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[Barrett Osis]

Play one match. Do your best. Realize after that match you cannot do it alone. Go to the outreach section of these forums and find yourself a community that accepts newbie pilots. I dont mind if you dont choose the one I am in but once you group up, get advice from experience pilots and laugh about the dumb "pubbies" on comms (if you know, the ones who dont take this advice), you will enjoy this game ten fold. Guaranteed.

Just a word from someone who has been there.

[armyof1]

This post would make sense if there was currently a way for teams with comms to fight just other teams with comms. But since there is not, it's mainly a way to play in easy mode to pad stats and harvest Exp/Cbills.

Edited by armyof1, 05 February 2013 - 11:54 PM.

[p4r4g0n]

Just being in a group even without VOIP and just occasionally using text chat helps.

With the post game chat, people should be encouraging newbies to get on the forums or at least check them out for help.

Phase 3 MM scheduled for Feb 19th so can we like maybe call a truce on the premade vs. solo, pugstomping, syncdropping hate fests till we see how that works out?

Edit: Did they fix the Social chat bug? Still downloading patch as I did a reinstall.

Edited by p4r4g0n, 06 February 2013 - 12:15 AM.

[armyof1]

Fine by me, as long as people don't start these pointless threads I won't point out how bad their arguments are.

[Barrett Osis]

Everyone has access to comms. Its just if you chose to use them. I know for a fact some communities don't even require a mic. So if you have speakers, you're golden.

This is just advice to assist in your game play. It wasn't a troll thread. Your decision to take my advice or not.

[IceSerpent]

armyof1, on 05 February 2013 - 11:52 PM, said:

This post would make sense if there was currently a way for teams with comms to fight just other teams with comms. But since there is not, it's mainly a way to play in easy mode to pad stats and harvest Exp/Cbills.

I really hate to break news to you like this, but at the moment we don't have any useful stats to pad and most of us already have more XP/C-bills than we need.

[xxx WreckinBallRaj xxx]

Barrett Osis, on 06 February 2013 - 03:17 AM, said:

Everyone has access to comms. Its just if you chose to use them. I know for a fact some communities don't even require a mic. So if you have speakers, you're golden.

This is just advice to assist in your game play. It wasn't a troll thread. Your decision to take my advice or not.

It sure looks like a troll thread.

[Barrett Osis]

Bluten, on 06 February 2013 - 10:12 AM, said:

It sure looks like a troll thread.

Negative. Just a suggestion. I do feel for the new guys out there. MWO has a learning curve that is a bit steeper then the typical "run and gun" FPS.

[zraven7]

I agree with Barret. This game is much more fun when you can VOIP with people. YOu get advice, and being able to joke around with guys takes the edge off of the losses.

There is a Teamspeak channel listed somewhere in the New Player stickies. Also, the group linked in my sig has not probs with new players at all, they took me in after I'd played for 3 days. There are plenty, plenty more in Outreach who have no cares about how green you are.

Also, any newbies who have any questions, but don't wanna start a thread, feel free to private message me on here. I'll answer anything I can to the best of my ability.

Barret, thanks for trying to help the new guys. Don't let the flamers get to you, ya did a good thing.

[Koniving]

armyof1, on 05 February 2013 - 11:52 PM, said:

This post would make sense if there was currently a way for teams with comms to fight just other teams with comms. But since there is not, it's mainly a way to play in easy mode to pad stats and harvest Exp/Cbills.

There is. We call them 8 man matches.

They are viscous battles of either brawn, tactics, deception or determination.

Please enjoy this playlist for a complete list.

For more fun, check out these (just play the list from this point) to enjoy matches which sound like the more fun loving ones mentioned above against friends. From the last link, it'll play 5 in-house matches of Zhi-Zhu against Zhi-Zhu.

Edited by Koniving, 06 February 2013 - 10:55 AM.

[armyof1]

IceSerpent, on 06 February 2013 - 08:21 AM, said:

I really hate to break news to you like this, but at the moment we don't have any useful stats to pad and most of us already have more XP/C-bills than we need.

I'm not sure who you refer to when you say "us", but there are most certainly fairly new players that group into 4-mans to pugstomp since some of them are are even not that good.

Koniving, on 06 February 2013 - 10:42 AM, said:

There is. We call them 8 man matches.

They are viscous battles of either brawn, tactics, deception or determination.

Please enjoy this playlist for a complete list.

For more fun, check out these (just play the list from this point) to enjoy matches which sound like the more fun loving ones mentioned above against friends. From the last link, it'll play 5 in-house matches of Zhi-Zhu against Zhi-Zhu.

Yeah I've heard about that, but I've also heard that it's not very active. Instead we see a lot of 4-man teams drops with pugs. But actually now when I think about it I doubt having 4 vs 4 queue will help, there will still be tons of 4-mans dropping into pugs because some people don't enjoy a game that challenges them.

Edited by armyof1, 06 February 2013 - 02:55 PM.

[Mordynak]

armyof1, on 05 February 2013 - 11:52 PM, said:

This post would make sense if the OP could form a sentence.

Fixed.

On a more serious note. I do tend to agree. I play pug matches from time to time, and it is just a million times better to work in a group.

Only thing that ****** me off with Team Speak is people who go on there, form a 4 man group and then don't communicate for the entire match. I say "So what's the plan..?" ....... no-one answers.... Complete utter ******* waste of time being on Team Speak then isn't it?

On the flip side, there are those on Team Speak who just don't stop talking. I won't mention any names, but there is one guy on a server i use that just doesn't shut up for the entire match and you have no idea whats going on cos you can't hear your team mates over this *****.

Best thing is, he always says "OK, i don't wanna lead this match..." THEN TELLS EVERYONE WHAT TO DO AND WHAT THEY'RE DOING WRONG FOR THE ENTIRE MATCH!

[IceSerpent]

armyof1, on 06 February 2013 - 02:35 PM, said:

I'm not sure who you refer to when you say "us", but there are most certainly fairly new players that group into 4-mans to pugstomp since some of them are are even not that good.

"Most of us" refers to "most of players who are in a unit" - folks that group with 3 other random players to form a 4-man are still pugs, i.e. they form a Pick-Up Group.

[Phoenix Gray]

Koniving, on 06 February 2013 - 10:42 AM, said:

There is. We call them 8 man matches.

They are viscous battles of either brawn, tactics, deception or determination.

Please enjoy this playlist for a complete list.

For more fun, check out these (just play the list from this point) to enjoy matches which sound like the more fun loving ones mentioned above against friends. From the last link, it'll play 5 in-house matches of Zhi-Zhu against Zhi-Zhu.

If you're fighting many viscous battles, have your techs check your Mech's legs for lube-leaks...

Mordynak, on 06 February 2013 - 02:40 PM, said:

Fixed.

On a more serious note. I do tend to agree. I play pug matches from time to time, and it is just a million times better to work in a group.

Only thing that ****** me off with Team Speak is people who go on there, form a 4 man group and then don't communicate for the entire match. I say "So what's the plan..?" ....... no-one answers.... Complete utter ******* waste of time being on Team Speak then isn't it?

On the flip side, there are those on Team Speak who just don't stop talking. I won't mention any names, but there is one guy on a server i use that just doesn't shut up for the entire match and you have no idea whats going on cos you can't hear your team mates over this *****.

Best thing is, he always says "OK, i don't wanna lead this match..." THEN TELLS EVERYONE WHAT TO DO AND WHAT THEY'RE DOING WRONG FOR THE ENTIRE MATCH!

Commo discipline is a combat skill too.

[Barrett Osis]

Do we all realize An Army of 1 successfully trolled this thread and now people are ranting? Too funny.

This post was just to give the new guys some intel. Getting into a group not only for the communication in the heat of battle but also for the mech builds, game dynamics and everything that goes with it.

There are many groups to choose from. Some have a military doctrine, some are just a bunch of laid back gamers. Hell, the one I'm apart of doesn't even require a website registration. Just a friendly attitiude.

I just hope this get to some of those new guys. If they have any questions, they can post here or just PM. Remember guys, at one point, we were all newbs.

[Hoth567]

I agree here. No kid goes to the play ground with the intent on "playing Lone wolf". Its always more fun in a group.