My question is this.
If you wouldn't go into a match without your main weapon.
Or wouldn't go into a match without knowing the controls.
Why would you go into a match without communications? Or at least expect to have an even chance without them?
Communication is just as important as modding your mech and knowing how to play.
Think about it this way. If you charge in with 4 LRM 15s on a A1 and get torn up by shortrange light mechs. You were outplayed. If you got torn up because you loaded AC5 ammo with your UAC5's, you got outplayed. If you run by yourself and get torn up by 4 people on TS, you got outplayed. In all three cases you could have taken steps before the game launched to prevent from being caught with your pants down.
I'll say this again, three things you need to have to be successful in competitive online gaming:
The proper gear/equipment - to fulfill the role you intend to play.
The proper skill/knowledge - to have the tools needed.
The proper teammates - to have the people to support your role with theirs.
It takes player skill for ALL three. Knowing the weapons you need for your role is a skill. Playing your role properly is a skill. Knowing the right people to run with is a skill as well. Acting all anti-social like a jobless pothead is a serious lack of skill in that department. And you will lose everytime.
If you are STILL refusing to acknowledge this, please do us all a favor as well as yourself and do not participate in community warfare. That will be far too competitive for your casual playing style and we'll have too much territory to take to worry about your complaining about getting toasted every match.
I have several RL friends who will not play in a game such as this because it is too competitive. They prefer casual single player games. Fortunately for them there is many of them on consoles and Steam. They are not afraid to admit they are a casual player and freely say its not the developers fault. Its just not their thing and I respect them for it.
But what I don't respect is whining players who can't take the heat and wish to have their hands held. Stop it. This is not a casual game. MechWarrior has never been casual play online. It has always been heated competition. Please either endure the heat or go play something else. I promise you I will not look down on you if you withdraw. But I will if you remain and keep the complaining up.
Its only going to get worse in community warfare. Think about it this way, an 8 man premade is sitting on one of your territories, how do you expect to get them off? Someone's gotta fight them. You're either going to have to form your own 8 man or let them have the territory. But what about the next territory? What if they drop in the one you're trying to attack? So you break down and form a premade yourself. Well what if its a unit that runs together all the time? Going to have to eventually man up and join one of the various merc corps or house units around to be successful. Just a friendly warning about it now.
TB Freelancer, on 27 December 2012 - 10:39 AM, said:
I honestly wonder how a lot of these 'elite' players are going to react once the match maker is tweaked out, once most avenues to game the system are gone, and a lot of us groups that have been holding off start jumping into the mix full force and they are forced into much more balanced matches.
Oh...wait...I already have a damned good idea how that's going to play out. If the release of 8vs8 is any indication we'll see posts about wanting higher rewards because its getting 'harder' to win, that they should be making more for playing in higher tiers, because matches take longer blah blah blah.
Curious how none of them have ever offered to make reduced rewards for consciously going out of their way to fight weaker opponents to farm cbills/xp. Actually, not curious, just disappointingly predictable.
How am I going to react? I'm going to love it. At least I'll be matched with players who can put up a fight. I used rating systems in Star Lance and Vengeance League in MW3 and MW4 respectively to play against players with similar or higher ratings than myself. Or at least against units with similar or higher ratings then my own.
See right now us true elites have been elites for longer then some of you have been alive (13-19 years). We prefer to face each other in the battlefield. But the random matchmaker puts us in with Greens who don't know how to rotate damage across torsos and think they got premaded to death (I've been accused of being a 4 man premade when I've launched alone). So we'll be relieved to get a challenge from one another like we did in the days of old.
Edited by Taemien, 27 December 2012 - 11:04 AM.
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