Wakko03
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Posted - 2012.11.13 12:33:00 -
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While I thought about not mentioning it on the forums.... I think it outweighs the avalanche of whinning accusations that is sure to follow.
I'd call out all 3 of the Corps by name, but I believe that would go against the forum rules. How cheap can you be to need to play this way in order to win. CCP you really need to work on getting the game to run properly, or just admit to us that we are beta testing a delaying tactic.
Scene: Manus Peaks (spires), Ambush
Players:
Attackers --- 3 of us [Me and 2 randoms (the 2 randoms, are still in default corporations) ] Each of us is put as SL for a seperate squad, this has happened before, just give it a few minutes and we should get full squads...no biggie or so we thought.
Defenders --- 10 of them [ 2 corps with 3 and 1 corp with a full squad of 4]
Issue (tldr) --- It Took 3 Corps - 3 Dropships, 1 Tank, & 5 LAV's to stop, 1 team made up of 3 randoms.
Spawned in the north and made my way towards that resupply, slowly, and taking my time waiting for more troops to arrive. Then on the horizon I see that there are 2 Enemy RDV's inbound. I hustle over to the resupply and kill 2 enemies with Frag grenades and my Assault Rifle (not even the gek), "Where are the rest of my team, normally some more join us by the 3 minutes in mark". I switch to my Fat suited Heavy Forge gunner, then switch again because you still don't get your secondary weapon when switching loadouts at the Resupply Point.
The 2 bluedots with me are getting worked over in the worst spawn locations by an enemy HMG, Sniper and a Duvolle (possibly tactical). I get my advanced forge gun charged and ready, looking around I hear the tell tale sound of a dropship, the sniper pops me once, and I fire back so I can not hear the charged up forge gun blaring out of my speakers and try to see if the dropship is any closer, I get a lucky down range kill on a stationary target. Another Enemy RDV on the horizon, I got eyes on it, so I see it is another Dropship.....5 minutes in and it is just the 3 of us still.
The first enemy dropship starts peppering us with 1 hit kill missles, while an enemy lav comes up behind me, I throw my 3 advanced av grenades at it and get a 2 kill before the dropship takes me out. My bluedots are really outmatched, they are pulling out Swarm Launchers.
There are now 2 dropships overhead raining down unrelenting death, but wait there is another enemy RDV on the horizon....probably the LAV guy calling in another one, nope this is now a tank. One of the bluedots got a lucky spawn in right behind a dropship on a mountain side, and got a solid hit with 2 barrages of missles when they spawned right behind it and I got in 3 forge gun blasts to finish it off, before the 2nd dropship finished me off again. The blue dot got slaughtered by the 3 guys who bailed out of the fully destroyed but on fire dropship.
The tank got stuck, yes.... some good luck; it is now 10 minutes in, I got 3 kills and 10 deaths and it is still just the 3 of us facing 10 enemies. A blue dot spawns in near me and the tank, I make it to cover and they do to, seeing me charge up my forge gun they throw down a nano hive. I start chucking AV grenades at it to soften it up for the forge, the tanks missile splash damage blows my teammate to the underworld rather quickly and I get about 5 AV grenades into it before the nano hive is also gone. Charge up the forge gun and pop the front of the tank as there is no way to get behind it, from less than 50 meters away, 2 more forge gun hits and I am finally into about 1/4 of the armor. The sniper pops me and almost kills me, so I wait with the forge gun charging, I pop the tank again just as the shield recharge is kicking in. I hit the tank 3 more times as a blue dot gets some Swarm missles to hit the tank too and we have it just about destroyed, the fat suited heavy pops out of it and runs away as it explodes from my last shot.....as the dropship finally re-emerges from the redzone and blows me up with missles.
It goes on like this for another 3 more LAV's.....You'd think I would at least get some ISK and SP for going 9 and 15. But no, for blowing up 1 tank, 1 dropship, and 4 LAV's I only got 5,678 SP with a 3day booster on, and only 185,000 ISK. NO Salvage. I realize I was on the losing side but still, something to take the stink off. Even in my cheap fat suit, it still cost me about a million plus ISK. |
Wakko03
Better Hide R Die
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Posted - 2012.11.13 17:40:00 -
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If you liked the OP for construction of said whine, you might have liked the longer one that the draft ate.... it had the lightning flashes piercing the air mixing with the splash damage to really confuse us as to where the dropships where. Nor did I mention I was using the move and sharpshooter to hold my own against these players and these vehicles and I don't see it as a loss.
True , I could have left the match..... however there is a high probability that I will be put back into the same one, say 75%. You lose your isk and sp at that point, even if you get put back into the same match, at the same time if you were to freeze and quit a match and not relaunch the dust game it would give you the sp & isk.
--To expand even more, there are times when the game appears to lock the same combatants, upon the 4th game in a row facing the same enemies and tactics, I tried to quit but it kept putting me back in the same match until it ended. When the framerate lag hit after my 12th game in a row and I restarted the whole ps3 because it froze on quit, I was at least facing different opponents. .....This has happened more than one time and seems part of the design.
These were not players that needed to learn how to fly their dropships, they already mastered turning the stick to the right and going round and round.
I also recognize that for ccp to fix the problem is a pretty major undertaking.
3 Games later, after I had grouped up with 2 other players, we got the no launch of the Squad Leader, followed by getting us all into a match on the next try, followed quickly by 1 squad member freezing at about 4 minutes in, and me freezing on the end of match loading. |