However, this season has brought it completely upside down ever since the heatsink patch (not too sure, but my dakka wolf is having a hard time dealing with lower heat limits since that round). My last 6 matches against a friggin AC2 ANH was nothing but a nightmare no matter how steady my aim/timing/bursts were. Maybe couple in crappy ping, but I assume Oceanic should be as bad for both players. For my MCII games, either Annis are getting better or I'm just getting really bad, but the odds of taking down a side torso has also got considerably harder despite the SRM Atermis improvement. I'm not sure if heat had a place in this but I rmb doing fine last season doing the side torso/direct core up routine.
The only match I had a somewhat a fair fight (like me no doing things like hiding behind a rock looking for Anni butt) was when the Anni swapped to 5xLBX10s losing the ability to focus down one side torso in like 0.0001s - maybe out of pity for me. You need to cheese your way into 300m range, take a dice roll and hope the UACs don't jam, hope Anni doesnt land everything on one side torso, find at least 1 cover point as you strafe to cool off, and only then I have a sliver of a chance to win the fight.
Bought a DW-UV just to see if there was hope returning the favor with extra AC2's, but funny thing - screen spam splat pissed/screwed every other opponent I had except the Anni since his cockpit is waay above the impact zone (and it just... a metal rod with 150 armor... not bad not bad). I haven't had any Solaris fight in any division so infuriating to date apart from these Annis. Surprisingly I don't harbor as much hate for the KGC's and I had some pretty good fights with them with some arm shootdown strats.
The matchmaker is another pile of **** matching me up with the same guy like 8 times despite having like up to 10 players waiting in some match windows. Like for God's sake if your game just wants to ruin my hard earned SSR over my last 20 matches, just take 100 points off it right away so I can fight someone else then rather than waste 30mins of my time trying to cheese the exact SAME Anni. I had plenty of fun fighting other decent Assaults, but the Annis srsly... just make my day.
Maybe PGI should consider putting PIRs in D1 to eat Anni crotches since they happily agreed to to that in D2. Or just let PIRs play every division for the lulz. Inb4 4xRotary KGC with AC2 will be the next cancer - there was this dude, and I tried it once before too - overcooking is irrelevant as long as your opponent is cored - S7 should implement a cooloff rule (I also abuse it too admittedly) that a survivor only wins after heat falls below 100% and has not eliminated himself.
Or maybe I should try B33F's Direstar just for the lulz. Wait... even 11PPC cheese still isnt enough alpha to blow off an Annis torso. Ya know like just **** this. I'm getting my Anni.... at least I might enjoy playing against dild*s as a dild* myself.
Edited by UnkerZ, 25 January 2019 - 07:20 PM.