... and left all but about 3 of the battles. The level of distaste I'm feeling rising in me is causing me to start feeling like avoiding the game, rather than playing it. Has the mentality of players really sunk to the depths of just turning every battle into a free-for-all killfest? It seems that most battles are like that these days. I'm getting very good at detecting stomping behaviour in the other team and leaving battles to save my time and effort. I don't see the point in just endlessly throwing expensive suits and clones in them at the enemy for no real gain. Battles are stomps and I too often find myself on the stomped side....

Of course, without playing it their way, I'm practically not playing at all. Soon I will probably simply not log in.

So what you're saying is you quit when you're losing

Of course, without playing it their way, I'm practically not playing at all. Soon I will probably simply not log in.

Soon you can-¦t simply not log in.... end of dust514 story about to get real

Of course you'd say that - it's the standard complaint amongst those who think people shouldn't leave battles. But no, I usually don't know whether I'm losing or not when I quit. Sometimes my team wins, but most of the time, it loses. I solo which means I have no say over the team I deploy with other than to leave.

It's more telling to note that the overwhelming majority of my battles are losses. That can't be because I was on the team, or even that I left the battle. They were going to be losses anyway, because the matching system in combination with squadding and qsyncing tends to put the squads on one team, then fills both teams with solos and noobs. The simple, logical result is that a solo or noob will usually be on the losing side. This is the logical deduction from the fact that I am usually on the losing team.

In any case, the usual reason I leave is the type of opponent I encounter. I won't fight people who exploit anything in the game to their advantage. I also leave whenever I detect stomping, because I don't tolerate it. I won't participate in it, and I won't fight against it. There's always the possibility I'll be deployed as filler in a team of stompers and I usually experience that as an extremely boring battle. The stompers have already dealt with the enemy before I have a chance to. This type of battle is very rare.

So cutting a long story short, yes, I'm usually losing when I leave the battle, but I don't know that at the time. It's a fair bet though!

Obviously it's not always fun, but I like to slow their momentum, maximize their losses, etc.. If it's a full squad (or two) of rooftop campers, triple myo scrubs, or just meta players in eHP-heavy Assault suits, I don't entertain them. So I feel you there.

The problem in your case is that you might be stuck in the high bracket matches. By leaving a stomp, a potentially bad end-of-match stat is not registered to your Mu score, and therefore you're not eventually transferred to the low bracket (less intense battles, mostly starter fits). If this is the case: your best bet is to tough out a few crappy fights until the matches soften up. It helps to stay in proximity of competent blues, or find a squadmate to roll with that isn't too irritatingly extroverted (like me :D).

Very late advice, I know.

Knifing someone in an officer suit is fantastic

Just play to your best till the end! Why cry, why ***** just go out and smash and grab! Boohoo I got curb stomped, then stop playing! Nothing has changed in the last 6 months. I have had some of the best grind till the end battles ever in the last few weeks.
Its still a game and you decide what happens! I'm not a slayer but I know that my link running and scanning have turned battles. Again if you play the same game every time you get the same out come. Damn have some fun in what you have left!

Obviously it's not always fun, but I like to slow their momentum, maximize their losses, etc.. If it's a full squad (or two) of rooftop campers, triple myo scrubs, or just meta players in eHP-heavy Assault suits, I don't entertain them. So I feel you there.

The problem in your case is that you might be stuck in the high bracket matches. By leaving a stomp, a potentially bad end-of-match stat is not registered to your Mu score, and therefore you're not eventually transferred to the low bracket (less intense battles, mostly starter fits). If this is the case: your best bet is to tough out a few crappy fights until the matches soften up. It helps to stay in proximity of competent blues, or find a squadmate to roll with that isn't too irritatingly extroverted (like me :D). Edit: That was worded poorly. I meant that I'm not extroverted and I prefer minimum interaction with non-friends.

Very late advice, I know.

I don't get this stomping problem. What are you asking for? Everyone to run starter fits? Nobody to run in squads? The object is to win and I'll be using proto/officer because I can and the games almost over. It gives me the best chance to win

This is why I never leave battle unless My squadmate didn't get in...
I'm usually always in stomps... So I make a goal... Let's see how many reds I can humiliate by making them lose their precious officer/proto to a basic/militia suit.

Just play to your best till the end! Why cry, why ***** just go out and smash and grab! Boohoo I got curb stomped, then stop playing! Nothing has changed in the last 6 months. I have had some of the best grind till the end battles ever in the last few weeks.
Its still a game and you decide what happens! I'm not a slayer but I know that my link running and scanning have turned battles. Again if you play the same game every time you get the same out come. Damn have some fun in what you have left!

Yeah. I've never left a battle before, I don't care if my team is getting stomped and it is 4v12 (true story). The only times I ever leave a battle is either when I get dced or when I have a PC I need to do.

You can say whatever you want, but you are just a quitter. I'm not, no matter the consequences. I know this because I've gotten 20+ deaths before just trying to push out of the redline.

#internet honor

^ what he said! I'll burn clones if no one else will. Those are the matches where you can play different tactics and see what works and what doesn't. If you didn't try it you can't say it didn't work, or your just not skilled into enough things to do it.

Sorry but I've got better things to do. If by leaving a battle that's pointless and I'm achieving nothing, I'm a quitter, then so be it. I'd rather quit any number of those battles to try to find a decent one where people aren't using every single exploit they can to win at any cost. If I can't find one within a reasonable time and number of battles, I just switch off and go do something else.

Are you salty that I headshotted you from <30 meters with a Tac Sniper on an Amarr Light Frame ak.0?

And I guess you've said everything in that reply.

No, for me the object is NOT to win, at least not at any cost. Using exploits, qsyncing and squadding (stomping) has become the order of the day now. The problem of course is the game which allows all this. No I'm not asking for people to not squad. But it would be very much better if there was a mode where solos didn't have to come up against squads. It used to be that solos didn't actually have to most of the time. But as a solo I can assure you these days, squads are the order of the day in virtually every match and I'm always on the other team. I had 5 battles in a row today, all losses. I left all but the last one, but that was a loss as well. I KNOW when they will be losses, because I've become adept at detecting when the battle is that one-sided right from the start. So I leave when I detect it, simple. Problem is, it's most battles now. It used to be just the odd few...

There might be a point to all this if the battles were evenly matched but they never are. ALL battles are stomps. Either you're in one of the stomping squads or you're on the other team and you're stomped. Doesn't take much to win if you're on the stomping side....

Soooooo.... Your point? Dust will end soon. Why even bother saving your suits? This is just qq because you're getting stomped.

i play solo, but im the opposite to the OP

i hate being on the stomping team

i prefer to be on the weak team, the positives are endless, ill list a few

1) you dont have to go looking for someone to shoot

2) its a good test of your stealth skills to sneak up on a squad from behind, and melee or knife them

3) its a good challemger, i rather go 11/19 against decent opposition, than get a boring 8/0 shooting fish in a barrel (the barrel surrounded by 10 shooters aiming for the same fish)