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[Escef]

I'll admit, skimping on leg armor works in MWO on larger mechs because no one goes for the legs.

I don't like the idea of dumping heat sinks, those ERLLs are heat pigs. And rather needed in Alpine (which doesn't crop up nearly as often as I'd like).

[Royalewithcheese]

IMO, the thing to keep in mind that while double heatsinks >>>>>>>>> single heatsinks, the marginal difference between your 17th and 18th double heatsink is not actually that significant in terms of your ability to shoot your guns. At the end of the day, though, its your robot and the best build for it is the one that works the best for you

(My advice, though, would be to spring for the AC/20 and see how you like it. Worst-case, you swap the AC/10 and DHS back in and put the AC/20 on another mech later.)

[Escef]

Royalewithcheese, on 03 March 2013 - 11:45 AM, said:

(My advice, though, would be to spring for the AC/20 and see how you like it. Worst-case, you swap the AC/10 and DHS back in and put the AC/20 on another mech later.)

I am considering it. Heaven's forbid, during the brief period I tried a 20cat, despite the fact that the lack of speed drove me nuts, watching the way an AC20 can rock even a big mech is nice.

[Anony Mouse]

Being a large proponent and user of the AC20, I am gonna toss my hat in the "Get an AC20" ring. I described my DDC earlier in this thread and you can see I rock an AC20. The only thing with the Atlas though is its easy to invest the weight and space while most people are gunning for that right torso, its not hard to lose you're main weapon.

[Johnny Reb]

Helmstif, on 02 March 2013 - 01:35 PM, said:

My vote goes for 350 too. You can make tons of good builds with that, along with another level of maneuverability.

This you can do it with endo and the dhs in the engine make up for it!

[MisterPlanetarian]

I had no idea getting a bigger engine also improved torso speed. Thought it was only acceleration and turning aswell as top speed ofcourse.

[Coltaine]

My DC:

325 standard engine
ECM
Artemis
1x AC/20
3x SRM6
2x MLAS
18x Double Heatsinks
4x AC/20 ammo
3x SRM6 ammo
leg armor reduced to 33
arm armor reduced to 51

Works great so far and is fast enough for my taste. It will barely overheat if I don't get on a rampage and fire all weapons all the time. Artemis gives my SRM6 more range. Sometimes SRM ammo will run out first but usually it has enough ammo for a full match. I'll try the 350 std engine variant in the future though but I think it will not run as cool as my current version so it has to wait until I bought the other stuff I want to have. I really need more cbills

To compensate the reduced armor with pure awesomeness I painted the whole Atlas obsidian black put more red light into the eye sockets.. Works very good on snow maps where it says "I'm so awesome, I don't need camo!" to the enemy.