Posted 03 July 2017 - 09:12 AM

Mechwarrior1441491, on 03 July 2017 - 08:55 AM, said:

It was rare that some kind of stun lock would happen. If there were enough mechs to bowl you constantly, match was over anyways. Never really actually saw it myself.



Light mechs taking dives at people would always get vaporized as they sat on the ground.



Just another reason for people to stay with their lances.



What happened was Garth got tied up with a unit playing MWO at the time, the Goon squad. I have nothing nice to say about them, so lets just leave it at that. Anyone who remembers them knows who they were and what they were about.Anyway, they played a match with Garth and all piloted Dragons (a fast heavy with boni to knockdown). They took turns running into him and knocking him down over and over again (as soon as he stood up). As if that somehow represented a typical match in MWO. Well, somehow that was deemed too trolly of a mechanic and so knockdown was removed from the game; because of the "potential" of a group of random people coming together to kill off all but one enemy player and then troll the last guy by knocking him down repeatedly. I know, common occurrence, right? In their defense, PGI hasn't really relied on common sense as one of their strong suits. That is an abbreviated history of why there is no knockdown in the game currently.