35 replies to this topic

[Ace Selin]

Wow. LRMs pretty much kill anything anywhere near the open now.
Had a centurion on Crimson Straight, side of hill, Spider spotted and 2 trial stalkers launched - Centurion was legged, lost weapon arm and orange CT. That's some serious firepower.
Firestarter with AMS caught in open for 3 secs (running rock to rock) in that time a lone trial stalker launched one LRM salvo which outright killed me, from having had no damage (destroyed CT).

Im planning to play an LRM stalker, I figure anything that can carry plenty LRM tubes with some other weapons for backup (not that itll be required with current LRMs) will be the killer of choice.


(LRMs were fine there was no need to change them, under some circumstances they were over powered even, but now, my goodness those thing slaughter everything).

Edited by Ace Selin, 20 March 2014 - 02:53 AM.

[Joseph Mallan]

Atlas

or

Stalker

[El Bandito]

Ace Selin, on 20 March 2014 - 02:51 AM, said:

Firestarter with AMS caught in open for 3 secs (running rock to rock) in that time a lone trial stalker launched one LRM salvo which outright killed me, from having had no damage (destroyed CT).

That's some slow ass Firestarter. You had 150 engine?

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LRMs were fine there was no need to change them, under some circumstances they were over powered even, but now, my goodness those thing slaughter everything.

You just lost all credibility there.


On topic, my missile boats are Shawk-2D2, Jager-A, Catapult-A1, Highlander-733. And trial Stalker, for the achievement.

I don't own it, but Battlemaster-1S is helluva strong missile boat.

Edited by El Bandito, 20 March 2014 - 03:40 AM.

[El Bandito]

Joseph Mallan, on 20 March 2014 - 03:14 AM, said:

Atlas

or

Stalker

Single heat sink on that Atlas? I personally would put some of the LRM ammo on one of the Atlas's arms (the one you don't shield yourself with). No one shoots at Atlas' arms. My HGN-733 got 10 tons of LRM ammo on his right arm.

Edited by El Bandito, 20 March 2014 - 05:12 AM.

[Joseph Mallan]

El Bandito, on 20 March 2014 - 03:42 AM, said:

Single heat sink on that Atlas? I personally would put some of the LRM ammo on one of the Atlas's arms (the one you don't shield yourself with). No one shoots at Atlas' arms. My HGN-733 got 10 tons of LRM ammo on his left arm.

Not bad advice, But I like my Atlas... I will look into some upgrades, but I dont see a reason to mess with success.

[Willard Phule]

*shrug* I don't bother with "boats." I do, however, use LRMs as part of my loadout....and have changed up builds a bit to incorporate them.

As an example, my WVR-7K started out as a streakboat to chase lights....I swapped the three SSRM2s for 3 ALRM5s...and it seems to be working well.

[wanderer]

A single 60-LRM salvo from a Stalker cannot one-shot a Firestarter- unless he hit you in the back and possibly blew your ammo to boot, considering AMS. Likewise, 120 missiles isn't enough to do that much damage to a Centurion. MULTIPLE launches, certainly- I got my "Creeping Death" achievement in a game where I ended up grinding Jenners and Cicadas to death under a pair of LRM 15's.

Heck, I've gotten perfect back shots on a Spider with my twin 15's- two in a row, in fact, he was spotting and didn't realize it - and I didn't kill the little bug with near-perfect hits. By comparison, I've done it with two MPLs and the light was a kill statistic on the second blast to the back CT.

[Bobzilla]

Look on the bright side.
Well at least it was a couple missle boats that focused on you so you actually survived and had a chance to avoid it. As oppose to a couple 2ppc+2ac5 mechs taking you out from farther away with no ability to avoid them.

[Joseph Mallan]

Bobzilla, on 20 March 2014 - 04:27 AM, said:

Look on the bright side.
Well at least it was a couple missle boats that focused on you so you actually survived and had a chance to avoid it. As oppose to a couple 2ppc+2ac5 mechs taking you out from farther away with no ability to avoid them.

Bob... Cover stops PPCs and ACs as well as it does Missiles... Just sayin'.

[DEN_Ninja]

I present to you the, "I am not totally useless after I expend all my ammo" CPLT-C1.

I give to you the, "Clearly you are actually just insane" CPLT-C4.

Also for your consideration, "You are literally just trolling now" CPLT-A1.

Edited by Tichorius Davion, 20 March 2014 - 04:53 AM.

[Joseph Mallan]

Tichorius Davion, on 20 March 2014 - 04:43 AM, said:

I present to you the, "I am not totally useless after I expend all my ammo" CPLT.

basically a standard Catapult. Good on you. You kept the feel of what that chassis is meant to be.

[Iskareot]

Stalker for sure... a bit more of a tank missle boat - sad its come to this but it is what it is anymore in this game

[Joseph Mallan]

Tichorius Davion, on 20 March 2014 - 04:43 AM, said:

I present to you the, "I am not totally useless after I expend all my ammo" CPLT-C1.

I give to you the, "Clearly you are actually just insane" CPLT-C4.

Also for your consideration, "You are literally just trolling now" CPLT-A1.

Your third Mech I just couldn't run. It has no survivability. 4 salvos per Launcher is not a wise build.

[LoneMaverick]

Tichorius Davion, on 20 March 2014 - 04:43 AM, said:

I present to you the, "I am not totally useless after I expend all my ammo" CPLT-C1.

I give to you the, "Clearly you are actually just insane" CPLT-C4.

Also for your consideration, "You are literally just trolling now" CPLT-A1.

My CPLT-C4 : Suprise Mfka

Also my new favorite LRMer, SHD2H : This is not the Metahawk you're looking for.

[DEN_Ninja]

LoneMaverick, on 20 March 2014 - 06:00 AM, said:

My CPLT-C4 : Suprise Mfka

Also my new favorite LRMer, SHD2H : This is not the Metahawk you're looking for.

Similar to my standard C4 build.

Interesting. Always fun to see assym builds.

Joseph Mallan, on 20 March 2014 - 05:50 AM, said:

Your third Mech I just couldn't run. It has no survivability. 4 salvos per Launcher is not a wise build.

thatsthejoke.gif

Edited by Tichorius Davion, 20 March 2014 - 06:15 AM.

[Mr 144]

ON1-V (My most succesful Pugging 'mech by far)

ON1-VA (A better troll)

Find a friend, and run 'em in a pair (one of each) and enjoy Probablly the most succesful duoing builds I've ever ran...both set-up this way since the Orion release with only minor mood ammo/HS tweaks...

[Joseph Mallan]

Tichorius Davion, on 20 March 2014 - 06:12 AM, said:

Similar to my standard C4 build.

Interesting. Always fun to see assym builds.




thatsthejoke.gif

Yet someone out there DOES drive something like that... You know its true!

[DEN_Ninja]

Joseph Mallan, on 20 March 2014 - 06:21 AM, said:

Yet someone out there DOES drive something like that... You know its true!

Atleast its a good joke.

[wanderer]

All good jokes are grounded in a little reality.

[DEN_Ninja]

Gentlemen, I have extreme pride in presenting to you, "You can LRM if you want to, you can LRM your friends behind" CPLT-C4.