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[LowSubmarino]

I know how this sounds.

And, yeah....its a rant.

Cause im not lying when I say that ive never seen soo many ppl play less than abysmal.

Playing abysmal doesnt even come anywhere near the things I see in many matches.

I just had 4 matches getting owned so hard with my team that it was over after moments. We got annihilated in moments and team is just folding and I see stats and I see half my team doing less than 80 dmg..

Like.....not even 2 full alphas. Half of them did like 60 or 30 dmg.

They die before clicking their mouse 2 times.

How is that even possible?

It isnt.

Only valid explanation is that theres maaaany many trolls ingame. Just suiciding and speaking of suiciding, the report function is as useless as the tier system.

Reporting ppl that suicide right at start over and over again doesnt do anything. They are still back and do the same again. Just running into the deathball right at start instadying. This doenst happen rarely. It happens all the time.

Its no fun when you are forced to play with ppl that are soo insanely bad that they cannot even be for real and have to be trolls.

I think mwo is infefsted with an army of trolls or its malware and bots just run straight into team red.

Pls install and establish a rule so that if any player dies doing only one or two alphas dmg more than once every thousand machtes is banned for a week. And after that theyre just banned permanently.

Cause trust me, not even infants or animals when they would randomly smash a keyboard would ever be able to play this bad. Thats impossible. No human could ever be so skillless on this level.

Only valid explanation is that mwo is infested with really evil malware or an insane amount of trolls that must be like 30 % or something.

I dont care what anybody says, doing 30 dmg means youre a troll thats a fact.

[John Bronco]

Another MM complaint. What a surprise.

[MrXanthios]

Oh yeah, the twodigiters.

[Vxheous]

MrXanthios, on 28 September 2018 - 06:10 PM, said:

Oh yeah, the twodigiters.

It's referred to as doing Double D's. That said, as long as they're having fun, then that's all that matters

[Dragonporn]

Why it is so wrong if I want to run single flamer Atlas? You're not my mom, OP, you can't tell me what to do!

On serious note, it's QP, deal with it, or migrate to FP or GQ, you won't see nothing like that, well... unless you would run with/against pugs. QP exists for lulz, you can't really expect anything in terms of teamplay from 24 randoms dropped on a map. Just relax and have fun... or don't, beats no one either way.

[MrXanthios]

Vxheous, on 28 September 2018 - 06:20 PM, said:

It's referred to as doing Double D's. That said, as long as they're having fun, then that's all that matters

I don't know, man. Mechwarrior more than many other games out there relies extremely on team work. I believe almost all of us are here because either we used to play the first mechwarrior videogames, or some more aged veteran even started with the table top games way before. For me it was mechwarrior 2, I played that game so much. I had a classmate in elementary school who was a fan as well, we used to play together at lunch time pretending we were piloting mechs. I played up to mw 4 mercenaries, then masturbated to the mw5 videos back in 2009, just to be disappointed when they interrupted the development. This game has many defects, but I like to believe we are all here because we love it, PGI might not be the best at delivering the product, but the passion forgives everything. In name of this and the respect towards the other teammates you drop with, doing a damage amount that reaches at least the three digits is the least one could do.

[FupDup]

I've seen people say this about other games like Heroes of the Storm and Overwatch. It seems to be a universal trait, really.

[process]

This game can be pretty unforgiving if you're not paying attention or just having an off match. It's easy to get picked apart by a firing line, and virtually impossible to get a lucky retaliatory kill like in other FPS games.

[Jman5]

I doubt that MWO has a particularly low skill player base. The game design is set up so that it can really punish mistakes. There is no respawns, mechs move pretty slow, and alphastrikes can be quite high.

I'll give you an example. I was doing the event playing a hunchback IIC. Well some hotshot 1 percenter sees me out of position with his high alpha laserboat ebon jaguar and he just rips my mech open in one hit. I wound up with a very low score and my team lost badly.

I screwed up. I'm not blaming balance or my team. But it was a single mistake that completely screwed me over that match.

Here's my suggestion. Try not to worry about the guys who don't do very well. Just think of it as a force of nature. Something you, and everyone else, just have to weather and overcome. Spend your energy figuring out how to deal with this handicap.

Do you pay better attention to your teammates on minimap and play defense to prevent the piranha feeding frenzy? Do you try to out-pace the wave of destruction on your own team by chewing through the other team faster? Do you just focus on your own performance and try to play as perfectly as possible to overcome the deficit?

I don't know. But you're a good enough player that maybe you can figure it out.

[El Bandito]

Pug life. It has been that way since 2012.

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[50 50]

If you aren't playing the game with your feet using a steering wheel while drinking your 6th+ beer, you're doing it wrong.

[JC Daxion]

well,,,,,


either you don't play group/comp....


or you are in the top 30 on leader boards...


Small pool,.. what ever..

[Mister Maf]

Clearly you haven't played Team Fortress 2, OP. It's the nature of multiplayer games; I'm not sure what you expect to be done.

[Snowhawk]

King Crab with 80 Damage, Dire Wolf with 33 Damage.... and the Atlas is capping Sigma. Ge geee!
That's the daily experience of a real mechwarrior.

Sometimes I have the feeling that the "floodgates" are open again and Tier 5 and 4 players are mixed into teams with T1 Players. Or maybe it's just the event which attracts some weekend-warriors, who knows.

[Vxheous]

Snowhawk, on 29 September 2018 - 02:16 AM, said:

King Crab with 80 Damage, Dire Wolf with 33 Damage.... and the Atlas is capping Sigma. Ge geee!
That's the daily experience of a real mechwarrior.

Sometimes I have the feeling that the "floodgates" are open again and Tier 5 and 4 players are mixed into teams with T1 Players. Or maybe it's just the event which attracts some weekend-warriors, who knows.

Typical Friday night/Saturday morning games.

[El Bandito]

Snowhawk, on 29 September 2018 - 02:16 AM, said:

King Crab with 80 Damage, Dire Wolf with 33 Damage.... and the Atlas is capping Sigma. Ge geee!
That's the daily experience of a real mechwarrior.

Sometimes I have the feeling that the "floodgates" are open again and Tier 5 and 4 players are mixed into teams with T1 Players. Or maybe it's just the event which attracts some weekend-warriors, who knows.

Which is why MWO should go back to 8v8 in QP. Less chance for the floodgate to open.

And less scrubs for me to carry.

[Scyther]

That is rant-worthy team performance, sure. And as OP says... suspiciously so.

Some context would be helpful. QP, GP, FP? Company tags involved? Maybe somebody stacking a game for fast wins?

I'm not a skilled player, so from where I sit in a typical QP solo pug, 'in general' the matches and MM are about what I would expect from years of playing WoT, STO and other games (where MM is a factor): 30% of the people are much better than me, 30% of the people are a fair bit worse, and about 40% are roughly within my performance range.

I don't play much lately, simply because while MWO is still good for what it was always good for (team deathmatch BattleBots), I'm kinda deathmatched out. However when I do poke in for an event or whatever, the QP solo pug team makeup seems about the same as it ever was... maybe, TBH, with less total trainwrecks than before.

Which makes me lean a bit in the OP's "trolls" direction.

[kapusta11]

El Bandito, on 28 September 2018 - 08:24 PM, said:

Pug life. It has been that way since 2012.

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Except every other game mode is pretty much dead right now.

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[El Bandito]

kapusta11, on 29 September 2018 - 04:36 AM, said:

Except every other game mode is pretty much dead right now.

I played several games of QP and FP today. There was no long wait time.

[VonBruinwald]

kapusta11, on 29 September 2018 - 04:36 AM, said:

Except every other game mode is pretty much dead right now.

You can still get games on Solaris, you may not get the division you want but it's all good fun, until someone joins in and starts running the division meta, at which point the queues flatline again.