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CompeAnansi posted:What are good builds for FS9-H and JR7-D? Drop jump jets. On the JR7-D this gives you room to more or less max front armor and field 4 MLas plus 1 or 2 heatsinks. With the FS9-H it's a similar fit but you add 4 MGs and 2 SLas, or 6 MGs. With both mechs you move around, stay in Cover, and poke things with your arm-mounted Medium Lasers. FS9-H additionally has the option of moving within 90m to deal a lot more damage.
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Conspiratiorist posted:Drop jump jets. Strong disagree. The Jenner mounts so many jump jets and you can jump so, so far. Yes, you may accidentally cook the pilot alive, but it's completely worth it for a surprise point blank salvo to the back. Just don't accidentally shut down while you're still engaged. Firestarter makes an excellent early melee mech and with a loadout of SLs and MGs it'll punch for up to 145 damage, which is enough to cripple most things at the point at which you're still using light mechs.
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Watching the VOD, they actually said the COIL laser can build up to 240 Points of damage (!!!!!!!!!) at the cost of a huge amount of heat. (it starts at 40, when they sprinted, it said 280, but that was at a sprint, so I don't think they can reach that and actually fire it)
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Oct 20, 2019 10:49
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pfft, just put all flamers on your firestarter, put a pilot specced warrior in it, have him reserve to last move, then have him go light your biggest nuisance on fire, end turn, do it again and retreat to nothing but luxury called shots for the rest of the round.
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SirFozzie posted:Watching the VOD, they actually said the COIL laser can build up to 240 Points of damage (!!!!!!!!!) at the cost of a huge amount of heat. (it starts at 40, when they sprinted, it said 280, but that was at a sprint, so I don't think they can reach that and actually fire it) I'm itching to slap one of those on a Cicada. COIL-S is probably much lower, but in early game I think you'll still be making GBS threads your pants when you see a 20T blip.
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Yeah, it was a COIL-L, but it was the only weapon on the mech
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GHOST_BUTT posted:Strong disagree. The Jenner mounts so many jump jets and you can jump so, so far. Yes, you may accidentally cook the pilot alive, but it's completely worth it for a surprise point blank salvo to the back. Just don't accidentally shut down while you're still engaged. A 100 damage "surprise point blank salvo to the back" is not only useless, but actively hazardous to your lance's well-being, in this case by leaving a mech over-extended, isolated, and running too hot to do anything practical for the next two turns. 145 is not a crippling attack, either. I don't get why people are so obsessed with dedicated "flanker" mechs. Do they just feel really good about being able to outmaneuver the AI? Most stock fits pack 120+ rear armor, so just getting some pot shots in is worthless damage that's not contributing to peeling armor off the sections the rest of your lance is firing at. And I say this as a huge advocate for mobility, who goes full JJs on any mech heavier than 40 tons. Conspiratiorist fucked around with this message at 13:39 on Oct 20, 2019 |
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some of the value of flankers is making the enemy AI turn around, too, while the flanker is usually speedy enough to be difficult to hit.
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Yeah sure put an Orion in a one and a half skull mission 
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Shoot it in the head and bootstrap your plucky mercenary company.
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Is heavy metal the last DLC, and I assume it'll be $20? Doing math on what makes the most sense since I got flashpoint and the shadow hawk dlc work the humble bundle.
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Lawman 0 posted:Yeah sure put an Orion in a one and a half skull mission Pilot is probably a recruit so it should be easy salvage. I'd be thrilled.
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I got an Atlas like that when I had one heavy and the rest mediums. That Atlas carried my company on its shoulders from there on out.
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Archonex posted:... See now this does sound like my jam. Maybe I will check it out.
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Credit to the Battletech subreddit: That Annihilator looks pretty good.
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Groetgaffel posted:I got an Atlas like that when I had one heavy and the rest mediums. Probably literally.
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The Annihilator is the logical conclusion to the Urbanmech, I'm going to load it the gently caress down with Gauss rifles and recreate Gausszilla.
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I haven't played video gsmes in like 8 months but this might get me to start again Going to do what I always did in Mechwarrior and load up on LBX and make thr biggest shotgun mech possible
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When were Uziels and Mad Cats around I want em
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RBA Starblade posted:When were Uziels and Mad Cats around I want em 3050 for the mad cat and 3055 for the Uziel
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Oct 20, 2019 19:48
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gently caress, Double Post.
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I really hope they can improve the performance of the game a whole lot. Restarting it every 2 hours and deleting all saves gets really old.
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Lockback posted:Is heavy metal the last DLC, and I assume it'll be $20? Doing math on what makes the most sense since I got flashpoint and the shadow hawk dlc work the humble bundle. https://www.geekwire.com/2019/harebrained-schemes-announces-heavy-metal-expansion-hit-strategy-game-battletech/ Confirmed $20 yeah! Adds 7 mechs, and a mini-campaign that is played after you finish the main campaign.
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Considering all the newer mechs seem to be getting a special bonus based on their design or role I wonder if they will do this for all the other mechs currently in the game. It seems like a good way to make more mechs a good choice and if done well could help the mechs that are on the lighter side in their weight category. I have been waiting for this DLC to come out so I can boot up the game again. Hopefully, we see more or they start working on a sequel at some point.
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Technowolf posted:What the hell would a Flea's 'special role' be? Ablative armor for more valuable mechs? Punishment detail for Deker? Real answer maybe throw TAG in it (that's included now, right?)
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Technowolf posted:What the hell would a Flea's 'special role' be? Converting to cbills.
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Technowolf posted:What the hell would a Flea's 'special role' be? Double XP for a surviving pilot, but they get a PTSD attribute.
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Technowolf posted:What the hell would a Flea's 'special role' be? You can field an entire lance at once to immediately get killed
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RBA Starblade posted:You can field an entire lance at once to immediately get killed +3 defense because the enemy pilots are laughing too hard
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BTW, I finally got around to killing time to wrap up my old career and the game changes apparently reset my rank to "Unknown", giving me a Griffin part as a career mode ending reward lol. Do they improve as you go higher up? Also wow they added way more flashpoints than I thought to Urban Warfare. More for next month I guess!
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Technowolf posted:What the hell would a Flea's 'special role' be? Having to fight anything other than Locust's at the start of the game is a nice change.
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I am a little bit disappointed, as I was still hoping for a story DLC. Do we know if there is anything like that on the horizon? A new season of DLCs or do we expect them to move that to Battletech 2?
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I ended up trying Roguetech and holy poo poo, nevermind. It took me over a an hour to complete a .5 difficulty mission. I don't have time for this crap.
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Arven posted:I ended up trying Roguetech and holy poo poo, nevermind. It took me over a an hour to complete a .5 difficulty mission. I don't have time for this crap. It does sound breathtakingly grognardy. Which is sort of awesome, in that I'm glad that HBS gave people a platform to bring their insane tabletop fantasies to life. Personally, I'm not even good enough at the base game to win 3+ skull missions in the early mid game without cheesing them with the Raven. RogueTech sounds like a horrible nightmare. Can anybody say if 3025: CE is a good middle ground between RT and vanilla?
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Norton the First posted:It does sound breathtakingly grognardy. Which is sort of awesome, in that I'm glad that HBS gave people a platform to bring their insane tabletop fantasies to life. Personally, I'm not even good enough at the base game to win 3+ skull missions in the early mid game without cheesing them with the Raven. RogueTech sounds like a horrible nightmare. It is. It's my favorite big mod. It adds depth and cool new mechs (many of which are featured in the Heavy Metal dlc) without going insane as Roguetech does. It's basically vanilla +.
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Technowolf posted:What the hell would a Flea's 'special role' be? Flea and Locust are both for crowd control (anti-personnel/war crimes) and fast intercept of light lances. The odds of success are much higher for the first use case.
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