Speaking of suicide. Today I fought a King Crab that used an XL engine. He died.
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I love the Broadside.
In fact, I killed two in one match last night! (A match we ended up losing despite my 800+ damage, I got cocky when we were up 7-9, lost a leg, then lost 4 friendlies in the span of a few seconds)
It's so easy to hit.
-Love, my ACH
Ahhh, another Arctic Cheetah convert. I miss the days when those were target #1 on everybody's radar. Now you can hide in the shadows with a Piranha and take people by surprise.
HBS BATTLETECH career mode could benefit from some navigation map enhancements.
Since there's a huge bucket of career points tied to visiting systems for the first time and for visiting them all, it would be great if you could see whether you've visited a system before or not.
And it definitely would be nice to have some filters you could use. Even a simple filter (show me 3-4 skull systems, show me unvisited systems, etc.) would be useful. Being able to go a few variables deep would be amazing (show me any 3-4 skull systems in Liao owned space excluding any Martian biomes. )
EDIT: Oh, also, not on the nav map but give me a list somewhere of the mech chassis I've acquired and the ones I still need to collect.
Ahhh, another Arctic Cheetah convert. I miss the days when those were target #1 on everybody's radar. Now you can hide in the shadows with a Piranha and take people by surprise.
After I finished Skilling it I left it for a while, instead playing around with some other mechs. I recently decided to play more for fun than for filling bars, and have re-discovered the joy of lots of machine guns.
Corsair is actually a better mech than I expected. Plays a bit like a Fafnir or Atlas.
But is it as greebly as the key art made it look?
It looks Orky AF. It's gloriously haphazard.
Its not even balanced, the torso sags on one side
Hardpoints are also not 100% straight. They're often slightly askew. On the Broadside the CT launcher is just wonky.
"The western world sips from a poisonous cocktail: Polarisation, populism, protectionism and post-truth"
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
Ahhh, another Arctic Cheetah convert. I miss the days when those were target #1 on everybody's radar. Now you can hide in the shadows with a Piranha and take people by surprise.
After I finished Skilling it I left it for a while, instead playing around with some other mechs. I recently decided to play more for fun than for filling bars, and have re-discovered the joy of lots of machine guns.
Let me tell you about the Piranha. Mwuahahahaha!!!
I have a strong dislike for the new (old) winter version of River City or whatever? One match on it a mech went down about 15 seconds after powerup. It's so small there's hardly any opportunity for movement. It just feels like smashing tonnage together and the winner is the team that focuses fire and has better aim?
It'd be interesting if the matchmaking system handled those maps as 8v8 like they were designed to be. But I imagine coding that would be a huge pain in the ass, especially if you wanted to combine it with the regular 12v12 queue.
Ahhh, another Arctic Cheetah convert. I miss the days when those were target #1 on everybody's radar. Now you can hide in the shadows with a Piranha and take people by surprise.
After I finished Skilling it I left it for a while, instead playing around with some other mechs. I recently decided to play more for fun than for filling bars, and have re-discovered the joy of lots of machine guns.
Let me tell you about the Piranha. Mwuahahahaha!!!
Why can the Pirahna get 12 Ballistic hardpoints, but the Corsair 5R can only equip 6 Machine Guns? IS needs some fun too. Having 10 hardpoints is all well and good except 8 of them are basically only good for 1 slot weapons.
AFAICT (having never looked at them) Pirahna cannot carry ECM. And that lack has been getting me into trouble with my Flea. I cannot be expected to play different mechs differently, especially not in the same gofastshootbutts category!
Wait... they brought the old maps back again? Eesh...
Old Forest Colony and Frozen City. Having never played on them before I’m finding them to be a lot smaller than I’m used to, but I like that they can’t devolve into Nascars
Ahhh, another Arctic Cheetah convert. I miss the days when those were target #1 on everybody's radar. Now you can hide in the shadows with a Piranha and take people by surprise.
After I finished Skilling it I left it for a while, instead playing around with some other mechs. I recently decided to play more for fun than for filling bars, and have re-discovered the joy of lots of machine guns.
Let me tell you about the Piranha. Mwuahahahaha!!!
Why can the Pirahna get 12 Ballistic hardpoints, but the Corsair 5R can only equip 6 Machine Guns? IS needs some fun too. Having 10 hardpoints is all well and good except 8 of them are basically only good for 1 slot weapons.
The Inner Sphere Engineers could not fathom a reason for someone to be that insane to pilot a mech with so many useless weapons.
Seriously though I never understood why the IS was limited on ballistics as they are...
Wait... they brought the old maps back again? Eesh...
Old Forest Colony and Frozen City. Having never played on them before I’m finding them to be a lot smaller than I’m used to, but I like that they can’t devolve into Nascars
Oof. So we're back to the tunnel side or water side on Forest. Well at least we can have fun running the tunnel again on Frozen.
The two tactics were actually not used at all. Which is why you could catch your opponents off guard. Especially 3 or more Assaults waddling out of the tunnel on Frozen.
The two tactics were actually not used at all. Which is why you could catch your opponents off guard. Especially 3 or more Assaults waddling out of the tunnel on Frozen.
2-3 fast assaults going tunnel on Frozen. Watch as the enemy light that wanted to scout and back-harass rounds the little bend and sees the 240+ ton wall of death trotting towards him...resulting in a panic stop and turn in an attempt to nope the fuck outta there.
I seem to remember this happening on at least one Oosik night way back in the day. Of course, our team crumpled because we had 240+ tons of armor away from the front-line...but it was still hilarious to do.
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Yep, the king crab bucket brigade. That was the one. Someone announced on comms that we detected butter in the tunnel and scuddled off. The team chose to not listen or wait for us to flank.
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Pre-order before April 9th to qualify for CPLT-C2 (S), WHM-9D (S), MAD- 9M (S), KGC-001 (S)
Pre-order before April 16th to qualify for WHM-9D (S), MAD- 9M (S), KGC-001 (S)
Pre-order before April 23rd to qualify for MAD- 9M (S), KGC-001 (S)
Pre-order before April 30th to qualify for KGC-001 (S)
If that's retroactive...well...guess I finally have a Catapult.
| Origin/R*SC: Ein7919 | Battle.net: Erlkonig#1448 | XBL: Lexicanum | Steam: Der Erlkönig (the umlaut is important) |
As somebody who pilots a MAD-IIC-D, it doesn't take long to sink in.
EDIT - huh...and it's a jump-jetting Warhammer. Interesting. Actually, with that Marauder, it wasn't the ECM that caught my eye...but the torso missile hardpoints. Finally! A Marauder with symmetry!
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| Origin/R*SC: Ein7919 | Battle.net: Erlkonig#1448 | XBL: Lexicanum | Steam: Der Erlkönig (the umlaut is important) |
Pre-order before April 9th to qualify for CPLT-C2 (S), WHM-9D (S), MAD- 9M (S), KGC-001 (S)
Pre-order before April 16th to qualify for WHM-9D (S), MAD- 9M (S), KGC-001 (S)
Pre-order before April 23rd to qualify for MAD- 9M (S), KGC-001 (S)
Pre-order before April 30th to qualify for KGC-001 (S)
What does "to qualify for" mean here? That is not wording I would always assume means "you will receive...?"
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First thing I did was get rid of that XL engine - in a mech that wide it's suicide.
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-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
But is it as greebly as the key art made it look?
It looks Orky AF. It's gloriously haphazard.
XBL : lJesse Custerl | MWO: Jesse Custer | Best vid ever. | 2nd best vid ever.
XBL : lJesse Custerl | MWO: Jesse Custer | Best vid ever. | 2nd best vid ever.
And put a decals on the back that spell “Waaagh”
In fact, I killed two in one match last night! (A match we ended up losing despite my 800+ damage, I got cocky when we were up 7-9, lost a leg, then lost 4 friendlies in the span of a few seconds)
It's so easy to hit.
-Love, my ACH
Steam: betsuni7
Its not even balanced, the torso sags on one side
https://mech.nav-alpha.com/#cc684d36_COR-BR ? So very bad. :biggrin:
Since there's a huge bucket of career points tied to visiting systems for the first time and for visiting them all, it would be great if you could see whether you've visited a system before or not.
And it definitely would be nice to have some filters you could use. Even a simple filter (show me 3-4 skull systems, show me unvisited systems, etc.) would be useful. Being able to go a few variables deep would be amazing (show me any 3-4 skull systems in Liao owned space excluding any Martian biomes. )
EDIT: Oh, also, not on the nav map but give me a list somewhere of the mech chassis I've acquired and the ones I still need to collect.
Steam profile.
Getting started with BATTLETECH: Part 1 / Part 2
After I finished Skilling it I left it for a while, instead playing around with some other mechs. I recently decided to play more for fun than for filling bars, and have re-discovered the joy of lots of machine guns.
Hardpoints are also not 100% straight. They're often slightly askew. On the Broadside the CT launcher is just wonky.
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
Its so good
Let me tell you about the Piranha. Mwuahahahaha!!!
Steam: betsuni7
I just never get it on my brawlers
Steam: betsuni7
Why can the Pirahna get 12 Ballistic hardpoints, but the Corsair 5R can only equip 6 Machine Guns? IS needs some fun too. Having 10 hardpoints is all well and good except 8 of them are basically only good for 1 slot weapons.
Old Forest Colony and Frozen City. Having never played on them before I’m finding them to be a lot smaller than I’m used to, but I like that they can’t devolve into Nascars
The Inner Sphere Engineers could not fathom a reason for someone to be that insane to pilot a mech with so many useless weapons.
Seriously though I never understood why the IS was limited on ballistics as they are...
Oof. So we're back to the tunnel side or water side on Forest. Well at least we can have fun running the tunnel again on Frozen.
Steam: betsuni7
Just like old times.
XBL : lJesse Custerl | MWO: Jesse Custer | Best vid ever. | 2nd best vid ever.
(I'm not actually sure that'll make the game good again. Ignore me, I'm off my salt-meds this morning.)
Steam: betsuni7
2-3 fast assaults going tunnel on Frozen. Watch as the enemy light that wanted to scout and back-harass rounds the little bend and sees the 240+ ton wall of death trotting towards him...resulting in a panic stop and turn in an attempt to nope the fuck outta there.
I seem to remember this happening on at least one Oosik night way back in the day. Of course, our team crumpled because we had 240+ tons of armor away from the front-line...but it was still hilarious to do.
Steam: betsuni7
Pre-order before April 9th to qualify for CPLT-C2 (S), WHM-9D (S), MAD- 9M (S), KGC-001 (S)
Pre-order before April 16th to qualify for WHM-9D (S), MAD- 9M (S), KGC-001 (S)
Pre-order before April 23rd to qualify for MAD- 9M (S), KGC-001 (S)
Pre-order before April 30th to qualify for KGC-001 (S)
Steam: betsuni7
If that's retroactive...well...guess I finally have a Catapult.
XBL : lJesse Custerl | MWO: Jesse Custer | Best vid ever. | 2nd best vid ever.
As somebody who pilots a MAD-IIC-D, it doesn't take long to sink in.
EDIT - huh...and it's a jump-jetting Warhammer. Interesting. Actually, with that Marauder, it wasn't the ECM that caught my eye...but the torso missile hardpoints. Finally! A Marauder with symmetry!
Just making a last minute announcement of Oosik Night!
Steam: betsuni7
What does "to qualify for" mean here? That is not wording I would always assume means "you will receive...?"
Steam profile.
Getting started with BATTLETECH: Part 1 / Part 2
Steam: betsuni7