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[Cnaiur]

wizwoz, on 11 February 2018 - 08:23 AM, said:

Plenty of potatoes still knocking about then even at higher tiers, that’s good to know haha. So I should basically expect more of the same in terms of quick play, hopefully being teamed with lrm boating assaults will stop!

I have some bad news for you...

[wizwoz]

Don’t get me wrong fighting against LRM boating assaults when I get within 500 and start seriously smashing them is seriously funny as you see them looking for a quick exit. It’s a bit more painful when it’s on your team and all that armour and tonnage is being wasted on some little missiles smashing into a building or someone’s herb garden.

[Mister Glitchdragon]

Bombast, on 11 February 2018 - 05:42 AM, said:

Map voting also tends to get more predictable. Which is a shame.

QFT. All cold maps, all the time. You will never drop caustic or therma again.

[Speedkermit]

wizwoz, on 11 February 2018 - 04:03 AM, said:

I'm about to jump up to tier 3, and I'm not expecting a massive leap in quality (I guess that comes at 2\1) but I'm wondering if the games at higher levels become less diverse and more formulaic. Especially in some of the polar maps the matches end up being a dull standoff, I run a quad ac10 kodiak so like mixing it up a bit. Will the matches become dull poptarting the further I go, I've found the game at this level to be fairly easy but I think that's down to the potato factor. I'm also worried the slow torso twist on my kodiak will mean I can't spread damage well enough against better players.

Cheers guys

Believe me. I jumped up to T3 a few weeks ago, and the quality of my team-mates is much much much worse than at T4. I'm of the verge of quitting the game because of the frustration.

[JediPanther]

You'll find more and more meta mechs and clam laser barff and sometimes be one killed by the dhgr. Sometimes you can even get a team of pugs that has that borg collective mind link or acts like a school of sharks and just goes for any thing red at once in a mass. You'll love those rare pugs because they act just like a big unit doing all the things a big unit does like map re-positioning,calling and marking targets,focus fire, using the com wheel, and providing cover fire for units trying to get to cover to alpha again.

you'll still be able to run mixed builds or experimental builds and have fun with it too.

[Novakaine]

Unfortunately the ratio of potato to decent players are 12 to 1

Edited by Novakaine, 11 February 2018 - 01:09 PM.

[ramp4ge]

Tier 3 is actually worse than tier 4. It's almost like most people get dumber as the go up in tiers. I haven't had a decent game in tier 3 yet. They're all massive landslides because everyone decides to split up while the other team balls up and pushes.

[ramp4ge]

Yeah this is crazy. Had a couple good games but most games at tier 3 have been a dumpster fire so far.

The road out of Potatoville is going to lead me to Margaritaville.

[Khobai]

potatoville is kindve misleading

Its more like potatotropolis

since most of the players in the game live there

[NRP]

Yeah it doesn't really matter. Somebody will always classify you as a potato.

[wizwoz]

Out of interest does everyone here consider themselves a non-potato? What constitutes full on potato status? I’d say the most basic would be a sub 1.0 K/D ratio. Thoughts?

[Knuckles OTool]

It probably won't make any difference.

A lot of T1 orT2 pilots have alt accounts so you still run into them throughout the game regardless of tier. This can also throw the balance all out of whack as new people run into pros driving a mech theyre familiar with. Some have multiple alt accounts, but hey at least the population seems higher than it is and while it screws with the leaderboard a lot those stats dont really matter.

A t1 and a T2 guy can sync drop together and be in the same matches 11 out of 12 games. I assume that means the one game they missed on was when there was actually a t2 spot available to join the 3's.

Just keep playing and have fun and when those better players are around try and learn from them.

wizwoz, on 11 February 2018 - 04:53 PM, said:

Out of interest does everyone here consider themselves a non-potato? What constitutes full on potato status? I’d say the most basic would be a sub 1.0 K/D ratio. Thoughts?

Depends on a lot of factors and frankly who cares. Tonight there is a top 2% player playing in t4 right now seal clubbing. Good luck with your stats.

[Zergling]

The real difficulty spike is when you hit Tier 1; at that point the matchmaker will start lumping you with lots of bad teammates to make up for your supposed level of skill, expecting you to carry them.

Eg, my stats dropped from around 1.5 W/L, 2.4 K/D, 1.3 K/B and 310 average MS when I was Tier 2, down to 1.20 W/L, 1.6 K/D, 1.00 K/B and 290 average MS after I hit Tier 1.

Sure I can still manage more wins than losses, but I am definitely being lumped with worse teammates than before I reached Tier 1.