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[Requiemking]

I haven't really piloted any Locusts except for the Trial one, but I made some builds just to see what I could do. All of them are named after ants, as to most players, especially the newer players, thats all they are. But, you know, ants can kill too.

Bull Ant: the aggressive ankle cutter

Paraponera: The dreaded Bullet ant

Dinoponera: The Amazonian Giant ant

[Fox With A Shotgun]

Requiemking, on 19 May 2016 - 08:36 PM, said:

I haven't really piloted any Locusts except for the Trial one, but I made some builds just to see what I could do. All of them are named after ants, as to most players, especially the newer players, thats all they are. But, you know, ants can kill too.

Bull Ant: the aggressive ankle cutter

Paraponera: The dreaded Bullet ant

Dinoponera: The Amazonian Giant ant

You haven't lived till you played the ERPPC locust.

Edited by Fox With A Shotgun, 19 May 2016 - 08:38 PM.

[Tim East]

Requiemking, on 19 May 2016 - 08:36 PM, said:

Paraponera: The dreaded Bullet ant

Too much ammo. Drop a ton and shave a half-ton of armor to swap in a MPL.

Also, totally try the ERPPC+ECM LCT-PB if you have a few MC to spare. It is made of delightful hijinks.

[Requiemking]

Fox With A Shotgun, on 19 May 2016 - 08:38 PM, said:

You haven't lived till you played the ERPPC locust.

I made an ERPPC Mist Lynx. Not as fast, but slightly tankier, slightly.

[Ovion]

Requiemking, on 19 May 2016 - 08:36 PM, said:

I haven't really piloted any Locusts except for the Trial one, but I made some builds just to see what I could do. All of them are named after ants, as to most players, especially the newer players, thats all they are. But, you know, ants can kill too.

Bull Ant: the aggressive ankle cutter

Paraponera: The dreaded Bullet ant

Dinoponera: The Amazonian Giant ant

These, aren't utterly awful, I'm impressed.
Still some holdovers from building heavier mechs, but at Featherweight there's... different rules.

With a few tweaks based on experience we get:
Bull Ant - revised
^{Slightly adjusted Ammo values to improve survivability.}

Paraponera -revised
^{Adjusted the armour, moved ammo to better positions, and removed 1 Ton to accommodate an MPL instead.}

Dinoponera -revised
^{Applied Endo + Ferro, adjusted the armour, moved the ammo, bumped to a XL 190 gave it an extra DHS.#}

Certainly a solid start on your part though.
For more info on Locust Theory and builds, you can always check out my thread on the subject.

[DarthHias]

Well, Bear hunting in the Big game hunter aka Locust the mighty sure is fun, however the pelts of those monsters weigh me down so much I can bearly move anymore

Atm I take my Heavies out that normally only see faction warfare because of queue overload ^^

[mad kat]

Was messing around with my marauder 5d last night and had two hateful ALRM15's. Anyway a little locust 1e comes to scout our team i let loose with missiles expecting to just waste ammo. To my surprise i splatted the poor thing and i didn't even have LOS. Poor chap.

Lurms are hateful.

[DarthHias]

Has anyone else suffered from the special leg seeking LRMs?

[el piromaniaco]

Fox With A Shotgun, on 19 May 2016 - 08:38 PM, said:

You haven't lived till you played the ERPPC locust.

Aah!
Next position on my to-do list.

[no one]

So I finally got a Pirate's Bane yesterday, and it's an absolutely lovely 'Mech. I swapped out three small lasers for mediums, reduced the head and arm armor, and cut the MG ammo down to a ton. Even un-mastered it's a cut-throat little bugger.

I named my the Outlaw Star because I'm a huge dork.

One thing I'll say, is that the PB really is pretty critically constrained. If you want Ferro you have to lose a machine-gun. I'd love to run this thing with light ferro-fibrous or an XL200.

[Panzermagistratus]

no one, on 22 May 2016 - 11:59 AM, said:

So I finally got a Pirate's Bane yesterday, and it's an absolutely lovely 'Mech. I swapped out three small lasers for mediums, reduced the head and arm armor, and cut the MG ammo down to a ton. Even un-mastered it's a cut-throat little bugger.

I named my the Outlaw Star because I'm a huge dork.

One thing I'll say, is that the PB really is pretty critically constrained. If you want Ferro you have to lose a machine-gun. I'd love to run this thing with light ferro-fibrous or an XL200.

Lose the machine guns, stick with 4 mediums and slap a bap in there. Good to go kill some stuff. (Note, this must be played like the raven 3L. There is no duration quirk, so your gonna have to keep the laser on component for maximum damage.)

Edited by V4V4, 22 May 2016 - 12:01 PM.

[Ovion]

no one, on 22 May 2016 - 11:59 AM, said:

So I finally got a Pirate's Bane yesterday, and it's an absolutely lovely 'Mech. I swapped out three small lasers for mediums, reduced the head and arm armor, and cut the MG ammo down to a ton. Even un-mastered it's a cut-throat little bugger.

I named my the Outlaw Star because I'm a huge dork.

One thing I'll say, is that the PB really is pretty critically constrained. If you want Ferro you have to lose a machine-gun. I'd love to run this thing with light ferro-fibrous or an XL200.

Here's some Pirate's Bane builds for ya.

Ovion, on 08 May 2016 - 06:03 AM, said:

LCT-PB

Spoiler

Common Pirates' Bane Builds:
4SL, 2MG, ECM PIRATES' BANE
4SPL, 2MG, ECM PIRATES' BANE
4ML, 2MG, ECM PIRATES' BANE
4SPL, ECM PIRATES' BANE
2SPL, 2MPL, ECM PIRATES' BANE (XL170)
2SPL, 2MPL, ECM PIRATES' BANE (XL180)
2SPL, 2MPL PIRATES' BANE
4MPL PIRATES' BANE
Uncommon Pirates' Bane Builds:
AC2 PIRATES' BANE
2SL, AC2 PIRATES' BANE (XL170)
AC2 PIRATES' BANE (XL170)
2ML, 2MPL, ECM PIRATES' BANE (XL180)
3MPL, ECM PIRATES' BANE (XL180)
ERPPC PIRATES' BANE
Large Pulse Laser PIRATES' BANE
SL, ERLL, ECM PIRATES' BANE
2SPL, 2ML, ECM, BAP PIRATES' BANE
(For a solid Capture and Control mech, add Capture Accelerator, Advanced Sensor Range + either Target Info Gathering or Advanced Zoom.)
2SL, ERLL, ECM PIRATES' BANE (XL170)
2SL, ERLL, 2MG, ECM PIRATES' BANE (XL100)
2ERLL, ECM PIRATES' BANE (XL100)
Not for the faint of heart.

[no one]

V4V4, on 22 May 2016 - 12:01 PM, said:

Lose the machine guns, stick with 4 mediums and slap a bap in there. Good to go kill some stuff. (Note, this must be played like the raven 3L. There is no duration quirk, so your gonna have to keep the laser on component for maximum damage.)

Awww, but the machine guns are part of it's periphery charm!

Ovion, on 22 May 2016 - 12:07 PM, said:

Here's some Pirate's Bane builds for ya.

Nice, thanks. Not sure I'd run a big-gun build on it. Especially not an erLL build. That's just like announcing "Hey, janky ECM light over ----this---> way!" Other locusts can do that better without losing mobility.

I'm running this right now since it's got respectable range grouped firepower and it's heat's manageable sans doubled basics.
OUTLAW STAR

[Tim East]

V4V4, on 22 May 2016 - 12:01 PM, said:

Lose the machine guns, stick with 4 mediums and slap a bap in there. Good to go kill some stuff. (Note, this must be played like the raven 3L. There is no duration quirk, so your gonna have to keep the laser on component for maximum damage.)

OR, you COULD strip out everything but ECM and a little bit of armor to fit in an ERPPC and troll like a Spider but better because it's a Locust, which have a chassis-wide +20% trolling quirk.

[Vlasterx]

I have started to play this game regularly for the first time after the Founders preorder and I have to say it's much better than then. One of the mechs I really enjoy is Locust 1V, with ER LL.

Great little bugger

[Virlutris]

mad kat, on 21 May 2016 - 01:30 AM, said:

Was messing around with my marauder 5d last night and had two hateful ALRM15's. Anyway a little locust 1e comes to scout our team i let loose with missiles expecting to just waste ammo. To my surprise i splatted the poor thing and i didn't even have LOS. Poor chap.

Lurms are hateful.

Lurms for Lulz

DarthHias, on 21 May 2016 - 03:05 AM, said:

Has anyone else suffered from the special leg seeking LRMs?

Yes.

Most frequently in my KGC, of all things. It's a walking umbrella, a gigantic round lurm-catcher, and it's the legs that wear down fastest on the occasion that a lurm boat catches me derping. Wat.

Edited by Virlutris, 23 May 2016 - 11:43 AM.

[mad kat]

Requiemking, on 19 May 2016 - 10:14 PM, said:

I made an ERPPC Mist Lynx. Not as fast, but slightly tankier, slightly.

I rebuilt my ERPPC deathsknell for giggles with three sml lasers to go with it just for added cheese.

Now off to snipe some kodiaks....

[DarthHias]

Virlutris, on 23 May 2016 - 11:41 AM, said:

Lurms for Lulz



Yes.

Most frequently in my KGC, of all things. It's a walking umbrella, a gigantic round lurm-catcher, and it's the legs that wear down fastest on the occasion that a lurm boat catches me derping. Wat.

Yeah I´m glad I´m not the only one. I experienced it in all kind of mechs. It´s really annoying when you get lermed by 3+ boats and don´t manage to take cover, you think o well, bit of sandblasting my armor and it tears of a leg... Last time it happened I was in a Hellbringer, nothing worse than yellow, one leg torn, one stripped.

[Fox With A Shotgun]

LRMs aren't actually looking for your legs by the way. It's just the way the homing system is implemented.

During their flight, they correct course only by a certain amount. It doesn't deviate very far. But if you try running away from the source of the LRMs, the original flight path which was meant to hit your torso would hit the ground. It then tries to correct this by aiming slightly up, which isn't high enough to hit torso - so it hits legs instead, being the next highest object from the ground.

If you run towards the LRMs, you'll notice the opposite. LRMs will hit your torso and ignore your legs instead.

Edited by Fox With A Shotgun, 23 May 2016 - 07:24 PM.

[no one]

. . . and that's why you run to the side! To the side!

(Admittedly hard to do if you're caught out in the open.)