Trauglodyte, on 27 January 2014 - 08:43 AM, said:
Congratulations! You found the Streak button and spammed it to the extreme. You, and people like you, are truely the elite of the skilled players in this game. I applaud you for showing the rest of us the errors of our way and will dedicate the rest of my life to following in your foot steps. I too wish that I can, some day, press the easy button as well as you.
/golf clap
Sarcasm to the poster above aside, people need to realize what Mediums are and what they aren't. Aside from the Cicada, which was built as a heavier scout and a scout predator (it doesn't live up to either in this game, sadly), Mediums were designed as Heavy and Assault supplementary mechs. Your job is to cruise around with the heavier mechs and add fire power to theirs. If you weren't designed to do that, you were either extremely niche designed (ie Hunchback for Urban combat), you were religated to picket defense of other mechs (ie Centurion), or you were sitting in the back as fire support (ie Trebuchet). Medium mechs were the most common because they were the most needed and cheapest to build. They were, for all intents and purposes, the Destroyers and Light Cruisers in the WWII Pacific fleets. They had decent fire power and speed but not enough of either of those or armor to take on Heavy Cruisers, Battle Cruisers, or Battleships. They stayed on the outside and added anti-aircraft firepower to combat the enemy Aircraft Carriers, hunted down Submarines, and added torpedo and ballistic fire support to the bigger, slower, and much less numbered heavier ships. Once you get that in your mind, you'll end up doing better in yoru Medium mech. But, you will never be as deadly or feared as the bigger mechs because you're easier to kill and lack the scary punch that the bigger mechs. So, play like the after thought that you are and take advantage of it. But, don't come here with really bad screen shots of "uber damage" and pretend like you're doing something special because you're not.
As opposed to assault and heavy pilots that can only spam lrms from the second row, are they the truly elite and feared people as well ?
Comparing 20th century naval vessels to mech is flawed, as until the creation of the torpedo the thinking behind all navies was biggest is best, only with the invention of a practical weapon that could sink the major vessels from a small cheap platform did this change.
The torpedo boat, led to the torpedo boat destroyer, to sink the torpedo boats, later shortend to destroyer and by being bigger and more seaworthy than the torpedo boat, and able to carry bigger engines and go faster,made them obsolete, they later after the submarine was seen as a real threat found another job derated renamed and given an anti submarine roll.
The cruiser was seen as a vessel that was a long range patrol ship and for flying whatever empire flag in far flung places, cheaper than a dreadnaught not as a weapons platform capable of winning battles on its own, which is the only reason they were built in numbers as battle ships had become to expensive to use in this way since the creation of HMS Dreadnaught. Crusoier were not seen as anti aircraft platform and were not built in that way until the slow thinkers were shocked to find that aircraft were a real thread to ships of the line just as submarines in years before.
After world war one very few cruisers ever launched torpedo's in action against captial ships, attempts were made in the battle of the river plate, and the japanese long lance torpedo devastated the allies in cruiser actions around the soloman isle's but most were launched from destroyers.
By default, as cruisers had little to do once the aircarft carrier became the desiding factor in naval battles did they get used as anti aircraft platforms and to protect fleets from torpedo carrying surface ships, as they had become obsolete as a front line fighting platform.
After the war it was clear that the battleship was past its sell by date and cruisers were developed specifically to protect the carriers from air attack .
next you'll be telling us what a brilliant Admiral Halsey was.
Mediums have no point in this game because they have nothing to do, its not the fault of the mech its just the way PGI made the way thing work, and in mechwarrior/battletech there isn't a weapon like the torpedo.
only cost is a reason to build mediums and run mediums and there isn't that in MWO and the only way to make them work is to reduce big mech engine sizes and that mean limiting mech customisation which isn't popular nd why the games a cow to balance
Edited by Cathy, 27 January 2014 - 11:31 AM.
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