A short story, in the form of a letter.

69. Nice

cool story bro

Whoa, relax man. I meant no offense, nor was I accusing you of being a tanker. I know about your level capping habits so I knew there was no way can actually be a proper (traditional) tanker/seal clubber.


I just saw the 69k dmg, and assumed that you gave up half way through once you realised that the chances of winning was zero percent. And that is something I have no issues with, I do the same thing. I see no reason to try if there is no chance of winning. The way I see it, "trying" without the winning intent is meaningless. So once there's no way to win, what's the point what you do? So I wasn't hating on you at all.



But to answer some of your points: yeah, once I saw the low damage score I thought you were trying to come in last (which isn't a bad thing in this case imo). Even hitting an enemy for 10 solid seconds with punishers would've easily broke that score.

And no, I wouldn't have dropped my Titan in this case either. This match is already lost, no point feeding the whale and dragging this game for longer.





P.S. Nice hanger. But I must say, I unfortunately have been seeing a lot more low levelled players in M1 or M2 these days, with hangers as low as only level 5 (but generally with a fairly decent levelled Titan). Looks like the MM is really trying to push everyone up. 

Ehh, not necessarily. That guy's got a stacked hanger and was fighting against a bunch of M2 players.

Using a max Ao Ming against a bunch of M2 players is an easy way to hit monstrous amounts of damage since the Ao Ming can basically one shot most M2 bots.

Hey look, Pix wrote a sequel!  It was nice seeing the plucky good guys win this one but my part was still pretty damned boring. 



and yes, I got meched. Titan, Loki and all. Watched the last 4minutes from the Sky God's perspective as it rained its wrath down across the barren moonscape. 

IDK, less than 1k damage means you didn't even kill one of their bots. I play a lvl 6-7 hangar and average around 600k, so I understand what the other guy was saying.

It's MM at fault here but...... 25k damage and 5 beacons most likely means you ran around in a Loki for a couple minutes, capping the same beacons that other team mates had probably already covered.

I know you are completely outgunned in these situations, my tip is to save the Loki (if it is one you are running) til after the Titans come out, use your other bots first to get as much damage in early against all the Ravanas, Leechs and Phantoms 

Missed the part where I got a kill, did you? Damage, damage, damage. You would have loved the pre-honor system where pilots like me who care about beacons could win a crap ton of games without being shoved up the leagues while you could climb up towards the light, win or lose, by getting your precious damage in.

There's more to this game than damage, especially when playing Domination. 

You know healing is also counted as damage right? That means you didn't heal, didn't get kills, didn't do damage, and only capped 3 beacons.

There always seems to be somebody on every forum who knows more than everybody else, does everything better than you, blah blah blah.

Anyway ... I’m completely with ya here, and I’m not even playing against many champs (hanging in Diamond 1 for as long as I possibly can, that only happens once in a great while). Full disclosure: I’m still just running a 3-slot hangar that I’m frequently mixing bots in and out of, I have nothing above level 8 except for an avenger and a lvl 10 igniter on a 2.12 Cossack, I run new bots right out of the box when I get them because I just don’t care, and I’m a restaurant-quality putz when I see my team playing like nutless pansies while I’m turning beacons alone (translation: if I see most of my team hiding while I’m trying to turn or save a key beacon, I go right into full-on kamikaze mode and the rest of you clowns are on your own). All that being said, there are still games where I’ll run two of my better bots along with the Cossie and actually put out a good effort but still get flattened in a matter of a few minutes, sometimes without even turning a beacon even though I’ve tried, because I am just flat out brutally overpowered. It happens. It’s not fun, it’s not because I suck, it’s because I’m just thoroughly outclassed and I refuse to play a beacon-capping game hiding and hoping for an opportunity to do something that will inevitably amount to nothing.

Luckily those don’t happen often, it’s usually more that my teammates are morons, but they do happen. And just about as infrequently, I get on a team with a few players who actually use their heads and play like a TEAM, and those games are fun as hell. 

Oh yeah, and I don’t run any of my hundreds of boosters, either, and use what few active modules I have (because none of my module-bearing bots are very highly leveled) very sparingly. 

MM always seems to have a special place in its black heart for players qualifying for the next level, whatever that next level is. It’s night-and-day, like somebody flipped a switch from the normal suckage to exponential tablet-smashing suckage - there’s no gray in-between area. I know, because as soon as I hit a string of games like this (dead last vs mostly being in the top three), I’ll take a look at my ranking and see I’m smack in the middle of qualifying. 

If they’re that dead set on keeping you out of the next level, then might I suggest STOP PUSHING PLAYERS UP THE RANKS SO DAMM FAST!!!