Jump to content

Photo

Meta Changes Over the Past Year

- - - - -

  • Please log in to reply
10 replies to this topic

#1
crockrocket

crockrocket

    Advanced Member

  • Members
  • PipPipPip
  • 1989 posts

I've been thinking lately about how I've noticed some meta changes over the past year, since I started playing. I'm curious to see what other people have noticed, if anything, about how the meta has changed since the last update.

 

Here are some things I would hear a lot when I started playing,compared to now:

- Burst is king, why would you want to use sustained -> sustained slightly OP

- G2R is shite -> G2R is OP in the hands of very skilled pilots

- People complained about AC more

- Hawkins brawler is shite -> in some situations hawkins brawler is nice (range)

 

I'm also curious about meta differences between regions, if anyone has an opinion about that.


Edited by crockrocket, 26 April 2015 - 01:50 PM.

                                                                    JgQjgkx.png

 

Salvage: An Idea to Stop Leavers

Player Retention & Howken

 

[14:31] <Crafty> I know that in my balls
[14:32] <Crafty> hawken is unlike anything Ive played

 

 


#2
ticklemyiguana

ticklemyiguana

    Advanced Member

  • Members
  • PipPipPip
  • 1257 posts
Put AC on pretty much everything->don't take to the air ever->lol sustained mechs are fine in the air with the right situation even without AC.
  • crockrocket likes this

Spoiler

LGdSqzD.png


#3
Flifang

Flifang

    Advanced Member

  • Members
  • PipPipPip
  • 478 posts
When the Incinerator was first released the majority of players refused to use the PPA because it was, "garbage." i decided to learn the PPA because I like a challenge and I saw how amazingly superior it was to the BBY at the time. Now I see people preaching how simple it is to use the PPA without overheating. It's like nobody remembers not even willing to learn the thing and now it's somehow the easiest thing to use.

It's the reason I play the G2 raider so much. I came back from a 4 month break and there's a new mech, but after 50+ matches I never saw one use it. I picked it up and worked to master it. I had people tell me how bad I was and how useless the mech was even as I was beating them into the ground repeatedly with it. What was considered common knowledge was being showed as false before these people and they still believed what they were saying. It baffles me. Anyway that's my rant for the day.
  • CraftyDus, Jelooboi, JackVandal and 1 other like this

#4
HubbaBubba9849

HubbaBubba9849

    Advanced Member

  • Members
  • PipPipPip
  • 131 posts

I think bringing heat rates back up a bit would balance out sustains.

 

Also, Hawkins Brawler is a mid-range king. I've been saying this.



#5
Coboxite

Coboxite

    Advanced Member

  • Members
  • PipPipPip
  • 69 posts

Do we even have to mention the lords of the orbs?


Edited by Coboxite, 26 April 2015 - 02:08 PM.


#6
Call_Me_Ishmael

Call_Me_Ishmael

    Advanced Member

  • Members
  • PipPipPip
  • 1114 posts

Do we even have to mention the lords of the orbs?

 

Not really a meta change.  People have been using orbs forever.


Did I say Call Me Ishmael?

 

You should call me Luna.


#7
StubbornPuppet

StubbornPuppet

    Advanced Member

  • Members
  • PipPipPip
  • 1508 posts

Creating alt (smurf) accounts left and right and pretending you are a new player is a recent meta.  "Wow, I just started playing this game yesterday and its soooo easy - I'm already coming in first place almost every match."  Yeah.  Right.


To be serious for a moment this is just a joke

 


#8
Nov8tr

Nov8tr

    Advanced Member

  • Members
  • PipPipPip
  • 679 posts

They have been doing that for years mate. It has gotten more popular. For the first time ever I have 2 alt accounts in this game now. A lot of people know this and who I am. I do not try to hide it. I have tons and tons of alts in every game I have ever played in over 20 years of online gaming. Since the average MMR is around 1600 that makes me way below average. That's OK I have fun anyhow. So my alts are not like someone with a 2600 MMR coming down and pretending to be someone new and then stomping the crap out of everyone and leave. For me that would really be boring. I don't hide my identity in the game. I openly talk about how old I am (61) and use the same expressions in every game. "Woot Old Man (or Fart) is in the house." :tongue:


  • StubbornPuppet likes this

"Nov8tr" is pronounced "INNOVATOR"

aEGHJsh.gif?1

Yes I'm really 64 yrs old. July 6, 1953


#9
StubbornPuppet

StubbornPuppet

    Advanced Member

  • Members
  • PipPipPip
  • 1508 posts

^Oh, I know it's been going on forever - but it's the recent severe uptick in it that I was saying makes it "meta".  And all the new changes have made it even more beneficial:  Assault to start, double XP, double HC, XP boosts and the test drive mechs... it's all so tempting.


To be serious for a moment this is just a joke

 


#10
M4st0d0n

M4st0d0n

    Advanced Member

  • Members
  • PipPipPip
  • 174 posts

Invisishields are now rendered properly. It fills my heart with joy.



#11
dorobo

dorobo

    Advanced Member

  • Members
  • PipPipPip
  • 990 posts

Never had an alt accounts not even in eve online  :pirate:

 

nu-bet-tai-tu-matai-kaip.gif






0 user(s) are reading this topic

0 members, 0 guests, 0 anonymous users