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[Catalinasgrace]

Yes I have them too however I do not use ssrms on any mech I have... I have a challenge for you!!! We all know you like your glory of being the top killer and damage dealer in your light mech. We know that most who fly the 3L or commandos with ssrms have an easy mode button to beat other lights. So here is my challenge to you. Remove the ssrms and use only srms and lets see just how great you are at that point. You are the elite light pilots correct? Lets see it in action! Remove the ssrms and lets see which light mech is really the king.

[The Cheese]

They're gonna have to fix the netcode again before anything like this is gonna happen.

[One Medic Army]

The assault mechs are gunna hate this, and the Jenners are gunna love it.

[80sGlamRockSensation David Bowie]

LOL

If you take ssrms away from the Ravens, they are absolutely harmless. Notice some kind of correlation there? They will never do it because then they would actually need to be good -- too afraid of getting their mechs crushed by those who can actually pilot & aim at the same time.

I can't wait for collisions to come back.

Edited by mwhighlander, 25 February 2013 - 03:31 PM.

[Catalinasgrace]

One Medic Army, on 25 February 2013 - 03:26 PM, said:

The assault mechs are gunna hate this, and the Jenners are gunna love it.

Yes but I suspect nobody will take me up on my challenge anyway because they will LOSE and they might actually have to do something besides lock and fire... People like the easy button and easy win...

[Gaan Cathal]

If you can reliably use SRMs well, you're better off putting them in a light than SSRMs. The SSRM advantage is that they require zero attention/skill/effort to use.

[Major Derps]

I'm not a big fan on ssrms. In the time wasted waiting around for lock, you could have loosed an SRM4 (only half a tonne more) volley, and be out of the enemies LOS circling behind cover for your next pass.

Edited by Mokey Mot, 25 February 2013 - 03:34 PM.

[Catalinasgrace]

mwhighlander, on 25 February 2013 - 03:30 PM, said:

LOL

If you take ssrms away from the Ravens, they are absolutely harmless. Notice some kind of correlation there?

no they aren't... I've taken down many mechs including atlas with 2 medium pulse lasers... Besides on my 3L I use srm6's and have broken the 600+ dmg many times...

[Augustus Martelus]

I really want collisions back.....we will see who are good pilots or not.

[RavenX11R6]

i actually swap out between srms and ssrms on my ravens and commandos... i also use lrms sometimes... granted i'm more of an annoyance to heavier mechs than anything... though to be honest i'm still not that good only getting around 300-400 damage a game depending on how i'm doing at the time, and i may get 1 or 2 kills but usually i just get a couple assists.

again nothing too amazing and with or without streaks i'm just an ok pilot. vastly improved from when i first started playing but still not the killing machine some light pilots are. so yeah at least for me, the loadout doesn't matter so much as how i'm doing that match.

[80sGlamRockSensation David Bowie]

Catalinasgrace, on 25 February 2013 - 03:33 PM, said:

no they aren't... I've taken down many mechs including atlas with 2 medium pulse lasers... Besides on my 3L I use srm6's and have broken the 600+ dmg many times...

So, you're telling me you use SRM6's on your Raven? Then my comment does not apply to you.

[One Medic Army]

The scariest 3L Ravens I see mount SRM6+SSRM2.
Those are the ones who can aim, and they output double the missile damage of a streak-only 3L against anything they hit.

Heck, most 3L pilots are too dumb to hold fire for an extra .5sec to get a clean shot on an exposed torso.

Edited by One Medic Army, 25 February 2013 - 03:35 PM.

[Major Derps]

Augustus Martelus, on 25 February 2013 - 03:33 PM, said:

I really want collisions back.....we will see who are good pilots or not.

Same here, a lot less people will be as keen to get in the face of an atlas...especially if they do the collisions well, and make the arms capable of dealing collision damage. My RS will really be the ultimate brawler then, and will finally have a use for those giant fists .

Edited by Mokey Mot, 25 February 2013 - 03:38 PM.

[Augustus Martelus]

I made 3 variants of the trench bucket with Srms. They are fast (most of them go over 95 kph with speed tweak, one even go at 103 kph) and deadly. I have no problem with alpine even if its a fast short range brawler. Just need to be careful.

no xl engine,

Just the thing i hate is lagshield with some lights lol

[80sGlamRockSensation David Bowie]

Augustus Martelus, on 25 February 2013 - 03:39 PM, said:

I made 3 variants of the trench bucket with Srms. They are fast (most of them go over 95 kph with speed tweak, one even go at 103 kph) and deadly. I have no problem with alpine even if its a fast short range brawler. Just need to be careful.

no xl engine,

Just the thing i hate is lagshield with some lights lol

A good trebby build/ pilot devours Raven-3Ls. Other than my Cataphracts, the Trebby is my hunter killer mech -- love hunting down wanna be light pilots.

[Jacmac]

One Medic Army, on 25 February 2013 - 03:26 PM, said:

The assault mechs are gunna hate this, and the Jenners are gunna love it.

You are making it seem as if any Raven pilot will pay any attention to the OP's request. I don't know why he bothered posting, 99% of the players will never see it and those that do won't care about it.

[Funkadelic Mayhem]

I run normal srms on my 3L. I get more dmg and kills. You dont know the Pandora's box you opened with this challenge. if you thought you hated 3L with ssrm, wait tell a 3L who can aim and knows about open doors loads up normal srms. LOL.

Edited by Funkadelic Mayhem, 25 February 2013 - 03:48 PM.

[Kyone Akashi]

One Medic Army, on 25 February 2013 - 03:35 PM, said:

Heck, most 3L pilots are too dumb to hold fire for an extra .5sec to get a clean shot on an exposed torso.

To be fair, given how missile splash damage works, they don't really need to. At least not against other Lights, given component sizes and the detonation radius.

[ArcDemon]

Mokey Mot, on 25 February 2013 - 03:32 PM, said:

I'm not a big fan on ssrms. In the time wasted waiting around for lock, you could have loosed an SRM4 (only half a tonne more) volley, and be out of the enemies LOS circling behind cover for your next pass.

'next pass' only works against mechs that can actually be out maneuvered by lights. It's for this reason that streaks used by or against mediums and above are mostly balanced (against mediums or above the damage is small, and bigger mechs can use streaks to force lights to retreat out of sight where they can't be hit).

However when you are talking about light vs light there is no 'next pass' - one or both of those lights are going to roll like a dog fighter and pursue the other. That makes escaping streaks a much less likely proposition. The streaker will pursue and lob streaks. With the 3L your only hope is either for the pilot to be an *****, or to draw it close enough to some teammates who will hit it.

I would really love to play my Commando 1B, it's fun for harassing big mechs and I've had some good duels and rumbles with light mechs. But as soon as a 2D or 3L shows up (unless it's piloted by an *****) it's a math game. At that point it's not whether you beat the 3L, it's if you manage to survive the encounter at all. I could pilot my 2D, but it's boring and repetitive - dominate all lights by pressing one button, die when a 3L decides to attack.

[The Cheese]

Catalinasgrace, on 25 February 2013 - 03:33 PM, said:

no they aren't... I've taken down many mechs including atlas with 2 medium pulse lasers... Besides on my 3L I use srm6's and have broken the 600+ dmg many times...

Mad skills brah.