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[Scratx]

Uite Dauphni, on 16 August 2014 - 04:55 AM, said:

From the 19 March 2013 Patch notes:

And on top of that, we later got the geometry changes. Yup.

It's mostly the fact I love my Catapult that I even bring it out. But damn, I do feel like I can't be missed when I'm piloting it. The one thing that is good for is "Learn to TWIST or DIE".

[Col Jaime Wolf]

sold all mine cept jester and my k2 long time ago.

no point in waiting i just will sell them

[Dauphni]

Once more, just because:

[zagibu]

Just sell them all. Maybe they will notice when no one owns any missile based CPLT anymore.

[XphR]

Another days layer of dust..

[A banana in the tailpipe]

Malleus011, on 05 November 2013 - 02:59 PM, said:

So I went and checked out the new Catapult upgrades. Proper Autocannon barrels on the K2's at last. Updated PPC barrels. Nice.

Unfortunately, they also 'fixed' the A1, and I mean fixed like you do to your pets. If you add extra missile launchers over the first, it adds extra missile launchers to the outside of the missile box. Use three LRM5s? Sorry, only 5 tubes fit under the armored cover. The rest make your arms wider and taller ... with extra external launchers. Three SRM4s? Same problem ... only 4 tubes fit under the cover. A 15 and two streaks? Yeah, couldn't fit those extra tubes under the cover either. Does the box get smaller if you mount a small main launcher? Hell no, it's just as huge for an LRM5 as an LRM15.

It's not a little, slim add-on launcher either. It makes the arms gigantic.

I mean, really now. The A1 was tough enough to pilot already; with all six hard points being M and clustered in each arm. But now to add oversize novelty 'ears' to an A1 that actually uses those hard points ... that's just mean.

It seems reasonable to me than 15-20 tubes should fit under the armored box cover. Why was this even messed with?

They still never fixed the Loopy bucket's arms. I can fire through terrain all day long.

[Scratx]

Uite Dauphni, on 17 August 2014 - 12:04 AM, said:

Once more, just because:

Bwahahahahahahaha. I just noticed an easter egg in the video. Link relevant, check lower left corner.

http://postimg.org/i...w4ntlyaun/full/

[EvilCow]

Uite Dauphni, on 16 August 2014 - 04:55 AM, said:

From the 19 March 2013 Patch notes:

I remember that day, it is when I went WTF the first time and the shining white armor got tainted.

[Aim64C]

Uite Dauphni, on 17 August 2014 - 12:04 AM, said:

Once more, just because:

Wait... why did they change LRMs from that?

That just seems like 'better.'

[Aim64C]

MATRAKA14, on 30 June 2014 - 02:56 AM, said:

. . . . .

Isn't it the "mechlab treatment" we are looking to have ... fixed?

Generally speaking, I would be happy if you just started rolling the game back to its original Open Beta launch. The more you touch things, the more they seem to... poopify.

[Vassago Rain]

Aim64C, on 17 August 2014 - 10:16 AM, said:

Wait... why did they change LRMs from that?

That just seems like 'better.'

Resource hog, and the change didn't come until much, much, much later, after multiple other changes that made the missiles form an ugly X pattern.

[Malleus011]

After long enough, looking at pre-change Catapults just makes you sad. They used to be nice looking 'mechs.

[wanderer]

PGI, please donate to cancer research to cure the A1 and other unfortunate robots like it that now suffer from METAL BOXES deformities and terminal Legoitis.

Because the new Battlemaster hero is paper-bag ugly thanks to this, too.

[Carrie Harder]

wanderer, on 17 August 2014 - 10:34 AM, said:

PGI, please donate to cancer research to cure the A1 and other unfortunate robots like it that now suffer from METAL BOXES deformities and terminal Legoitis.

Because the new Battlemaster hero is paper-bag ugly thanks to this, too.

[KuroNyra]

Uite Dauphni, on 17 August 2014 - 12:04 AM, said:

Once more, just because:

~That Cat isn't Mad!~


Damn I've completly forgot that joke they put about the Mad Cat. X')

[MATRAKA14]

I was testing the timber wolf for my self the other day, man that thing hits hard, its far better than the catapults, its faster, more armored, and can pack more weapons, easely outperforms the catapult c4 and c1, has beter ballistic and energy builds than the k2/jester, can't match the a1 missile hardpoints but can pack a lot of back up weapons instead.

The catapult main advantages are:
Torso twist, upper energy hardpoints (pretty handy if you know what are you doing but not enough), the a1 hard points and the IS lrms (not always).

Catapults are not the most outperformed mechs of the game but can be easily fixed with some quirks.

Edited by MATRAKA14, 31 August 2014 - 03:47 PM.

[XphR]

This is more about the abuse the model has had to endure.

[zudukai]

MATRAKA14, on 31 August 2014 - 03:45 PM, said:

I was testing the timber wolf for my self the other day, man that thing hits hard, its far better than the catapults, its faster, more armored, and can pack more weapons, easely outperforms the catapult c4 and c1, has beter ballistic and energy builds than the k2/jester, can't match the a1 missile hardpoints but can pack a lot of back up weapons instead.

The catapult main advantages are:
Torso twist, upper energy hardpoints (pretty handy if you know what are you doing but not enough), the a1 hard points and the IS lrms (not always).

Catapults are not the most outperformed mechs of the game but can be easily fixed with some quirks.

XphR, on 31 August 2014 - 09:51 PM, said:

This is more about the abuse the model has had to endure.

however both are true...

[MeiSooHaityu]

MATRAKA14, on 31 August 2014 - 03:45 PM, said:

I was testing the timber wolf for my self the other day, man that thing hits hard, its far better than the catapults...has beter ballistic and energy builds than the k2...

Catapults are not the most outperformed mechs of the game but can be easily fixed with some quirks.

About the only thing the K2 MIGHT do better than the Timberwolf, is the Ballistics. I only say this because of the FLD of the IS mechs. A dual A/C10 Cat K2 can put down some good damage and with a descent reload time.

Other than that, the Timberwolf is pretty much guarenteed to be better than any other Catapult variant.

[XphR]

These things may indeed be true, but only one is belonging to the spirit of the thread.