Okay I did something silly with my Crab. I upgraded its engine to the highest (I think) XL grade it could carry (it previously had a 270ish standard). Its speed is just shy of 100kph now, and with six MPLs it's become a hit-and-run harasser.
Anyone else misread this and picture a 100 ton assault stomping around at 100 kph with a half dozen pew pew guns on it?
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HenroidMexican kicked from Immigration ThreadCentrism is Racism :3Registered Userregular
Okay I did something silly with my Crab. I upgraded its engine to the highest (I think) XL grade it could carry (it previously had a 270ish standard). Its speed is just shy of 100kph now, and with six MPLs it's become a hit-and-run harasser.
Anyone else misread this and picture a 100 ton assault stomping around at 100 kph with a half dozen pew pew guns on it?
brb going to the garage.
... actually, my nephew has a short day in (remote) school today, so in a couple of hours I might do a short (no-mic) stream of tooling around in MWO, if you guys wanna do a talk-shop sort of thing.
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Okay I did something silly with my Crab. I upgraded its engine to the highest (I think) XL grade it could carry (it previously had a 270ish standard). Its speed is just shy of 100kph now, and with six MPLs it's become a hit-and-run harasser.
Anyone else misread this and picture a 100 ton assault stomping around at 100 kph with a half dozen pew pew guns on it?
Until you pointed this out, that's exactly what I thought was going on
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HenroidMexican kicked from Immigration ThreadCentrism is Racism :3Registered Userregular
Okay I did something silly with my Crab. I upgraded its engine to the highest (I think) XL grade it could carry (it previously had a 270ish standard). Its speed is just shy of 100kph now, and with six MPLs it's become a hit-and-run harasser.
Anyone else misread this and picture a 100 ton assault stomping around at 100 kph with a half dozen pew pew guns on it?
Until you pointed this out, that's exactly what I thought was going on
Well now I'm going to change my Crab's nickname to like... Duke. Or Peasant. Just to get the distinction clearer.
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I just got started in Battletech, and I’ve played it up to where the game is opening up and I have some input in where we go and what we do next. I’m digging it so far, as a longtime fan of the board game (more specifically, the miniatures rules variation).
And I’m quite happy with my character and backstory. Nicholas “Hammer” Amirault, mysterious exile from the Deep Periphery, former merchant guard and CO of the eponymous Hammer’s Marauders. Has a nice ring to it. Though it’d be nice to be able to rename it to Hammer’s Slammers. About to dive into the mech customization.
"Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are." - Bertolt Brecht
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You can rename your mercenary group in the company customization screen so get to it! On the Leapard I think it’s the Atlas model.
You can rename your mercenary group in the company customization screen so get to it! On the Leapard I think it’s the Atlas model.
Oh, snap, I just saw that. Hammer’s Slammers have arrived in the Periphery. It will never be the same.
Oh how true that statement is. Go get 'em Colonel Hammer.
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I named mine the Coromodiri Stormcrows. Based on how the player character ends up with them, and the role they play in the story. Well, that, and I just liked the sound of it.
So, I played enough this weekend to complete all of the Weekend Warrior tasks except for the Light mech one (because I am not now, nor have I ever been, an even mildly competent light pilot).
Apparently, I failed to take any screenshots, because I was using the print screen key instead of the Steam screenshot key. Oops? Anyway, like a 700+ point game in a double AC/20 King Crab was the best single round, but the most bestest work was done in my RAC/5 + MRM20 Centurion. I love damage hoses!
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To be fair, the goal of the tasks was counter to the nature of Light Mechs. So don't sweat it if you couldn't get it done. It took me a LOT of rounds to get proper credit.
To be fair, the goal of the tasks was counter to the nature of Light Mechs. So don't sweat it if you couldn't get it done. It took me a LOT of rounds to get proper credit.
No, I mean, like, even apart from the requirements of this event, I am not a good light pilot. I don't like scouting, I don't do hit and runs, I don't have the trigger / aiming discipline necessary to use a 6 SPLAS scalpel, I don't like bouncing like a maniac all over the place, etc.
I brawl. I consider it a successful match if I end up with 250 damage done and 500 taken, walking around with a Centurion missing a left arm, left leg, and everything else cherry red.
One of my favorite matches of the weekend was on Forest Colony (Classic)!, where the team was engaging the enemy at somewhere around the midline, and there was some asshole enemy in the back launching, like, LRM80s into the melee. I broke off, circled around through the river and between the boat hulls, and snuck up behind them - only to find out that another member of my team, also in a Centurion, had done basically the same thing. Between the two of us, we took him out in, like, 30s (woulda been faster but my RAC5 jammed after just a couple shots). I then proceed back towards the middle with my Cent Friend and came up behind a Marauder IIC. I targeted it, and waited for the incoming missiles. Then we both opened up on it as the missiles started hitting, so the pilot couldn't easily tell we were there. That one went pretty quickly, too, and then it was kind of a mop-up operation. Great match.
To be fair, the goal of the tasks was counter to the nature of Light Mechs. So don't sweat it if you couldn't get it done. It took me a LOT of rounds to get proper credit.
No, I mean, like, even apart from the requirements of this event, I am not a good light pilot. I don't like scouting, I don't do hit and runs, I don't have the trigger / aiming discipline necessary to use a 6 SPLAS scalpel, I don't like bouncing like a maniac all over the place, etc.
I brawl. I consider it a successful match if I end up with 250 damage done and 500 taken, walking around with a Centurion missing a left arm, left leg, and everything else cherry red.
One of my favorite matches of the weekend was on Forest Colony (Classic)!, where the team was engaging the enemy at somewhere around the midline, and there was some asshole enemy in the back launching, like, LRM80s into the melee. I broke off, circled around through the river and between the boat hulls, and snuck up behind them - only to find out that another member of my team, also in a Centurion, had done basically the same thing. Between the two of us, we took him out in, like, 30s (woulda been faster but my RAC5 jammed after just a couple shots). I then proceed back towards the middle with my Cent Friend and came up behind a Marauder IIC. I targeted it, and waited for the incoming missiles. Then we both opened up on it as the missiles started hitting, so the pilot couldn't easily tell we were there. That one went pretty quickly, too, and then it was kind of a mop-up operation. Great match.
See, you could do that in a Light but much faster! Take the 6SPL Locust and just run behind. Target lock and wait for the missiles to start hitting the enemy mech. Then unload all your lasers into a rear side torso or just the CT if you want. Wash rinse repeat... Till you get to the level where people actually watch their rears then you're toast like you said.
As a light pilot primarily, I respect players that have the... willpower, is perhaps the right word, to play a heavy or assault mech (exempting the rare heavy that can hustle at 100kph anyway). I just can't do it. I hate having to decide where I am going to fight in advance and being stuck there. Knowing there is no way for me to get out of the situation.
Give me my 100+ kph lights where I can race around the battlefield at the speed of thought, where I can make a bad decision and then instantly bail on it, where I can quickly respond to the ebb and flow of a fight and create local superiorities on a whim.
That's probably why my KFX-PR is my favorite mech? I've got ECM, I've got three AMS. I have tremendous respect for my assault pilots and I will help convey them to where they can win. I can rush to an out of position assault , bust the enemy locks on him, gun down the incoming missiles. I can poke and harass with my lasers to take heat and pressure off of them. When an enemy aggressively dives them and they can't escape, I can wrap and counter dive and hammer them in the back.
And, ultimately, when the assault I am working with does something truly hopeless, I can wish them the best, and dash away to another strong point.
To be fair, the goal of the tasks was counter to the nature of Light Mechs. So don't sweat it if you couldn't get it done. It took me a LOT of rounds to get proper credit.
No, I mean, like, even apart from the requirements of this event, I am not a good light pilot. I don't like scouting, I don't do hit and runs, I don't have the trigger / aiming discipline necessary to use a 6 SPLAS scalpel, I don't like bouncing like a maniac all over the place, etc.
I brawl. I consider it a successful match if I end up with 250 damage done and 500 taken, walking around with a Centurion missing a left arm, left leg, and everything else cherry red.
One of my favorite matches of the weekend was on Forest Colony (Classic)!, where the team was engaging the enemy at somewhere around the midline, and there was some asshole enemy in the back launching, like, LRM80s into the melee. I broke off, circled around through the river and between the boat hulls, and snuck up behind them - only to find out that another member of my team, also in a Centurion, had done basically the same thing. Between the two of us, we took him out in, like, 30s (woulda been faster but my RAC5 jammed after just a couple shots). I then proceed back towards the middle with my Cent Friend and came up behind a Marauder IIC. I targeted it, and waited for the incoming missiles. Then we both opened up on it as the missiles started hitting, so the pilot couldn't easily tell we were there. That one went pretty quickly, too, and then it was kind of a mop-up operation. Great match.
See, you could do that in a Light but much faster! Take the 6SPL Locust and just run behind. Target lock and wait for the missiles to start hitting the enemy mech. Then unload all your lasers into a rear side torso or just the CT if you want. Wash rinse repeat... Till you get to the level where people actually watch their rears then you're toast like you said.
Nah, 'cause I'd've died 5 minutes prior when I rounded a corner into a pair of heavies and a medium. With a Cent, I can torso twist the damage pretty well, and managed to soak the vast majority of the damage onto my shield arm. Instead, I was able to buy enough time and do enough damage for a couple of allies to arrive and push them back.
To be fair, the goal of the tasks was counter to the nature of Light Mechs. So don't sweat it if you couldn't get it done. It took me a LOT of rounds to get proper credit.
No, I mean, like, even apart from the requirements of this event, I am not a good light pilot. I don't like scouting, I don't do hit and runs, I don't have the trigger / aiming discipline necessary to use a 6 SPLAS scalpel, I don't like bouncing like a maniac all over the place, etc.
I brawl. I consider it a successful match if I end up with 250 damage done and 500 taken, walking around with a Centurion missing a left arm, left leg, and everything else cherry red.
One of my favorite matches of the weekend was on Forest Colony (Classic)!, where the team was engaging the enemy at somewhere around the midline, and there was some asshole enemy in the back launching, like, LRM80s into the melee. I broke off, circled around through the river and between the boat hulls, and snuck up behind them - only to find out that another member of my team, also in a Centurion, had done basically the same thing. Between the two of us, we took him out in, like, 30s (woulda been faster but my RAC5 jammed after just a couple shots). I then proceed back towards the middle with my Cent Friend and came up behind a Marauder IIC. I targeted it, and waited for the incoming missiles. Then we both opened up on it as the missiles started hitting, so the pilot couldn't easily tell we were there. That one went pretty quickly, too, and then it was kind of a mop-up operation. Great match.
See, you could do that in a Light but much faster! Take the 6SPL Locust and just run behind. Target lock and wait for the missiles to start hitting the enemy mech. Then unload all your lasers into a rear side torso or just the CT if you want. Wash rinse repeat... Till you get to the level where people actually watch their rears then you're toast like you said.
Nah, 'cause I'd've died 5 minutes prior when I rounded a corner into a pair of heavies and a medium. With a Cent, I can torso twist the damage pretty well, and managed to soak the vast majority of the damage onto my shield arm. Instead, I was able to buy enough time and do enough damage for a couple of allies to arrive and push them back.
See, you're just playing it wrong. You need to hang back if you spot a medium or more than one mech. Just kidding, yeah I understand since I play all the different weight classes. I love Lights over the others since it allows me to get into matches much faster than the others. Plus the adrenaline rush you get having to dodge, duck, dip, dive and dodge is just too enticing. Just don't drive a car after playing a few matches though. When I'm in a punishing and need to punch people in the face I always head towards my Heavy or Assault class mechs. That way I just face tank them to death and giggle like a maniac while doing so. Mediums allow me to play both and I love their variety. The only thing I don't have the patience for is LRMing or PPCing people to death. I have done it though, but just not my cup of tea having to hide in the blob waiting for the right time to strike (or sniping with PPCs).
To be fair, the goal of the tasks was counter to the nature of Light Mechs. So don't sweat it if you couldn't get it done. It took me a LOT of rounds to get proper credit.
No, I mean, like, even apart from the requirements of this event, I am not a good light pilot. I don't like scouting, I don't do hit and runs, I don't have the trigger / aiming discipline necessary to use a 6 SPLAS scalpel, I don't like bouncing like a maniac all over the place, etc.
I brawl. I consider it a successful match if I end up with 250 damage done and 500 taken, walking around with a Centurion missing a left arm, left leg, and everything else cherry red.
One of my favorite matches of the weekend was on Forest Colony (Classic)!, where the team was engaging the enemy at somewhere around the midline, and there was some asshole enemy in the back launching, like, LRM80s into the melee. I broke off, circled around through the river and between the boat hulls, and snuck up behind them - only to find out that another member of my team, also in a Centurion, had done basically the same thing. Between the two of us, we took him out in, like, 30s (woulda been faster but my RAC5 jammed after just a couple shots). I then proceed back towards the middle with my Cent Friend and came up behind a Marauder IIC. I targeted it, and waited for the incoming missiles. Then we both opened up on it as the missiles started hitting, so the pilot couldn't easily tell we were there. That one went pretty quickly, too, and then it was kind of a mop-up operation. Great match.
See, you could do that in a Light but much faster! Take the 6SPL Locust and just run behind. Target lock and wait for the missiles to start hitting the enemy mech. Then unload all your lasers into a rear side torso or just the CT if you want. Wash rinse repeat... Till you get to the level where people actually watch their rears then you're toast like you said.
Nah, 'cause I'd've died 5 minutes prior when I rounded a corner into a pair of heavies and a medium. With a Cent, I can torso twist the damage pretty well, and managed to soak the vast majority of the damage onto my shield arm. Instead, I was able to buy enough time and do enough damage for a couple of allies to arrive and push them back.
See, you're just playing it wrong. You need to hang back if you spot a medium or more than one mech. Just kidding, yeah I understand since I play all the different weight classes. I love Lights over the others since it allows me to get into matches much faster than the others. Plus the adrenaline rush you get having to dodge, duck, dip, dive and dodge is just too enticing. Just don't drive a car after playing a few matches though. When I'm in a punishing and need to punch people in the face I always head towards my Heavy or Assault class mechs. That way I just face tank them to death and giggle like a maniac while doing so. Mediums allow me to play both and I love their variety. The only thing I don't have the patience for is LRMing or PPCing people to death. I have done it though, but just not my cup of tea having to hide in the blob waiting for the right time to strike (or sniping with PPCs).
I have fun occasionally LRMing people, but I only do it in 'mechs where I mount, like, an LRM30A and an assortment of lasers. Standing back 1000m while everyone else does the dirty work and you just point and click is boring.
But LRMing someone on the approach and then dancing around at 300m while you make it rain fire is lots of fun.
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My experience in my Crab has me revisiting the freebie Phoenix Hawk given out in December and managing its playstyle a touch, I'm finding it to actually be a really good combatant. After I get its Firepower skills enabled it'll actually be pretty deadly. By my math, the medium lasers will have their duration cut to near pulse laser time.
Also, if I remember, 4xRAC2s is fairly manageable in terms of ghost heat. Like, you won't be able to just lean on the trigger, but it's fine for ruining somebody's day. If you really want to use too many RACs that it becomes just outright unfeasible, triple-RAC5s will almost instantly overheat you once they start firing.
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Pew pew lasers!
(It is.)
Anyone else misread this and picture a 100 ton assault stomping around at 100 kph with a half dozen pew pew guns on it?
... actually, my nephew has a short day in (remote) school today, so in a couple of hours I might do a short (no-mic) stream of tooling around in MWO, if you guys wanna do a talk-shop sort of thing.
Until you pointed this out, that's exactly what I thought was going on
That is all.
And I’m quite happy with my character and backstory. Nicholas “Hammer” Amirault, mysterious exile from the Deep Periphery, former merchant guard and CO of the eponymous Hammer’s Marauders. Has a nice ring to it. Though it’d be nice to be able to rename it to Hammer’s Slammers. About to dive into the mech customization.
Oh, snap, I just saw that. Hammer’s Slammers have arrived in the Periphery. It will never be the same.
Oh how true that statement is. Go get 'em Colonel Hammer.
And you aren't a Capellan.
Or from House Kurita.
But Henroid!
I'm a Kuritan who defected to the Capellans!
Spreading friendship and harmony across the 'verse, one gauss slug at a time.
(Also, something about rainbows...y'know...'cuz lasers are light and what-not...it's too early for brain to work good)
Apparently, I failed to take any screenshots, because I was using the print screen key instead of the Steam screenshot key. Oops? Anyway, like a 700+ point game in a double AC/20 King Crab was the best single round, but the most bestest work was done in my RAC/5 + MRM20 Centurion. I love damage hoses!
Steam: Elvenshae // PSN: Elvenshae // WotC: Elvenshae
Wilds of Aladrion: [https://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/comment/43159014/#Comment_43159014]Ellandryn[/url]
No, I mean, like, even apart from the requirements of this event, I am not a good light pilot. I don't like scouting, I don't do hit and runs, I don't have the trigger / aiming discipline necessary to use a 6 SPLAS scalpel, I don't like bouncing like a maniac all over the place, etc.
I brawl. I consider it a successful match if I end up with 250 damage done and 500 taken, walking around with a Centurion missing a left arm, left leg, and everything else cherry red.
One of my favorite matches of the weekend was on Forest Colony (Classic)!, where the team was engaging the enemy at somewhere around the midline, and there was some asshole enemy in the back launching, like, LRM80s into the melee. I broke off, circled around through the river and between the boat hulls, and snuck up behind them - only to find out that another member of my team, also in a Centurion, had done basically the same thing. Between the two of us, we took him out in, like, 30s (woulda been faster but my RAC5 jammed after just a couple shots). I then proceed back towards the middle with my Cent Friend and came up behind a Marauder IIC. I targeted it, and waited for the incoming missiles. Then we both opened up on it as the missiles started hitting, so the pilot couldn't easily tell we were there. That one went pretty quickly, too, and then it was kind of a mop-up operation. Great match.
Steam: Elvenshae // PSN: Elvenshae // WotC: Elvenshae
Wilds of Aladrion: [https://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/comment/43159014/#Comment_43159014]Ellandryn[/url]
See, you could do that in a Light but much faster! Take the 6SPL Locust and just run behind. Target lock and wait for the missiles to start hitting the enemy mech. Then unload all your lasers into a rear side torso or just the CT if you want. Wash rinse repeat... Till you get to the level where people actually watch their rears then you're toast like you said.
Steam: betsuni7
You could go hardcore with a standard engine and an AC/20.
Give me my 100+ kph lights where I can race around the battlefield at the speed of thought, where I can make a bad decision and then instantly bail on it, where I can quickly respond to the ebb and flow of a fight and create local superiorities on a whim.
That's probably why my KFX-PR is my favorite mech? I've got ECM, I've got three AMS. I have tremendous respect for my assault pilots and I will help convey them to where they can win. I can rush to an out of position assault , bust the enemy locks on him, gun down the incoming missiles. I can poke and harass with my lasers to take heat and pressure off of them. When an enemy aggressively dives them and they can't escape, I can wrap and counter dive and hammer them in the back.
And, ultimately, when the assault I am working with does something truly hopeless, I can wish them the best, and dash away to another strong point.
Nah, 'cause I'd've died 5 minutes prior when I rounded a corner into a pair of heavies and a medium.
Steam: Elvenshae // PSN: Elvenshae // WotC: Elvenshae
Wilds of Aladrion: [https://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/comment/43159014/#Comment_43159014]Ellandryn[/url]
See, you're just playing it wrong. You need to hang back if you spot a medium or more than one mech. Just kidding, yeah I understand since I play all the different weight classes. I love Lights over the others since it allows me to get into matches much faster than the others. Plus the adrenaline rush you get having to dodge, duck, dip, dive and dodge is just too enticing. Just don't drive a car after playing a few matches though. When I'm in a punishing and need to punch people in the face I always head towards my Heavy or Assault class mechs. That way I just face tank them to death and giggle like a maniac while doing so. Mediums allow me to play both and I love their variety. The only thing I don't have the patience for is LRMing or PPCing people to death. I have done it though, but just not my cup of tea having to hide in the blob waiting for the right time to strike (or sniping with PPCs).
Steam: betsuni7
I have fun occasionally LRMing people, but I only do it in 'mechs where I mount, like, an LRM30A and an assortment of lasers. Standing back 1000m while everyone else does the dirty work and you just point and click is boring.
But LRMing someone on the approach and then dancing around at 300m while you make it rain fire is lots of fun.
Steam: Elvenshae // PSN: Elvenshae // WotC: Elvenshae
Wilds of Aladrion: [https://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/comment/43159014/#Comment_43159014]Ellandryn[/url]
Could you do 2 Rac2, 2 UAC2 without ghost heat?
Lots of bullets to reach out and touch someone with...
Looks like they aren't in the same gh family, so it should be good.