Mad Porthos, on 14 June 2017 - 08:48 AM, said:
That Tier 1 or Tier 2 who dropped into queue play and has no one at all in the group with him may be moving in a "lance" with heavy mechs seeming to shadow and support him, but as he rounds a corner into an ambush, his instincts for aggression and knowing that he has 4 deadly mechs with him may lead him to alpha once, twice or step in aggressively to the brawl and start trying to take names and wreck face. Meanwhile those 4 heavies with him? They hit full stop, reverse and start peeking around the corner one at a time, dropping an artillery strike right into the midst of the enemy where that one Tier 1 guy is trying to brawl.
Boom. The moment of chaos that a good team might have exploited, if the Tier 1 and all 4 heavies with him had launched into combat, is lost as the artillery strike and the combined fire of the enemy team melts that one very skilled Tier 1 guy who applied the effective team tactic AT THE WRONG TIME, in queue play forgetting that individuals in queue play are timid and most definitely not a team. Stuff happens. Mistakes are made. But after that happens a few more times, the habit may be either to never play in queue play, or when you do... use everyone else as pug armor and mop up at the end, since nothing you say or do can get the coordination you need to use group tactics.
Some players, of any queue, try to use in the built in voip to coordinate a lance or two in the beginning of a match, but the salt is incredible at times if you attempt this. People are like, "Who died and made you General Kerensky? STFU, it will never work!". At least these are trying, what ever their queue and sometimes having a plan...any plan, is better than milling around and sniping around a corner, making bad trades until the enemy put the nails in your coffins.
This! Exactly -- the situation you describe happened to me yesterday. I am not Tier 1 but rather Tier 5 approaching Tier 4 and my stats are much improved since I started the game in February. In assaults my K/D ratio is now over 1 for Season 12 which is more than five times where it was for the first season. My W/L ratio is similar. My average match score is ranked about 3500 in assaults.
None of that is to brag because it's just average I think for the player base, but the point is I'm not terrible any longer. But I still get insta-gibbed when I am aggressive because I believe that my teammates are doing the same, but they are not. They may be close by, but they hide or hang back in the face of the enemy while I go out in a blaze of glory. Yes careful positioning and cover are important, but in my experience, massed aggression is the key to victory and staying alive .. hiding and sniping is a temporary tactic that always loses in the end.
Edited by DeloresAbernathy, 14 June 2017 - 06:43 PM.