VeeOt Dragon, on 11 August 2023 - 06:47 AM, said:
meh, every player is different i guess. i'm more a Casual player. i might come in and play a few matches a day during an event and then take long breaks. there was a time i would play many hours a day for days in a row but that was years ago. mostly i figure if i do around 400 damage and get a kill or two (or at least a couple KMDDs) i have done my fair share. then again i am also a player who often uses AMS if i can fit it or plays LRM (a weapon system i consider more a support weapon since i can use it to fire over terrain when a teammate calls for help if they press R). hell i love my Corsair-7A, its not a big damage dealer but it eats up a tone of incoming missile fire that would otherwise damage my teammates and the Catapult-C4 has always been a favorite LRM mech of mine since my Table Top days. i'm just not an overly competitive player, i don't feel i have to be the best on the team to have a good time.
I am not a competitive player. A game that rewards and values the minute-to-minute experience is one that takes care of its casual players much better. This game does not do that.
VeeOt Dragon, on 11 August 2023 - 06:47 AM, said:
what i am trying to say is that as a casual player i prefer the shorter matches that the one and done system gives. i can come in play for even half an hour and get a couple matches in then go on to some other game or a show (been Watching "Band of Brothers" the last day or so actually.)
Agreed, which is why QP matches should have a no more than 10 minute long timer on them.
VeeOt Dragon, on 11 August 2023 - 06:47 AM, said:
if someone wants respawns and drop decks there is a game mode for that called Faction Play.
Similar to the discussion about mech locking being a weird leftover, factionplay is a game mode that suffers from surplus ambition, followed by a lack of ambition. It was clearly meant to be far more than it was, before PGI stripped all the copper wire out of the walls.
Nobody is in that queue, so saying "if you want respawns go play faction play" essentially amounts to "you cant have or ask for that, shut up".
VeeOt Dragon, on 11 August 2023 - 06:47 AM, said:
as for the mech Locking i think that was Added when the game went from a Subscription model to a Free-to-play model. not sure as that was before my time (i refuse to play any subscription game as i find it not worth the investment). i think it was one of those things they added to get people to buy Mech bays/packs with real cash.
Mech Locking was from when mech bays and mechs were harder to come by, and you had to pay repair and rearm between matches. It was to make sure you couldn't just spam through matches.
Again, its a leftover from when the game was evidently meant to have more RPG features built in, almost all of which were abandoned soon after, but these weird artifacts are still left over.