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[Rushin Roulette]

Sifright, on 12 March 2013 - 03:56 AM, said:

WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG.

SRM 2, 5 Damage 2 heat =0.4 Heat per damage

SRM 4 10 Damage 3 heat. = 0.3 Heat per Damage

SRM 6, 15 Damage 4 Heat. = 0.266666 Heat per Damage.

Srm6 does the most damage with most heat efficiency the only down side is a slight drop firing speed.

SRM6 is the better weapon for heat by a large margin and switching to SRM4 drops sustained DPS.

Even more wrong, wrong, wrong;
6 times SRM4 = 18 heat (plus more tonage free to add more heatsinks)
6 times SRM6 = 24 heat (without the extra heatsinks).

As for sustained fire, the SRM 4 Boat can shoot more alphas than the SRM6 boat before overheating.

CPLT-A1 SRM6 with Max sutained DPS at 5,40

CPLT-A1 SRM4 with bigger engine, more heatsinks and more ammo added fro teh saved tonnage with a max DPS of 5,66

The SRM6 Cat can easily outdamage the SRM4 cat in terms of Alpha damage and take down a low armored opponent, but the SRM4 Cat and easily outlast the SRM6 Cat in a prolonged firefight.

[Squash]

Saw a (very slow) 6 PPC stalker last night. It was great watching him shoot, shutdown, powerup, shoot....the whole match.

[Modo44]

Squash, on 27 May 2013 - 12:32 PM, said:

Saw a (very slow) 6 PPC stalker last night. It was great watching him shoot, shutdown, powerup, shoot....the whole match.

Are you sure you are not talking about a 4ERPPC Atlas RS?

[Squash]

Modo44, on 27 May 2013 - 12:34 PM, said:

Are you sure you are not talking about a 4ERPPC Atlas RS?

Very sure it was a 6ppc stalker

[Inkarnus]

DDC with 3 LRM 10 and 2x ER large laser without ballistics

Edited by Inkarnus, 28 May 2013 - 05:12 PM.

[Modo44]

I think I can top that: 3 x LRM15 + 2 x MPLAS.

[Inkarnus]

thats not badder its more efficient lol

[oldradagast]

Had one today: Match begins and a guy asks who else on our team is slow... he's clocking in at around 47 kph. I assumed he was in an assault mech with a downsized engine (painful enough)... nope, it was a medium mech. I can't even imagine why this happened...

[Jay Z]

oldradagast, on 31 May 2013 - 05:03 PM, said:

Had one today: Match begins and a guy asks who else on our team is slow... he's clocking in at around 47 kph. I assumed he was in an assault mech with a downsized engine (painful enough)... nope, it was a medium mech. I can't even imagine why this happened...

Boomcada? Noisy Cricket? Dakkacada? Stalkacada? 4 PPC hunchback? Large Laserback? Blackjackbomb?

So many excellent reasons

[Hexenhammer]

Wow. After reading some of the builds here I don't feel so bad about the atlas I am playing.

And the more I play the atlas the more I get the feeling its not for me.

[Commander Kobold]

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.

umm... no

[Modo44]

Inkarnus, on 29 May 2013 - 04:32 AM, said:

thats not badder its more efficient lol

I did not expect this, but the 3xLRM15+2xMPLAS Atlas has been topped. By the same thing sans lasers.

BTW, maybe the first post could be edited to include, say, 3 "top" builds for every chassis.

Edited by Modo44, 01 June 2013 - 01:12 AM.

[Jay Z]

While there are many terrible builds out there, some can actually be useful. At first I thought a Catapult A1 with just 4 SRM 6 was bad, until I blew its side torso off to reveal it was running standard and it kept brawling. Clever. In another match, I saw a Blackjackbomb (BJ with 2xAC20). Slow, weak but one big punch. It got a kill before being murdered.

In a completely unrelated tangent, I was messing around in mechlab and found that you can indeed drop 28.5 million on a rubbish yet functional mech. AS7-K Please don't run this.

[Modo44]

No, you can not. The in-game mechlab will only let you buy 1 BAP.

[ZBeren]

Saw a stalker with 4x larges... and a tag... that's it.

[EV1LSPOCK]

Alymbic, on 11 March 2013 - 10:01 PM, said:

I saw a DDC without ecm last night

Interestingly, when you buy a brand new D-DC (post patch) it doesn't come with the ECM equipped. You have to earn/have enough c-bills to buy it first, then equip it.

[Kaeb Odellas]

Before they added engine limits I tried throwing a 400 STD into an Atlas to see what else I could fit in there.

I think I managed an SRM4 and 4 small lasers. It was rather ineffective.

[kevin roshak]

I ran a rediculously terrible dragon while i was getting some money to finish the upgrades when i got tired of my other three mechs. I did get a 3 kill match in it somehow

http://mwo.smurfy-ne...58b062ed3cd1557

I ran a rediculously terrible dragon while i was getting some money to finish the upgrades when i got tired of my other three mechs. I did get a 3 kill match in it somehow

http://mwo.smurfy-ne...58b062ed3cd1557

[oldradagast]

Kaeb Odellas, on 01 June 2013 - 12:44 PM, said:

Before they added engine limits I tried throwing a 400 STD into an Atlas to see what else I could fit in there.

I think I managed an SRM4 and 4 small lasers. It was rather ineffective.

Sounds like you basically build a Charger! Not that doing so is a good thing, of course... hehehe

[Lord Perversor]

Kaeb Odellas, on 01 June 2013 - 12:44 PM, said:

Before they added engine limits I tried throwing a 400 STD into an Atlas to see what else I could fit in there.

I think I managed an SRM4 and 4 small lasers. It was rather ineffective.

On Mw4 i got the bad habit to strip all the speed of the Mechs in order to cram as many weapons as possible, then balance the heat.

When i get into the closed Beta very little i knew about the way MWO mounts Mech so i keep the very same principle and tried my 1st Atlas crammed in a STD 100 and put on as many weapons as possible.

I can't remember the exact loadout but i do remember it took me 5 mins to move something like 2x Squares in forest colony before a light Mech started to cap my base and i had to return... think the top speed was soemthing between 18 and 28 Kph.