. 180 posts Posted 01 March 2017 - 11:48 AM. Won the second one as attacker on Crimson. I've capped bases with friends in Assault before more than a couple mechs were killed combined. Agree full hear. There couldn't be any more lack of balance here. Escort had some issues. I. If the planned route changes, well, the guards/security forces would be notified (Siri does this real fast if you miss a turn, easy to do I would think). Left match to work on Archer builds. 524 posts Posted 12 November 2012 - 08:21 PM. How on earth are you supposed to land on that stupid planet. But when I saw the announcement for the Escort mode, as well as the MW5 announcement, I thought "well, maybe they've done something good". I wanted to start a thread for odd advice that will trip up opponents and shift the odds in your favor in ways that good reflexes and and experience don't. Really grey. Escort: Escort is one of the most hated modes in the game for good reason. That's what the game is, a shooter with mechs and mechlab. No grey areas allowed. S. r/mwo. Record effectiveness was when the Hellslinger Battlemaster was new on old Terra Therma 7 kills over 700 dmg (no kmdd cause the stat has not been intruduced at that time) and damaged. I just think there should be a seperation. So again: not. Keep doing the same thing expecting different results. i. ) Working A. It's just stupid. put some armor on it and people will be screaming "we got crabs!" into their mics!It isn't a joke. . If you haven't much played with the mastered mech, then with new system you can still continue to ignore it. Now we just have to kill Incursion. I. It seems to be a good all around Atlas escort and I have killed many Jenners in it. Anyway, I don't want to get forced to play this mod. . Not when played correctly. Go to mwo r/mwo • by. if you're defending, stop hugging the bloody vip. That Atlas has far too much armour on every location, do not shoot for head, side torso (now have no ammo) or legs. Unfortunately, I don't have a video of that circus, but here's a screenshot for you: That's our team (or what remained of it) trying to get that stupid VIP over the hill - because apparently, navigating around hills is too complicated for an AI. Kills first. 27 May 2015 - 04:11 PM. 3) Have the VIP be less stupid in defense. Personally, I think the OP, myself and everyone with a sympathetic ear to OP's plight are insane. there's a complete lack of the aerotech bay which would be deployed to escort and protect the leopard during drops, MW5's version is MUCH bigger than Battletech's version [a necessary evil; MW5's mechs are a. Member. Best of the best. Chain-fire the streaks and just spam them as fast as they’ll fire. And, by any reasonable standard, the VIP deserves to be annihilated, he's so stupid. . I guess some people do not understand what An Objective is. To be honest, they stand at the very beginning of making ESCORT an enjoyable gameplay experience. Certain aspects of MWO are just beyond the Cauldron’s abilities to change. I should have tried it before I put money down. If it's always your side losing then you might want to look inward and perhaps change up your tactics/help others. Assault Game Mode Is Just Stupid In Fw Started by mesmer, Mar 01 2017 11:48 AM Page 1 of 2 ; 1; 2; Next; You cannot reply to this topic; Go to first unread post; 27 replies to this topic #1 mesmer. Problem: Escort is frustrating. What are we going to shake before we try to kill each other. This thread is amusing knowing what's coming in the patch notes tomorrow (or whenever they get posted). Help with 'Invade Polaris Space' mission. Here are the goals that need achieved imho 1. Knight Errant; 2,290 postsPost made in anger and frustration due do bad game design, so deleted rant after calming downWe've had threads with general advice, but player psychology and niche application threads are somewhat lacking. theyll still use macros just to not have to spend tonnage on a targeting computer. Bear in mind we do not all agree on what is a stupid name. The matches are one-sided, boring, and the rewards are absolutely terrible. If the answer is yes. Each ally npc to reach safety awards the team victory points (as well as "capture" C-bills, and XP if a mech is within a specific radius), the first team to. It's tiring to see the VIP pick paths where it gets completely exposed to enemy fire, forcing it's team to fight in the open, or when it's team goes forward to defend the ECM towers, only for the VIP to take a shortcut, and once again, exposing itself to the entire enemy team with little to no backup. tada. Actually using the old noodle. . We take the stuff that helps us survive and kill mechs better, and ignore everything else. The flags were simply too potent. So I was playing Escort the other day and I had the fortune of listening to an interesting conversation over VOIP. SO my choice are: Play the game and deal with the stupidity of it not matter what side I am on or just disco and get penalized for not play. In MWO there's a lot of workarounds people do to avoid fixing the real underlying problem. And THAT'S why Escort Mode sucks right now. . . Started by Gyrok, May 14 2017 04:55 PM Prev; Page 2 of 2 ; 1; 2; You cannot reply to this topic; Go to first unread post; 38 replies to this topic #21 Bishop Steiner. . Note that most of the cvars that are possible with an autoexec such as user. this doesnt stop people from using macros though. Cyborne Elemental, on 14 September 2023 - 10:24 PM, said: Scaleshot is fragile, and a 1 trick pony, no ECM, no AMS so when they do get in close, Streak, LRM and everything else can cheese them. The attackers have to kill an additional mech which has an insane amount of HP and the defenders can just walk behind it and always control the engagement no matter what. It's just stupid. Until I played it. You unlock / activate nodes from top to bottom for each tree. It's bizarre, as I can play games like Mechwarior Mercenaries and the like, but I wouldn't have a prayer in this game. And great job on the game. The Skill Tree provides a level of customization for 'Mech capabilities with a heavy focus toward 'Mech specialization. I will never vote for this game mode and would love them to give us an option to opt out of it like they used to do before voting was put in. Now, it used to be that the two circle overlap perfectly. S. . Escort mode is cancer; most pick to bump multiplier on to screw the team over and pick it. Your pretty much garunteed to hit they're centre torso. This. Its not chosen most of the time unless the other mode to Vote is Conquest or Incursion. GameStop Moderna Pfizer Johnson & Johnson AstraZeneca Walgreens Best Buy Novavax SpaceX Tesla. Skill points are used to unlock the nodes in the new skill tree (one SP per node). Across the country, cops are implementing a strategy that has long been debated in Europe: targeting the men who buy sex while trying to help the women who sell it. makes more sense to fix why people dont want to play those modes then to remove them from the rotationMWO / FORUMS / SUPPORT & FEEDBACK. the current form. ACWolf and Kitfox-D can mop the floor with them easily. TMC and Canyon do come up and they do quite a lot. This weekend is the first time I intentionally face hugged/shot blocked a mech to secure a solo kill. Took me to a hotel and told me she didn't trust me and wanted. I've had escort matches where my team killed the enemy VIP so early that no one made over 100 match score, and the match lasted about 2-3 mins. MWO / FORUMS / MECHWARRIOR UNIVERSE / FACTION PLAY; 0. I think most people who have played in the past and at present would not be opposed to the game behaving more like a simulator than an arcade game. It might be said an escort mode in a game might also need some speed and fast paced action. Can we get finally rid of it? A car wouldn't explode if the radiator would get ripped off, why does a mech do that? Way faster heat buildup is f. . [rant] This god damn Nascar meta that has been ongoing forever. Actually, we don't We can stop playing (or TK the big potato) If the big potato is legged, does he move even slower?Escort missions were the worst. I don't mind playing Escort once in a great while, which is how often it normally wins the vote, but playing it more often made me log out in. . In a GTR Simulator Cockpit. They were fun on certain mechs and didn't really need to be nerfed as hard as they were. I see this all the time from folks defending escort. Failed, too. 1. So heres hoping its coming back, its a great mode just like incursion and both focus on objective playstyle. . For every person that tells you light mechs killing assaults mechs is stupid, another. The main problem I see is that the VIP Atlas chugs along and is ready for the dropship in short order. I don't like playing Metabuilds and I am tired of always seeing the same loadouts on the battlefield. . staggeringly stupid. the problem is that putting control of the VIP in the hands of a terrible player (which MWO has no shortage of) would have a similar impact to someone deliberately griefing. Solaris is a hopeless mousetrap with 4 squares that are used. No really. Still wondering why it even exists, because the only way I ever dropped in this gamemode was when players either had no idea what this mode is (which was obvious as match turned out), or. Don't look at me like that! They are! Why would you willingly choose NOT to play a game mode we've been waiting for 2 years to get!? And why do some of these units that negotiate ceasefires think they can negotiate them on behalf of their entire faction, despite the fact that they have no control over, and no right to control the majority of. This doesn’t work for obvious reasons. Business, Economics, and Finance. Escort Game Mode. . . . Scaleshot is fragile, and a 1 trick pony, no ECM, no AMS so when they do get in close, Streak, LRM and everything else can cheese them. The AS7-D-DC Escort was an Atlas with twenty times the armor of a regular Atlas, moving about three kilometers an hour. It just needs to be improved upon. CryptoTwo, look no further, because we've gathered all the finest mech games here for you to peruse. I even get to kill the VIP. At the start of the match, lets show all the routes it can take. Sometime no one turns on anything. This "Heavy Transport" or whatever better name is taking crucial repair parts/components for a damaged dropship, landed nearby. Again, I am not speaking for "everybody" or "anybody" except myself. At least AMS, one medium or large laser in each arm, and an LRM15-20. primarily because it was poorly designed and enormously exploitable, secondarily because the MWO playerbase. Maybe take this into consideration and put more VIPs out there so the defenders maybe have a fighting chance for a victory? Escort is boring due to the quick nature of. July 2017 in The Pub at MMORPG. And while I like MWO - I'll have to agree. Conquest, last man standing, 3 enemy left, 7+assists, done ~140dmg, lost the match 748:750 Match score 79 Skirmish, 2nd to last man standing, 1 assist, done 356dmg, lost the match 12:2so would this be a Better Mech to Escort, Ares, 135Ton, 32Kph, 61FreeTons =(Torso)= (Full Torso acts as Turret), CT(Aphrodite)= 1ECM, LT(All Typ. It was created in 2016 and registers a monthly average of 20. Here's the part that's true: QuikTrip, a chain of convenience/fuel stores in the southern U. Posted 20 January 2014 - 02:47 PM. Looking at the top 10 mainland US carriers (including regionals), 164 flights were canceled in total out of 127,420 for an impressive 99. Here I am, not in warmode, doing an escort quest and some stupid draenei paladin kills my escort NPC. You got hit markers (red cursor) because some of your RAC projectiles hit the piranha, you also got only 112 damage because only some of your RAC projectiles hit the piranha. So why not make it a player driven mode, where the players are the VIP. I like Domination. Crypto If done right, Escort could be fast pace and take you to uncomfortable spots that's rarely explored on a map. I love Polar, Really don't like crimson, River is kinda fun. . ha. Many players don't know how to tell where the VIP might go. Tree Nodes are arranged in a non-linear fashion. So what's in this video? Marauder IIC Marauder IIC-In a real escort mission, the guards/security forces would know the path and pick up location. Ive tried PS2 and have found it pretty enjoyable in its own. JetBlue surprisingly canceled only one. If knowing that you are still interested then go ahead. As a Veteran Founder, I feel kind of stupid asking these questions, but I took a long. Most match score is decided by your raw damage output, and even if you say. MWO online is not an MMO like Eve Online with galactic conquest. Sorry if this isn't really coherent btw. Doh. It just needs to be improved upon. If melee gets put in, it'd be stupid for the Yen not to get these. I've even noticed that if you shoot. The defending ignores the VIP because the game mode is stupid. Failed, too. Be competent, but not overly. #1 ShotgunWillie. . the objective is not to get rid of deathballing. . I've got a dandy stable of IS and Clan mechs and I enjoy dropping for both sides. This mode doesn't even impart a path the VIP will be taking, let alone an end destination. The real secret to getting the best use out of your urbanmech is to make sure that you are deploying a full lance of them all at once, that way your unit can stay together and watch each other's backs. But that doesn't mean Escort as a mode is bad. . The names don't bother me because 90% of the time I only use call sign designations or mech names. King Crab is the new 'cookie'. Unfortunately, the Hatchetman does not have a melee ability. Probably the least popular gamemode ATM (only rivaling Incursion in my experience) and when it occasionally happens, there is a lot of salt in a match chat. It's like prison, essentially. Member. I would love to see another play mode maybe Escort missions? A long line of convoy vehicles you must protect from being Captured, or destroyed. Vell-os story line and I'm Beyond stuck. It's rare that you will get the chance to crit-out another Mech instead of just coring him out with massive firepower. The Skill Tree balances the cost-benefit ratio of the more heavily-desired skills. I'm new to the Mech Warrior universe and all. I remember using this guide to beat that storyline, basically what you do is once you jump into the sector order all your escorts to fight and skirt the planet. It's not like USAF call signs are the height of classiness either. Stupid "minor" Things That Should Have Been In The Game Long AgoNever had a problem with jumps. I can't say that I liked how the mode played. That build works just as well with a Centurion-AL in case someone likes that chassis. If only people would play it right.