Dogstar, on 03 June 2021 - 04:37 AM, said:
I have two accounts, this tier 5 IS account I'm posting from and a tier 3 Clan account (Mechatankzilla). I've been playing quite a bit on the clan account recently in order to get the free Timber Wolf as it's a fave of mine.
During that time Mechantankzilla played a fair number of games with Leone, a tier 1 player. I think we have compatible play times and they tend to be lower population times because I'm in Europe. I've never seem them when playing as Dogstar.
So a tier 3 player was regularly matched with a tier 1 player but not a tier 5 player.
Okay, so, in the interest of making sure we all have the correct information, I am currently at the bottom of Tier 4 in my main account. I offer for your perusal my Jarl's stats, which do not include Faction Warfare, much like PSR doesn't. If you don't know, I mainly stuck around for Faction. Tried comp, wasn't happy with it, tried Solaris when faction warfare died, but by then I was too late and it was dead as well. Faction Warfare's still fairly dead but alot more lively than it'd been for a while. Since coming back in April I've been having fun with quickplay waiting for faction matches, but I'm getting a bit burned out on it.
https://leaderboard..../search?u=Leone
Weird, I used to have a 10% survival rate... Really didn't feel like I survived that many matches due to my 'W' for the win playstyle. Anyways, I digress. So, point of the matter being I was solidly Tier 3 due to lack of games. Then I played a bunch and went down. I've never been Tier 1
I do not Quickplay like the majority of the player base. I start match heading for where I believe the enemy to be moving, and most of time am correct and rewarded with a glorious fight against superior numbers whilst my teammates flee. I will play lights and engage in light fights. I'll play assaults and stick on the left flank, and engage in light fights or try holding off multipule mechs on my lonesome.
Recently I've been playing a game called 'Suddenly Thanatos' where I take a stealth armoured Heavy brawler behind enemy lines, un-stealth and crash into them whilst they're trading with my team. They all turn their backs on the firing line and my mech gets totally wrecked whilst my team'll sometimes push and get loads of back shots and end up brawling overheated mechs. Sometimes they don't though and I die alone in pointless ignominy. I used to just take heavies and assaults out straight into the enemy for maximum damage over the least amount of time to dunk events and get back to Faction warfare. Unless I'm in a group I'll leave match to check Faction get a new search started if the queues not filling up. I often have two mechs 'in game' at once.
None of these things are good for PSR. If you do 300 damage and a solo kill with only three assists, (assuming your team even finishes the rest of the lance off,) you're not gonna be anywhere near top match score even though I feel like I did my part. (And that's a good game. Finishing a mech whilst outnumbered is Hard!)
I've been dropping with a friend lately and they always move with the group, and keep complaining about their PSR going up, even if they feel like they did poorly. They're Tier 2 now. What we do differently, I go where the fight is, often alone because pugs will pug. They stick with the group which tends to avoid conflict and die late. Meaning they have time to get more damage, higher chance of earning kills and have clutched a few victories from defeat by virtue of being fairly fresh near the endgame brawl. Often with me pointing out targets I'd manage to strip armour off but failed to secure because fighting off multipule mechs is a losing proposition.
I know how to increase my PSR, I just don't care because it's not what I consider fun. It's Quickplay. I play to screw around. And yes, the first mech I meet's prolly having a bad match, but just because I ruined someone else's PSR doesn't mean mine goes up.
As one of my unit mates put it "I'm going to try to win trades and put damage on the enemy without taking any. You know, like a good Mechwarrior should." Pure madness I tell you. I have no idea how anyone has the patience for that.
Also love the Madcat.
~Leone
Edited by Leone, 03 June 2021 - 01:15 PM.