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darthzeta88 posted:What is ghost heat? I generally alpha my lasers unless shooting at small mechs. If you fire more than some number of a given weapon (or weapon type) at once, it produces extra heat. This was intended to curtail boating but mostly just makes players boat in slightly different ways or take minor steps to avoid the penalty. Also, why not alpha at small mechs...? Unless you mean it would be major overkill, I guess, but generally you want to put someone down ASAP even if it means a little extra heat. Maybe moreso for lights since they're squirrely and you usually don't have a long window for taking shots.
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Ghost Heat Explained by Paul:  I hope that explains everything
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taqueso posted:Do I have to fire 7+ in .5 seconds or does each firing reset the timer? Like if I fire 1 small laser every 200ms, will the seventh still have ghost heat? No it won't. Also, you won't be effective.
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Mar 18, 2016 02:45
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Here's a list of which weapons are grouped together for ghost heat purposes, and what the penalties are for violating ghost heat. http://mwo.smurfy-net.de/equipment#weapon_heatscale Note that Russ' chart doesn't match what's actually in game.
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Mar 18, 2016 02:46
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A.o.D. posted:Also, you won't be effective. Sure, I've just been wondering how it worked for awhile and couldn't find a clear answer. Thanks.
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Mar 18, 2016 02:48
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Lonjon posted:I've been talking to a few people on Mumble about putting together small groups of helper Goon teams. The idea would be to make a lance of 4 or so fast mechs and outfit them with just support weapons (Tag, NARC, and optionally flamers). We would rush ahead of the other 8 members of our team and quickly scout, tag, and NARC as many of the enemy as we possibly can. Quoting myself because I'm doing this tonight. I even made some pretty sweet robots. Join me in Mumble if you feel like giving back to the community!
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Mar 18, 2016 02:49
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A.o.D. posted:Ghost heat is an undocumented penalty for firing too many weapons of certain types. Hunchback-4P.
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Mar 18, 2016 08:28
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Supraluminal posted:
I am a light mech user and my aim sucks so engaging a brawl with another light mech turns out better for me if I heat manage. Large mechs I can hit and run easier.
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I've got 13 non qualifying games. God drat, but the brawling quickdraw is rough. You are tall as poo poo so you can't hang back and not get lasered before the brawl, and you don't do as much damage as a griffin when you finally close that distance. I make holes in one, two guys and inevitably get cored. Goddamn. I think the thing I hate about domination the most is everyone says it forces a brawl but it doesn't. It forces you to sit in cover just barely inside the circle and get sniped forever. If you try to brawl, ever, you get wrecked by stepping into the no-mans land that everyone is shooting into. This poo poo is trench warfare and I hate it. Krinkle fucked around with this message at 09:51 on Mar 18, 2016 |
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darthzeta88 posted:I am a light mech user and my aim sucks so engaging a brawl with another light mech turns out better for me if I heat manage. Large mechs I can hit and run easier. I used to be real bad too: what helped me is realising that for a high percentage shot.you can set your crosshairs and then run a path that means the crosshairs drift across the target. Before I learnt that I tended to jerkthe lasers around or even miss completely. You have like three full alphas before you should be running, so you want them to land.
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Krinkle posted:I've got 13 non qualifying games. God drat, but the brawling quickdraw is rough. You are tall as poo poo so you can't hang back and not get lasered before the brawl, and you don't do as much damage as a griffin when you finally close that distance. I make holes in one, two guys and inevitably get cored. Goddamn. One person on your team has to sit under cover. The rest of you are free to go around and kill whoever else is in the circle or around it.
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Mar 18, 2016 11:31
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Aferisan posted:One person on your team has to sit under cover. The rest of you are free to go around and kill whoever else is in the circle or around it. This. Had a wolfhound sit behind some rocks on Grim. Red team gets distracted, then you just run over and shoot some butts. I didn't think I'd like the Cicada, but that six MLas one is sick.
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darthzeta88 posted:I am a light mech user and my aim sucks so engaging a brawl with another light mech turns out better for me if I heat manage. Large mechs I can hit and run easier. You gotta do whatever works for you I guess, but my advice would be to just not bother shooting until you get a good shot lined up. It's OK to jockey for position and then nuke the other guy's leg in one shot rather than rake him fifty-seven times, even if it means losing out on potential DPS. sebmojo posted:I used to be real bad too: what helped me is realising that for a high percentage shot.you can set your crosshairs and then run a path that means the crosshairs drift across the target. Before I learnt that I tended to jerkthe lasers around or even miss completely. On a related note (or maybe this is what you were saying?), try to line up a shot where you can minimize the amount you turn your legs during the burn. It helps tremendously with putting all your laser damage on one component. Even worse is trying to get hits in when you're cranked all the way over to max torso twist in a mech with no arm yaw; get oriented so you have some slack to use first.
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Another thing that might help you with fighting lights is waiting for the enemy light to be running directly toward or directly away from you before you take your shot. If you're dogfighting another light this will happen often. Usually the light will try to move in a circle pattern. Catch him in the part of the circle where he's moving right at you or away from you. Makes it much easier to land your shots. Dang, does that make sense? A better light pilot could explain it better I'm sure.
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Mar 18, 2016 15:16
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Is it possible to switch out the colour palette for the game's UI so I can read my heat percentage quickly against dark backgrounds?
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Lonjon posted:Another thing that might help you with fighting lights is waiting for the enemy light to be running directly toward or directly away from you before you take your shot. If you're dogfighting another light this will happen often. Usually the light will try to move in a circle pattern. Catch him in the part of the circle where he's moving right at you or away from you. Makes it much easier to land your shots. Yeah, I mean it's all about finding moments where relative apparent motion is minimal (i.e. the target is not moving around on your screen a bunch). Target running directly towards or away is one situation where that happens. It's trickier if you're both in lights because you're usually both squirreling around like crazy, but you still want to watch for those moments and engineer them when possible. Don't be afraid to crash stop for a perfect shot if it makes sense.
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Mar 18, 2016 15:50
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Commoners posted:I have bought the summoner. It's the fattest Light `Mech in the game.
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Mar 18, 2016 15:54
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Do all the Hellbringers have the same lovely yaw? Seems like any map where you need to shoot more than about 10 degrees up or down you can't hit anything.
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Mar 18, 2016 16:00
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veedubfreak posted:Do all the Hellbringers have the same lovely yaw? Seems like any map where you need to shoot more than about 10 degrees up or down you can't hit anything. Yaw is left/right, pitch is up/down. Smurfy has all the pitch/yaw numbers: http://mwo.smurfy-net.de/#mechs_heavy_hellbringer Looks like all Hellbringers' pitch ranges are 20 degrees torso, 30 degrees arms. Not much different from all the other heavies.
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Mar 18, 2016 16:25
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low mounts are the bane of my life. Ive been mastering black knights. I like to imagine the laser is coming directly from my mech peepee.
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Mar 18, 2016 23:03
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Aferisan posted:low mounts are the bane of my life. Ive been mastering black knights. I'd like to think it a dazzling belt buckle. But if that's what gets you through the day, more power to you.
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Mar 18, 2016 23:55
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Supraluminal posted:Yaw is left/right, pitch is up/down. The main deal with the Hellbringer is that you often as not put everything in the torso rather than the arms, which is what catches me out at least when I'm expecting to be able to shoot a UAV.
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Lonjon posted:Ghost Heat Explained by Paul: I loving love that he didn't even bother to delete "Series1" off of that excel graph. That's like bush league poo poo.
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Aferisan posted:low mounts are the bane of my life. Ive been mastering black knights. yeah the knight is a nice example of how quirks can make a bad design playable like even with the low mounts it's still a T1 IS heavy because that 58-point alpha is quick and brutal really interested to see what the Archer looks like once they give it the requirks which should be early next week
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Safety Factor posted:I loving love that he didn't even bother to delete "Series1" off of that excel graph. That's like bush league poo poo. If I was marking his lab report I also would have docked marks for not labeling the axes with names and units.
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did i win the game
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A Curvy Goonette posted:did i win the game in other events that would be something cool like a 'mech 
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Mar 19, 2016 04:21
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Yeah I have zero incentive for this grab bag. Super lame
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Mar 19, 2016 04:42
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Cyrano4747 posted:Yeah I have zero incentive for this grab bag. Super lame C-Bills and MC.
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Mar 19, 2016 05:30
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Meh.
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Cyrano4747 posted:Meh. Its just playing normal games and you get free stuff, that's it really. If you think of it as trying to get all the grab bags well then yeah you get burnt out but a few mc for free and you have a one shot camo and the cockpit things are always cool.
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Cockpit things that aren't war horns are awful and just clutter up the screen. I mean I'm playing but I'm not going to do more than my usual hour a day for this. A free mech even a lovely one will at least get me to go after a few extra pulls. Really I think I'm just annoyed at the top tier thing being s ugly loving mug of green beer. I'd rather have 100k cbills or 5 mc
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Cyrano4747 posted:Cockpit things that aren't war horns are awful and just clutter up the screen. you are literally a joyless gently caress
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Mar 19, 2016 08:02
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gonna need all this cockpit visibility to shoot this robot the size of a skyscraper
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The war horn is totally going to distract from the looping animated GIF computer screens conveying vital battlefield information. You should fill your cockpit up with spinning holo maps, dangling C-Bill medallions and flashing war horns or xmas lights. Think of them as a crib mobile for your dead team member spectators.
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Cyrano4747 posted:Cockpit things that aren't war horns are awful and just clutter up the screen. I mean I'm playing but I'm not going to do more than my usual hour a day for this. A free mech even a lovely one will at least get me to go after a few extra pulls. I feel like warhorns are too big and block too much of the view but I roll with my fuzzy dice and Classy Mech in my main rides and I will never stop.
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Krinkle posted:Ever since the patch it won't capture the mouse until I alt tab away and back again so the first shot of the game, peeking the first hill, running into the enemy, it will lose focus and get me cored. I don't like this bug. Good thing the other changes are so loving stupid I don't want to play anymore. I guess we were due though... it's been awhile since  did something massively incompetent. Nice of them to remind us it's still the same idiot(s) calling the shots.
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DOMDOM posted:Good thing the other changes are so loving stupid I don't want to play anymore. I guess we were due though... it's been awhile since I didn't buy a phoenix hawk. I didn't buy my favorite bad robot in BT despite having more money than sense and a wallet that becomes supercharged when you add booze. I have lots of booze, but not enough to make me want to spend $$$ on stupidly overpriced bad robots in a game with mechanics drawn on cocktail napkins while drunk on, what I can only assume, a terrible canadian whiskey.  PS- canadian whiskey sucks.
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Picked up a Gargoyle last night for want of a fast assault. Then I put 12 small pulse lasers on it. Apparently if you do that, you can peel anything you get close enough to like a grape.
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