/gerg/ - Giant Extreme Robots General

Are you gonna have enough for today's matches?

today I will remind them.

ATTN: KONG LORDS ATTN: KONG LORDS ATTN: KONG LORDS ATTN: KONG LORDS ATTN: KONG LORDS ATTN: KONG LORDS

We have two games tonight. One at 8 EST and one at 10 EST. Be there. Please? I'm unfastening the helium tank in case we get a 7-man appearance again.

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So just started playing MWO, had my first match. I got 2 kills and 6 assists. Used the trial arctic cheetah and I really liked going fast with lasers. What's the best mech if I want to zoom around and annoy people? In the /v/ thread someone was talking about the spider but there's 5 different versions and then ones I can't buy seem to have the best loadout

Arctic Cheetahs are solid. So are Locusts, which are both fast and tiny while pewpewpewing (though they'll explode if successfully sneezing on).

Firestarters are OK. Spiders can be good, but I'd start with ACHs or Locusts first.

Yeah I ended up getting both arms blown off the cheetah when I stood still for a second but luckily survived. Guess I'll try to find some guides for certain mechs and what to equip on them

I really like the Urbanmech
Sure it lacks the speed of other light mechs, but that 360° rotation has saved me morr than once

Meta mechs has decent guides for all mechs.

metamechs.com/mwo-guides/clan-master-guides/arctic-cheetah/

Will the Kong Lords make it another week?
Will the Eurokong miss another match?
Will Kakos ever resolve his internet crisis?
Will Whispers return from his vacation too late?
Will Harabec and Vass realize they have a drug problem?
Will Pizzadog find out that his helium tank is mysteriously empty?

Stay tuned next time for the thrilling conclusion of Kong Tournament Woes!

>faction play event
Why? Just why?

theres a chance i may not make it.

Lasers are generally a good choice- for the especially fast, small and small pulse ones (SPL ACHs are almost a default at this point). Locusts can SL or ML their ride up, even a single large or large pulse in a few cases.

Will PGI and the tournament hosts ever realize they need to let the teams update their fucking rosters so they can actually have people who will show up? No

They want more of the 37,000 or so accounts in FW.

Sadly, aside from FW being shit for most people, it's actually better to just play the few games needed for premium time and then fuck off entirely back to quick play, as even with the event matchmaker times will be painfully slow and the bottom-feeding legendary.

Is this exceptionally depressing robots?

Considering there wasn't even a general for at least half a day I'd say so.

thanks for the link
all the info on mechs is still pretty overwhelming so I assume it's okay just to straight up copy one of those guides for now

He doesn't have the final word on what builds to use, and he has a few strange biases. But if you're a new player you probably can't go wrong with it.

>tfw wrong place at the wrong time
I feel like this happens so much. I really wish I knew how to avoid this, but it always feels like I'm the first to eat a flank or get left behind.

If you fuck up and drop out, that's just making it faster for PGI to get to the end of this.

Which is probably a mercy for this clusterfuck of a "Esport".

Pay attention to your minimap. You should always know where your teammates are and stick with them.

You shouldn't be by yourself unless you know precisely where the enemy is and are intending on catching someone unawares.

The problem is that most of the time I'm with my team I eat the flank from the opposing team, but a lot of the time I get left behind it's just because I am simply slower than the rest of my team. Like I have the biggest engine on my highlander, but I'm still only 58. I try my best to keep any eye on my minimap, but a lot of times I am simply way too slow.

Playing slow assaults isn't recommended because it's usually very rough depending on the map unless you play with some friends who can stick with you no matter what.

Episode TwentyFour - THE KONGENING This time, it isn't a game.

Pizzadog is in the worst trouble of her life. She'll need all her courage and all her training if she's going to make it out alive.

Stay tuned for the thrilling conclusion to the THE ORIGINAL WINNERS AND SINNERS - THE KONG YEARS.

I spent my first 20m on this mech man, like fuck.

I feel like if you want to be good in this game, it pays to mess around with shit tier mechs, if only to see how and why they falter comparatively
Or I am just a faggot

Yeah, there's a reason we always tell new people to start with a medium or a heavy. It's so you have time to learn the maps, to run around with the group, to be able to get out of a bad situation etc.

Assaults require knowledge of all the maps and where to position for optimal unleashing of firepower.

Slow assaults are in a horrible spot in solo queue, because you basically end up on your own. It's why heavies in part are so popular- they generally can get enough ground speed to avoid being left behind.

getting blindsided happens a lot to newer players, it's part of learning the game. it'll happen less often with time. if you want to study exactly how to avoid it, pay attention to things like:

>enemy spawn points
>usual chokepoints
>usual flank locations
>usual movement patterns

some maps are completely obnoxious and difficult to avoid being flanked on, Forest Colony being the most egregious example in my mind right now, so just do your best. also seismic sensor helps a LOT but it also costs a shitload and may be out of reach for spacepoor newfags. good luck my man.

You can also punch a UAV consumable up if you think you're about to get dunked on, which'll at least temporarily act as an "eye in the sky" and likely grab attention if the PUG isn't already engaged elsewhere.

If you get lightpacked, get your butt against cover and take your shots calmly. Don't frantically switch targets, just pummel one as best as you can and hopefully, drive it off. Repeat if you survive.

Being swarmed, panicking and randomly spraying fire just means you get dead with double digit damage and watch the game until it's over.

Also, when things start, get moving. Don't stop moving unless or until you're in the pack. Feel free to mention on team chat that you're a fat slowbie that needs some cover- the occasional friendly unit may just hang out and escort you if they know- never assume that people don't know you're a 58kph plodder.

>You're limited on the mechs allowed in faction play
Why? Who gives half a shit about this lore? If they want me to play this shitty mode so bad why don't they at least let me use my favorite array of mechs instead of limiting me? How did their tiny fucking brains arrive at the conclusion that if you are on an IS contract you can't use clan and vice versa?

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FIRST GAME IN ONE HOUR
FIRST GAME IN ONE HOUR
FIRST GAME IN ONE HOUR

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no fuck off i have dinner you fucking slut

i hope your enemas are full of roaches

I know right!
Just because I'm playing starcraft as terran doesn't mean I shouldn't get to use zerg and protoss units!
Fucking CIS scum ruining my games.

hi i just started
is the dragon a good mech because it is my favorite

I'm a fucking mercenary, I should be able to use whatever mechs I wan't. It literally makes no sense. If I was actually in a faction I would at least KIND OF get it from a lore standpoint, but the fact that as a mercenary I can use a clan mech that I own is silly.

I've never played one and I don't see them too often in game so I can only tell based on their stats on paper.

AFAIK there's at least one decent variant and a decent hero.

If you're a mercenary then you sign a contract with clans if you want to play with and for clans.

How much easier do you want it?

Dragons are eh, in part because the hardpoint locations tend to restrict what it can do.

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kritical kong mass not detected
pls respond

Get fhe fuck on mumble, klords. Tonight is league night.

ATTENTION
WE ARE
CLAN
WOLF
WE ARE ROARING INTO BATTLE
CLAN SMOKE JAGUAR IS BLOWN THE FUCK OUT AND CAN STAY HOME WITH THEIR SHITTY COPY CAT MECHS
CLAN
WOLF

CONFIRMED FOR COMPLETELY UNRELIABLE YET AGAIN:
HARABEC
JULES

well yeah but this happens to me with every game and I'm sure other people deal with it the same way
when you're a newbie you're trying to process every single thing on screen and understand it
as you become more experienced you know what on screen you don't necessarily need to pay attention to or care about and what other things mean at a glance
looking at a build right now is alien language for me as all I've done so far is mash that quick play button

Go fuck yourself Jules. Never fucking show your fucking IP around here again. If you do you're fucking banned if I'm in the mumble.

why is my voice so squeaky and high pitched?

oh

right

>go into mumble to see how the tournament is going
>8:00 PM EST, Vass's butthurt reaches critical after the team DQ's because two faggots don't show up
>exactly 15 minutes later, both of those faggots show up and ask if they're too late
>some faggot on the roster is hiding out in overwatch and there's a match in two hours

watching this tournament scheduling is more fun than any of the matches that have actually happened

bump

>two light locusts start running around my ankles doing nothing
>INCOMING MISSILES
>missiles literally never stop hitting
>die
balanced weapons central.

Can you sell parts in this game? The build I'm trying to do requires a lighter engine but they cost a ton

In the inventory on the home tab

thanks

Try not to sell certain common engines since those are useful.

Fuck off, Falcon us better than you clan Davion Mary sues

Wolf > Falcon you meme loving fuck

No they're not, Chaotic "0.61 KDR" Urlond. Fuck off furfag before you feel the wrath of the falcon's knot.

>wolf player
>calls other factions mary sues

>first game
>6 players show up
>forfeit
>2 players show up 15 minutes late

>second game
>7 players show up
>vass went to bed
>nobody else shows up
>forfeit

great team you guys have here.

tfw dunking on steiner in scout drops and getting artillery for chaffee invasions

What

Do you know how to read

Here's the map for the upcoming battletech game.

>canopus
>taurian
>aurigan

who?

Canopus and The Taurians are two small periphery factions which aren't particularly significant.

The last faction is made up specifically for this game in an area of space that wasn't particularly developed.

>I read Sarna xD, don't hit on me silly boys - Commander Shit

I just came back to MWO recently after like 2 years just to see what was up and I picked up the "new" clanner jenner.

Holy shit please I'm doing like 600-700 damage done per fight. This doesn't seem very fair

t. Tier 5

ded thred

The Chicoms in Space are gonna be the treacherous big bad villain again, aren't they? They just can't catch a break. Though I don't see how that would work with a full merc mode that is supposed to allow contracts throughout the Sphere.

A good chassis with a decent player in the seal pup fields of T5-T4 will ruin the field with it.

Not that the Jenner IIC is a bad Clan light,especially going all SRMs and just alphaing everything in sight- but it's second to the Oxide due to losing body parts when looked at crossly.

>just fuck my Lynx up

It's probably too early to assume that. I would in fact say the focus would be on the three periphery factions and some sort of conflict between them.

bump

rip

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HAIRY PUSSY PLEASE REPORT TO THE MUMBLE SERVER FOR PUSSAY INSPECTION

Boo

>running your mist lynx that close to so many enemies

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sup you thirsty fags lmao

Fuck off Chris

>you guys aren't shitposting in the gerg thread are you?

Shitposting o'clock huh?

youtu.be/iRD6hZvFCuw

> taurians
> not very significant

Not disagreeing with you, but try and say this on nearly any battletech forum and you'll get a veritable wall of 'REEEEEEEE' thrown at you.

...

They become a little more significant later in the timeline but in 3025 that's accurate.

Boo

>kong falling apart due to piggis soul sucking machine

It's true.

>when you have all the modules, robots and skills

The absolute mad man.