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[Doppelsoldner King Crab]

To all new players (as well as veterans).

As the title says, The Best Mech for you isn't necessarily your favorite.

I've been a Cataphract user since it was included in the mech line-up.
I first started with the Catapult-A1 (when streaks were OP) but the cockpit placement and the general hate for it made me discontinue it.

I've got all of the Cataphract variants fitted with all kinds of loadouts, changing it frequently.
Damage was 200 average to 400-500 in a good game. 600-700 in a great game.

CTF-2X. it was a brawling beast with 2x6ssrms and an ac/20, MLs
CTF-1X. the laser boat. 3 x ERLL and keeping distance beyond 800m ensures auto-win.
CTF-4x. 4x2ac/2. 2xuac/5+2xac/5. 4xac/5. it cores assaults in seconds
then there's the 3D, the salvation of the CTF chassis.

I was in love with the frame. got used to it's handling and size.
The hardpoint placement was all-too-perfect.

Now, what the hell happened? You say?
The poptarting HGNs came and pretty much killed my favorite chassis.

This may and well happened to most of you guys, as seen in the forums... some came close to quitting... some actually did.

Please do not lose hope.
Try another chassis that may well be suited to you however ugly it looks for your personal taste (i'm looking at you jenner!) and maybe that's the right chassis for you.

Started trying out other chassis and tested a dragon.
Well... i do not particularly like the chassis, and the looks. The hardpoint placement stinks.
But here's my "new" stats.
300-400 average. 500-700 on a good game. 800+ in a great game.
75-85% accuracy on a lone gauss rifle (40 ammo)
very high kill rate with 3 x ac/2.
I feel this is the best chassis for me, even if i do not like it.

this thing handles like a dream. it's like a horizontal poptarter.
how and why? put a 350xl. the acceleration and deceleration in-and-out of cover is very fast.
XL? that's suicide, you say! equipping it is not so bad since you could go to cover faster and quicker torso twist means the damage of lasers are scattered among torsos.

My final message to pilots having a hard time to adjust with the FOTM.
Don't quit. Try another chassis, it may well be more suited to your playstyle.

AND SHOOT THOSE POPTARTS OUT OF THE FREAKING SKY~!

[Wintersdark]

The best mechs for me are my favourites. There are better mechs than my favourites, no doubt, but I do far better in the mechs I love.

My Flame? It's not a bad mech, but nobody argues that Dragons are OP. I absolutely love it to bits, and do quite well in it - better than I do in other Heavies. Low damage numbers, but very high kill rate - precision fire ftw! On the other hand, I loathe Cataphracts, but they're (particularly the Ilya and 3D) easily the best heavies overall.

[Alekzander Smirnoff]

I have three HGN's, and I can say, I do not poptart 90% of the time. Its too dangerous and honestly stupid. I've lost legs really quickly due to rewinds and my location being out of sync putting torso hits onto legs. Besides it seems I get shot at by five other mechs if I do pop up out of cover (read: no longer any kind of horizontal cover to mechs that would normally be out of firing arc if I walked beside while still behind the obstruction) instead of walk out of cover.

I can say this though, after piloting and mastering HBK, CPLT, AWS, HGN, AS7, elite CMD, and just basic on the Ilya since I don't own any other CTF's. I generally fair better in assaults than medium/heavy's.

[Doppelsoldner King Crab]

I've tried the HGN chassis. It's great.

The deal with mechs with jumpjets is that some damage that are aimed at the torsos go to the legs due to the vertical movement.
so if you deal 200 damage on a dragon, the torso's get majority of damage.
in a poptart, the damage may well be spread out to the legs.
35 armor on legs is completely viable on non-jumpjet CTF chassis.
majority of times, you will die to torso damage.
but putting 35 on the JJ CTF-3D legs is suicide.
putting 50 is still dangerous on a 3D, but with damage spread, it's endurance is increased making XL engines very viable.

in my experience the HGN could poptart vertically real well but the 3D could poptart in a vertical-diagonal pattern (lauching at full speed sideways) which is really annoying to an enemy.

in a different perspective. JJ-HGNs are easy to shoot at with LL and ERLL but against a diagonal-lauching CTF-3D, the shooting solution is way way wayyy difficult.

If you feel the HGN to be too slow, testing a 3D might not be so bad.
coming from the CTF to the HGN, i felt i've lost that diagonal movement during flight which was critical for aimers to miss.

[TemplarGFX]

The best mechs for me are the 5 in my mech bay

I have different mechs for different roles. The only downside is that at the moment you cannot tell where you are going to be dropped until after choosing your mech, which makes choosing somewhat of a hit and miss.

[Parliment]

5D just a big pile of giggle and run. I get decent kills and 300+ damage a match normally. Its just to much fun coring poptards then run and snicker.