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[Nesutizale]

Its okay to ALT-TAB out but please could you use ALT-TAB to get back in. Today I have been nearly shot down by some ALT-TAB guy shooting me in the back 3 times in a row.

For those who are just "testing their weapons" do that in the testing grounds or at least make sure you point into the oposite direction of your team.

Thanks

[D V Devnull]

Good Words, Nesutizale! This should be pinned in the "New Player Help" area, as literally everyone should learn to use Alt+Tab on their keyboards to switch applications.

Further, if they want to avoid crashes when Alt+Tab'ing with MWO involved, then they can use Alt+Enter to toggle between Full Screen and Windowed modes.

~D. V. "Nice PSA, Nesutizale!" Devnull

[Monkey Lover]

If you could go back 4 years when they're still updated the game you could ask them not to face everyone In the same direction.


Lol

[Aidan Crenshaw]

Monkey Lover, on 29 July 2020 - 05:35 PM, said:

If you could go back 4 years when they're still updated the game you could ask them not to face everyone In the same direction.


Lol

Um... you dont? Mechs face in two different directions when dropped. They start in pairs, back to back

[martian]

Nesutizale, on 29 July 2020 - 12:40 PM, said:

Its okay to ALT-TAB out but please could you use ALT-TAB to get back in. Today I have been nearly shot down by some ALT-TAB guy shooting me in the back 3 times in a row.

For those who are just "testing their weapons" do that in the testing grounds or at least make sure you point into the oposite direction of your team.

Thanks

I am afraid that your plea will fall on deaf ears.

[crazytimes]

I bound arty to alt for a brief period.

It went poorly. I unbound it.

[Kubernetes]

Nesutizale, on 29 July 2020 - 12:40 PM, said:

"testing their weapons"

Love that, as if this game features weapons malfunctions. As for heat, you shouldn't be dropping in the first place if you don't know how hot are your alphas. Like you said, go to training grounds and figure it out.

[LordNothing]

if wait times were significantly less there would be less afking.

[Willard Phule]

LordNothing, on 30 July 2020 - 12:03 PM, said:

if wait times were significantly less there would be less afking.

Interestingly enough, I suspect the wait times are directly correlated to some of the matches we've been getting. It's almost as if the longer you wait for the MM to throw 24 people of reasonably approximate skill together, the higher your odds of getting a match with a "CADET" in it as well as increasing the number of AFKs in the match.

Must be a coincidence. Couldn't possibly be a design flaw, or they'd have announced it as a "feature."

[LordNothing]

Willard Phule, on 30 July 2020 - 12:30 PM, said:

Interestingly enough, I suspect the wait times are directly correlated to some of the matches we've been getting. It's almost as if the longer you wait for the MM to throw 24 people of reasonably approximate skill together, the higher your odds of getting a match with a "CADET" in it as well as increasing the number of AFKs in the match.

Must be a coincidence. Couldn't possibly be a design flaw, or they'd have announced it as a "feature."

i bet most of those cadets are alt accounts.

[Nesutizale]

That is pretty much how the MM works. If a certain time limit is exceeded it looks forther down the line for players.
That means the longer you wait the higher the chances are that lower Tier people will be added.

When they tried to make MM just one Tier matches waittimes rose to 4-5 min I think it was. Many people complained about it so it was lowered to I think around a minute.

So its not a "feature" but a must have for matches to start at all or at least faster then you can make a coffee.

[Willard Phule]

LordNothing, on 30 July 2020 - 12:41 PM, said:

i bet most of those cadets are alt accounts.

And that affects the PSR, how? Alt or not, they start in T3 like everyone else. If the MM waits long enough, you get T1, T2 and "CADETS" in the same match. Fact. It happens.

[LordNothing]

Willard Phule, on 30 July 2020 - 02:10 PM, said:

And that affects the PSR, how? Alt or not, they start in T3 like everyone else. If the MM waits long enough, you get T1, T2 and "CADETS" in the same match. Fact. It happens.

it doesnt have a thing to do with psr. new player numbers just arent that great according to jarls. not enough to matter. granted they are up due to covid (a virus did more for this game than pgi, lol), but thats only short term.

alt accounts happen too. any time there is a change whether the advantage of an alt is valid or not, they are created in droves.

Edited by LordNothing, 30 July 2020 - 03:36 PM.

[Willard Phule]

LordNothing, on 30 July 2020 - 03:28 PM, said:

it doesnt have a thing to do with psr. new player numbers just arent that great according to jarls. not enough to matter. granted they are up due to covid (a virus did more for this game than pgi, lol), but thats only short term.

alt accounts happen too. any time there is a change whether the advantage of an alt is valid or not, they are created in droves.

FFS. As was every single person that had an account prior to the PSR change. Everyone was made T3, the center of the scale. The T1s and the T5s that joined 5 minutes before became "equal." On top of that, the way movement along the PSR scale was changed, ostensibly giving everyone an "equal footing" to get to where they belong. In theory. It might be true. I'm plateaued between 2 and 1, so I can't complain about anything other than the way the entire thing has become stompwarrior online.

Some T5s are finding their way back to the bottom, just as some guys are getting to T1. But every single new guy starts his journey at 3....easily in range of the MM for both 2s and 1s. They're just there to get harvested and sometimes you get stuck with them on your team. Normally, when the other team has a premade of T1s.

[General Solo]

Its a sheet excuse used by passive aggressive types to back shoot on purpose
Trust me
Im a dentist

[Willard Phule]

OZHomerOZ, on 31 July 2020 - 02:21 PM, said:

Its a sheet excuse used by passive aggressive types to back shoot on purpose
Trust me
Im a dentist

"On purpose" doesn't happen anywhere near as often as "I don't care anymore." Something the FP refugees have yet to learn from us long term residents of the Quick Potato queue is that after you get your own back shot out, you stop caring about shooting the backs of the same idiots.