Ive only ever played one ECM mech (Raven), do play mechs with AMS (especially lights) and still get killed by LRM rain. 90% of the time, ive never played the meta, almost always had out of the box builds, one im very fond of and has been copied and played by a number of others since. These days i mostly play lights / mediums & they go down to LRM rain shockingly fast. Sure I could hide and take pot shots with my medium, small lasers (err they wont work, change mech loadout to ERLL, AC2), but hiding for a large part of the game is fricking boring, as this game has become. Adapting is easy, but i dont want to paly a game that plays as this currently broken one does. Ive always enjoyed the in your face action, never had a problem dying, always did some damage though, got a laugh. Dont seem to enjoy the current gameplay though.
Flanking people say is the workaround, ive done it often in games prior, but now its mostly a death sentence, unless half the team does it (even then no guarantees), you're dead, not by the LRM boat you're attacking, but to one, two, three or four of his friends. So no flanking doesn't really work either.
Played River City assault, and everyone stayed with their turrets throwing LRMs at each other, the few who tried to attack died to LRM rain trying to cross to the other side, once 3 died, no one bothered to try to cross anymore. We won, as we had killed 2 of them and they killed one of our mechs after 15 min ended. Seriously that's not the MechWarrior game im wanting to play.
Its worst for PUGS, I circled round enemy with one other light and drew away 5 of the other sides team, told our side to attack we had numbers, reply was, not going into that LRM spam. Once us 2 lights died, our team was slaughtered. People are hiding in this current version of the game, not playing as they were once, pity.
Edited by Ace Selin, 22 March 2014 - 10:54 PM.