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Built a silver action zaku, but couldn't use the charge beam for poo poo. Seriously how do you effectively use that? Missing a shot is devastating with the reload. Switched to regular beam rifle F type and it's been great. Including a 10-kill streak on a space map (and many many assists). Finally I can go pew pew pew!
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CassiusW posted:Using the 3-pt burst is advisable with the glorious, pussy gettin' wet mobile suit known as the Act Zaku. Also, the bullpup gets the women as well. In all seriousness, the 3-pt burst is almost always the best option and the bullpup is great. But use whatever works best for you. I've been using a 3-pt burst rifle on my FS for forever and a half, and switching to beam rifle act zaku instantly doubled my number of kills, feels like. I don't know, it just fits my playstyle better. As an aside, I had to swap in a prototype zaku for deck cost reasons, and prototype zaku with level 3 bazooka trait and a fully upgraded 3-shot bazooka is amazing. I.. actually get loads of kills as a support, from a safe range! Even took down a GM 1v1 once.
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Jan 19, 2014 17:30
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That's a lot of master tickets. Also I really wish your deck cost went up faster. I want to replace my FS with a custom efreet but that's like 500 games away + losing a bunch of modules (FS feels anemic now after using action zaku). Dropping some BC on temporary extensions is looking realy tempting. 30 games is what, 10 hours worth of playing, for 3 bucks.
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Jan 23, 2014 03:22
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Free Triangle posted:Lots of interesting things to come. Those bonus tickets look sweet. More guaranteed good rewards! And it doesn't need to you to play a shitload of games, just one a day! As a side note after about 150 matches I've finally gotten a SSS result!  On the back of about 15 grenade kills.. which incidentally is the first time I've gotten more than 2 grenade kills in one match  
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Jan 25, 2014 08:37
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Free Triangle posted:Did you use the grenade long throw module? Very nice! Looks like that match propelled you to 3 wings, welcome to silver tier matchmaking! No grenade modules/specializations, just found a great way to boost around throwing and used pure numbers to grab kills/assists. Also the win propelled me to the second rank of three wings, and yeah it feels a lot rougher now compared to even just a few tiers ago.
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Jan 25, 2014 10:16
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Thank gently caress beams are relatively nerfed. I started a feddie guy to see what exactly they do (know thy enemy etc) and was immediately wrecking faces with the default heavy. I mean part of it was the easier matchmaking but a bigger part is the charge beam that two-shots supports, along with a bazooka, from rank 1  Easily performs better than my upgraded and geared FS in a messy brawl.
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Jan 29, 2014 09:03
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Free Triangle posted:You can start patching your gundam now! Took literally 20 seconds from start to finish for me This is also the first time I've seen the server population at 3 bars. People must be super excited about this patch.
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Jan 29, 2014 13:30
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Zeirnaton posted:jesus I can't figure out at all what this one daily wants me to do Kill 2 dudes with mines.
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Jan 29, 2014 16:11
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Had the best game ever. Peep the remaining gauge of dat last game  It was amazing. We were losing badly the whole game, down almost two full bars for most of the game, until we double nuked them, including one nuke that went off seconds before our gauge ran out. I also solo'd two gundams in a 1v2 with my FS People were flipping out in chat afterwards.  Saved by goks storming them by sea 
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Jan 31, 2014 14:31
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Free Triangle posted:Aren't they saying Gogg? (ゴッグ). Once known as the worst aquatic suit. That fat brown egg looking guy has a stealth mode, undetectable by radar and mines. Sounds like an amazing match, I'll be sure to watch the replay. People said both so I don't know. Honestly I had written the match off so I wasn't even paying attention - I thought we had lost our nukes I totally forgot about replays, I'll look into it. edit: It was a gogg! Also we DID lose our first nuke (I thought that was how we got them down to 1 bar but I guess it was just good ol' elbow grease). I also relived my glory of soloing two gundams  The heroic dumpling in question: 
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Feb 1, 2014 01:35
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Free Triangle posted:Goon platoon wrecking faces tonight! Also, thread no longer has poo poo post tag That was a lot of fun! Also yeah I got around to messaging a mod about the tag I made it to the last rank of silver matchmaking today. Still slowly gaining PP but I'm not a fan of how much your PP swings depends on whether you win or lose, since you have so little influence on that. It's pretty brutal if you get a B loss now.
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Feb 2, 2014 14:56
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Al Borland posted:The only way to counter that is it consistently place in the top 5. That's how I lost my gold rank when I went from support to everything actually fun. Well I'm grinding up mostly playing assault/heavy so hopefully I don't run into that. Honestly I've never enjoyed playing support, and prototype zaku is only passable because of the triple bazooka heavy-lite playstyle. Also compensating for my awful deckcost maximum.
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Feb 5, 2014 00:44
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Free Triangle posted:Best part about playing heavy is that it's one of the easier leader boards to qualify(Top 500, around 5000+ points usually) for DX tickets. Partially why I mostly play assault/heavy. I definitely want to switch to 2 assault/2 heavy when I get more deck cost. Pulled a silver gelgoog cannon today and it popped with lv1 beam shooter. Even 3 heavy 1 assault would be nice since the deck bonus is still boost amount and you can freely switch out the assault.
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Feb 5, 2014 04:56
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Whoever said max range continuous beam rifle sniper is extremely annoying, I totally agree. Gave my lv 5 range extension zaku I sniper a max range continuous beam L and went to town on the walled city map. I kept at least 3 enemy snipers suppressed - and they even shot their charge beam at me in futility (I was well out of their range). That and farming points by shooting their battleships while they think it's parked safely. I don't think I would take it out on any other map but that one is always a dead stalemate and super wide and open. Perfect for some 2 kilometer range shenanigans. edit  oh my god you can equip both the continuous beam L AND a 135mm sniper F at the same time, plus ammo packs - doing this every game
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Feb 7, 2014 02:09
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Al Borland posted:I was doing this before it was cool Well it's double cool now that you can use a 135mm at the same time so you're not stuck to JUST being annoying 
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Feb 7, 2014 03:11
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Yeah I can see it being a lot more potent if you had like a group of 3 people doing it over mumble. Just one felt pretty weak, even on downed enemies.
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Feb 7, 2014 03:25
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Al Borland posted:You guys have so many good things you can easily get now. Back in my day the best thing I HAD was an experimental zgok which was godly until the aqua gundam with bonus laser damage game out. So I had it for about 1 week. My original free silver FS that everyone gets is still my best performing suit tied with my silver act zaku. The FS is just such a beast with its mobility. Almost nobody else uses it in gold matchmaking but I can't see myself getting rid of it except for a gold version.
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Feb 7, 2014 04:00
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-Troika- posted:Spray shooter sadly isn't as useful as it used to be, combat custom is the new best trait for it. Shotguns didn't have their damaged buffed so they kinda suck now, especially since people generally will have a lot more balance. Yeah I don't make use of the module at all. Still, it's just a silver suit anyway so the loss of a level 1 module feels pretty nominal. Speaking of balance, does anyone run suits with just two weapons? I've been thinking about it for my act zaku. On non-grenade maps I run a bullpup and it almost never sees use aside from killing enemy aces. Seems like getting more boost and balance might be better.
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Feb 7, 2014 07:35
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I should be around 220 games! I do plan on staying in gold though - something clicked recently and I went from averaging 150 points to averaging 300 points. Earned most of my rank points in the last two weeks. Also thanks for the balance advice. Definitely giving up the bullpup then, at least for one loadout.
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Feb 7, 2014 09:40
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My internet's been cutting out randomly for a few seconds at a time - enough to disconnect me and basically throw a game each time, so I can't really play until I figure this out. This is pretty annoying since it's totally random and I don't even know where to start diagnosing it. I haven't changed anything recently.
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Feb 11, 2014 09:42
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Internet looks okay now! I guess it's just on the ISP's side. Oh the other hand my last 10 games have been 1 win 9 losses  Zeon getting stomped by feddie golds.Al Borland posted:What is this valentine day thing?
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Feb 13, 2014 16:46
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Feb 17, 2014 02:37
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Free Triangle posted:Gelgoog cannon. Technically gold gyan too. Gelgoog cannon is superior for space fighting. So it does! I guess that's another 200k I need for customizing, just for a space suit. Also I'm net 16 losses since the last patch. I had a match today where it was like 10 zeon golds vs. 48 feddie golds. We lost 0-74% Favorite moment of the day:  (The base lived with about 1% hp. EXAM mode is basically beast mode)
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Feb 18, 2014 02:19
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Free Triangle posted:Gelgoog cannon is land capable too. Be aware that it has a sub-par jump. Yeah, but I already have my land suits all set! 30% sounds super OP. The current 10% speed is already huge, and it was recently buffed to last 60 seconds. I use the super long EXAM time with the low damage missiles which comes with over 100 missiles with the ammo helper pack. The damage boost makes them pack a real punch and I have a lockon module as well. Real great all rounder and basically unmatched in melee.
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Feb 18, 2014 03:08
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drat I'm at 1/7. Can you just save your dailies until you're at like 40/7 then cash them all in during events?
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Feb 19, 2014 11:33
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Free Triangle posted:Tonight, we made a kill-squad and completed the clan platoon challenge! Over 60 enemy mobile suits destroyed in a single match! Everyone gets +10 Garage tickets! Nice, I was eyeballing that challenge but my internet started randomly dropping again - NTT 
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 Gold matchmaking  I can't even get my +3 PP off of SS score/position finishes because we keep getting badly defeated (C losses). I've been comparing the number of zeon golds vs feddie golds and it's not even close every time. Just my luck?
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Feb 24, 2014 02:00
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Free Triangle posted:New event. Limited warfare. Each side chooses from 4 pre-made suits. No shelling, no snipers. Get DX tickets if you rank high. Ugh ranking looks to be global - good luck competing with those guys that get 700+ points. More details: limited mode doesn't affect your rank points, and doesn't affect the weekly war. No clan points and no daily challenges either. I'm more interested in that new battle assist module mentioned on that page: if you hit the dash key while getting knocked down you roll and get up instead. Sounds OP as gently caress. It's only for the limited battle suits for now though. Zo fucked around with this message at 08:28 on Feb 26, 2014 |
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Feb 26, 2014 08:25
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I'm actually surprised how freely they hand out hangar space expansion tickets. That seems like a non-offensive way to squeeze cash from your players, and I actually bought some banananana coins for it. Now I'm swimming in storage space with all these free tickets.
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Feb 26, 2014 11:06
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randombattle posted:No gachapons are how you really squeeze cash out of someone. You release a new gachapon with let's say the highlight suit from the newest gundam side story and you get plenty of duders who are like I gotta have that right now. I said "non-offensive". The whole pay-for-advantage part of DX gachas is pretty offensive to me v  v
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Awesome, more money. I need to buy some (a lot of) mechanic tickets. Since I've totally given up on gachas I've just been buying battle assist items and mech tickets directly. Much better value. Who needs gold suits!
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Wait for a gold zaku I with range extension. It's a really common blueprint so there's no excuse against waiting.
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Mar 9, 2014 11:35
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I've been scoring well recently but I can't work doms at all, so it really takes a certain type. Pretty much all of my 1v1 battles are decided by who can stay in the air longer.
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Mar 11, 2014 01:34
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Maybe the huge buff to rx78-2's? A ton more double bazooka and their new megabazooka. I've been busy IRL so I haven't been on since the patch but I'm also not looking forward to running into those.
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It's just a tax increase calm down.
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Protogelgoog! Sorry for the hiatus but I'm jumping back in - hoping I pull one of these guys ASAP.TGLT posted:Sucks to hear that the meta boils down to "get a bazooka." I was planning on picking up a Gelgoog anyways, so I'll just pull one first and worry about building the bestest Gouf later. Bazookas aren't that bad if you're in a 1v1 situation. You can pull tricks like landing early and behind cover, so they waste their boost flying around and can't even bazooka you. When they finally land you now have a massive boost advantage to melee knockdown or whatever. This is how I kill a LOT of gundams in my cheapo zaku II FS suit, by outplaying them. It's just that in a group situation, any knockdown is an instant death and bazookas are by far the easiest way to knock people down.
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I've always liked this event. New metagame after a long break is dunking all over me. I must have dropped an average of 100 points a game. Gotta relearn this game!
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Free Triangle posted:Yeah, used to be simply bazookas were king. Now shotguns and melee are nuts. Sturm fausts are widespread between each side too, it's easier than ever to be instantly killed, doesn't really matter which side you're on. You mean the ultra challenge thing? I read the rules, it said you get a completion for every time you finish a challenge, and they divide the pool by the total number of completions, where you get one divided share per each completition up to the personal max. So yeah, duplicates ahoy. But yeah the instadeath thing is much more intense now. Even gatling guns will kill me like one second. I always played a slow style with lots of guns and melee along with the bazooka, but I'm basically dropping the guns and melee from now on.
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So I dropped down to silver matchmaking (didn't make the 1600 points with my first couple games... new maps!) and... Haha I could get used to this. I was like a mecha angel of death raining down dunks. Although at this rate I might get bumped up to gold again soon.
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Al Borland posted:just score under and you're golden if you catch my drift. You just have to throw a few of the rankup games its not too hard. This new system is retardedly easy to abuse. Eh I ended up back in gold pretty fast, the 20 kill requirement is too easy to hit in silver. I don't know, this new advancement system seems pretty terrible so far. Making every game about getting points seems unnecessarily stressful for people who care about their ranks, and for everyone else it just means you ping-pong back and forth between ranks quickly since 120 minutes is a pretty tiny sample size where a few bad games can instantly tank your evaluation.
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