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FARTSTAR posted:someone post a good Top Dog build my brain only sees 9xMPL I run a build similar to the 5SS with 8xMPL, each torso with its own firing group. It runs red loving hot but you're tanky as poo poo and you can linger on for a long goddamn time, since with torso twisting they have to eat through both your arms and both your torsos. You can also run an AMS on it if you want to run with 1 less heat sink, since it barely loving matters. You can also just run it with 6xMPL and a gently caress ton of heatsinks
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Dec 28, 2015 03:37
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Vorenus posted:Arguing LRMs is comparable to a political debate: Minds are made up and best case scenario is "Yeah I know I'm wrong but I like my way better so LOLogic" Yeah but gently caress people who put LRMs on Assault Mechs
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Dec 29, 2015 09:53
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Stringbean posted:Maybe it was a sign. It told me that I should hold off on purchasing an urbmech You're either a Trashcan or a Trashcant son
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Pattonesque posted:Alpine without the mountain would be a p. good map, and on Conquest this is most evident, but as of now it's p. bad Then it would just be a loving arctic tundra with no cover and gently caress over anyone who isn't using Large Lasers or LRM's even harder 
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Jan 1, 2016 23:18
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I chased an Ebon Jag for a solid 5 minutes on Forest Colony as the last person alive in my zombie'd Ghostdad while he was in chat bitching about how I was dragging the game out.
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Jan 2, 2016 23:52
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Sharks Dont Sleep posted:^ my 2xUAC10 5xERSL Ebon jaguar is by far my highest KD mech with the burst changes. If I brought out my Dakka Dire it might beat it. Clan UACs are remarkably better with the burst changes. I think Gauss can crit through armor?
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Jan 3, 2016 07:00
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Yolomon Wayne posted:Thanks for bringing up the spider, theres the 5D variant that can actually run close to 130, jump, ECM and AMS. AMS is dumb on light mechs because you run faster than poo poo and 99% of them will miss you anyway unless you're TAG'd or NARC'd. Any LRM's from 500m+ away are likely not going to hit you because they physically can't track that quickly
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Jan 4, 2016 01:12
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Pattonesque posted:could try this from metamechs: The AL doesn't run anywhere near that hot to justify all those loving heatsinks and 3LL
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Jan 6, 2016 06:25
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sarmhan posted:Yea, you can just swap down to a standard 255 and cut some heatsinks like so: I'm using this right now http://mwo.smurfy-net.de/mechlab#i=28&l=0303d5076bd5151326639799c8cf07d8fba1267e
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Jan 6, 2016 06:47
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I'm assuming something like this is the default Shadow Cat build? http://mwo.smurfy-net.de/mechlab#i=298&l=553394ab5b795a670232b9e419c2ef09fd753d59
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Jan 12, 2016 20:52
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Coolwhoami posted:Meanwhile the ice ferret is still a horrible and bad mech Lots of mechs will forever be poo poo because the niche that they performed doesn't exist and will never exist in MWO
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Jan 14, 2016 03:35
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Freakazoid_ posted:Because LRMs deserve to be just as viable a weapon as anything else. They really don't
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Jan 20, 2016 15:13
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The Top Dog isn't a bad mech but there's other Thunderbolts that can more or less do the same thing but better. I guess you could run 3xLL/ERLL and 4xML with the Top Dog, but for MPL or LPL boating the 5SS and 9SE are much better
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Jan 22, 2016 06:38
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Marauder has really nice hitboxes as well. Anecdotally they feel like one of the toughest mechs to crack open when I'm in a Splatlas or Ghostdad
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Jan 22, 2016 20:59
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TheParadigm posted:Sale, yeah. I have c-bills to burn and 4m isn't that much - I'll easily make it back basicing it out. I spend cbills to screw around with mechs, and the awesome was one I used to play a lot. I haven't had one since beta and i'm curious how they hold up now. Awesome hitboxes are loving trash
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Jan 23, 2016 10:03
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DeliciousPatriotism posted:Then buy different mechs lol I'm loving it. I'm 7 for 7 right now and I mostly use light mechs. It'd be a less lovely map if you could pick which mech you dropped in after the map was chosen
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Jan 24, 2016 07:05
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Sard posted:
Oh hey I was spectating that dude after I killed like 3 people in my Warhammmer. That's the first Gargoyle I've ever actually seen as well
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Jan 25, 2016 09:32
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Lemon Curdistan posted:I think you can also fit an Atlas, two Blackjacks and a Locust for Going Fast? Although the Locust isn't anywhere near as good as a Firestarter as a general-purpose light. The Huginn is real nasty, probably my favorite hero mech right now besides the Black Widow
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Jan 25, 2016 09:36
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Rank 28 on the Black Widow for this event, I doubt I'll be able to crack the top 10 
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Raged posted:It means you probably have a job or a life of some kind. It's your 10 best matches and its super easy to do 800-1200 damage games with 4xAC/5's 
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apostateCourier posted:Some of those scores on the leaderboards are insane- I had to fight tooth and nail just to break 3000 on the WHM-6D. Anyone else do OK? Got Rank 30 with the Black Widow, any higher basically involved pure blind loving luck on not getting focused and my team being just poo poo enough to not kill anything but to not die miserably EoRaptor posted:Don't put ammo in your CT, RT or LT. The extra structure means you can get good survivability when you lose your armour, so things that go bang should be elsewhere. I prefer something more along the lines of this http://mwo.smurfy-net.de/mechlab#i=241&l=aaec849d98452aaef0a61a9802431053f7eaf43d I think I've run out of AC/20 ammo like once after well over 50-60 games even with only 3 tons. That extra weight is much better served using for SRM ammo.
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Jan 26, 2016 19:49
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apostateCourier posted:I prefer having the MPLs in the torso- if I put two in each arm, I lose more firepower from a busted arm than I would from losing one LPL. LPL does almost as much damage as 2 MPL's (11 for LPL, 6 Per MPL), has longer range and generates less heat 
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Jan 27, 2016 01:59
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Daylen Drazzi posted:I can't find a build that I can play effectively for the WHM-BW. I've got some abortion of a 2xUAC/5 and some medium lasers, but nothing that really takes advantage of the quirks and works well with my habit of getting in close and brawling. Standing back and sniping doesn't work well for me, so I need something that can fire fast and hard but won't generate an enormous amount of heat. http://mwo.smurfy-net.de/mechlab#i=385&l=9262ae13cf1a3eb6e46ba857ba345452b4a96670 With elite skills, and the AC/5 cooldown module you poo poo out 20 damage alpha strikes every 1.2 seconds or so and you will never overheat unless you blow through 70% of your ammo without letting up at all. You can brawl with nearly everything at point blank range and either win or effectively cripple the other dude. The hardest part about this build is remembering to torso twist because you have absolutely no down time with your weapons.
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Devorum posted:If Heroes are on the table, the 3M, 2N, and Sparky. Is the Sparky actually that good?
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Great Beer posted:Posting the undisputable best options for the new champ robots: I really like the Commando build. I feel like this is a better Awesome build however http://mwo.smurfy-net.de/mechlab#i=46&l=f48f8bf6cfd8ed2ebe3ada0355d0f2035389da97
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FARTSTAR posted:From the townhall:  Top Dog
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What the gently caress does "Stalker Retrofit" mean
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Jan 30, 2016 06:51
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So with the IS range quirk nerfs going in, are the Battlemaster's still worth getting. Or should I get some Stalkers instead?
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WebDO posted:
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The Saddest Robot posted:Valve does the same thing. Once they figure out the vulnerability and exploits in play they observe them for a while to catch as many in their detection net as they can. Blizzard does the same poo poo, they basically gather information for 6 months or so then ban a couple hundred thousand people at a time
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Jan 31, 2016 04:24
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Unhappy Meal posted:It's probably not so much to catch more people as it is to reduce their false positive rate to an acceptable level. If you ban continuously hack authors update their hacks more often and you effectively have an arms race a developer can't feasibly win. Large group bans are just in general more effective.
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starkebn posted:It's just sad they've taken away the ability to chat to the enemy team Just enable general chat in the options
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So I've been loving around with the other Warhammers and have pretty decent builds for the 6D and 6R. I honestly have no idea what to do with the 7S though. I'm thinking something along the lines of this http://mwo.smurfy-net.de/mechlab#i=384&l=a5b46beb4c44cce8c785425b93c890dc04c885e4 or possibly this http://mwo.smurfy-net.de/mechlab#i=384&l=329201c0ad197a6fb3f8bc6eca8c838aa584ece8 WebDO posted:Wow, you guys got really upset that I called the poo poo devs of this game poo poo. You sure showed me that 
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Is the Battlemaster 1S still worth picking up now that the IS range quirks are a thing next patch? I have the 2C and 3S already
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sebmojo posted:No, this is not Asimov-level science fiction, but it's deep, very engaging (why else would we be playing a derivative three decades later?) and most of it is well-written. Stockholm syndrome and because there hasn't been a good Heavy Gear game in 17 years
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Tujague posted:I never read any battletech novels, but I actually think the classic "successor states" is a cool setting with lots of opportunity. If you can ignore the 1980s weaboo garbage and rampaging Mary Sueism, it's not terrible. Mysterious Comstar, pirate kingdoms in the darkness, civilization trying to find a way forward after generations of devastation. The Kentares Massacre. Mercenaries. The 100th take on sci-fi Space Feudalism. Little blurbs in the mech descriptions about whatever badass legendary Whitworth pilot got killed on some frozen ice world. Very charming stuff. You missed the part where Space AT&T blows up the communication systems thus hitting the reset button on the universe because FASA is a bunch of lazy talentless hacks when it comes to story
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Pattonesque posted:and also Holy poo poo it looks like a Swoll Dad
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Stringbean posted:If I've got Griffins and Hunchbacks elites, what's another medium I can start messing with. I'm digging medium gameplay over all else. I tried cicadas but they weren't really what I liked about heavier mediums. I also kind of liked the Blackjacks, but their play style wasn't really in line to my personal play style. What should I aim for next. Are enforcers any good? Or kintaro? Griffins are good SRM4 boating strikers, though they pretty much require expensive 300XL engines. Centurions are damned good brawlers and use STD 275's
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