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Lord Dudeguy posted:I have to build my drop decks. You choose the first mech and then decide what to drop in, order doesn't matter. Also consider throwing in a trial heavy or assault in your invasion if you can use them. Also you can share mechs between decks.
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What are the current IS trial 'mechs? One of those is appropriately laser-y for CW I think?
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Dec 17, 2016 23:46
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3lbl crab, gauss and 2 ERLL dragon, 3 lbl grasshopper, lrm 40 4ml stalker with tag and bap, and a 4mpl srm 18 Zeus all of them but the stalker have XLs
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Dec 17, 2016 23:55
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Lord Dudeguy posted:I have to build my drop decks. Grognan posted:3lbl crab, gauss and 2 ERLL dragon, 3 lbl grasshopper, lrm 40 4ml stalker with tag and bap, and a 4mpl srm 18 Zeus Perfect, OK For the invasion dropdeck you should probably do the -4G, the -K2, the trial crab, and the trial grasshopper that'll give you a mech to push and a few mechs to poke. can switch out the -K2 for the cent for brawlier approaches
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Dec 17, 2016 23:58
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Oh Snapple! posted:Faction play skirmish on Polar Highlands might very well be the single worst experience I've had with this game. Where you went wrong was playing faction warfare 
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Dec 18, 2016 01:01
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I should have time to play with goons tonight, I'll get on comms so I can get the invite. Should have my own mech by then too. Is there a reason that all these pubbies are using lrm boats other than  ?
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Dec 18, 2016 01:19
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PathAsc posted:I should have time to play with goons tonight, I'll get on comms so I can get the invite. Should have my own mech by then too. LRM boating is a way for people who are bad at the game to contribute without the onus of getting better. Sometimes this is fine like when they go with a good lurm medium but mostly they do things like bring lurm Atlases so they can feel safe. what this does is it turns what should be a robot that gets stuck in and makes the enemy waste heat and ammo trying to kill and hopefully kills one or more of them in return into a useless trash-heap that gets swarmed by five wounded robots at the end of the round. So yes mostly it's because they're moral infants. what were you thinking of buying?
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Dec 18, 2016 01:24
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veedubfreak posted:Where you went wrong was playing faction warfare i got a million cbills from my first match in it this week and it's been all downhill from there.. yet i continue to hunger for the taste of that sweet, sweet payout yet again.
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Dec 18, 2016 01:26
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Pattonesque posted:LRM boating is a way for people who are bad at the game to contribute without the onus of getting better. Sometimes this is fine like when they go with a good lurm medium but mostly they do things like bring lurm Atlases so they can feel safe. what this does is it turns what should be a robot that gets stuck in and makes the enemy waste heat and ammo trying to kill and hopefully kills one or more of them in return into a useless trash-heap that gets swarmed by five wounded robots at the end of the round. Either a stormcrow or timberwolf, the wolf has more nostalgia attached to it because I love that thing.
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Dec 18, 2016 01:47
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PathAsc posted:Either a stormcrow or timberwolf, the wolf has more nostalgia attached to it because I love that thing. Stormcrow is always a good buy but the Timber is more powerful right now. You can do laservomit (2 LPL/4ML) or poptarting (2 ERPPC/1 Gauss) or brawling (4 SPL/4SRM6A)
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Dec 18, 2016 01:51
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Pattonesque posted:LRM boating is a way for people who are bad at the game to contribute without the onus of getting better. Sometimes this is fine like when they go with a good lurm medium but mostly they do things like bring lurm Atlases so they can feel safe. what this does is it turns what should be a robot that gets stuck in and makes the enemy waste heat and ammo trying to kill and hopefully kills one or more of them in return into a useless trash-heap that gets swarmed by five wounded robots at the end of the round. I built a Catapult with 4x LRM 20s and literally nothing else. Had to strip off every bit of armor from the butt too. It wasn't very good, but I did take out someone named "Lurm Lord" with it, very early in a round.
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Dec 18, 2016 01:53
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turn it up TURN ME ON posted:I built a Catapult with 4x LRM 20s and literally nothing else. Had to strip off every bit of armor from the butt too. that is fine TBH, it's when people start lurming with Atlases or Timber Wolves or THE SPIRIT BEAR that it gets my goat
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Dec 18, 2016 02:00
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Pattonesque posted:Stormcrow is always a good buy but the Timber is more powerful right now. You can do laservomit (2 LPL/4ML) or poptarting (2 ERPPC/1 Gauss) or brawling (4 SPL/4SRM6A) I mean, I'm buying them both eventually, but leaning toward the wolf because I like my robots on the stompier side.
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Dec 18, 2016 02:30
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I've been out of town for a week. How is the new Marauder IIc?
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Cyrano4747 posted:I've been out of town for a week. How is the new Marauder IIc? consensus is very powerful offensively, a bit squishy compared to the OG Marauder but you can do crazy poo poo like 2LBX/20 and 4 SRM6s on it. top-tier assault but not overly OP like the Kodiak. obsoletes the Warhawk at 85 tons
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Dec 18, 2016 04:37
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Commoners posted:It's also a weird build in that it's one of the few mechs that benefits from standard heat sink boating. I missed this post, but I have to correct you about the single heat sinks thing. If you get DHS and drop endosteel, you can upgrade to a 300 engine, get better cooling efficiency, and still have one extra ton left for whatever (I would suggest a zombie laser in the head). http://mwo.smurfy-net.de/mechlab#i=30&l=beb0a61e58137446219e55e779329aa671403dc0 NihilCredo fucked around with this message at 05:17 on Dec 18, 2016 |
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Dec 18, 2016 05:14
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Hey guys. Back again for good forever (maybe). Any new lights out?
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NihilCredo posted:I missed this post, but I have to correct you about the single heat sinks thing. If you get DHS and drop endosteel, you can upgrade to a 300 engine, get better cooling efficiency, and still have one extra ton left for whatever (I would suggest a zombie laser in the head). The one factor that doesn't take into account is heat capacity; pretty sure the SHS build would beat out the DHS build there by a wide margin, even though it loses on cooling per second. Anita Dickinme posted:Hey guys. Back again for good forever (maybe). Any new lights out? Haha, no. It's been over a year. Rumor from PGI is that the next new mech will be a light, but not confirmed yet. Ever since they changed the preorder packs to be a flat price while MC/CB mechs are based on tonnage, there's no profit motive for PGI to release lights. Also lights are garbage and nobody wants to buy them. They hosed up pretty bad.
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aniviron posted:The one factor that doesn't take into account is heat capacity; pretty sure the SHS build would beat out the DHS build there by a wide margin, even though it loses on cooling per second. extra 6 heat capacity, but .2 heat/s slower dissipation
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Dec 18, 2016 06:34
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Counterpoint: they spent the last year making sure 20 tons was the best size for lights and buffing machine guns. The piranha is 20 tons, uses machine guns, and is commonly requested. They'll probably release that then nerf lights and mgs again. Like the time they buffed catapults, released a new catapult hero, then nerfed catapults in the next patch.
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NihilCredo posted:I missed this post, but I have to correct you about the single heat sinks thing. If you get DHS and drop endosteel, you can upgrade to a 300 engine, get better cooling efficiency, and still have one extra ton left for whatever (I would suggest a zombie laser in the head). The new patch took single heatsink retardation out of play. It's bullshit. DHS is now completely 100% required, because  hates fun. But at least battlemechs just got a huge buff by stacking heatsinks, so its all good.
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Dec 18, 2016 07:50
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Cyrano4747 posted:I've been out of town for a week. How is the new Marauder IIc? Scorch with 4 srm 6s and twin lbx 20s is just a King Crab that goes 64 kph.
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NihilCredo posted:I missed this post, but I have to correct you about the single heat sinks thing. If you get DHS and drop endosteel, you can upgrade to a 300 engine, get better cooling efficiency, and still have one extra ton left for whatever (I would suggest a zombie laser in the head). This is actually correct. I did the original calculations with an XL engine and large pulse lasers, in which the SHS boat edges out the DHS version, but switching to large lasers or ER larges and a standard makes it so that you can boat DHS more efficiently.
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Soupisgood posted:Scorch with 4 srm 6s and twin lbx 20s is just a King Crab that goes 64 kph. I just played a few rounds with the ECM Variant with Dual Gauss, and 2x ERLL. I know there's definitely builds with more firepower, but it brings a lot of pain for how cool it runs.
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I enjoy my four ppc king crab
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Commoners posted:This is actually correct. I did the original calculations with an XL engine and large pulse lasers, in which the SHS boat edges out the DHS version, but switching to large lasers or ER larges and a standard makes it so that you can boat DHS more efficiently. What's your Mist Lynx missile build?
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Anita Dickinme posted:Hey guys. Back again for good forever (maybe). Any new lights out? No, but they buffed machine guns. So, Urbanmechs are more than viable right now.
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Beraiye posted:No, but they buffed machine guns. So, Urbanmechs are more than viable right now. The best thing is how incredibly incompetent pubbies are with machine guns that they feel the need to cry to buff them. When machine guns have always been viable. 
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My profile page says I have 192 hours (8 days) of banked premium time. I have no idea where it comes from (the only pack I ever bought was the smallest Resistance 2 pack, which doesn't include premium time), and the in-game display says I have 0D 0H 0M remaining - though the "Activate" button is still enabled. Any idea as to what has happened?
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Dec 18, 2016 20:47
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NihilCredo posted:My profile page says I have 192 hours (8 days) of banked premium time. I have no idea where it comes from (the only pack I ever bought was the smallest Resistance 2 pack, which doesn't include premium time), and the in-game display says I have 0D 0H 0M remaining - though the "Activate" button is still enabled. As to where you got it, there were some old events that gave banked premium time. Maybe you did some of them and forgot?
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Dec 18, 2016 20:54
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Whatever you do, don't activate your premium time in game
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Dec 18, 2016 21:46
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Yeah they used to give away premium during events and it was stored waiting to be activated; eight days is a small enough amount that it sounds like that's what happened. Doesn't make a difference if you activate it in-game or not for eight days though I think the shortest period of time you can activate it for is two weeks? If you use the in-game activate though it just does it all at once whereas the website lets you choose, or at least this is how it used to work.
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Dec 18, 2016 21:52
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How did it take me this long to build the 6 ac2 idiot crabbe Good lord I almost feel sorry for the pubs 
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Banano posted:How did it take me this long to build the 6 ac2 idiot crabbe Took you this long because the AC2 just got buffed last month and was not as worth running before.
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Dec 19, 2016 00:24
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Speaking of profiles how did I get 370hrs of robutt shooting  ?
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Dec 19, 2016 00:37
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I would have done it regardless of how good they were. My inner ork would not have been able to resist
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36 tons of shooting
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Banano posted:I would have done it regardless of how good they were. My inner ork would not have been able to resist This is why I liked the MAD-3R when it was first released with triple AC/5s in a zombie configuration and loads of ammo. You just walked at people holding the fire button down and wiggling your nose a bit. Walked slowly that is. I downgraded the engine slightly for more ammo so I think it was scraping 60 kph top speed from memory.
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DancingShade posted:This is why I liked the MAD-3R when it was first released with triple AC/5s in a zombie configuration and loads of ammo. You just walked at people holding the fire button down and wiggling your nose a bit. Man I want that banshee.
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DancingShade posted:This is why I liked the MAD-3R when it was first released with triple AC/5s in a zombie configuration and loads of ammo. You just walked at people holding the fire button down and wiggling your nose a bit.  Marauder survivability before the resize.
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