tker 669, on 25 May 2018 - 01:41 AM, said:
I played against you guys on Terra Therma assault, in which we lost (you were also in that one for sure because I remember it had been a while since I saw you in CW). There was a gen rush as well on Boreal.
Terra game we had terrible pugs, and myself and a couple others played really poorly. Our communication was off and people did not follow calls. To deal with Linebackers though, you need a good amount of space and height to make sure they are not fresh coming in. The team also needs hard focus on legs because you guys are running and twisting the whole time.
The Linebacker tactic the way you guys do it is strong against IS armor advantage. Waves of them is draining and really tough. Positioning even for experienced players is hard to even get too.
Guess my point is that the tactic puts you in the position that makes it hard, at times to cover the objectives as well. Not so much on that assault where we had the platform overwatch, but other modes like siege and domination. So you saying it is stupid to not cover objectives is kind of insulting if you are talking about skilled folks who know how to play. Especially since in games that I have been in lately, those couple of wins were the first in a while.
There are easy counters too. Four Wolfhounds could have sprinted/snuck on past the Night Gyr's and capped while eight stalled you at platform. Thing is that would not be something you'd want to bring if you happened to run into someone other than Kcom.
So your tactic is strong and can be brought pretty much everywhere. This is why I really would like it if PGI changed it so that you could choose your deck after you see who you are fighting. You played MRBC this season right... part of why I watch is those tactics let's say 228 takes in against SA vs what they do versus someone else as an example.
Same idea on Boreal, we were set up for the 99% of matches on that map. 1G's are pretty terrible against Linebacker gen rushes, but please don't suggest I am a moron somehow for doing so. Cause if I was set up in my Kcom counter deck all of the time, I'd be losing to pugs and bad units a lot. Just a side note, recently I have got folks in my drop to bring Assassins first wave to Alpine which gets off snipe/lurm fest quickly, I just don't do that every time, every map. I do get it though and why you guys do it. Oh and then there is the flak BCMC used to catch for everyone bringing 3 Whammy 6R's and a Cicada 2B everywhere except ranged maps back in the day... so again I get it.
Don't get the wrong idea as well, I think Boreal is cancer. It is boring to defend (if lurms are a viable and dangerous defense....) and imo not balanced to attack. No other map puts you in such peril to open the bloody gate. Gen rushing too doesn't really bother me anymore. Don't care about win/loss when I am pushing a silly 14+ wlr because barely any skilled player are around playing the mode. A good deal of the time running into you guys is about the only time there is any question about the W.
If solely up to me, and a team wants to gen rush I'd let them. Like I said don't care. Literally I would stand aside if they want the win that bad in the dying mode with hardly anyone around worth fighting, have at it. Wouldn't fire a shot even. Am actually trying to get my guys to adopt this as wins and ratio mean nothing anymore. Don't care about tags on planets, especially since I can't field a 12 man of BCMC. At best we will have 5 or 6 of us and rely on friends to fill out the rest.
So what I am really after is interesting matches. Even the multiple Linebacker rushes we've foiled recently has gotten old. It's fast pace and all, but getting and holding a position and shooting legs is not exactly rocket science, it's tough don't get me wrong, but not challenging as far as scope goes. It's also so repetitive doing over and over match after match. Like that last match on Terra, where I played poorly. I wasn't into it. Couldn't motivate myself to get into it or care. Usually after a loss I am pumped to get back out for a rematch, but instead I went and did something else. Now stopping you folks in Anni's and Cyclop's is what I am craving right now. Matches against you guys were much closer to 50/50 wlr last time you guys were IS.
So we're Clan right now and will probably stay that way for a while, especially since right now fights are pretty good if you get Goon and you are a 6 to 8 man. Think some of the Evils are still up for stopping the waves of Linebackers, but not I (I'm content with only losing twice to it or Kcom in recent memory ). I kept hoping I'd run into a situation where you were all in Mad Cat MKII's or a lovely pack of Orion IIC's barrelling towards me, but to no avail.
Please don't read any hate into what I am saying towards you guys. Going and hanging out with some of the Bacon guys opened my eyes a bit to the whole 'don't hate the player, hate the game'. Which I love to hate this game. Love playing it, hate the decisions PGI has made to the only mode I am really interested in. Hate the population level and how it feels like there are only a handful of decent players even around playing it. Hate that if I run in a twelve hoping to meet another good unit, how much agro it causes bad units and the poor pugs we encounter (hey even had a nutjob saying he was going to fight people at mechcon 2018 because of losing ffs....). Hate if I only run six (not all BCMC even) I inevitably get those same poor pugs on my side and end up losing to bad units, who then generally rub it in like the groupie Kcom wanna be unit you guys sometimes drop with did tonight. Just generally hate and am frustrated that the future is pretty bleak considering the life cycle/age of the game and likelihood of meaningful changes correcting all of the gripes being almost guaranteed to be zero. Really don't think that BCMC will even be around that much longer and don't know what else I can even get from this game, and it makes me sad.
What I do know is that while I am still around I will be looking for decent and interesting fights. I won't be switching our contract so we can meet up against you guys as we did before because in spite of being up on wins, it isn't worth it anymore. That'll probably switch when you go back to IS and I am sure some of those I was in that last one against you will be up for thwarting the zerg rushes, so you will have your same old rivalry but I am out.
Sir, this is a McDonald's drive thru.