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On the maps Alderaan Civil War and Yavin Ruins I see way too many teams starting out using "Side Strats". This is where the team tries to get the two side nodes which are farthest apart.
The average player in regs is not good at rotating to defend the node that's being attacked. They are either too slow to rotate or over-rotate. This is why this strategy usually fails.
Now some players might be thinking, "I've used side strats and won before". . . this is because you had the superior team in damage, heals and rotations. Which means if you have the superior team it would have been easier to win by getting MID and the node where your re-spawn is.
The only time I think Side Strats are valid is if you have multiple stealth.
I tend to go to the off-node at beginning of Civil, Yavin, and Coast regardless of my class simply because I can constistantly hold up to 3 of the enemy team against me or cap if there r less. Now if anyone else comes especially a stealth I'll turn around.
It's simple math. If I am 1v3 my team should have a much easier time capping Mid. The intent usually isn't to cap as much as stall and spread out there team. Now going off node on Hyper Gate at the beginning is usually just dumb unless u r a very capable stealth as u just give them free points.
Also when you take both sides u always want to rotate back mid when they move as it is definitely easier to defend. Most teams way over-commit and send like 6 or 7 to off node once taking mid making it really easy to then grab mid and maintain your lead. When they send 7 back mid to take it back, I go back to off node to once again split there focus (usually causing them to either under or over-commit again)
Standing and fighting entire teams at Mid the whole game is not how u win games. That's how u brag about DPS / HPS numbers that are pointless in a loss, most DPS in a loss where the team fought at mid the entire time just means u r predictable and know your PVE rotation. Good job....?
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The only way to help solo ranked MMR is to get rid of CMT's from the rewards. I am completely ok with this if it means i'll have more quality matches.
Through the thick and thin, I've stuck through every season, but this season is not about skill at all. This season is more about luck than it is any other variable.
I'm ok with players who are new who actually want to learn and play to win. I'm not ok with the plethora of careless players who are in q to just farm mats.
At the moment there is no easier way of obtaining CMT rewards, than just getting in solo ranked q and running in and dying asap, while providing no help to your team or people who are serious about the match.
This is not fair to the community of ranked players who want to play to win like the mode is intended.
I love cross faction, i love the changes that have come to this game, but please make solo ranked competitive again.
OP has good points as well.
Completely agree
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When I was looking at cars, I thought to myself, wow, that silver Accord is awesome... Sleek, cool, good gas mileage, fast, and really unique!
A month after I got that silver Accord, I found that half the country seemed to own silver Accords.
Class stacking this season is a simple fact friend. We aren't just seeing it because we want to.
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Let's ignore all the other problems for a minute and talk about just the matchmaking in Solos.
First off, anyone else notice 90% of the time seems like its stacking classes rather than by rating? Yes, this could still happen before 5.9.2 but not nearly as often this is happening like every game.
i.e: 4 mara / sents on one team v 4 merc / mandos, 2 ops 2 maras v 4 juggs. Etc.
In previous seasons players looking for mostly competitive games (as competitive as Solos can be) would all tend to gravitate to the same faction, in turn playing each other a majority of the time. And the mat farmers would queue on other faction, win-win. We got good games most of the time, they got mats without ruining our game experience. (on the semi-rare occasions we would play the other faction it was only like a 4 point gain so those matches didn't change ratings much)
This was a great way to avoid all the nonsense in the queue while still having fun challenging games instead of sitting in a queue for 15+ min just to get a 120k tank every game that's only queueing for mats.
How is that fun for anyone?
Yes, there was some queue syncing and wintrading going on which was indeed a problem. But, I don't think to ruin the experience for everyone else because of the few was the proper solution.
Now, it's almost impossible to climb in rating unless you get really lucky in the first 10. There are so few players and ratings are so low across the board that games aren't split into rating "tiers" anymore. The guy with say 1500 is simply put on a team with everyone else -1000 over and over until that 1500 is gone.
The opposite team will then have usually 2 players 1300ish rated with 2 -1200
And no, you can't always carry 3 sandbags regardless of class when the entire match is a 1-2v4. Especially when it is stacking classes putting 4 awes on one team and 0 AoE cc's on the other for example.
I know the response will be queue Group Ranked. Unfortunately, everyone doesn't have a set schedule or the ability to log on at the drop of a dime on the rare occasion there is another team in the queue. As most know, just like in raiding, if you are unable to get on at certain (usually random) times, you tend to get rather quickly replaced with others who can so Group Ranked is not always an option for everyone.
Solos exist for those of us that like a competitive atmosphere off of a set schedule.
I'm not saying they should necessarily go back to split factions, there are simply not enough player left for it to work. That was just an example of how players were able to kind of take it into there own hands to keep it fun. I'm simply saying something needs to change in the matchmaking.
For one of the first times since launch, I am actually starting to not have fun playing the game anymore. And that is Sad
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This ^^^^
Was this solo or group ranked?
Solos
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Ignoring the fact that the enemy team is listed as a Sniper named 4.... 5 on the team.
GG sure it's working as intended.
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Yeah, I've been playing since beta. I understand how queues work. But 2 weeks with nothing but arenas is far beyond the norm.
Anyway, I got my answer, you all don't know either.
It was answered.
Either you are playing lowbies / mids. Or your server is dead.
There are not enough people in the queue for 8 v 8 so arena's pop instead. Simply answered.
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They need to just make 8v8 ranked at this point. Time for objective ranked WZs ty devs.
There isn't a population for 4v4 why would you think 8v8 would be any better or even pop ever?
You whine about a few bad players in queue. Imagine getting grouped with 4 mat framers on your team v two groups of actual players. Would be the same complaints (as well as it popping less than G Ranked) 8v8 is not going to happen again and would solve nothing.
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Sounds fun. I’m sure when the game is out of beta stuff like this will be fixed and not happen anymore.
HA I actually laughed. So tru. Can't wait for Beta to end!
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It's amazing doc, how someone can act so incredibly childish and obsessed. Me fly hacking doesn't change the fact that you suck? Or is that your excuse whenever you loose a game? Or are these just little childish digs caus ur salty about dongo and mac?
And here I was thinking you are too "mature" for the rest of the swtor community.
Hey Prum, have you tried to have the imaginary Jugg push you up here again? For science....
Lol. Someone that fly hacks complaining that they can't get out of starting area in Tat anymore with roll. Sad. Just use your hacks dummy!
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We can confirm that you are legitimately a Horrible Person.
So... congratulations.
You monster.
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So I can't even get Lokin to get the thing you need to kill Speedy since its not the right event week, I will actually unsub from your game if you don't fix this
There is nothing to fix.
If you don't understand that you don't need the cheevo today and that everything isn't available just because you happen to want it right now. Maybe u should unsub.
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I'm glad to hear it's complicated... I've been paranoid about accidentally clicking on something while decorating and getting that cute little turtle eaten unintentionally!
yeah impossible to do on accident really
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The dev tracker posted that over an hour ago. You would think they would give the latest notice on the forums rather than Twitter.
So once u get good at reading you can read this part of his last post:
We are going to be freezing logins in the next 5 minutes. Servers will come completely offline in 20 (from the time of this post).
That is the latest notice also telling you ahead of time exactly when they were coming down.
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Not from the accomplished, it seems.
I get it, though. For some of us, instructions are basically spoilers.
Sure someone will try to get SWToR famous by making a video before the end of the day. Ruining the fun, its actually a pretty well-done chain of events.
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Is it just me or are all of the servers down? I thought they were supposed to be back up a while ago...
WHAT?! y didn't they tell us?!
Oh, wait - http://www.swtor.com/community/devtracker.php
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Do you think we're that stupid? It's all over swtor discords. You backfilled on your Prum toon.
Btw backfilled top 3s.
You're a confirmed fly and wall hacker, on top of backfilling.
And the dog ate my homework. Omegalul
Doesn't matter. He will keep making up excuses and customer service knows of his "exploits" (backfilling and fly-hacking) but have done nothing for months. They don't care and can't afford / won't ban current subs for the obvious financial reasons on their end.
Will point out that mention once again that there were no Juggernauts / Guardians in the match I linked and that he fly hacked to throw on one of his teammates, A well-known sage, name starts with Dac.
Regardless of the reason, does not excuse Prum from fly-hacking or assuming he didn't / wouldn't in order to get a rating (in addition to backfilling).
Sad.
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https://imgur.com/a/kF6MsK0
And this is just the kid that was too lazy to hide the toon.
Omeglul. ded af.
Thank you bioware.
Not entirely sure who "just the kid that was too lazy" is supposed to be because that's 5 different people that u circled? Also, do u think Shadow tanking is hard with all the meme tanks that queue? At least 90% of the names u circled have been there for like 6 months, didn't just appear m8.
Also Prum, if you wanna call people out for cheating lets, get some proof. Like what's going on here? https://imgur.com/a/Solewy8
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Leaderboards are stuck, if you server transfer your name will disappear completely.
Leaderboards r no longer stuck, now they r just bugged
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Leaderboards
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So we are down now to T-6 days before the end of the season and the leaderboards are still broken.How is that acceptable?
Literally giving leeway to wintraders, decliners and qdodgers.
Fix. your. stuff .m8s
Looks like they also extended the Season to the 7th, so... Yeah, boards aren't going to get fixed before the patch so will be down even longer.
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Translation: A secret elite Discord cabal does exist and is controlling all the ELO rating on swtor.
To be fair, most of the top players in the game are indeed all members of particular discord channels.
That does not mean they use said channels to share secrets / win-trade / Q Sync or whatever you want to believe.
Mostly those channels are just used as primarily text forums where they come to make fun of each other after games, or when bored. And talk about the good ole days when things were "better". (Remember patch __ when ______ could use ____ and pretty much global a ____? etc)
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Last Leaderboard update was late Friday night.
How do they break it again?
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There is a major problem that is already costing you subscriptions....the ability for ranked pvp players to queue and just dominate unranked warzones. This needs to be corrected immediately if you want the game to continue strong. Either put in coding that once you queue ranked you can no longer queue unranked, or better yet....RANKED TOONS GET NO VALOR GAIN IN UNRANKED WARZONES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GET THIS FIXED NOW!!!!!!!! I already know of at least 40 people who have cancelled their subscriptions precisely because of this issue. Even World of Warcraft realized this as a problem and fixed it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:
Are you high?
Dumbest thing I've ever heard.
:mad:
Side Strats Suck
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Like I said if a stealth is also going that way I turn around, or sometimes use a ranged attack then kite away and see if they chase for stuns while said stealth caps.
If I come to a node late in the game. It's simple. U expect the double mez, or mez then hard stun.
Never break a cc while trying to cap an off-node that a stealth is guarding (unless they follow with hard stun and a proper opener), they have to leave stealth soon enough. When they do finally come out u are usually white barred which is a + to beating them in a 1v1.
As a stealth guarding. I let them start capping then stealth cc when .5 seconds r left in cap. Depending on the class, that's when I call incoming. If its a class that can be easily solo'd (pretty much anything but Jugg Tank or Merc). U just use the first part of an opener after cc wears off, again with .5 seconds left in cap. Then hard stun, continue opener, flash-bang/lift (if they r still alive) before delivering the killing blow.
This game isn't hard, especially Regs. The easiest way to win is to go where less of them are and exploit that. Simple GG.
To say non-stealth stop going off node is nieve.
Stealth should be initially going to guard! Stealth guarding v stealth capping means one is put at a huge disadvantage at some point depending on other players actions (which one leaves stealth first often loses). Most classes: Sniper, Jugg, Mara, Sorc, Merc can handle stealth just fine especially after u force them to combat stealth.
If u do force a combat stealth that's once again fine, meaning if they want to live and stop your cap they r calling for help making the numbers elsewhere in your teams favour.
They expect a stealth to try to take off node so when u see say a mara come running at the beginning they do 1 of 2 things. Call for help, or think they can pull it off. Simply show them how both choices r wrong.
As a stealth going to stop cap at the beginning, well that's just too easy. Most players still mess it up as they do not understand resolve.
Agree with 2-5-1 but not that that 1 should always be a stealth. Only in Hyper Gate should it ALWAYS be a stealth. Or in Voidstar where it should always be 7-1(maybe 2).