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[Fate 6]

I have played almost 20 games. 3 have been on River City, 4 or 5 on Forest Colony, and the rest have been on Frozen City. I don't even think they have been on Frozen City Night, just the original variant. I'm glad I don't have to deal with Caustic, BUT I WANT TO PLAY ALPINE ALREADY. Is there something messed up with the map selection or am I just getting a very statistically odd selection?

EDIT: Out of 30 games, got Alpine twice. Never got Caustic once. Still at least half Frozen City.

Edited by Fate 6, 20 February 2013 - 02:54 PM.

[Obelus]

I've played for 3 hours and still haven't seen the Alpine map.

Annoying.

[Karyudo ds]

Fate 6, on 19 February 2013 - 07:26 PM, said:

Is there something messed up with the map selection or am I just getting a very statistically odd selection?

I would guess the latter, though oddly enough I'm in the same boat. Caustic a couple times, mostly the other 3 and not one on Alpine. Was starting to wonder if it got pulled .

Kind of thought they should weight new maps to at least get you on them once quickly to show em off.

[Fate 6]

Karyudo ds, on 19 February 2013 - 07:32 PM, said:

I would guess the latter, though oddly enough I'm in the same boat. Caustic a couple times, mostly the other 3 and not one on Alpine. Was starting to wonder if it got pulled .

Kind of thought they should weight new maps to at least get you on them once quickly to show em off.

I thought they used to weight new maps to be more frequent, until this patch. Pretty pissed that I've played on 3 maps. I've played 3 more games since my post and still only the same 3.

[Aaren Kai]

Same issue, mine was river city night over and over. I gave up and called it a night without seeing Alpine

[MGoo]

4+ hours no alpine, im kinda sad

[Mao of DC]

I played for 7.5 hours tonight from about 10 mins after the patch went live. I know it was around that time, because I have ALOT of people on my freinds on my list and only 4 were on. 15 is usally the lowest it goes.

Anyway in that time I saw Alpine for a grand total of, wait for it,........... three times. My second drop my fourth drop and then not again until 6 hours later.

Now I DID get River City for EIGHT matches in a row at one point. I saw all of the old maps today but it went like this. Whatever old map for one match, then RC, then another old map, then RC. Except for when I would get a chain of RC.

[Karyudo ds]

It's a pity, from some of these posts Alpine sounds like the second coming for the Mechwarrior of yore... have yet to see it, but I did see a couple Trebuchets so I know the patcher wasn't pulling my leg

[Dagger6T6]

Been playing since new patch went live... played Alpine 4 times within the first 2 hours and then 6 hours from that not once...

[Sug]

I hear the best way to playtest a new map is to give players a 1% chance of getting it.

[SuomiWarder]

I got River City (usually night) more than 50% of 30 drops but did see the new map 5 times.

[MGoo]

After playing for over 5 hours I got alpine only ONE TIME, cap win didnt even see the enemy much really, its big but frankly im very annoyed that it has not been given a MUCH larger emphasis on the map rotation.

YAY NEW MAP!!!
-where the F is it?
the only reason i came to play was the new map and pfft. less than 15 min on it out of 5+ HOURS~! (And frankly those 5 hours i could not give two ***** about winning)

at least for a week or two bump it up, or hell even just remove river city night or some other map that most people complain about. its such a shame that new content like this is hidden-

its basically the same as adding the trenchbucket but then players can only see it on the mechlab if you log in/out enough times.

Shabby, really really shabby.

as for the actual map...from what i could see, meh - seems like im going to have to pilot fast mechs every time i play on the off chance i get to drop on it and you know,explore.

[Guppy]

I wonder if it fell out of rotation when they switched to the old matchmaker.

[JPsi]

Guppy, on 19 February 2013 - 10:55 PM, said:

I wonder if it fell out of rotation when they switched to the old matchmaker.

It was still there as of a few hours ago (post switch back). It just seems to be a rare selection.

[MonkeyCheese]

Sug, on 19 February 2013 - 10:37 PM, said:

I hear the best way to playtest a new map is to give players a 1% chance of getting it.

seems legit

[Mounty]

I'm having the same problem, in fact I seem to have this problem almost every time they release a new map. I think I went three days before I finally got to see Caustic.

[Fate 6]

Played for like 4 hours, saw Alpine twice.

I'm pretty sure I tanked my K/D and W/L ratios, because I could care less about all the games that weren't Alpine, and the two that were I just wanted to find the enemy and engage them (whether or not my team was manly enough to join me).

[Adridos]

Sug, on 19 February 2013 - 10:37 PM, said:

I hear the best way to playtest a new map is to give players a 1% chance of getting it.

12.5% to be precise.

[Ilwrath]

I did two matches yesterday. Before the Elo rollback. I got the new map both times.

Today I am going to only play that map when I get home from work