Five matches of Mechwarrior Online tonight. Three ended in losses (that I did fairly well in regardless) and one ended in a win where I scored a rather nice final kill. Then came match 5. Worst map with the worst mode and a bunch of idiots for teammates with poor mechs, builds, and collective brain cells. 1 minute in, an idiot's going off at someone else and I call him out. Next thing I know, back armor is gone, so I turn around and core him out in 4 hits. Team pretty much blames me (this is after the sod shot me in the back and gave me another load in the face) and now I have a bunch of unfriendly teammates staring at me while I'm open up in the back, so I awkwardly "excuse myself" and take the long way around for a flanking attack. I get there in 30 seconds and half my remaining team already collapsed. Another guy's sitting in the back similar to where I am, and he proceeds to fire at a timber wolf outside of his optimal weapon range. For context, I deal 72 damage an alpha; that's enough to core out nearly any mech from behind, and especially a timber wolf. Not so easy when a guy tickles his back armor from far away and leaves me to brawl with the timbies and half the enemy team that's turning around.

Needless to say, with a half dozen enemies on my ass, I was able to take out a side torso and scratch a few enemies, but ultimately ended up being obliterated like everyone else.

Then we have one player in a [s]shitty[/s] adder, a light mech that's slow and doesn't carry a very strong loadout + serious heat issues. He misses basically every shot and is wiped out after running around aimlessly for about a minute.

Final score: 4-12. We took down 4, whoopee. One of the 12 was... mine. But then, I suppose it would have been the other guy's.

Long story short, poor team team, zero teamwork, a mentally deranged... thing that hopped in on the matchmaker, and all on perhaps the absolute least popular map + the mode that least compliments it. And it was a long ranged map, while I brought a brawler. I didn't bother to record or take screenshots at the time, so now I get to wonder for a while if the guy next to me is friendly or if he's ready to shoot my ass off...

Had to be my absolute worst game in the mechwarrior series... possibly ever. I can't quite remember another scenario that was so absolutely horrid. Got off a long day of nonsense, four decent matches and next thing I know the last one really shuts me down for the evening >.>