Clayton.C a playeer for the PC was AFK as Mikah today just dancing and attacking in one spot on the mission Upside Down at about 2:30ish PM AZ time. I was Rak, there was an Alicia and a Hans in the mission as well who all worked hard to carry this player. He costs us the mission because of his lack of contribution.

If you are a player of a more experienced level (40 and above) do NOT accept Mentor Matches. I am a veteran player and I am telling you now reject EVERY single mentor match you see, it is NOY worth it. Antagonists if a significantly lower level will waste the new players and you WILL lose the match. You are pretty much guarenteed to lose with new players verses an antagopnists. And you are NOT properly rewarded for accepting. A little hint for you, XP doesn't mean shit above a certain level. What matters is gold and faction. If you don't get a reward of gold or faction from a mentor match then it isn't worth your time.

If you are a new player, I'm sorry. MSE has created a system where an antagonist, of ANY level, can come into your new experience and farm you for kills. MSE has mde you a liability. As a result many players don't want to group with you. When you seee a new match queue and then the queue cancels stating "other player declined" it's because they saw you were a new player because the system warns them and offers a paltry reward for essentially losing, a consolation prise for a guaranteed loss. Players decline because they know there is nothing stopping an antagopnists coming and and completely wasting their fucking time and causing an unavoidable loss.

MSE has made it so no one wants to group with you. And I'm so sorry this has been placed on you, you don't deserve this. But after the experience I've had with Mentor Matches and antagonists I will never EVER accept a Mentor Match, and I guarantee I don't care about a 20% XP bonus, and that isn't even remotely worth it.

And if you, as new players, are able to muscle through low levels and get into the upper double digits and see a Mentor Match I fully encourage you to avoid Mentor Matches as well. You WILL regret accepting them, I promise. And until MSE takes Antagonists out of Mentor Matches no one will accept Mentor Matches, and you will continue to get canceled games because the system warns everyone that you are new.

There's nothing we can do about it, it stinks. I know. But this is the ultimatum we've been given. Sorry.

You HAVE to lower their damage on their hand gun. Do you realize their hand gun is BETTER than their sniper rifle? They DESTROY you while running away from you. And if you down them, they DESTROY you before you can finish them. Keep in mind that you can doge their sniper shot, but for some reason they never EVER fucking miss with their sidearm. It kind of makes it ironically stupid that they would even bother with a sniper rifle when they have a sidearm HANDGUN that hits as hard as Konstantin's O.Shtorm.

The sidearm is a little obnoxious. Please consider lowering this. It's fucking annoying and also paints a silly situation. Why even use the sniper rifle?

NOTE: Same thing for the 5th Council fatty elites. Their gun is so fucking good I don't know why they even bother charging you to grab. EVERY shot knocks you on your ass and they shoot  every second, you simply cannot get near them when they're wounded. Which begs the question. What moron in the 5th council factory programmed them to charge you when they have in incredibly more dangerous weapon at their disposal? As soon as they are no longer wounded they put away their atomic bomb sidearm and then charge you when you have a better chance of defeating them. It's silly.

You guys need an in game report function. These AFKers who just walk in circles at the spawnpoint getting completely carried are annoying.

Schneider has gotten some balls now...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0v_Ltodjog

I don't like PvP, but I think there would be a glaring issue in the current system if we were to make it optional. Doing peaceful antaging to lower MMR and get affinity made me realize something; If PvP was optional in the current system PvEers would grind PvE until their MMR got too high or they needed affinity and then just go lose in PvP as antag until their MMR was lowered, they get their affinity, or both. This isn't fair in a system that has players opting in for PvP looking for a fight. You can't be a PvEers have your cake and eat it to.

What I would suggest is IF the game eventually get's a PvP option to make two separate MMRs for PvP and PvE. This way PvEers couldn't exploit it and lose their high MMRs through peaceful antaging. The only way they could lower their MMR would be to lose verses AI, and that's fair. Likewise a PvPers MMR for PvP (Antagonist or Raider) could only change if he loses or wins while in a PvP fight. This way no matter how god or terrible they are at completing PvE missions it would have no bearing on their PvP matching.

Maybe this is too complicated? Maybe there is some flaw I'm not seeing that would be taken advantage of, but I don't know. If there is let me know what it would be.

NOTE: Currently I play as Raider until I need the roughly 1800 XP for Antagonist Affinity, and then I queue as Antagonists and then peaceful antag, which two lost games gets you the affinity you need.

I know that the system currently can be abused by losing so much that your MMR becomes 10% or something meaning ANY game you have as an Antagonists will either be against new players or really bad one that are likely to fail the mission regardless if you spawn as antagonists or not. OR they will face players with a higher MMR and the AI will be so strong that they won't have to spawn to win. The system as it is now, could stand probably use a separate MMR for antagonists and Raider.

Can you please erase all the VirtolCit spam?