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[IIIuminaughty]

Damn boy. I think Hawkens is calling your name.
But then again that is a mecha game also.
www.hellokittyonline.com maybe?

Edited by StrataDragoon, 01 December 2012 - 06:48 AM.

[moneyBURNER]

Metafox, on 30 November 2012 - 11:52 PM, said:

I'm thinking that the matchmaker might not be very optimized. I was in a 4-man premade tonight and at the beginning of every match, we asked our teammates if they were in a group. It seemed that in at least half of our matches, we were paired with another team. I'm suspecting that the matchmaker first fills one side with teams, then fills the other side with pugs if it can't find any teams to match the first side's weight classes. Maybe I'm wrong, but it's just a theory.

I PUG at least 2/3 of the time, with the rest being with various groups and players I've met in the game. I've had this same observation that I'm matched up with other groups far more often when I'm also in a group of 2-4.

PUGing seems to be more brutal than ever.

[ciller]

My record is the exact opposite but like, 50 to 100 more drops in a week.

[Death Knell]

Tempered, on 30 November 2012 - 11:57 PM, said:

Good on you, mate.

Agreed. 3+ of them every match is ridiculous. They're the most highly represented mech in the game.

[MrDrunkenMaster]

ball0fire, on 01 December 2012 - 04:32 AM, said:

still lol'ing at some of the posts
anyhoo i been home all day to since its too hot to be outside and played a few rounds in my jenner and mostly cicada

funny how the tide changes isnt it


almost a complete reversal


see this is what i mean,a few days of nothing but bad luck wiht my grouping and then today complete opposite
tho some ofthe games were good and close, not all stompings

a good close game is a rare thing in itself

This pic made me smile.

Some advice : Your Cicaida - its not a great mech. And one problem is that as soon as people see it, they know, here is a noob with a terrible mech, I can hit him, and his armour is weak. Makes you prime focus fire target.

Second, your ping, at 300 makes lasers almost unusable. I know you see the laser strike, and even heat up mechs, but a lot of the time at the server, it just aint so. Here is a tip: so you can see how bad they are, spend a little time spectating and you will see the true server side behaviour of the lasers. You will notice people are not leading enough and they hit very little.

Currently, you have a way to still play competive which is to use streaks. Now considering you are hampering yourself with a poor ping, hampering yourself with a poor mech, and then using one of the worst weapons for your ping...........I think this borders on sadomasicism. ~Its a bit like going to a dominatrix and then complaining because she beats you. Use at least one set of streaks until they fix the netcode.

I am not the greatest player in the world, but hope to play against you again soon.

[Hobietime]

Man, I'm happy when I get 120 ping! Worse still, my connection bounces like a pornstar's ****. I can go for about 5 seconds before any player movement update, then go back to a relatively lagless game. It's not the server, I've asked other people who are playing and nobody else has any serious issue like this. The funny thing is I live about 1 hour and 30 minutes away from Los Angeles, California. Oh well, I just burn through a lot of ammo.

[ball0fire]

hahaha trolls telling me to play hello kitty and this other guy telling me to turn sheep and use streaks

do you guys realise i prefer the smaller faster mechs? and im not a sheep.
any moron (sheep) can go buy a cat and fit it with 6 streaks and get 3 or 4 kills a match

so yes when i lose i do very little damage cos im in weaker mechs but if the team survives a little longer im usually still there hammering away, or capping their base or dirverting enemy mechs away from the group sliptting them up, you know trying to use some TACTICS. trying things .

but yes lasers arent the best kind of weapon,BUT with my ping i find using ballistic weapons worse, wasting ammo cos they dont hit. least with lasers i can adjust my beam and see when it registers hit on the target, without wasting ammo.

also you still seem to think im complaining, im not. just showing the massive difference one can get, good close battles are such a rare thing.

anyhoo this will be my last post in here probably, my posting experiment was successful and got what i thought i would get out of it.

happy hunting

[MWHawke]

RickySpanish, on 30 November 2012 - 11:21 PM, said:

Same. I just rejoined MWO after having a blast in the closed beta and my God, I may as well go back to Guild Wars! It's a great game, love the economy, love the feeling of being in a mech and the cool accessories you can buy. But for crying out loud, premade vs PUG is

SUCH AN OLD PROBLEM!

How do the devs not have proper matchmaking implemented yet? I've just played 8 games tonight and lost all of them. Time and again a coordinated group flanked us, or rushed our base, or just had a far more balanced mech selection. My games were exactly like yours - 6-8 dead on my team and 1-2 dead on theirs. It's simply not fun plodding around in trial mechs because it's the only way you can actually make money

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I expect a few people will comment on your skill either jokingly or seriously, if they're being serious, might I point out that in a statistically average game where his team would only be down 1 player (assuming he is so bad he may as well afk), his team should have STILL PUT UP A BETTER FIGHT. The issue is clearly premades.

My evidence? Every MMO ever with battleground PvP. There's a reason those developers implemented match making.

ball0fire, on 30 November 2012 - 11:31 PM, said:

im not saying its premades, i wouldnt know i dont always ask, and besides they dont answer anyhoo
but what i do know is, in my averages gamesi get 1 - 2 players afk / dissconect at the start on my team which doesnt help

then theres the issue of no coordination which is fair enuf its a pug team but it still impacts our performance

then theres the , everyone only seems to pilot streak cats or gausscats or what ever else is the going overpowered mechs at the time. i dont know im not some elite BT nerd that knows the most OP loadout.

im out there trying all different kinds of builds.

im also the player in my jenner that will gladly not even fire a weapon, but will keep target lock on that cat for as long as possible so that my team mates lrms will hit.

like Ricky said i enjoy the game, (to a point) but this lopsidedness is just wrong
world of tanks doesnt have this issue, why?

cos they seperate random games from organised games for starters, evens the playing field

plus they have 15 vs 15, having those extra players means 1 or 2 afkers doesnt hurt the team as much

anyhoo. just thought i'd post these up for the lols

hey do have other matches where i get 5 kills or top damage done , i dont suck im average
but even the best player in the game cant win a round by themselves

Ricky, I don't understand why you are QQing about Premades.. BallOfFire himself said he is driving a premade CCD and was playing with multiple types of builds.

[MWHawke]

ball0fire, on 01 December 2012 - 02:22 AM, said:

just so you know i dont play assault mechs or even heavies very much mebbe a cat once or twice, but mostly jenner, cicada and a bit of raven, mostly my playstyle is harasser , i run off, split the enemy team up, peck at their sides , go to cap their base for 20 seconds make some turn around, that sorta thing . or even buddy up with an assault sticking with them trying to repel other lights, but this past week, by the time i get to do that my teams nearly all gone and im left in my light mech facing 4 or 5 streak cats . how else you supose i do more damage?

im not normally as bad as this week has been, somone before asked my stats
my k/d ratio is 0.97 at the moment , 122kills / 126 deaths
92 wins / 138 losses has been fairly close to 50/ 50 but lately getting worse
but my average exp per match is 522.36

i am capable of dishing out damage in my heavier mechs i just dont enjoy em as much
see like this in my cat (i think its my cat) this was several weeks ago tho



everyone seems to blame somthing netcode , ping , crap player

ive just been having a bad week

hence why i asked the question at the begining, what seems wrong here.

to me the thing that seems wrong was the 1 win shoulda been a few more than that.
anyhoo
interesting reading all the replies tho

You are depriving your team of 1 mech by being the lonewolf. Play more together with your team to help kill the other team. That should assist in wins. Your complaint that you are left alone and most of your team has been killed is proof that you are playing lonewolf. Play together to help them when they are fighting.

[MWHawke]

John Norad, on 01 December 2012 - 03:42 AM, said:

I'm actually impressed about how well the OP puts up with all the douchebags trying to troll him.

At the same time I am saddened by the amount of hostile or wannabe elitist replies.
Way to go, guys! MWO really has plenty of players and doesn't need more. There's hardly enough space for ten of them plus your overgrown ego at the same time, anyway!

Seems like the mature players tend to leave and the number of idiots grows? I really hope not.

@ballOfire: that surely was a horrible losing streak. But don't give up (doesn't look like you're about to). Just wait until the devs, hopefully soon'ish, fix the major problems and take a break or two in-between.


I'm not ging to disagree with the team game aspect.
However this game needs more players. Heck, every f2p game nowadays needs as many players as it can get.
You won't be able to make them all use voice comms. That's unrealistic and not going to happen. If you stubbornly insist on it, you might just as well wish for the game to fail. Some people don't have a working mic, some don't speak engish, some just don't want to talk to others while playing. Is PGI supposed to give them all the middle finger? "Deal with it" is not a prudent marketing stance.
The devs would be well advised to change matchmaking to accomodate casual players. Actually they would do well to just separate them.
Face it, the random game mode is meant for casual players or new players, because that's the part of the game most players will see and experience first. So it has to cater to them.

First you have to accomodate new players and players checking out your game for the first time, by having a game mode that's as fair as possible for a single player. Then you accomodate veteran players by having team game modes. It's the ony way it works. How is the number of loyal players supposed to grow if you scare half of the newbies away?

How is it NOT a team play game??? You are playing 8 vs 8 matches. Don't talk about elitism when YOU are the one saying that lonewolves should dominate individually against 8 man teams. So, if a new, individual player is not able to take on an 8-man team alone, then the game is broken????