The New Matchmaker

I do know that PGI took the servers down at 3am EST on Saturday morning to fix MM. Apparently small groups were only dropping in the group queue and this fix was supposed to allow them back into the solo queue. So, a lot of you may have only seen the group queue unless you've dropped since then.

As for me, my buddy and I dropped at 4am on Saturday morning after the servers came back up. In 4-5 games I don't know what queue we dropped in since nobody would respond to my questions in global or group chat. Not one response in 4-5 games! That was a special level of anti-socialism.

 

Anti-socialism?

 

Played a bit Friday evening. First drops since the new MM.

First two games were solo runs -
Game 1 Skirmish - HPG. I made a mistake. I didn't think we were doing badly to start. Had a lancemate lagging behind the group, so I went back to cover his approach... and got beat on after his death. I survived long enough to return to the rest of the group, but it went fairly downhill from there. 7 - 12 loss.
Game 2 Skirmish - Alpine. I'm in my GRF-1N. For being a brawl-range 'Mech, I put some decent numbers out. I thought we had the game... until I found out we had two 'Mechs that weren't moving. Turns out one was a disconnect, the other was AFK. I know he was AFK because after everyone is dead but him and the disconnect, chat pops up with, "Alright, so where are we?" Arse. He's told we are all dead. And then he actually taunted the other team to come find him, with 1:30 left on the clock. Needless to say, they didn't. 9-10 loss.

Next two were grouped with a friend. (Not the Don.)
Game 3 Assault - Alpine again. Same Griffin. This time it was close. We ended up 9-8 winning with the clock running down. (All of us were *damn hurt*)
Game 4 Conquest - Switched over to my near stock GRF-3M. Caustic. We had someone suggest we push to the right where there was a lone lance... and murdered it. Then turned and did some more murdering. Altogether it was a pretty decent fight with a final score of 12-8 our victory.
Game 5 Conquest - Finished out the night with my GRF-1S, which needs some TLC... (Currently LL, 3 MLas and 2 SRM-6. XL... something engine.) Caustic again. This time, it was our team that got murdered in the same fashion. 1-12 loss.
Game 6 Skirmish - Tourmaline. I actually don't remember much of this game other than one team member calling his own team a bunch of idiots as we lost. I thought we were doing okay until I noticed that we got melted.
Game 7 Skirmish, I think - Canyon. Another 1-12 butcher. We started Sigma and went up Epsilon. Then there was a nice firefight from the Epislon Ridger to Theta. And something went wrong. I don't know. But again, I look up and wow. No team. Such play.

All in all, it didn't feel too bad in most of the games. Even the ones we were butchered in didn't feel... terrible. I think the only game the entire time that pissed me off was the second game where the guy came back from AFK after everyone was dead. Even then I wasn't that pissed because I still did a decent job of putting out some damage.

Also, I think it's easier to get a couple of groups to coordinate than an entire PUG.

 

I dropped 5 games this weekend. Out of those 5 I had two guys attempt to leg me from my own team at the start of the match.

The first time the guy said nothing but started working my leg over. I got away and ignored it.

The second time the guy stated "Get the mod" in chat. I got away and then turned my Super Chicken back on the offender, legged him and stripped most of his weapons. He called me "faggot" flipped the table and disco'd. I then went on to score two enemy kills before getting ZOMGWTFPnwed by some Clan technology at insane ranges.

Not sure what is going on but I didn't really enjoy any of those matches. Not even a little bit. It was definitely an exercise in patience.

 

Seems like you are really famous now.
I do find it faster, and less disco during matching.

The games does feel more one-sided though.

 

That's bizarre. I don't get that when i go out in a gold mech...

 

I've shot at Grimm before but I called him out...

...then I paid for it by having my leg shot out from underneath me, then an artillery strike dropped on my head. That fucking Raven is soooooooooooo annoying. Michael, learn to play something else.

 

Hahahaha I actually remember this match Jacob!!! It was one of the few times I have faced you on your main account. You are good. Very very good but you just can't stop the Super Chicken when I'm on my A-Game. I also remember a few rounds where you laid the smack down on me pretty hard with your Poptart so it's pretty even money most times.

 

I would understand if you have a golden mech, but that is probably not the case.

I would dink any golden mech I see jsut for fun.

The only other thing I would friendly fire into is people having that fucking retarded 3rd person floatie out even after I advertise the warning. They deserved to die anyways for playing in 3rd person so no regrets.

 

I thought of that, but then multiple people started bitching in English when we started losing. Maybe gamer rage and noob shaming transcends language barriers?

 

Well as long as you didn't say something like "whats the plan"?

Always invites amusing replies.

What did you specifically say?

 

Me? Nothing. I very rarely engage in chat unless I know the individuals on my team and I'm saying hello. Plus I don't even play MWO regularly any more so I don't get enough boots on the ground time to actually annoy anyone.

 

If this is to me, I asked my team,"is this the group or solo queue? Are you guys in a group or running solo?"

Complicated message, that.

 

Sorry yeah I meant Don.

 

In all of my 3 man drops tonight we were in the group queue. Probably at least 15 matches. That part of the MM does not appear to be working. On the plus side, all but 3 of the matches seemed balanced - 2 against 12 mans, and one against Jage XII and friends. Oy. Dropping agains 12 mans is just not fun. There has to be a better solution out there.

 

Ran into the guys I suspected of being a 12-man earlier, found out from a mis-chat (in global instead of team) that they were sync dropping instead of grouping...which is why they were destroying us That said, aside from random encounters with that group, I've been having more positive experiences as a PUG player. Since I don't really know anyone in-game, I play alone anyway, so it works out

 

Well, I saw you yesterday wasn't it so no, you are not totally unknown in this game.

I had the only premade on our side so that was a solo queue match with a single group, on my side at least.

 

Wow.

Glad I didn't play at all after Thursday. On Thursday I did what I said I'd do on the MWO forums. I went into the 12 man que with my group and we treated every game like a 12 man drop, even if we never dropped with more than 9. I don't know if we hit a full 12 man or not, but we treated every game like they were no matter what.

That being said I made sure to tell our PUG groups before each game how many we had in our group, and we actively tried to work with them.

 

This would be far less of a problem if the game hadn't swapped to 12v12, it's much easier to get 8 people together, or coordinate between 2 lances than 3.