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[mad kat]

Crap like this has got a hell of a lot more common since launching on steam.

After PSR i think prolonging the inevitable and launching the game somewhere that appears to casuals who just want to play giant stompy robots was up there with one of the most stupid decisions PGI ever made (lets face it they've made a lot and still do). I'd of much rather seen the game suffer a slow lingering death with the dwindling player base (it still has) than get dumped with complete idiots and clueless casuals.

I wouldn't worry for long though i think Battletech will see to a massive exodus of players from this game. At least for a while.

[Champion of Khorne Lord of Blood]

Yet more reason why users should have more control over maps they drop on and with what. Being able to blacklist certain maps and modes would stop this issue entirely. People will say the playerbase can't handle it, yet its these sort of things that you put in place so the playerbase doesn't get so low in the first place.

[Lupis Volk]

Considering the mindset of some people in this forum, i'm surprised they haven't started teamkilling people they suspected to have voted for the map/game mode.

[meteorol]

Champion of Khorne Lord of Blood, on 12 April 2018 - 01:33 AM, said:

Yet more reason why users should have more control over maps they drop on and with what. Being able to blacklist certain maps and modes would stop this issue entirely. People will say the playerbase can't handle it, yet its these sort of things that you put in place so the playerbase doesn't get so low in the first place.

I have another idea. Maybe if maps weren't as shockingly bad as polar, people wouldn't have to blacklist maps?

[Black Ivan]

We wouldn't have this problem if PGI actually would do better maps

[Champion of Khorne Lord of Blood]

meteorol, on 12 April 2018 - 01:46 AM, said:

I have another idea. Maybe if maps weren't as shockingly bad as polar, people wouldn't have to blacklist maps?

Based on how many still vote for it, I assume some people like bad maps.

[Ensaine]

kapusta11, on 11 April 2018 - 11:10 PM, said:

I blame PGI. The game is what, 5-6 years old? And we still can't pick the map we want to play on and then pick a mech so that you don't drop in a brawler mech on polar, or ERLL boat on HPG. Oh but look, we have garbage game modes like escort and incursion. We have FP that pits wolves against the sheep.

^THIS. If we're gonna have random maps, we should be able to being a mech that is a better fit for the map. Period.

[Bombast]

Lupis Volk, on 12 April 2018 - 01:33 AM, said:

Considering the mindset of some people in this forum, i'm surprised they haven't started teamkilling people they suspected to have voted for the map/game mode.

I'd never kill someone on a suspicion.

I'll admit though - The urge to roleplay as a commissar and start killing all the teammates who refuse to engage and just hide behind terrain for 3+ minutes without firing a shot is becoming harder and harder to suppress.

Edited by Bombast, 12 April 2018 - 04:52 AM.

[meteorol]

Champion of Khorne Lord of Blood, on 12 April 2018 - 02:20 AM, said:

Based on how many still vote for it, I assume some people like bad maps.

Lrm users like it for obvious reasons.

[Olliman]

Choosing mech after map would be very good. For one, it would be much easier to skill specialized mechs and practice suitable loadouts for FW. This is a simple fix that would make it considerable easier to transition from QP to FW.

As it stands right now, bringing anything but a standard mid-range build will seriously hurt your expected performance in QP. But never gonna happen I guess, the potato tears would be endless. Where's the fun in lurming on potato highlands if it means you gonna face Supernovas boating 6 ER Larges?

[mad kat]

Bombast, on 11 April 2018 - 10:53 PM, said:

This is absolutely true. I quit with disgust today after this.

Your last point is a bit.....Offensive..... just a tad......

But yeah id say that sums up at least half the teams i'm dropped with and i'll say for sure that's a daily occurrence.

kapusta11, on 11 April 2018 - 11:10 PM, said:

I blame PGI. The game is what, 5-6 years old? And we still can't pick the map we want to play on and then pick a mech so that you don't drop in a brawler mech on polar, or ERLL boat on HPG. Oh but look, we have garbage game modes like escort and incursion. We have FP that pits wolves against the sheep.

This^

Edited by mad kat, 12 April 2018 - 05:06 AM.

[LowSubmarino]

Polar is great.

But ill never understand why anybody could like forest colony.

[meteorol]

LowSubmarino, on 12 April 2018 - 05:18 AM, said:

Polar is great.

But ill never understand why anybody could like forest colony.

Forest colony is one of the maps they actually made worse when they reworked it. That and frozen city. God i wish they would add frozen city night back to the rotation.

[LowSubmarino]

I hate night maps. night vision sux so hard, that you can see more when you just close your eyes.

Thermal vision, for whatever reason, greatly reduces performance even though my rig is way over the required system specs. Its just badly programmed. Faulty, flawed. You cant snipe in thermal vision. Night maps just suck and even if you use thermal vision....it looks super ugly.

Same goes for forest colony. You literally cant see **** on that map. Ive never, not once, voted for the new forest colony. Worst map in the game.

It is basically forest colony that always lets me support the voting system. I just dont wanne play it.

[Ssamout]

LowSubmarino, on 12 April 2018 - 05:30 AM, said:

I hate night maps. night vision sux so hard, that you can see more when you just close your eyes.

Thermal vision, for whatever reason, greatly reduces performance even though my rig is way over the required system specs. Its just badly programmed. Faulty, flawed. You cant snipe in thermal vision. Night maps just suck and even if you use thermal vision....it looks super ugly.

Just use ingame gamma settings to add more visibility when in night maps and u are sorted.

Old Frozen City night map was my favourite map. Even though is says "night" in the name, it had good visibility. It had a funky tunnel that was actually usable in most matches. It was brawl friendly, but had positions where u could lay some long range fire also.. Shame its gone..

[Bombast]

LowSubmarino, on 12 April 2018 - 05:30 AM, said:

Thermal vision, for whatever reason, greatly reduces performance even though my rig is way over the required system specs.

As I recall, the alternative vision modes actually add an additional 'screen' the video card has to draw. This causes an obvious problem.

Honestly, I wish they'd remove the filters and just balance visibility around 'regular' mode, rather than make all these jacked up environmental effects that force you to play Green/Greywarrior Online.

[Asym]

Wow... As said before, this is nothing new... I've only been in-game just a bit over a year and pilots in pairs or greater have been doing this since. And, let's be clear, not just the "noobs" either... i.e. a Sync drop didn't work and now a competition team 339 has players on both sides and they "walk off the map;" any map where they didn't get what they wanted..... Yes, we reported them and no, PGI did nothing because those very players are still in-game happily "doing whatever they want...."

Players have had it guys. It's as simple as that. Bombast's "I can't take it anymore" snapshot.... Other discussing CoC violation choices. Some just retiring from or quitting the game.... Solaris and MW5 are the hope to continue forward. I'm not sure it will or can save what's left... The "brawling" community finally has the game they want.....you are seeing that in the snapshot Bombast provided and that isn't just a "one-off" example either. A majority of players want to "just brawl" and not think.....Solaris. The entire VG market has long since recognized that teams > than 4 produce toxic behaviors.....MWO is a classic example of that paradigm.

The rest of you "I want FP back and team level MWO" had a chance to achieve that and blew it ! (for now....) Mass noob slaughters, spawn site massacres, out-of-control toxic anti-social behaviors and extreme arrogance and EVERYBODY LEFT........hello!!!! You are reaping what you've sown and now, do not surprised if this game "turns-off" everything but QP..... If I were in charge, I would and focus on what it appears the masses want: an arena, arcade designed, FPS that is simple to use and focuses on what people really want: I (not we) get to shoot stompy robots into tiny pieces; over and over and over again without having to hear 11 other's crap...

[Alexander of Macedon]

JC Daxion, on 11 April 2018 - 05:16 PM, said:

nothing new here... I will not call out names cause of TOS, but i've seen some folks flat out DC a map because they didn't wanna play it. Used to happen on the old terra all the time.. Was one of the better conquest maps in the game too. I really wish they would bring it back.

Still happens on new TT as well.

[Dragonporn]

Have NEVER seen anything like this, OP is even serious?...
And people say solo QP is cancer, lol.

Edited by Dragonporn, 12 April 2018 - 06:16 AM.

[The Basilisk]

Frankly I'm quite supprised that mass discos don't happen regularely in GQP and FP.
I also don't know why they removed the ability to blacklist certain maps like we still can blacklist certain servers.
Sure this would mean some maps would be seen rarely if at all...but on the other side if you wan't to play certain maps and you never find a game this should tell you everything you have to know about your prferences.