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Post by dakarsis on Jun 16, 2020 23:07:37 GMT -5
It is so frustrating to be in the Diamond league, due to playing, definitely not upgrades, and constantly face multiple champions. Then ofc the ubiquitous and OP flamethrowers that just wipe out everyone. Just ranting. Makes me walk away from the computer every once in a while after not being able to do a dang thing due to some Champ looking in my direction with flamethrowers and I die without even pulling a trigger because double whammy op versus Diamond three players. oh well.
How does it even benefit the playing challenge or skill level of champions to constantly be matched up with people three leagues below them? How do you expect Diamonds to improve if they suffer constant frustration and just say Q#$%@ this game and walk away?
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Post by Sebenza 21 on Jun 16, 2020 23:36:06 GMT -5
I'm in low champs and only ever see someone below expert if they are in a squad with someone higher than them.
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Post by TheDecepticonIdeal on Jun 17, 2020 9:29:19 GMT -5
Playing on Amazon or Steam?
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Post by Joopiter on Jun 17, 2020 12:02:20 GMT -5
That shouldn't be happening. The only time I see diamond players (me being in champion) is when they're in a squad. Otherwise, it's never.
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Post by Koalabear on Jun 17, 2020 13:18:41 GMT -5
I have occasionally seen Expert league players in some of my games. It does happen but I can't understand how or why. Granted, I haven't seen it as much since the MM merger though.
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Post by DataMeister on Jun 18, 2020 16:41:54 GMT -5
It is so frustrating to be in the Diamond league, due to playing, definitely not upgrades, and constantly face multiple champions. Then ofc the ubiquitous and OP flamethrowers that just wipe out everyone. Just ranting. Makes me walk away from the computer every once in a while after not being able to do a dang thing due to some Champ looking in my direction with flamethrowers and I die without even pulling a trigger because double whammy op versus Diamond three players. oh well. How does it even benefit the playing challenge or skill level of champions to constantly be matched up with people three leagues below them? How do you expect Diamonds to improve if they suffer constant frustration and just say Q#$%@ this game and walk away? Are you on Steam? This happens to me every day. Probably 8 out of 10 matches have both Champion and Diamond players in the same match. The teams are usually balanced, but that doesn't' make it fun for us Diamond players who die in 2-3 seconds while needing 2-3 minutes to return the favor. I have noticed that time of day affects it slightly. In the afternoon I almost never see a low power match in my range, but after midnight I frequently get a streak of 4-5 matches that feel fair. And to the point of your post. Pretty much all these bots with built in weapons like Dragon Breath, Dragon Fangs, and Retribution which seems to be much stronger than a matching add-on equivalent ... are super annoying.
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Post by ⓣⓡⓘⓒⓚⓨ48 on Jun 18, 2020 16:49:22 GMT -5
He said PC... So either Steam or FBGR.
Absolutely normal. Smaller player pool and weird coding = Bronze vs Gold and Diamond vs Champions. Fun stuff!
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Post by Thunderkiss on Jun 18, 2020 18:30:31 GMT -5
He said PC... So either Steam or FBGR. Absolutely normal. Smaller player pool and weird coding = Bronze vs Gold and Diamond vs Champions. Fun stuff! Not to mention that flame throwers on FB are bugged. Insta-fried.
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Post by ⓣⓡⓘⓒⓚⓨ48 on Jun 18, 2020 21:58:11 GMT -5
He said PC... So either Steam or FBGR. Absolutely normal. Smaller player pool and weird coding = Bronze vs Gold and Diamond vs Champions. Fun stuff! Not to mention that flame throwers on FB are bugged. Insta-fried. I didn't know that... my FBGR account hasn't seen activity in a couple of years now. But yeah with that little nugget of knowledge it makes more sense why the OP said what they did. I guess they don't get the volume of IAPs there to justify fixing bugs... even glaringly obvious game breaking ones
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Post by Thunderkiss on Jun 18, 2020 23:40:06 GMT -5
Not to mention that flame throwers on FB are bugged. Insta-fried. I didn't know that... my FBGR account hasn't seen activity in a couple of years now. But yeah with that little nugget of knowledge it makes more sense why the OP said what they did. I guess they don't get the volume of IAPs there to justify fixing bugs... even glaringly obvious game breaking ones yep, good ol pixonic.
Yeah, on FB flamethrowers are monstrous. same damage, unloads in half the time. some sort of graphics buig i'm told. Ember Ao Jun is ?fluffernutter?ing SAVAGE.
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Post by Method Games[YT] on Jun 19, 2020 10:14:31 GMT -5
A lot of my games feature expert players that struggle to make more than 200k damage whilst old mate on opposing team is getting 5+ million damage sitting in their Titan for 3/4 of the game.
Stupidly frustrating and I'd gladly wait an extra minute or so to be matched with similarly rated cup players but unfortunately it seems some players genuinely enjoy wiping the floor with the opposition.
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Post by DataMeister on Jun 19, 2020 10:49:52 GMT -5
A lot of my games feature expert players that struggle to make more than 200k damage whilst old mate on opposing team is getting 5+ million damage sitting in their Titan for 3/4 of the game. Stupidly frustrating and I'd gladly wait an extra minute or so to be matched with similarly rated cup players but unfortunately it seems some players genuinely enjoy wiping the floor with the opposition. I think it would have been interesting if Pixonic had required 4-5 pilots to use a Titan where pilots ejecting from a regular bot loaded up into the Titan the way Voltron had multiple pilots. Then to keep people from just ejecting five times in a row, require a minimum of damage (based on league) from each pilot before they could eject manually. Of course that would also mean you can't use a Titan if you don't have pilots in most of your bots.
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Post by dakarsis on Jun 25, 2020 20:24:10 GMT -5
I play on a PC, through Steam. Twice this very afternoon I have run into full Champion squads and only had one champ on my side, no squads.
I hate having to be a quitter before the matches start, but when I see that kind of thing, I do.
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Post by dakarsis on Jun 25, 2020 20:28:31 GMT -5
It is so frustrating to be in the Diamond league, due to playing, definitely not upgrades, and constantly face multiple champions. Then ofc the ubiquitous and OP flamethrowers that just wipe out everyone. Just ranting. Makes me walk away from the computer every once in a while after not being able to do a dang thing due to some Champ looking in my direction with flamethrowers and I die without even pulling a trigger because double whammy op versus Diamond three players. oh well. How does it even benefit the playing challenge or skill level of champions to constantly be matched up with people three leagues below them? How do you expect Diamonds to improve if they suffer constant frustration and just say Q#$%@ this game and walk away? Are you on Steam? This happens to me every day. Probably 8 out of 10 matches have both Champion and Diamond players in the same match. The teams are usually balanced, but that doesn't' make it fun for us Diamond players who die in 2-3 seconds while needing 2-3 minutes to return the favor. I have noticed that time of day affects it slightly. In the afternoon I almost never see a low power match in my range, but after midnight I frequently get a streak of 4-5 matches that feel fair. And to the point of your post. Pretty much all these bots with built in weapons like Dragon Breath, Dragon Fangs, and Retribution which seems to be much stronger than a matching add-on equivalent ... are super annoying. Not to mention 2-3 bots to do it in those minutes. Alas, the funniest thing about this thread was that after I posted it, I actually had two matches where I was the top ranked player at Diamond 3--I felt bad for the Silvers because I was doing to them what the Champs do to me.
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Post by grimjax on Jun 29, 2020 22:17:43 GMT -5
I play on a PC, through Steam. Twice this very afternoon I have run into full Champion squads and only had one champ on my side, no squads. I hate having to be a quitter before the matches start, but when I see that kind of thing, I do. Yeah I started a Steam account to try it out. I've just made it to Silver 2 with two plasma Griffens, leadhose Leo, and leadhose Hover as my lead. Some games it's Silver and below others a Gold. But at times it was mostly Gold and Diamond and Diamond hangers on Steam look like Expert or Master on Android. That and facing Titans. See lots of "franken bots" on both sides. Also all games are Quick Start/Games so no choice of mode. I do like the full screen.
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Post by no pain 80 on Jun 29, 2020 23:45:13 GMT -5
It is so frustrating to be in the Diamond league, due to playing, definitely not upgrades, and constantly face multiple champions. Then ofc the ubiquitous and OP flamethrowers that just wipe out everyone. Just ranting. Makes me walk away from the computer every once in a while after not being able to do a dang thing due to some Champ looking in my direction with flamethrowers and I die without even pulling a trigger because double whammy op versus Diamond three players. oh well. How does it even benefit the playing challenge or skill level of champions to constantly be matched up with people three leagues below them? How do you expect Diamonds to improve if they suffer constant frustration and just say Q#$%@ this game and walk away? Not their (our) fault. Blame the MM. Btw, I haven't even faced against an expert player for sometime now. How come are you matched against so many champion players so often? The MM must really be ficked up for you. I hope you find your peace with it as it seems no solution will ever come from pix. Good luck and enjoy,
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Post by DataMeister on Jun 30, 2020 1:33:52 GMT -5
I play on a PC, through Steam. Twice this very afternoon I have run into full Champion squads and only had one champ on my side, no squads. I hate having to be a quitter before the matches start, but when I see that kind of thing, I do. Hehe. I just had that happen earlier tonight. Red team had 5 champions in a squad plus 1 diamond not from the squad. Blue team had a fully non-squad team consisting of 1 expert and 5 various level diamond players. The game was total death match and pretty much no one on the blue team got out of the spawn points. We did manage to kill 9 red bots though before the end. So YAY!!!
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Post by dakarsis on Jul 13, 2020 21:42:11 GMT -5
Peace? It's a war game ? But seriously, if I am not using timed boosts, I typically stay in and watch what they do, how they do, because eventually I will have the bots and upgrades and I would like to then destroy those who destroyed me, if I can. You grow best when you're challenged.
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Post by bunnyhoppingrailgun on Jul 19, 2020 15:22:14 GMT -5
Play on an emulator. Don't invest anymore time into that platform.
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Post by dakarsis on Aug 14, 2020 23:36:23 GMT -5
I have been thinking a lot about these flamethrowers (especially now that I finally got my first Ao Jun through pieces), probably more than is healthy. I was thinking about another robot game that shall remain nameless, and I was wondering if some kind of passive module could be fun that absorbs 5% of heat damage (or if you want to make a batch of them, different styles of damage like fire, corrosion, energy, just not kinetic). Has this idea been floated? Would it be too easy to abuse? I would not suggest it be stacking like some other modules--five percent per type, not having 5/10/15 possible. Just 5% for heat damage (and 5% for corrosion, and maybe if you're feeling it, 5% for something else). Would that be just too insane or balanced enough because it would require a module spot and you've only three passives to give, right?
Please, think and talk it out.
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Post by DataMeister on Aug 15, 2020 0:28:22 GMT -5
I have been thinking a lot about these flamethrowers (especially now that I finally got my first Ao Jun through pieces), probably more than is healthy. I was thinking about another robot game that shall remain nameless, and I was wondering if some kind of passive module could be fun that absorbs 5% of heat damage (or if you want to make a batch of them, different styles of damage like fire, corrosion, energy, just not kinetic). Has this idea been floated? Would it be too easy to abuse? I would not suggest it be stacking like some other modules--five percent per type, not having 5/10/15 possible. Just 5% for heat damage (and 5% for corrosion, and maybe if you're feeling it, 5% for something else). Would that be just too insane or balanced enough because it would require a module spot and you've only three passives to give, right? Please, think and talk it out. A water-gel gun would be fun. Wet down all your team mates to give them heat resistance for 15 seconds or so.
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Post by dakarsis on Aug 15, 2020 16:06:18 GMT -5
OMG! I love that as a support idea! And it would be funny if teammates shooting me before combat is initiated made sense and did something. Joopiter, I want to say that your gif is AMAZING and hilarious. I may have said that before, but I always give it a second glance because it amuses me.
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