22 replies to this topic

[Jun Watarase]

The times listed there are local time, so to put things into perspective, as I write this, it is approximately 12:35 am. The cycle ends in about 25 minutes. There have been no FP matches played for more than 5 hours of the cycle, not even any ghost drops. And the last few drops in the war log were ghost drops (several MS players were there as well).

Yea i know there's a QP event going on now but its just 25 components destroyed. That just takes a few matches to do and it should be business as usual right?

Is FP bugged at the moment and just not putting people into lobbies?

[AJBennett]

...maybe no-one is queing up...FP has been one sided for a while now as the map shows....and might be going the way of house on house warfare...just a guess though. How many times can IS PUGs get told "git gud" or "group up or get out" before they actually do?

Edited by AJBennett, 10 October 2017 - 07:31 AM.

[Karl Streiger]

The IS got cancer?

[El Bandito]

Jun Watarase, on 10 October 2017 - 05:37 AM, said:

Yea i know there's a QP event going on now but its just 25 components destroyed. That just takes a few matches to do and it should be business as usual right?

Current event is 5 QP kills. And judging by Asym's complaints in this thread, average pugs can't even get that done in a day.

Jun Watarase, on 10 October 2017 - 05:37 AM, said:

Is FP bugged at the moment and just not putting people into lobbies?

IS players are already fed up with getting farmed for 4 seasons in a row. And several merc units switched to Clans recently. Even during prime time, Clanners will now have to wait for 10-20 minutes, and still get Ghost Drops due to population imbalance. If they don't want that, they can man up and go IS.

Edited by El Bandito, 10 October 2017 - 06:42 AM.

[Bombast]

It's off prime time and no one likes FP anymore. Hardly surprising whats happening, I'd think.

[Black Ivan]

How surprising that nobody wants to play FP anymore, not....

PGI did the best possible to make most people stay very far away from it.

[Daurock]

Jun Watarase, on 10 October 2017 - 05:37 AM, said:

The times listed there are local time, so to put things into perspective, as I write this, it is approximately 12:35 am. The cycle ends in about 25 minutes. There have been no FP matches played for more than 5 hours of the cycle, not even any ghost drops. And the last few drops in the war log were ghost drops (several MS players were there as well).

Yea i know there's a QP event going on now but its just 25 components destroyed. That just takes a few matches to do and it should be business as usual right?

Is FP bugged at the moment and just not putting people into lobbies?

Not bugged, just no one there. The pugs get ground to paste, then told to "group up or get out." They took the advice, and simply left the mode.

[Willard Phule]

Mechtoberfest might have something to do with it. It's QP only all month long.

[Thorn Hallis]

What do you mean, "at the moment"?

[Bombast]

Willard Phule, on 10 October 2017 - 07:27 AM, said:

It's QP only all month long.

Well, until Wednesday anyway.

[Mole]

Nobody wants to play IS when Faction Play boils down to either play Clan and drop solo and stand a good chance at winning or play IS and get your teeth repeatedly kicked in and when you complain about it you are told to "git gud" or go find a group even though grouping is hardly the point when the problem is that Clans can PUG just fine but IS can't. I'd love to play IS in Faction Play, but I don't because I know I'm just going to spend the duration of my contract losing. So if I want to win, I'm stuck as a Clanner. But it gives me indigestion that if I want to play FP and win I am pretty much limited to my clan 'mechs. So I just don't play anymore.

[AJBennett]

Mole, on 10 October 2017 - 08:26 AM, said:

Nobody wants to play IS when Faction Play boils down to either play Clan and drop solo and stand a good chance at winning or play IS and get your teeth repeatedly kicked in and when you complain about it you are told to "git gud" or go find a group even though grouping is hardly the point when the problem is that Clans can PUG just fine but IS can't. I'd love to play IS in Faction Play, but I don't because I know I'm just going to spend the duration of my contract losing. So if I want to win, I'm stuck as a Clanner. But it gives me indigestion that if I want to play FP and win I am pretty much limited to my clan 'mechs. So I just don't play anymore.

HEAR HEAR!

[Asym]

Daurock, on 10 October 2017 - 06:51 AM, said:

Not bugged, just no one there. The pugs get ground to paste, then told to "group up or get out." They took the advice, and simply left the mode.

BINGO ! We have a winner.... !!! Target, cease fire.....

Yes, we listened. Now, there are ENTIRE TEAMS that will not, do not, nor will ever again play faction play. Not until FP changes and I seriously don't see that happening in my lifetime.... Solaris and MW5 will destroy anything that is left.

The saying goes "you reap what you sow" and it's a barren fruit MWO has become.....

[kapusta11]

I would've played FP if they removed Siege mode from it and made it available for groups only.

[Flarelaine]

Anyone who ever read anything Battletech-related knows that Clans own IS in equal numbers. Lorewise, when IS started retaking planets they did it by dropping 3-4x the mechs. Which IS can sodding afford to do; an average Great House can draw on the resources of 300-400 planets. An average Clan? Less than 10.

So, maybe if Faction play was Company vs. Binary... maybe.

Edited by Flarelaine, 12 October 2017 - 12:11 AM.

[visionGT4]

Flarelaine, on 12 October 2017 - 12:10 AM, said:

Anyone who ever read anything Battletech-related knows that Clans own IS in equal numbers. Lorewise, when IS started retaking planets they did it by dropping 3-4x the mechs. Which IS can sodding afford to do; an average Great House can draw on the resources of 300-400 planets. An average Clan? Less than 10.

So, maybe if Faction play was Company vs. Binary... maybe.

Cos lining up to get clubbed like baby seals by entitled clams sounds like fun right?

[arcana75]

Waiting for ash to come here and defend his right to clubbing IS seals.

El Bandito, on 10 October 2017 - 06:36 AM, said:

Current event is 5 QP kills. And judging by Asym's complaints in this thread, average pugs can't even get that done in a day.

What's average. I think Asym's likely encountering MM shenanigans. It can get hard to survive, much less score a kill, when MM goes nuts and stacks the team against you match after match. There are games I can get popped with double-digit MS, and other games I'm consistently top 3 MS players of both teams averaging 600MS and 700 damage. Kills can be tough if you don't switch builds and playstyles around.

FWIW I think I'm average and for the 6 Day Event:

11/5 QP matches over 150 MS.
4429/2000 damage.
0/1 headshot.
25/25 components.
27/5 kills.
6/3 QP wins.

Other than the headshot one (no cbills to afford a Nova for that Nova gimmick), I thought the 6 Days Event was easy enough for most players.

The upcoming FP event, to preserve sanity it's best to stick to Scouting, as Siege as IS is extremely painful, esp if you're attacking. Sometimes as IS you pull a win, thanks to great teamwork and it feels incredible good, but mostly it's a Clan stomp. Overall playing FP Invasion, netting 1+ million cbills every 25 minutes (w Premium Time) on a win is quite satisfying, and can be intoxicating if you're winning all the time as a Clan Invasion player.

Edited by arcana75, 12 October 2017 - 12:48 AM.

[meteorol]

If by "broken" you mean "so bad that it doesn't even attract 24 players worldwide for 5+ hours while the games has around 1000 average players on steam alone", then yes. By that definition it would be broken.

In the end of the day, CW is empty because it's bad.

[TWIAFU]

El Bandito, on 10 October 2017 - 06:36 AM, said:

IS players are already fed up with getting farmed for 4 seasons in a row. And several merc units switched to Clans recently. Even during prime time, Clanners will now have to wait for 10-20 minutes, and still get Ghost Drops due to population imbalance. If they don't want that, they can man up and go IS.

Give up the easier button and guaranteed event wins to get drops? Not likely.

Why would they?

No, they made the easy button bed, now they have to suffer by lying in it.

[Flarelaine]

visionGT4, on 12 October 2017 - 12:28 AM, said:

Cos lining up to get clubbed like baby seals by entitled clams sounds like fun right?

The fact that the matchmaker could not get 12 baby seals for hours shows the fun factor of being clubbed.