Hotthedd, on 22 June 2014 - 09:42 AM, said:
Like I said, I'm not calling them OP, it just makes me laugh when people (usually LRM boat players) try to explain that they are not easy to play.
A weapon is easy to use when I can kill people easily with it.
LRMs are only easy to use against terribads who cannot into cover, countermeasures, or being smart enough to stick with their ECM (or worse, have no ECM).
LRMs are easy to SHOOT. Give me a match against a good group of players, and my average LRM damage gets cut in half, or quartered, or worse. On some maps, I might as well not have fired them at all. Case in point:
Looks like another noskill game, right?
Four of those kills were at under 350m, one of them took me dumb-firing missiles, and all of those were direct-fire shots. Number five was going after a fully armed brawler TWF armed with a single ERLL and two MG's, since I'd lobbed 1800 LRMs in and that's all she wrote for the launchers. I had to kill every one of them under ECM, which meant keeping TAG running, hitting them from every unexpected angle I could find, and not getting bludgeoned to death by massively superior firepower from the oldschool meta-style
Highlander, SRM-packed
Shadow Hawk, or
Timber Wolf. Or the K2, for that matter. I'll call the ECM
Cicada a mostly even match, but that's the one I had to dumb-fire LRMs at to get the kill combined with laser fire. Killing them was like trying to pry up a redwood tree with a rusty crowbar. The team definitely helped in keeping them from getting in on me all at once, because any two of them would have butchered me together.
The
Stalker in my lance was a more conventional LRM bomber type, lobbing shots in from long range. Despite 50 tubes to my 30 and more ammo, you can see the difference in effectiveness, and I know he's not a bad pilot. He's just not an
aggressive LRM pilot, and aggressive is what gets through the usual defenses- some of the time.
Edited by wanderer, 22 June 2014 - 12:55 PM.