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[151st Light Horse Regiment]

Doesn't move. Doesnt turn. Doesn't even pack that much punch unless you're scrubbing a meta ppc/gauss build.

It always gets ambushed. Every enemy targets it first. Every friendly leaves it behind. CT bigger than the moon.

Land on a map like Alpine and you might as well just alt+f4.

Etc etc.

It offers nothing more signifcant than an Atlas or HGN offers. I'd be raging if i paid real money for this derpmech.

Edited by 151st Light Horse Regiment, 05 October 2014 - 09:56 AM.

[Treye Snow]

151st Light Horse Regiment, on 05 October 2014 - 09:53 AM, said:

Doesn't move. Doesnt turn. Doesn't even pack that much punch unless you're scrubbing a meta ppc/gauss build.

It always gets ambushed. Every enemy targets it first. Every friendly leaves it behind. CT bigger than the moon.

Land on a map like Alpine and you might as well just alt+f4.

Etc etc.

It offers nothing more signifcant than an Atlas or HGN offers. I'd be raging if i paid real money for this derpmech.

[Ph30nix]

as many people have said and i tend to agree it is a Feast of Famine mech, its a mech that once it gets momentum can easily steam roll over an enemy team.... but if it runs into a wall (both literal and figurative lol) it gets slammed down hard.

now alot of its drawbacks a good and PATIENT pilot can overcome and frankly turn into a terror even on their own, but yes truth is that same pilot would probably be 2-3x deadlier in another mech.

still the direwolf is a ton of fun on a feast binge.

[Monkey Lover]

ppc +gauss doesnt work anymore not meta. best it has it 6x ac5 and im sure they will nerf it soon.

[Lefty Lucy]

151st Light Horse Regiment, on 05 October 2014 - 09:53 AM, said:

Doesn't move. Doesnt turn. Doesn't even pack that much punch unless you're scrubbing a meta ppc/gauss build.

It always gets ambushed. Every enemy targets it first. Every friendly leaves it behind. CT bigger than the moon.

Land on a map like Alpine and you might as well just alt+f4.

Etc etc.

It offers nothing more signifcant than an Atlas or HGN offers. I'd be raging if i paid real money for this derpmech.

You are a bad pilot.

[Ph30nix]

Monkey Lover, on 05 October 2014 - 10:01 AM, said:

ppc +gauss doesnt work anymore not meta. best it has it 6x ac5 and im sure they will nerf it soon.

2 guass, 2 erll and 6 erml works best for me,

[LordBraxton]

Like all slow assaults, with teamwork and coordination the DW is the anchor of a formation. Able to withstand and deliver massive amounts of damage, if your teammates are on your flanks, you are in position to do more damage than any other mech in the game. Git Gud etc.

[Powder Puff Pew Pew]

I have a gold dwf, I paid good money for it and frankly after the CT fix ive come to love it. Tho I havnt used it in a long time cuz of lvling other mechs. Ive had some of my funnest matches with the Dire Whale. Strap 4 UAC20's on that sucker and its a beast. The dire wolf takes skill, corner sniping is difficult i admit cuz of the corner of every wall in the damn game isnt true to its location. But the dwf is 1 of the most aggressive long range ammo boats there are in the game. If u were to compair the Dwf to an Atlas their are almost dead even in strength.

Edited by Powder Puff Pew Pew, 05 October 2014 - 10:09 AM.

[Bront]

No mech is an island (though the Whale is almost as maneuverable as one).

Dire Wolf alone - Bad, vulnerable, and easy to clean up.

Dire Wolf with a team - A dangerous door kicker, suppression mech, and killer.

I love how you use Meta as a dirty word in your post. Things become the meta because they work.

[KraftySOT]

Lefty Lucy, on 05 October 2014 - 10:02 AM, said:

You are a bad pilot.

This^

See Lefty, we can agree

[Mercules]

Moving to the correct position where approaches to it are limited turns it into a god. If the team covers it's flanks and rear it will singlehandedly belch out enough fire to annihilate most mechs trying to approach it from the front.

[BourbonFaucet]

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[o0Marduk0o]

Monkey Lover, on 05 October 2014 - 10:01 AM, said:

ppc +gauss doesnt work anymore not meta. best it has it 6x ac5 and im sure they will nerf it soon.

Hardly the best. 6 ER ML + 4 UAC5 is way better than this.

[Mahnmut]

4 or 6x UAC5 works fine in pugs where people are stupid enough to stand in the open and eat the damage. Dual gauss + erll + erml is just nasty no matter which way you look at it.

[FupDup]

It's a mech with a large strength and a large weakness. It carries a metric fuckton of firepower, but is utterly slow as balls, has atrocious agility, and relatively meh hitboxes (i.e. can hit nose even from the side). If it gets set up into position, it eats everything. Otherwise, it gets eaten.

[Kaspirikay]

What did they change about Gauss+PPC?

[Bartholomew bartholomew]

Stand in front of one and call it bad to it's face. I dare ya!

If you can pilot well enough to keep people there you will do good otherwise you are toast. It is one mech that need elites to play well. Mine isn't basiced yet and it is food right now.

[LuInRei]

151st Light Horse Regiment, on 05 October 2014 - 09:53 AM, said:

Doesn't move. Doesnt turn. Doesn't even pack that much punch unless you're scrubbing a meta ppc/gauss build.

It always gets ambushed. Every enemy targets it first. Every friendly leaves it behind. CT bigger than the moon.

Land on a map like Alpine and you might as well just alt+f4.

Etc etc.

It offers nothing more signifcant than an Atlas or HGN offers. I'd be raging if i paid real money for this derpmech.

If this is your sincere opnion, all I can say is - You've chosen the worst possible time to level a whale.

Try waiting a couple of days, at least, untill the challenge ends.

Edited by LuInRei, 05 October 2014 - 06:38 PM.

[Destructicus]

This dude has been posting for a while now how hard to Direwolf is

151st Light Horse Regiment, on 05 October 2014 - 09:53 AM, said:

Doesn't move. Doesnt turn. Doesn't even pack that much punch unless you're scrubbing a meta ppc/gauss build.

It always gets ambushed. Every enemy targets it first. Every friendly leaves it behind. CT bigger than the moon.

Land on a map like Alpine and you might as well just alt+f4.

Etc etc.

It offers nothing more signifcant than an Atlas or HGN offers. I'd be raging if i paid real money for this derpmech.

In the last week you have asked for Terra Therma to be taken out of rotation, complained about how clan a/cs work, complained that the DWF gets "cored too easily" and cried about LRMS.

You ever stop and think "maybe it's me?"

[Nightshade24]

Direwolf has an amazingly high firepower how ever you put it, meta or not.

2 C ER PPC + 2 Guass.
1 LBX 20 + 2 C LRM 20 + 3 ER large las
6 C LBX 5
4 ER PPC
8 ER LL
2 Guass, 1 ER PPC, 8 ER SL


What ever you do, it's quite a formidable enemy. It's just all about positioning and such. It's better with speed tweak and all the other goodies of eliten' it.