anonymous223, on 26 December 2017 - 02:36 AM, said:
Someone suggested it comes from map design: the central object (hpg, river..) creates it. I disagree cause people nascar even on polar.
When we played peeking stalkers, peeking hgn and jumping cataphracts 5-6 years ago there was no nascar.
When clans got released there was no nascar.
Nascar comes from:
-overnerf of assault mechs: if i can take a cheetah or an assassin, nascar all around and kill a direwolf there is something wrong in game balance, people get bored of being nerfed on assaults and so go on lighter and faster mechs.
-overnerf of accell-decell rate. This is a tragedy. Many mechs just don't peek. People feel they can not front peek the enemy team because their mech does not peek, so they think "let's go on flanks".
Nascar comes from nothing you present as a reason for it.
Nascar Happens Due to
The mechs hard points
Nearly every mech that doesn't have a symmetrical build, has more hard points on the right, and those that are symmetrical, when sword and board builds are made, players mostly chose right side because they're right handed.
Poor play.
People charge off, abandoning the mediums and slow, the slows get abandoned by the mediums in an effort to keep up. so the teams get strung out, and those with the faster assaults usually win. This isn't nerfs, this isn't game design this is purely the players being ignorant and using zero sense.
In some cases poor map design, though even in cases where the maps don't promote this people always go right out of habit.
This happens even in games like world of warships where it's flat with a few islands because it's natural for most people the favour the right hand side.
Because Murder ball is the only tactic Pugs can sometimes get right, a firing line the counter to murder ball is beyond most Q.P capability.
Starting positions.
While this isn't a cause, it can reduce the symptoms of the piss poor situation awareness the average Pug in QP uses.
Have all the assaults set up on a right to left leaving the lights always on the left hand side.
Ignoring the old ways.
Only Kings at coronations, are allowed to walk in a circle counter clockwise, your being cursed by the old Gods
Edited by Cathy, 26 December 2017 - 03:53 AM.