47 replies to this topic

[Brom96]

Thank you for advice, I shall try them out.

As for alt tabbing, just finding the match can take up to 10 minutes, and then the loading screen. I deem that I can use better that time, do some work, etc. Besides, I check it regularly. However, I usually assume that the people who are inactive are disconnected, despite showing the ping. After all seen in this game, I wouldn't be surprised.

[General Solo]

Sometime u late to the party for reasons, happens to all of us filthy casuals (Oh moi goodness the chips!!!).
Its not planned
Lets say it happens to you, so your here, now what?

Activate beast mode and get dat win or
curl up into a ball, the past u can't change but the future can be influenced for the win in many situations

And frankly
listening to salty people spam the comms is a distraction
Doh it can motivate you at times

So yeah not planned mostly

Edited by OZHomerOZ, 06 January 2020 - 12:25 AM.

[O L L O]

I hear voip but not game sound when Im alt-tabbed, so I hear the talking,

Anyway, if you alt tab to a web browser, dont use fullscreen for the browser, and you will see when the game starts.

[Dimento Graven]

Nearly Dead, on 02 January 2020 - 07:16 AM, said:

I have only been playing for a week or so, but I have noticed that often a mech will just sit where dropped and take no action. Often the player is "No Name". Is this just someone who got disconnected, or had real life intrude and doesn't want to get a penalty for exiting the game?

I just left a match where there were two inactive mechs just sitting, although one had at least walked into the city before being abandoned, the other was still sitting where dropped.

There's also been a bug that's been around, apparently for a LONG time now, where a person can actually be dropped into multiple matches simultaneously. They'll be playing in one while their 'mech sits there "afk/disco" in the other match.

I know this happens because there was a match I'd played in that ended early, and then upon clicking drop for the next match, I was presented with the option of joining a match that was all ready in progress. I joined it, sure enough it was a real match, I was somehow still alive and untouched and proceeded to play the rest of the match out.

I doubt PGI will ever do anything about this as this has existed for years, but apparently is also a very rare event (which probably makes it rather difficult to troubleshoot).

[Brom96]

Actually, now that you mention it, I had the similar thing happen to me about 4 months ago. I dismissed it at that time - I was quite confused about that option to join another match in the same mech after I just finished one - but this explains it.

Edited by Brom96, 08 January 2020 - 10:37 AM.

[Phoolan Devi]

Joshua McEvedy, on 04 January 2020 - 04:16 AM, said:

Last spring, I was in a match on Rubellite in which two top players from a well-known comp group sync-dropped in a meta Cyclops-Sleipnir and an Annihilator 2A. During the ensuing battle, they stayed in the drop zone with their backs up against the cliff wall while the rest of us mooks marched out to the central portion of the map to fight it out with the Red Team. We called them out for shirking but they refused to budge or even acknowledge us.

The long and short of it was that we naturally got outgunned by the Red Team and was down 10 to 6 before these two jokers finally came out of the gate fresh and farmed the enemy's remaining six damaged mechs quite easily, taking the win and boosting their own stats. It felt very dirty and several of us PUGGers were disgusted in chat and VOIP by this kind of play, but the two comp guys never said a word back and disconnected to move on to their next match.

True story.

LOL! I know exactly who you mean and it didn't change since last spring.

[Alan Hicks]

Players not being active after drop is common and really annoying. I can understand random connection issues, but if they happen too often then it is the obligation of the user to get it corrected,

A lot of times we can see not a disco, but another irresponsible player AFK, the mech ready to go, but it won't move.

This has happened as long as I can remember and it's just nonsense how in a lot of close matches you get a loss because of it.

[Burning2nd]

Vxheous, on 02 January 2020 - 11:07 AM, said:

If someone is alt-tabbed, their ingame sound won't come through, at least mine won't, so this is completely useless as a "wake up"

Then your **** is broken.. cause it most certainly does, I wake people up all the time from desk top.. The sound and VOIP are two different parts of the way windows does sound

i do the same whistle i do the same comms check every match, it works well..

While the ingame sound wont come thru.. the comms Does, but thats cause they are two different processes

Phoolan Devi, on 11 January 2020 - 04:53 AM, said:

LOL! I know exactly who you mean and it didn't change since last spring.

It aint hard to figure out who it is either, same old bs

Edited by Burning2nd, 11 January 2020 - 12:12 PM.