Royalewithcheese, on 05 March 2013 - 12:04 PM, said:
The plot thickens on "which SRM is best SRM?" - apparently Artemis gives them a new flight path as of this patch!
I tried the srm6 and srm6 plus artemis today post patch. Considering the following I came to the conclusion I prefer them non-artemis, at the cost of 1.2 mill to test across a dozen battles.
-usually either im mostly hitting or missing with the srms6s, and the slight spread actually tends to graze a little when I miss, where the 3srm6+artemis misses entirely. On landed shots, it seems to do about as much damage, a point you had made before that on 6's you noticed little benefit with artemis included. Today those words echoed in my own head, and I agree. Now I did not know that, about the flight path, but still felt the advantage was slight.
I think this is mostly because my build is a, im behind cover, your pretty close, I pop out and im in your face kind of build (tough to utilize on alpine). Most of my shots are 50-0 meters away, and I tend to face hug. It maximizes the srm impact for sure, so I feel the artemis for my play style, and my own experiences, is not for me with 3 x srm6. I can see a similiar "im deadly at 200 meters, and float at 200 meters" version having a totally different opinion however.
Also, those last three pounds, they are like 3 pounds of flesh, so hard to bear losing. Most of my versions tend to be low ammo, or floating on what I call, sub-optimal heat efficiency, so shaving three pounds hurts too much for the benefits it gives me. This is my opinion.
Keep in mind this opinion cuts against the advice of Panda whom I consider to be, well, very very good. I read and re-read his linked post a number of times. I am sad I did not come to his same conclusions he has, and hope this does not mean my thinking and personal experiences will prevent me from reaching his skill level. I would be interested in watching him play his build. My guess is he shorts himself on cooling, because he is good enough to control his fire/heat ratio with trigger discipline. Me, I tend to fire all weapons, so I lean towards more heat displacement.
At sniper and wrench. Please be mutually polite, and dont mind his advice impacting me negatively (though I apprecaite the gesture), its just credits, and I will get more. Thank you
both for caring enough to post.
Would be cool to see Sniper in action with his build as well, for me, it always seemed I got alpine when I was trying to test it.
Edited by I am, 05 March 2013 - 09:29 PM.