Countdown To Mauler Release Sept 8Th!
#61
Posted 03 September 2015 - 02:12 AM
Buying now is an impulse buy, buying Sept. 8th will be harder as the flaws of the design will be known. And I expect it to have flaws, an assualt mech with so many ballistic hardpoints...
#62
Posted 03 September 2015 - 02:17 AM
Insta-Kill at 1000 m
#63
Posted 03 September 2015 - 02:41 AM
#64
Posted 03 September 2015 - 02:46 AM
In truth so long as the mech has sufficient armor and hit boxes then it should do well in solo matches ... it might become a meta CW mech but I doubt it will be a comp mech ... maybe a replacement for the Highlander because the Highlander still has hover jets but that might be it.
#65
Posted 03 September 2015 - 02:47 AM
So much ballistic Hardpoint, 4 UA/C 5 incoming \m/
#66
Posted 03 September 2015 - 03:03 AM
CeKay, on 03 September 2015 - 02:47 AM, said:
So much ballistic Hardpoint, 4 UA/C 5 incoming \m/
I'm prepairing for 6 Ac 2's on my dakka mauler...
It's mainly because of MW: O Alex Heights mauler which had 6 IS UAC 2's but still... depending how XL friendly this thing is I may trade it for a XL engine and 2 UAC 5's and 4 AC 2's... oh mumma, the dakka...
#67
Posted 03 September 2015 - 03:17 AM
#68
Posted 03 September 2015 - 03:22 AM
Ramrod AI, on 02 September 2015 - 04:35 PM, said:
nope.
Quad LB10 is 44 tons of guns. With a standard 300 and stripped arms it has 48 tons for weapons.. 4 tons of ammo aint enough. Similar issue for 2 Gauss 2 PPC, 44 tons of guns, and you cant strip both arms so youll only have 46 or so.
I guess you could run a 270 engine or something, but then you are falling victim to the fail - If you move at 53kph after tweak, you should be in a Dire Wolf. Every other mech in the game should be always configured to be faster than the whale.
Realistic heavy ballistic loadouts are:
Quad UAC5
Quad AC5 + lasers
Penta AC5 (40 tons of guns, 8 tons of ammo, STD300. Short on ammo though)
Twin Gauss + 6xML
2xGauss, 4xMG, ERPPC (so it gets super high gauss pushed up by the MGs, and then strip one arm and put an ERPPC in the other. not sure if ill bring ammo for the MGs, maybe 1/2 a ton)
Edited by Widowmaker1981, 03 September 2015 - 03:26 AM.
#69
Posted 03 September 2015 - 03:25 AM
Widowmaker1981, on 03 September 2015 - 03:22 AM, said:
nope.
Quad LB10 is 44 tons of guns. With a standard 300 and stripped arms it has 48 tons for weapons.. 4 tons of ammo aint enough. Similar issue for 2 Gauss 2 PPC, 44 tons of guns, and you cant strip both arms so youll only have 46 or so.
I guess you could run a 270 engine or something, but then you are falling victim to the fail - If you move at 53kph after tweak, you should be in a Dire Wolf. Every other mech in the game should be always configured to be faster than the whale.
can't 2 gauss 2 ppc work with an XL engine though?
#70
Posted 03 September 2015 - 03:47 AM
Nightshade24, on 03 September 2015 - 03:25 AM, said:
well, yes.
But look at those missile racks. This mech is not XL viable unless they vanish or shrink with no missiles equipped, and every other dynamically changing geometry i have seen in this game does not have camo. Those missile boxes have camo = i bet anything they aren't dynamic.
#71
Posted 03 September 2015 - 04:08 AM
Widowmaker1981, on 03 September 2015 - 03:47 AM, said:
well, yes.
But look at those missile racks. This mech is not XL viable unless they vanish or shrink with no missiles equipped, and every other dynamically changing geometry i have seen in this game does not have camo. Those missile boxes have camo = i bet anything they aren't dynamic.
Listen, the only thing i care about that is this: IT won't be a Micro-jerk dumb down Green Boxes, Yellow Boxes and red boxes BS like MW 4 was. That's all I care about! Great job, PGI.
#72
Posted 03 September 2015 - 04:17 AM
Seriously though, this is a great looking mech. Bring on the Marauder!
#73
Posted 03 September 2015 - 04:22 AM
Widowmaker1981, on 03 September 2015 - 03:47 AM, said:
well, yes.
But look at those missile racks. This mech is not XL viable unless they vanish or shrink with no missiles equipped, and every other dynamically changing geometry i have seen in this game does not have camo. Those missile boxes have camo = i bet anything they aren't dynamic.
true to a degree. but who didn't say that when you remove those boxes you get the top of the shoulders with no cameo instead? I seriously doubt PGI would leave those missile boxes up there without any missile weapons on- if they did then I will expect a huge armour/ structure quirk to the ST's that it would actually be a waste of time to shoot at the ST and would be simpler to fire at the legs or CT.
#74
Posted 03 September 2015 - 04:40 AM
Nightshade24, on 03 September 2015 - 04:22 AM, said:
I was certainly hoping they would be dynamic, since im looking forward to the mech and wont ever use missiles on it in any form. (LRMs suck at my tier, i suck with SRMs and SSRM2s are.. well. no). However my point about never having seen dynamic geometry with camo on it still stands.
#75
Posted 03 September 2015 - 05:03 AM
Edited by Kmieciu, 03 September 2015 - 05:04 AM.
#76
Posted 03 September 2015 - 05:05 AM
#77
Posted 03 September 2015 - 05:06 AM
This thing has brawler written all over it. Not sure how I'll use those missile ports other than 4 LRM5s in a troll build, but...
Yeah - fun mech.
And I hadn't seen that Mercenaries thing. Pretty cool: maybe Harmony Gold is realizing there's profit to be made if they're careful in contract wording.
Axman, Marauder, Hatchetman, ummmmm...Stinger? for the next pack, please.
#78
Posted 03 September 2015 - 05:19 AM
#80
Posted 03 September 2015 - 05:22 AM
Bombadil, on 03 September 2015 - 05:19 AM, said:
Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet.
Any chances of a preview of the inevitable "Special Edition Dawnstealer-only Hatchetman model that will be injected into all players named Dawnstealer's Account?"
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