sirzorn, on 25 September 2014 - 01:28 AM, said:
Ya sure. Can please some skilled assault class player show me how to beat a DW in a direct confrontaion? Alot of people bother writing in here how they outdance a DW in their assault or torso flip their Atlas, but no one bothers acepting my friend requests to enter a private match. Its not like i am a pr0 or sth. seriosuly, i expect most people writing in here being more skilled then me. I still dont expect any assault mech to beat my "pulloutofmyass-loadout-DW".
I dont care if you beatup a DW in your commando, i dont care if u beatup some random brainafk DW in a random game. I want you to beat me in my DW with another assault mech, just so i realize theres a reason to get another assault then DW. For now, my W/L and K/D is by far the best of all my mechs, and i have the feeling its even getting better the more i play the DW. and its just based since i only own 1 variant.
I'm honestly confused here. You don't care if 3/4 of the enemy team can wreck you, you're only concerned about other assaults? Have you even played this game? There's lots of enemy light/medium/heavy mechs out there.
The Direwolf will usually beat another assault 1v1, assuming equal pilot skill. This doesn't make it the best assault, not by a long shot,
because this isn't a 1v1 game. The enemy team isn't full of Assaults; there's 3 or 4 max. You may not even have the opportunity to engage another assault in a given match.
You need to consider how effective a mech is against every other mech. Being superior to other assaults, but inferior
to practically everything else leaves you disadvantaged in the majority of encounters.
But, you're not interested in whether or not the mech is overpowered, you only care if it is in a very contrived and limited set of circumstances.
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Whatever, back to topic: It doesnt matter what i think about the DW, or you, the skilled Assault pr0s. It matters what Jhonny Average is thinking abou it. I think Jhonny will perform better in its DW then in other assaults, which will make Jhonny play his DW over all other assaults he might own.
Atm, you see DWs everygame, thats probably because of the grind fest. What do you think, how much time do we have to wait till the grind phase is over? 1-2 months? Just want to know when i can come back, revive this topic and see if i was right or not.
Of course you see DW's in every game; it's just been released for cbills. Just like you saw Nova's in every game when it was released for cbills.
As to what "Jhonny Average" thinks, I could care less. Jhonny Average is probably a moron who doesn't understand how the game works, and cries endlessly that people with "macros" are cheating and beating him. What ignorant (willfully or otherwise) people think really doesn't matter to me.
Bring 3xDire Wolves in every match. This just either slows your team dramatically, or leaves 300 tons isolated. Either way, it severely limits your team.
Finally, consider: Clan players have a whopping two options currently: Dire Wolf and Warhawk. If you're a Clan player, and not interested in IS mechs, those are pretty limited pickings. The Warhawk isn't a bad mech, but it's a more niche design that appeals to a more limits set of players: those wanting a fast, moderately hitty assault as opposed to OMG THE DAKKA. At best, you'd be looking at 50% of Clan assault players sporting direwolves, but as MWO is heavily tonnage oriented per class due to 3/3/3/3 (why take an 80t assault when you can take a 100t assault?) there's obviously going to be more of them.
Also..... Lets see how the Dire Wolf fairs in a direct confrontation with a King Crab sporting dual AC20's as well as significant backup weaponry and greater maneuverability.
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