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[Dee Eight]

Anyone who touch types should be able to find the R key instinctively. You should see my keyboard, the letters for the W E R T I O P A S D F H K L C V B N M are rubbed off my keyboard completely yet I can speed type whole paragraphs without errors while staring at the ceiling because I did computer coding for a decade.

[Kubernetes]

Anyone who has played a first person shooter can hit R. What do you do when you're out of ammo? "I was too busy to reload! It's too hard for my finger to reach when I'm running around!"

[OrmsbyGore]

Wraith31, on 31 May 2017 - 06:47 PM, said:

Some people deliberately avoid pressing R because it means that LRM boats are deprived of targets. With damage glow, you can see where you hit them...

If you starve the buzzards long enough, they move on to scavenge somewhere else.

This is counter-productive. If the "buzzards" haven't changed after all these years, it's time to stop gimping your team. Lock targets to reveal enemy positions to friendly mechs and see their weakpoints

[OrmsbyGore]

James The Fox Dixon, on 31 May 2017 - 09:40 PM, said:

Funny, but I don't see the option to give you my armor. Sharing armor is a myth and if you are going to be selfish then why should I or anyone else be there to take damage for you? It is a two way street called teamwork. I'll be sure to never drop with you ever.

No, sharing armor is accomplished by being at or near the front lines, drawing enemy fire away from other friendlies. If you are in a light or medium, you are not expected to share armor unless it is very late in the match and and the heavier mechs are incapacitated. If you are in a heavy or assault, you should be near the front lines, as LRMs are most effective in the 3-500m range. THAT'S teamwork

[James The Fox Dixon]

OrmsbyGore, on 02 June 2017 - 09:27 PM, said:

No, sharing armor is accomplished by being at or near the front lines, drawing enemy fire away from other friendlies. If you are in a light or medium, you are not expected to share armor unless it is very late in the match and and the heavier mechs are incapacitated. If you are in a heavy or assault, you should be near the front lines, as LRMs are most effective in the 3-500m range. THAT'S teamwork

So being a target and getting shot like a POG. Gotcha, but it's still not sharing armor.

[PFC Carsten]

I press R even when I'm AFK for the pizza delivery guy. I have a specially sculpted stone for that.

[Ryllen Kriel]

My Pirates Bane always presses the Arrrrr button!

[Mystere]

Dee Eight, on 02 June 2017 - 09:06 PM, said:

Anyone who touch types should be able to find the R key instinctively. You should see my keyboard, the letters for the W E R T I O P A S D F H K L C V B N M are rubbed off my keyboard completely yet I can speed type whole paragraphs without errors while staring at the ceiling because I did computer coding for a decade.

Amateurs!

[Jimmycat]

I believe you should always press R so you can see where the enemy is damaged and your team can see where the enemy is. You should especially press R if you can target an ECM mech also to allow your team to see them. I have seen many times a person fighting a ECM mech by themselves and not targeting them when friendly mechs are nearby only to die and have no help when if they had just targeted them their team would have noticed and helped kill it.

As to LRMs, they are a good support weapon and they are useful in making people take cover. But as a support weapon I believe they should only be used heavy mechs and lighter. Assault mechs should be used as their name implies, to assault the enemy. They should be front line brawlers with the lighter mechs supporting them.

[Jiang Wei]

Wraith31, on 31 May 2017 - 06:47 PM, said:

Some people deliberately avoid pressing R because it means that LRM boats are deprived of targets. With damage glow, you can see where you hit them...

If you starve the buzzards long enough, they move on to scavenge somewhere else.

So you are telling us that is what you do. Thats uncool dude. You are basically helping the enemy team win.

[OrmsbyGore]

James The Fox Dixon, on 03 June 2017 - 03:22 AM, said:

So being a target and getting shot like a POG. Gotcha, but it's still not sharing armor.

Not sure if you are really having difficulty understanding what armor sharing is or if you are just focusing on the use of an idiomatic expression. You also seem to be afraid of getting shot while playing a shooter game. I suppose we could get past that if your in-game performance was good, but a quick peek at your stats shows that it isn't. So, knowing that what you're doing isn't working very well, maybe try a bit of what the better players do? I mean, that's how I improved my game (though I am by no means a competitive level player).

[Wyald Katt]

Mechwarriors, they are sick. They cannot hit R key. Fire keys, they hit it very much. R key, mechwarriors are afraid. I ask Jobu to come, take fear from mechwarriors. I offer him potatoes, salt. He will come.

[OrmsbyGore]

Wyald Katt, on 03 June 2017 - 08:56 AM, said:

Mechwarriors, they are sick. They cannot hit R key. Fire keys, they hit it very much. R key, mechwarriors are afraid. I ask Jobu to come, take fear from mechwarriors. I offer him potatoes, salt. He will come.

It is very bad to take Jobu's salty potatoes. It is VERY bad.

[James The Fox Dixon]

OrmsbyGore, on 03 June 2017 - 08:47 AM, said:

Not sure if you are really having difficulty understanding what armor sharing is or if you are just focusing on the use of an idiomatic expression. You also seem to be afraid of getting shot while playing a shooter game. I suppose we could get past that if your in-game performance was good, but a quick peek at your stats shows that it isn't. So, knowing that what you're doing isn't working very well, maybe try a bit of what the better players do? I mean, that's how I improved my game (though I am by no means a competitive level player).

Wow that's a really nice strawman that you built there. Where did you get the straw and other things to make it?

[Kubernetes]

OrmsbyGore, on 03 June 2017 - 08:47 AM, said:

Not sure if you are really having difficulty understanding what armor sharing is or if you are just focusing on the use of an idiomatic expression. You also seem to be afraid of getting shot while playing a shooter game. I suppose we could get past that if your in-game performance was good, but a quick peek at your stats shows that it isn't. So, knowing that what you're doing isn't working very well, maybe try a bit of what the better players do? I mean, that's how I improved my game (though I am by no means a competitive level player).

Potatoes gonna potato and be proud about it.

[Gyrok]

Dee Eight, on 01 June 2017 - 12:26 AM, said:

Considering you apparently haven't played the game at all in 11 months... not sure who's back shots exactly that you're preventing.




Not according to the leaderboard he/she hasn't. No results for 11 months so either someone who doesn't actually play (but still talks like he/she does) or this is an alternate account.



0 apparently because there's no games played in 11 seasons. Not even season 1 which didn't have the 10 match minimum for tracking results.

You do realize there is a minimum qualifier for leaderboards...right? You have to play 30-50 matches to get your stats counted.

Just saying...

[Lorcryst NySell]

Kubernetes, on 03 June 2017 - 02:14 PM, said:

Potatoes gonna potato and be proud about it.

Hey !

As a potato, I'm not proud of it, rather ashamed, and I want to get better !

I'm willing to learn by example, by watching, by anything ... because I cannot stand to be a glorified bag of points anymore

[Jiang Wei]

Gyrok, on 03 June 2017 - 02:23 PM, said:

You do realize there is a minimum qualifier for leaderboards...right? You have to play 30-50 matches to get your stats counted.

Just saying...

Pretty sure its just 10 matches. It just takes awhile for them to show up.

[OrmsbyGore]

James The Fox Dixon, on 03 June 2017 - 01:18 PM, said:

Wow that's a really nice strawman that you built there. Where did you get the straw and other things to make it?

You also don't seem to know what a straw man argument is. You're earlier assertion that sharing armor is the same as being shot like a POG (excuse my paraphrasing) is an example of a straw man argument. What I did was a statistical analysis of your recorded performance, and suggest that since your tactics are failing, perhaps you should adapt. Most would call that sound reasoning.

[Kangarad]

Kubernetes, on 02 June 2017 - 09:15 PM, said:

Anyone who has played a first person shooter can hit R. What do you do when you're out of ammo? "I was too busy to reload! It's too hard for my finger to reach when I'm running around!"

I disagree theres sevral games that actualy have autoreload options nowadays...
like Warframe for example, which reloads for you when you ahvent fired for a few seconds or interacted with stuff or are out of ammo.