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ScorpioMajesty posted:Who ever told me that double AMS is bad was way wrong. Standing next to someone and nullifying rockets is fun double? pshhh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNf8nCeDaEE triple is where it's at
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This has been a good week. Lots of ineffective LRM comp opponents and I'm pretty sure I've cored more backs in three days than I have in any other month of play. With a few exceptions, I'm not sure there's really a group that can win against a goon group once it gets into brawling range. Of course this means that brawling will be nerfed imminently. Vorenus fucked around with this message at 15:46 on Dec 24, 2015 |
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I'm on mumble right now if anyone wants to group to shoot robots.
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Vorenus posted:This has been a good week. Lots of ineffective LRM comp opponents and I'm pretty sure I've cored more backs in three days than I have in any other month of play. With a few exceptions, I'm not sure there's really a group that can win against a goon group once it gets into brawling range. Depends on the map. Alpine Peaks is a dick in the face to brawlers, and Tourmaline is hit or miss with it, depending on where you decide to pick a fight.
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Best loadout I've spectated today. Pattonesque posted:not enough build-shaming in that pic He died before I could shame him...that laser killed him basically as soon as I clicked over to him. I barely had time to get the screen cap. Devorum fucked around with this message at 19:08 on Dec 24, 2015 |
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Devorum posted:Best loadout I've spectated today. not enough build-shaming in that pic
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Heres this awesome I saw yesterday  It all came down to a cicada vs him 1v1, he was shot in the face/butt and dieded.
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What do these people do with the extra weight  Like I remember our group yesterday being confused enough by that incredibly inept Raven, but seeing that poo poo on assaults is mind-boggling.
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Oh Snapple! posted:What do these people do with the extra weight The best is when they have almost nothing equipped and then it turns out they have an XL engine. The only thing I can think is is that theyre trying to boat single heat sinks.
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Oh Snapple! posted:What do these people do with the extra weight That pubbies melt down at the end was great though. "Why are you running away? You need to engage the match is about to end and he is out of Gauss ammo." "NO DAD, YOU SHUT THE gently caress UP! YOURE LIKE A BACKSEAT DRIVER AND poo poo!!!" *Match end in draw
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Added myself to the WoL signup spreadsheet Christmas Eve and all but maybe someone will be online around the same time as me, will idle a bit in-game while I cook dinner.
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Bait and Swatch posted:That pubbies melt down at the end was great though. The best part was the perfectly stereotypical angry teenager voice.
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Devorum posted:Best loadout I've spectated today. I kinda miss the Your Robot Sucks articles. 
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Anticheese posted:I kinda miss the Your Robot Sucks articles. They'd be harder these days because of quirks. Like before I could go 'this dude is trying for this sort of thing but it doesn't work because x', but now it's more 'this dude is trying for this because he's an idiot who can't read'.
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Oh, for sure. There are still a number of barely quirked Clan robots that sometimes see suspect builds, but even then there's not much that's outright heinous so much as just inadvisable. But hey, this is a BattleTech thread. It's made for nostalgia.  Merry christmas, fil.
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Hi goons, it was fun playing with/against you guys last night. One of those matches finally got me that Centurion so yay?  -Losing With Style Bait and Swatch posted:That pubbies melt down at the end was great though. Ahahaha, did that really happen?
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Drakes posted:Heres this awesome I saw yesterday I had a match earlier where the last guy standing on our team was a Mad Dog with 6 LRM 5's. Unrelated: I'm grinding out my Urbies finally, and it occurred to me that they should get a different skill in the place of Twist X or whatever. What a waste of 2,500 XP. My first match back in my LPL, 3 ML Urbie went pretty well, I think. 
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Devorum posted:I had a match earlier where the last guy standing on our team was a Mad Dog with 6 LRM 5's. Well, other than the fact that LRMs are bad, that's how you LRM that particular mad dog.
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Welp, I got stupid and bought that Heavy Steam bundle. I don't super enjoy the 3 LPL Thunderbolt, but oh my, Timberwolf with a 30% C-Bill boost and spooky paint job?  The C-Bills, month of premium time and enough MC for another 30 days don't hurt either I guess. I think I'm gonna swap out the torso omnipods and run 4x LRM 15's on the dang thing for one match, just because clan lrm's look so loving cool. It's okay though, I'll totally bring a backup weapon system (one small laser) to make it viable edit: nooope, not spending the 2.3 million C-Bills for a one-off goof. Rocketpriest fucked around with this message at 21:56 on Dec 24, 2015 |
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A.o.D. posted:Well, other than the fact that LRMs are bad, that's how you LRM that particular mad dog. LRMs are generally bad, but if you're in tier 4 or 5 holy poo poo you can just print money and xp with them. I'm grinding gift bags right now with a king crab sporting 3 LRM15s with Artemis. Low level pubbies seriously just dont' know how to take cover. A bad match is one where I get 400 damage done, which is more than eneough for some cbills, xp, and a stocking.
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Rocketpriest posted:edit: nooope, not spending the 2.3 million C-Bills for a one-off goof. This is what sucks about the game (well, from the "just starting to play" standpoint). I want to customize a few robots to try things and have fun, but to do so I need to spend a lot of real money or grind away forever in trial mechs or the single good mech I could afford after the tutorial. Too much grind, not enough ability to actually try stupid loadouts (ie, have fun), because I can't afford to refit. I have a firestarter and 10 million credits after two weeks of play. I am hesitant to spend the credits because if I gently caress up and buy something I don't like then it will be another two weeks before I can try again. That isn't fun. Stomping around with goons isn't half bad though.
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JacksAngryBiome posted:This is what sucks about the game (well, from the "just starting to play" standpoint). I want to customize a few robots to try things and have fun, but to do so I need to spend a lot of real money or grind away forever in trial mechs or the single good mech I could afford after the tutorial. Too much grind, not enough ability to actually try stupid loadouts (ie, have fun), because I can't afford to refit. I only played for a few hours today, mostly in a crappy Shadow Hawk to finish out my Masteries, and made four million c-bills not counting the Stocking Stuffing ( which alone paid for my new Ebon Jaguar ). Just play with goons and don't pay attention to the grind and you'll be swimming in money before you know it.
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JacksAngryBiome posted:This is what sucks about the game (well, from the "just starting to play" standpoint). I want to customize a few robots to try things and have fun, but to do so I need to spend a lot of real money or grind away forever in trial mechs or the single good mech I could afford after the tutorial. Too much grind, not enough ability to actually try stupid loadouts (ie, have fun), because I can't afford to refit. One thing that can save you money when starting out is only holding on to a few common engines (like a STD 260, 280 and 300) and shuffling them around to the mechs you're actually going to be using. Floggin off stock engines can save you a couple hundred thousand and reusing the one you have means you don't have to blow a few million on another engine that will spend 99% of its time sitting idle. 10 million is enough to buy and fit a good Centurion, Hunchback or Thunderbolt and still leave you enough to experiment with weapon loadouts with them. The three of these can run well with the common engines and the Thunderbolts come stock with a Std 260 you can throw in your mediums.
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It would still be great if C-bill earnings were tweaked up some more. Getting only ~150k on a decent-good match, then comparing it to the costs of everything else, makes for a terrible grind.  Since a lot of MWO's appeal is tinkering with your darling robots, the fact that every `Mech is a costly investment kind of kills any motivation to play around instead of sticking to "safe" meta builds. Pooncha fucked around with this message at 01:49 on Dec 25, 2015 |
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Pooncha posted:Since a lot of MWO's appeal is tinkering with your darling robots, the fact that every `Mech is a costly investment kind of kills any motivation to play around instead of sticking to "safe" meta builds. Not really. Use a mechlab program or website, make something vaguely workable, then go use it. Unless you are dead-set on being another insufferable statlord for this thread (or) in tier 1 and somehow only ever facing other high-effort tier 1 players, you'll be able to find enough success to have fun with just about anything. Look at all the posts lately from people enjoying Urbies. Pubbies are bad and anything that can do any damage will work against them. Sard fucked around with this message at 02:06 on Dec 25, 2015 |
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I love Conquest but oh man, playing it with randoms is awful. I see so many light mechs just run past completely undefended points. Capture it! you can do that, it takes a few seconds. We could win if you'd just park there long enough to stop them from getting points.
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Conquest is way better than the other modes since theres more variety to how you can handle it, and it generally resolves quicker than the 15 minute timer if people get too campy. I think the dumbest thing I see people do is having half the team capping a point when you just need a single fella and the rest can advance onwards.
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It also makes matches shorter because usually people gravitate to cap points or are between them. You don't just get people randomly scattered about the map unless your team is winning and you're down to like two guys. Nothing is worse than a deathmatch game where you can't find the last half of the enemy team because they're all tiny light mechs hiding, trying to draw out the fight.
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Does anyone know how radar deprivation interacts with target retention? I'm sure it's terrible but I'm curious anyway.
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Sard posted:Not really. Use a mechlab program or website, make something vaguely workable, then go use it. Unless you are dead-set on being another insufferable statlord for this thread (or) in tier 1 and somehow only ever facing other high-effort tier 1 players, you'll be able to find enough success to have fun with just about anything. Look at all the posts lately from people enjoying Urbies. Pubbies are bad and anything that can do any damage will work against them. Is there even anyone at tier 1? You do have a point and I suppose my issue is just a personal thing, as I liked playing with robots to see what works, sometimes. Some layouts work, some don't, and climbing back to a financially alright state after experimenting was a pain in the butt since I don't like to poopsock often. Maybe that's why I'm never loaded with money.
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TheParadigm posted:Does anyone know how radar deprivation interacts with target retention? Target retention allows you to maintain a lock on someone with radar deprivation for only as long as the target lock bonus time is.
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Nuebot posted:Nothing is worse than a deathmatch game where you can't find the last half of the enemy team because they're all tiny light mechs hiding, trying to draw out the fight. What if you're in a tiny little Death's Knell and your arms were shot off? AND the other team are full of really bad shooterpeople that can't hit you when you run through them 20+ times? I consider this a-okay.
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