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Just lol @ scouting in anything other than IS mechs. The only way you lose as IS is if you have pubs on your team and they are utterly loving retarded.
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Skoll posted:Just lol @ scouting in anything other than IS mechs. The only way you lose as IS is if you have pubs on your team and they are utterly loving retarded. 4 cheetahs looking purely for intel can reliably sweep scouting, but it's really boring.
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Mar 26, 2017 04:56
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Commoners posted:It's good on the condition that you can have their armor open before they are on top of you in the brawl, and it only works if your teammates are also using similar builds. If you bring that into a fight and have three teammates who are dedicated brawling builds you are likely to lose the match. Paired with a fairly quick streakboat is hilarious. They pick a target, vomit, and then you de-limb them.
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Mar 26, 2017 05:18
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Commoners posted:4 cheetahs looking purely for intel can reliably sweep scouting, but it's really boring. Exactly.
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Mar 26, 2017 05:34
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Great Beer posted:Battlemasters are XL friendly as long as you arent trying to brawl with them. Having that extra speed makes flanking or repositioning much faster. Or you can be like me and go full retard with an XL380 battlemaster brawler. I tried so hard to make the missile one work with srms. So hard 
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Mar 26, 2017 12:31
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I really want to get a scotch
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Mar 26, 2017 13:28
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Scotch is good.
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Mar 26, 2017 15:08
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Found your all's favorite system in ED. 
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Mar 26, 2017 22:02
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johntherussian posted:Found your all's favorite system in ED. Is multi crew in yet?
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Mar 27, 2017 01:58
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Did they take HPG Manifold out of rotation? That was my favorite map 
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Freakazoid_ posted:Did they take HPG Manifold out of rotation? That was my favorite map
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Mar 27, 2017 04:48
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But 50 matches unlucky? I never even see it as a voting option.
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Freakazoid_ posted:But 50 matches unlucky? I never even see it as a voting option. RNGesus just hates you.
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Freakazoid_ posted:But 50 matches unlucky? I never even see it as a voting option. I literally just dropped into a match on Manifold, so apparently yes.
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Freakazoid_ posted:But 50 matches unlucky? I never even see it as a voting option. Certain maps don't have escort mode so they don't appear on the map voting screen when that mode is an option. HPG, Bog, Mining. Played for 15 hours without seeing HPG once last weekend so it happens.
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Freakazoid_ posted:But 50 matches unlucky? I never even see it as a voting option. You've been super unlucky I have an irrational want for the annihilator
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TjyvTompa posted:Certain maps don't have escort mode so they don't appear on the map voting screen when that mode is an option. HPG, Bog, Mining. Played for 15 hours without seeing HPG once last weekend so it happens. This, I think I went 4 days worth of playing without even getting a vote on hpv.
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Mar 27, 2017 21:46
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Did you get the gardasil vaccine?
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Just rejoined after a friend roped me back into it. Haven't meched around in so long, getting my Raven's poo poo pushed in most matches. Trying to find a balance between scouting and hiding behind bigger mechs but not working out very well.
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Cainer posted:Just rejoined after a friend roped me back into it. Haven't meched around in so long, getting my Raven's poo poo pushed in most matches. Trying to find a balance between scouting and hiding behind bigger mechs but not working out very well. Thats because ravens arent that great anymore
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Willfrey posted:That's because ravens aren't that great anymore That is very sad, I loved SKRAWing about in the old days. Any other light mechs I should look at? Always been in favor of speed demoning.
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Mar 28, 2017 00:03
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Locust or arctic cheetah.
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If you want a difficult mech to play, the PHX3S is technically the fastest and most mobile mech in the game. It is also retarded and fits less firepower than a locust.
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Commoners posted:If you want a difficult mech to play, the PHX3S is technically the fastest and most mobile mech in the game. Do not listen to this man. This will only end in heartbreak.
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Mar 28, 2017 00:29
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Gloriously fun utterly retarded heartbreak
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veedubfreak posted:Do not listen to this man. This will only end in heartbreak. But do listen about the mech being stupid and being seriously anemic in firepower. There are lights that are 1/2 the weight and easily sport 2-3x the firepower of the PHX3S
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Wasn't in the game when Clan mechs hit, guess I'll try out the cheetah, looks pretty spiffy.
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The Raven can do fine, but it's mostly relegated to long range poking now I think.
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Sale on mechs ends tomorrow, buy before 10 am.
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Does anyone know how to make the heat alarm louder? Sometimes I can't hear it over the explosions going on and shut down at bad times.
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Is there a way to play lower team sized maps? This 12 v 12 thing is murder. Edit: vvvv Well poo poo that blows, I just keep getting overwhelmed. Cainer fucked around with this message at 06:21 on Mar 28, 2017 |
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not in public quickmatches
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Huginn and Locust swarms in scouting are...surprisingly hard to deal with.
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You can get 4v4s in faction play, the aforementioned scouting. But 8v8s are dead until pgi is overthrown, and an opensourcacracy established in its place.
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What do you mean, getting overwhelmed, though? edit: Anyone got advice for fending off swarms of huginns and locusts with maybe 1 medium mech backing the enemy lights up in Scouting? Or does it boil basically down to: 1. Call targets 2. Go for the legs 3. Always move forward in a circle since if you just rotate your legs are very vulnerable Artificer fucked around with this message at 07:42 on Mar 28, 2017 |
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If you're in medium brawlers you don't split up. Ever. When the lights come to you they have to fight all four of you, and if they don't come to you then you can either bully your way through the intel or catch them when they're coming to the dropships. If you split up they can all just swarm your dumb rear end and your buddy that split off from the group, get two free picks easily, and then get two more picks on the remaining two guys.
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Commoners posted:If you're in medium brawlers you don't split up. Ever. We were together, yeah. Our random missile hunchback IIC just stood in place and rotated and folded instantly doing a grand total of 8 damage. The rest of us didn't do too much better. The other round we died in, our random 4th player was a triple ER LL Shadowcat. Similar things happened there.
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That's just an issue of having idiots for teammates, and there is nothing you can do about that. In scouting the importance of skill and loadout is amplified by a huge margin, because having one incompetent person is the equivalent of having four incompetent people in the 12v12s. The reason that clans did so well in scouting before the stormcrows were removed was that their idiots could smash 6 SSRM6s onto a stormcrow and had a skill floor that consisted of them vaguely pointing the reticle at a red thing. IS didn't have equivalent mechs or equipment that could make retards function at a basic level. Four clan brawlers will 100% wreck four lights that try to come in and fight, but if you're down a person because of bad builds and/or bad skills then you have to pick up the rest of the burden and carry your incompetent teammate kicking and screaming to victory. Blow out side torsos, and have everyone focus on one target at a time. Don't show your back, and never overheat. If you are in a situation where you are going to die due to legging or you have a guy cutting out your back, turn on override and blast the poo poo out of the designated enemy until you explode to maximize your damage output. If you can't hit lights, aim better or bring some streaks to aim for you. I haven't really done any theorycrafting for clan builds, but SPL cheetahs and hunchbacks of many varieties are consistently the most dangerous things I've faced in scouting. Commoners fucked around with this message at 07:51 on Mar 28, 2017 |
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Commoners posted:That's just an issue of having idiots for teammates, and there is nothing you can do about that. In scouting the importance of skill and loadout is amplified by a huge margin, because having one incompetent person is the equivalent of having four incompetent people in the 12v12s. Hm. Blow out side torsos? Legs can be hard to hit on lights even with lasers, so that's fair I suppose. Not showing your back is very difficult against 3/4 light mechs circling you in a medium though.
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Artificer posted:Hm. Blow out side torsos? Legs can be hard to hit on lights even with lasers, so that's fair I suppose. If your team focuses fire and they actually hit a light, they will kill them extremely fast. You don't have to worry about dead people flanking you, unless you are being flanked by the emotional guilt of taking a human life. If you are twisting properly you will also keep lights from hitting your back. Twisting is a fundamental brawling skill, and it is especially important for lights and mediums. Even more so in scouting.
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