I like the Cataphract. It's a solid all-round mech with weapon loads that fit my play style. The only problem is that at some point, I just started dying in it, over and over. When I first started skilling the Cataphract up, it lasted a fairly long time under fire, as you'd expect from a heavy, but now I seem to die in this mech much more easily than in nearly anything else, to a degree that I'm sure it's not a coincidence. It's obviously hard to tell what you're getting hit by, but just now I took a volley of two large lasers & some SRM's, and all my front armour suddenly vanished. The game before that, I was facing down an Atlas with yellow armour, then instantly died.
And to get some usual suspects out the way:
--Maximum armour.
--No obvious signs of lagging / low FPS that might result in my taking lots of shots and only seeing a few of them.
--No ammo in the torso, or anywhere that lost armour.
--No snipers that might have shot me from extreme range.
--Not facing a massive-alpha boating build, at least in the cases I mentioned.
I'm just curious if anyone else has run into this phenomena, and if it's a known bug. Because the Phract is pretty much unusable at the moment, dying easier than every other mech I've used.
Edited by Accursed Richards, 12 April 2013 - 09:34 AM.
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