/gerg/ - Giant Extreme Robots General

>MumbleMutts have nothing better to do on New Year's Eve than to post on Veeky Forums
LOL
see you next year kiddos
>t. discordian patrician

What were the top 5 robot memes of 2017?

"Little details" definitely makes the list.

>dumb German fag tries to pincer me
>roll over the first lance to make contact with overwhelming might and prejudice
>his lance moves in for attack, but the other lance becomes demoralized
>devour them as they play passively/try to run
>he's down 8-2
>he's crying now, soon to turn to anger
>grin smugly and type "ROCK AND ROLL!" into all-chat as I shove my SRMs down the barrel of his Gauss rifle
God Bless the greatest nation in the world.

Big things for hawken in 2017.

Russ "Little details" Bollocks.

Cheapskates.

The great decline in already minimally viable product work, giving us quality robots like the uziel.

PC gamer shilling.

You high on painkillers rn?

The only pain I feel is from the laughter in my sides.

>win the scouting match
>I have 20% or less HP
>everyone else on my team has like 70% or more
every time
At least I get top damage and 250+ MS for my trouble.

Would you say you're... enlightened?
ASCENDED?

Literally like an american who's unlocked the secrets of fundamentals.

Is it possible somehow to recreate a Zeon symbol with the decals that are available?

>Zeon

This is an EFF thread, Zeeks fuck off.

Feddie scum begone!

Zeus. One Gauss, three ER Larges. Good? Bad?

"don't bring ATMs to group drops"
-konglet

1 (one) loot bag

Why two AC/5 instead of one AC/10?

>when your fellow konglord summons the power of the pharaohs and pulls a clutch against an LBX40 annihilator while being almost dead at the same time
10/10 match

Is anyone experience a bug that makes your mech turn or press a direction constantly?

Please stop making these threads. Thank you in advance.

yea sometimes

Once in a blue moon, yeah. It's usually gone after pulling the KB/mouse and replugging them in.

Nigger, ZeonQuest was one of the best Veeky Forums threads ever. Sieg fucking Zeon.

mwomercs.com/news/2017/12/1982-mwo-holiday-sales

Mechbays on sale, premium time as well, plus Phranken-Crusader-Snowfall-Polygon-Buccaneer-Raider camo patterns.

ACH, SHC, Ebons, Exe's on sale for Clan, Wolfhound, Crab, Nigger Knight, and Mauler for IS. 40% off MC/C-bill prices.

Not sure if I should buy an Ebon Jaguar, Mauler or nothing.
Bought like two one-shots but feel like I should really be saving MC for hero mechs.

The Mechbays are always a plan at half-off.

I don't know if I need more. Probably, but I also have excess variants I can sell to clear out mech bays. I'd rather have a fancy hero mech than a bunch of bays.
If it were economically feasible I'd just play entirely hero mechs.

Well at least I'll always have this sick Hawken comic I guess.

Notably, the Clan heroes here are NOT for sale, though the IS ones are. Probably because the Clan ones are much newer.

Grinner's not a bad IS choice though.

Clans aren't even for sale for MC yet, which is why. They put a bunch of the IS ones up too like the Skoll only to realize that they're not in the in-game shop yet, that's why we got the fucking nice flash deal on the Anni+Mad Cat Mk II (I grabbed a Deathstrike) to make up for their incompetence.
I wouldn't mind a Grinner but I'd need to get really lucky with the Faction/Bonus grab bags to get enough MC for it, even with the sale price of 1500~ MC.

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Why are you shaking like you have cerebral palsy?

Michael J Fox is more steady than that.

Catapult C1 or C4?

C1- You get more lasers to defend yourself with
C4- You get more missiles to utilize (LRMs, MRMs, SRMs)
Or, if you have MC and want to be a real cool kid, you can buy a Butterbee and get the best of both worlds (4M 4E) with a cool paintjob and a cool 30% C-bill boost.

It happens to me on my laptop.

MW6 when?

1 year after Star Citizen is officially released.

Star Citizen is being released?

Spud you nigger, are you still here? Check out the fencer in EDF5.

youtube.com/watch?v=Wue_7s6Hr74

>KDK-1 with 2x HLL, 6x ERML, Gauss, XL375 and 26 total DHS
>93 damage alpha strike

ees bretty gud

>people hiding and sucking dicks 24/7 in a match
>check what server it is
>Nigger America

Well that explains it.

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>post fun webms
>HURR DURR YOUR GAME WORSE THAN MINE

Can't we just all have fun

Nothing interesting happened in either webm. Way to feel like I was attacking your "game" though, lmao.

Because Hellbringers and Mad Cat meta is fun.

Every game is now Hellbringers + Deathstrike drops.

And they said that loot boxes are worse than this.

You just did tho user

>Kill the jump jet ones completely.
So they're not useful? I see. Thought that I'd be able to jump forward faster, but it was still slower than running.
>And you want target decay maxed. Ditto velocity in Firepower, as even shit LRMs need to go faster to hit more accurately.
Had enough common sense to do that already! One mistake I made was investing into a ton of Range mods, but if I'm really supposed to engage with LRMs at medium distance, what use are those, right? I'll remove those too.

Now, I do have a question - one thing that kills me reliably are lights, if I get separated from my lance. Those little shits just run around and I can't keep up with them, and if I turn the other direction I can catch them like that but that doesn't do much damage. Now I understand they're pretty much my hard counter, as my main weapons are useless up close, but I wonder, would investing into those skills that affect torso rotation and turn rate help? Also, I read somewhere that engine power affects rotation speed (which makes sense), but regardless of which engine I put in my Cat it still shows the same rate, is that just a chassis limitation?

Please excuse the cropping

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Didn't get the big MC stack on the 27th?

Honestly, the JJ skill stuff does very little for more inefficient heavy/assault jets. Range mods are for ATMs rather than LRMs, as range boost = better damage for those. So yeah, axe em. High explosive does little for LRMs too, but ammo, velocity, spread, heat, and cool down are the Firepower nodes you like with lurms.

Engine power = agility no longer applies at this point. Having secondary guns with short burn time like medium pulses helps, but one thing big robots need to do is NOT try and follow a light orbiting you. Turn the opposite way and he'll generally end up under your guns again sooner because you can't easily follow him, otherwise.

Yeah, I don't think I can fit medium pulses in my build. I was actually thinking about cutting the medium ERs down to small ERs to stuff in more ammo. So the turn rate nodes aren't worth it?

Also I have lots of questions about how TAG actually works. When is the bonus appied? When I launch the LRMs? When they're about to land? Should I hold it all the way while they travel? Is quickly jumping up and tagging the enemy, launching missiles and falling back down something I should do?

TAG works only while actually on the target (the crosshairs symbol), so popup TAG will at least help get that midair lock quicker. And that's a perfectly valid tactic. Keep it on, because TAG effects don't last for more than a second if you lose contact with the beam. Also, if you have LRM 20s, don't feel bad about dropping to 15s. You really don't lose much effective damage and can put that 6 tons into better secondaries and a bit more ammo.

>TAG works only while actually on the target
Yeah, but what about the tightened spread effect?
>dropping down to LRM15
Would really help with weight management, but I enjoy lugging around the biggest heaviest launcher I can, and using all those 20 missile tubes. Helps with bypassing ATMs and all that. That said, I don have stock LRM15 launchers lying around so I can try that too.

>do scouting in mist lynx
>entire team gets mad at me

you are not entitled to a team of huntsmen

Clusters are based off time of launch, like Artemis. Tracking effectiveness will change though. And do try the 15s. 20s have the same largest spread, so 15->20 is three tons for 5 of the most likely to miss/hit something useless damage. 10->15 is only two tons extra.

>don't bring a mist lynx
>pls ton up
>shitter teammate

i cant hear you over the sound of all these lootbags

Did you lose? If so, giving up half a robot in tonnage logically puts you in the hot seat.

>Be Fatty
>Take build that tries to vulture enemy after rest of Lance 4v3d
>Lose 0-4
>"You fuckers have no right to be salty, MLX did nothing wrong!"
>Muh loot bags

>Take build that tries to vulture enemy after rest of Lance 4v3d

serves them right for using streakboats. i have zero sympathy for people who meta whore.

>>I don't need to win. My team doesn't need to win. I just need to get my match score and I'll use my team as a shield to do it.
This is why I stopped doing FP without a full team.

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Can't blame the player for this. Piggy incentives this exact behavior by their choice of event reward conditions.

I don't blame the player, I blame the game. Plus it's more fun being coordinated with people from my unit.

Things went better than expected.

Lao?

The big MC stack went into buying the Deathstrike.

Best IS mech for scouting?
Need dem high damage numbers.

Bushie, Assassin 21, Griffin 2N. Any of those will serve you well.

Bushy, skip leg day everyone runs streaks anyway

How the fuck do you make a Linebacker work? I've been trying different builds and they're all mediocre. There's no way it's unusable.

The linebacker is literally a 65 ton stormcrow.

6-7x MPLs.

2x HLL + 3-4x ERMLs.

2x ERPPCs.

6x SRM6's.

Those are your options.

I 1v1'd a huntsman in my Grinner. A Marauder, too, while a Raven was on me- but that Marauder was dumb as a box of rocks.

Why is the Wolfhound so rad, my dudes?

It's fully APT compliant.

Bushy with what build?

2MRM30 6MPL Stalker with ECM, good build?

6x MPL means you'll have to sacrifice a lot in other areas like having to put on XL.

But 2x MRM30 and 6x ML works perfectly fine. 90 damage alpha, you'll have like 16 total DHS, like, 4-5 tons of ammo for the MRMs and nearly max rating engine.

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bamp

>We picked up a favorite chassi of mine on salvage.
>An Uziel, a real workhorse, we didn't use them much in the clan wars but..

>APT compliant
Hah, yeah.

... What?

American prime time compliant. Idiotproof.

Any good Grinner builds?

mwo.smurfy-net.de/mechlab#i=549&l=5a11d391d5dd5f02243e2c7699fa57a202d46f64

Trump pattern. Full ATP compliance.

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