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[DjPush]

You are gonna get shot in the back. I'm getting real tired of players not having any situational awareness. If you run into the line of fire of an Atlas, Dire Wolf or Crab... You deserve every bit of their fire. Walk behind them not in their way!

Edited by DjPush, 26 March 2015 - 05:58 AM.

[Flyby215]

Can't say I've ever had that problem driving an assault mech myself...

Then again, I'm the kind of assault mech who actually gets into the fight, tanks, and puts out 500-800 dmg per match in being up front and dueling it out.

Not sure what these other guys are doing letting other mechs infront of them...

[kesmai]

I hereby completely and wholeheartedly support the OP.
guys when you are in your firestarters locusts spiders and jenners get BEHIND those assaults. This way you can core them easily and score many kills.

Edited by kesmai, 26 March 2015 - 06:50 AM.

[Huoshini]

I have this same issue. Unlike the other poster, I usually tank ALL the damage, end up doing nothing then the rest of the team winning the game. I like to believe that I am helping by eating up all the damage for the beginning of the fight but I guess thats just how I play Assaults.

[Spr1ggan]

Sometimes you need to get across the front of one but I don't complain about getting FF when I do that. I know what I'm getting into when doing it. What irks me are the crab pilots that move up and position themselves so that they have one arm that can hit the enemy and the other arm behind a friendly and then start blasting away like no tomorrow.

Edited by Spr1ggan, 26 March 2015 - 06:55 AM.

[Sarlic]

Sssssssshhhhhhhhh you may piss of a locust somewere in the shadows.

Spr1ggan, on 26 March 2015 - 06:55 AM, said:

Sometimes you need to get across the front of one but I don't complain about getting FF when I do that. I know what I'm getting into when doing it. What irks me are the crab pilots that move up and position themselves so that they have one arm that can hit the enemy and the other arm behind a friendly and then start blasting away like no tomorrow.

Ha, seen it plenty of times.

"Yes Yes! What a hit! Sorry, sorry"

Like they have to aplogise for one arm. Ha!

[Curccu]

Flyby215, on 26 March 2015 - 06:01 AM, said:

Can't say I've ever had that problem driving an assault mech myself...

Then again, I'm the kind of assault mech who actually gets into the fight, tanks, and puts out 500-800 dmg per match in being up front and dueling it out.

Not sure what these other guys are doing letting other mechs infront of them...

Well you know there are mechs that are way faster than Direwolfs, Atlais or King Crabs so it's kinda impossible to be spearhead always... And some assault mechs are not designed to be that spearhead.
Also sometimes silly people in their greed just want to walk into endless stream of Direwolf dakka or something similarly stupid.

[Spr1ggan]

Sarlic, on 26 March 2015 - 06:57 AM, said:

Sssssssshhhhhhhhh you may piss of a locust somewere in the shadows.



Ha, seen it plenty of times.

"Yes Yes! What a hit! Sorry, sorry"

Like they have to aplogise for one arm. Ha!

Yeah it's crazy dude, I guess having each arm on a separate weapon group is too much to ask lol.

[sneeking]

You're so friggin slow that everyone is always going to be in front of you though. ..

Seriously

[Paigan]

IMHO it's complicated and it has hardly to do with the passed mech being assault or smaller.

There are different situations:
A mech clearly has a target, a line of fire and is firing at it at the moment.
Then walking in is the passerby's fault.

A mech has no apparent target, is moreless just standing/walking around and some other mech wants or even needs to pass it by. If the passed mech then opens fire because he has just now spotted a target, it's the firing mech's fault.

Sometimes I even run into a firing line, take damage and think "Okay I know that was my fault, but I NEED to get there, NOW"

[sneeking]

Lights complain the least about this because they take the least damage.

[meteorol]

"Hey this guy is dealing a sh*tload of damage from there, seems to be a good position... he is shooting all the time... f*ck maybe i could get some... just a bit further for a clear shot... FFS WATCH YOUR FRIENDLY FIRE SCRUB! WORST TEAM EVER! L2P! SO BAD!"

A 50t mech shooting a clear target is clearly better than a mech with 50t of weapons and therefore has the right of way. Obviously.

[Rhaythe]

Everyone steps in front of everyone accidentally. Practice your fire discipline like everyone else. It's a team game.

[Davers]

Assault mech pilots are the most whiny of all the classes. It's all "Don't stand in front of me!" and "Don't stand behind me!". Then they cry "Don't leave me behind!". They are the equivalent of prima donna ADCs in LoL- you spend the whole game babysitting them, hoping that they will actually do something, and when they go down with 100 damage they are all like "This team sux!"

[Mcgral18]

It's not too pretty when this happens to the WubShee....

When a light flies mid burn into a Full Wub of 58...well, just like the 6 MG spider...it has a catastrophic effect on their rear torso...



Thankfully, very few people have such poor timing to choose to enter during that half second period.

[sneeking]

I think the only time the assault doesn't complain is when its been piloted by someone who usually fields a light or medium.

[Mcgral18]

Davers, on 26 March 2015 - 07:42 AM, said:

"Don't stand behind me!"

LegHumping is the death of all chassis'....I don't like leg humpers...

[Apnu]

DjPush, on 26 March 2015 - 05:58 AM, said:

You are gonna get shot in the back. I'm getting real tired of players not having any situational awareness. If you run into the line of fire of an Atlas, Dire Wolf or Crab... You deserve every bit of their fire. Walk behind them not in their way!

Sure, how about assaults quit hogging fire lanes and or pushing friendlies out of cover so they can take that spot. Door swings both ways, don't be "that guy"

[sneeking]

Leg humpin is what lights do to the enemy

Heel chockin is what they do to assault that chicken out and try walk backwards

Assault class shouldn't even have a reverse gear.

[Apnu]

Davers, on 26 March 2015 - 07:42 AM, said:

Assault mech pilots are the most whiny of all the classes. It's all "Don't stand in front of me!" and "Don't stand behind me!". Then they cry "Don't leave me behind!". They are the equivalent of prima donna ADCs in LoL- you spend the whole game babysitting them, hoping that they will actually do something, and when they go down with 100 damage they are all like "This team sux!"

Truth. This was me in the ENF-5D all last night. Horrible night, averaged 250 damage per game, never won one. In most games I had more damage than the assaults on my team. That's pathetic.