DocBach, on 06 June 2013 - 11:00 PM, said:
You want to keep the enemy at around 300m and hope your team screens
Must be nice in your fantasy world.
My experience most of the time - Medium 'Mech 1 and 2 run out after the light chasing it fruitlessly. Light mech 1 and 2 run out to cap and do who knows what. Heavy 'Mech 1 and 2 are busy sniping DIFFERENT 'Mechs across the map. Assault 'Mech 1 is trying to be a hero and walks out into the middle and quickly gets killed. If I try and stay with the "pack" which almost never stays together, I get eaten alive by enemy regardless of what I bring (assault - slow) because everybody is doing their own thing in different parts of the map.
So, I usually sit at the back of the pack before it splits up and try to support them. I shoot at an enemy already engaged to help melt if faster. The faster it melts, the sooner the "team" will converge on the same targets raising the probability we will win.
Shortly after the engagement begins in earnest, there is no pack, just a bunch of players doing their own thing. The rare occasions the pack stays together and WORKS TOGETHER, I stay within ECM range (my ECM umbrella over them). I need to stay back some to ensure a charging 'Mech stays at least 180M out. If it is any closer, I'm tossing snowballs at them. One Laser is pretty much useless. One AC is petty much useless. If I add much more, I'm no longer a LRM boat. I usually get 2-5 kills as strictly a LRM boat. Last night I got 6 kills in one match. Should I really trade in my lrm's for other things and be good at NOTHING because I've got my ranges and damage spread out? Useless with one laser up close. Useless with one AC up close or at range and take up a lot of LRM ammo space.
Please open up your minds, THINK for yourself. Just because someone plays a different 'Mech, style, uses a different loadout than you do doesn't not mean it is cr4p. Unless I end up in the wrong place at the wrong time, I usually get 2-5 kills, with the remainder as assists. I get 300-500 damage in a typical match. I've gotten over 1000 damage several times in a match, is this cr4p? My average would be higher if people kept target locks longer, but I don't mind. They are playing THEIR game, not mine. They are having FUN playing THEIR piece of the game. Let me play mine and don't flame me in game or in the forums. This is a GAME.
Should PGI make only one mech, with one load out? How fun would that be? "Well, this is the best mech we can make so we will only allow players to use this one".
Edited by Barberian, 07 June 2013 - 11:02 AM.