Yup, have to respect someone who runs a stock Panther in mid-tier games

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Panther's in a bit of a tight spot in MWO, as the best I gather, the "meta" crowd basically acknowledges a single variety of light mech: the "striker" with the largest possible XL engine and boating a *hit ton of short or medium range weapons. Panther never really fit that, because even with the biggest engine it's not quite so quick, and it can't boat energy weapons very well, and anything it does boat is in that single, vulnerable arm.
I've had relatively good luck though with the Panther, running it in its intended role: as a light but tough long-range support mech. I always tweak my mechs to "3050 spec", but when possible, I try to retain the mech's essential lore flavour. My
9R puts a Twin-ERLL in the gun arm, while downgrading the SRM launcher to a SRM2 and getting up-engined to STD-200. It still plays "like a Panther" but works pretty nice in MWO.
Edited by jss78, 27 February 2016 - 01:44 PM.