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[Skarlock]

Sjorpha, on 16 August 2015 - 07:24 AM, said:

I think it will absolutely be "worth it" as a ballistic boat without some of the weaknesses (and also without some of the strenghts of course) the King Crab has, the arms look like they will make very nice shields for torso dakka or dual AC20 builds. Also the prospect of dual gauss+6Mlas is quite appealing.

My guess is that the missile hardpoints won't be used in the meta, as the advantage of removing the those big boxes will be to big to miss out on, plus it's not a very good platform for SRM brawling and LRMs are just weak weapons period.

If you put the gauss rifles in the side torsos you're going to be extremely vulnerable to an attack from the back by a light mech. All it will take potentially is 1 alpha in each side torso to strip you completely when your gauss pops your side torso. That's not something I'd be willing to risk. Arm mounted gauss rifles are much safer than torso mounted gauss because of the fact that there is no "back arm" that needs to be armored separately from the front, and unfortunately the Mauler can't do that.

[El Bandito]

Iqfish, on 16 August 2015 - 02:56 PM, said:

if there is still a "Dire Whale" after the new quirkening, aka BV

Of course there will be. Dual CGauss + Lasers Direwhale can never be nerfed into non-existence. Unfortunately.

Edited by El Bandito, 16 August 2015 - 03:58 PM.

[xXBagheeraXx]

Think Bigger battlemaster with more missile hardpoints. I think most will be ballistic heavy with a mix of AC5's and AC2's. ONce upon a time before the great autocannon nerf, this would have been a good thing, but probably not now. I suspect lots of Dual gauss builds.

[Gas Guzzler]

xXBagheeraXx, on 16 August 2015 - 04:18 PM, said:

Think Bigger battlemaster with more missile hardpoints. I think most will be ballistic heavy with a mix of AC5's and AC2's. ONce upon a time before the great autocannon nerf, this would have been a good thing, but probably not now. I suspect lots of Dual gauss builds.

Lol why does everyone talk about missiles on this thing?? It has ONE variant with 4 missile hardpoints. There is one variant of Battlemaster that has that many. The rest of the maulers only have two, which makes them very poor LRM boats.

[Karamarka]

Damien Tokala, on 16 August 2015 - 04:49 AM, said:

I'm going to say, run your favorites. Ask not how the mech will perform, but rather, how will the pilot perform?

Don't even know what I'm reading on these forums anymore.

[Sarlic]

Kh0rn, on 16 August 2015 - 02:16 PM, said:

I do the same I go in guns blazing and crush those who stand against it some times hitting 1000 damage games. In my eyes The better pilots are those who can take the lower tier stuff an still come out with good scores, In my eyes that is a good pilot. I hopped in a trial firestarter a few times with out any basics or modifications I was able too score 500 damage games with very little worrying about my environment I just simply abused the hell out of jump jets as I hovered about with any kind of real loss of momentum or heat out put, I was flying all over the place.

My advice would be just sit the rebalance out. If the Atlas gets shafted again then look at other options.

Buying any pack, preorder etc. now is a waste of money. Russ stated by himself that old quirks may be gone. It's like what happened to the Thunderbolt. Everyone went boating with 3 ER PPCs due quirks.

People even bought the chassis with MC/cash and then complain afterwards when get nerfed for obvious reasons..

Edited by Sarlic, 16 August 2015 - 11:41 PM.

[Deathlike]

Gas Guzzler, on 16 August 2015 - 06:24 PM, said:

Lol why does everyone talk about missiles on this thing?? It has ONE variant with 4 missile hardpoints. There is one variant of Battlemaster that has that many. The rest of the maulers only have two, which makes them very poor LRM boats.

There's this inescapable feeling that Murphy's Law will still apply here... if people can LRM boat things, they will.

[Kh0rn]

Sarlic, on 16 August 2015 - 11:40 PM, said:

My advice would be just sit the rebalance out. If the Atlas gets shafted again then look at other options.

Buying any pack, preorder etc. now is a waste of money. Russ stated by himself that old quirks may be gone. It's like what happened to the Thunderbolt. Everyone went boating with 3 ER PPCs due quirks.

People even bought the chassis with MC/cash and then complain afterwards when get nerfed for obvious reasons..

I know but even if it does not go well the Mauler to me is more then just how it works in MWO I love the mech for what it is both in this game , previous titles and on table top it self. I even own a awesome cause I just love the awesome as well. But here is to hoping the Atlas does not get shafted. Personally I would like to see a re designed Atlas in this game with larger arms an slimmer torsos with the added more menacing skull head. But my pride and Joy AS7-S will never leave the hanger...well because it can't xD