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[PocketYoda]

Not everyone is competitive.

[RockmachinE]

PocketYoda, on 04 December 2022 - 06:18 AM, said:

Not everyone is competitive.

Its not competitiveness though, its competence.

I don't play competitively at all, but I still know what I need to do to contribute. You don't even need to be very good at MWO to do well, just have some basic competence to know what the best course of action is to help the team in a given moment. That's all it takes. Some people seem to be oblivious to the fact this is a team game...or how it works at all.

You can still goof around, take high risks, play for fun and contribute without being competitive.

Edited by Louis Brofist, 04 December 2022 - 03:56 PM.

[Cyborne Elemental]

Or, the playerbase has just gotten so small that we're getting mixed Tier matchup games.

Or you just play alot, like me, and have moved up in tier regardless of total match scores ect.

Honestly though, its my best guess that its a combination of complete lack of team communication, and a mix of players that need some sort of plan, so everyone just runs around doing whatever.

Even if its a bad plan, at least your team will mostly be together to call targets, focus on targets, and watch eachother's back.

When you get put on a team, where nobody uses their Mic, or can even press a keyboard key to mark a target, you can be pretty sure its going to be a loss.

[martian]

Strelok7, on 30 November 2022 - 01:48 PM, said:

You are rolling with the same group = you are getting the same results. You want different results = break the cycle. Wait to join. Take a pause and come back. Sometime you will just have to reschedule your game hour.

Rescheduling the game hour could be too much. But waiting for a while, until all current players and premades drop in a different game, is often enough.

[Duke Falcon]

Hmmm... This tread still alive?

Strange...

How?

...

How not?

[Weeny Machine]

By Any Other Name, on 05 December 2022 - 09:08 AM, said:

You go from one game with premades to another. Repeats still happen, sometimes with people on different sides, but the playerbase is sufficiently rarified at this point (especially at certain hours) that this doesn't work nearly as well as you seem to think it does.

If you're trying to desync chances are others as well.

Yup, this worked when the playerbase was bigger. When I do that now I end up usually losing to a different premade...from the frying pan into the fire.

In a couple of months the playerbase will be small enough that premades fight only premades. Can't wait to see their faces then because it is the same development as in Faction Play. Premades farm pugs. Pugs get annoyed and leave. Premades fight premades. The worse premades get farmed and leave. Dead queue.

[martian]

By Any Other Name, on 05 December 2022 - 09:08 AM, said:

You go from one game with premades to another. Repeats still happen, sometimes with people on different sides, but the playerbase is sufficiently rarified at this point (especially at certain hours) that this doesn't work nearly as well as you seem to think it does.

If you're trying to desync chances are others as well.

I do it because it seems to me that it helps a bit.

[RockmachinE]

By Any Other Name, on 05 December 2022 - 09:34 AM, said:

Sleep in the bed you made. Die on your own sword. You fostered an environment of alienation and frustration, and have the nerve to bemoan the lack of apparent desire for camaraderie.

That's overly dramatic and hilarious. Just play the game dude.