Davers, on 03 July 2014 - 10:44 AM, said:
Hanging back and sniping only works if your team can actually hit and eliminate the enemy on the way in. If the shooting is sporadic and the damage is being spread everywhere you can't stop the other team from closing. As usual focus firing and teamwork trumps just about everything.
^This
Some of my more successful builds involve sitting back and sniping with my LLs. Not something I can do successfully as a loner. I require my team's help to make sure I don't
Get flanked
get swarmed by hunter packs
have someone else to help soak damage
allow me to pick and choose priority targets
etc.
etc.
etc.
Davers has saved my butt too many times to count when we drop together. None of us run many if any "meta" builds. We take out a lot of metas though. Teamwork trumps builds just about every time. All piloting skills even a team of meta humpers, or any other team for that matter, will lose most times to a team with "inferior" builds if the "inferior" team has better teamwork.
Goes without saying though that many that play MWO do not, will not, or simply can not accept that. Until you get more team in team based shooter, you're not going to improve stuff like that.