Castigatus, on 05 June 2021 - 01:35 AM, said:
You know I'm getting really tired of being told people like me are literally satan ruining the innocent solo players game, I just want to shoot robots with my friends.
And regardless of issues with the matchmaker the simple fact is even now the game does not have the population to support the separation of queues. If I had to queue 25-30 minutes for a pickup game, as was the case with the old group queue, I wouldn't be thinking 'wow, I'm sure glad those solo guys might have a slightly better time of it now',. No, I simply wouldn't be playing the game because the only alternative to that is about as enjoyable as having teeth pulled and the waits there are even longer.
I'm genuinely sick of people trying to drive players who want to do as I do out of the game for the sake of some nebulous and unproven improvement of the 'solo experience'.
Quoting this for emphasis.
i came back specifically because some of my buddies picked up the game again and I started dropping with them. We all just run whatever stupid **** we feel like playing, and since we're already on comms anyways via Discord, we've gotten better about calling information out to the team as a whole, as well. We're certainly not going out of our way to maliciously farm solos, and half the time we get rolled up and put in the garbage disposal right alongside the rest of our incompetent team.
This constant screeching about how all group players are The Very Definition of E.V.I.L. and we should all just quit the game entirely and stop Ruining it Forever(C) for solo players is just...do you
really want that ****? My little group in particular has introduced three new cadets to the game in just the last month - would you rather we
not get new people playing the game? Would you really,
truly rather just lose every player out there who isn't a dedicated solo from the game's population?
And don't give me any of that "just play in your own group-based queue!" ********, either. You KNOW that garbage didn't work for **** even when the game theoretically had the population to support it. Group queue times were awful and the numbers restrictions required to get people to play perfect little Tetyris-piece sized groups meant that most of the time you had to tell multiple friends to go away because you didn't have room. even now, the four-man size limit means our entire team can't play at once, so somebody has to go off and do something else. Hint: the "something else" is very rarely "continue playing MechWarrior Onlione, just solo instead."
I've said it the entire time I've played this game, both before and after the timeskip - your poor match performance has nothing to do with "The Matchmaker" screwing you. it has nothing to do with Evil Cheating Baby-Eating Group-Player Murder Commandos screwing you. It has nothing to do with being out-tonnaged and enemy assault 'Mechs screwing you.
Your poor match performance has to do with
you sucking. You, and all the yaybos around you that actively go out of their way to avoid developing the tactical knowledge and skills required for MWO in favor of over-emphasizing sheer reflexive twitch gunnery skills. Virtually everybody in this game sucks - you and me included - and that means wild inconsistencies in match experience based on who manages to suck harder in a given match. There's very little Piranha can do about it, so stop blaming them. There's
so many other things one can correctly blame Piranha for, but matchmaking
IS. NOT. ONE OF THEM.
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