83 replies to this topic

[Yosharian]

Vellron2005, on 18 July 2018 - 11:11 PM, said:

When disproved by actual score screens...



Dude, get your facts straight..

So in conclusion, your posts can be summarized as "you use LRMs, so you suck, cose' I said so! Shut up!"

Also, just as a point of interest, I have not used an Artillery strike on anything but a light for well over a year..

And FYI, average LRM boat scores don't mean a thing.. I was just disproving your claim that LRM boats don't do solo kills and KMDDs and that I was talking nonsense..

But I guess you're gonna call me a liar anyway..

> disproved

I said rarely, you didn't disprove ****. And it's still not down to your own skill, not really, the skill level for LRMs is vastly less than what's required for other weapons. Congrats, you demonstrated above-average intelligence when positioning your mech, then looked at enemies while holding down your fire button. Very skillful.

To reiterate, what I said was that LRM boats rarely do this kind of damage, so you didn't disprove anything with your screencaps.

And of course you refuse to give your average damage, because it 'doesn't mean a thing', but your cherry-picked damage screencaps definitely prove something, right?

At this point it's just sad.

[Eisenhorne]

Yosharian, on 20 July 2018 - 04:44 PM, said:

To reiterate, what I said was that LRM boats rarely do this kind of damage, so you didn't disprove anything with your screencaps.

Not supporting Vellron2005 here (god forbid), but....

The real problem is that they don't do THAT kind of damage that often, like the 1200+ kind, but they do it often enough that it's bad for such a low skill weapon. I've never run LRM's in quick play before this month really, I generally play ballistic assaults or laservomit heavies in quick play. I decided to see what I could do with LRM's, to see what all the fuss was about. I went out and bought 3 LRM mechs, a MAL-1R, a AWS-8R, and a SNV-A. These are my stats so far -

https://imgur.com/a/dyZbLRD

aws - 741 average damage per game.
mal - 862 average damage per game.
snv - 856 average damage per game.

This is all in the past month. Keep in mind that the MAL has been in a few FP games that help boost it's score a bit, but the others are quick play. This requires zero skill. I just move with the team, stay in the middle of them, and spam the damage button. It's pathetic how easy this is to do, and how little I have to do with it. If we get Solaris City, I'm basically useless. Same thing on like half the maps, I just don't do very well. However, "not doing very well" for a LRM boat is still 500-600 damage, and forcing people to keep their heads down.

LRM boats are just too easy to play, you don't have to do ANYTHING but spam your damage button, and it's a real problem.

[Chados]

Bush Hopper, on 15 July 2018 - 03:51 AM, said:

In general (after all I wasn't in the match so I cannot comment on it)...

1. there are things which indeed qualify as totally noobish. Today an assault parked his arse behind my light mech and I couldn't back away and had to eat 2 alphas of enemy assaults. Afterwards my mech was only a wreck. There was enough room and no need to park behind me. I was also angry.

2. Lately no one seems to care for enemy UAVs - even when the enemy team has LRM boats. No words...

3. if you lose 4-5 mechs within a minute...there isn't much to carry and even a good player will end up with bad results.

Oh, God, this. I’ve actually had to get on VOIP and ask a Warhawk driver not to try and hide behind me...in a Commando. A *Commando,* y’all. And UAVs? Ignored. What the actual F?

Yeah, I’ve become a convert to the idea that light mechs are unfairly disrespected. Running in the 20-35 ton class for a few dozen matches will do that to you. Bush, I owe you an apology for my comments about Jenners a couple years ago. Mea maxima culpa.

[JediPanther]

When the team doesn't play as a team it's just a quick loss. Even the most meta mech can't win 12 vs 1 when you've lost your 11 meat shields. I've even been playing my lct-1v with an er ll. qp has been worse than usual the past week. And that lct is the worst of them all.