Jun Watarase, on 06 May 2014 - 02:41 PM, said:
Reading through the earlier posts again, its rather dissapointing that instead of raising counter arguments to my points, people have started resorting to the same "learn2play noob!" strawman arguments. But i guess i shouldnt be surprised.
Also to the people claiming i missed "a lot", these screencaps prove you dead wrong :
Hope i didnt miss any or added a duplicate. I only missed once because the torso laser was too high to hit the jager. Now that has been debunked, please stop all claims that i was missing the majority of my shots, thanks.
Those screenshots don't prove much if your lasers are moving all over the place for the rest of those ~200 frames. For example, exactly at 0:54 the lasers move completely off the jager and hit the terrain for about half the burn duration, and that's not including at least 1 other miss and all the damage spreading as mentioned throughout the thread.
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And duh, the damage is going to spread, its not an instant projectile. The jenner video earlier? He stood still, fired on largely stationery targets and nobody was shooting him, so he was able to do pinpoint. I didnt have that luxury. Any elevation change is going to make the damage spread (and i was reversing downslope). Any turns will make the damagae spread due to weapons in two different locations, and my cockpit was being obscured by weapons fire because its located in a very large and easy to hit location. Its pretty much unavoidable. If the jager was just standing still, that would have been a different story entirely. And still nobody addresses my point that the damage didnt spread that much because most of the Jager was yellow, so the damage was concentrated to the LT/CT anyway.
The jenner sat still when he could (which was not that often in the video by the way, and he was getting shot at but knew when to leave his spot to avoid more damage) to fire his lasers because that's when you have the most steady shot, and with lasers that's obviously pretty important. He could also afford to do that because he was in a light mech, so if you find you can't utilize your lasers properly in a big, slow mech then...maybe try another weapon system (e.g pulse lasers instead of regular lasers, or PPCs) because lasers don't do much good if they spread all over the place and then hit destroyed components for even less damage than usual.
People did address the damage spreading by the way, it was significant and you denying it is just silly.
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Tried arm lock but...the reticle obviously moves a lot slower and there are a lot of times when you need to move the arm crosshair, but not the torso one. Would be better if the arm lock worked so that once you reached the maximum twist/pitch angle, the arm lock would be turned off temporarily so you could shoot with arm mounted weapons.
I usually run with arm lock on by default but I do turn it off by holding the shift key when I need to, not too hard for me personally although I'm probably not the most shining example of utilizing arm lock either.