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[Whizbang AGNC]

I'm just about done with this cheating POS. PGI, you are making the nerfing of players so obvious it's ridiculous. I can understand getting a crap team once in a while. But to keep getting them every game all the time for days? The odds are incredible, unless you guys are nerfing players. I'm tired of being cannon fodder for you favorite players. There are too many other games to play out there that are fun to keep putting up with this nonsense. And as I can see from my lists, how many more players can you afford to lose? Make the game honest again.

[martian]

Can I have your stuff?

[Rosarius]

If you aren't having fun then perhaps you should take a break. A real break. Not a fake break like when you said you had moved on 8 months ago and went on to play +150 quick play matches a month.

[PurplePuke]

Lay your head in my lap. Let me hold you. It will be okay. Monsters aren't real. Trust in the Lord.

[Doppelsoldner King Crab]

That happens sometimes.

One time i had lost all matches but one/two in a span of 5 hours.
This happened years ago, since then if I am in a losing streak like 2 hours of losing i do this:

1. Select your three most effective mechs, not your favorite, but where you get most match score.
Use these three for your next matches, just to break the losing streak.

For me I use Belial, Heavy metal, or the Argent.

If #1 doesn't work,

2. Determine the reason on why you lost / why you died and avoid it on the next match.

e.g.
a. Poor positioning - improve your position next match, stay with the larger group
b. Nascar - try to ask the team not to Nascar the next match.
c. Enemy murderball pushes you - call out battlegrids to defend against pushes or bring a mech that stops pushes. example: I use KGC-Kaiju with UAC-20 and MRM 60 - stops most pushes - or you die with very high match score.
d. Getting wolf packed by lights - stay with the group, bring mechs with anti-light weapons

If #2 doesn't work.

3. Take a short break - coffee break, a light snack and come back.

If it doesn't work, take a longer break, like a day or two.

[Ken Harkin]

Whizbang AGNC, on 25 September 2024 - 08:24 PM, said:

I'm just about done with this cheating POS. PGI, you are making the nerfing of players so obvious it's ridiculous. I can understand getting a crap team once in a while. But to keep getting them every game all the time for days? The odds are incredible, unless you guys are nerfing players. I'm tired of being cannon fodder for you favorite players. There are too many other games to play out there that are fun to keep putting up with this nonsense. And as I can see from my lists, how many more players can you afford to lose? Make the game honest again.

ha ha ha ha ha.... You honestly think PGI not only cares about YOU enough to nerf you by deliberately constructing bad teams for you to be a part of? Even better, you think PGI has the skills to carry that out?

I think you are making some rather extreme assumptions.

[Ken Harkin]

Scarlet King Crab, on 26 September 2024 - 06:03 PM, said:

That happens sometimes.

One time i had lost all matches but one/two in a span of 5 hours.
This happened years ago, since then if I am in a losing streak like 2 hours of losing i do this:

1. Select your three most effective mechs, not your favorite, but where you get most match score.
Use these three for your next matches, just to break the losing streak.

For me I use Belial, Heavy metal, or the Argent.

If #1 doesn't work,

2. Determine the reason on why you lost / why you died and avoid it on the next match.

e.g.
a. Poor positioning - improve your position next match, stay with the larger group
b. Nascar - try to ask the team not to Nascar the next match.
c. Enemy murderball pushes you - call out battlegrids to defend against pushes or bring a mech that stops pushes. example: I use KGC-Kaiju with UAC-20 and MRM 60 - stops most pushes - or you die with very high match score.
d. Getting wolf packed by lights - stay with the group, bring mechs with anti-light weapons

If #2 doesn't work.

3. Take a short break - coffee break, a light snack and come back.

If it doesn't work, take a longer break, like a day or two.

All of this!

Sometimes you find yourself getting sloppy and careless. Sometimes you play around with suboptimal builds to have fun which causes in suboptimal scores. Sometimes nobody takes the time to communicate and try to get some coordination; if nobody else is doing so then you should try.

Finally sometimes you are simply in a slump of bad luck or attitude and taking a break is the best solution.

[Novakaine]

I personally think PGI has a algorithm just for me.

[kalashnikity]

Scarlet King Crab, on 26 September 2024 - 06:03 PM, said:

That happens sometimes.

One time i had lost all matches but one/two in a span of 5 hours.
This happened years ago, since then if I am in a losing streak like 2 hours of losing i do this:

1. Select your three most effective mechs, not your favorite, but where you get most match score.
Use these three for your next matches, just to break the losing streak.

For me I use Belial, Heavy metal, or the Argent.

If #1 doesn't work,

2. Determine the reason on why you lost / why you died and avoid it on the next match.

e.g.
a. Poor positioning - improve your position next match, stay with the larger group
b. Nascar - try to ask the team not to Nascar the next match.
c. Enemy murderball pushes you - call out battlegrids to defend against pushes or bring a mech that stops pushes. example: I use KGC-Kaiju with UAC-20 and MRM 60 - stops most pushes - or you die with very high match score.
d. Getting wolf packed by lights - stay with the group, bring mechs with anti-light weapons

If #2 doesn't work.

3. Take a short break - coffee break, a light snack and come back.

If it doesn't work, take a longer break, like a day or two.

^^^ sounds suspiciously like "Team Work", but this is not a team game, right Red Team?.

Time of day is important too, for instance, late afternoon on a weekday in North America server is brutal, peak time for serious piloting. Weekends are a crap shoot, but afternoon weekends, North American server is also kind of rough.

If you are just wanting to goof off, play during off peak hours, otherwise you better strap in for the ride and pay attention or you are going to turn into a speed bump.

OP, instead of doing speed bump impersonations, spend time between matches doing a little light reading.

https://mwomercs.com...ics-101-comics/

[RickySpanish]

There's one thing common among all these bad matches you're having OP...

[RockmachinE]

I still can't believe how people can genuinely think match making is singling them out somehow... its preposterous from so many perspectives.

[Tarl Cabot]

Wait, no participation trophies? There is always MWO5. You get to control your own AI team... wait.. that isnt what you want, is it? May be stop playing primarily assaults. All of that armor and armory and still not able to get things done when slow as crap.

Edited by Tarl Cabot, 02 October 2024 - 06:09 PM.

[Doppelsoldner King Crab]

Oh my gawd, I just had match where my team was winning in Solaris.
My team was in the center in good positions, the enemy was funneling one-by-one in one of the paths to the middle, needless to say they were in the killzone.
I see one friendly mech went the other path to flank, then another joined, then another and another. Half of us got rolled at the center while the other half trying to flank get held up by a few enemy rear guards. Loat the match 11-12.

[Pixel Hunter]

Scarlet King Crab, on 26 September 2024 - 06:03 PM, said:

1. Select your three most effective mechs, not your favorite, but where you get most match score.
Use these three for your next matches, just to break the losing streak.

For me I use Belial, Heavy metal, or the Argent.

having to use only the "good" mechs and at that, premium ones are a pretty big indictment for balance in this game. It's gotten a bit out of hand as of late. I think some of the "favorite" mechs and weapon systems need a bit of a nerf, but doing so will upset the whales therefore it will neve happen.

[Void Angel]

Ooh, interpreting toward a conclusion! One guy's preferences are hardly an indictment of anything: when I really want to merk people, I use a c-bill Fafnir, or Blood Asp, or Crusader, or Thunderbolt, or Sun Spider, or Crusader, or... you get the picture. And sure! I use my Deathstrike, Bullsharks, or whatever, too. But just about everything the Bullshark does can be done by the Stone Rhino, to more or less the same effectiveness. Few of the 'mechs I have are "premium," and there are nearly always c-bill substitutes for 'mechs like the Deathstrike.

Power creep is something to keep an eye on, especially with the Legends being intended to bring traits to a 'mech that the chassis doesn't normally have - but you also have to keep an eye on confirmation biases. If you've never played a Belial, for example, well... it's fun! But if you get pressed, you're frying eggs in that cockpit, too. People notice when 'mechs have good performances, but not as much when they underperform - it's the same thing that makes bad news sell more than good.

[Stonefalcon]

I'm actually curious about what mechs and builds you are running to have such a horrid W/L rate.

You are pretty much a 100% Assault pilot from the stats and pretty consistently pulling 150 matches every month so it's not like you are new to the game, you have played almost twice as many matches as myself. I'm pinning this on your builds and actions during a match, not your teammates.

Whilst power creep is a thing, that applies to everyone playing not just the players at the top of T1 so before you go off and have a whinge maybe look at your builds and play style then think about why you are having bad matches all the time.

Have you ever bothered reaching out to someone and asking for help? While most players fear the 1% there are a lot of them who will help players if asked. I'd start there if you actually want to improve yourself.

[CFC Conky]

Pixel Hunter said:

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having to use only the "good" mechs and at that, premium ones are a pretty big indictment for balance in this game. It's gotten a bit out of hand as of late. I think some of the "favorite" mechs and weapon systems need a bit of a nerf, but doing so will upset the whales therefore it will neve happen.

Hero mechs are often not the best variants of a given chassis. Some Legends come close to being ‘pay-to-win’, particularly in the amount of hate they can dish out but they aren’t invincible.

Good hunting,

CFC Conky

Edited by CFC Conky, 08 October 2024 - 09:08 AM.

[pbiggz]

Pixel Hunter, on 07 October 2024 - 01:32 PM, said:

having to use only the "good" mechs and at that, premium ones are a pretty big indictment for balance in this game. It's gotten a bit out of hand as of late. I think some of the "favorite" mechs and weapon systems need a bit of a nerf, but doing so will upset the whales therefore it will neve happen.

Whenever I play, I do weirdly good in a Highlander IIC-C. In my experience at least, i felt like I get ignored because the Highlander IIC was a bit of a meme mech; their loss, my gain.

Edited by pbiggz, 09 October 2024 - 08:23 AM.

[foamyesque]

Whizbang AGNC, on 25 September 2024 - 08:24 PM, said:

I'm just about done with this cheating POS. PGI, you are making the nerfing of players so obvious it's ridiculous. I can understand getting a crap team once in a while. But to keep getting them every game all the time for days? The odds are incredible, unless you guys are nerfing players. I'm tired of being cannon fodder for you favorite players. There are too many other games to play out there that are fun to keep putting up with this nonsense. And as I can see from my lists, how many more players can you afford to lose? Make the game honest again.

I flat guarantee PGI doesn't have the foggiest idea who you are, or care. You simply aren't a very strong player, and that's why you keep losing.

Edited by foamyesque, 08 October 2024 - 03:01 PM.

[Saved By The Bell]

There are good waves and bad waves.
When you stuck in bad wave, play some different for a 1-2 weeks.