/gerg/ - Giant Extreme Robots General!

Whichever ones can have RT and LT ballistics, I think there's three variants that qualify, it works well on all of them.

>people actually voting escort

WHY

Because I have an Atlas painted orange that is named VIP

>bolt-ons.

Russ has a very autistic way of renaming his inventions.

Would you have preferred them be called strap-ons?
Wait, that would have actually been hilarious.
>Wait a sec guys, I need to get this strap-on fitted to my mech before the Solaris match.

>drop in FP
>Everyone runs laser vomit except the occasional UAC boat or a SRM light mech

Why don't they use something more imaginative.

>Imagine what the game could be if Ranked match with 8v8 was implemented
>They announce a Competitive Play
>YES
>It's a useless USELESS bullshit no one but 13 people asked for, not enough to do the 16 for one match

WHY IS RUSS SO FUCKING IMBECILE

Why be less than effective?

>all this nonsense from Rustler Bollocks.
>his ass sucking NGNG krew's there.shitting high fives and cheers at how grand all his fucked up ideas and horrible trash projects are.
>bolt-ons.
>lootcrates from overwatch.
>no, fuck you, no IK, no maps forever, no nothing.

Fuck is going on in castle pig skull.

No need to
Smoke screens never ever, everyone keeps doing pinpoint no repercusions back damage

>cant kill people with missiles/ballistics

Because energy weapons are the only thing that will last through an entire FP match's worth of targets.

you have 4 mechs, if you arent carrying enough ammo to hit 1000+ damage per mech you are doing it wrong.

>BLR-1G
>BSW-X1
>CN9-A(NCIX)
I want to try MRMs, but these are the only IS mechs that I have with missile slots. What's my best option for running something with MRMs to get a decent feel for if I like them enough to buy a dedicated MRM mech?

Goto bed

They've finally embraced the fact they are a shovelware company once again and are now just looking for monetization methods that have nothing to do with improving the gameplay or features that require lines of code to be created.

MRMs are only a viable option if your mech is limited by number of hardpoints instead of tonnage. Otherwise more SRM launchers are better.

Also the spread is worse than clan SRMs with artemis, and clan SRMs are useless at 200+m. Its always hilarious when a MRM boats open up at me at close range and i only take yellow armor damage.

MRMS are deadly when you start hitting 30+, and no i'm not talking about taking a bunch of mrm 10s to add up. Mrm 60 can destoy a FP turret in one shot, and can rip open most clan mechs as well. They create very little heat for the damage they cause as well, and have a low ghost heat.

>using lots and lots of telemetry
The "Chris stares at raw statistical data and fucks up the game with shit balance decisions" -telemetry, or the "Piggy turns into Microkike and crawls your entire computer with their spyware" -kind of telemetry?

>Adding yet more separate geometry to mechs when their poo in loo coding kills good PCs with just how horribly they handle draw calls.

I'm already prepared for a sudden unexplicable jump in HW requirements to Arc levels if their quality of work uo to this point is any indication.

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Ive been hit by 2x MRM-30s at close range (200m or less) and taken only yellow damage in a heavy. You might want to try firing 2x MRM-30s at a target in the testing grounds to see the % damage done and then take into account that includes hitting every location, even the legs.

what happened to paul who used to be in charge of balance? Did he get fired?

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Anyone know how to stop MWO from stuttering? Seems to happen everytime the game wants to load animations or sounds.pak.

Run it from an SSD?

My SSD doesnt have enough space for MWO.

Holy shit this is why they're going back to 8v8.

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If you're farming match score epeen, you also get bigger numbers for solo-meching the match vs. two-three-four because it doesn't divide the results between multiple robots if none of them are ejected/killed.

MRMs were always a saturation weapon in TT, too- so you get lots of damage but not much of it goes to any one spot.

On the other hand, it's stupidly easy to chuck 60 MRMs at a target. Kills slower per missile than even LRM fire, but you're putting a lot more missiles in the target's direction so it somewhat makes up for it.

Still, it's spread damage. You will never kill fast with MRMs.

Nah, cause they're still doing 12v12 for FW.

The real reason is it compensates somewhat for the shit matchmaker and dwindling player base- 8v8 is less likely to be fueled with pure trash players because the hamster wheels overheated searching for that one last medium to fill the bill.

Question for old Mechwarrior 3 game.
Is there a mod that makes the missiles spread out like normal instead of bunching up?

Just had a weird game, but for once RNGesus blessed me.

Two heavies on each team, 4 mediums and six lights.

On the other hand, I'd just put a TAG-streakboat together for the event.

One 12-7 win later (nomnomnom enemy light horde, we had a 5-1 lead at one point), I could go back to killing things like a civilized person because 2 TAG kills and done.

Uh, not true. MRMs have the same damage grouping as LRMs, which is 5 point clusters. SRMs are the crit seekers that are for saturation.

60 MRMs is a lot of tonnage/slots/heat for the damage. Which is not much.

Yeah, but you're rolling 2-8 times to hit locations depending on the launcher size. That's a lot of spread (and chances to crit) for a single weapon in TT. LRMs max at 4 potential rolls per launcher. They're not quite LB-X level critseekers, of course but those are tops at it.

It that supposed to be an Atlas punching a Warhawk?

Robot punching is stupid. Double mass, double energy. Double velocity, quadruple energy. Faster, smaller punches are more effective.

So, bullets.

What's the best black widow build after civil war

Not the best, but I saw someone fluffing around with roughly this build last night (based on spectating) Ended up with 4 kills and about 900 damage.

mwo.smurfy-net.de/mechlab#i=385&l=cc1061d9cab8a72a79d70a7bac8430bde6256f59

Just had a pub match where my entire lance was MLX-G's. These little devils are hilarious.

Fun, but man do the arms get shot off easy.

The problem is they get worse in packs. It only takes one getting on your back long enough to peel the armor off to ruin things in about two seconds, tops.

Also, not much danger early on, but the second you get to having your armor stripped...again, a few seconds of exposure and you won't have much left in that section.

Worth hunting down in other lights though. Every time.

Linebacker or Warhammer for my next heavy?

What builds to people recommend?

I've actually had a lot of success light-hunting in a MLX-G

Why doesn't Harmony Gold just fuck off already?

Why do RACs exist? They seem fairly pointless other than for blinding your opponent.

They watched Jin Roh.

What lasers? I find it's tough dueling lights with HSL's, but those are most effective for getting a back open/peeling a damaged section and that's what I need most.

Linebacker if you want a fast one-trick ride (SRMs or ER PPC, but not both), Warhammers are more of a traditional heavy with different potential roles by model.

IS there any Clan Mech that can stand toe to toe with an Annhilator?

They do a decent amount of damage and make it tough for an opponent to hit back, and yeah- the blinding effect is often good for letting someone else get away or flank/backstab the distracted target.

I... I just... Why? Just why? This is some totalitarian police state bullshit. I think I'm done with this game.

Let's see. Meme penis, basically "fuck", wordfilter friendly edition repeatedly, references to oral sex and the top kekker of them all, Trump because Canadians think he's the antichrist. Oh, and racism. Because this isn't /pol/, it's Canada Chat.

Stop being a tard and keep that shit on Mumble.

>denying the white privilege myth is racism

Fuck you

>shit internet won't let me get on mumble or browse websites but somehow lets me browse and post on the 4chins
what did they mean by this

>bolts ons
>still no custom decals system
or better yet something that actually matters for this game
what the fuck are they thinking

They exist to appeal to people who like using machine guns but want them mega-sized
Like me

Nigger did you really expect old men to understand your shitty memes or laugh at your use of explicit language as if you're hot shit?

And what kind of punishment you've got for that?

I'm not a very good light pilot, so I've only been using mine as a fourth drop in FP.

If I end up dropping in my fourth mech, the match is either already lost and I'm just trying to squeeze an extra kill or two in off beat up mechs before it's over, or victory is imminent anyway.

Still fun for that.

>lel guys look at my hilarious memes
>threw some /pol/ in too for good measure

Children please go.

Linebacker is pretty good. It's fast for a heavy, but it's also a little light on free weight.

If you like pod set quirks, you can go for the C, which is ideal for my favorite setup, 6MPL + 2(or 3)LMGs. If you like ERPPCs, the Prime is alright for that, but you would have to break the pod set bonus if you want them on high mounts for hill peeking, at which point any variant will work fine. They can also do 6SRM6 quite well, which again requires pod set to be broken so the base doesn't really matter.

In the case that you don't care about pod sets, I'd suggest getting the B or D due to slightly better twist angles than the rest.

Was the final scene in nexus, dare I say, kino?

Annihilator is pretty much at the top of the heap right now as far as assaults go. You could probably give one pause with a well kitted Kodiak or Dire Wolf, but it's still going to be ugly.

>mechbays half price
Just in time, since I was starting to really need more empty bays. Now I need some mechs to work towards filling my new bays with. I especially need some fun IS mechs that have a decent variety of build options and/or can make good use of nutech. Currently I'm considering a Catapult of some kind, likely the K2 for heavy PPCs, but might get a missile one instead if there's something better for HPPC use. Other than that, I only have some vague ideas on what else I want, so I'm looking for suggestions.

>Nigger did you really expect old men to understand your shitty memes or laugh at your use of explicit language as if you're hot shit?
Holy shit dude, it's just playful banter. I was responding to a guy who was also memeing.

Since I've been banned before for similar inoffensive banter, 1 week ban.

>lel guys look at my hilarious memes
>threw some /pol/ in too for good measure
You can think it's cringey faggy meme shit all you want, still doesn't justify punishment, nor does expressing your political pride. Seriously, how is a political slogan offensive, especially if you feel prideful about its genuity? And white privilege objectively does not exist, but I guess stating facts is racist in Cuckada.

Looks like patience has none.

>still doesn't justify punishment

Look, I actually agree with you here. I think that chat should be unmoderated besides preventing spam. Game chat isn't a democracy though, and your ideals mean absolutely nothing in the context.

I'm just saying you shouldn't be that surprised that your /pol/ack memetic bullshit got you a temporary chat ban.

What are you running, a 100g SSD?

Yes.

But the ultimate kino is dodging satellite lasers in Silent Line.

Because you can't tell a hookworm not to be a parasite. Then it dies.

>dodging satellite lasers in Silent Line
I do not remember this but I will believe it

>those bio creatures you had to figure out how to kill and then kill in vanilla AC3
now THAT I remember. Annoying fucking mission that was. Also the one mission you had to get something from a sinking shit and had to blow some fucker up in order to get thing. Shit had my heart racing

Not saying it is, but Patience probably pops bluepills like candy. Canadian = trigger warning online.

Besides, any significant bantz is likely seen (rightfully) as player repellent, ever if they're T5 scrubtards that can't even fire lurms half the time, much less aim and move at the same time. PGI prizes stupid players, they're more likely to feed the pig.

OK, we have the next three months worth of roadmap.

Mostly shit, of course. But after the Trannytoes release, it's an IS medium, then a Clan light, then a Clan medium. Given the froth about it, Pirahna is likely the Clan light. Which mediums?

mwomercs.com/news/2017/08/1874-roadmap-for-september-october-beyond

The Black Lanner is popular.

it's the dasher, they won't release piranha.

"New Supply Cache system
Also currently planned to release alongside Solaris, the current Supply Cache system will be undergoing significant revisions aimed at making the Caches more accessible and more rewarding.
Rather than viewing the contents of each Cache prior to opening, and then receiving only one of the included items, the new system is geared at providing you with all the items within the Cache but without the ability to see its contents prior to opening. We will also be phasing out the Supply Cache Key system altogether; if you have a Cache in your inventory you'll simply be able to open it and get the goods, with no key or additional requirement needed.
You can expect more details regarding the new Cache system, along with details regarding the transition from the existing Cache and Key system to the new Supply Cache system, as we near its release next year."

Oh okay but I assume the rewards are going to get nerfed considering they won't require keys anymore.

The mission name is "Defend Lawdas Factory" in Silent Line: youtube.com/watch?v=6Ct4X7KGQ2Q

The sinking ship mission in AC3 was rad as fuck yeah. Made me so tense the first time I played it.

The... 3v1? in AC2AA always got my heart pumping too.

Is a Catapult K2 worth buying if I want something to use HPPCs on?

Why not the Piranha?!

It'll be neither.
Trust me, I've already seen the concept art.

Because the dasher is an iconic mech, it's a 20 tonner and it fills the need clans have.

youtube.com/watch?v=ny_oa1YCMyk

Russ basically said it would show up.

The current engine can't handle the speeds the Fire Moth would be moving at.

Don't kid yourself, they won't allow it to.

It'll be the Urbanmech IIC. Don't kid yourself thinking it'll be anything else.

Incidentally, this means it's worth it to simply stockpile the caches you're getting, rather than leaking MC away one cache piss at a time.

If the MASC only provides acceleration bonuses and not top speed, it'll be fine.

>I'd mind a Clantech Urbie

Finally, the last piece for Community Warfare would fall into place. Urbie wars.

>not using hoverlegs for maximum sped

>Using alt account
>Run into kong in tier 5

There are no tiers, the community is that dead.

How's the BT beta treating you?

Firestarters are still a meme in any game except for Mechcommander, why did they even hit flamers with a limited ammo nerfbat holy shit. Multi target still the worst ability and the one that gets the AI killed more than anything because it turns off their brains in regards to heat management.

Hoverlegs can't hop like other legs and so consume a shit ton of energy to boost around normally for only a marginal speed increase. At least quads can fire big guns.

I got my kickstarter refunded. I didn't like it. They're adding stupid shit and I have my doubts they'll ever get multiplayer working right for 4 v 4, which is what my battletech group wants to do. We all got our refunds.

Hoverlags are trash compared to boost hopping with bipeds. Their energy drain is too high for really little benefit unless you're on one of the "90% of the map is water" missions.

Also that wasn't my video.

>doesn't say what it is

Okay fine, it's the fucking Solitaire.