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#1 Doublefrost

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Posted 11 July 2012 - 07:35 AM

I have heard talk of pop tarting. I have also heard requests for purchasable rainbow lasers. Am I to believe that Nyan Cat is the secret mascot of MechWarrior Online?

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Posted 11 July 2012 - 07:43 AM

I hope to god not.

#3 Wolfclaw

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Posted 11 July 2012 - 07:56 AM

View PostDoublefrost, on 11 July 2012 - 07:35 AM, said:

I have heard talk of pop tarting. I have also heard requests for purchasable rainbow lasers. Am I to believe that Nyan Cat is the secret mascot of MechWarrior Online?



pop tarting will not be a viable asset since there is no 3rd person view.

granted, you can still attempt to pop tart, but it will not be as useful as before.

#4 wargonglok

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Posted 11 July 2012 - 07:59 AM

Our mascot is urbie.


and inouye man

#5 Doublefrost

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Posted 11 July 2012 - 08:01 AM

Third person was never needed to pull it off in Mech 2. Targetting data + LRM boat + Jumpjets + Cover...

#6 Wolfclaw

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Posted 11 July 2012 - 08:01 AM

View PostDoublefrost, on 11 July 2012 - 08:01 AM, said:

Third person was never needed to pull it off in Mech 2. Targetting data + LRM boat + Jumpjets + Cover...



That's not pop tarting lol.

#7 Azzras

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Posted 11 July 2012 - 08:03 AM

It's an invasion!


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#8 WardenWolf

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Posted 11 July 2012 - 08:09 AM

View PostDoublefrost, on 11 July 2012 - 08:01 AM, said:

Third person was never needed to pull it off in Mech 2. Targetting data + LRM boat + Jumpjets + Cover...

With the way LRMs arch in MWO (from what I've seen in the videos) jumpjets won't be required. Standing behind cover, targeting mechs your scouts have lit up, and letting fly with the LRMs will be perfectly viable... as it should be! This is a game about teamwork, and that is a perfect example of it in action ;)

[also, as someone else noted, this is not the normal definition of pop-tarting]

Edited by WardenWolf, 11 July 2012 - 08:10 AM.


#9 Doublefrost

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Posted 11 July 2012 - 08:10 AM

So it comes with missile lock instead of ERPPCs. ;)

#10 TheSassySquatch

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Posted 11 July 2012 - 08:16 AM

Have not heard the term pop tarting in forever!

#11 Hades Trooper

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Posted 11 July 2012 - 08:20 AM

being only an ignorant solo playering experience from the pc side of the previous games or lan matches, what is pop tarting?

#12 Doublefrost

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Posted 11 July 2012 - 08:24 AM

That's when you use your jets to jump up like a freshly heated poptart from behind cover long enough to snipe at people without giving much of a window to get you back. Mech 2, the only effective poptart weapon were LRMs.

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Posted 11 July 2012 - 08:24 AM

Using third person view, standing behind cover, popping up with Jump jets just high enough to get a lock, dropping down behind cover, and letting fly the missile barrage. (Very Dishonorable in my opinion)

#14 Azzras

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Posted 11 July 2012 - 08:26 AM

View PostTanaga Matabushi, on 11 July 2012 - 08:24 AM, said:

Using third person view, standing behind cover, popping up with Jump jets just high enough to get a lock, dropping down behind cover, and letting fly the missile barrage. (Very Dishonorable in my opinion)

You would prefer to go toe to toe with your enemy?

#15 Hades Trooper

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Posted 11 July 2012 - 08:27 AM

LOL well then i must be a typical house laio Catapult user, loved getting lock while jumping, firing, then hiding behind coer to avoid incoming fire.

only a dimwitted clanner would say that is unhonourable. you can keep your honour, i'm alive, your dead

#16 WardenWolf

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Posted 11 July 2012 - 08:28 AM

Generally, at least in more recent years, it was the tactic above but with lasers - in MW4 they were insta-hit and all the damage at once, so they were the most effective usually. That was a dishonorable tactic, absolutely, and in MWO with the laser mechanic it should be ineffective.

However, missiles from behind cover will be very viable... and fits with the team tactics that are the core of MWO. I don't think the pop-tarting part will be needed, but we should all be watching out for LRM rain if we are spotted by scouts ;)

#17 Ramius Hazen

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Posted 11 July 2012 - 08:30 AM

View PostTanaga Matabushi, on 11 July 2012 - 08:24 AM, said:

Using third person view, standing behind cover, popping up with Jump jets just high enough to get a lock, dropping down behind cover, and letting fly the missile barrage. (Very Dishonorable in my opinion)


How dare someone use their indirect fire support weapons in such a way?!? How dare they, I say?!?!

#18 BenEEeees VAT GROWN BACON

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Posted 11 July 2012 - 08:31 AM

View Postwargonglok, on 11 July 2012 - 07:59 AM, said:

Our mascot is urbie.


and inouye man


PAUL---MENNN

#19 Doublefrost

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Posted 11 July 2012 - 08:34 AM

Actually, in a clanner fight pretty much anything but hitting their mech with your own goes. Except for focus fire. Lasers are a much better weapon for it, just with the way MW2 handled hit registry and the fact everyone was using dialup made it almost impossible to get a bead that way. I wonder if JJs will throw off Gauss or PPC tracking...

#20 Skye Storm

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Posted 11 July 2012 - 08:34 AM

Well Pop Tarting did ruin MW4 online play imho. However as stated above we shall probably not see it if we do the cla... Comstar I mean are going to be an even harder enemy.



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