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[DaZur]

Personal observation...

After playing each of my Mechs for at least a dozen rounds to try and build enough data to draw from, I've come to the conclusion that:

a.) While I have a mid 90s accuracy average for my lasers... I'm also only inflicting roughly 3.0 points of damage per hit. Conclusion = I'm hitting my targets consistently but my shots are all over the place and not inflicting maximum damage.

b.) I have been consistently wasting tonnage on ammo I'm not using. Example: My average per round rounds fired for my A/C 20 is 9, yet I carry 28 rounds of it, effectively wasting 2 tons that could be better spend elsewhere.

I have to admit, I'm a "numbers guys" and being the statistical tard that I am, I am loving the personal stats for many reasons, but specifically for numbers I can glean combat inefficiencies from, particularly like the above examples where it has allowed me to rethink my Mech strategies allowing me to build more efficient Mech designs...

Anyone else changing up their Mechs, load-outs and or persuing different tactical stratagies based on their stat profiles?

[Hobo Dan]

I haven't played enough games with them yet to get good numbers out, but that ammo usage break down sounds super useful to me.

I do wish there were some heat stats available.

Edited by Hobo Dan, 07 March 2013 - 07:50 AM.

[Redmond Spiderhammer]

I'm planning on getting a good real usage comparison between pulse and regular lasers out of it. Figure out if the actual results of pulse are worth the extra tonnage. I've already determined that artemis on SRM 6 is clearly worth the extra tonnage

[Bguk]

Totally forgot the new stats were in the profile so haven't had a chance to look. But I will say that the stats were not needed to see how much ammo one was using per match. I saw with a UAC5 loadout that I only used half the ammo per match and lessened the load.

Will be interesting to look once I get playing some more.

[DaZur]

Bguk, on 07 March 2013 - 07:50 AM, said:

Totally forgot the new stats were in the profile so haven't had a chance to look. But I will say that the stats were not needed to see how much ammo one was using per match. I saw with a UAC5 loadout that I only used half the ammo per match and lessened the load.

Will be interesting to look once I get playing some more.

Sadly with the unceremonious demise of R&R, I've not been overtly conscious of my ammo usage...

That said, with the addition of 2 additional DHS on my Brawler'Phract -1X I can now maintain a steady Mlas barrage with only a 1 point creep with each cycle (except for Caustic where it's more like 2 to 2.5 points) Not to mention the 4 to 5 45 point 5xMlas & A/C20 Alphas I can muster...

Proof that simple math does in fact come in handy!

Edited by DaZur, 07 March 2013 - 11:32 AM.

[Rocdocta]

i too am a numbers guy and one thing i have noticed is that even tho i have 92% hits for my MPL i am doing on average 2.8 damage per shot fired. ML i am doing 2.1 damage per shot from 88.8% hits. whereas my large laser is doing 4.8 per hit. in saying that the large laser is mounted on am assault mech so i have more time to aim. the MPL and MLs are mounted on scouts with less time to target points. I find it very interesting and hope they implement a more comprehensive section like they do in WoW. So far so good.

[Davers]

Turns out I am a much worse ballistic shot than I thought And my SRMs aren't much better. Shows me where I need to work on.

@DaZur I am pretty sure most people carry way more ammo than they actually need/use.

Edited by Davers, 07 March 2013 - 05:02 PM.

[Monky]

This is exactly why I support more stats being available. I hadn't realized I was shutting down to overheat often due too have 2 ER larges on my mech, swapped them for larges, and my K/D ratio went up by a lot.