

Anyone Else Crazy Like Me And Loves The Stock 12 Er Ml Nova?
#1
Posted 27 August 2014 - 04:51 AM
Imagine my utter shock when not only did I have zero issues with self immolation, but the mech preformed brilliantly. 1st Match, Zero efficiencies unlocked, 3 kills, 5 assists and 550 damage and ZERO heat related shutdowns.
Anyway it was Alpine so a colder map and I figured it was just a fluke but the second match I get MORDOR!!!! Game over now, heat is going to bring this LOL build to its knees.
Result - 2 kills, 7 Assists, 663 damage, ZERO unintentional heat related shutdowns and only 1 intentional shutdown due to intentionally pushing it to get in a kill.
I ended the night by unlocking all my basics in 10 matches which resulted in 13 kills for 5 deaths running my Nova prime completely stock. I think I had only maybe 5-6 total heat related shutdowns the whole night.
Obviously the key here was fire discipline. I ran 4 groups of 3 C-ER ML and rotated between the groups, never firing more than 6 at one time and usually just chain firing each group in quick rotation. I couldn't use large alphas and keep my heat anywhere near reasonable levels but what I lacked in alpha, I made up with in sustained DPS. All in all it worked out great.
So for the very first and probably only time, I am running a stock build with no intention of ever changing a thing (Well until they get around to nerfing the C-ER ML to uselessness like they did the C-ER LL.)
#2
Posted 27 August 2014 - 04:58 AM
play around with 6 MLs and 6 SL, you can get all that fire power off without breaking 70% heat assuming you give it that half second before firing the next group. though the nova is not for people with high pings...I tend to avoid it once my pings get into the 200+ range because the HSR makes it near useless.
#3
Posted 27 August 2014 - 04:58 AM
You expect it to overheat when you do something stupid and thus you're careful about it.
Everyone aside of doing exactly that would be dissapointed, but it seems it's hard to get that

#4
Posted 27 August 2014 - 05:01 AM
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Posted 27 August 2014 - 05:01 AM
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Posted 27 August 2014 - 05:04 AM
#7
Posted 27 August 2014 - 05:20 AM
Just paid for it for the first time in Nova.
#8
Posted 27 August 2014 - 05:28 AM
Edited by El Bandito, 27 August 2014 - 05:37 AM.
#9
Posted 27 August 2014 - 05:33 AM
hardly the most optimal loadout, but at least i can trust myself with it and only 1 cERMLas worth of additional ghost heat
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#10
Posted 27 August 2014 - 05:38 AM
If you perform, then: "Congratulations on your graduation!"
Edited by nonnex, 27 August 2014 - 05:40 AM.
#11
Posted 27 August 2014 - 05:40 AM
El Bandito, on 27 August 2014 - 05:28 AM, said:
disagree - with the hunch and head weapons above your cockpit and smart use of cover you can keep almost your entire body under cover and lay down a beating while taking almost no damage in return. nova ALWAYS has to expose itself fully, except on corners (it's biggest strength)
#12
Posted 27 August 2014 - 05:57 AM

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Posted 27 August 2014 - 06:14 AM
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Posted 27 August 2014 - 06:17 AM
#15
Posted 27 August 2014 - 07:47 AM
lockwoodx, on 27 August 2014 - 06:17 AM, said:
No, no it is not.
You know that you don't get ghost heat when you fire <= 6 lasers, right? It isn't just some angry guy with tattoos that waits for you on a street corner and steals your wallet.
Edited by Xarian, 27 August 2014 - 07:47 AM.
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Posted 27 August 2014 - 07:48 AM
#17
Posted 27 August 2014 - 07:53 AM
#18
Posted 27 August 2014 - 07:59 AM
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#19
Posted 27 August 2014 - 08:22 AM
#20
Posted 27 August 2014 - 08:42 AM
Second game I got 2 kills and 390 damage. It's nice to lose a side-torso and just shrug, knowing that only having half your damage output is still going to match quite a few mech's full damage output.
*Didn't find the heat too hard to handle. What I did was switch the second group to chainfire right away, that way if I got too ambitious the penalty wouldn't be too severe.
Edited by FDJustin, 27 August 2014 - 08:48 AM.
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