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[AlmightyAeng]

Arctu, on 04 June 2013 - 10:28 AM, said:

Wonder when the first mechs with Dual AC20 and 6 medium lasers will show up. Of course you need to downsize the engine a bit ... but having a 70 damage alpha is kind of sick ...

Yes, it could be. That said, after it's taken a shot and a half, after traveling at Atlas speed, and overheats, I will look forward to blowing out its side torso. You can get stupid high alphas on other heavies, too, but that doesn't make them viable.

Not saying the FB won't be a beast, I'm sure it will...and if it's stupid OP I hope PGI will address it. In the meantime, I'm gonna have fun with it.

Edited by Ghost Badger, 04 June 2013 - 10:50 AM.

[Jolly Llama]

I love mine. Set it up in standard jagerbomb and got 4 kills in my second match. 260k cbills on a good match like that makes it a cash machine.

[Edson Drake]

It's 666, how come it isn't 6 ballistics, 6 energy and 6 missiles? I don't mind 666 at all but won't this bring unnecessary unpleasant attention to this game? I know in the past this caused ridiculous bans on games in some other countries.

I really hope PGI uses the copyrighted response: "It's not 666 it's 999!"

[Jolly Llama]

I like it. Maybe they should embrace the heat and copyright 666.

[Blue Footed Booby]

Edson Drake, on 04 June 2013 - 11:24 AM, said:

It's 666, how come it isn't 6 ballistics, 6 energy and 6 missiles? I don't mind 666 at all but won't this bring unnecessary unpleasant attention to this game? I know in the past this caused ridiculous bans on games in some other countries.

I really hope PGI uses the copyrighted response: "It's not 666 it's 999!"

Is this a serious post? I can't tell anymore.

[Skydrive]

Arctu, on 04 June 2013 - 10:28 AM, said:

Oh, I totally missed the max engine rating of 340. So it's even faster and probably more maneuvrable than the K2 now ... this has to be the good handle PGI has on balancing things. Wonder if Firebrand will have only one more module slots than the K2 like the other Jagermechs or it was decided to double that advantage just for the fun of it.

65 tons can be a lot of firepower and is far from being a disadvantage, its exatly the same as the other Jagermechs or Catapults.

Wonder when the first mechs with Dual AC20 and 6 medium lasers will show up. Of course you need to downsize the engine a bit ... but having a 70 damage alpha is kind of sick ...

Cant be done. You can do 2 AC20s and 4 Med lasers, but the AC20s wont leave any room for any Med lasers in those arms.

[Finn McShae]

Stock loadout makes me happy, this will be nice to grind cbills for my Ori......... crap, I guess Victors?

[Edson Drake]

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Is this a serious post? I can't tell anymore.

Sorry, sarcasm got the best of me. The only serious part is about the 666 controversy.

[Arctu]

Skydrive, on 04 June 2013 - 11:37 AM, said:

Cant be done. You can do 2 AC20s and 4 Med lasers, but the AC20s wont leave any room for any Med lasers in those arms.

I'm really glad you are right about this.

[Empyrus]

In case someone is interested, JagerMech III loadout, with tweaks for current tech level. Otherwise accurate to the boardgame version, recommend slight tweaks if you're going to use this (move ammo, tweak armor).
JagerMech III

Edited by Empyrus, 04 June 2013 - 01:30 PM.

[Raso]

SMDMadCow, on 04 June 2013 - 10:44 AM, said:

Will the E HPs matter when people run them as AC40 Jagers?

I suspect most people will still run them that way. Yes, you COULD run them with large lasers and AC5s in the arms or several PPCs or what ever nifty combination you could think of to take advantage of the arm mounted energy slots. But in the end I suspect we'll see most people running with AC40 Jagers or load the thing with PPCs because min/maxing has no place for creativity or originality.

[SpartanFiredog317]

UAC5 x2 6x ML .....near perfect ambusher. Friday is payday....

[Hauser]

http://mwo.smurfy-ne...71c4974741663d0

I'm playing this right now and it seriously kicks ***. Fast enough to manoeuvre and maintain the range. I'm not using ERPPC's because they run to hot for good damage output at range. The 4 mlas work nicely at shorter range.

http://mwo.smurfy-ne...22b9f8969639e68

Now I've tried this yet. I'm afraid it might be to fragile but at 90kphs and 43% cooling it looks tempting. It can sustain constant ppc fire or 18 seconds of alpha.

[Angel of Annihilation]

Wish they had a try before you buy option on these real money mechs. So far I have been lucky in my purchase of Flame and Heavy Metal although the game has changed enough now that Flame really isn't as good mech as it was when I bought it. However I hate to spend almost 5000 MC on a mech I don't even know if I will enjoy.

[LTGear]

what i need is a 70 ton jagger with jumpjets & with 6 ballistic hard points.

[Phashe]

InMidnightClad, on 28 May 2013 - 08:05 PM, said:

Well... As a light pilot I was hoping against hope that this hero was going to be either a Spider or Raven... Guess us lights will just go back to our... *Grimace* Deaths Knell while all the rest of you guys work on your 3-4 Hero mechs per weight class.

Also on a separate rant. When are they going to go back to giving us a little bit of lore with these things instead of just slapping a pretty paint job on a bill and calling it a day. When they first started going off cannon for Heros I was fine with it. Because those first few all had written stories that made them part of the fluff, Expanded the universe. Now i just feel like I'm being marketed to and I want to go back to not seeing behind the curtains.

You do understand that bigger mechs mean bigger bucks to PGI, right? :-) 4,000MC-7,000MC each - ouch. It is a business afterall I guess.

All I want is a Heavy Machine Gun or ballistic 2-5t weapon... Maybe a third Dragon Hero... LOL

[SpartanFiredog317]

LTGear, on 04 June 2013 - 05:12 PM, said:

what i need is a 70 ton jagger with jumpjets & with 6 ballistic hard points.

Take the missile and energy hardpoints away from the CTF4X, add two ballistic slots in the torsos, add Jumpjets and boost the engine rating to a 360.... Beautiful.

[Bishop Steiner]

Hauser, on 04 June 2013 - 02:20 PM, said:

http://mwo.smurfy-ne...71c4974741663d0

I'm playing this right now and it seriously kicks ***. Fast enough to manoeuvre and maintain the range. I'm not using ERPPC's because they run to hot for good damage output at range. The 4 mlas work nicely at shorter range.

http://mwo.smurfy-ne...22b9f8969639e68

Now I've tried this yet. I'm afraid it might be to fragile but at 90kphs and 43% cooling it looks tempting. It can sustain constant ppc fire or 18 seconds of alpha.

i run XLs in most of my Jagers. HArdly find em fragile.

[Bagheera]

So, it seems we are okay with hero mechs being, by and large, faster than their counterparts?

Appears to be the general consensus as they've come along, anyway.

Edited by Bagheera, 04 June 2013 - 06:44 PM.

[Bishop Steiner]

Bagheera, on 04 June 2013 - 06:43 PM, said:

So, it seems we are okay with hero mechs being, by and large, faster than their counterparts?

Appears to be the general consensus as they've come along, anyway.

until I actually find Heros taking over the Meta due to their "superiority" I have no issue. It certainly ain't happened yet. Heavy Metal and Misery were both screamed P2W.... and were laughably not.