Quotable Wednesday version 6.0

Cain Marko: "Don't you know who I am? I'm the Juggernaut, bitch!"
X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)

With the 4 man lance we have been stuck with since the end of October. I have gotten to be pretty good with utilizing 3 other players and "hoping" the other guys either

1. act as a decoy
2. act as a meatshield
3. follow us and assist focus firing

The only issue with 4 man lance is someone taking charge. I get nominated by default from some of these guys ...I get a kick out of it because I never want to lead but I pop into the channel and they are like "oh cool you lead" lol Fine fine!
Focus firing is key. I am running my dual ac/20 cat ...if you get in my face I will kill you. I will also overheat LOL.

I have to get screenshots of some of these kills. I killed a jenner that had been harassing us in Forest City ...he had the unfortunate problem of coming around a corner and running straight toward me. I blasted 2 ac/20's at point lank range and killed him. BOOM like he was there then he wasn't there. It was kind of like Kirk demanding to be beamed up before some emergency killed him. The emergency happens and they are all screaming into the com ..." Did we get him?, did we get him?"

Third person view MWO?

Wow, PGI is actually now talking about how they could include a third person view.

This has been a hotly requested and denied request. Just about 50% of noobs, players of other mmos have either asked about it or stated this game will fail without one.

Old school players, beta players and everyone else has either stated they will quit or learned to play without it.

So what is PGI to do ..they have to appeal to the masses because they are a F2P game or languish in obscurity. They are talking about how to add it in without giving an advantage - something that everyone could turn on and off.

How about a 3rd person view after you die that is limited to what other mechs can see?
How about a remote cam you can release as a module limited to one shot per game?
How about third person view to take screenshots? Maybe even after a match like a replay mode?


What would you suggest? Remember it cannot give an advantage to your team.

PC Gamer code contest fail HOWEVER a win!

Draegneir is the winner!

Ok my first contest from the blog and I failed. I had 9 people (just 9) that applied said they wanted in.
I picked a winner and ooops FAIL ...the winner that was chosen left me no way to contact them ..I asked they contact me ......annnnnd nothing ...sheesh!

So I go through the list of the others that wanted in ONLY one person had a contact and he had already gotten the code.

SOOOOOO

I have a code ...available to the next person who emails me their in game pilot name and email address. I will post the winners name and I hope one day to be able to play with or against them!

This won't happen next time. I have a virtual hat website to do the drawing and will require a mwo user name and email address!

Tactic Tip 105

Orbit Orbit Orbit

It simply does not matter if you have 8 man premades (which I love and miss*) or 4 man lance. If you have one of the team in an assault calling targets and everyone else running around him protecting his back and watching the sides you may not win but I guarantee you a fun time.

* Supposedly the 8 man premades are coming back on Tuesday Nov 20th 2012.

Quotable Wednesday version 5.0

"I - drink - your - milkshake! I drink it up!" Daniel Plainview There will be blood. 2007

This quote has become a meme. I saw the movie and well I was completely underwhelmed. I mean it just isn't my type of movie. This quote though stands out to me. In the film, the phrase was intentionally used as a metaphor: sucking milkshake from someone else to demonstrate not only oil drainage from prized land, but the harsh nature of how cruelty often trumps meekness.
He is explaining how even if he has a milkshake and you have a milkshake his straw is long enough to drink your milkshake and his milkshake.

I have heard players complain about stealing their kill. I am not sure if they are serious or joking sometimes. A lot of players are so concerned with stats in this game from Kill/Death ratio and Win/Lose ratio. The real ratio that matters is fun/doing something else.

Tom Cruise as a Commando

You be the judge!

Tom Cruise is starring in a movie called "Groundhog Day" "ALL YOU NEED IS KILL" where he relives dying over and over. I just thought it was kind humorous.

Tactic Tip 105

4 man lance success is sticking together. The Assault mech calling the target and everyone else supporting him, keeping flies off his back, and focus firing. I call it orbiting. This has proven very very successful for us.

I am not sure why PGI decided to try 4 man lance + 4 man pug. I am guessing it is purely based on match making and giving noobs a chance at winning and less complete pug stomping.
We actually had a 4 man lance last night and when we dropped in we were informed to stay together they were a 4 man premade. So we ended up with 2 premade lances versus well they lost ....soundly.

I can say we lost a few matches due to lack of coordination with the pugs on several matches we pulled out some squeekers though and overall I had a fun time.

I will also say before this 4 man premade business I had fun just dropping in and winning or losing. I am finding without my team though I do not like playing as much. I can find better things to do with my time. What does that mean for the future of the game?

So last night

I pugged 8 games and lost them all. Its frustrating to log in and want to play easily jump into a match and fail over and over. I am not pointing the blame at anything but here is what others were complaining about; overpowered LRMs, uncoordinated teams, failure to communicate.
I finally decided I had had enough when my wife said:
"I can tell you are in a pug because you are not talking and you look really unhappy."
I truly did not have fun last night and that my readers is a bad sign for MWO.
I can say this I looked awesome exploding over and over.

This isn't me but this is what it felt like all night.

Quotable Wednesday version 4.0

"You hear me talkin', hillbilly boy? I ain't through with you by a damn sight. I'm gonna get Medieval on your ass." - MARCELLUS WALLACE (Ving Rhames) in Pulp Fiction (1994)

Well hello patch day!

All I can say is WOW the forest city is beautiful ...polished in fact it looks ready for prime time. The only flaw I saw in the environment was snow in the cave. I am telling you last night after a pretty large patch this game is looking good.

I upgraded to Artemis IV for my missiles. This is an 1.2 million dollar upgrade that assures better accuracy of missles (by 35%) ...and I can honestly say I see the results. The missiles right now are very tightly packed and they look awesome streaking across the battlefield. Supposedly, Artemis requires line of sight to work and you must have one for each system (ie if I had lrm 5 and lrm 15 I would need 2 Artemis ...I run with 2xLRM 10s and once I made the purchase all of my missiles say LRM Ammo + Artemis IV and my arms both say LRM 10 + Artemis)

The heat issues still remains. In fact, I over-heated twice last night in 8 matches and the only solution was to power down and reignite. I have not bought into endosteel, double heat sinks or ferro-fiberous armor. I just dont have enough information or space at least as far as my catapult is concerned. I would love to hear from others what builds are working. It is hard to build a missile boat when you can't carry many missiles.

It was nice seeing a bunch of camo'd mechs and I know people are into customizing but it is getting a lot more attention than matchmaking, weapon balance, in game comm.

PGI are hiring new people so that is a good sign. The question is will it be fast enough. They have removed the in game tracker of people. I feel like that is a double edge sword ....are they hiding their numbers because in closed beta we saw a max of 3k people ..now that we are in open beta have the numbers not changed? I was hoping to see 10k but maybe it isnt hitting the numbers they were hoping ...can it survive as a game if they don't reach some marketing persons number?

Drawing for PC Gamer Skin and free Nvidia Bobblehead announcement.

The winner of the PC Gamer skin and bobblehead. I tried to make this as fair as possible.

 

DIXBEE I will be sending you an email with the code! Actually I need an email address from you. If I do not hear from you in a couple of days I will pass the code to someone else.


I am very grateful to all of you reading my blog and will keep posting new things as I get them and hope to hold more contest.


This is free bobblehead and open to almost everyone. Log on to facebook and allow the app.
https://www.facebook.com/NVIDIAGeForce/app_163278447150177
You enter in your info and get a code. Then goto http://mwomercs.com/nvidia and enter the code

Back from vacation.

I got back today and I am so tired from all the travelling. Tomorrow I will post some new content and get this rolling again.

looking forward to gettting back into the game and working with some teams.