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[Joseph Mallan]

Almond Brown, on 14 May 2014 - 08:51 AM, said:

Those who got Narc'd power down, the others run off the little buggers while the Narc timer wears off.

Doesn't the NARC still Ping if I shut down?

[AlmightyAeng]

Joseph Mallan, on 14 May 2014 - 08:54 AM, said:

Doesn't the NARC still Ping if I shut down?

I still wish we had the narc version that directs ENEMY missiles to a target of choice.

[Nicholas Carlyle]

Joseph Mallan, on 14 May 2014 - 08:54 AM, said:

Doesn't the NARC still Ping if I shut down?

I've seen (and my 4 man at the time) people shutting down and NARC stopping it's broadcast.

I haven't personally tried it, since even when I get NARC'd, I some how manage to be in or very near cover.

[Joseph Mallan]

Ghost Badger, on 14 May 2014 - 08:57 AM, said:

I still wish we had the narc version that directs ENEMY missiles to a target of choice.

Haywire? I could look it up but old and lazy.

[Zerberus]

The Status Quo is still that practically nobody mounts AMS, but they still all come to the forums to whine about LRMs. They just keep trying it from a different angle ( in this case "Narc is OP") becasue they get shot down regularly by people that actually play the game and not just a glorified version of Duck Hunt.

The bottom line is that they`re not even trying to adapt, and therefore forfeit their right to be taken seriously.

LRMS have never been good against good players, they only work AT ALL against bads and people that make stupid mistakes. They are still effectively this game`s n00b filter and nothing else.

So, if you`re incessantly whining about the n00b filter, what does that tell everyone else about you?

Edited by Zerberus, 14 May 2014 - 09:32 AM.

[wanderer]

NARC ignores power-down, since it sends it's own tracking signal.

You get in cover, or you die. Being Caustic, "die" is the usual result.

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I still wish we had the narc version that directs ENEMY missiles to a target of choice.

Amusingly enough, standard NARCs don't fire Nemesis pods. That's the second-generation Improved NARC system, circa 3062.

[Almond Brown]

Joseph Mallan, on 14 May 2014 - 08:54 AM, said:

Doesn't the NARC still Ping if I shut down?

Read a Post where a shutdown cancelled Narc. unless it was a bug and got fixed.

Will get a friend and go to the training grounds and test that. That seems to be HOW it should work.

[Joseph Mallan]

wanderer, on 14 May 2014 - 09:31 AM, said:

NARC ignores power-down, since it sends it's own tracking signal.

You get in cover, or you die. Being Caustic, "die" is the usual result.



Amusingly enough, standard NARCs don't fire Nemesis pods. That's the second-generation Improved NARC system, circa 3062.

Nemisis Pods.. Thank You!

[Ultimax]

CapperDeluxe, on 14 May 2014 - 05:55 AM, said:

If there's one thing I look forward to in 3/3/3/3, its that you can guarantee you'll have something that can deal with those other lights. There's just too many heavies and assaults in most matches, which can go badly in one way (attrition) or another (immobility).

I'm not so sure to be honest.

I've had plenty of matches where my own team's lights and mediums were running around playing rambo shooting slow, easy to hit targets while their own Assaults were being circle strafed & leg humped by opposing lights.

Even worse is when 3/3/3/3 comes and your team has the locusts/commandos, while the other team has the Embers/Jenners/ECM Spider or Ravens.


3/3/3/3: not all mechs of a weight class are created equal.

Edited by Ultimatum X, 14 May 2014 - 10:07 AM.

[Bobzilla]

Zerberus, on 14 May 2014 - 09:26 AM, said:

LRMS have never been good against good players, they only work AT ALL against bads and people that make stupid mistakes. They are still effectively this game`s n00b filter and nothing else.

Try a SHD with tag in the high mount, jjs and target decay. You'd be surprised how effective it is (maybe the meta is just getting people too comfortable). Not the optimal build obviously, but it isn't only good against bads by any means.

[Nicholas Carlyle]

Bobzilla, on 14 May 2014 - 11:10 AM, said:

Try a SHD with tag in the high mount, jjs and target decay. You'd be surprised how effective it is (maybe the meta is just getting people too comfortable). Not the optimal build obviously, but it isn't only good against bads by any means.

I run this build a lot, it gets rolled by competent meta teams.

Which I unfortunatley run into a lot when I run with certain pre-made groups.

[Trauglodyte]

Nicholas Carlyle, on 14 May 2014 - 11:16 AM, said:

I run this build a lot, it gets rolled by competent meta teams.

Which I unfortunatley run into a lot when I run with certain pre-made groups.

Why do we have to be "certain"? HRM?!?

[Nicholas Carlyle]

Trauglodyte, on 14 May 2014 - 11:35 AM, said:

Why do we have to be "certain"? HRM?!?

When I said certain, I meant when I run with the other CI guys, when you are in the group our ELO seems to dip! (Sorry you walked into that one)

[Trauglodyte]

I see how it is. Pressing "R" now always targets Nicholas Carlyle!

[Nicholas Carlyle]

Trauglodyte, on 14 May 2014 - 11:49 AM, said:

I see how it is. Pressing "R" now always targets Nicholas Carlyle!

That seems to be the case, sometimes I think people recognize me from the boards and try to kill me. I know Livewyr did.

[MortVent]

Nicholas Carlyle, on 14 May 2014 - 12:19 PM, said:

That seems to be the case, sometimes I think people recognize me from the boards and try to kill me. I know Livewyr did.

Aint' just you. Anyone that wants to hold a grudge does it. It's kinda foolish... but fun to get them to tunnel vision on you... and chase you right into a couple atlai waiting to say hi

[Davers]

Nicholas Carlyle, on 14 May 2014 - 12:19 PM, said:

That seems to be the case, sometimes I think people recognize me from the boards and try to kill me. I know Livewyr did.

That's why I like to drop with Roadbeer. It's better than ECM; it's like I am invisible.

[Mavairo]

Nich: we need to drop together more often. That'll solve your problem.

[MortVent]

You want to hear whines about narc...

Just wait till I can mount Arrow IVs on my Catapults...