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[Dude42]

Last night I saw a spider with a single LRM 5 and a tag. I spectated him after I died. He was sitting there firing missiles just like a real LRM boat. I laughed so hard, literal tears where wiped. I could say nothing but "Good Show" when we lost the round, because of how hard I was laughing.

Have you guys ever seen a spider fire a LRM 5? the missiles come out 1 at a time, like 1 second apart. A single AMS anywhere on the map stops all of them. His damage total:23. He was the last mech standing because everyone ignored him. Oh, and he had like 700 missiles. At the rate that spider was firing them, even if the held the button down for the entire 15 minutes of the round, he'd still have over half of them left.

Worst build I have ever seen.

[Ramien]

I just finished a match with a Jenner that had one LRM 5. No TAG, no AMS, just that lone LRM. They had 14 damage at the end of the match.

[Stokes52]

Today I saw someone pilot a Spider 5D with ONE medium laser and a FLAMER! SO BAD!

...

Oh wait, that's the stock 5D build....

[Tahribator]

Dude42, on 06 June 2013 - 01:51 PM, said:

Last night I saw a spider with a single LRM 5 and a tag. I spectated him after I died. He was sitting there firing missiles just like a real LRM boat. I laughed so hard, literal tears where wiped. I could say nothing but "Good Show" when we lost the round, because of how hard I was laughing.

Spiders don't have missile hardpoints, the joke's on you.

[IonicOrange]

Hunchback armed with nothing but tag lasers that entered our pug drop yesterday

[White Bear 84]

Does ANY mech with and LBX-10 count?

[slide]

Saw an Atlas once with nothing but LRMs. It was even during one of the periods when LRM's weren't OP

[Dude42]

Tahribator, on 07 June 2013 - 05:45 AM, said:

Spiders don't have missile hardpoints, the joke's on you.

Damn.. What was it then? A Commando? Bah. It was a light mech with a single LRM 5 and TAG, and he just hid in the back and stood still firing LRMs one at a time, that much I know for sure, Still worst build I've ever seen.

[Kal Mango]

How a about a DDC with No ECM, and 2 ER PPCs. and 3 LRM 5's, and he still would over heat. Saw another DDC with no ecm and an XL engine. I saw him die, with one shoulder hit! he was my short lived meat-shield.

[FERAL TIGER]

whenever I spectate it's more the accuracy or shot timing that kills me.

But ive seen some cataphracts with odd builds, ones that could be used better on a different chassis.

Edited by FERAL TIGER, 18 June 2013 - 02:20 PM.

[Thunder Lips Express]

a blackjack with ac5 and uac5. it may work for some people but i just don't see the point in this build.
also a centurian with 2 medium lasers and an lrm 5...

[FERAL TIGER]

Ecliptor, on 18 June 2013 - 01:42 PM, said:

a blackjack with ac5 and uac5. it may work for some people but i just don't see the point in this build.
also a centurian with 2 medium lasers and an lrm 5...

Agreed, I really don't see the point of an LRM 5

[80sGlamRockSensation David Bowie]

An Atlas AS7-K with 2 ams, 2 large pulse lasers, an LBx10 and a tag.

He died promptly.

[GhostBear64]

Hey whats wrong with Snipping with a LB10X He-He !!! Yep some folks have bad builds and others just miss the meta-game its Ok they will get the idea eventually !! Oh and my Atlas RS has 4 LL and a Guass by the way !!!

[Buckminster]

Saw one today that was absolutely awful - a BlackJack with 4 ERPPCs. His top speed was only 36 kph, and after two volleys he was overheated and shut down.

He was on our team, the last survivor in an Conquest game. Two mechs came towards him, he fired twice, and then left himself as a stationary target for easy pickings.

[Aim64C]

One of the craziest builds I've ever tried was an 8-flamer blackjack 1x.

I've only tried it once since the patch that buffed flamers... it probably would have worked out better if we were still playing back in the days of weapons that don't one-shot the mech you're in.

It was still absolutely hilarious. I can only imagine what was going through those guys' minds when they realized that all I was packing were flamers, and I was currently burning their founder paint scheme off.

I've also run a catapult K2 with 2 AC2s. I was trying to get a hang of the weapon to use on the Blackjack... but in a chassis that was a little more robust and could hold a bit of ammo for me to plink with.

It wasn't a bad idea, per se... but it was probably a rather puzzling build to all who encountered it. It wasn't -ineffective- ... just there are certainly more effective ways to employ that chassis.

[Kamies]

The other day I saw a commando with 2 large pulse lasers. No armor and very small engine.

And then there is my Quickdraw 5K with 6 PPCs. If the hit registeration would work, it might be ok but now it is just bad.

[jper4]

FERAL TIGER, on 18 June 2013 - 02:16 PM, said:

Agreed, I really don't see the point of an LRM 5

i could see it used as an AMS burner. since amds doesn;t care if it's a LRM 5 or LRM 20 it's going to spit out the same amount of anit-missiles either way if i understand it right. that and some supression value if the target doesn;t see what;s coming and just gets the "incoming missiles" msg and goes to hide or stay under cover not knowing if some quad LRM 20 missile boat just openned up on them or not.

as far as for causing damge though- i wouldn;t bother. other than against a slow moving light it's not going to do much.

[Avatara]

Every so often I will bring Charlotte out to play. Spider 1 guass rifle, 1 small laser. I call her my "poor mans Urbie"

[CDLord HHGD]

Stalker with nothing but an AMS........

He said it was an accident.