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[FrupertApricot]

I just got done with a drop on caustic valley. The end score screen 7-3 we lost and had one DCer. The telling thing however, the enemy team was solid block of 8 legendary founders Probably synchdropped. You know who you are and I hope you enjoy strangling what little life the community has out of this game. Someday there will be only 8 players left at this rate.

[Sears]

If they were a premade and you lost 7-3 then you and your pug team did a good job and didn't get steamrolled. Hopefully a lot of this will get sorted with the Phase 3 matchmaker. We'll see though.

[Wraith05]

if you had 1 disconnect and lost 3-7 I highly doubt it was a sync drop. 4 man maybe but unlikely it was a sync.

[FrupertApricot]

2 gausscats and tons of ECM and all founders? yeah. No way. /rolleyes

[Felix]

FrupertApricot, on 05 January 2013 - 11:09 PM, said:

2 gausscats and tons of ECM and all founders? yeah. No way. /rolleyes

I see no mention of gausscats or ECM?

[Little Nemo]

Here's a pic of my stats right next to your thread so you know I'm not fibbing. I'm not a founder, I simply play with people and communicate. If pubbies didn't play like lemmings, you might have a better experience Randoms in my experience don't talk, callout, communicate or work as a team. Try making some friends.

[JP Josh]

eh synch drops fight eachother more than anything and if they dont fight eachother then thier put in diffrent games.

ever tried it?

i have and every single time iv been put in the same game as my buddies im on the oppisite team and guss who dies first. ya i do

the founders werent synched or it would have been a 8-0 or a 7-1

[Oderint dum Metuant]

Because all founders are on the same team yo!

And if they were sync dropped, then they have to be totally rubbish to lose 3 mechs to a pug missing 1 player.

Edited by DV McKenna, 06 January 2013 - 03:00 AM.

[FrupertApricot]

I've been playing off and on since the first round of non founder beta invites in summer. It isnt a factor of inexperience. its a factor of being in a fight, doign well, and seeing your whole team melt away in a brawl against optimized machines with good marksman pilots while your team floudners about in single heat sinked trial designs with no hope.


You have to admit theres is a point where no amount of pilot skill will let a trial dragon with 25 rounds of uac5, 2mls, and single heat sinks compete with the optimized cataphract/pults it can and WILL drop against.

Edited by FrupertApricot, 06 January 2013 - 03:04 AM.

[GODzillaGSPB]

DV McKenna, on 06 January 2013 - 03:00 AM, said:

Because all founders are on the same team yo!

*pshhh* Don't give our secrets away man!!

[Zylo]

FrupertApricot, on 05 January 2013 - 10:37 PM, said:

I just got done with a drop on caustic valley. The end score screen 7-3 we lost and had one DCer. The telling thing however, the enemy team was solid block of 8 legendary founders Probably synchdropped. You know who you are and I hope you enjoy strangling what little life the community has out of this game. Someday there will be only 8 players left at this rate.

How do you know there weren't founders on your team with their founders tags turned off?

[Faldrin]

Skinny Pete, on 05 January 2013 - 11:22 PM, said:

Here's a pic of my stats right next to your thread so you know I'm not fibbing. I'm not a founder, I simply play with people and communicate. If pubbies didn't play like lemmings, you might have a better experience Randoms in my experience don't talk, callout, communicate or work as a team. Try making some friends.

Ok OP sync drops are very rare so gonna say ya just balming anything for the sake or it and yes I am anti pug vs 4 man pre-made's that's the real problem.
And this guys stats are pretty much the same across the board for 4 man players this is why 4 man's vs pug is a bad thing!

How you can say pre-made's are not the problem even if you face them once every 8-10 games and keep a straight face is beyond me. They should not be in the same queue unless the pug is ok with fighting them!

[stjobe]

Heh, I see the old "founders are all premades" canard isn't quite dead yet

[Zylo]

Faldrin, on 06 January 2013 - 04:38 AM, said:

Ok OP sync drops are very rare so gonna say ya just balming anything for the sake or it and yes I am anti pug vs 4 man pre-made's that's the real problem.
And this guys stats are pretty much the same across the board for 4 man players this is why 4 man's vs pug is a bad thing!

How you can say pre-made's are not the problem even if you face them once every 8-10 games and keep a straight face is beyond me. They should not be in the same queue unless the pug is ok with fighting them!

I doubt PGI will split the groups but I do think they will try to balance future matchmaker revisions so if 1 team gets a pre-made group the other team will also get a pre-made group to balance the match.

Odd size groups will pretty much make this a requirement for matchmaker if teams must have exactly 8 to go into the 8vs8 pre-made matches. A team with 5, 6 or 7 players would need to break into 2 teams. It's not likely these players would want to spend the time to find a random player to fill a spot when the matchmaker already does that with small group launches.

Matchmaker should not allow more than a single pre-made group per side to prevent sync-drops.

[skoot]

Wholeheartedly agree with OP.

It isn't the "****** netcode" or "nerfed jumpjets" that are ruining this game, it's people who (in their underdeveloped understanding of the world) think it's ok to time two 4-man drops and pugstomp. And if you think this isn't possible; you're doing it wrong.

Pugs should be playing pugs, one four-man in each team (hell two four-mans could pugstomp each other for all I care).

But unfortunately, this game does not have enough of a player-base to be so selective; and PGI need all the data they can get for bugfixing. So we're stuck with autistic ####**** who think killing off a game before it is even released is gratifying.

[Ilwrath]

I'll give this game time until the next phase of the match maker. If that does not make the game fair well then the game can just **** off and die.

And it will die. There is a limit to how much cockpit junk they can sell to the very tiny playerbase.
I am sure there is zero left of what they pulled in with the founders setup so the game badly need new income. And new players.

[Dirkdaring]

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[PANZERBUNNY]

FrupertApricot, on 05 January 2013 - 10:37 PM, said:

I just got done with a drop on caustic valley. The end score screen 7-3 we lost and had one DCer. The telling thing however, the enemy team was solid block of 8 legendary founders Probably synchdropped. You know who you are and I hope you enjoy strangling what little life the community has out of this game. Someday there will be only 8 players left at this rate.

Pug stomping isn't what is hurting the game at the moment.

We all sometimes solo drop and we all sometimes get rolled.

GET IN A 4 MAN to play most of your games or take a seat and wait for them to find a way to protect the tear buckets from getting zapped.

Anyone playing alone is a target, plain and simple. I would have thought you knew this by now?

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PANZERBUNNY, on 06 January 2013 - 07:53 AM, said:

GET IN A 4 MAN to play most of your games or take a seat and wait for them to find a way to protect the tear buckets from getting zapped.

I'll just hang out in the lobby until I can get a....oh, wait, there isn't anyway to group up beforehand unelss you already know 3 other competent players. Go back to your cave, troll.

[Sug]

Entertainment folder = Prons.