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[Tywren]

Playing QP matches where half the players are in **** tier, meme mechs isn't fun, and makes me not want to play!

[a 5 year old with an Uzi]

instructions unclear, will drop in the quad LAC2 Urbie exclusively for remainder of event specifically because of you

[Tywren]

a 5 year old with an Uzi, on 17 April 2025 - 06:00 PM, said:

instructions unclear, will drop in the quad LAC2 Urbie exclusively for remainder of event specifically because of you

As long as you do it in an event queue i could care less.

Edit: Besides, isn't the point of an URBIE Derby for Urbanmechs to compete against each other, instead of just clogging up the rosters of mixed play?

Edited by Tywren, 17 April 2025 - 06:25 PM.

[a 5 year old with an Uzi]

What's that, couldn't hear over guns, dropping in soup queue

Edit: if you want a special EQ just try asking for it instead of being nasty about it, asking for an EQ you obv have no intent of playing in and view as a nuisance remover is oof

Edited by a 5 year old with an Uzi, 17 April 2025 - 06:36 PM.

[LordNothing]

hell forbid people run something other than the same old meta mechs all the damn time. besides urbie can do work.

[a 5 year old with an Uzi]

R68 with Snub 2SRM6 smashes faces, Snurbie is still a thing in various forms (Street Cleaner for zoomies, R63 for magshots too, R80 for ECM), R80 can poptart/skirmish with HPPC or LPPCs, lasers/pulses and MGs are an option on many, R68 has MRM build, there are big gun builds that are not total s#!tposts

Edited by a 5 year old with an Uzi, 19 April 2025 - 01:27 PM.

[LordNothing]

i did one with four magshots and 2 lppcs. i could have done a single snub but il take the 11 ppfld over the 10+2.5+2.5 any day. max engine, lfe, also was room for a full stack of jump jets which made it a mean little poptart.

of course the stealth flea run i did to finish up uav and ecm segments of the event was brutal, led to 7 kills.

Edited by LordNothing, 19 April 2025 - 03:46 PM.

[Xypherious]

Not bad, but an urbie-only queue would have been awesome.

[LordNothing]

Xypherious, on 19 April 2025 - 04:05 PM, said:

Not bad, but an urbie-only queue would have been awesome.

yea if you want to make the case on why urbie derby should be in eq, op should have probibly started with this. the problem isnt people who bring urbies, its people who bring mechs other than urbies.

[a 5 year old with an Uzi]

I got a bit of an "I got trashcanned by a trashcan" vibe from OP originally tbh.

[shockdiode]

I do quite well in my urbies tyvm. So do a lot of other folks I see dropping in them.

[Meep Meep]

The problem isn't urbies in qp. It's who is driving them and the bulk are not 'putting in work' because when you have qp events like this with participation missions you get a lot of yolo play to grind them. In my experience over the weekend for every urbi that puts in work there are a half dozen more that diaf.

[a 5 year old with an Uzi]

tbf there are players that do that with any given event in any mech but point taken

[crazytimes]

Usually a mech specific event has been tied with an event queue... but I believe this event queue was pencilled in months ago, and assumed the planned patch would happen too.

The reward for urbie specific stuff is negligible cosmetics, everything else is mech independent.

[LordNothing]

Meep Meep, on 20 April 2025 - 02:56 PM, said:

The problem isn't urbies in qp. It's who is driving them and the bulk are not 'putting in work' because when you have qp events like this with participation missions you get a lot of yolo play to grind them. In my experience over the weekend for every urbi that puts in work there are a half dozen more that diaf.

you only really needed the kills/kmdds in urbies and to get kills/kmdds you must play well. the other achievements did not require urbies.

Edited by LordNothing, 21 April 2025 - 04:49 AM.

[Meep Meep]

LordNothing, on 21 April 2025 - 04:48 AM, said:

you only really needed the kills/kmdds in urbies and to get kills/kmdds you must play well. the other achievements did not require urbies.

Sure but that didn't stop urbi lances with a combined 300 damage to fill the queue.

[LordNothing]

Meep Meep, on 21 April 2025 - 01:38 PM, said:

Sure but that didn't stop urbi lances with a combined 300 damage to fill the queue.

how is that different from any other match?

[BlueDevilspawn]

Urbies are easiest to blame right now given that there's an event incentivizing their use. That said, a properly built Urbie is absolutely a potential carry machine. I don't view them as meme lights in the slightest (tho they can certainly be built as such).

[Tywren]

Meep Meep, on 21 April 2025 - 01:38 PM, said:

Sure but that didn't stop urbi lances with a combined 300 damage to fill the queue.

This, only it's not limited to a lance. I had multiple drops where there were 5 to 7 urbies on my team, not both sides together, just my team! Any match where 2/3 of your team consist of light mechs, even good light mechs (which the urbie isn't) you're in for a bad game! Add to that wait times being FUBAR because light mechs were fluctuating between 45% and 60% of QP population, and this weekend was a nightmare.

[a 5 year old with an Uzi]

Weight class has nil effect on wait times. MM stops giving a heck about weight so fast it's crazy.

Edited by a 5 year old with an Uzi, 22 April 2025 - 05:48 PM.