

They do! They just confuse a Time Standard UTC and a Time Zone GMT.
So if you see 2am UTC that means 2am (02;00) GMT using the UTC time standard.
PGI have been getting a whole heap better at this and almost all announcements come out with multiple time zones listed now.

Now why they want to use a time standard that averages six atomic clocks down to the seventh decimal place is Blake's guess but if it makes them happy.

Edited by testhero, 26 February 2016 - 03:42 PM.

[PFC Carsten]

Like this?
http://mwomercs.com/clock

[Slambot]

Hoping for phoenix hawk announcement and some more clarification on CW3.

[sycocys]

Russ can you shotgun a 12 pack and tell us about the next mech pack?

[MovinTarget]

sycocys, on 26 February 2016 - 03:56 PM, said:

Russ can you shotgun a 12 pack and tell us about the next mech pack?

Heh, probably how some of the best decisions are made...

[Navid A1]

Cranky Puppy, on 26 February 2016 - 01:21 PM, said:

PGI needs to bring back BASE DEFENSE...this is a Simulator Game....well supposedly. BASES SHOULD HAVE THEIR OWN DEFENSES.
PERFECT EXAMPLE....in CW Defend/Attack mode, the BASE has LASER TURRETS.

Now, if the enemy wants to Capture the BASE in ASSAULT MODE, enemy should face some BASE TURRETS. Maybe even put Additional C BILL Bonus for destroying turrets, don't know if it had that option before.

This game is graphically beautiful, I will admit that, however game play wise it is lacking in many things that cause players to leave and find other games. Compare MW4 Mercs, A DECADE OLD GAME but still fun,...you had bases with missile turrets, track vehicles like tanks, and helicopters to defend objective. They were easy to take down, but did provide a challenge and opposition to deal with.

Assault mode should not be an easy win to just walk up to the base and stand on it. I would be happy if PGI would just put up ONE Laser Turret...something to deter an enemy mech.

One laser Turret is good enough, if the lone surviving mech is desperate to return to base for protection then the enemy should be able to take out the turret and kill the last mech for the win.
If the LAST mech is powered down or disconnected, then base defense should be disabled so time would not be wasted searching for and capture occurs. I think these suggestions are a good compromise.

I take it you did not listen to the last town hall.

there will be new game mode where bases will have UAV, ECM AND turrets, as well as small walls.

Edited by Navid A1, 26 February 2016 - 04:42 PM.

[Odanan]

Is anyone making a transcript?

[WarHippy]

Ugh... I'm not liking the sound of most of the stuff he is talking about. Get pumped he says....

[-Ramrod-]

So when is the ban list coming out?

[eminus]

is there a plan to release Axeman?