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#1 Star_Wind

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Posted December 27 2012 - 04:49 PM

I'm generally curious.. who would you all say are the top 25 or so players in the game? The names you see in game and you either fear or know you have to bring your A game. I was hoping we could make some sort of top list of players. not necessarily based off of pure in game stats but based off of personal experience and actual knowledge.

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Posted December 27 2012 - 04:54 PM

too early to know.

Furthermore K/D/A is a flawed way of calculating player skill.

Look up steel killers, daD and dirtnap gaming.

those are the top 3 competitive clans or so i hear.

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Posted December 27 2012 - 04:55 PM

I know KDA is flawed. And I know its early but i mean who specifically THUS FAR.

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Posted December 27 2012 - 04:57 PM

There are some ppl just playing DM, and not attempting to do clanning as well. Kinda hard to say yet.. we are aware they have a ranking system in place. It is just not open to us yet because it is not fully finished.

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Posted December 27 2012 - 05:09 PM

Not all of us have played with everyone else, though there's a general sense that many of the better players will be ones that are well known well within clans, as well as without, such as Kyrzon, Xenomorph, BuDeKai, Furymonster, etc. In a lot of games, as you approach the higher levels of play, relative ability often gets harder to judge, and seems a lot more fluid. Everyone up there is generally capable of beating any of the others a lot of the time, and it's difficult to say with certainty that any one is straight up better than the rest. It may get easier to get a better hold on things once the ranking system is finalized and made public, but even then I wouldn't say anything like #3 guy is noticeably/significantly better than #8 guy, besides on paper. I have a feeling this kind of fluidity would extend.. perhaps even 100+ players down once this is published, and even then the stats won't say everything, and then you need the experience playing against them to get a somewhat better idea of where they stand.

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Posted December 27 2012 - 05:11 PM

Star_Wind:

I'd actually be far more interested in knowing who the best pilot is for each mech

I say this because there is a very great chance that a bunch of mechs will not even be used in competitive play

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Posted December 27 2012 - 05:14 PM

View Posth0B0, on December 27 2012 - 04:54 PM, said:

too early to know.

Furthermore K/D/A is a flawed way of calculating player skill.

Look up steel killers, daD and dirtnap gaming.

those are the top 3 competitive clans or so i hear.

some of the best players I've played with and against are clanless. Clans dont mean your good. just means you work well with others.

EDIT due to reread: isn't referencing your own clan kinda tacky?

Edited by Astrolis, December 27 2012 - 05:15 PM.

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Posted December 27 2012 - 05:15 PM

View PostStar_Wind, on December 27 2012 - 04:49 PM, said:

I'm generally curious.. who would you all say are the top 25 or so players in the game? The names you see in game and you either fear or know you have to bring your A game. I was hoping we could make some sort of top list of players. not necessarily based off of pure in game stats but based off of personal experience and actual knowledge.

Personally, I believe one already posted in the thread.
I've not seen many more that really impress me.

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Posted December 27 2012 - 05:17 PM

Assuming we're talking about "skill", however you want to define it, threads like this are, on the whole, only going to highlight people that're active on the forums or in a team that is active on the forums and will overlook the large number of highly competent players that don't show their face here much. For what it's worth, the large majority of "woah" players I've encountered fit the latter category.

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Posted December 27 2012 - 05:19 PM

I'd like to have a list of names.

I'm not going to go against someone who is yonger than me, has better reflexes than me, has a better rig than me, has a faster connection than me and more importantly who has much more spare time than me, who will destroy me in 100% of cases.

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Posted December 27 2012 - 05:23 PM

View PostKomodo_Saurian, on December 27 2012 - 05:19 PM, said:

I'd like to have a list of names.

I'm not going to go against someone douchebag who is yonger than me, has better reflexes than me, has a better rig than me, has a faster connection than me and more importantly who has much more spare time than me, who will destroy me in 100% of cases.

I think you're missing the point of this thread...
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Posted December 27 2012 - 05:25 PM

I have a loose mental list in my head. K/d scores don't really attract my attention, but a random clutch rocket/Heat/SS Salvo from across the map makes my senses tingle and lets me know that the game is on mo'fuzzers.

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Posted December 27 2012 - 05:29 PM

View PostKomodo_Saurian, on December 27 2012 - 05:19 PM, said:

I'd like to have a list of names.

I'm not going to go against someone who is yonger than me, has better reflexes than me, has a better rig than me, has a faster connection than me and more importantly who has much more spare time than me, who will destroy me in 100% of cases.

I love your signature. Describes everything i feel about you. <3

I'd like a list of names, But unlike you, i want to fight them so i get better. Sure you get stomped, but if your observant, you can either copy them, or figure out how to break what their doing.


View PostReachH, on December 27 2012 - 05:25 PM, said:

I have a loose mental list in my head. K/d scores don't really attract my attention, but a random clutch rocket/Heat/SS Salvo from across the map makes my senses tingle and lets me know that the game is on mo'fuzzers.

This.

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#14 Komodo_Saurian

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Posted December 27 2012 - 05:47 PM

View PostDackstrus, on December 27 2012 - 05:29 PM, said:

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That's cute.

Don't want to burst your bubble, but after you turn twenty, maybe twenty five if you are lucky, your reflexes will progressively, albeit slowly diminish. In other words you will be physically incapable of "becoming better" and "keeping up with". This is why you don't see any cyberspotsmen in their 30s, they all bail out before getting stomped by newcomers.

And that's even before the hardware is taken into account.

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Posted December 27 2012 - 05:53 PM

View PostDackstrus, on December 27 2012 - 05:29 PM, said:

I'd like a list of names, But unlike you, i want to fight them so i get better. Sure you get stomped, but if your observant, you can either copy them, or figure out how to break what their doing.

I agree that competing against someone that is better than you will help you get better also...or just stay out of their cross hairs :)  (waves at Evolwar and Hobo)  :)
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Posted December 27 2012 - 05:53 PM

One of the big issues with determining who the top are, other than the already well known names, is that in a game that stresses teamwork so much, it's nearly impossible to determine individual skill. The top player in the world would that has new players as teammates, or people who just don't know how to team play, would still lose rather soundly to a team of mediocre players that are working together well.

That is one of the biggest reasons I can never accurately judge the people who I've played against unless I either have talked to them a number of times, or faced them in numerous situations.

Also speaking of hardware (and a shoutout), NotKjell does amazingly despite regularly getting 15 FPS. If he had 60 FPS, I'd be even more afraid of him than I am now. So in the end, while it does greatly effect performance, the best players can still overcome many barriers set by hardware. Also, isn't it slightly ignorant to call all people who are the best douchebags? You've never talked to them, so how would you know?
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Posted December 27 2012 - 05:54 PM

View PostKomodo_Saurian, on December 27 2012 - 05:47 PM, said:

That's cute.

Don't want to burst your bubble, but after you turn twenty, maybe twenty five if you are lucky, your reflexes will progressively, albeit slowly diminish. In other words you will be physically incapable of "becoming better" and "keeping up with". This is why you don't see any cyberspotsmen in their 30s, they all bail out before getting stomped by newcomers.

And that's even before the hardware is taken into account.

Some of the "Veteran Players" might have to differ on that opinion.  I'm 42.
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Posted December 27 2012 - 05:59 PM

I am VERY suprised this thread hasn't devolved to people swinging their dicks around.  bravo!

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Posted December 27 2012 - 06:00 PM

View PostGrafix, on December 27 2012 - 05:54 PM, said:

Some of the "Veteran Players" might have to differ on that opinion.  I'm 42.
Sure, go ahead.

I've played online long enough to know my limitations and I simply won't go against anyone considered to be "top player". No point in that since the result is known beforehand.

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Posted December 27 2012 - 06:00 PM

TASTE MY E-PEEN

but no, until they have more competitive events or an ELO system, we won't really know.




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