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[Enigmos]

Experience is a significant problem for green recruits under fire from veteren opponents.

May I recommend a methodical and pragmatic approach toward owning and resolving your problem?

Every new player should use the trial mechs, and use your matches in those trial mechs as an extended tutorial. Do not consider your experience in the trial mechs to be any sort of measure of your ability and worth: consider it only as practice.

In the process you will eventually accumulate enough c-bills to purchase your own mech.

When taking your own mech into the field then consider your matches to be a measure of your ability.

Use trial matches to learn mastery of basic mech piloting skills, such as:

• movement,
  
• targetting,
  
• weapons control,
  
• ammunition management, and
  
• heat management.

Use this time to gain insight into map layouts. From these several knowledges you can gain basic and then advanced tactics.


Even without teamspeak, if every player learns to really use their tools, gains an understanding of the terrain, and develops situational awareness so you know which of the mechs near you are the greatest threat, then any group can gain tactical coordination, focused fire, and succeed even without voice comms.

These players will enjoy great success even where your opponents use C3 (Command, Control, Communication) and you choose to not use C3.

But stop blaming your tools for failure: Learning is not failure.

The master craftsman does not blame his tools, he masters his tools.

Edited by OriginalTibs, 31 October 2012 - 05:57 AM.

[Enigmos]

Someone should also point out that you do not need teamspeak to form and maintain a group: Just make a note of player names you would like to group with, use the social button in the Home/Mechlab interface, select the Friends tab, and invite them to be your friend. Then go into the group tab, create a group and invite up to seven other players to your group.

Note you cannot drop as a group solo: you have to have at least one teammate. If you drop as a group of even two, the rest of the slots will fill with randoms.

Learn to work together. An opponent many are firing on will fall faster.