/gerg/ - Giant Extreme Robots General

Nova Cat is the successor to it, but in MWO terms it's fairly different since the Nova Cat doesn't have ferro and is a 70 tonner instead

You don't even have to change the name.
Literally just have to update it to remove Armored Core, M.A.V., KongKast, and add in Battletech.

>remove KongKast

NEVER!

I miss KongKast
that was cool.

>add in Battletech

wut

testing please ignore

kongkast was only good because it was healthy venting that listeners agreed with. once we became the stock standard "lets talk about things we like" podcast it became boring.

mostly because kaelus has the personality of sugared glue.

Show me the worst of the worst cancer pods, /greg/

1/2

2/2

>someone crying about the cent's cancer pods more than dashing
Oh what fun, more bitching. You're about half a year late to the party.

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only half a year?

>cancer pods on mechs
Atleast you can take them off. You can never take off the 11 cancer pods on your team

>Those cute little claws

>LRM80 Adder with that infinite cancer
this is so bad, i didn't know clan mechs had this problem

>MULTIPLE FUCKING PEOPLE on my team that were clearly playing the game for the first fucking time or some shit
I shouldn't even be able to be matchmade with tier 5 first time players, fucking piggy had to break something during the server downtime because every single match so far has been aidscock and dogshit with fucking braindead vegetable fucking retards.

Multiple people on trial mechs running into the completely wrong direction on match start, running into the open and dying, clearly having literally no idea what was going on.

If you really were better than them, you'd be able to carry games.

Centurion welfare dosh feels weird

go away

bump

>almost never get killed or seriously damaged by lrms
>regularly watch other players get horribly mangled by lurms
Really makes a man's shooter think t. ign

Do you have Radar Deprivation?

When I think I do a lot and get some kills, I wind up having like, 250 damage.

Then when I think boy I sure didn't do anything, I wind up with 800 damage, 0 kills, and 10 assists.

I don't get it.

I have one radar derp and often I'm too lazy to swap it around, so I don't always even have that.

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was it efficient damage

Who the fuck knows

which one gave you more cbills?

250 useful damage vs 800 useless damage.

Why do MPLs feel so good? I'm all like BEW BEW BEW BEW BEW and they're all like "Anonymous has killed King Crab" and damn it's amazing

Oddly, I find spl > mpl > lpl
Large pulse lasers feel like shit when you kill things with them

Clan SPLs look like Robitussin, I taste it in my mouth when I see the color

How is player skill calculated?

Yes
How is /gerg/ celebrating crhistmas?

Alone in my apartment with a bottle of Aristocrat, porn, and hot pockets.

What are some IS weapons that are genuinely better than Clan counterparts even unquirked?

ER Large laser is one I can think of easily
Normal AC aswell

>play inner sphere for the first time in years
>that nostalgic golden yellow HUD
>commander that isn't a Mary Sue roidrage mad man
>that perfect balance of a pristine antique
>weapons with short burn times and less heat
Shame they're so awful in faction mode, if the Mechs were meta I could get used to this

>Aristocrat

are you 19?

No I'm an alcoholic.

>tfw 20 and still never been drunk
Fuk

Beer is for faggot normies desu, weakest drug on the market and the buzz is trash

It also makes me feel bloated.

with my gf

Leaked photo of greg's girlfriend

Why are clans arranged in lances for faction warfare?
Holy fuck my autism can't take this.

>drinking beer to get drunk
Are you some sort of retard or something?

>they will never embrace clan tech being at least somewhat better and pit 2 stars against 3 lances

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are You? because you sure as hell don't drink alcohol because it tastes good. i've got fresh petrol for you if you do

Don't be a dickhead, user.
I think beer is vile but accept other people like it and can appreciate all the differences between brews.

I bet he plays Inner Sphere Mechs too, that shitter

That's why I don't drink beer, user.
If you just want to get drunk there are much, much more efficient drinks.

How will Kong ever recover now that they are the secondary unit to Gonk?

ERLL
Pretty much all AC after the UAC nerfs, AC20 especially shits all over cAC20 and UAC20
SRMs
LRMs

Clans can boat a retarded number of SRMs to make up for how shit they are but it's heat inefficient as fuck and only an advantage at armour rubbing range.

Watching Farming Simulator LPs while playing EVE
>3 hours and counting

Give me meta IS Clam-stomper Mech

Lost it

Wow, event proceeds to give me premium time, cool i guess?
>MC is the only thing i want

Gauss Warhammers and large or LPL Battlemasters.
With IS tonnage being what it is right now you could run two Hammers, a Battlemaster, and a Pixie if it would so please you. Or Three Warhammers and a light of your choice.

>Banshee, two Warhammers, and a Spider
Christ man

That too but I don't like Banshees or Spiders.

Or griffin 2n and 3 whammers.

So... x3 lpl hero griffin (sparky)
x2 lrm+a 15, x4 medlas hero archer
(tempest)
x2 lbx 10 ac, x5 medlas whammer hero
(Black widow)

And another whammer? I guess?

I could just use 3 whammers but i was wondering if 3 hero's could work. Plus sparky hath no ecm...

>x2 lrm+a 15, x4 medlas hero archer
> (tempest)
Stop.

>x2 lbx 10 ac, x5 medlas whammer hero

impossibru, it only has 4 energy hardpoints.

The special variant from the warhammer pack can pull off 6x medlas and 2x LBX10 tho.

>x2 lrm+a 15, x4 medlas hero archer

nigga at the very least do 6x medlas if you're doing 2x LRM15+Artemis.

Whoops musta had them confused. Its probably fitted with 4 mpl then. My bad.

Yeah the 6 medlas tempest. That could work. But I'd have to lose some ammo. I err'd on the side of too much ammo?

The only reason its not lrm 20's is that I'm attempting to maximise the lurms to be as un shit as possible. So bap. Artemis and command console. Which does take up tonnage. Plus i have the guardian fitted.

>command console

lol

Don't ever use this on anything, ever

42% extra fast lock time is bad how? Ditch that and i can fit the 2 extra medlas and another dhs. But 6 medlas tanks my cooling to an abysmal 1.14 / 2

It's either TAG + 5x medlas, or 6x medlas.

Not lock time, targeting time. That's in regards to time to acquire target information, that is, their loadout etc.

mwo.smurfy-net.de/mechlab#i=395&l=f80cc949ad4c56ec17bf668a648fa3b4dde6651f

Forgot link to build.

Alright. So i tried tge x6 medlas's and it was a great match. I don't know if it was because the team actually cooperated or because it was a snow map. But i DID close in on a poor MAD and budfug it over a building and with lurms and then the las's closing to just shy of the 150 m min distance for an alpha nuke. I'll just have to be more cautious with the higher heat then?

I'm gonna be getting some free shit for Xmas, my request. What all, as far as mastery bundles or mech packs, are the biggest bang for my buck?

Some notes, I just started playing recently, and I don't know if my Unit is going to be IS or Clan once this deserter timer expires. I'm oping Clan since I've already invested in a Gauss/ERPPC Timber Wolf.

Ah.
Well. Ok then. The description makes it sound like it improves targetibg. Not the silly iw bs i don't need. Ok. Ditching command console forever and ever.

>Best clan mech packs:
-Night Gyr (great heavy, even if a little slow)
-Marauder IIC (excellent assault, worth both the collectors edition and hero)
-Huntsman (great 50t medium, worth the whole pack)
-Kodiak (still a great assault, standard pack is all you need)
-Clan Invasion Wave 3 Ebon Jaguar level pack (get 2 excellent mechs and 1 alright mech. Arctic cheetah is the best clan light, and Ebon Jaguar is an amazing 65 ton heavy. Shadowcat is a niche medium that excels at sniping)

>Best inner sphere mech & mastery packs:
-Marauder (standard + hero is a great combo, as the hero is one of the best heavy mechs available to the IS)
-Warhammer (collector + heavy is a great combo, because the standard variant kicks ass and the hero is a great dakka mech)
-Thunderbolt Mastery pack (thunderbolt is a great workhorse of the IS stable, it's hero Top Dog works with a plethora of energy builds)
-Battlemaster Mastery pack (assault mech pack that comes with 2 excellent variants and 1 serviceable variant, BLR-2C and Hellslinger work great with both STD and XL engines, at sniping and large pulse laser vomit, BLR-1S is a good 4x Large laser 4x SRM6 wombo combo variant but still works just as fine with 4x large pulse lasers)

Oh yeah, forgot one recommendable pack from the Inner Sphere list:

-Griffin mastery pack (this one comes with a laser vomit 55 tonner and an ECM + SRM bomber. The 1S is not that good, but it's still somewhat serviceable.)

Thanks boss.

The 1S (c) lets you x2 lpl, x2 srm6 which isn't horribad... ugh. Or x2 llas. I cannot remember. Fffffffff. Me am gud finking stuffz. I kud b a mekboy an bild killa kanz for da boyz

Nice

Narc and LRM niggerdry everywhere on NA servers.

Don't the yankee fuckboys know how to play the game, or are they just as willfully ignorant of efficiency as they are of their fading relevancy in the world?

Fukin Americans

North Americans are statistically the best at the game.

Hello where is the proof?

Every competitive league ever run in the game

I got so sick of that bullshit i decided to out lurm the lurmers.

I know its a shot thing to do. But i am having fun hanging at the back of fights, medlas'ing with my 6 ml's anything within 300-400 m or closer. Whilst supporting others with lurms. Bap and artemis lrm15's. And a LOT of ammo. The ecm and radar deprivation means i can hide well and hide my team assaults or heavies i support.

I think the lurm shittery comes from people hanging at 1000 m and lurming stuff and nothing else. So 3/4 of their shots are trashed because they blow up 400 m shy of the target due to the arc distance.

Meanwhile I'm hanging with my assaults and or heavy teammates adding my lurms AND medlas to the fight as much as the heat'll let me.

IN AN UNRELATED NOTE i realised why i love the archer so much. Its basically a TIE defender in mech form. The 6 med las made me realise that. The triangular geometry of the laser hardpoints and the missile racks aesthetically gives me TIE fighter vibes. That's what makes it so satisfying to stomp about in.

Shit thing to do*

Hello where is the proof?