Zoid, on 04 February 2015 - 04:53 PM, said:
I closed to ERML range in the trial Nova a while back and it was comical to see it just fall apart.
It really is a L2P issue. The TDR-9S is extremely powerful if you try to play its game, which is a very long-range snipe-fest. Any clan 'mech above 50 tons can take it down very easily once you close to either SRM or ERML range, which is not difficult to do considering most of them move much faster.
The regular queue games where I've gotten ridiculous scores in the TDR-9S have been all because I was ignored the whole game. For some reason people freak out when they start taking PPC fire and run around like idiots, rather than realize it was just 20+10 damage. A Timberwolf can just tank that while closing in to optimal ERML range, which is what I do in my Timberwolf.
If you are spending a large amount of time sniping on Boreal at all, you are doing it ALL wrong.