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[TercieI]

Teer5, on 15 October 2016 - 09:08 PM, said:

Yes I meant targetting them when using them. I have seen people to target those strikes but somehow never managed to do it myself. I thought maybe it required some unlocking. I'll try doing it like that.

You can tell that you have it targeted when the infinity range symbol changes to an actual range number. Then fire the strike and the strike will go off directly below.

el piromaniaco, on 16 October 2016 - 01:20 PM, said:

I once saw one shot down by LRMs.

I've killed quite a few with clan streaks. Cracks me up every time. No reason you couldn't do it with LRMs (except for the you-should-never-mount-LRMs thing).

[TheCaptainJZ]

el piromaniaco, on 16 October 2016 - 01:20 PM, said:

I once saw one shot down by LRMs.

I once did this, no lock!

[TheCaptainJZ]

TercieI, on 16 October 2016 - 01:29 PM, said:

You can tell that you have it targeted when the infinity range symbol changes to an actual range number. Then fire the strike and the strike will go off directly below.

This is also true if you are aiming at a mech. It will place at their feet. Be careful to check the range if peeking around a corner as the hitboxes of the environment usually stick out a little and you could wind up dropping it on yourself!

[mailin]

I actually took out an enemy UAV once with an air strike, but I don't think it's easily repeatable. And yes, I have taken them out with lrms a few times, both with and without a lock.

[p4r4g0n]

Teer5, on 15 October 2016 - 02:41 PM, said:

So of UEVs, artillery and air strike, is it possible to target them?

Teer5, on 15 October 2016 - 09:08 PM, said:

Yes I meant targetting them when using them. I have seen people to target those strikes but somehow never managed to do it myself. I thought maybe it required some unlocking. I'll try doing it like that.

Placement of UAV: UAV is launched right above you when you trigger it and remains in that position until the timer expires or it is shut down.

Placement of Arty Strikes: Artillery drops in a circle around the centre point which is based on where the circle of your reticle is pointed as indicated by the smoke when you trigger it.

Placement of Air Strikes: An Air Strike starts from the point where you aimed your circle in the reticle when you trigger it (i.e. where the smoke is) and extends in a straight line.

Hope that helps.

Edited by p4r4g0n, 16 October 2016 - 05:27 PM.

[Xaat Xuun]

is there a way to stop the Mini map from rotating ?

[TercieI]

Xaat Xuun, on 17 October 2016 - 04:04 AM, said:

is there a way to stop the Mini map from rotating ?

Lol. No. Why would you want that? When they updated it, it didn't rotate for a few days. It was useless.

[Xaat Xuun]

TercieI, on 17 October 2016 - 04:14 AM, said:

Lol. No. Why would you want that? When they updated it, it didn't rotate for a few days. It was useless.

gets me lost, don't need the map rotating. it leaves me in a state of disorientation
it may be good for some, for the map to rotate , but for me, it's messed up.

using the battle grid takes up too much time to find which direction I need face or go to,

[TercieI]

Xaat Xuun, on 17 October 2016 - 04:30 AM, said:

gets me lost, don't need the map rotating. it leaves me in a state of disorientation
it may be good for some, for the map to rotate , but for me, it's messed up.

using the battle grid takes up too much time to find which direction I need face or go to,

I feel exactly the opposite. Having learned with rotating I was barely able to get around without it doing it! Ha.

[Spangle]

Random question of the day

Anyone else's mechtoberfest countdown show 1 minute more for 'time left today' than 'time left'?

[TercieI]

Spangle, on 17 October 2016 - 08:18 AM, said:

Random question of the day

Anyone else's mechtoberfest countdown show 1 minute more for 'time left today' than 'time left'?

Ha! Yeah. That is weird.

[Koniving]

Spangle, on 17 October 2016 - 08:18 AM, said:

Random question of the day

Anyone else's mechtoberfest countdown show 1 minute more for 'time left today' than 'time left'?

PGI math at work.

[el piromaniaco]

It starts at 12:01 and ends at 11:59 and now both timers show the same time for me.

[Spangle]

When I go into 'My Profile' there used to be a slide bar of Mechs I owned, starting from earlist to latest

I used if I had bough a mech pack then I played them in order they where injected if I couldn't pick one

But post patch its blank

[Tier5 Kerensky]

Yep, mine is bugged too, it shows N/A

[BodakOfSseth]

How long from patch day does it usually take Smurfy's to update for new mechs available?

[Bilbo]

ScottAleric, on 18 October 2016 - 04:13 PM, said:

How long from patch day does it usually take Smurfy's to update for new mechs available?

Used to be same day or the next. No idea lately though.

[Koniving]

ScottAleric, on 18 October 2016 - 04:13 PM, said:

How long from patch day does it usually take Smurfy's to update for new mechs available?

Within a few minutes of whenever the guy who runs the site downloads his patch of the game. Just depends on if he was working that day.

Or spending time with his family. His screen name also happens to be Smurfy or something close to it; I've seen him a few times and once asked about the (OLD) Flamer to see if he's noticed the same thing -- which he had and told me it was difficult to quantify what happens with ghost heat 0.5 (as in the only weapon that had some kind of ghost heat before ghost heat actually existed) and thus why he left it out of the site.

Edited by Koniving, 18 October 2016 - 04:27 PM.

[Nerokar]

To avoid the ghost heat I need to wait 0,5 sec. Does this cooldown start at the beginning of the shot, or at the end?
Example: Shooting with 2 groups of 2 C-ERLL.
Grp1 fired bei 0,0.
Can Grp2 be fired 0,5 sec later?
Or 2,0 sec later, after the beam finished burning things?

[mailin]

Nerokar, on 19 October 2016 - 03:23 AM, said:

To avoid the ghost heat I need to wait 0,5 sec. Does this cooldown start at the beginning of the shot, or at the end?
Example: Shooting with 2 groups of 2 C-ERLL.
Grp1 fired bei 0,0.
Can Grp2 be fired 0,5 sec later?
Or 2,0 sec later, after the beam finished burning things?

At the end of the shot.