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[Yig]

Not sure if it is the worst ever or just a mistake or a test, but I saw a CN9-AL packing only 2 ER PPC.

Nothing else.

[oldradagast]

Just yesterday I saw a Cicada 3C with TWO UAC5's. It was a disaster. Play with it in Mechlab and you'll see that's a challenge to even build a mech that meets the 10 heatsink limit and can launch, nevermind actually do anything. He died very fast, of course.

Edited by oldradagast, 08 May 2013 - 03:05 PM.

[Blue Splint]

The other day I was leveling up my 3L on Alpine conquest. We had a lot of lights so I went straight to kappa from the bottom spawn. As expected, I found someone capping it. What I didn't expect was a spider with no armor anywhere except the front CT, sporting a gauss rifle. I proceeded to circle it, not getting hit once, and take it down easily. If you're reading this spider dude, may I suggest using an ac/2 to blink heavies from behind - I used that to level my 5K and found it quite fun.

[Skadi]

Roughneck45, on 12 March 2013 - 09:44 AM, said:

Any mech that has a weapon loadout that can be put on a smaller chassis is a waste of tonnage and a bad build.

So that meens all mechs that arnt hunchbacks that carry 4ppc's are bad...

[Jay Z]

I saw a Centurion with 1 LRM20 and 1 LRM10. That's it. No TAG, no lasers. It died.

I don't even.....

There was also a spider with 2 ER PPCs that overheated itself.

[Regrets]

The funny thing about the OP is both shs and mpl are so inexplicably bad. You can devote 28 tons and #everycritonthemech and still have something that is worse than DHS (Oh I have tried myself). The thing will still overheat if you don't chain fire the MPL worst laser in the game! ER LL way more useful than MPL. Only thing good about them is they work well with AC20, but guess what works better, medium lasers.

The trial mechs worse than any mech with double heatsinks and full torso armor. It is hard to do worse than them. Get out as quick as you can please. Hunch back, ECM spider, ECM commando are all good choices. The centurion takes very specific builds and tactics that abuse the shield arm, do not suggest for beginners! 10MG build still better than crappy trial mechs.

[oldradagast]

Okay, I have to eat my words regarding putting piles of AC2's on Jagermechs. The first time I saw one with 4 AC2's, I thought it was an ineffective build, and the numbers can make it look that way. In reality, it's not bad at all, and after seeing more Jagermechs with similar builds I figured I'd try one myself. 3 AC2's and 2 medium lasers as backups, and it works quite well. So, my bad - that's a fine build.

I have recently seen several Cataphract 2x's running around with LRM's in the left arm. I'm not sure if there's some real benefit to firing all the missiles in a long stream - AMS would shoot them down, right? - or if the folks don't understand how the number of missile tubes interacts with the number of missiles fired. In their defense, I don't think that's explained anywhere in the game, so it's an easy mistake to make.

Oh, I also saw a Raven recently packing a huge LRM launcher. It was interesting, but didn't work out too well, though I guess I'll give the guy credit for trying something off-the-wall.

Edited by oldradagast, 12 May 2013 - 06:56 AM.

[Buckminster]

Roughneck45, on 12 March 2013 - 09:44 AM, said:

Any mech that has a weapon loadout that can be put on a smaller chassis is a waste of tonnage and a bad build.

I disagree. My Cat K2 carries twin ERPPCs and twin MGs, and is probably my most effective build. A 300XL engine, full armor and enough DHS to keep things cool and you have a mech that is built to last - while all of the alpha boats are overheating I'm still shooting and killing - by the end of the match I'm still standing with a couple extra kill notches.

Edited by Buckminster, 12 May 2013 - 10:22 AM.

[Koniving]

Worst build I seen to date. Misery. 4 PPCs + Gauss Rifle. I came up by its side. It shot once, shut down, and from fresh it died in 3 seconds due to a combination of the gauss rifle exploding and the barrage of 1 AC/2 and 1 AC/10 I kept hammering into it to finish it off.

His 55 alpha barely did anything to my 110 front torso.

The poor guy had an XL engine.

Edited by Koniving, 12 May 2013 - 10:43 AM.

[Lsq78]

Worst build i came across:
COM 2D with no ECM and a NARC.
That's it.

[Dalorante Corbanis]

Bossus 2 erppc
jenner 2 erppc
cicada 2 erppc
raven 3l 1 erppc 1 medium

[oldradagast]

Spectated on one the other day: An Atlas with 2 ERPPC's. That's it. I sadly suspect all remaining tonnage was spent on single heatsinks to sustain the 20 point alpha strikes. He died, of course.

[Furieth]

oldradagast, on 12 May 2013 - 06:55 AM, said:

Oh, I also saw a Raven recently packing a huge LRM launcher. It was interesting, but didn't work out too well, though I guess I'll give the guy credit for trying something off-the-wall.

I did that for fun for a few matches some time ago on my 3L... it was hilarious... LRM15 or 20 out of the NARC tube while your heat never goes up (it cools down during the salvo). With the 20 you can probably even shoot it again once the last missile leaves the tube - but with the 15 there is definitely a short gap. ^^

It's very entertaining - and you can switch targets DURING the salvo. But viable? Well... not at first - and certainly not to targets that know how to use cover. But you empty those AMS incredibly fast. After the 3 salvo it's probably gone or almost empty. ;-) That has to count for something, right? RIGHT?

[Yig]

I also saw a spider packing only a LB 10-X.

[PhoenixFire55]

Hunchback - 4 ERPPCs.

[Tombstoner]

ragingmunkyz, on 11 March 2013 - 10:16 PM, said:

Saw a splatcat full of SRM4's today...I can't even begin to imagine how he couldn't find the extra tons to upgrade them to SRM6's.

it so he could have a bigger engine and some more cooling.... get in fast do lots of damage and fall back. id' keep at least 2 of them as 6 however

[Parliment]

Anything in a stalker chassis .....

[Tombstoner]

Furieth, on 17 May 2013 - 06:23 AM, said:

I did that for fun for a few matches some time ago on my 3L... it was hilarious... LRM15 or 20 out of the NARC tube while your heat never goes up (it cools down during the salvo). With the 20 you can probably even shoot it again once the last missile leaves the tube - but with the 15 there is definitely a short gap. ^^

It's very entertaining - and you can switch targets DURING the salvo. But viable? Well... not at first - and certainly not to targets that know how to use cover. But you empty those AMS incredibly fast. After the 3 salvo it's probably gone or almost empty. ;-) That has to count for something, right? RIGHT?

i have also done this... its best to use an lrm 15 and place it in the rt torso where the 6 launcher goes. so yea you get off 3 salvoes... the single narc launcher was a surprise first time i did did the lrm 20. it a stream of lrms came out....

remember each lrm hit causes cockpit bounce.... how annoying is it to get hit with 20 lrms one at a time.....

[Ursus_Spiritus]

I dropped in a Hunchie with 3ERPPCs once, that was for humor only. Fire/shutdown/sit/fire/shutdown/sit... lol

That was purely intentional and that was before we had training grounds.

[Moomtazz]

Dalorante Corbanis, on 12 May 2013 - 10:49 AM, said:

Bossus 2 erppc
jenner 2 erppc
cicada 2 erppc
raven 3l 1 erppc 1 medium

No way man, dual RPPC X-5 is sweet. I regulary get 350+ damage a match and run 120kph. I don't play it like a scout though. Stick with the main force and pop in and out of cover. Small target and still fast.