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[Abisha]

If you get one kill you did not loss the match the K/D rate will forgive you for this.

[Brain Cancer]

BTGbullseye, on 07 May 2018 - 08:16 PM, said:

It was on the caldera, I was standing slightly higher than him, and he was barely peeking the hill.

Even so, you shouldn't be getting rear armor damage at that percentage when being shot from the front.

Fair enough. I'd seen a lot of "back from front" hits on Fafnirs firing from even slight height advantages (LRMs included), so maybe there's a bit more "back" on them then there should be.

[BTGbullseye]

What's even weirder is that I have never had back hits from front shots prior to this on ANY mech, including the 60+ matches played with Fafnirs prior to this.

[Dragonporn]

Since this topic is about sharing... Last night had a match with Haven Kendrick on our team. Was pretty close match but, dayum, experience was like I'm in a staged movie or interactive single player mission or something. They really need to hire this guy for voicing purposes. If I'd be BT film director, this guy would be first on my hire list.

[BTGbullseye]

There are a lot of people that would be good to get for voice acting... Ross Scott is top of my personal list.

[Brain Cancer]

Dragonporn, on 08 May 2018 - 04:05 AM, said:

Since this topic is about sharing... Last night had a match with Haven Kendrick on our team. Was pretty close match but, dayum, experience was like I'm in a staged movie or interactive single player mission or something. They really need to hire this guy for voicing purposes. If I'd be BT film director, this guy would be first on my hire list.

IIRC, he's in the Solaris preview video as one of the announcers.

[Mole]

I do wish all of you people would stop railing on wanting a better matchmaker and realize that there are so many variables that make up a player's skill that cannot be quantified by numbers that making a computer program that accurately judges a player's skill level and matches them against others of the same skill level is practically if not actually impossible.

[BTGbullseye]

Actually, if they fix the match score system to better represent things other than damage that helps your team, and then change the PSR to actually use that rating instead of being heavily weighted towards winning, then the current matchmaker would already be sufficient.

[BTGbullseye]

This just in, got my first match with 4 solo kills... 5 KMDDs. (I've had more kills and KMDDs, but never more solo kills)

Edited by BTGbullseye, 10 May 2018 - 12:41 AM.

[Dragonporn]

BTGbullseye, on 10 May 2018 - 12:41 AM, said:

This just in, got my first match with 4 solo kills... 5 KMDDs. (I've had more kills and KMDDs, but never more solo kills)

What mech/build?

[BTGbullseye]

Mech: FNR-5(S)

Skills: https://kitlaan.gitl...49652#s=Weapons

Just slightly off from stock, but mostly the same. Very effective as a flanker.

Edited by BTGbullseye, 10 May 2018 - 07:03 AM.

[Brain Cancer]

BTGbullseye, on 10 May 2018 - 07:01 AM, said:

Mech: FNR-5(S)

Skills: https://kitlaan.gitl...49652#s=Weapons

Just slightly off from stock, but mostly the same. Very effective as a flanker.

It's hilarious when they don't notice the ECM assault creeping along until it's too late. Although the quad LGR stealth armored Fafnir I saw took that a teensy bit too far...

[BTGbullseye]

Hey, I was just about to try that build! lol

[Zibmo]

I have played my last match in this game. Not because I don't enjoy the game. I just can't play another game with people who are so afraid to get their paint scratched that they literally cannot push. They poke. And spectating, they are able to game the law of chance. Because sheer random luck would make one assume that they could hit...something.

But they don't. The amount of sheer not-good playing, and in particular, THIS GAME, is driving me out.

I'd rather stare at a wall. It probably be a better teammate.

Edited by Zibmo, 10 May 2018 - 05:53 PM.

[Brain Cancer]

Zibmo, on 10 May 2018 - 05:52 PM, said:

I have played my last match in this game. Not because I don't enjoy the game. I just can't play another game with people who are so afraid to get their paint scratched that they literally cannot push. They poke. And spectating, they are able to game the law of chance. Because sheer random luck would make one assume that they could hit...something.

But they don't. The amount of sheer not-good playing, and in particular, THIS GAME, is driving me out.

I'd rather stare at a wall. It probably be a better teammate.

I've had to swap weight classes at times just to roll the dice with a new field and hope it doesn't turn up full of potato.

I was trying to skill up an Arctic Wolf and after getting half my robot blown off by random team member "test firing" their Fafnir, I got to spectate in short order.

Things like standard engine Clan assaults. We're not even talking Supernovas. Marauder IICs that could barely carry half their normal payload because apparently, a big XL engine was too expensive but we had to play the chassis anyway. HMG Mauler that couldn't break 48 kph and XL checked dead. Unironic Jenner pilots using LRM 10s days after the LRM event ended. Not IIC. Regular Jenner. No other weapons.

I swapped to my Supernova again, and proceeded to get a decent team that grease-spotted the other guys in a sane, 12-6 win. Like waking up from an acid trip.

[BTGbullseye]

Yeah, sometimes you get a potato team, others you get a group of people that talk on comms and coordinate like a Comp team...

Believe it or not, I had someone complain about a push being the cause for our loss, despite the fact that I spectated him and he couldn't hit the broad side of a barn he was standing in. Still was a 12-10 game, so not bad at all.

[Dartangan]

You don't wanna play with bad pugs?!?!

Come to Solaris 7!!!

No one to blame but yourself there.

-Dart

[BTGbullseye]

Solaris also completely removes 95% of all tactics and builds from the game. It's boring.

[BTGbullseye]

I'm not making a new topic with the same title.

Felt like sharing. Got my best ever placement of an artillery strike and a UAV. HPG Conquest. We went underground for Theta with half our team, and stopped about half the other team in the entrance. I managed to place an arty strike into one of the corners behind most of them so none of them saw to get out of the way. Once 2 of theirs died from it, we pushed out, and I popped a UAV right at the entrance. That spotted all but 1 of the remains of their team, and we waddled through their remains. (most of us were assaults) It was a <4 minute stomp where we lost 1 mech. Was still fun though.

Edited by BTGbullseye, 23 May 2018 - 10:59 AM.

[Asym]

Zibmo, on 10 May 2018 - 05:52 PM, said:

I have played my last match in this game. Not because I don't enjoy the game. I just can't play another game with people who are so afraid to get their paint scratched that they literally cannot push. They poke. And spectating, they are able to game the law of chance. Because sheer random luck would make one assume that they could hit...something.

But they don't. The amount of sheer not-good playing, and in particular, THIS GAME, is driving me out.

I'd rather stare at a wall. It probably be a better teammate.

Many of us left the game on a F/T basis: we just play events and left the rest alone for many of the same reasons you are frustrated...

There are other games to play full-time and when an EVENT comes up, it's fun to drop in, make a few MC and go back to sea or space or wherever you games are !!!

Don't quit: just retire!!!

Edited by Asym, 23 May 2018 - 11:44 AM.