Being respected in this game and being feared by opponents are not the same thing.
There are pilots have a lot of respect for as they are quite good pilots, decent or good leaders and carry themselves well in this game. These are the guys I like to play with and am glad to play against...no matter the outcome
There are also pilots I fear (more like "call" as a priority target) for their skills, but don't respect. I have seen some top guys (leaderboard) disco when they PUG and don't like the team they got stuck with and were pitted against. They would rather hang their team out to dry than "suffer" through the match. Some people are also just plain jerks to their newer PUG teammates.
You certainly can put up numbers Jay....07 dropped against you 2 nights ago and I believe you did score top damage for your guys(probably overall I think) . .and hey you were classy with the compliment when I sniped you wave 1. So, if you put the numbers up, make good calls (when someone needs to step up and call for PUGs) and are good to work with as a teammate the fear and respect will come.
Oh p.s: You were the only guy that got mentioned on TS (pre-match lobby) in that match as someone to make sure prioritize killing...(no offense to the other guys on your team)...so you can take that as a compliment ...lol
Edited by Marquis De Lafayette, 05 April 2017 - 06:11 AM.
I had the "pleasure" of dropping with this guy two times in faction play. Terrible experience. Never before I heard someone bitching that much in this kind of language.
Proactive trading is aggressively poking, be it around a corner or over a hill at close range or sniping from cover at long range, and reactive trading is waiting around a corner or other piece of cover, usually at mid to close range, waiting for the other person to expose themselves to you first so that you have the advantage
There are times and places for both, but they cannot be done at the same time
I do that a lot, but out of instinct. i never knew there was a term for it.
JENNER llC, on 05 April 2017 - 03:00 AM, said:
if you want to make it to the top, respected and of renown, join a competitive team and start winning organized matches / tournaments
until then you are just playing for casual fun, which is fine of course
I do play casual and want to get into competitive , but i have yet to find a team that i can flow with.
Davegt27, on 05 April 2017 - 05:50 AM, said:
Jay sorry your not getting much help
Since I started playing I had similar questions
Not of going pro but more what is the deal with twitch and the gaming subculture
My friends nephew makes big money from YouTube doing all kinds of stupid videos
It seems if you make a YouTube video and it gets enough hits YouTube will send you money
Now I never heard of twitch before I started playing this game but I am guessing
Going pro is making money from gaming (in this context)
By observation I see three areas
1) review games
2) make funny/informative/cool videos/streams
3) win or do well in MWO tournament
One good thing about FP is you learn who a lot of the good players are
I would join a team on team speak and at the end of the match there would be this one guy
That out damages the rest of the team by a wide margin
They would drop with 2 Firestarters and not get yelled at
I have no idea if people get money from twitch but if you can get 100K hits on YouTube you can get money
HTHs
exactly, that is why i am asking. what does it take to be a PRO, what makes someone a Pro at this game.
What i though i was asking was. What makes someone an Elite pilot, that people know to watch out for. or kill first at all cost.
but now i see that i choose the wrong word. instead of pro i should have said well known elite player.
I do see twitch , tournaments, youtube views can make money in there own ways.
so if one hits one of those and gets paid for it focusing on this game. would make them a pro i think that is what people are telling, i could be miss understanding it though.
Snazzy Dragon, on 05 April 2017 - 06:01 AM, said:
You have to get a 3k damage match in a single PPC mist lynx. In group queue. It's part 2 of becoming the best!
With full 12 kills or 2-4 kills with 3k damage, or just 3k period :-p
Marquis De Lafayette, on 05 April 2017 - 06:02 AM, said:
Being respected in this game and being feared by opponents are not the same thing.
There are pilots have a lot of respect for as they are quite good pilots, decent or good leaders and carry themselves well in this game. These are the guys I like to play with and am glad to play against...no matter the outcome
There are also pilots I fear (more like "call" as a priority target) for their skills, but don't respect. I have seen some top guys (leaderboard) disco when they PUG and don't like the team they got stuck with and were pitted against. They would rather hang their team out to dry than "suffer" through the match. Some people are also just plain jerks to their newer PUG teammates.
You certainly can put up numbers Jay....07 dropped against you 2 nights ago and I believe you did score top damage for your guys(probably overall I think) . .and hey you were classy with the compliment when I sniped you wave 1. So, if you put the numbers up, make good calls (when someone needs to step up and call for PUGs) and are good to work with as a teammate the fear and respect will come.
Oh p.s: You were the only guy that got mentioned on TS (pre-match lobby) in that match as someone to make sure prioritize killing...(no offense to the other guys on your team)...so you can take that as a compliment ...lol
i remember that game, I love it. It was Battle. well played both sides.
yup, you got me good. and i was in my favorite thunderbolt too
Lovas, on 05 April 2017 - 06:03 AM, said:
JayR....
First: If you have to ask for respect you do not deserve it and will never get it.
Second: Nobody respects clowns, they laugh at clowns.
Third: Change your music from Go Go Power Rangers to something more manly like Pantera.
You are a decent pilot....but as Ice Man says - "Its not you're flying, its your attitude"
I know i come off as a bit Harsh but you remember me right :-D
the music is just background noise for me.
plus it gets me pumped fighting a war to power rangers or some odd song. weird i know right.
and how the music fits a few parts of the match, odd since its just youtube running in the back.
Darth Hotz, on 05 April 2017 - 06:15 AM, said:
I had the "pleasure" of dropping with this guy two times in faction play. Terrible experience. Never before I heard someone bitching that much in this kind of language.
STOP FALLING APART SO FAST 1 MIN IN TO THE MATCH. i cant watch your back if your dead or running off being rambo, just to get popped like Bambis dad in forest colony :-p
Mystere, on 05 April 2017 - 08:01 AM, said:
I don't know where you're getting that idea from but "professional" does mean "money".
for title mostly. some people money is not everything. but being someone unique, different that stands out. one of a kind. its title for me , just being straight.
Snazzy Dragon, on 05 April 2017 - 06:01 AM, said:
You have to get a 3k damage match in a single PPC mist lynx. In group queue. It's part 2 of becoming the best!
Challenge accepted. date of completion.....I will get back to you on this.
Snazzy Dragon, on 05 April 2017 - 06:17 AM, said:
It can be a commando.
but commandos are super OP, it would be cheating. just ask O'neil.
This post is bad but **** it, here's an honest response:
As others have said, there is no professional MWO player. It's all just hobby leagues and tournaments. You will never make enough money doing this to justify your time and you'll never receive that much recognition as an individual. If you can live with that, cool.
If you want to be respected as a top level player in this game the answer is competition. Nobody cares about how much you stomp pub queue. Join a competitive team for MRBC, Star League, WC, etc. Sign up for the 1v1 and 2v2 tournaments like CWX's monthly one. If you do well you'll start to be appreciated as a strong player.
This post is bad but **** it, here's an honest response:
As others have said, there is no professional MWO player. It's all just hobby leagues and tournaments. You will never make enough money doing this to justify your time and you'll never receive that much recognition as an individual. If you can live with that, cool.
If you want to be respected as a top level player in this game the answer is competition. Nobody cares about how much you stomp pub queue. Join a competitive team for MRBC, Star League, WC, etc. Sign up for the 1v1 and 2v2 tournaments like CWX's monthly one. If you do well you'll start to be appreciated as a strong player.
may i be linked to CWX, i can do the 1 v 1,
since mrbc is team play, so i am assuming start league and WC are team as well
and yeah i would be ok with Title, no money involved and being called out primary before each match :-D
last time something like this happened, it didn't go so well for them in 1 v 1 :-/
and i got in trouble from tina for posting that video up
Odins Steed, on 05 April 2017 - 10:43 AM, said:
This post is bad but **** it, here's an honest response:
As others have said, there is no professional MWO player. It's all just hobby leagues and tournaments. You will never make enough money doing this to justify your time and you'll never receive that much recognition as an individual. If you can live with that, cool.
If you want to be respected as a top level player in this game the answer is competition. Nobody cares about how much you stomp pub queue. Join a competitive team for MRBC, Star League, WC, etc. Sign up for the 1v1 and 2v2 tournaments like CWX's monthly one. If you do well you'll start to be appreciated as a strong player.
also maybe its the way i asked that killed it and made it go left and right and back on the path again.
since mrbc is team play, so i am assuming start league and WC are team as well
and yeah i would be ok with Title, no money involved and being called out primary before each match :-D
So CWX doesn't have a website, they just organize around the CWX discord (http://join.thecwx.party/) and post the announcements in various places (particularly Reddit). The one for this month has not been announced yet. Here is the rule set from last time (https://goo.gl/452bW7) and you can read more about it in the tournament channels on their discord.
And yeah, the majority of tournaments are team based. They're always higher profile than the 1v1 and 2v2 stuff as well. Star League is EMP's 6v6 Tournament that is just rapping up it's first season. The World Championship is PGI's own 8v8 one that is starting soon (the recent townhall was an announcement for it basically). Not the only tournaments out there but the main ones.
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