Gyrok, on 24 July 2015 - 04:37 PM, said:
Yes, the Atlas is a FRONTLINE battlemech.
It has tons of armor, and the low mounts for EVERYTHING are terrible for peeking/poking. You need to be in the face of something and firing a brawler alpha, then torso twist away to shield.
The ONLY semi long range weapon I encourage on the Atlas is LLs. LLs are ok to give you some poking range, while you close to brawl range on a target.
As for Gauss rifles...the reason(s) I discourage it in the Atlas is because:
1.) The ballistic is low mounted
2.) The Atlas should be front and center leading a charge, not in the back poking, Atlas is effectively the closest thing to a tank in MWO...so draw fire for your team mates.
3.) Gauss rifle is very prone to getting crit. This causes you to lose an entire ST, while AC20 will not.
4.) Gauss rifle requires charge up, not a big hindrance, but does make syncing fire in a single volley more complex in brawl range.
5.) Difficult to fill the entire ST with enough things to crit pad for the Gauss rifle on the Atlas.
Since this was said by a Clan Wolf loyalist you all should take this with a grain of salt
An Atlas DDC is no frontline Battlemech, its an electronic carrier / support / command Battlemech.
No realy...brawling in Assaults is a waste of heavy weapons, and firepower.
No Assault, regardless of how many armor it can bring is realy more durable than most mediums or heavys of the lower half of their tonnage class ( Stalker may be an exception )
No Assault is nimble or maneuverable enough ( at least not after the hitreg and hsr fix ) to effectively distribute damage through movement and torsotwisting at close ranges.
There will be ppl who claim they are perfectly fine in doing so.
Nice for them.
Either they are extremely experienced and top tier players or quite talented and still playing in very low elo ranges of this game.
While the Atlas chassis
can pack an absolutely horrific amount of close range punch, doing so negates the usefullness of your ECM for your team.
Also when you commit yourself to battle, you won't be able to draw back in most cases so you better win the battle or you will just die.
This requires a hell of a lot of battlefield awareness and a LAAAAAARGE portion of dumb luck and in the end a lot
EXPERIENCE.
All things a new player does not have.
So... TLDR:
NEW PLAYER ?
DON'T USE ATLAS OR BETTER DON'T PILOT ASSAULTS
Edited by The Basilisk, 26 July 2015 - 11:30 PM.