>get tired of shitpugs >fuck it, I'll run a command ecm mech and start calling targets, open components, and lance movement on com, even if I doubt anyone will listen >go 10:1 w:l solo q during first sesssion of attempted pug herding >get some warm fuzzies for the shitpugs actually listening to me >these are MY potatoes, and I will lead them to victory
I'm enjoying this more than I thought I would. Hellbringer 4x ERLL with adv. sensors/zoom is perfect for the job and very powerful in solo q. What I wouldn't give for a fucking third module slot though, goddamn.
Cameron Johnson
And thus we witness the birth of another pug commander, like PanzerMagier. Keep tabs on your autism, user. Don't go overboard.
Kevin Cox
beep beep beep beep beep beep beep
Kayden Hernandez
This is my destiny. I will grasp the stars with fingers made of starch and LRMs.
Jordan Flores
So did they just design a mech to be as meta as possible, in order to sell it?
>nothing but high mounts >what looks like a recessed CT >ridiculously huge shield arms which will likely never be used to mount weapons
Andrew Turner
I love the crabe, post crabe builds.
Hudson Reed
>tfw trying to set up a stable for IS and Clan using $210~
Xavier Sullivan
Guys is the Roughneck P2W?
Camden Adams
Pay 2 whine.
Asher Richardson
I bought an Enforcer.
Christian Parker
does anyone still play ac5 verdict day or is that shit as dead as this thread?
Picked up the Whammer Black Widow on sale. 2xUAC5 2xAC5 feels good, but I'm thinking about just replacing the UACs with regular AC5s. I hate jams.
Also, been thinking about getting a light mech. Which lights right now are worth running (more specifically, which can fit a decent payload that doesn't just tickle).
Elijah Miller
GET A 2PPC MANTHER
Noah Reed
Arctic Cheetah, Jenner IIC, Locust, Spooder
Robert Robinson
What the hell happened that game?
Dylan Hughes
I went to the middle to cap and all my faggy teammates waited outside the midcap. so I went to destroy the trucks while they went to unfuck themselves. >They never unfucked themselves. youtube.com/watch?v=fTXzcILPPp8
Angel Hughes
I would recommend the ACH to learn how to light. ECM allows a measure of forgiveness for mistakes in positioning. You are pretty much stuck with small pulse lasers in an ACH, but that is fine because 6x spl is strong as fuck and annihilates mechs with open components or from the back.
JIIC series is probably the most versatile. You have the option of SRMs, med lasers, or small pulses. You can even put a 6x6 SRM on a JIIC for a 72 point alpha strike, but I don't recommend that build for anything but fucking around, since it is too slow and hot.
If you decide you truly enjoy light piloting, you can branch out into locusts and spiders, but they require good map knowledge and careful positioning to really shine.
Spider 5k 1lpl 4 mg build is a very potent "clean up" mech to finish off a damaged team. 5D is an ok ll/erll sniper, and has ecm to help out.
Locust 1e is a fantastic spl assassin or ml skirmisher. 1m is the same thing but with 1 laser stuck on its torso. 1v is the poking master with a single LPL.
Raven series is pretty gimped by the resize and requirk, but 3L still makes for a good ERLL sniper, and 2X/4x still makes for a great LL skirmisher.
3L is also the best NARC platform in the game due to bonuses, but the usefulness of NARC is questionable.
After a hundred hours of various light piloting, my favorite light mech is the Locust 1e with 5 or 6 medium lasers. The perfect run and gun harasser, and my favorite mech to carry matches in, if the team fucks up badly. Pic related.
Camden Ross
Thinking of buying the Marauder IIC. Which chassis are the best?
Bentley Hall
Twisting fundies
John Brooks
What about the Adder?
Blake Nelson
Fuck Xsolla. 2 hours now, and I'm unable to buy anything.
Matthew Lopez
The adder is slow as shit and also has a wide profile, which renders it totally impotent at any role a light mech should be performing.
Jack Diaz
Thanks for the advice. I picked up an ACH Prime and am having a blast with it so far. I had a few leftover MC, so I went ahead and picked up the Locust Pirates Bane. Not sure how good of a variant it is, but I know it comes with good engine that I can drop into another chassis.
Dylan Morales
How about the Panther?
Thomas Allen
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Michael Walker
I left out all the other lights for a reason. It's because they fucking suck for various reasons, mostly they are too slow or another mech does what they do better.
2ppc panther is a meme build and probably the only thing the mech can do 'well'. It's also slow.
PB can be pretty good, especially in solo q. I run mine with 4 spl, 2mgs, and 1 ton of mg ammo, and ecm of course.
You can play it just like a cheetah for the most part, but imo it does the roll of first strike assassin even better, due to its speed.
Flank wide, and come in behind the slow assaults. You can often kill oblivious potatoes before they know what is happening if you drill their rear CT away.
Just remember not to shoot armored components with the mg's, since they do practically nothing.
Are there any new people playing this game or is it still the same 10 insufferable autistic idiots like Greg, Dashing and Accurs?
William Reed
What do you think you insufferable autistic idiot with brain cancer?
Mason Williams
I'll take that as a yes.
Adios.
Logan Nelson
I might oughtta try that PB build. I'm running the stock build, which is about the same just with non-pulse lasers. I might try to fit pulses, but I might have to knock the engine down a couple of pegs (I believe PB comes stock with an XL 190).
Jack Garcia
I'm new I only have like 5 mechs
Charles Garcia
>its a "potato shitter is running max back armor" episode
Robert Perez
I just put 2 AC20s into a kodiak's back and didn't get thru in my game
Zachary Wilson
hot
Joshua Morales
sounds like you got outplayed
Camden Young
I can do decently enough in zippy lights, but when it comes time to drop in something heavier, I just completely shit the bed. I'm always getting caught in bad spots and never where I need to be. How the fuck do heavy/assault players get anything done?
Isaac Bell
Prediction, better use of cover + range, and more weapons + armor.
Nicholas Hall
>open /gerg/ >bluescreen divine intervention
Hudson Harris
works on my machine
Gabriel Gutierrez
>2002: Sorry, this payment method is currently unavailable. Please try again later or select a different payment method
It's like they don't even want my money.
Adam Diaz
>right after christmas when everyone is flush with gift money? what a fantastic time to bring our credit card processing server down :)
Josiah Hall
close combat in MWO when
Joshua Gray
>Assault lance is chasing 1 locust to the end of the map
gg
Colton Bell
>19 win streak ends because the VIP decides to walk down the valley camped by the enemy assault lance, and dies in 30 seconds
What a shitty mode.
Mason Gray
Just remember that big and slow mechs are total glass jaws in this game. You're the biggest and slowest target, your torso twist and accel/decel speeds are shit, and even unorganized pubs will focus fire on you unless there's an even bigger and more obvious target standing next to you. You also need to predict/guess what's going to happen next and start moving to the right position before it happens.
Even the most quirked fatlases with all the structure bonuses in the universe and critical chance reduction get blown the fuck out fast when multiple enemies are focusing them, you always have to attack with superior numbers, superior lines of fire and superior firepower. Otherwise you'll get shrekt because you can't avoid return fire and getting back into cover or to your team takes like ten times longer than it does for fast mechs.
For example if you're boating autocannons in an assault mech, you should try to cut lines of sight so you and your target are going 1on1faggot by the very least and you can pummel the dog shit out of them without taking extra damage from something else in return.
Jordan Brown
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Liam Jackson
LURM
Lucas Ortiz
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Ayden Ortiz
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Liam Sanders
RELEASE THE HBR HERO ALREADY PIG
Samuel White
>tfw no Hero mechs for any of the Mechs you like :
Henry Cook
Is liking shitmechs a /gerg/ curse?
Charles Cooper
Every mech is a shit mech. Where's your Blake now?
Nathan Bell
Can confirm.
David Cooper
Ragnarok, Ymir and Prometheus were not shitmechs
John Thompson
Best part is playing fun shitmechs and shitting on people
Nathan Diaz
>IV-4 with 2x UAC5's & 7 tons ammo, 2 extra DHS and 2x medlas >shoots 20 damage every second
Holy fucking canoli this thing is a chainsaw.
Lucas Reyes
*20 damage every 1.66 seconds if neither jams.
Sebastian Lewis
Yeah, but you're in an IV-Four.
Benjamin Perez
>30% cooldown quirk on IV-Four >5% from skill tree >12% from module >total of 47% cooldown on the base 1.66 second UAC5 cooldown rate >53% times 1.66 cooldown, new refresh rate is 0.8798 seconds >almost AC2 speed UAC5s >also gets 25% velocity quirk for ballistics
Anthony Rivera
>DWF-UV with 8x LBX2's & 9 tons of ammo, 1 extra DHS and 1x smllas >shoots 40 damage every second
Holy fucking pastrami this thing is a jackhammer.
Thomas Nguyen
God damn, you're australian aren't you? This level of shitpost could only come from an asians pet cuck.
Camden Lewis
That's cool I guess Why not use one of the IS 10's though? Less jamming, better damage per heat
Lincoln Ortiz
Slower rate of fire, less overall damage capacity, and slight loss of range.
Dual AC10s is fantastic for brawling, but I use the IV-4 as a longer range gun platform.
Robert Adams
You're memeing, but the Ultra Shittilent starts getting to the point where you can stack so many ac2s that they actually become a good weapon. Problem is of course that it's still a dire whale.
Cooper Ross
CRIT
SEEKING
M A C H I N E
Luis Hall
Pulse Lasers are so satisfying to use Every single one of my Mechs uses the damn things, either SPLs or MPLs, a couple LPLs... they're just so RIGHT, you know? They're just, so, good.
Henry Watson
nice
Kevin Brown
Nice.
Jace Gonzalez
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Grayson Jackson
>Viper with Meme Guns, Flamers and a few SPLs Did I just get memed on or is this a legit build?
Caleb Torres
MGs and SPLs is fairly common on smaller 'Mechs. You work with what you have.
can straight swap the cerml's for cspl's to make it a wub boat
William Carter
arctic cheetah can have 4 sml las on the arms and 2 cerml on the topmost hardpoints, should it just boat 6 sml pl's instead?
Elijah Foster
2 ML are useless at ML range, just commit to 6 SPL
Nolan Barnes
>0.5 tons free >not dropping armour off legs to get 5-6x ERML's and 2x LPLs and a MK1 targeting comp >not switching the ERML's for 6x c-SPLs
Blake Gutierrez
i figured as much.
i just refuse to be a butt rammer. gotta keep my fast up.
Jeremiah Hughes
Ebon Jag is too wide to poke well on a symmetric build, build it asym unless you're going wubs
Brayden Parker
nice. i can do that.
why the mark one targeting comp? wouldn't it be better to have a bigger mark on it to fully capitalise on the bonuses?
Logan Young
Mk1 is the best benefit for its tonnage, more and you're eating into DHS tonnage
Josiah Flores
ok wub build it is.
o just don't like relying on ONE armour section too much. even with good torso twisting you still end up taking too much dmg on them
Colton Baker
mark 1 targeting comp gives you all those basic benefits for just 1 ton and 1 crit slot. Most importantly, you're getting 4% extra range and notable increases in laser critical chance.
For simply laser weapons, you don't need a larger targeting computer, as you're only getting beam range and miniscule increases to critical chance.
Nathan Price
ah. ok. that makes sense. need as many dhs loaded as possible on them wub builds
if you don't want to use med.wubs, but 2 LPL + 6 MLas is a fucking oven and you are likely better off with 4 + extra sinks
Shield with your right side first.
Bentley Rodriguez
fire them in two groups of four? arms and torso ?
Jayden Kelly
Have one group for your left 6 MPLs Have one group for your right 6 MPLs Have one group for the MPLs on your armr Use the left side group when you poke from the left, and right _ for right _ If you poke all the way, you press the second group once your slow arm peeks all the way Third group is mostly for UAVs, but I guess also for heat
