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Sorry mumble crew, my internet connection noped the gently caress out as soon as we joined the cw queue.
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Nipplehammer, for when you need the stiffest nipples possible: http://mwo.smurfy-net.de/mechlab#i=382&l=d62d48062b2619f138c40d0e66225d3c2354387e I didnt edit the front/rear armor values because  use your preferred ratio. More is better when playing with goons because we cant tell the difference between Nacho Cheese and Cool Ranch.
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I use to have a build similar to that on my BW, but I went with dual PPC/U-AC5s instead.
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TheParadigm posted:Out of curiosity, what are some warhawk builds? How do ultras fare on it? I was just noticing the ballistic quirked arms the other day. It handles UAC pretty well, and I've tried the 2 UAC-10 with LPL in the center torso, but I still prefer the 4 PPC because I'm just used to it. The UAC -30% jam chance along with the normal cool down is pretty nice though. You can get over 300 damage in pretty quick. Like all Warhawks, try not to brawl, and stay mid-long range.
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So yeah, i went from 5 wins out of 21 games to 5 out of 30. Literally impossible for a solo player that chose (the wrong) clan. No warhawk for me i guess, unless i missed the option to cancel a merc contract early. Should have stayed with the bears at least, or gone IS.
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May 14, 2016 19:38
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Just save money and buy it, there's nothing special about the reward mechs besides extra exp
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Actually it was about the free mechbay, i would have sold the warhawk without second thoughts...
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I need another mechbay sale in my life. I'm running out and don't really want to sell any of my current inventory.
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May 14, 2016 21:11
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Has there ever been one?
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May 14, 2016 21:18
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Around Christmas, I think? It's been a while. There needs to be another.
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Oh Snapple! posted:Around Christmas, I think? Yep Christmas was the last Mechbay sale. Any kind of mech sale would be great too.
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May 14, 2016 21:35
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They need to keep doing CW events on a regular basis. It actually makes the mode semi fun and worth playing because it's not an endless cascade of tryhards.
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Skoll posted:They need to keep doing CW events on a regular basis. It actually makes the mode semi fun and worth playing because it's not an endless cascade of tryhards. Truth
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TheParadigm posted:Out of curiosity, what are some warhawk builds? How do ultras fare on it? I was just noticing the ballistic quirked arms the other day. I'm gonna quote myself in a second because I wrote a little novella about Warhawks a few pages ago, but succintly: The common builds are 4 PPC/LPL, double uAC10s (I prefer SRMs, but you can and should use LPLs for this if you're smarter than me, the range works better), boring laser vomit + gauss, and finally the rare brawlhawk. Ultras fare very well, the -30% jam chance is a fantastic quirk, much better than it sounds at first blush, and the cooldown is nice if you go with both ballistic arms, though the WHK is a little starved for non-arm hardpoints so generally you won't be able to take both if you don't use ballistics in both arms. As for the rest: aniviron posted:The WHK isn't awful, but it's worse than pretty much every decent IS assault, and particularly the Stalker at the same tonnage outclasses it in every single way. On the other hand, it's better than every clan assault except the Direwolf, and it's more of just a sidegrade to the DWF. aniviron posted:I guess I should have mentioned it but I didn't because you specifically asked about the PPC/LPL thing, but the UACs builds are probably the best reason to run a Warhawk. If you're using both ballistic arms you get 10% cooldown, which isn't great on its own, and a -30% UAC jam chance which is, as far as I am concerned, the best quirk any clan mech gets. Someone ran the numbers on how much that actually increases your DPS, and while I can't Rain Man them for you, trust me when I say it is very very significant. It turns the 2 UAC10 build (I run mine with SRMs, good players run them with LPLs) and UAC20 builds into threats that have to be dealt with immediately. I mean, you're still fragile as gently caress in the Warhawk, but both UAC20 brawlers and UAC10 skirmisher Warhawks will reliably break 1000 damage if the enemy just chooses not to deal with you in a timely fashion, all because you can keep making GBS threads shells all over them. Granted, you're spraying the damage everywhere, especially if you pair it with SRMs like I do, but 1000 damage in a single mech is still very good even if you are getting it from bullet bukkake.
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I was originally going to sell my Warhawk but honestly it's a rather cool mech you can do some neat stuff with and I kind of want to hold onto it in the hopes that the rescaling will fix it's biggest problem in being mistaken for a direwolf and summarily obliterated because of it.
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You only have to wait another month. The June resize and requirk pass will either finally make the WHK decent because it's not so huge and so breakble, or it will relegate it to mediocrity for the next few years because the change wasn't enough. There is a pretty good chance that it will get quite a bit smaller since it's the same size as the DWF (which is also getting smaller; PGI is using volume instead of surface area because they have no idea what they are doing. The Awesome is getting bigger because it has a low volume thanks to its relative thinness...) but mechs that are getting smaller are also losing most/all of their quirks, according to Russ.
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They're making the awesome, poster child for "huge unmissable barn" bigger? They have an actual retard in charge.
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Great Beer posted:They're making the awesome, poster child for "huge unmissable barn" bigger? They have an actual retard in charge. We're talking about someone who dictates game balance based on the input from his literal toddler child.
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Great Beer posted:They're making the awesome, poster child for "huge unmissable barn" bigger? They have an actual retard in charge. hahahah you are actually joking, surely
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sebmojo posted:hahahah you are actually joking, surely No, this is straight from Russ on twitter. They're using volume instead of surface area to rescale the mechs. This means that anything which is very short on one axis but big on the others (i.e. Awesome and Grasshopper, both of which are confirmed getting bigger) is going to be massive and anything that is cuboidal (Direwolf, confirmed getting smaller) is making out like a villain. That's because PGI didn't take into account the fact that you shoot the surface of the mech, not the volume of it, and that having a small front but a wide side like the Stalker or Crab is just fine but having a big front but a small side is relatively little use. I hope nobody was hoping the rescale was going to bring any kind of balance to the game or anything. It will be better than what we have now, but mechs like the Trebuchet and Awesome are still going to be garbage because they're thin from the side.
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Those were some fun CW matches roflstomping Ghost Bears tonight. Three Warhammer drop deck OP.
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Skoll posted:Those were some fun CW matches roflstomping Ghost Bears tonight. We learned a lot about Teemercs part fish, part man uncle. An informative night. We also learned not to trust Commoners in his drat Archer.
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Great Beer posted:I know they're knockoffs and stolen from the mwo models but goddamn I'm tempted to get one of those king crabs. It's not a knockoff if no one is producing it. You can't get that anywhere else. It's a unique item. Hell I would love a huge fully articulated action figure of the MWO King Crab and I wouldn't have any issues paying some 3rd party Hong Kong action figure group for it because... The IP owners aren't making one.
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FARTSTAR posted:ghost bears are the worst faction to play for right now as a solo merc Thats fun, i had 5 wins with bears, then 35 losses in a row with Jade Falcons. I thought "hey, they the largest clan faction, maybe they know what theyre doing". Guess all of those simultaneously switched factions or something. E: no wait, that wasnt bears. It was the jaguars, the mascot just looks like a bear. Yolomon Wayne fucked around with this message at 11:11 on May 15, 2016 |
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Sharks Dont Sleep posted:It's not a knockoff if no one is producing it. You can't get that anywhere else. It's a unique item. Hell I would love a huge fully articulated action figure of the MWO King Crab and I wouldn't have any issues paying some 3rd party Hong Kong action figure group for it because... The IP owners aren't making one. I don't think it's in production anymore, but Ral Partha used to make a King Crab tabletop mini. I owned one back in the day. You can still find them on Ebay as new old stock for pretty reasonable prices: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Battletech-metal-Crab-Mech-/141970594767?hash=item210e1b5bcf:g:WnwAAOSw3mpXHUM1 edit: that said I'm really tempted to buy some knockoff not-battletech minis to round out my old collection. Goddamn I'm going t spend a couple hundred bucks on minis for a game I don't even play any more, aren't I?
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Sharks Dont Sleep posted:It's not a knockoff if no one is producing it. You can't get that anywhere else. It's a unique item. Hell I would love a huge fully articulated action figure of the MWO King Crab and I wouldn't have any issues paying some 3rd party Hong Kong action figure group for it because... The IP owners aren't making one. We can't. It's a licensing issue. If we could, we would have started selling figures a long time ago.
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Great Beer posted:Why does Topps hate money? The toy market is a volatile horrific hellscape. Creating battered fearful companies that won't even look twice at something that is merely modestly profitable.
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3d printing allowing for limited runs at low cost and a captive audience with no competition is about as safe as it gets. They don't even need to create 3d models and risk the fan base disliking the style.
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The Repo Man posted:We also learned not to trust Commoners in his drat Archer. No man can handle the responsibility of the 116.1 alpha strike.
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I just watched that Razerfist video. We talk in here about how  nailed to movement/weight feel of giant robots, but dude is right on about pinpoint reticules and concessions to modern shooters. I'm still mad about having to drive stick leftie. Thanks Tmerc.
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DiHK posted:I just watched that Razerfist video.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5O-Hx0wVMQ
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https://community.battletechgame.com/forums/threads/1194/comments/41631 Sometimes the HBS forums just deliver the most bizarre poo poo.
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