To The Victors - Weekend Tournament

I ground 15k xp on each of the MLX over 31 matches with 18 wins of which 13 counted. Dropped once in each Grey Death mech for two wins that both counted.

Then switched mechs....

486711618159312763 DRG-1N 1 1 6 2014-11-22 21:35:08
486993101725957951 DRG-1N 5 0 5 2014-11-22 21:46:25
486993501157918160 DRG-1N 4 0 5 2014-11-22 21:59:13
487275100688681141 DRG-1N 6 0 6 2014-11-22 22:09:41
486993836165368671 DRG-1N 0 1 2 2014-11-22 22:23:39
486994012259028546 DRG-1N 2 0 4 2014-11-22 22:35:04
487275598904889525 DRG-1N 5 0 5 2014-11-22 22:44:08

7 matches of which 6 were wins (1 was a total slaughter with 1 kill for all our side... whelp) and 5 counted... 23 kills and 37 assists....

Not that its mostly about the mech.......

Wait!

Anyway summary was 40 matches for 20 counting. Not too shabby but wow changing mechs really made a difference.

NB: Dragon is maxed, Grey Death mechs are elited..... ok the MLX finally have the basics done after this.

 

3 points in 3 or 4 hours of play, I must be cursed.

But, I have to say it, it's been one hour the games are actually good and pleasant, no more lurmaggedon, so I don't really care. I'm quite relieved actually.
(edit: in group queue, I don't know about solo)
I just wish I didn't systematicaly dealt top damage and 11~12 assists but not kill

 

I just finished it off... FINALLY!!!! I must have played 10 rounds with no points. Booooo

 

I just witnessed an emergent teamwork. Dudes actually stopped shooting to let the last living guy get a kill.

 

I had a bad drought of wins/point games (about 13 losses/no point games in a row ) that I finally broke. Just need 6 more, then I'll play something else...either another mech, or Dragon Age hehe

Also, I am seeing a fair number of FS9-A players still picking up points left and right. Unlike the last challenge, having an absolute murderer of a mech is not a negative this week.

 

Are you talking about those damn SPLAS machines out there?

 

Naturally Mainly mentioned it since Epikt said something about us damn LLas lights hehe. But yeah, they are brutally effective during this challenge..took mine out for a few points as well.

 

I would like to submit this for the worst ratio for the challenge. I am sure to win.

20 points took me 86 games.

Atrocious.

 

That is strangely one of the most beautiful screenshots I've seen in this game....

 

Yeah I could tell you were getting rather frustrated.

 

Finally done...the tally was 35 matches, with 15 that didn't count for points (of those, 12 were losses), so not bad at all. As for the final match...well, I posted about it in the Saved the Day thread

 

I'm in the same boat, if not worst.
I'm currently at 15 points, took me 68 games. If I keep the pace it will take me 91 games to score 20.

 

sofar 11/32,...

I'm getting sick of Lurmwhales,... STK 80LRM anyone?

 

Done! (from last to earliest all Solo today & yesterday):

Spoiler: WE Challenge Solo Queue Sample Scores

Didn't screenshot every single match, because i usually quit if i got killed, so to save time. Lets say I had a Succes(Win) Ratio of 50% and same account of bad games. And i am not in a hiding Super Chicken, but all brawling like nuts against sometimes LRM Heavy Teams. I can say, whenever my team tried to camp somewhere stationary, we usually lost. Fast Paced Brawl Games were dictacting the Battlefield if you want to win in Solo Queue, because if you can get the Enemies into CQC Situations (most times not so good pilots in SQ than in GQ), they usually are finished very quickly. Not to speak about Missile Boats and i have seen sooo many LRM Stalkers, Atlases, Warhawks, Battlemasters and even Direwolves(!) - usually got some few MLas to protect themselves. Easy prey.

The interesting thing is, when i played with Aylek in Group Queue i had bad luck. Either got killed early by focus fire or simply couldn't survive till end - Skilled Shooters are skilled shooters, and you meet most of them in Groups.

Maybe you should try something heavier with ultra high DPS Power in Solo Queue.

 

73 games total: 71 of them SOLO QUEUE and 2 of them GROUPED with some pretty competent players.

29 of my games were in a Centurion AH (1x AC20, 2x SRM4s). Of those only 8 qualified. (ALL SOLO DROPS)
24 of my games werre in a Super Chicken (2x ERLLas). Of those only 7 qualified. (2 GROUP DROPS - 22 SOLO DROPS)
20 of my games were in a Stalker (LURM Boat). Of those only 5 qualified. (ALL SOLO DROPS)

Now, here is where things get interesting....

Of the 2 GROUP drops I did? (not with people that I have played with regularly either) both of them were easy wins. I mean they were stomps. That is a 100% victory rate for group drops. I realize it can't be that way all the time but even if you factor in some losses it is still an order of magnitude better than SOLO queues.

Of the 71 SOLO drops that I did? Only 38 were wins and out of those 38 only 18 were where I qualified. I found most times here I would do the pushing and people would use me as a meat shield OR I would be in the LURMBoat and people would just come in and steal the kills at the last second. Once I adjusted my tactics and started making the game all about me and said "fuck the team" I started qualifying a hell of a lot faster and easier.

 

Public solo challenges = spider 5D can't stress it enough, always works for me, 1LPL+2MLas is serious damage because usually you are not targeted so you can land it all and decent range, you can cover mates with ECM, you have JJs, you even get 10% cooldown bonus, fast, pretty cool, and you have amazing hitboxes.

It is especially good for the surviving part, you will die last almost always, win or loss.

This mech is the solo drop easymode vs anything but others IS lights -> but lights are 5-7% usually and some are clanners too, so your worse enemy is in minorance. Also this means waiting time is non existant.

 

Final tally is in

20 points in 49 drops (I still was too aggressive and died a couple of times on a good win)
All of them in PUG drops, where at least rems doesn't bring me into a higher elo bracket

13/34 in BJ-1X
1/4 in CN9-AH
1/2 in JR7-O
0/3 in LCT-PB
1/1 in MDD-A
4/5 in RVN-3L

62 kills 29 deaths 273 assists.

I really enjoyed this one even though it was HARD!tm

Players were more cautious, took only stupid risks to get one kill and them aimed to survive whilst keeping the team into a win. I actually saw sound tactics in PUG drops over the weekend

Now to go apologise to the missus!

 

I'm glad I completed it yesterday, the people unable to play normally are all boating lurms now, and chickening back, also I had a team complaining because I couln't land and ac20 shot 1 vs 7, after killing 4: sure I would have killed other 6 more considering I died 5 seconds later; those guys are really hopeless.

 

50 games even and I finally got it. 2 points in an Awesome, 1 (the last one) in a Kitfox (my Puma was in game) and the other 17 in the Pumas I was leveling.

GOOD RIDDANCE jeez

EDIT: goddammit that was nineteen
EDIT2: wait no I can't count and it hadn't updated yet

 

It finally took me 80.
Got my 5 last point thanks to the Firestarter-A. At least I was assured to get kills with this thing.

Funny, I experienced the opposite: Friday and Saturday were just awful, but since last night 11PM or 00AM games went back to normal, with good brawls and overhaul enjoyable games even in defeat. Well, at least in group queue, I didn't dare to drop solo.