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[Tristan Winter]

Are there any mechs, variants or particular builds that just make you roll your eyes with contempt at the pilot who would use them? Mechs and builds that just instantly turn any opponent into your nemesis and oblige you to walk through hell and high water just to shoot them in the face, even if it means certain doom? Or do you feel like all is fair in love and war and that one can hardly blame the players for trying to make effective builds for the game they're playing?

If there are any cheesy builds you simply cannot abide, what are they?

I have a pretty long list, myself. At the top of the list resides the Streak crow. I will hit the Override button and activate MASC through rivers of lava untill my legs burst into fire, just for the chance to kill those mechs. Doesn't matter what mech I'm in, although killing them while I'm in a light mech is especially sweet. I eat their livers with a bottle of Chianti.

Spoiler

[FupDup]

Tristan Winter, on 17 August 2015 - 12:53 PM, said:

Streak crow

/thread

...But I do also hate 2 ERPPC + 2 Gauss Daishis/Crabs, especially when my team KEEPS FEEDING THEM A STEADY STREAM OF KILLS.

[xMintaka]

Streakcrows.

Nothing gives me more pleasure than killing them in a Locust.

[Eboli]

I enjoy killing Ravens and it is based on the days of the invincible 3L that roamed around in packs and made everyone's life hell.

Edited by Eboli, 17 August 2015 - 01:10 PM.

[Deathlike]

Tristan Winter, on 17 August 2015 - 12:53 PM, said:

Are there any mechs, variants or particular builds that just make you roll your eyes with contempt at the pilot who would use them? Mechs and builds that just instantly turn any opponent into your nemesis and oblige you to walk through hell and high water just to shoot them in the face, even if it means certain doom? Or do you feel like all is fair in love and war and that one can hardly blame the players for trying to make effective builds for the game they're playing?

If there are any cheesy builds you simply cannot abide, what are they?

LRM boats. Nom nom nom.

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I have a pretty long list, myself. At the top of the list resides the Streak crow SKILL CROW. I will hit the Override button and activate MASC through rivers of lava untill my legs burst into fire, just for the chance to kill those mechs. Doesn't matter what mech I'm in, although killing them while I'm in a light mech is especially sweet. I eat their livers with a bottle of Chianti.

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ALL Skillcrows can die in a fire.

[Tristan Winter]

FupDup, on 17 August 2015 - 12:54 PM, said:

...But I do also hate 2 ERPPC + 2 Gauss Daishis/Crabs, especially when my team KEEPS FEEDING THEM A STEADY STREAM OF KILLS.

I'm somewhat embarassed to admit that I rigged up one of my Dire Wolves as a 2PPC+2Gauss cheese boat, just for the comedy factor of trying to poptart with 3 Mk. 1 Jump jets.

Spoiler: Poptarting doesn't work very well with hover jets.

It's quite cheesy though. But to be honest, I'm struggling to find Dire Wolf builds that aren't either cheesy or totally useless. It's almost impossible to create good builds with both ballistics, lasers and missiles, because they end up being too hot. So you're almost forced to use dual gauss and lots of lasers, which is arguably even cheesier than 2Gauss+2PPC.

Maybe I'll try 2xCUAC20's with some lasers and missiles, if I can just get over how ugly the CUAC20's look.

Edited by Tristan Winter, 17 August 2015 - 01:12 PM.

[Gas Guzzler]

Yeah LRM Boats and Streak Crows/Dogs.

I especially like complimenting their aiming skills.

[627]

not a particular build but when I find the player that killed me in the last match, there's something in my head that screams "gottagokilling"


When I think about it, there is indeed one build...grid iron with gauss and 3 MPL. That means XL. And all those nice armor quirks are just on the RT. And those poor scrubs think they protect their gauss when turning away... best kills

[bad arcade kitty]

nobody loves poor strewkcrow



i personally dislike... machinegun lights

[Gas Guzzler]

bad arcade kitty, on 17 August 2015 - 01:16 PM, said:

nobody loves poor strewkcrow



i personally dislike... machinegun lights

Yeah... of course people don't like them. They boat lock on missiles (read: the pilot doesn't have to aim) that wreak havoc on mechs that survive by making people miss.

Edited by Gas Guzzler, 17 August 2015 - 01:21 PM.

[0bsidion]

I don't really have any, though for some reason I do get a certain amount of satisfaction out of using my LRMs to fire over terrain and hit those poor saps that only bring LOS weapons to battle. Ah the small joys of using my Swiss Army mechs.

[Pjwned]

Any light mech with ECM and long range weapons to snipe.

[KHETTI]

1.Arctic Cheater/Firestarter
2.Skillcrows/skilldogs

Even when the MM decides it currently hates me and i will experience nothing but emasculating stomps, its still not enough to make me desperate enough to run these mechs/builds.

Edited by KHETTI, 17 August 2015 - 01:30 PM.

[1453 R]

Particular builds? Not really. I'm one of those all's-fair guys who figures it's on me to beat the other guy, and if I'm not equipped for the job then I'd best hope someone else on the team is. I've even piloted Streakcrows, though I actually prefer a mixed armament of Streaks and regular SRMs (something like this), even if it's considered horribly, horribly non-optimal.

That said?

Spiders.

I cannot abide the existence of Spiders. I don't wade through rivers of lava to kill Spiders - I go far out of my way to ignore the existence of Spiders as thoroughly as I possibly can, because the awful little cackling gremlins are counting on me wading through rivers of lava. They exist solely to drive the enemy into a state of mindless, easily preyed-upon fury. Their sole function in life is to at you, as often as possible, in as unbearable a manner as possible, until you completely lose your cool and waste half the match chasing the goddamn things down, costing your team any chance at victory in the process.

They're not combat units.

They're not scouts.

They're not even 'Mechs.

They are elemental incarnations of pure, undiluted jackassery, and I will ignore them as completely as I can until such time as their vile shenanery can no longer sway the match...at which point I will expend ammunition by the freighterload, overload my heat sinks until they burst, shed whatever armor I have to, in order to drive the armor-shod fist of my machine through the blackened, irredeemable heart of whatever twisted goblin has deemed it proper to pilot a Spider into combat.

&%^#. YOUR. SPIDERS.

[Kiiyor]

Eboli, on 17 August 2015 - 01:09 PM, said:

I enjoy killing Ravens and it is based on the days of the invincible 3L that roamed around in packs and made everyone's life hell.

*shudders*

I was about to post the exact same thing! Squaaaaaawk!

Nowadays, I really enjoy killing MetaCats - well, not killing... maiming. There's a special joy to be had in ripping that protruding shoulder off, then nonchalantly walking away. Dragons are a close second.

[Gamuray]

Anything that's trying to run away with a cherry red ct. ANYTHING.

[FupDup]

Gamuray, on 17 August 2015 - 04:08 PM, said:

Anything that's trying to run away with a cherry red ct. ANYTHING.

JUST LET ME GET THE KILL YOU ************* GAH GET BACK HERE NO I MUST NOT DIE YET NOT UNTIL HES DEAD NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[oldradagast]

Anything covered in lasers and Gauss rifles. I get it - those are the best weapons in the game - but it is still boring to face them over and over again.

[Ultimax]

My nemesis builds are all of the derp builds I sometimes spectate after unfortunate circumstances.

Atlas with 2x LLAS, 2x MLAS NO OTHER OFFENSIVE WEAPONS OF ANY KIND and 6 tons of AMS ammo, YES I AM LOOKING AT YOU DUMMY.


If it weren't for those people, the rest of us might not have to carry so freaking hard.

Edited by Ultimatum X, 17 August 2015 - 04:27 PM.

[Cat-in-Exile]

2 x ERLL Raven 3L's. Hate that build so much.