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Taear posted:I'm coming back now with all the DLC after having played the campaign ages ago and I'm starting with career mode. What other Mechs do you have? Not a fan of the Enforcer's stock loadout because there isn't enough ammo for the AC10. I think you'll be better off replacing the AC10s and putting in an LBX-2 or UAC-5 on one of them and making that a long-range plinker, and making the other a pure ML brawler with JJs and max armor. anakha fucked around with this message at 10:34 on Nov 30, 2019 |
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anakha posted:What other Mechs do you have? Right now I've got a Phoenix Hawk, a Crab, an Assassin (where I've replaced the LRMs all with SRMs, he's pretty good) and a Shadow Hawk. I remember that first time round I hated large lasers and I feel like I've ended up with a lot of mechs that I kinda HAVE to use them with.
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Nov 30, 2019 11:35
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anakha posted:What other Mechs do you have? The Enforcer also isn't /bad/ as an AC/20 caddy. It alone puts out as much damage as the AC/10 and Large Laser, and one with three tons of ammo saves you weight and heat over the two.
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raverrn posted:The Enforcer also isn't /bad/ as an AC/20 caddy. It alone puts out as much damage as the AC/10 and Large Laser, and one with three tons of ammo saves you weight and heat over the two. This sounds like a decent plan. My main issue with ACs is if it misses I'm just doing absolutely nothing and I hate it.
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Nov 30, 2019 11:51
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Taear posted:Right now I've got a Phoenix Hawk, a Crab, an Assassin (where I've replaced the LRMs all with SRMs, he's pretty good) and a Shadow Hawk. SHawk is the better of the lot there with SRM16 2 tons ammo, mlas, slas, 2 heatsinks and 5 jump jets. Remember ammo goes in the legs and jets go in the torsos (CT unless you've got a gyro).
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Conspiratiorist posted:SHawk is the better of the lot there with SRM16 2 tons ammo, mlas, slas, 2 heatsinks and 5 jump jets. I know that part, I've played before as I said - I did the campaign. I'm using the Shawk but it definitely still feels harder, I don't remember having any missions with 8 medium mechs attacking me together before for example, it's only two skulls!
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Nov 30, 2019 12:18
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Great, honourably decided to duel Bogdan ( The Steel Beast) and he jumped me. Tried to kite him with a coil-m assassin but the adds are too much. Can I leave the area and do another flashpoint until I find a better 50 tonner, or how do I beat this guy?!?
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Nov 30, 2019 13:35
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I used a hatchetman with an erl for ranged damage, max armor, and melee mods. It beat the poo poo out of him pretty easy. My ERL does 60 damage with higher heat than stock.
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Nov 30, 2019 13:57
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I used a Hunchy G, and I had enough morale to precision-shoot him into CT with an AC/20 twice in a row...
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Nov 30, 2019 14:07
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Mugsbaloney posted:Great, honourably decided to duel Bogdan ( The Steel Beast) and he jumped me. Tried to kite him with a coil-m assassin but the adds are too much. Can I leave the area and do another flashpoint until I find a better 50 tonner, or how do I beat this guy?!? Screw honor and drop an assault lance on him. There's no penalty for doing so. The Lyrans just want him dead. If you already made the flashpoint decision to fight him 1v1, load a prior save.
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Nov 30, 2019 14:09
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Taear posted:This sounds like a decent plan. My main issue with ACs is if it misses I'm just doing absolutely nothing and I hate it. If you have the heavy metal expansion then you can get LBX cannons that spray like missiles.
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NoNotTheMindProbe posted:If you have the heavy metal expansion then you can get LBX cannons that spray like missiles. I've got all of them like I said in the first post, yea. I do have a few of those in my arsenal but they're a ton less weight than the AC10, is it still worth it?
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Nov 30, 2019 14:38
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I have decided that the UAC20 is the love of my life. Is there any -weight versions of it? I want to put two of them in a king crab and just 
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Groetgaffel posted:I have decided that the UAC20 is the love of my life. You're in luck.  I somehow made this monstrosity thanks to the black market. I feel like it shouldn't be possible, but it is, and it's horrifying.
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Nov 30, 2019 15:04
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Sykic posted:You're in luck.  Do not get flanked in that thing.
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Nov 30, 2019 15:19
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Just got a Marauder and lol it's hilarious with that called shot bonus. Everyone is dead y'all. Came up with this loadout and it just murders everybody: Gauss+ (-weight) LB 2-X++ (+dmg +crit) 2x ERML++ (+dmg) 3x DHS If I get more DHS and some ER PPC +dmg I might try those instead.
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Nov 30, 2019 15:21
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My Enforcer is running triple Large Laser and doing great. That's a nice, non ammo dependent build. Long range, no minimum range and you've got 3 weapons so you can juggle heat very well.
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Nov 30, 2019 15:23
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Managed to lose both an Archer and a Marauder on the final two missions of the new flashpoint campaign, both brawling when they shouldn't have been. I'll never learn, RIP Comanche and Chilli.  The opposition in the final mission was really cool to fight, at least.
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Nov 30, 2019 16:02
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DatonKallandor posted:My Enforcer is running triple Large Laser and doing great. That's a nice, non ammo dependent build. Long range, no minimum range and you've got 3 weapons so you can juggle heat very well. Large Lasers feel really poo poo, I feel like I'd need to be shooting all three every turn to do as much damage as a bunch of SRMs do.
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Sorry for asking a question that's been asked a hunred times before, but I'm a bit lost with how the ECM is supposed to work. The tutorial says that if the Carrier ends its turn, then all units within the field get protection, right? So I do this: 1) Mech A walks out of the field and fires, losing it's protecting 2) Carrier walks forwards to put mech A into its field and ends turn But Mech A doesn't get protection until the next round, after eating like 200 LRMs from everything in the last phase... Am I misunderstanding here? I read somewhere that I'm supposed to just use the ECM as an invisible spotter and nuke everything from a distance with LRMs, but that seems extremely dull.
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Nov 30, 2019 17:23
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How the hell do I get access to the black market? I'm more than liked with them and have plenty of cash and have never gotten an offer. Fly to more black market systems hoping for an event?
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Nov 30, 2019 17:43
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Sykic posted:You're in luck. Drop some heat sinks. You'll run out of ammo before you get into heat danger
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Ravenfood posted:How the hell do I get access to the black market? I'm more than liked with them and have plenty of cash and have never gotten an offer. Fly to more black market systems hoping for an event? It's a random event
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Nov 30, 2019 18:08
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Taerkar posted:Drop some heat sinks. You'll run out of ammo before you get into heat danger I was going to say. A heat delta of -3 is a complete waste, even in lunar biome you'll still never overheat.
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You can drop heat sinks, but I'll be the one laughing when three lances of Firestarters come charging over a hill. I'm still trying to make triple UAC/20++ work. It doesn't and won't, but that won't stop me.
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Taear posted:It feels like the missions are harder than they were before. I've done a flashpoint - which was fun - but a lot of my missions seem to have 8 medium mechs in or more and I just can't handle it. The game *is* harder than it was back at launch. The rebalance of skills made them much easier for the AI to use, so they're on a more even footing. You have to do a bit more strategizing or power mech builds to make up for it. Taear posted:I don't remember having any missions with 8 medium mechs attacking me together before for example, it's only two skulls! 2 to 2.5 skulls are mostly mediums. 8 grouped up together is tough, but IIRC they added more possible spawn locations for enemies in old maps? So you may have gotten unlucky with the 2 lances being put fairly close together. Remember, you can accomplish your objective and then withdraw. (There's some new missions where this is 100% the intended effect, because some big stompy bois show up to a low-skull mission.) Gerblyn posted:The tutorial says that if the Carrier ends its turn, then all units within the field get protection, right? And as for ECM's usefulness, when it came out you could completely abuse the AI with it. They gave the AI the ability to reserve against ECM though to be less exploitable. Spotter is the easiest way to use it, but you can still get good backstabs by manipulating initiative. Ravenfood posted:How the hell do I get access to the black market? I'm more than liked with them and have plenty of cash and have never gotten an offer. Fly to more black market systems hoping for an event? The event can show up anywhere. I'm pretty sure that going into battles resets the event "clock" to zero (same as when you get an event). So if you want to chug through a lot of events, let time tick forward until you get an event before fighting a battle.
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Is there a mod to remove COIL weapons? They’re just… too conceptually dumb, to me.
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Attack and Defend is an insane clusterfuck lol holy poo poo. I took my Raven though and lol that the enemy base is five full sprints away minimum, and lol the Capellan defense is two locusts (who instantly exploded), a crab, and a Trebuchet against at minimum eight heavy and mediums.Lazyhound posted:Is there a mod to remove COIL weapons? They’re just… too conceptually dumb, to me. You're the only one who has access to them, just don't equip them and it's functionally the same 
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Klyith posted:The game *is* harder than it was back at launch. The rebalance of skills made them much easier for the AI to use, so they're on a more even footing. You have to do a bit more strategizing or power mech builds to make up for it. Well that sucks, I wish there was an easy mode. It was hard enough for me at release, I don't want it to be even harder! The one I'm having problems with now is a capture so I don't think I can capture and then just withdraw without losing.
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Taear posted:Well that sucks, I wish there was an easy mode. It was hard enough for me at release, I don't want it to be even harder! If you do career mode you can set the enemy lance configuration to easy and bump up some other stuff You get at least one piece of guaranteed salvage on a bad faith withdraw iirc (or just a few random pieces, so good chance anyway if that's all you killed), so shoot something in the head, leave, and loot it. I got the last piece of an assault super early last campaign that way lol
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Came back in from release for the Heavy Metal pack, got all the DLC packs. Started a new career mode campaign and this COIL thing is hilarious. Question - is it possible to do all flashpoints on one save file, or are some if them mutually exclusive? If I want to have access to all of them should I be doing anything specific to mind my rep?
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Nov 30, 2019 21:53
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how do i get more double heatsinks? Is it just star league planets?
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MORE TAXES WHEN posted:Came back in from release for the Heavy Metal pack, got all the DLC packs. Started a new career mode campaign and this COIL thing is hilarious. Question - is it possible to do all flashpoints on one save file, or are some if them mutually exclusive? If I want to have access to all of them should I be doing anything specific to mind my rep? You can do them all but the Alliance FPs will take a while. Did they add any for the minor power alliances BTW?
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I just beat the main story for the first time, was not bad. But is Victoria impossible to headshot? I wanted that sweet King Crab, but spent five minutes kiting her doing called shots on the head, must have missed 20-30 shot at an 18% chance for each to hit, and never got a single one. It feels like that has to be a coded thing, because otherwise it's just statistically extraordinarily unlikely.
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aniviron posted:I just beat the main story for the first time, was not bad. But is Victoria impossible to headshot? I wanted that sweet King Crab, but spent five minutes kiting her doing called shots on the head, must have missed 20-30 shot at an 18% chance for each to hit, and never got a single one. It feels like that has to be a coded thing, because otherwise it's just statistically extraordinarily unlikely. The first shot I made on her blew her head off, you just got unlucky You don't get to salvage it unless that changed
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I didn't see a single part, so I guess it was unsalvageable anyway, fair enough.
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Fauxtool posted:how do i get more double heatsinks? Is it just star league planets? Star league planets, black markets, flashpoints, maybe faction stores? They were one of the rarest things to find but 1.8 seems to have boosted the probability of rare stuff in shops a lot. Maybe they're more common now. RBA Starblade posted:The first shot I made on her blew her head off, you just got unlucky Nope, that was before they gave her a special immune to headshots power. I thought for a while it was actually reflected in the UI, her head was blacked out so you couldn't pick it. Anyways you can only KO her with 6 knockdowns so no crabs for people anymore. MORE TAXES WHEN posted:Question - is it possible to do all flashpoints on one save file, or are some if them mutually exclusive? If I want to have access to all of them should I be doing anything specific to mind my rep? Literally faster to play multiple careers in order to see everything.
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Klyith posted:Star league planets, black markets, flashpoints, maybe faction stores? Or use the savegame editor.
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Ok thanks, all. I'll probably just end up editing the save then.
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