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[wargonglok]

Today in the screenshot 11 the development said that Paul has a killer hunchback build.

this is a callout to Paul asking: what is so special about your Hunchie build (besides being made by you)
is the build radically different, what variant is it, stuff like that
So as you do your nightly forum trawling please stop by here to elaborate how it is different from your average build

[Vi0x]

its an hbk-4sp with 2x srm 6 4x medium pew pew and much armor

[light487]

Don't forget the pink paintjob!

Pink is supposedly the highest form of cammo..

[Blood Crow]

It's also got two tons allocated to bacon.

[wargonglok]

Thanks, ill just have to go try that out when game lounges

[Quasimoto]

Special...you mean that all armor, weapons are buffed beyond TT/Canon?

Also what's with the pink stuff bro? Are you packing Flamers on your Mech?

[Saren21]

umm becareful what you wish for is all i am saying... paul may "show" you the "pink power house" but he may do it in a way you might not enjoy... by blowing your mech a part with it to "show" you his "build".

[wargonglok]

I have survived the wrath of Paul before, if he has an uber cool build i will do it again

[Freakiie]

Who needs Pauls killerbuild, it's way more fun to make your own killerbuild and rampage around the battlefield with that.

[Eggs Mayhem]

If you looked at the screenshot, it's a 4G hunchback with the AC/20 replaced by 2 AC/2's. Not sure where the extra tonnage goes, however.

[Saren21]

wargonglok, on 12 July 2012 - 03:30 PM, said:

I have survived the wrath of Paul before, if he has an uber cool build i will do it again

ohh nifty...you sir are a braver man than I.

[wargonglok]

EmperorMyrf, on 12 July 2012 - 03:36 PM, said:

If you looked at the screenshot, it's a 4G hunchback with the AC/20 replaced by 2 AC/2's. Not sure where the extra tonnage goes, however.

That is not Paul's build.

that is just the hunchies build.

[Targetloc]

Best guess:


Mass: 50 tons
Chassis: Standard
Power Plant: Magna 250 Fusion
Cruising Speed: 54 kph
Maximum Speed: 85 kph
Advanced Motive: none
Jump Jets: none
Jump Capacity: none
Armor: 10.0 tons Standard
Cockpit: Standard
Armament:
Medium Laser
Medium Laser
Small Laser
AC/2
AC/2

Edited by Targetloc, 12 July 2012 - 04:36 PM.

[Eggs Mayhem]

wargonglok, on 12 July 2012 - 04:02 PM, said:

That is not Paul's build.

that is just the hunchies build.

I guess it was just my understanding that that was Paul's build. My mistake.

[GrimJim]

I feel the devs might have been sniggering in irony when they posted since the 'Mech is:

1) a terrible build (and they are sassing Paul about it)

....OR....
2) its a very underestimated build that has offed many bigger 'Mechs by them ignoring it

(it does seem to be a very quick sniper, Paul might be finishing off ppl post heavy fighting....firing and scooting back, combined with an AC/2 which has even longer ranges than Gauss Rifles, he maybe dropping ppl before they can even get close to him)

Edited by GrimJim, 12 July 2012 - 04:51 PM.

[SinnerX]

If two AC/2s beat a Gauss Rifle, I won't even know what to think.

[Sept Wolfke]

I think I've got it figured out.. when you put a Guardian ECM suite on a mech, then your enemies see some utter crap weapons loadout on their HUD and it just boggles their minds to the point where they screenshot it (or it didn't happen!) ... and in that time the ACTUAL weapons that the mech with the Guardian ECM is toting blow you to smithereens... see it's all about the electronic warfare guys. ..yeah.

[NonCondensable]

his mech is made to kill fourm users thats whats so special about his 'mech

[Glythe]

GrimJim, on 12 July 2012 - 04:50 PM, said:

it does seem to be a very quick sniper, Paul might be finishing off ppl post heavy fighting....firing and scooting back, combined with an AC/2 which has even longer ranges than Gauss Rifles, he maybe dropping ppl before they can even get close to him

Not with doubled armor values. The AC/2 also has only 60m more range than the Gauss rifle. I am pretty sure anyone running toward the hunchback in a repeated X patern (well think of it as running only half the X) could dodge the projectile at ranges beyond 650 meters.

Actually I think the Hunchback build looks fine if you think about what you would use it for: scout killing and long range harassment (perhaps some bating). I am guessing he has maxed out the armor and increased the speed to 5/8 and added 1 ton of AC/2 ammunition. The only reason to bring 2 AC/2s over 1 AC/10 is for the long range harassment ability. I could easily see the stock Atlas losing to this build as it has no range attack other than the LRM 20 which the hunchback can probably largely evade. Which is why I would never use the stock Atlas 7D and I would immediately install a Gauss rifle.

What bothers me is the goofy build on the Atlas. I can only assume that ranged load out was to test how it would do against a long range opponent. There is no reason to bring an LRM (that has at least 1 extra ton of ammunition) into a fight against a smaller mech who is faster than you as he can control the range of the fight.

Edited by Glythe, 12 July 2012 - 05:35 PM.

[Xiomburg]

wargonglok, on 12 July 2012 - 03:13 PM, said:

Today in the screenshot 11 the development said that Paul has a killer hunchback build.

this is a callout to Paul asking: what is so special about your Hunchie build (besides being made by you)
is the build radically different, what variant is it, stuff like that
So as you do your nightly forum trawling please stop by here to elaborate how it is different from your average build

As important as this is, why did you all photoshop the Urbie out of the Screenshot of the Day: