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[wanderer]

Ngamok, on 08 January 2014 - 07:22 AM, said:

This is why you fail so much. In a skirmish match, if the enemy has a lot of LRM boats, you sit back and wait for them to come to you. Then you can rush and kill them when they are in range and then they can't shoot back at you. You have to dictate the fight because you can. They can shoot missiles if they can't see you or send a scout in with which you can kill fast and then be ahead. Every map has hidey spots to do this on for skirmish mode.

Also, there is AMS, ECM, and terrain to hide behind. Instead of crying about LRMs, just use your head to avoid them.

This. Dying to LRMs when nobody's flushing you out of cover is a derp check.

I was piloting a Thunderbolt yesterday. No AMS, No ECM. The opposing team had plenty of missiles, the entire side I was on ran right out after two scouts and was obliterated- and none of them apparently had AMS or ECM save one (guess who got shot first?).

They had to kill me by sending two scouts in after me because I knew what cover was and made a lance of LRM carriers waste 3-4 salvos each by ducking out just long enough to get a "MISSILE" warning, then simply stepping behind a hill. The two scouts knew what they were doing and shot a leg out, meaning I finally couldn't both dodge the missiles and the scouts, put my back to a wall, and died gracefully to the Cicada and Locust (legged one of the buggers before I went down, but got an ammo crit to the leg and kablooey).

[Trauglodyte]

Coralld, on 07 January 2014 - 08:09 PM, said:

PGI: Ok boys and girls, we tweaked the AC20 for this patch a bit so that it has a slower projectile velocity to make it a bit more in line as a brawling weapon...blah blah herp derp.

MWO Forums:

I agree with everything that you're saying but you do realize that is a duckling and not a chick, right?

[Sandpit]

*always goes out and makes a build to fit the "(insert weapon here) warrior" threads just so he can troll in game and hopefully propagate these threads as part of world domination plans*

[Joseph Mallan]

Ngamok, on 08 January 2014 - 07:40 AM, said:

I get easy kill steals with them after the brawlers have pounded them down, I'll get a CT or whatever final hit on them, lol.

I don't seem to time it out right o get the kills, but yes this is an example of good LRM use!

[Trauglodyte]

Joseph Mallan, on 08 January 2014 - 07:32 AM, said:

My experience with LRMs have proven that are good "support" weapons but not the go for the jugular weapon people whine about. I never got high Kill numbers with LRMs but I did rack up the assists like mad. Supporting the team on its way to victory.

That's cause you've never driven the dreaded LRMando or LRMocust. Fear the deluge of 10 missiles every 2ish seconds. FEAR THEM!!!!!

[Joseph Mallan]

Trauglodyte, on 08 January 2014 - 10:06 AM, said:

That's cause you've never driven the dreaded LRMando or LRMocust. Fear the deluge of 10 missiles every 2ish seconds. FEAR THEM!!!!!

Um... No.

[wanderer]

Trauglodyte, on 08 January 2014 - 10:06 AM, said:

That's cause you've never driven the dreaded LRMando or LRMocust. Fear the deluge of 10 missiles every 2ish seconds. FEAR THEM!!!!!

Should I be embarassed to say I've killed people with LRM fire from a Commando?

Nah. The guy I killed. HE should be embarassed.

[Trauglodyte]

Joseph Mallan, on 08 January 2014 - 10:07 AM, said:

Um... No.

Be careful, Joe. I've killed 94 unsuspecting people with my LRMando. Granted, I've been killed 108 time by those same people and their friends. But, I have taken more than a few with me. Dual LRM5s and an ER Lrg.

/flex

[Sandpit]

wanderer, on 08 January 2014 - 10:31 AM, said:

Should I be embarassed to say I've killed people with LRM fire from a Commando?

Nah. The guy I killed. HE should be embarassed.

I hate you

You're probably the reason the OP posted this in the first place lol

[Varent]

Coralld, on 07 January 2014 - 08:09 PM, said:

PGI: Ok boys and girls, we tweaked the AC20 for this patch a bit so that it has a slower projectile velocity to make it a bit more in line as a brawling weapon...blah blah herp derp.

MWO Forums:

*like*

[Trauglodyte]

You will unlike that, Varent. Chicken Little was a *drum roll* CHICKEN and not a duckling. JEEZ!!!

[Sandpit]

Trauglodyte, on 08 January 2014 - 11:03 AM, said:

You will unlike that, Varent. Chicken Little was a *drum roll* CHICKEN and not a duckling. JEEZ!!!

I could post a few graphs, complex mathematical equations, start a poll, and start 30 threads contradicting that but instead I'll jsut say you're not competitive enough as a chicken to worry about

[Trauglodyte]

Sandpit, on 08 January 2014 - 11:06 AM, said:

I could post a few graphs, complex mathematical equations, start a poll, and start 30 threads contradicting that but instead I'll jsut say you're not competitive enough as a chicken to worry about

Fine! Then, let's talk about how Autocannons need to be nerfed. First off, extreme range is all manners of wonky AND they need to be burst fire.

[AlmightyAeng]

Trauglodyte, on 08 January 2014 - 11:10 AM, said:

Fine! Then, let's talk about how Autocannons need to be nerfed. First off, extreme range is all manners of wonky AND they need to be burst fire.

Someone hit this man with a duckling.

[Varent]

Trauglodyte, on 08 January 2014 - 11:03 AM, said:

You will unlike that, Varent. Chicken Little was a *drum roll* CHICKEN and not a duckling. JEEZ!!!

Ducklings are cuter. Care not says I!

Trauglodyte, on 08 January 2014 - 11:10 AM, said:

Fine! Then, let's talk about how Autocannons need to be nerfed. First off, extreme range is all manners of wonky AND they need to be burst fire.

Disagree with burst fire, agree a little with range, though im thinking the reason alot of the ranges are the way they are is because of balistic drop off and how that functions... An easier thing to do might be to increase the range of some of the higher end laser weapons like the large, erlarge and pulse. And perhaps decrease the max range of the ac2. Wouldnt need much but a touch of the top could be good. ac5 might need some as well.

[Sephlock]

Coralld, on 07 January 2014 - 08:09 PM, said:

PGI: Ok boys and girls, we tweaked the AC20 for this patch a bit so that it has a slower projectile velocity to make it a bit more in line as a brawling weapon...blah blah herp derp. MWO Forums:

More like "The ground is falling out from under us!"

[Almond Brown]

Sybreed, on 07 January 2014 - 09:26 PM, said:

we're all being sarcastic lol

The MWO Forums run on Sarcasm, a large dose of Dev hate, a pinch of constructiveness and just a tiny smidgen of actual good humor.

[Almond Brown]

Ghost Badger, on 08 January 2014 - 08:32 AM, said:

I'd love to see the test server switch around the range bonuses on energy and ballistics...that'd make for some interesting results

LOL! erPPC out to 2400m. That would generate so many "tears"it would make the monsoon's of India look like a light spring shower.

P.S. I would seriously pay my own bandwidth costs to have that actually happen.

[Sandpit]

No burts fire, reduce range, add in divergence when firing multiple ballistics at the same time instead of chain firing them.
*drops mic* deuces yo!

[HekiDanjo]

Szegedin, on 07 January 2014 - 08:10 PM, said:

Yeah, what was the motivation for the change I wonder. Making everyone slightly adjust their deflection shots is just annoying.

It does make one play change. I'm one of those AC/20 toting blackjack pilots. The speed of that mech allowed me to get close enough to a light to actually make the AC/20 into a consistently viable weapon against them. As often as not a leg could be ripped off with a single good shot while at full throttle. That became a lot tougher to do if there is any deflection.