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[BTGbullseye]

LikeUntoGod, on 15 May 2018 - 04:02 AM, said:

But, almost to TWO.

Almost grats! (I'm a week or so away myself)

[Barkem Squirrel]

Darakor Stormwind, on 12 May 2018 - 01:51 PM, said:

Well, I get 400+ points every now and then in T3, but I guess I can kiss the MC for 500+ good bye. Even with my mastered Mechs I don't get there right now. I used the current sale to buy an IS Assault and a Clan Light Mech. I can already tell it will be painful to skill them up. ;-) I had an even win/loss ratio before I started playing them. ;-)

I can adapt, role wise. I just like to feel I participated and did not drag down the average too much. I tend to assume I did something wrong. ;-) And I probably did. too. ;-)

The little secret I have was about this time last year I was tier 5. Why, computer. It is hard playing sub 10 frames per second, and that is with LRMs forget trying to hit things with AC's. Now when I started to use the new computer, well, well , well. 700, 800, 900 match scores. Then many matches with 1000 - 1600 damage It was interesting, like I should not be there. It just felt dirty until I hit tier 2.

I got good at playing on sub standard machines, but practiced the basics in the training grounds. Then when I got to play on a good computer wow. So I started from the P of pilot in tier 5, playing aggressively I ended up vaulting out of tier 5, blowing through tier 4 and slowing down a bit in tier 3 and landing into tier 2 where the grind began about halfway through. This took me just a few months, but the same amount of time to get through tier 2. I got into tier 1 I think in December or January. So now it has been 13 months from low tier 5 to 3/4 or so into tier 1 and still rising.

I hit a wall and had to stop being so aggressive and made a decision to play a little bit more conservatively. But that was about halfway through tier 2. Now at tier 1 all bets are off and I get my unit members charging behind me or I get to play the spotter or NARCer for LRM runs. (who better to put in a spotting or NARCing roll than the resident LRM boat pilot)

The best thing to say, how do you like to play. Then do it. Will you figure out doing certain things will cause you to die, how some people move on the maps again and again.

There are players that have played this game since 2012 or early 2013 that are still in tier 3 or 4 or 5. they are still having fun or they would have quit by now. Then even at tier 1 you will have some PUG groups that just disperse for no purpose and the assault that runs off on his own gets jumped by 1 to 3 lights and dies while calling for help that never comes. Then complains about it.

Just remember, it's a game to have fun with. OMG did I just say have fun, not go hard core each match with optimized builds!

Edited by Barkem Squirrel, 15 May 2018 - 12:51 PM.

[TooDumbToQuit]

I'm afraid to play a match now, lol. It only took me 2 and 1/2 years....

[Spare Parts Bin]

Congrats to all who have advanced. MWO is a team game when my team can not fight its way out of a wet paper bag, I have not been able to carry. Love this game but it seems the other team uses the plans I discussed with mine.

[Quandoo]

MWO ist not a team game, its a matchmaker game. It decideds which team will win even before the game starts.
Mixing T1 and T5 is not fair for anyone. T1 gets bored, T5 gets frustrated.

It's sad when I see 3 rookies getting killed by me while they rush into my dual hvy gauss with ATMS And after that you kill another 3

And those trial mechs should be banned starting from T3. They are highly unoptimized, like the garbage setups you get when buying a new mech

Edited by Quandoo, 19 May 2018 - 04:20 AM.

[Alexander of Macedon]

Or better yet, we could get a full selection of decent trial 'mech builds put together by people who know what they're doing. Decent in the sense of "not terrible, and not going to punish someone who isn't intimately familiar with how to work ATMs/ride the heat threshold/deadside/&c.".

[BTGbullseye]

LikeUntoGod, on 19 May 2018 - 02:40 AM, said:

I'm afraid to play a match now, lol. It only took me 2 and 1/2 years....

And you're already back down to 3... I'm sorry for your loss.

Quandoo, on 19 May 2018 - 04:04 AM, said:

Mixing T1 and T5 is not fair for anyone. T1 gets bored, T5 gets frustrated.

It doesn't do that... It matches within 2 tiers. T3 is the only one that can match with any tier, and then the match is still only spread across at most 3 tiers.

[Spare Parts Bin]

I am Tier 5 but the tactics some folks use defy logic. Why???

[Tier5ForLife]

BTGbullseye, on 20 May 2018 - 03:37 AM, said:

And you're already back down to 3... I'm sorry for your loss.

Hey, I'm still in Tier 2. Killing you twice yesterday helped.

Thanks!

[BTGbullseye]

Glad to help. lol

Though one of those, the entire team went on a suicide march nascar... Not much a lone assault can do to carry that.

Spare Parts Bin, on 20 May 2018 - 03:41 AM, said:

I am Tier 5 but the tactics some folks use defy logic. Why???

Because tier has nothing to do with actual skill, or tactical capability.

[Alexander of Macedon]

BTGbullseye, on 20 May 2018 - 03:37 AM, said:

And you're already back down to 3... I'm sorry for your loss.


It doesn't do that... It matches within 2 tiers. T3 is the only one that can match with any tier, and then the match is still only spread across at most 3 tiers.

MM has been broadened sometime recently, probably due to lower populations. I've been seeing T4/5s in my matches. Some people are reporting running into fresh cadets as T1s.

[BTGbullseye]

This is news to me, especially considering how many derp T1s I encounter. More often than not T4-T3 players are better teammates.

[Barkem Squirrel]

Remember also, some people almost always drop in groups and that can if their unit mates are very good bring them up to a higher level. Still there is nothing like having 3 tier 1's and one tier 3, 4 or 5 to bring his score up very fast. Then playing with a unit also makes a player better too, we can not discount that.

Then there are many players out there that just scare the hell out of you. I do not care what their tier score is some people are just flat out great at playing the game.

Those are the people that average over 400 match scores and even the ones with averages over 500! Anyone with over a 300 match score average is dangerous.

[Barkem Squirrel]

Spare Parts Bin, on 20 May 2018 - 03:41 AM, said:

I am Tier 5 but the tactics some folks use defy logic. Why???

God, do not remind me of tier 5. I had to go hyper aggressive to get out of that zoo. That includes charging the other team in a LRM boat. That was the only way I could get the team to do what I wanted, plus tell them what I was going to do and to follow me. Even if I got half the team to follow it was enough to break up the other team like a flock of Turkeys. Then pick of the stragglers. They liked the flock of Turkey reference.

[Tier5ForLife]

Tier 5, Tier 4 and semi Tier 3 is the most fun.

Players are running crazy builds and doing crazy things. And no one really cares, they are just having fun.

At Tier 3 and 2 you get more people bitching, sort of like in PUG faction matches. As in having to put them on mute.

[Barkem Squirrel]

BTGbullseye, on 20 May 2018 - 05:24 AM, said:

This is news to me, especially considering how many derp T1s I encounter. More often than not T4-T3 players are better teammates.

I think that is the "you are telling me what to do," issue some players have. I have to agree on that. Still I am having more satisfying matchs now for some reason. Still 12-0 rolls still happen.

[TooDumbToQuit]

I lost all of Tier 5 and it took months to get the first little bit of gold on the bar. In fact, I did not know the bar existed.

[Tier5ForLife]

Barkem Squirrel, on 20 May 2018 - 11:17 AM, said:

I think that is the "you are telling me what to do," issue some players have. I have to agree on that. Still I am having more satisfying matchs now for some reason. Still 12-0 rolls still happen.

One of the things I find interesting about this game mainly with PUGs is that you will win a game 12-3 and then lose one 3-12. And this will happen all day and with basically the same people.

That is one reason I find that just being up or down 1-2 at the beginning of the game often determines the end of the game. MWO is not about one on ones. It is about finding 2-3 on ones. And once your team gets up or down, the results follow.

[TooDumbToQuit]

Funk me, I just noticed I lost Tier 2 last night.

And the depression set in......

[Tarl Cabot]

LikeUntoGod, on 20 May 2018 - 11:29 AM, said:

Funk me, I just noticed I lost Tier 2 last night.

And the depression set in......

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