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[Effectz]

I cam 5th in LIAO and I only played for a day and a half.I started off with a 2 ERLL raven so I could get get games fast then moved to highlander and dragon slayer.I could of done alot better if I put more time in,didn't help either when you keep getting dropped on thera therma and HPG.out of the day and a half I played I got Tourmaline once(my best map) and got a score of 1650 with 8 kills.

[KarbonKopy]

Placed 6th in the Merc Corps here. Majority of the games I played were in my Muromets, and the rest in my Battlemaster 1S. Only a few later in the weekend in the Dragon Slayer.

Battlemaster 1S
2xLRM15 w/ART
2x LRM10 w/ART
3 Medium Lasers
TAG

Ilya Muromets
3 AC5
3 Medium Laser

Dragon Slayer
2 PPC
2 AC5

[T R3]

Hi Everyone,

Not quite sure how but I got to 9th in Liao.

I used mainly my Ilya muromets (3 x UAC5 & 3 x ML) & my CTF-4X (4 x AC5) Both mechs only are on basic but with the extra c-bills earned over weekend I have now bought a CTF-3D.
Only modules used were zoom & seismic.

Experience: Patience is key

Cheers & beers

T R3

[Ordellus]

Gramling, on 25 March 2014 - 06:34 AM, said:

Concerning "Kill Steals", I think there is no such thing in a team game.

If that was true they wouldn't track the stat / have 80% of the formula be centered around it.

[Bodzan]

6th Liao - VTR-DS 2xPPC 2xAC-5 mostly, CTF-3D 2xPPC 1xUAC-5 and HGN-733C 2xPPC 2xUAC-5 secondary
best results with VTR-DS and CTF-3D

[Dymanite]

Greetings,


Kurita rank 10


Hunchback 4G (main)

AC20 2ML SL, imp arti.

[kaffeangst]

Screenshots from the Tournament:







And from past matches using the Trial Spider on my secondary account; an account that now has over a thousand matches played. I fail to find matches on the account, and need to actually start a third. The whole reason for this account was to be able to drop solo when I wanted to have some "fun".

[Eglar]

lol

[PhoenixFire55]

I still don't believe that SIMOHAYHA is your account Kaffe. I think its your parrot playing.

I mean ... this game was bad enough for me when you were killing me all the time, then it was you and your fiancee killing me all the time, now you taught your parrot to play the game ...

[kaffeangst]

The question is... how'd you know we had a parrot?

[PhoenixFire55]

kaffeangst, on 26 March 2014 - 02:56 AM, said:

The question is... how'd you know we had a parrot?

Educated guess? lol

But if you are gonna tell me you really do have a parrot I'm gonna go into serious shaman buisness.

[Eglar]

PhoenixFire55, on 26 March 2014 - 02:59 AM, said:

Educated guess? lol

But if you are gonna tell me you really do have a parrot I'm gonna go into serious shaman buisness.

Buy this and he will tell you that they have one.

[PhoenixFire55]

Eglar, on 26 March 2014 - 03:16 AM, said:

Buy this and he will tell you that they have one.

At that price I better buy me a lance of parrots and teach them to play MWO so that they can troll Kaffe in trial Spiders and let me kill him for a change...

[Silentium]

ShinVector, on 24 March 2014 - 05:24 PM, said:

Primarily: Ember 4MLs + 4MGs. (Could have probably done a bit better had brawling in lights not been nerfed. )

My last match for the tourny probably shows a bit of the problem for brawlers.. Grrr..


Edit: Added video.

Just had to say, I always feel like a chump in the first part of a match doing the light mech safety dance. GJ though!

[Smokeyjedi]

Ordellus, on 24 March 2014 - 11:07 PM, said:

^^ but with the grind looking for a competent team so that the game wasn't useless (from a trying to beat previous games standpoint)



You're claiming you got something like a 5 kill, 900 ish damage game..... 10 times...... in a machine gun spider...... in a couple hours?

Sounds legit.

You clearly havent been here for the years required to know how badass Kaf is......lol, Noob.

[astroglide420]

ShinVector, on 24 March 2014 - 05:24 PM, said:

Primarily: Ember 4MLs + 4MGs. (Could have probably done a bit better had brawling in lights not been nerfed. )

My last match for the tourny probably shows a bit of the problem for brawlers.. Grrr..


Edit: Added video.

nice game, as a fellow light brawler i feel your pain..

question, why do you not brace your landings/falls?

Edited by astroglide420, 26 March 2014 - 04:05 PM.

[ShinVector]

astroglide420, on 26 March 2014 - 04:05 PM, said:

nice game, as a fellow light brawler i feel your pain..

question, why do you not brace your landings/falls?

Very minor leg damage versus getting out of someone sight vertically ASAP.
I am choosing the later... The Mechs are too floaty as it is already.. Meh..

[Cimarb]

8th for Davion. (Was at 2nd as of midnight Friday, but the rest of the weekend was rough...)

STK-5M 2xALRM10, 2xALRM15, 4xMLAS, BAP, TAG, XL300. 1440 ammo.
BLR-1S. 2xALRM10, 2xALRM15, 3xMLAS, BAP, TAG, STD275, AMS, 1260 ammo.
AS7-D-DC. 2xALRM10, ALRM15, ML, 2xMG, BAP, TAG, ECM, AMS. 1800 ammo.

[Shlkt]

Marik #6

Primary builds:

• Ember w/ 4 ML, 4MGs
  
• JM6-DD w/ 5x AC/2 and coolant flush

I played most of my games in Conquest mode. In my experience Conquest usually ends in the destruction of all mechs anyway, and the game plays out faster due to no turrets and the need to cap stuff occasionally. I can get more games in if I play Conquest rather than Assault or Skirmish, 'cuz there's not as much hiding.

The games themselves seemed more chaotic and aggressive than usual. I recognized a lot of pilot names from the leaderboards, and those guys were out for blood.

Artillery strikes were absolutely essential. A lucky hit could easily net you several hundred damage and multiple assists. I was using arty every match, and airstrikes as well when running my Ember. Lots of other pilots must have come to the same conclusion, 'cuz I saw a lot more artillery than I'm accustomed to seeing outside of 12-mans.

Your best 10 games are going to be statistical outliers, so it's important to choose a build which can really capitalize on those rare games where you're the lowest priority target. For that reason I think pure energy builds are at a disadvantage - when the enemy is routed targets begin to fall quickly, and you can't afford to miss out on kills/assists because you're overheating. Similarly you shouldn't be running a build that will run out of ammo quickly. I missed out on some opportunities with my JM6-DD because of ammo shortages.

Missiles, missiles everywhere! I don't know if all those missile boats were competing or just trying out the increased LRM speed. Drops on Caustic Valley without ECM were extremely frustrating, and since it was a solo tourney you never had any idea what you'd end up with.

The Seraphim had a TS channel set up for tournament participants to chat while they dropped. Good fun and the occasional [attempted] sync drop, which had us fighting each other more often than not.

[Cimarb]

I may have missed a huge opportunity to boost my numbers, and this is going to sound really noob-ish, but do artillery and air strikes actually count towards your damage and match score?... If so, I sure am doing this the hard way...