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[3xnihilo]

3 uac5 3 mpl Ilya would be an awesome build if you could shoot anything with the uacs that were at a slightly different elevation than yourself.

[el piromaniaco]

Why do different weapons can fire through corpses and others don't?

I think I may have seen it often, and lately a teammate got killed by one of my er-ppc shots because of this I believe.

When you kill a mech and shoot at the fallen mech you can still do damage, but only with different weapons I came to believe based on what I saw.
Laser shots work, ballistic weapons and ppc seem to go right through.
Don't have the chance right now to test my theory thoroughly, already did some undocumented tests, destroying parts of the commando after shooting out his cockpit for example.

[3xnihilo]

el piromaniaco, on 17 October 2016 - 03:02 PM, said:

Why do different weapons can fire through corpses and others don't?

I think I may have seen it often, and lately a teammate got killed by one of my er-ppc shots because of this I believe.

When you kill a mech and shoot at the fallen mech you can still do damage, but only with different weapons I came to believe based on what I saw.
Laser shots work, ballistic weapons and ppc seem to go right through.
Don't have the chance right now to test my theory thoroughly, already did some undocumented tests, destroying parts of the commando after shooting out his cockpit for example.

I don't know, but it could be related to the feature that lets ppc and AC rounds pass through live mechs as well.

[Bulletsponge0]

el piromaniaco, on 17 October 2016 - 03:02 PM, said:

Why do different weapons can fire through corpses and others don't?

I think I may have seen it often, and lately a teammate got killed by one of my er-ppc shots because of this I believe.

When you kill a mech and shoot at the fallen mech you can still do damage, but only with different weapons I came to believe based on what I saw.
Laser shots work, ballistic weapons and ppc seem to go right through.
Don't have the chance right now to test my theory thoroughly, already did some undocumented tests, destroying parts of the commando after shooting out his cockpit for example.

yup, as near as I can tell, dead mechs block lasers, but ballistics and missiles pass right through

[Bulletsponge0]

Very first drop in the Huntsman Prime... I have a feeling I'm going to like this mech

[3xnihilo]

Bulletsponge0, on 18 October 2016 - 01:11 PM, said:

Very first drop in the Huntsman Prime... I have a feeling I'm going to like this mech

Every once in awhile I see a new mech that hadn't really paid much attention to and think "Doh, I should have bought that when it had early adopter rewards!" The Huntsman is one of those mechs.

[Fox With A Shotgun]

It's mind boggling how the MWO patcher never fails to lag up my computer for half an hour, rendering it unusable...despite using nearly no I/O functions to the hard disk, being on normal CPU priority, and using barely 3% of available CPU processing power...

PGI pls.

[Bilbo]

Fox With A Shotgun, on 17 October 2016 - 06:43 AM, said:

So freaking tired of potato tier assaults not being able to aim at all.

I have no way to explain this one. Was in Tourmaline Desert, taking cover from LRMs under one of the cliffs. Saw a KDK-SB torso twisting like mad coming towards me, he was on my team. I see a seismic blip coming up from behind me, but there's a cliff in the way - can't get shot from there. Blip comes around the corner, KDK is still twisting. Sees the blip (now known as an ACH), fires SRMs.

Right into my face. Instakilled by FF, at 0 damage.

I think that pretty much cemented my everlasting hatred at assaults. The golden boys of MWO, who think they cannot do any wrong and must be attended to by a horde of light and medium mech servants to do their bidding.

Not for nuthin, but as a brawling assault, there is nothing I can do that will actually make people happy. Stay with group... get overrun after the pokers die. Flank... Die a horrible death while everyone else hides behind a hill. Doesn't matter which way I try to play it though, it seems I am always the first person to engage the bulk of the enemy first.

[S 0 L E N Y A]

I'm getting really sick of teaming up with low tier pilots that can barely scrape 200 dmg a match, and then have the audacity to try to give me build advice...

[Fox With A Shotgun]

Boogie138, on 19 October 2016 - 02:33 PM, said:

I'm getting really sick of teaming up with low tier pilots that can barely scrape 200 dmg a match, and then have the audacity to try to give me build advice...

Well, at least you haven't met a certain pilot with a DWF-W that was trying to convince others that more tags makes your missiles more accurate...

[Bulletsponge0]

strange matches today...

did this match increase the c-bill rewards for butt hugging a teammate as they are taking enemy fire??

Did this patch increase the c-bill reward for NOT shooting at the mechs that the teammate 50m to you left is shooting at??

[UnofficialOperator]

So many leads lost by squirrel chasers today. There seems to be a certain timing where the bad T1s come out.

[3xnihilo]

UnofficialOperator, on 19 October 2016 - 03:48 PM, said:

So many leads lost by squirrel chasers today. There seems to be a certain timing where the bad T1s come out.

Nah, that's just when there aren't enough tier 1's and you get stuck with a bunch of tier 3's like me ... sorry

[UnofficialOperator]

[l3elthaz0r]

Was in the new terra therma. Visibility is bad there and the last locust on the enemy team is circling my TBR trying to get at my mushy bits. Everyone wants the last kill naturally and I get damaged from long range. First I'm like wait, there's another enemy? Then I realize that my team is so desperate to get the kill that they're shooting from range and damaging me instead. I get my RT blown off I suspect from team damage. Thanks team.

[Lunatic_Asylum]

l3elthaz0r, on 19 October 2016 - 06:08 PM, said:

Was in the new terra therma. Visibility is bad there and the last locust on the enemy team is circling my TBR trying to get at my mushy bits. Everyone wants the last kill naturally and I get damaged from long range. First I'm like wait, there's another enemy? Then I realize that my team is so desperate to get the kill that they're shooting from range and damaging me instead. I get my RT blown off I suspect from team damage. Thanks team.

All "most kill damage" or "last shot that kills" events will affect teamplay in the worst way possible. Rush out, kill what you need or damage something for 70 %, and die. I am not sure how to have an event that will not ruin teamplay, though, unless it is so casual that it sickens everyone. Yet, it is only 1 kill per day in events, so expect only a few behaving like that in your team (and the enemy team, which evens the chance of winning).

What helps during such events is communication. Take the commander role and command what lance should do what: this will solve any rushes to insanity.

[Kasumi Sumika]

First game I dropped in Therma Domination Mode. I'm in HellBringer F. We all group up in one point of the map and all positioning in circle. We then enganging spotted enemies in the front. Then my Seismic Sensor detected 1 enemy mech try to flank us, It's enemy Cyclops. So I turn back and destroy that Cyclops. After that, when I go back to circle and realize almost more half of our team LEAVING THE CIRCLE!. They all only chase few flanker in the back and leaving the circle. So I'm with only some medium mechs stay in circle. Then we got wrecked because majority of our team leaving Circle and chase some lone rabbit. Then we lose the game badly.


Second game, so I dropped in Frozen City with me in Kodiak 3 and I the only Assault in our team. I group up with some Gyrs and few BJ. Then I spotted wandering Ebon Jag. So I have this chance so I push and hopefully we can wreck'em. But then I realize... NOONE FOLLOW ME! or even NOONE PROTECT ME while I'm getting poked by long range lasers. So I'm alone and noone in our group giving me covering fire or group up with me. So I got destroyed quickly because enemies focusing on me.


I just.... why I always got teammates that lack of common sense.....

Edited by Kasumi Sumika, 20 October 2016 - 03:40 AM.

[Bud Crue]

Matches last night in group QP were brutal. Our group of 5 casuals t4-t3 dropped twice against a group with 5 SJR players. That sort of put a damper on the rest of the short evenings play (many of us only have an hour or so to play). After those beatings we decided to run our new mechs and at least get some exp toward leveling. Let me just say that with the new summoners and stalkers running around, LRMs (for me on that new stalker) were useless. We played one match on grim where opposition had 7 ECM mechs and a Terra match where they had 6. Anyway. Played 7 matches. Won 1 by stomp, the rest were losses where we were stomped. Only good thing was that on one match I noticed that neither team had a kodiak, that was a double rainbow moment right there.

[Dar1ng One]

Y'know, having played MWO since the start, I have the experience to know the difference between a loss, a win and if it's going to be close.

So, as per the status quo, I dominated in single quick play queue, up 11 - 3 by the 8 minute mark, the ECM spider pilot on the enemy team thought it would be smart just to hide for 8 minutes.

It's not.

Suicide or fight. Don't waste 23 other MWO players time just because you has a bad run.

If you want to walk around for 8 minutes, play Pokemon GO and **** off from MWO.

Mmmmmmm..... yes

Selfish play-cellent!

And Keshav, this is not name and shame as I appreciate you pushing with me but please if I lead, do not grind up on my ***.

I appreciate the support and I know most KDK3 UAC pilots are fraidy cats, and like to snipe from behind but for ***** sake, give me some ******* room.

Mmmmmmm..... yes

Personal space violation - cellent!

And Cycath, good for you big boi, picking on the stripped Atlas, while the rest of the your team died. If you feel like a blood nose and want to duel one on one.

I'm always here.

That goes for anybody btw.

So when you type in no run, in all chat, you just look like a dumb ****.

Mmmmmmm..... yes

Useless-cellent!

Edited by Dar1ng One, 20 October 2016 - 05:21 AM.

[SlightlyMobileTurret]

I was in a KDK-1 (which cannot hill hump) and apologized. I also only ground against your s*** atlas butt because I overheated.

Seriously, I couldn't make my KDK-1 do the flying thunder god, because my ISP did not deign to bless me with 500 ping at that very moment.