Player Experience at the Top

daveomite

WorldRunner wrote:

Bugpop wrote:

RichHurtz wrote:

What's it like getting 1500 points? Or anything over 1000 points?

Getting to 1200 and 1300 can be exciting and infuriating.

This. Once you reach 1100 or 1200 + You're gonna start getting hammered constantly regardless of your roster. Even if you have a max roster there's going to be some guy coming up with 700-800 pts that can beat you and will take your 40pts all day.

Completely agree with this. Now though, seems like it's changed a little. I'd say that now it's more like around 950-1,050 it begins. Used to be mainly over 1,100. But, between whatever bracket, mmr, sharding...whatever changes they've made...they not only changed thresholds, but also started this whole issue with teams with 0-100 points showing up in nodes past a certain point.

Unknown

Bugpop wrote:

http://youtu.be/8to4piJteXY

So I spend 7 minutes and about 2500 ISO finding an opponent worth more than 8 points. So I'm at 1500 rank points and I'm mostly queuing players with only one point. It's curious how many players I queue with a total of 0 rank points. I'm unhappy that I'm being taxed to skip players worth 1 point to me. I'm even more unhappy I'm being matched with players with 0 rank points.

Didnt what the whole thing but i notice you skip shamsali75 who was worth 33 points at 6:31 .

Unknown

Why didn't we sacrifice before intimidate? Instead we took insane damage and killed off out team.

Spoit

Chimaera wrote:

Why didn't we sacrifice before intimidate? Instead we took insane damage and killed off out team.

Looked like he tried to click, but the hood's passive switched the power selection bar, and he didn't notice

Bowgentle

Spoit wrote:

Chimaera wrote:

Why didn't we sacrifice before intimidate? Instead we took insane damage and killed off out team.

Looked like he tried to click, but the hood's passive switched the power selection bar, and he didn't notice

Yeah, was wondering the same. Thought maybe that was a real trade secret that he didn't use sacrifice, lol.

eidehua

Chimaera wrote:

Why didn't we sacrifice before intimidate? Instead we took insane damage and killed off out team.

I believe it's the screw up he mentioned lol.

Unknown

Justdangit wrote:

Bugpop wrote:

http://youtu.be/8to4piJteXY

So I spend 7 minutes and about 2500 ISO finding an opponent worth more than 8 points. So I'm at 1500 rank points and I'm mostly queuing players with only one point. It's curious how many players I queue with a total of 0 rank points. I'm unhappy that I'm being taxed to skip players worth 1 point to me. I'm even more unhappy I'm being matched with players with 0 rank points.

Didnt what the whole thing but i notice you skip shamsali75 who was worth 33 points at 6:31 .

Yep. I was still able to queue him back up though.

Unknown

Bugpop wrote:

Justdangit wrote:

Bugpop wrote:

http://youtu.be/8to4piJteXY

So I spend 7 minutes and about 2500 ISO finding an opponent worth more than 8 points. So I'm at 1500 rank points and I'm mostly queuing players with only one point. It's curious how many players I queue with a total of 0 rank points. I'm unhappy that I'm being taxed to skip players worth 1 point to me. I'm even more unhappy I'm being matched with players with 0 rank points.

Didnt what the whole thing but i notice you skip shamsali75 who was worth 33 points at 6:31 .

Yep. I was still able to queue him back up though.

i think the more telling thing of that video is at the end. the fact that worldrunner was able to be at 1600 points with a loner doom, BAGMAN and max sentry just shows how OP sentry is. He is a one man team with enough boosts. Really needs that nerf....

Unknown

Bugpop wrote:

You're doing well, you're at the top. You're encounter MMR hell but you manage to find some worthwhile people. Oops. You screw up but you think you can still be fast. 2 minutes unshielded should be fast enough.
http://youtu.be/PAlQWr8DQgs

I keep wondering why one does not shoot sacrifice before intimidation to explode ruprute stuff -- except to add 1 more minute to the game and lose characters...

EDIT: I see others wondering the same.

Unknown

Bugpop wrote:

I Irk you some more. So I skip a ton of people. Look at their rankings

http://youtu.be/HY4HjGYxlig

Guess the devs never watch such stuff... My tester guy would flame my **** off in seconds demanding explanation to how thoes 300 and sub-100 offers turn up.

Unknown

pasa_ wrote:

Bugpop wrote:

You're doing well, you're at the top. You're encounter MMR hell but you manage to find some worthwhile people. Oops. You screw up but you think you can still be fast. 2 minutes unshielded should be fast enough.
http://youtu.be/PAlQWr8DQgs

I keep wondering why one does not shoot sacrifice before intimidation to explode ruprute stuff -- except to add 1 more minute to the game and lose characters...

EDIT: I see others wondering the same.

I screwed up. I thought I hit sacrifice. It happens.

Unknown

This is why I don't take it personal when I get hit.

There's only so many targets to choose from and it takes a ton of ISO to find them.

But the game is still fun right?

Pats0132

So I want to know what's the point getting above 1300 when you have like every cover. 1300 is the last progression award so why need to get to 1500 or 2k

Unknown

Some of us are just bored

There's a rush to unshielding at that level. It's not about rewards but how far you can push it.

Your losing massive ISO and most likely shielding with more hp then your getting back.

I think I was down 75 hp last pvp. If you don't take the top your down even more.

Some have personal beefs with each other driving them to out score each other but I think a lot just think the game is stale and messing around is a fun distraction I don't like spending Hp on more then one cover for a char and I've only done it for a couple of them. So for me this is just a way to use my hp and try to find some fun in the game.

Unknown

Bugpop: I couldn't help notice the spiral you make with your pointer as you mover your mouse from the node to the skip button. Amusing.

FaerieMyst

It is frustrating to pay a skip tax on the same player repeatedly. I also wonder why other players don't show up.

daveomite

Pats0132 wrote:

So I want to know what's the point getting above 1300 when you have like every cover. 1300 is the last progression award so why need to get to 1500 or 2k

For me, it's about some of what Zen said, wanting to see how high you can go... but more about season 3 than anything.

I know in my season 3 bracket, I've got electro, gipsy, flo98, ravenheart, mickeyDollar, thatlist, Ian Shen, Captain Amurika, MastaJin, fongV...etc, etc. So.... If there was ever hope to stay in top 10/20... that means you have to get points.

So...it's not a perfect situation. But, I would count on, as long as the season format exists, there will most likely be higher scores than there used to be more often.

Twysta

ThatOneGuyjp189512 wrote:

Twysta wrote:

I was thinking of maybe streaming MPQ at some point on my twitch.
I didn't think it would be that interesting so I didn't do it before.
Might just stream it when I open all my tokens or something, or at least all my heroics when Nick gets released.

Not sure how many people on here have twitch though or who would even care, but might be interesting for all the token statisticians to see what pulls I get from my horded stash of tokens.

i would love to watch this

I'll maybe be popping on my twitch sometime this week to make sure everything's in working order as I haven't streamed anything in forever.

Click here for the link. Maybe Monday or something?

Unknown

What's the point of even queuing 1 point matches haha. Forcing you to waste ISO only. Who would ever see a 1 point match and actually play? Ever?

mohio

Twysta wrote:

ThatOneGuyjp189512 wrote:

Twysta wrote:

I was thinking of maybe streaming MPQ at some point on my twitch.
I didn't think it would be that interesting so I didn't do it before.
Might just stream it when I open all my tokens or something, or at least all my heroics when Nick gets released.

Not sure how many people on here have twitch though or who would even care, but might be interesting for all the token statisticians to see what pulls I get from my horded stash of tokens.

i would love to watch this

I'll maybe be popping on my twitch sometime this week to make sure everything's in working order as I haven't streamed anything in forever.

Click here for the link. Maybe Monday or something?

Gave you a follow so I can check out what your stream is like . Learned about MPQ in the first place from seeing someone stream it, so I'll watch anything right?