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DeliciousPatriotism posted:Then buy different mechs lol I'm loving it. I'm 7 for 7 right now and I mostly use light mechs. Alot of hate for polar really sounds like that, don't full brawl outside of organized goons! Get some mid-range weapons. Heck I can imagine lights/mediums getting abit of brawl on with the trenches on that map. Drakes fucked around with this message at 07:24 on Jan 24, 2016 |
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TeeMerk posted:How did the Clan Purple Bird CW drops go? Faboo. Won every match so far as I know. Saw a pubbie atlas with two AC/2s, LRMs, and large lasers
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Drakes posted:Alot of hate for polar really sounds like that, don't full brawl outside of organized goons! Get some mid-range weapons. Heck I can imagine lights/mediums getting abit of brawl on with the trenches on that map. This is Paul's ultimate goal. Build bracket mechs. I would rather use the vote multiplier and catch teams that want that map and murder them. I am sure it will show up less in a week or two, I barely see Crimson Strait in rotation as an example of them weighting the new map. That being said, play CW build a good drop deck and never see that poo poo again.
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A gaggle of trial Adders and a Ghost dad are surprisingly devastating on Polar Highlands.
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TeeMerk posted:This is Paul's ultimate goal. Build bracket mechs. Its probably more like you can have some guys for brawling, but don't fit your entire team with SRMs/MLs and hope the map doesn't gently caress you.
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TeeMerk posted:How did the Clan Purple Bird CW drops go?
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The Repo Man posted:A gaggle of trial Adders and a Ghost dad are surprisingly devastating on Polar Highlands. This more than made up for those horrible matches on bog. Wish I was recording! When is CW running? Gotta get me some mech bays...
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I did it. I finally basic'd my mist lynx and ice ferrets from my stupid purchasing decisions so I could sell the non-unique hulls. Get hosed, you lovely, lovely mechs.
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Coolwhoami posted:I did it. I finally basic'd my mist lynx and ice ferrets from my stupid purchasing decisions so I could sell the non-unique hulls. Get hosed, you lovely, lovely mechs. I didn't even basic any of the Shadow Cats before selling them. What a loving terrible excuse for a mech. It's literally a wider Kit Fox with worse hardpoints and slightly more mobility.
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Coolwhoami posted:I did it. I finally basic'd my mist lynx and ice ferrets from my stupid purchasing decisions so I could sell the non-unique hulls. Get hosed, you lovely, lovely mechs. The mist lynx is the bad mech the urbanmech was intended to be.
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I've brought my MPLas/ASRM6 brawl mechs into polar highlands all the time. Serious dudes, you don't need long range builds at all for that map. You just need patience.
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Vorenus posted:I didn't even basic any of the Shadow Cats before selling them. What a loving terrible excuse for a mech. It's literally a wider Kit Fox with worse hardpoints and slightly more mobility. Why must you insult my baby?  The SCat is godlike
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Love Stole the Day posted:Why must you insult my baby? SCat supremacy SCat buddies for life
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TeeMerk posted:How did the Clan Purple Bird CW drops go? We loving wrecked the pubbies except for one fight, to the point that they actually stopped coming for fights. And when I say wrecked, I mean absolutely pulverized, with us not only taking down the objective but also killing every mech they brought while losing one mech each (i.e 48 to 12 and 47 to 13). The last pubbie scrub crew actually did okay, with us still killing all of their mechs and taking down the objective while losing 28 or 29 mechs of our own. The one fight we lost we were on defense and they killed all our light mechs for the loss of one heavy (Marauder I think). We just couldn't get enough mass and momentum to destroy their company, so we lost that one something like 38 to 34, but it was more due to time running out than them out-playing us. Had we a few more minutes we might have won. tl;dr - it was fun, and whoever didn't join in missed out big time. We were averaging 750k - 1m credits per match, with a match about every 30 mins. And when we had absolutely no one to fight on the map we still made 300k credits and 82 loyalty points. I got rank 2 and 75% of rank 3 done in about 6 or 7 matches.
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Can someone tell me how elite skill unlocking works exactly? As I understood it, you need to do the basic skills on 3 mechs of that class to get Master level unlocked, and then you need to do the master on those 3 mechs to unlock elite skills? Is that correct? I elited my Blackjacks and that seemed to be the way it worked. Am I missing anything there? If I was to go on to Elite my Centurions (this isnt happening) it would just be the same process over again? I've seen conflicting things being said like you only need to elite one class of that weight group to access all that weight groups elite skills, which doesnt seem to be the case. Edit: Also why does the average idiot on your team, even when told exactly where the enemy is on voice and in chat, proceed to do his best to try and not be anywhere near that location, usually just carrying on walking around that area in a wide a circle as possible? Tindahbawx fucked around with this message at 15:34 on Jan 24, 2016 |
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Drakes posted:Alot of hate for polar really sounds like that. I think a lot of hate for Polar comes from dropping on it in slow assault `Mechs, getting left behind by the team (organized goons or otherwise) and dying; or being a member of a team where that happens. We've done really well on it when everyone's stayed close and organized, but when some members are zooming around at 160 kph and others are trundling along at 60 or less it's incredibly easy to get strung out and die like chumps. Since so many pubbies are running Warhammers at the moment, they're not really getting strung out since they've mostly got the same movement profiles, which means either the slower goon elements are getting ambushed and dying before the fast elements realize there's a problem or the fast-movers are charging in in 2s and 3s and getting cut down with their nearest support half a map away. It's easy to underestimate how big Polar Highlands is when you're fast, but it's also easy to overestimate how big it is when you're slow. I really think Goons would like Polar more if we dropped with more light/medium(/fast heavy) wolfpacks. There's plenty of room to maneuver, we just have to tailor our drops to take advantage of it.
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Okay, so for the Warhammer 6D, it looks like the left torso is the best bet to place your big guns (if you're fitting big guns). If you have just two big guns like LPLs or PPCs followed by a bunch of shorter ranged weapons, the way to get the best mounts for your big guns is to fit one big, one small, and one big, that way your large weapons are in the highest mounts. Like So
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Tindahbawx posted:Can someone tell me how elite skill unlocking works exactly? As I understood it, you need to do the basic skills on 3 mechs of that class to get Master level unlocked, and then you need to do the master on those 3 mechs to unlock elite skills? Is that correct? I elited my Blackjacks and that seemed to be the way it worked. Basic - Elite - Master You need to have 8/8 Basic skills on 3 mechs of the same chassis to be able to go for Elite skill son that chassis. You need 4/4 Elite skills on 3 mechs of that weight class to unlock Master skills for this weight class. Also 4/4 Elite skills double bonus from Basic skills. Since you need 3 of the same chassis to go elite anyways, its not a great help that 3 of the same tonnage unlock master, so its still best to 4/4 Elite 3 of the same chassis, then sell 2.
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Yolomon Wayne posted:Basic - Elite - Master To clarify. Only the 1st Chassis in each weight class has to have the Elites unlocked on 3 variants to unlock the Master slot. Any subsequents chassis in that weight class only require you to get Basics on 3 in order to unlock the Elites. Then you can unlock the Elite and Master skills on an individual variant without worrying about the Elites on the other 2. No matter how you look at it though, you still have to start with 3 variants. The grind just gets easier when it's not your first mech in that class.
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I haven't played since like right after beta. Is my Marmoset still good? e: Yes. Yes it is. Triple Ultra AC/5 
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Luigi Thirty posted:I haven't played since like right after beta. Is my Marmoset still good? In the right hands, yes. You have to be dedicated to this mech. Make it a part of you. Be one with the Marmoset.
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Oh I think polar highlands is bad because it's boring with 2.5 to 5 minutes between drop and engagement. The map is aesthetically uninteresting. It's super easy to beat the enemy, just use LLas or LPL and wait for them to silhouette themselves, attack with a core of heavies and flank with lights since the team will almost always be strung out in a huge line. If they go to J6 just brawl.
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Super 3 posted:What's in an IS drop deck these days? Firestarter, Hunchbacks or Griffins, Blackjacks, Marauders, Atlas.
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Beraiye posted:In the right hands, yes. You have to be dedicated to this mech. Make it a part of you. I am one with the Marmoset if by that you mean it's loaded with Ultra AC/5s and there's a Space Big Gulp on my center console.
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Wait a second, do champion mechs share xp with their normal chassis variants? I just bought Dad RSC and immediatly had 18k xp, which could only have come from playing free Dad when i started. But wasnt the champion RSC free? However, i now have an instantly elite-ready atlas. Though i think id rather elite/keep the ECM or 4xSRM variant...
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Vorenus posted:I didn't even basic any of the Shadow Cats before selling them. What a loving terrible excuse for a mech. It's literally a wider Kit Fox with worse hardpoints and slightly more mobility. They're not great but they're far from the worst Clan mechs available. I like them because they're kind of challenging to use, plus MASC is kind of underrated. I'm curious to see what happens in February when MASC is supposed to get a buff. Maybe it's just Stockholm syndrome, but I'm having more fun with Shadow Cats than I am Timber Wolves, for example.
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Yolomon Wayne posted:Wait a second, do champion mechs share xp with their normal chassis variants? Yes, the regular RS and RS(C) both count as the same variant for exp purposes, (C) mechs just earn exp faster and come with upgrades installed/better set-ups than stock. If you're not planning to keep all Dads the DDC and S are the standouts. Don't get rid of those, they good.
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Vorenus posted:I didn't even basic any of the Shadow Cats before selling them. What a loving terrible excuse for a mech. It's literally a wider Kit Fox with worse hardpoints and slightly more mobility. You are playing it wrong, it's an rear end in a top hat pop sniper that can really ruin peoples day. It just can't brawl at all so you have to hang back and be a dickhead. ECM is all that makes it unique tho.
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Rocketpriest posted:Yes, the regular RS and RS(C) both count as the same variant for exp purposes, (C) mechs just earn exp faster and come with upgrades installed/better set-ups than stock. I have the D-DC, The " and for "3 basics" purposes the RS which doesnt really satisfy me. I planned on keeping 1 Dad, but i see it will be 2. Im running out of loving mechbays.
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Washout posted:You are playing it wrong, it's an rear end in a top hat pop sniper that can really ruin peoples day. It just can't brawl at all so you have to hang back and be a dickhead. ECM is all that makes it unique tho. It actually makes a decent SRM Striker as well; between ECM and its crazy ups from JJs, it can get in to good positions to throw down. It's no Griffin, but it's a ton of fun to slam SRMs into people with your stealthy, flying piece of poo poo that accelerates instantly.
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novaSphere posted:It actually makes a decent SRM Striker as well; between ECM and its crazy ups from JJs, it can get in to good positions to throw down. It's no Griffin, but it's a ton of fun to slam SRMs into people with your stealthy, flying piece of poo poo that accelerates instantly. As a resident Shadow Cat expert: If you're not singing this song to yourself all match when playing this robot, you are doing it wronghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQfiWFwVF8M edit-- if you get bored of singing that song, here's a backup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUSH3-F3AK4
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Put in a good 5 hours worth today after not playing since I bought my founders pack way back when and I can honestly say that the game just feels so much better.
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Yolomon Wayne posted:I have the D-DC, The " and for "3 basics" purposes the RS which doesnt really satisfy me. Time to start touring the sphere and doing clam wars. I'm trying to get to tier 10 in most factions at this point since I'm already tier 6 in most.
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novaSphere posted:It actually makes a decent SRM Striker as well; between ECM and its crazy ups from JJs, it can get in to good positions to throw down. It's no Griffin, but it's a ton of fun to slam SRMs into people with your stealthy, flying piece of poo poo that accelerates instantly. It dies so fast while brawling compared to any other medium that can carry srm's. Sure like anything you can do well if you are a good pilot, but almost anything else makes a better medium brawler. The CT is probably the largest of any medium mech.
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Washout posted:Time to start touring the sphere and doing clam wars. I'm trying to get to tier 10 in most factions at this point since I'm already tier 6 in most. Will do that, i think first mechbay is rank 2 each? WIth 7 day contracts, that should be doable, rank 6 for the second is a bit much i guess.
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Ac20 + 4 medLasers 3x Large Pulse + 2 medPulse 2xAC5 + 4 medLasers Last time i couldnt decide between stalker and battlemaster i went and bought 3 dads. Now im at the same crossing again, stalker or battlemaster?
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Yolomon Wayne posted:Ac20 + 4 medLasers On the 3R you can cram 3x AC/5 + 4 ML, but you'll be light on ammo. It's a fun build though. e: Stalker for supreme tankability and rhino build, Battlemaster for unparralled laser vomit and maximum Skrillex https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqaXN5sxqpU
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