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A.o.D. posted:Hey it's a double XP weekend! If you spend MC on converting XP to GXP, you get free* bonuses! If this wasn't an event thing and rather a persistent reward system, it would be a bit better, but even still XP conversion is hilariously overpriced (even at double the rate). I have to assume some people are using it as is, which is strange given that the pricing model is borrowed from WOT and there XP is used to not only upgrade tanks and crew but also unlock the ability to purchase tanks, making the importance and utility of Free XP (GXP) much higher and thus arguably more valuable. I think a mechanic to make use of the excess XP on mastered chassis might at the very least add a bit more depth to the game, even with trivial rewards. Someone awhile back suggested it just get converted into cbills, which would be something at least. However, any such system can be seen as discouraging the purchase of additional mechs which is of course ~bad~. E: A.o.D. posted:Clan PPC builds are inherently bad. They run too hot, are too difficult to use well, and have cripplingly low DPS. Don't be me and pilot a War hawk Prime with 4x ERPPCs. It's not something you do to be effective. It's something you do because you like seeing erppcs smack into things. I am ashamed to say the highest KDR and Win rate of all my mechs is in that mech/fit (I am bad at robots). veedubfreak posted:So I bought the Marauder pack cause I'm bad with money. Does it just not work until you get it fully basic'd/elited or am I just really out of practice with AC5s? It's good, but are you chain firing or group firing the AC/5s? Chain fire will cause pubbies to panic and usually struggle to hit you if you're in their face, while group firing is more accurate and better when you're a bit further away. Coolwhoami fucked around with this message at 18:30 on Feb 4, 2016 |
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Elliotw2 posted:Roll in a 3xPPC Thunderbolt, like it's CW launch again. I don't need to buy another 'mech to compound my folly. Also, the Ppc bolt got meganerfed. The war hawk has 4x the heat managed DPS. A.o.D. fucked around with this message at 18:31 on Feb 4, 2016 |
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Buff Butler posted:Against bad players and idiots, sure. Post your best CW scoreboards, and then I'll post mine. Better yet, I'll post the vods of guys who bring nothing but ERLL whining about being curbstomped because I just walked up and shot them in the loving face, lol my dude
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Played my first ever game with goons, did about 10 times better than I've ever done before. Incredible.
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just got this, the ui is absolute dogshit and cluttered. first match dumps me in the oceanic servers, and i end up dying because someone thought it would be a great idea to put the chat and targeting keys right next to each other
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Robot Randy posted:just got this, the ui is absolute dogshit and cluttered. first match dumps me in the oceanic servers, and i end up dying because someone thought it would be a great idea to put the chat and targeting keys right next to each other Play with goons
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Robot Randy posted:just got this, the ui is absolute dogshit and cluttered. first match dumps me in the oceanic servers, and i end up dying because someone thought it would be a great idea to put the chat and targeting keys right next to each other Guess you should play something else then.
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I'm glad no other video game in the history of video games has ever mapped R and T to different functions.
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It's almost like it's a standard control scheme.
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Feb 4, 2016 18:57
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I mapped R to shutdown and T to shut down.
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Feb 4, 2016 18:58
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I mapped left mouse to shut down
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Press [unbound] to shutdown
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I mapped the North America servers to the Oceania servers.
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Feb 4, 2016 19:02
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Alt + F4 is my emergency over ride.
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Even though I don't drop with you guys, I always appreciate running into you lot in the group queue. Primarily because you'll actually get stuck in, instead of hide the whole goddamn match. Few things are more irritating than having assaults on your team who refuse to leave cover and engage.
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Feb 4, 2016 19:07
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I wish there was a way to toggle the TAG laser on an off so that I wouldn't have to hold a button down all the time.
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Feb 4, 2016 19:31
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Kurzon posted:I wish there was a way to toggle the TAG laser on an off so that I wouldn't have to hold a button down all the time. It's PGI telling you to not encourage bad play.
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Elliotw2 posted:It's PGI telling you to not encourage bad play. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt and assume that he's trying to break through ecm cover so his streaks can lock.
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Feb 4, 2016 19:48
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Good to know about massive amounts of ammo for UACs, and the game rewarding single weapon types. Gonna go Marauder when I get the chance then.
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gently caress converting xp to xp for mc, i want to convert xp to mc instead.
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Yolomon Wayne posted:gently caress converting xp to xp for mc, i want to convert xp to mc instead. 10 MC per Thousand XP after mastering a chassis? I'd take that poo poo. Give me something to do with my Stalker 4N, Hunchback 4G and Stormcrow XP.
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Yolomon Wayne posted:gently caress converting xp to xp for mc, i want to convert xp to mc instead. Same. If I combined my Timber, my Ilya and my Firebrand I have over 1 mil xp. Hell I'm already sitting on over 60k GXP. Double xp does sound good though since I just bought crabs, urbies, marauders and hellbringers. Guess I need to turn on a month of banked premium too.
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Basically, anything that lets us earn mc that isn't literally handing over cash and isn't limited to events.
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A.o.D. posted:I'll give him the benefit of the doubt and assume that he's trying to break through ecm cover so his streaks can lock. But theres a passive module thingy for that, unless you want locks further than 180m.
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Drakes posted:But theres a passive module thingy for that, unless you want locks further than 180m. No modules break ECM coverage. BAP acts as a counter-unit but is not a module, Seismic allows detection within 180m but no target data.
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Also, BAP only shuts down one ECM in its radius. If two are active, you'll still get a low signal from the other ECM you didn't shut down.
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Kilo147 posted:Is this completely worthless? It's the best approximation of my old Battletech loadout, I'd buy a single Cauldy just to do this. Take off the LRM5's and the ammo and put on heat sinks and that will work. Without the added heat sinks it will be useless. LRM's are really bad in MWO, usually the team with the most LRM's looses. Edit: and someone else said put on at least 5 tons of AC ammo, they are right. Washout fucked around with this message at 21:03 on Feb 4, 2016 |
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Yolomon Wayne posted:gently caress converting xp to xp for mc, i want to convert xp to mc instead. Its not about the cbills. If you ever wanted a hula girl you can get one for 500 MC now. That appears to be about middle of the road as far as cosmetics, and I don't see them available at all for regular purchase. Nows a chance to make like the trailer and put 'er in your atlas. I'm probably going to do it as a shortcut to useful modules, and once those are exhausted my GXP pool just becomes a lazymode/shortcut for eliting things. On that related note, what are the most useful things out of this list: Seismic, 360 target retention, target decay 2(i already have 1 for some reason), improved gyros, consumable boosts? Any others i've forgotten? I already have the other big ones like Radar Dep. TheParadigm fucked around with this message at 20:50 on Feb 4, 2016 |
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Infidelicious posted:So, how awful is this? This is bad because for 30 damage it takes 50% of your heat, and you can't shoot the PPC's at all if you are over 50% heat or you shut down, also only 10 of the 15 ppc damage goes to the hit location. If you switch them from PPC's to LPL your heat goes way way down and you do 11 damage to the hit location instead. Skoll posted:Alt + F4 is my emergency over ride. Be like me and ALT-F4 in a huff every time a goon does something stupid and gets you killed. Washout fucked around with this message at 21:01 on Feb 4, 2016 |
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Washout posted:Be like me and ALT-F4 in a huff every time a goon does something stupid and gets you killed. So, 90% of the games I've had with you?
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Drakes posted:But theres a passive module thingy for that, unless you want locks further than 180m. Clan streaks can connect out to almost 400m with the range module. Fit dat tag.
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TheParadigm posted:
I'mma gonna say that for me it's seismic. I live for brawling and close range encounters, using the terrain to mask my approach, setting up ambushes and reporting contacts without line of sight.
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yeah seismic is basically wallhack. essential on just about anything that will ever stand still -- big assaults and snipey mechs especially, so you can detect a cheetah coming to carve you up cool rush consumables are great on DPS mechs and anything that is going to be running hot well-placed UAVs can help swing a match -- very good on anything sneaky airstrikes and artillery feel cheap to me, but if you drop one correctly it can really mess up a blob
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Buff Butler posted:ER Large Lasers are very bad weapons, and it's extremely funny to see that PGI somehow thinks they are the new balance boogeyman. ERLL work well on my Cicada harasser, throws teams off and when people come to chase me I can just run back to the team so they get ganked. However on alot of mechs they are poo poo.
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I solo drop alot and I love ERLLs, I find it way too hard to brawl on the average map when playing with pubs.
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mashed_penguin posted:Suicide feet artillery when you are about to die is a pro move. Especially when you take some extra goons with you. I recorded a game where someone got taken out and dropped an airstrike as they died that obliterated two of their own teammates. it was legit hilarious.
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