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I went with my better judgement and invested in the Centurions. I wasn't really pleased with it with the meta build for the CN9-A. I put the engine to 250 instead. Kept the same layout but placed armor in my arms. Now I can tank poo poo.
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loving christ, I just watched a 228 cockpit 35 out of 48 mechs and the pubbies were calling it skill
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Mar 30, 2016 04:26
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Grognan posted:loving christ, I just watched a 228 cockpit 35 out of 48 mechs and the pubbies were calling it skill I once said "228 cheats like crazy" and got yelled at for seven minutes straight over voip. I mean I was going to continue " or are so try hard competitive it makes no difference" but he wanted to rant about people who think cheaters are everywhere I guess.
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Mar 30, 2016 04:38
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 So that just happened. I kinda like my LRM-45 Awesome-8V. Probably going to look into a LRM-boat medium or heavy so I'm not taking up 80 tons but whatever, I earn my keep.
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Mar 30, 2016 04:53
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If you must LRM please use the Hunchback 4J, it is so heavily quirked that it's 2xLRM10s basically fire as if you have 4 of them chained. You also aren't wasting a bunch of armor that should be up front and tanking. Stringbean posted:
Kintaros are not brawl worthy. Don't let the quirks fool you. They have god awful hitboxes, stupid weapon placement, are huge, and have no survivability. Enforcers on the other hand are small, decently quirked, tanky as gently caress with great hitboxes, and are XL friendly. Biggest downside is that most of your optimal builds are symmetrical and your weapon arms are kinda low. Sharks Dont Sleep fucked around with this message at 05:08 on Mar 30, 2016 |
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Mar 30, 2016 05:03
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I can't break 100k c-bills solo queuing without my hunchback 4j. I'm killing my soul by doing this but it's the only way to watch netflix and get paid. Why doesn't metamechs have a locust or cicada page? I want to go fast.
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Mar 30, 2016 07:31
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Locust guide: get the 1v, stick a single lpl on it with a 180xl. Maybe some armor.
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Mar 30, 2016 07:42
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Krinkle posted:I can't break 100k c-bills solo queuing without my hunchback 4j. I'm killing my soul by doing this but it's the only way to watch netflix and get paid. cicada 2b, 5mpl, biggest xl you can fit, all the armour
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So after messing about with a Vindicator for two nights, I've decided that it's not much more than a fat, slow Panther. So I sold it and bought a Panther. Much better performance, so long as I can stick to my role of "Tiny rear end in a top hat that shoots distracted mechs with a pair of PPC's/Large Pulses." So far the Panther is also proving to be a tanky little bugger if I can keep running around the feet of my teammates.
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The Hero Locust is one of the good Hero robots. No robot can go faster than the Locust PB, and you can fit 4 small pulse lasers in there right next to the ECM. Did I mention that it goes fast and has ECM? Because it does. Sure, you have to spend realbux to get it, but the amount you have to spend is relatively small. I don't regret buying mine. Keep in mind though that it's still a Locust. It's agile, fast, and carries paper-thin armor.
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Mar 30, 2016 15:45
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Things I make fat loads of credits with: BJ-3 (Triple LPL) HBK-IIC-A (2x cLPL, 4x cMLas) CDA-3M (ECM, 2 LLas, 2 MLas) WHM-BW(Hero, 2x Gauss, 2x ER-LLas) loads of money
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Always wait for sales if you plan to pick up a hero. They go on sale often enough that there's no reason to pay full price.
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Krinkle posted:Why doesn't metamechs have a locust or cicada page? I want to go fast. I don't know poo poo about Cicadas but why do you need one for the Locust? 190xl, whatever lasers you can fit, and then double heat sinks till you're full.
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If you're a big spender you can get the Locust Mastery Pack for about $13. It includes the Pirates Bane, mechbays for all 3 robots, and 30 days of Hooray Time.
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I love it! That there is a victory worth celebrating!
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A week or two ago we were running lovely lights (mostly NARC, tag, and flamers) in a small goon group. We drew the new Domination map. We won the map in just under two minutes by charging the center with our helper (lovely) lights, then sending all but one of the lights to the enemy side of the circle to distract and to block the bad guys. Our distracting robots managed to hold the bad guys off for the full minute necessary to win the round. Red team never even set foot inside the capture circle. That was also a very satisfying win.
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Hate to say it guys, I rebought an Ice Ferret e: my son pressed my post button on my phone  But as I was saying, I bought another. It's actually really fun. Flimsy. But fast as gently caress and 5 ERMLas is great. Stringbean fucked around with this message at 20:24 on Mar 30, 2016 |
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Mar 30, 2016 20:21
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Krinkle posted:I can't break 100k c-bills solo queuing without my hunchback 4j. I'm killing my soul by doing this but it's the only way to watch netflix and get paid. Though there are no mastery guide pages, there are locust and cicada builds under the build database. I don't remember my exact Cicada build, but it was based off this: http://mwo.smurfy-net.de/mechlab#i=36&l=ff8acbb11ee95978f0a622ff9b3811614a176a36 I'm pretty sure it was ever so slightly tweaked for an engine I had instead of buying a new one. At least that would explain my top speed being ever slightly faster, but I'm not in a place to login and look at my exact build. I'm sure I could go higher DPS with other builds, but I like the cooler running UAC5, which has decent range, and doesn't leave a "HEY LOOK AT ME, I"M OVER HERE!" trail. Weapon Jam's can suck, but I find it a nice reminder that I'm a Cicada and probably shouldn't be standing in that spot for much longer anyway.
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Stringbean posted:I rebought an Ice Ferret what
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You read right. I bought another. Let me say this now. The newbie pilot will ask: "Stringbean, everyone says the Ice Ferret sucks! Why did you buy one!?" Well sir, it is most certainly not a great mech. It's not even a good mech. It's nowhere near a mediocre mech. It's got gently caress all for armor, it only has one single CT energy hardpoint. All it's weapons are located in its arms. It can't hill hump, it has trouble with ridges. You can't mount any considerable weaponry on it. 5 ERMLas ain't bad, but you could do better on a medium It has speed, loads of it. If you can maneuver behind the red team, it tears up butts. But even lovely mechs can be fun. Do I recommend it for everyone? no. Not at all. But if you feel obliged to get one, do so at your own risk.
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Stringbean posted:You read right. Can confirm. Ice Ferret is fun as poo poo. But I'm great at making underdog mechs look good. 
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Poking around on the store, for 13 bucks you get the Pirate's bane and a month of premium. That's actually not a bad deal. And you get a couple throw aways with it for extra bays.
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Anita Dickinme posted:Can confirm. Ice Ferret is fun as poo poo. But I'm great at making underdog mechs look good. Really we always forget there aren't a lot of actually bad mechs, but there are a ton of sub-optimal ones that get passed over because there's something else that does the same thing better.
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veedubfreak posted:Poking around on the store, for 13 bucks you get the Pirate's bane and a month of premium. That's actually not a bad deal. And you get a couple throw aways with it for extra bays. A month of premium alone cost $15 (well slightly less but since you can't buy just 2500 MC you're stuck getting 3000 for $15 and having 500 left over). If you're going to buy premium anyway there is zero reason to not take the free mechs. gently caress, the come with bays so it's an even better deal.
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veedubfreak posted:Poking around on the store, for 13 bucks you get the Pirate's bane and a month of premium. That's actually not a bad deal. And you get a couple throw aways with it for extra bays. Make sure to keep the 1v if it is included. That and the pirates bane are the best.
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Hardly any goons online the past two days, was there a rapture to a Good Game that I missed?
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I'm on every night. Because I'm sad. I just realized what would make the Ice Ferret better. ECM.
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Melchior posted:Hardly any goons online the past two days, was there a rapture to a Good Game that I missed? Some goons have been getting on almost every night, so there might be some fatigue setting in. I imagine a lot of us will be on more when the Kodiak drops.
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Stringbean posted:I'm on every night. Because I'm sad. That would at least make how little options it has both tonnage and slot wise marginally better. It's still a walking fridge and just about as combat effective.
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The Repo Man posted:Some goons have been getting on almost every night, so there might be some fatigue setting in. I imagine a lot of us will be on more when the Kodiak drops. I'm dialing back a bit until Papa Bear comes out
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I put a zoom lens on my mastered hunchback 4j to vacuum up those tag laser assists. Goddamn. I feel like a genius. I have 7.5 million credits. I don't know whether to: finally buy seismic radar, buy a fast mech to annoy the poo poo outta people from a medium-long range (locust, cicada, raven), get a kitfox/nova and go triple ams and be a sad sack useless piece of poo poo just so we don't have to suffer under the rain of LRMs anymore.
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Pattonesque posted:I'm dialing back a bit until Papa Bear comes out same
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I just kinda got bored of it again. I'll probably play once they do that heat change to try it out.
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I'm a tiny baby at this game but I've been having tons of fun in a dumbass gauss-sniper Jagermech recently. 
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Coolwhoami posted:That would at least make how little options it has both tonnage and slot wise marginally better. It's still a walking fridge and just about as combat effective. Despite it's retardedness, I've been averaging between 450 - 550 damage per match. The occasional outlier would be when I gently caress up and run into the enemy team at Mach speeds and get torn to pieces. e: it also makes me feel like a special snowflake, because literally no one else drives this thing. In the... Let's say year I've played, I've never seen an IFR out there. Stringbean fucked around with this message at 11:42 on Mar 31, 2016 |
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Stringbean posted:Despite it's retardedness, I've been averaging between 450 - 550 damage per match. The occasional outlier would be when I gently caress up and run into the enemy team at Mach speeds and get torn to pieces. IFRs are nasty light hunters. I think they're pretty neat.
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Krinkle posted:I put a zoom lens on my mastered hunchback 4j to vacuum up those tag laser assists. Goddamn. I feel like a genius. Don't buy a kitfox, if anything buy a cheetah. AMS works, but ECM is better and a much better use of tonnage. As for seismic, it's great if you tend to stand still a lot, not quite as useful for a mech that stays on the move. I'd suggest radar derp before seismic though, simply because if you're sniping, you're likely going to get lurmed a good bit more than you'll get snuck up on. E: crossposting. Seemed relevant. MECHA-SHIVA IS NOT A CRIME https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bviC1Yb71ys veedubfreak fucked around with this message at 15:12 on Mar 31, 2016 |
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Melchior posted:Hardly any goons online the past two days, was there a rapture to a Good Game that I missed? It's even worse in the non-US timezones
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