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[Thunder Child]

Hey Avarice.
I know from my own 8 LL DireWhale (Nicknamed Supernova) that there is no Arm Swing on the build. It lacks the LAA to allow it. The A Variant has the Actuators in it's right arm, but I believe you lose out on Hardpoints (someone correct me if I'm wrong).
To be fair, although it is a ludicrously fun build (I Chain fire), I've found it gets eaten alive by any sort of FLD build. Alas, it has reverted back to the Thunder and Lightning Build of Dual Gauss/Dual PPC, just so that it can be effective in todays MWO Battlefield.

Edit: If you want to go for a little Insanity in the FLD Department, I saw an interesting build rocking 8 CERPPCs. Just make sure of your shot, because you only get ONE.

Edited by Thunder Child, 28 July 2014 - 11:41 PM.

[Wintersdark]

Avarice1of2, on 28 July 2014 - 11:10 PM, said:

Ok winter and everyone else this is the build her name is Radiance™. Radiance is a sniper I can not afford to put all my high crit weapons in one arm. Before the current patch I though PGI had actually listened to players and gave partially what we want. The fact that PGI just goofed and decided to fix a mistake that actually was an improvement, pisses people off more then if they had said dwf can not have horizontal arm swing.

Pisses "people" off? Who else? This is how - as I keep saying - the lower arm actuators have worked from the first public test of clans.

PGI hasn't nerfed anything.

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The arm swing should not be based off of weight, it should be based off of how much kick back a weapon has.

I'm not arguing how it should be, merely how it is and has been.

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Also Winter I am not saying this is personal but I have experienced a cycle since closed beta. I make a build, I excel at build, people copy build, build gets nerfed. The twin gauss cataphracts blame it on me, the chain firing area denial Ilya blame it on me, the atlai with flamer(s) blame on me. Oh and sorry if my screen shot is a bit letter box but I play on veryhigh at 3840x1024 at 32-45 fps.

It's not about you. Nothing was nerfed here. If anything, if you actually got lower arm movement with LPL's, then it was via exploiting a bug, not a feature or something that was later altered because Your Build Was So Good.

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On a side note I am not a dude.

Ummm, OK? Great? That's a fairly random statement, but I'll play along. I have brown hair, and I like pie, but I don't particularly care for cake.

[NetherlightWolf]

To be fair I do apologize for going on a tangent. I generally try not to derail threads.

On the subject of the timber, the last time I played mine it had full arm movement with a lbx 20 in it. This may have been a bug based on what others are saying. Granted that was some time ago and was probably fixed.

One last note, I agree arm locking should be based on recoil, not weight.