Alienized, on 06 April 2019 - 09:04 AM, said:
ofc you get better when you play something more often, you learn to drive it.
now, the more you drive the less played mechs you will be better at them too but its a rocky road.
and stats dont really fkin matter.
i dont wanna know how much time i spent to play the victor properly before the quirks been out but it was totally worth it.
It's not that, it's often the builds. I play some mechs with "alight" builds, but they show more promise than other builds on said mech. I enjoy them. I play them often, but the builds/mechs don't necessarily compete with more meta like mechs with often better quirks or hitboxes.
In the case of my experiment, I chose mechs I knew could deal large amount of damage with as little experimental potential as possible. The old reliable builds, rather than (for example) my LRM Huntsmen which has shown great stats before hand, but with the recent changes I didn't want to have that impact my scores. I use said Huntsmen all the time, but with AMS changes and missile changes, it's become a little more questionable on it's viability.
Basically, if I wanted to play boring and "what I know works" only, I could get good scores and stats. But I like variety and making mechs that don't work for me start to work better. I also enjoy mechs that, sometimes, don't have reliable performance. I like to just change things up, as well as continue to experience different builds, weapons and possible weapon combinations.
I mean, I just, before I focused on my "stats", experimented to see if MRMs and LBx weapons blended well with my Shadowhawk. Didn't dare continue the experiment between the event and trying to "show what I can do with my stats". Maybe I'll continue that experiment now though...