[Feedback] MWO: Mercenary Event

Aaaahahaha!!

I just realized that the Pirates Bane is only 1500 MC. How many PB's will be bought by this event, hmm?

Hell, I already had nearly 600 MC from Halloween and Christmas stockings. 45-47 qualified games means 900-940 MC. Damn, I may just have made my life a bit harder the coming days...

Haha.

 

And my final match of the night? I got a point, but we lost the match thanks to "Paran01c" or something like that...got into a bitching match with a teammate, and then decided to back core and TK him blatantly.

So naturally, it came down to a 1v1 that we lost, but we could potentially have taken if we had not lost a TBR to a TK

 

This one made me rage:

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Typical river city run where the large group says FU and leaves that one lance to fend for itself. I think I was dead in under 2 minutes.

Off course, the drop was a roll,... I hope they learnt from it

 

I've actually stopped playing in the PUG queues... the game play is HORRIBLE. As others have said, it is a stomp in one direction or the other; players are too timid and don't engaging or you have 5 LRM boats who demand you spot for them so they can feed off your targets for the assists (7 assists does it).

I realize PGI is looking to flood the servers and get populations back up so that the queues are sustainable but with the horrible gameplay as a result I wonder if this is a catch 22. Damned if they do, in trouble if they do not.

 

TBH the better LRM use in matches this contest seems to happen when 3 LRM boats are on the side and people are locking. Seen a lot of MDD's with quad launchers and ERML support plus BLR-1S's. The clan boats work particularly well as to get to them you have to cross to sub 120 say to reduce the damage significantly (under 90 the LRM's are basically too shit to even hurt locusts as I've proved a few times) and the ML themselves have a relatively long range. Once you go over a small number then the team gets too passive.

 

Fifth loss in a row now.... all except 1 was a near whitewash meaning no qualifying as almost no assists.

Sixth time lucky... a whitewash in the other direction...

Next match had @fx8230 who did as badly as I did! Half my team just rotated away like retards at 89.1 KPH and all of us slower just got raped in sets of 1-3 as we had to turn and fight.

Next match 8 of my team chase a cicada and scr on alpine leaving 4 of us to get to the top and try to hold it. I killed two before they even got there after yelling at them to come back. a 12-4 whitewash and one of our kills was a dc that a random SMN hunted down instead of helping the team....

Next match... ok mildly closer but they were wall to wall DWF's, WHK's and TBR's... team did ok tbh but they just did better and we seemed to have a dumb amount of LRM XL engined Stalkers that just exploded to long range direct fire.

... We were rolled... I got 3 kills and our whole team 5 total so some others that did nothing probably qualified. At least its giving me time to practice with my triple ER PPC TDR.

 

@Remarius I wouldn't call those game bads, because they make no sense at all, I led a push into 3 isolated targets while I had 6-7 with me, just to find myself 3vs1. Basically same sort lol.

Lights are the easiest as usual in this kind of competitions, and assaults the hardest.
Too bad I was in assault mech mood today, very bad idea

One should just farm in a light and make any win and a loss out of 2 a qualify, just, I couldn't care less about.
Just tried to use the Spider 5D for a spin to confirm for 5 games...best was 6 kills 6 assists, just cover with team ECM and the match will last a bit. I even failed a game because I got 4 kills and too few assists ahah. The LRM fest is so sad, and they boat so much then even a single ECM ruins their day

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Sucks but for easier points in solo drops you are bound to lights or fast meds.
Plus, as usual hitreg is trash when heavy load happens, so the faster you are, the better it is

 

Hey we just had a great team performance that came back from three down to handily win...

@fx8230 Well most of your games must be different from mine as I'm seeing almost no lights at all. Wall to wall CW builds, clan builds, etc. No lights that have achieved much in any of my games.

For example this is the game I just fought in... coincidentally Allisa White wants you to know I was useless and (fallback position after they saw my 4 kills) that I just finished people off... then fast logged off when they noticed I did far more damage than anyone else on our team.



Notice the lights: Edmiester getting 24 damage, Chrx got 321, Fudowara 9 and Taffer 260. Then check out Taffer's assists.... yes its people like that who I loathe as they're basically a waste of space to their team. Either way thats only 1 of the 4 lights (Chrx) who basically did much.

PS: Yes I may have called Allisa a bad word after being insulted and ranted at while trying to fight for several minutes....

 

Yeah I drop in those kind of games on heavies or assaults too, but I guess matchmaker is picking easier matches for me on lights because I'm actually using the lest played mechs. Spider 5D is one of the highest K/D and W/R, yet I get much easier games on it.

 

Ok I like this TDR 3 x ER PPC build for consistency:

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317800896694753860 4 3 346 90 117 2015-01-29 20:39:57

Now let me just enjoy my moment...



We were all going all out for kills and I out killed several of the people I consider the best pilots in game.

Of course Nick Drezary massively out damaged me but I out killed him!

Amusingly didn't qualify but I really don't care.

PS: Head shotted a Direwolf too.

 

And on the next match I think I'll call it a night.

From 0-3, then 1-3 (my first kill a Jenner), then 1-4.... then I started to roll....



Phew everything is back to normal.

It even qualifies!

 

I'll +1 that...I tried running my WVR-6K for a while to get more damage in, but I haven't had anywhere near the success rate as I did in my Firestarter and Raven. Switched back, and won't play anything but those for the rest of the tourney.

 

#EscapeFromELOHell

 

I said fuck it. Too many pussy foot'n around so I haven't played in two days. Been watching this sexy dark haired chick in a show called The 100.

 

It was a bit of a spree...

 

Okay, so what's everyone's worst match that wound up qualifying? This one was a pretty poor showing:



Hurray for spraying ERLLas around wildly!

 

22 out of 37 qualified so far. A little higher then expected.

 

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In my defense, it was group queue, so things were being focused too quickly for me to get damage in. But 89 damage for 8 assists...lawl

 

this one for me

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Yeah dropped for a couple in my WVR-6K and changed out as it was wall to wall assaults and STD engined or clan engined heavies so changed over. Its odd when you're happy to meet a SCR....

TDR-9S has been working well for me though, single panel 10-30, STD engine, long range.