To all the flames on primal datacenter...

[PotatoTree]

There would be no imbalance if there were no GCs. That's the only joke here, how a year has passed and the devs still won't remove GC restrictions. For what? For lore? Because they have a few precious GC achievements that they spent some time wrangling their spaghetti code to make and now that can't take it apart? What a freaking joke.

[Farrell]

There would be no imbalance if there were no GCs. That's the only joke here, how a year has passed and the devs still won't remove GC restrictions. For what? For lore? Because they have a few precious GC achievements that they spent some time wrangling their spaghetti code to make and now that can't take it apart? What a freaking joke.

Well most ppl leveled the gc's up in 2013 and then did next to nothing with them, so they are really important. /sarcasm

[Dimitrii]

lol what maelstrom is this cause its not the one I'm in apparently? 50 to 70% win rates maybe if they played only single digit matches for the whole week. Idk about that bit about the flames not trying to win either they have recently become a bigger threat to maelstrom wins than adders currently are. I sit at around 35 to 40% first place win rate every week (all solo Q's, I dont have the patience to deal with party queues) with maelstrom which is pretty mediocre and I'm pretty sure I've seen flames reporting about the same win rate in this very thread. I do agree three way sucks though. Sieze proves this even more emphatically than previous modes.

[Farrell]

If you look on the top 100 for the datacenter you will see a whole lot of mael with 50% or higher. The only ppl that hit up to 70% are on mael, though that might just be for individual servers and not the entire datacenter for weekly or monthly so it may be fewer games (though not single digits). All the adders floating around 25%-35%, with one or two ppl above 40%. The standings was what I was referring to btw. Flames seem to be in the middle with sporadic win % when looking at the top 100.

[Dimitrii]

If you look on the top 100 for the datacenter you will see a whole lot of mael with 50% or higher. The only ppl that hit up to 70% are on mael, though that might just be for individual servers and not the entire datacenter for weekly or monthly so it may be fewer games (though not single digits).

I see what you mean now, I had the standings filtered for Diabolos instead of all servers on primal by mistake. Most of these names up there I dont recognize so I wonder what time of day they are playing cause Maelstrom sure as hell not dominant to that extent when I play in the late evenings/early early morning.

[Dimitrii]

Must be why we have this unwanted influx of people joining maelstrom now making our queues even worse than it was before.

[saintmanji]

Must be why we have this unwanted influx of people joining maelstrom now making our queues even worse than it was before.

Yes, take Flame's bads. There's a lot more where that came from.

[Februs]

Yes, take Flame's bads. There's a lot more where that came from.

I could use the speedier que times too... They've slowed down a bit in recent weeks...

[RiceisNice]

I don't do frontlines as much anymore (usually just taking my roulette for the week to inch toward rank 50), but when I do, this is more-or-less the usual for me lately.





You can click the second image to expnd its size to compare the check if you need.

I couldn't get a screenshot of it in time, but there was a node on the last defile center (D2) and maelstrom had it occupied for the entire time while hitting us from the west flank, you could compare the chat logs to see it was left uncontested and that flames were coming after our nodes (split pushing actually, so it was more or less feeding us points, but nevermind mind the fact that maelstrom middle was left uncontested).

And you can take my word that the fight went from Mael starting with 2 (1 A rank) node, adders went for their B rank while mael and flames faught for middle, followed by the next node spawns allowing flames to get sandwiched in (yay north spawn), and welp.

[Februs]

Snip.

That chat box is pretty close to exactly what I read most of the time in the Flames box, only you just have to swap the names. "Fall back" / "Ignore Adders" / "Get out" followed by "Adders chasing" / "Adders inc" / "ADDERS!!!"

It seems the Adders and Flames just can't seem to let each other go. Most of the time, when we engage Mael the fight ends when the nodes die. There's this awkward moment where we kind of stand there, looking at each other like we're unsure, but we part ways and that's it. When we get into it with Adders, though, one of us always ends up chasing the other and the fights drag on past the point where it should have ended a long time ago.