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[Mystere]

Lugh, on 12 August 2015 - 08:02 AM, said:

However, the lack of fire power makes it a favorite target of those that are fast enough to catch it, so when it is seen, and it isn't in position to be covered by it's teammates, while screaming to itself get it off me get it off... you get this:

Not when you have a gauss rifle, backup lasers, and are capable of shooting off legs.

Edited by Mystere, 12 August 2015 - 08:05 AM.

[spectralthundr]

Mystere, on 12 August 2015 - 08:04 AM, said:

Not when you have a gauss rifle, backup lasers, and are capable of shooting off legs.

Or a UAC 10 and have decent aim. Or PPC's, or 3 ER LL and have decent aim. I don't think anyone's claiming it's the best medium in the game, I'm certainly not, but those claiming the mech is DOA and garbage are flat out wrong.

[spectralthundr]

Mcgral18, on 12 August 2015 - 07:35 AM, said:

Everyone plays with everyone. MWO Elo is the team average with a 1000 Elo threshold.

Honestly I wonder if ELO even works half the time. Which is why I found that as an excuse to doing well with the scat pretty ridiculous quite honestly.

[Jetfire]

I have been having a ball in my cats, doing 300+ dmg even with stock builds and no pilot skills.

[Greenjulius]

Lugh, on 12 August 2015 - 08:02 AM, said:

However, the lack of fire power makes it a favorite target of those that are fast enough to catch it, so when it is seen, and it isn't in position to be covered by it's teammates, while screaming to itself get it off me get it off... you get this:

That's my view of the SCat. Anyone who knows better will focus on it to remove it almost instantly. Two good ~40 alphas will instantly kill it, and it will instantly melt to Dires, forcing pilots to behave more like a big kitfox than a nimble and deadly BJ-1X.

I think that's my chief problem with it. The combo of weak armor, low hardpoints and kind of poor hitboxes makes it a terrible 1v1 mech.

If you get caught in 1v1 as a SCat (Against most decent pilots), you will die and deserve it. It's a sad problem that I don't see being remedied anytime soon.

Edited by Greenjulius, 12 August 2015 - 01:12 PM.