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[MW Waldorf Statler]

Yesterday was a Good day to seeing how terrible many Players ...a Direwolf stands in 30m from my Timberwolf ECM in Front of me, fires one Salvon and after it stand still, and ignored my Mech , Palyers hit more the terrain as The enemy ,and plays confused taht im thinking ...they stoned ?

[Lightfoot]

Well, then it's time to join a clan or merc unit. I am available, but I use a joystick. Oh nooo's, but I also rarely miss. but I've also been away for long enough for my rank to drop from mid 2 to mid 3. I'll have to practice.

Still if they have enabled group play on quickplay, grouping is the way to go.

[MW Waldorf Statler]

Yes , I played 10 years in MW45 in league ,then many years here in clan dark Runes until he gave up MWO , now I only drop to events every few months in MWO. The last few months still something here pure look for which spent a lot of time and money before EG7 spend a Cry team from a other company to rescue MWO, shuts down the servers or MWO 2 comes.

Edited by MW Waldorf Statler, 27 October 2021 - 08:22 PM.

[CFC Conky]

pbiggz, on 27 October 2021 - 05:04 AM, said:

This is tricky because people who are determined to make this into a fight will point to that as conclusive proof. I've logged in as a solo and logged out an hour and a half later having lost every match I played.

I've also logged in and got strings of staggering victories. To take one half as a conclusive set of data and not the other is to ignore half of the data.




There is a literal conspiracy that states T1 players are making alts en-masse to join lower tier matches in a group and victimize players. Theres like, 2, maybe 3 guys that pushed that conspiracy so I don't discuss it much as it's not particularly valuable in this topic. I'm more concerned with the people who honestly think that their match quality has dropped post-merge. That has largely not been born out by any available stats.

PS. For any naysayers out there for whom A S H's stats aren't good enough, I'm parsing through chunks of the jarls list and averaging out WLR before the merger (season 46) and after. Without naming names, some of you are arguing that your match quality has dropped precipitously since the merger, and your win loss rate either didn't change, or improved, so y'all need to reflect on why you've taken so much time and energy to convince yourself that groups are making the game worse for you personally, because they aren't.



Most guys are just interested in clicking the bad robots. For sure, some weird stuff happens in T4 and T5, but for the most part these people are not spending time and energy fabricating a victim complex for themselves. The people who are most militant about groups reducing their quality of play in queue are fairly established in this game, and not really bottom of the barrel in terms of tier. It's actually an interesting phenomenon because as I mentioned, their WLR is public information available on jarls list, and they largely did not suffer any significant changes due to the queue merger.



This is kinda the long and the short of it. People win and people lose, and some people just can't tolerate a loss. For them losing some matches must mean some other malevolent force has to be effecting their outcomes.

Here's my experience with the Soup Q:

Before the merge I was T2 but to be honest really belonged in the lower third of T3. After the merge my stats fell off a cliff to T5 and stayed there as I adapted to the new QP environment. The Cauldron changes have also meant adapting to new realities. I'm now switching back and forth between T4/T3 and regularly drop with well-known players and/or units, with matches going either way.

In my opinion the new player experience in MWO is pretty merciless and I think the Soup Q has made it a little worse. Experienced players should be able to adapt, if I can, anybody can.

Good hunting,
CFC Conky

Edited by CFC Conky, 28 October 2021 - 01:29 PM.

[pbiggz]

CFC Conky, on 28 October 2021 - 01:26 PM, said:

Here's my experience with the Soup Q:

Before the merge I was T2 but to be honest really belonged in the lower third of T3. After the merge my stats fell off a cliff to T5 and stayed there as I adapted to the new QP environment. The Cauldron changes have also meant adapting to new realities. I'm now switching back and forth between T4/T3 and regularly drop with well-known players and/or units, with matches going either way.

In my opinion the new player experience in MWO is pretty merciless and I think the Soup Q has made it a little worse. Experienced players should be able to adapt, if I can, anybody can.

Good hunting,
CFC Conky

There was a PSR reset in there too. That did have a significant effect on peoples' placement. No disagreement from me on the essential non-existence of a new player experience in this game. It's one of the reasons I don't see this game going anywhere except a new offering, MWO2 or more likely MW6.

[peekyblinder]

pbiggz, on 28 October 2021 - 03:32 PM, said:

There was a PSR reset in there too. That did have a significant effect on peoples' placement. No disagreement from me on the essential non-existence of a new player experience in this game. It's one of the reasons I don't see this game going anywhere except a new offering, MWO2 or more likely MW6.

Indeed, the PSR reset had some effect too.

Edited by peekyblinder, 30 October 2021 - 10:42 AM.