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[Fox With A Shotgun]

Damage is irrelevant. Did your team win? Then you helped out enough.

A person that rips off 10 components while doing only 500 damage is doing more work than a LRM boater doing 1000 damage but no components.

[IraqiWalker]

TheRAbbi, on 22 December 2015 - 05:55 AM, said:

Yeah. 5-6 of those, with the speed of almost a Jenner, and surprisingly good hit boxes? It's beast.

Back to the LOLcust. I recall some time ago, a particularly good and well-known light pilot on the other team in a LCT-1V with a single ERLL. Now, the -1V gets RIDICULOUS laser quirks (50% cooldown, 50% duration, 15% range). Thing is, some other LOLcusts get at least DECENT ones, too. I'm wondering if anyone's tried that in a PB with the ECM aboard (lose a few points off the arms/head, and it fits with the XL 190). It's fairly nonstandard, and probably not a big earner for most (though he got like 600-ish damage and a few kills on Tourmaline in his -1V). Just wondering.

The main problem is that ECM + ERLL isn't really a good enough reason for me to run the ERLL on the PB. The beam always reveals my location. The only threat that ECM helps deal with at long range is LRMs, and I wouldn't worry about them in a locust anyways.

DarthHias, on 23 December 2015 - 12:25 AM, said:

Gotta try this, I can´t make my TDK work anymore...

4MPLs + Radar Deprivation has been doing wonders for me.

[Ovion]

ArcturusWolf, on 23 December 2015 - 01:22 AM, said:

Damage is irrelevant. Did your team win? Then you helped out enough.

A person that rips off 10 components while doing only 500 damage is doing more work than a LRM boater doing 1000 damage but no components.

That LRM boat at that point would likely have stripped the armour of most the enemy team though, which helps a lot.
Or the components could have been shot off / kills made before the LRM could finish it.

At the end of the day, Damage, Kills, Components Destroyed, K/D, etc, it's all small stuff that doesn't matter as a whole.
That you contributed and the team won is what's important.

[Tim East]

IraqiWalker, on 23 December 2015 - 04:21 AM, said:

4MPLs + Radar Deprivation has been doing wonders for me.

My old go-to build. Always ran kind of hot for me, but hit pretty hard.

[DarthHias]

Well, I always found 4MPLS to be rather hot, so my old trusted build was 2MPL + 2 Mlas

[STEF_]

DarthHias, on 18 December 2015 - 01:58 PM, said:

However one thing really made my angry:
I was in a drop and told my assaults I would hang with them cause Urbie is rather slow. Some guy from the Antares Scorpions started to berate me in chat that I should never again bring that crap mech and bla bla.
So I stayed polite and told him that you can also have fun in this game, and that I also like my Locusts that are considered subpar by some and I can carry as well in those as in my other lights. Then it becam really ugly:
He said that such trash mechs are never seen in Tier1 games. I lold and told him i was in plenty high tier games with it and others too. Then he went on what a glorious comp player he was and I should go back to my ghettotier.
I got a bit angry then. I watched him play after I died, he was in a twin PPC/ twin AC5 marauder.
I gave him some advice cause he wasn´t able to hit an Adder at 250 meters he ended the game with 300 dmg no kills.

Something like that doesn´t happen often but I really find it infuriating. Oh btw after he called me ghettotier lol I asked him 4 times about his tier but he wouldn´t tell. Well he made it to my very exclusive list of priority search and destroy targets (Nr. 3)

So now I gotta Locust a bit, my little friends have been neglected for too long.

SO, after reading and answering to you post, I told to myself..."why don't you master your fourth lolcust?"

Delicious 1V!!! As soon as I read the quirks, already the build in my mind:
1LPL max engine, LPL cooldown module+range.
Awesome lolliness!!!
You can just press mouse button 1, and spam wubbiness



dmg per match= 279

It's a pity I've been insta-shotted in many matches, but if enemies ignore me, I've been able to pump 400-500 dmg.

o/

[Fox With A Shotgun]

Stefka Kerensky, on 24 December 2015 - 11:22 PM, said:

Delicious 1V!!! As soon as I read the quirks, already the build in my mind:
1LPL max engine, LPL cooldown module+range.

The Locust LPL Overlord build. It's been around for a while now xD But it's SO FUN! Spamming that LPL faster than a SPL-- and the locust is actually TANKY to boot! I usually get down to 20-25% hp before exploding on that locust. So much structure and armor on quirks.

Alternatively, throw that LPL on a LCT-3V instead. You trade your insane RoF for greatly increased range: +50% turns your LPL into ERLPL. Who doesn't want an extra 62% range (after module)?!

Edited by ArcturusWolf, 24 December 2015 - 11:34 PM.

[Virlutris]

ArcturusWolf, on 24 December 2015 - 11:33 PM, said:

The Locust LPL Overlord build. It's been around for a while now xD But it's SO FUN! Spamming that LPL faster than a SPL-- and the locust is actually TANKY to boot! I usually get down to 20-25% hp before exploding on that locust. So much structure and armor on quirks.

Alternatively, throw that LPL on a LCT-3V instead. You trade your insane RoF for greatly increased range: +50% turns your LPL into ERLPL. Who doesn't want an extra 62% range (after module)?!

1M gives you the same 50% range boost as the 3V, with added 25% to cooldown, heat gen, and beam duration.

Just sayin'

[Fox With A Shotgun]

Virlutris, on 25 December 2015 - 06:13 PM, said:

1M gives you the same 50% range boost as the 3V, with added 25% to cooldown, heat gen, and beam duration.

Just sayin'

But 3V is another tankcust D: Mah CT/ST structs!

[Fox With A Shotgun]

Hmm. I felt the need for speed today, so I unboxed my LCT-1E from its mothball storage. Went with 6 SL, XL190, 6 DHS - and it somehow worked pretty okay. I wonder if the extra range actually made up for the lower burst damage? Will have to investigate.

Also managed to get stripped down to quite literally the pilot chair of my locust. 19% hp left by the end of the match.

[1Grimbane]

yeah post patch i had three locusts stripped collecting dust with not a lick of unlocks... now they are elited and on the way to master. i think that in some regards the patch made oddman out lights viable again, the swarms used to work back in the day but i haven't seen a light swarm since one could choose gamemode and conquest was riddled with lights. true nascar. but one or two good light pilots can really help out now

[kanamisan]

well, I finaly had a "big" game in the locust, the normal locust 1e 6spl build, 724 damage. and a few kills. but the ironic thing about it, is that we also had a locust 1v as well, who did pretty solid, 380 damage I think. overall, it felt quite fun, but, its one of those battles where you come out at the end, and just dont realise just how much damage you did until the game tells you at the end. also, had a good comando 1d game worth over 500 damage, but. its what it is. ether way, need to play more lights, and now I am getting really tempted to get the spiders.

*edit* right after that, I had a match in my commando 1d over 675 damage, on alpine conquest. did not expect to do well at all on that map, but I will take it.

Edited by kanamisan, 28 December 2015 - 01:10 AM.

[Fox With A Shotgun]

I tried to make a direstar version of a lolcust. It didn't quite work, but eh...close enough.

LCT-1E

[M3hillus]

If anything, the Low-Cost bandit should be held with a drop of fear, and not as the gooey, chocolate creamy centered cookie it seems to be!

LCT-3M (Wolf One) Running SPL cooldown mod, Cool shot 9x9, UAV, And Radar Dep/Hillclimb

Edited by M3hillus, 28 December 2015 - 11:45 AM.

[Fox With A Shotgun]

M3hillus, on 28 December 2015 - 09:44 AM, said:

If anything, the Low-Cost bandit should be held with a drop of fear, and not as the gooey, chocolate creamy centered cookie it seems to be!

LCT-3M (Wolf One) Running SPL cooldown mod, Cool shot 9x9, UAV, And Radar Dep/Hillclimb

A good build. LCT-3M suffers from the CT hardpoint, IMO. Makes pinpointing a little harder to do when on the run on rough ground. Still much prefer the 1E for its usability; all the 6E hardpoints are on the arms.

On the topic of bandits...here is the one-armed bandit of the Lolcust world:

LCT-1E One-Armed Bandit

It's a trollish build, but you'd be amazed at how fun it is xD It's like driving a rocket bike with one massive gun!

[M3hillus]

Although I agree with you slightly, the quirks make the 3M a better knife fighter than the 1E if both boat spl.

[A HeadlessChicken]

So, I took down a King Crab today solo in my Pirate's Bane.

Poor thing didn't know what was happening to him.

I keep trying other mechs but I can't handle how slow they are.

[IraqiWalker]

HedlessChickn, on 30 December 2015 - 07:56 AM, said:

So, I took down a King Crab today solo in my Pirate's Bane.

Poor thing didn't know what was happening to him.

I keep trying other mechs but I can't handle how slow they are.

You've gone too deep to come back up now. XD

[Fox With A Shotgun]

HedlessChickn, on 30 December 2015 - 07:56 AM, said:

So, I took down a King Crab today solo in my Pirate's Bane.

Poor thing didn't know what was happening to him.

I keep trying other mechs but I can't handle how slow they are.

Yep. Let the need for speed consume you. Become one of the speed freaks that is the locust family!

M3hillus, on 29 December 2015 - 06:20 AM, said:

Although I agree with you slightly, the quirks make the 3M a better knife fighter than the 1E if both boat spl.

Ehh?

1E has all the accel/decel quirks that the 3M has, but with more energy quirks o.O How is the 3M better? It even has 1 less hardpoint than the 1E. I think you might be mistaking the 1M's quirks for the 3M's, but the 1M only has 2 torso E hardpoints.

Edited by ArcturusWolf, 31 December 2015 - 02:29 PM.

[3xnihilo]

I splurged and bought an lpl cool down module for my locust 1v. Just Wow!

Pro tip- don't let the audio of the laser recharging throw you off, it cools down much quicker.