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HamsterIV:
--- Quote from: Indreams on March 03, 2015, 05:06:08 pm ---Its been a while since I've seen 30+ 4-digiter join a match without a friend 30+ 4-digiter. There's nothing wrong with it, its just -> :P
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It is because of match making. I used to just pick a random lobby that had open slots and start making new friends. If the people on the ship I got put on were not communicating I would jump ship to one that was. With match making I am pretty much guaranteed to be put on a ship with people who don't communicate.
Now a days I only join custom match/friends list games.
All things being equal one high level engineer or pilot can dramatically alter the balance of a server. I don't know about gunner since they are very dependent on the other classes doing their job right for exceptional gunnery to really make a difference. However if the teams are missmatched to begin with, there is nothing one player can do alone to fix this.
One veteran player plus 3 games worth of training on a novice crew that is willing to listen and learn can start upsetting a missmatched lobby. Unfortunatly with match making by the time that 3rd/4th game rolls around you get dumped back into crew form. If the top most captain is AFK or stupid every one leaves and you have to start the training from scratch if you can't pull the old crew back together.
BlackenedPies:
--- Quote from: Lanliss on March 03, 2015, 04:59:54 pm ---
--- Quote from: Omniraptor on March 03, 2015, 04:53:36 pm ---Correction- no player can wreck a public match, they need accomplices, though the accomplices may be lower level.
If the gunner starts shooting flak at the same time as hades and is reloading by the time armor breaks, nothing even the best pilot can do except suggest/cajole/plead/rage/ragequit.
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That is my favorite part of this game. No matter how hardcore or pro a player is, whatever his/her role on the ship, it is impossible to singularly carry a team. You need teamwork to do anything at all in Guns, and I love it so much.
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I have to disagree. One good captain regardless of crew can carry a team.
With or without allies I have carried hundreds of matches, including with all AI crews. So have plenty of other captains. I can recall many matches where I had all AI and a disconnected ally and managed to win. For example, I played a period of about 100 matches with an all AI squid with double flame and had a 43 match winstreak. In many of the matches I had no ally to speak of and relied on juggling in 2v1.
Good gunners and engineers can also carry matches to a degree. Lumberjack gunners and squid engis are good examples.
HamsterIV:
A great Captain can not carry an incompetent crew to victory. Eventually the toll of unpaired engines, and missed shots at point blank range add up. AI crew are semi competent and often better than the raw novices you get with steam sales.
Arturo Sanchez:
agreed captains are a major factor of any lobby
as they control the ship, the gun builds and the tactics (or lack thereof) in a match.
Gunners and engies are just in it for the ride, at the mercy of the competence of the pilot.
Hence people flock to decent pilots and leave a noob pilot with empty slots.
That being said crewmates that don't do their part (even one) in a lobby that requires them to be, can make or break a match. Hence this game is such an easy game for trolls to do their thing. I know a certain asshole that intentionally becomes a 2nd pilot, load loch on every gun and fire and ignores repairs and steals the helm when given a chance.
Lanliss:
My point is that it is impossible as a single player to carry a match. You cannot be an engineer, a pilot, and a gunner all at once. In countless other games you could have one player vs a team of 10, and if the player is good enough or the enemy bad enough, the one will win. Also, while AI can be bad most of the time, they can have their moments. And, as Hamster said, AI are generally better than raw crew members. At least an AI knows how to repair things, and won't miss by a mile simply because they don't know the arc on a gun.
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