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[-PUSH-]

Im a casual palyer at best.

Love the game and play it coz of the unit friendship we have in our unit. Im sure others feel the same about their goofy, quirky, funloving friends that love to do FP.

Being a a filthy casual and being forced to either play QP games with ppl that dont understand the concept of "teamwork" or SHOUT at the top of their lungs when stuff starts going bad in QP is just baaaddddd...

But even QP drops with ppl that have no clue whatsoever still gives me a 1:10000000 chance that i will have 1 match a day where the sun and the moon and the stars will align correct and allow me to be in a team that actually uses voice comms, calls targets, moves together, plays the objectives and coordinates to atempt a win. It is those games that you play to be a part of.

Getting roflstomped by a coordinated unit push in a 12v12 is never pleasant but it does happen once in a blue moon and it is a chance to leaern how NOT to play when going up against that kind of coordination.

NOW

Solaris.....

To a casual player that drops 1v1 what happens you die, you die some more, you die some more even more horribly. and when you have died enough times you say F this **** and you go on to a different game.

- The casual player has no clue how to play the meta
- The casual player has no grasp of what torso twisting is
- The casual player has probly put his mech skills 100% wrong
(assuming that he/she even has credits and xp enough to skill a mech 91/91)
- The casual player has no clue how to watch the heat meter
- the casual player has 0 clue how to use the terrain to his/her advantage
(what is this poptarting, or poking all about)

Im sure i have forgot many more things that are really really dificult to pick up for new players or even players that have been playing the game for some time now.

So at BEST Solaris will be a pee-pee measuring contest for the meta veteran players who will farm the S**t out of all us potatoes that have little to no clue.

Good luck PGI on your Solaris thingie. For me i will just stop buying any more mech packs (i only have measly 84 mechs but they all cost money to buy and this is a game that i have spent most on through the 25 years i have been playing video games) and hope that somebody will slap some sense into you so you can wake up from this nightmre you are forcing on players.

p.s. Just for refference here is my stats. Bear in mind that i have been playing this game on and off since September 2016. In the begining i was mech-poor and did a lot of stopid **** that got me killed in record time. I have since become "marginally" better at surviving. Coz i have learned not to rush first in when in anything less than an assault mech... Took me a long time and my K/D was 0.51 at the start of 2018... Solaris will just make it so that my K/D goes to **** again

Edited by -PUSH-, 06 March 2018 - 01:33 AM.

[General Solo]

When you meet some organized group in FW isn't it the same

you die some more, you die some more even more horribly. and when you have died enough times you say F this **** and you go on to a different game.

At least solo queue has a matchmaker for casuals

[-PUSH-]

OZHomerOZ, on 06 March 2018 - 01:18 AM, said:

At least solo queue has a matchmaker for casuals

I hope you are kidding about the matchmaker remark... either that or you have been living on another planet for the past month or so.. Matchmaker is broken as there are many, many games where Over 50% of one team is Assaults and heavies that go up against 80% mediums and lights... If that is fair to you than i guess you have the LUCK of the gods and you always get to be on the top heavy side and manage to squeeze a win...

After every match i stream i turn on the team window so it is clear woh many of each type of mechs are on each team side... and lately it has been really, really, really Fk'ed up

[General Solo]

-PUSH-, on 06 March 2018 - 01:27 AM, said:

I hope you are kidding about the matchmaker remark... either that or you have been living on another planet for the past month or so..

I play nearly every day
Sure in T1 I get T4's on my side at times when MM releases the valves.
Even so I get enough awesome games to keep coming back.

Many people think negging Quick play and group play will add to their argument about the threads topic.
Show me on the Jenner wher did Quick play touched Faction Play on the naughty spot.
The science say Quick Play and Group Play are moar popular, CPU's are needed for Solaris.
Faction Play............... You are the weakest link.

GuidBye

Edit: I was merely suggusting QP maybe ezier for a pug than Faction Play since you die and die in Solaris which isnt even out yet.

Double Edit: Sometimes I like calling for Solo pugs moar than my own unit mates..........coz....
Quick play pugs are dat guid , at least they don't get farmed like FW pugz

Edited by OZHomerOZ, 06 March 2018 - 02:06 AM.

[justcallme A S H]

-PUSH-, on 06 March 2018 - 01:27 AM, said:

I hope you are kidding about the matchmaker remark... either that or you have been living on another planet for the past month or so.. Matchmaker is broken as there are many, many games where Over 50% of one team is Assaults and heavies that go up against 80% mediums and lights... If that is fair to you than i guess you have the LUCK of the gods and you always get to be on the top heavy side and manage to squeeze a win...

After every match i stream i turn on the team window so it is clear woh many of each type of mechs are on each team side... and lately it has been really, really, really Fk'ed up

Ah no.

What you are saying is totally incorrect and unless you produce a dozen screenshots, there is no way anyone is going to believe that made up statement

[MovinTarget]

Homer, what are saying about roflstomps in FP is 100% correct. Solo either need to accept the real possibility that the other team will be more organized or get more organized themselves.

I play FP solo when i must, bring loadouts that will produce even if I am paired with 11 mutant feral potato-cats (note: this has yet to happen). I bring different mechs when I am teamworking...

Edited by MovinTarget, 06 March 2018 - 05:21 AM.

[Lyons De Flamand]

Like three urbies and a Mauler

[Naglinator]

justcallme A S H, on 02 March 2018 - 09:57 PM, said:

Yo...

Listen up...

TWEET RUSS if you have Twitter.

Make it known this is total STUPIDITY.
Post links, keep posting, will be good and get somewhere.

Legit bombard him or people will be locked outta FP for a month...

Who still uses twitter???? Otherwise I agree with you. "tweet" him an extra time for me.

[MovinTarget]

Lyons De Flamand, on 06 March 2018 - 06:54 AM, said:

Like three urbies and a Mauler

Well, if I want to go EZ mode, sure!

[Alexandra Hekmatyar]

Naglinator, on 06 March 2018 - 07:16 AM, said:

Who still uses twitter?

Yup that's an issue and therefor I suggest the Free Worlds League should take it over.
scratch any limit on characters and let it be free with no rules, that way not just some peanuts but all peanuts can spout there nonsense so we can inflict civil war among countries population and then we finally made Earth the perfect FWL.

[Pat Kell]

Don't pay too much attention to what PGI is doing now a days as I have learned to just roll with the punches after 4+ years of playing this game but I want to be crystal clear on this. The only reason I have continued to play this game since CW came out is because of CW. I will intentionally drop solo into CW in order to avoid dropping solo into QP or dropping with some other KCom guys into QP. I won't do it, I hate that mode. So if they shut down CW for 2-4 weeks in order to bring out solaris mode, I will not be playing during that time frame and will be actively looking for another game to play.

The only reason I can think of that PGI would do this is to try to force people to try their new mode. This will give them a false sense of success and it's complete crap. Not rolling with this one. I really hope he was just saying what he would like to do vs what the intend to do...unbelievable.

Need a good meme of a face palm....anyone?

[Alienized]

xX PUG Xx, on 03 March 2018 - 03:55 AM, said:

@Russ_Buttocks

how it really should be named.

[Yondu Udonta]

Alienized, on 06 March 2018 - 07:48 PM, said:

how it really should be named.

You mean @Russ_Bollocks?

[Willard Phule]

OZHomerOZ, on 06 March 2018 - 01:18 AM, said:

At least solo queue has a matchmaker for casuals

AH HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Thanks man, I haven't had a good laugh like that in a long, long time. Keep up the good work.

xX PUG Xx, on 03 March 2018 - 03:55 AM, said:

@Russ_Bullock

All hail the illustrious founders of Clan Rabid Potato.....Russ Buttock and Paul Inyoureye!

[A Headless Chicken]

OZHomerOZ, on 06 March 2018 - 01:18 AM, said:

At least solo queue has a matchmaker for casuals

[-Mean Machine Angel-]

This idea is dumber than a Russian {Godwin's Law}*
-edit: WW2 German organization of not very niceness and generally crap at being neighborly*

Edited by Mean Machine Angel x, 06 March 2018 - 11:44 PM.

[Alienized]

Yondu the Ravager, on 06 March 2018 - 09:17 PM, said:

You mean @Russ_Bollocks?

that got me guessing if its not a split personality problem there

[Phoolan Devi]

I am afraid this closure will be used to shut down FW entirely! 2 weeks become a month, become half a year amd finally nobody knows that there was a mode called FW.

Remember Russ at MechCon 2016? FW 4.1 is a new era. The .1 meaning, that it is only the first iteration of a lot of changes to come in 2017! Well, it's almost a quarter past 2018 now and nothing happened.....we are still at 4.1!

That being said, surely I would've tried out Solaris and was eyeing the Solaris Mech Pack.......but if the introduction of Solaris means the shutdown of FW, then I won't try out Solaris and not buying the Mech Pack. It's as simple as that!

[Burt0n]

Initially I loathed the idea of a 2-4wk FP shutdown. Then I went and visited the popular website bullockbrew.pgi and ordered and drank a dozen kegs. Not only did I get one 'free' supply cache with my order but I also gained utter drunken clarity.

So close the only game mode I play - fantastic idea I'll drink to that.
Rebrand the game (front page splash included)- Even better! I'll return to mwo and because I'm still drunk I will have forgotten what FP was.

In all seriousness. Like many I play FP for the team play and whilst I will try Solaris I'm not confident on what the future holds for FP.

[Rogue Three]

Has there been any kind of confirmation of this, or are we all getting worked up over some drunk slurry?

I'm just asking because the entire idea makes no sense. People who are invested in a faction-based game mode where the emphasis is teamwork and for which you have to practice/skill up several different mechs are obviously not the core target for a new mode that's literally "1v1 me bro".

If they really want to know the potential of their new game mode, it makes a lot more sense to temporarily shut down QP and find out which percentage of their players just wants to get in their favourite mech, drop in a game and wreck face (or get clobbered), and how many of them still prefer to "QP with homework and respawns". Those last people will not play Solaris, ever. It would give them a fair idea of where best to assign resources for future development.