Lemon Curdistan posted:

I'm pretty sure you can't unlock them, they come with the real-money mech packages.

Sard posted:

Well, I'd read it, and probably pass it along to my friend who is getting into the game. Speaking of coaxing friends into bad ideas, anyone have good Top Dog builds? I know bracketing is frowned on but without a coordinated group he's settled into using two ERLL in the shoulder slots to poke with and the rest as mediums for when things get close. I'm sure there are better builds that can fight at close and mid range though, but the best I came up with used six ML, three MPL, and an STD310.

Endbuster posted:

Lol yep. I was about to say this. I've been in mumble and heard "well our pubbies..." is the excuse for losing. Nah man. Us goons are good enough to carry a team if we don't get prideful and do our own thing and expect pubbies to listen. If the pickups listen, that's a boon. If they don't, we gotta go with them and try to focus what's killing them to keep the strength in numbers. I used to blame the pubs. Now I don't I just blame myself for not keeping control of my lance and getting them to support the pubs. Even if there is another yell boss contradicting what I'm saying in game, I'll just suck it up and agree with him to keep the drop grouped up. 9/10 times we win those games even if it's a horrible idea by virtue of just being there and killing guys instead of doing our own thing and watching them get murdered.

Banano posted:

EAThief posted:

With builds like this, how could anyone hate brawling?

http://mwomercs.com/forums/topic/185249-looking-for-catapult-builds-and-tips/page__view__findpost__p__4848953

Nuebot posted:

So if I was considering spending real money on this game for something what would be the best? Probably not more than fifty bucks, if I do at all, though.

PoptartsNinja posted:

It's me, I'm the bad who dies early so I can browse pubbie builds to find out why we're losing and blame them for it.






Is that also why we can't have hot pink paint?

Libluini posted:

In this case (tier 4), we just waltzed blindly forward until we had enemy contact. Then we took so long to form up and turn towards them, no-one had time to leave our group to go and die. We still lost of course, since the enemy basically walked right through our formation and ripped it apart, but we still took 6 mechs down with us.

Edit:

poo poo, it just dawned on me, I helped bring down 4 out of 6 dead enemy mechs in that match. With a joystick. How bad are those guys when I can keep up with them with a joystick?

hemale in pain posted:

I'm tier 4 and pubbies bunch up into a single square and refuse to do anything, and get incredibly angry and start shouting at people for moving out of the square for 'splitting up'. Also, a ton of them manage to die in the long range shooting battle and I dunno how, are they just standing there?

Washout posted:

Rifleman is a bad robot, sorry.

What it really shows is how ballistics are unbalanced currently in the face of energy weapons. It can't boat energy weapons so it's sub par. 3 AC5's or 3 LPL are probably the best builds it can manage (both with XL engines). Stuff like 2 ac10+med laser or 2 ac20 are just way underpowered currently in comparison.

Washout posted:

I mastered and sold the following so far just in case they ever get good again:

Jagermechs
Awesomes
Jenners
Spiders
Orions
Centurions
Kit Foxes
Adders
Have not sold all the mad dogs yet but probably will.

And probably a couple more I can't remember, eventually you need more mechs bays for actual robots you can play the game with instead of garage queens.

If you decide to make a SRM6 brawler put on 4 srm6's and don't stretch it to 6 srm6's, that just does not fit as well as 4 srm6+4er small lasers, and then you have to break up firing groups instead of just alpha striking people in the face. The streak dog is dogshit and not even worth it really, other than inflating end of match damage numbers, plus it requires the range mod or it's even more worthless. 4 med pulse and 4 srm4+A is probably the best build for it really.

Olesh posted:

Did you just buy $50 worth of MC? I'm wondering if they got a digit wrong on the Valentine's Sale.

Bolow posted:

FYI with negative cbills you cannot change the loadout or customize anything. Not camo, not your cockpit. Not a loving thing

veedubfreak posted:

Is it worth making a Twitter account to call him out?

Washout posted:

The is the same build I use with my Banshee. You put the AC's on chainfire on one button and the ppc's with chain fire on the other. 3rd button is just an alpha for poking. Chain firing all that bullshit at people scares the hell out of them though!


It was way worse than that, a whole team of those could easily wipe the entire enemy team in CW without losses just because the instant anything shows it's head it eats a million ppc's and explodes. It was a common tactic to just stand in the open with your entire team and just incinerate anything that showed it's head.

A.o.D. posted:

The first time in every match I hit the shift key to toggle arm lock, it opens up the steam browser. It's been doing this ever since I installed the steam version.

Actually, I don't even have to be toggling arm lock. I can even hit shift to capitalize something in chat and it'll open up the steam browser. It only does this once per match, though, and only the first time I hit the shift key.

quote:

Yeah, saw that poo poo last night myself. Someone from GIRL started screaming that we were all using Helios as soon as we dropped into a match as a 6 man. Unsurprisingly, the players on the other side were all dysfunctional and not organized, they got crushed 12-0. Suffice to say one of the other players from said unit apologized after the guy rage quit in a later drop.

veedubfreak posted:

I fully admit to calling out 228 for being helios users. I'll keep being salty about it until PGI starts banning people. I think it's funny that they made a reddit post about it. Someone is feeling guilty. Just a reminder, 228 was ModPuds old clan. "GIT GUD"

The Repo Man posted:

Huh...

https://mwomercs.com/tournaments?t=201604convxp

Zaodai posted:

Weren't they working on "fixing" Bog to not be such a terribly made shithole like a year ago? You still can't walk through tree roots and half the time I inexplicably can't walk up the staircases. gently caress that map, and Canyon. The maps where they try and get creative with their line of sight restrictions by making super quick elevation changes are all poo poo. And yet random pubbies love the drat things.

Jesus.