Your fondest Medium vs the World memories

Vent/rant/rage thread!

I'll fondly remember the top 10 round I had where I was worn down to a stick, and some asshole decided to try and kill me, even as 2 of my friendlies killed him. He succeeded, and died seconds later. He wasn't even having a good round.

I'll also fondly remember some asshole 3L who refused to die. My round turned out to be not great, but he made it take 8-10 minutes longer than it needed to, and ultimately made us cap to end game, denying us 10 points.

 

Im having the impression, that there is more FF and that ppl dont care if ur cored and half down if its up to kill stuff - at least more than usual.
oh and right atm it looks like half of the ppl cant even score more than 100dmg, no idea where they have hidden all the time.

 

How about this scoreboard, not even live?

 

15 min delay?

 

There is nothing good about tournament weekends. Good players get retarded in their quest to get 10 perfect games. Bad players don't know/don't care and are fodder anyway. Average players stay stuck in the middle.

At least this stops some of the grouped players from dominating and forcing them to solo drop; or people like yourself, tfun, that switch from competition mechs to, in this case, mediums. So, fond memory is a bit more mech diversity, I guess...

 

As I used it for practice for working on Arty and Air strikes I was happy to see improvement with my placements, especially since I was driving assaults. I had two games that really helped show me I was getting better.

First was dropping my arty on a retreating Awesome and Orion as I turned to flank up a pass on Tourmalain, and killing the Awesome. Later in that same match my D-Dc was pretty tore up. I circled around and ran into an enemy D-DC. Dropped the air strike on him and killed him with it as I circled to the right to spread damage.

Second was on River City night. I took a pounding early on so made my way up on the citadel. Poked through the middle path and spotted a big group of the enemy bunkered down behind a building. Dropped the arty as I got hammered again before backing away. Killed two of them with that one shot.

So good to see progress, but I still hate Arty and Air.

 

My fond memory was watching people get suuuuuuuuuuuuuper frustrated over a match that went wrong and then cackling with glee as they asked me if I was competing and I was like "nope".

 

Watching everyone bitch over the Air/Arty strikes. As if they somehow didn't expect it...

 

Hearing ppl. bitch and moan about loosing money as they was buying arty and air strk. for every round.

Trolling around with 4 lights with cap excels on assault ending the match and denying ppl points.

Hearing ppl cry and whine about how shit the tournament is and still masochistically grind matches.

 

Dropped about ten or twenty rounds in total, friday and saturday. Was amazed at the way people went nuts about the tournament. I can't really get worked up about that, I'm firmly in the "My time is more valuable then chasing top scores" category, I'd rather have fun playing what I feel like.

 

I can't say I'm surprised by the stupid behaviours you describe, I see enough whine without the challenge, but I didn't personally witness too much of it.

Anyway, I have no particular memories.
I mostly used the tourney to pilot and practice on the BJ-1X, which is a great mech but that I somehow always had underestimated, playing his flying BFG brother much more.
I remember wondering "hé you're 4th on the ladder with 2800 points! how is this even possible?" and indeed, it was a bug.
I also remember of teams sucking hard when I gave the game of the week-end and of me noobing big time when the team was great, which is so typical. Not enough to make me rage though (well, not too much!), not that stakes and prizes are that important.

Anyway, it was nice to change from the all poptart game for more speed.

Even though, but that was predictable and that's why I played Blackjack, there was soooo many streakers out there. Seriously, does anyone competed on a Griffin/Shadowhawk/Kintaro that was not a streak-boat? For this great display of collective lameness, the tournament hosts, as well as game designers, deserve a scumbag streaker medal:

 

Well this is the first tournament I've seen since I started playing MWO regularly. Unfortunately it was a super busy weekend and I only got in about 30 games, sacrificing 3 hours of sleep. I don't have a medium so I was just curious to see where I could get in my CTF-3D. The first 15 games I played were utter crap. I stripped my useful modules and put in double strikes. I focused too much on tagging everything and not enough on just killing and after 15 games my score was like 1100.

So I said screw it and went back to playing the way I normally play and got my score up to 2075 in the next 15 games. Of the 30 games I played I think only 1 was good enough to be a competitive score and none were perfect. I didn't play a single game where I tagged all 12 enemy mechs. I know I'd have to replace 9 mediocre games of 3 kills, 5 assists and 700 dmg. I did go on a stretch of 4 games consecutively, and 6 of 7 games over 100 match score.

Oh well, hopefully next tourney I won't be so busy.

 

This. So much this.

Teamwork fell the eff apart this weekend!!! It was every man for himself, trying to score as much damage and/or steal as many kills as they could. They ignored any tactical cooperation and whored themselves out.

The cap wins this weekend... ohhhh... they were delicious!

 

This^

[quote author=epikt link=topic=5834.msg38005#msg38005 date=1393845408]Seriously, does anyone competed on a Griffin/Shadowhawk/Kintaro that was not a streak-boat?[/quote]

*Cough*

http://mwo.smurfy-net.de/mechlab#i=96&l=3f4862423717b6cc42b2ae0f7ad4703f9fbdde1d

 

Tourney was up and down for me. One highlight: getting first 4 kills for our team one particular match. Corresponding lowlight: Same game, being last man killed, scoreboard reading 4-12. I did 970 dmg, 4 kills, zero assists. That could have turned into a monster game had anyone else done, like, anything.

The other frustrating thing was that I hadn't been an arty/air user until maybe halfway through Saturday. Thus, I had a bunch of very good 900+ dmg games that were in my top 10 without arty/air usage. Those games, had I been using arty/air the whole time, might have pushed me to the top-10. (Finished 31st SHD at 2200+)

Oh well, it was a fun tournament overall. I did give up on Sunday because I just didn't feel like putting in the time getting one of those rare magical games.

 

I was out of town but I'm glad I missed it. Tournaments turn the game into a wet bag of shit and no one works together. Granted, I'd like to see how I would place now (especially in the BJ-1) but in the end I think I'd just turn troll and mess with people hell bent on that last bit of damage.

In case your wondering, I love to brawl. Last tournament I was teamkilled quite consistently because people wanted that last shot (I try like hell to give firing lanes for teammates---i want my opponent to die quickly, too) and I quickly learned how terrible people were at aiming.

 

Probably deserves it's own post, but congrats for our two contributing mechspec members finishing top 10 in the tournament - TFun90 (2) and epikt (9) in Blackjacks! I know TFun killed me a few times with pew pew over the weekend :blush:

 

Almost not getting a last match because of some ego candy:


I saw some Splat Griffins making a go of it Epikt, but I also saw actual contending Kintaros, Trebs, and Griffins going the Streak route.

 

True, I saw some too. I actually even saw a splattaro (five SRM6s), I was pleasantly surprised such thing existed

Just out of curiosity TFun, what build did you use?
(I mostly dropped in a LLas+5xMlas BJ-1X)

 

The few matches I ran, I actually kept running into the same player in an 6xLRM5 Cat. That thing is still a PAIN to deal with! Shake, rattle and roll!