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[Milocinia]

Am I doing it right? KGC-0000

[Cyborne Elemental]

There ya go lol

I still prefer NARC though, because it lasts even after you die, keeps a target marked and makes it easier to re-aquire a lock when you have to twist out some damage.

Edited by Mister D, 02 March 2016 - 02:48 AM.

[Kmieciu]

Milocinia, on 02 March 2016 - 02:35 AM, said:

Am I doing it right? KGC-0000

King Crab has much better hardpoints for LRMs than the Atlas. It shoots the missiles at almost a 90 degrees angle. Furthermore, it has more missile tubes (20x2,15x2) while Atlas is stuck with (10, 6x3), and does not have to expose itself while tagging.

Edited by Kmieciu, 02 March 2016 - 03:07 AM.

[Curccu]

Thunderbird Anthares, on 01 March 2016 - 11:08 PM, said:

why would you boat LRM on an Atlas?

Yeah, King Crab is way better...

[Divine Retribution]

Need to run that as part of an Atlas LRM pack. Yours has Narc, mine will provide ECM coverage and keep the lights away. Remember if everyone brings LRMs and sits in the back the enemy can't make it through our front line... because we won't have one. AS7-D-DC

Base cost: 16,389,225
Seismic Sensor: 6,000,000 to see those sneaky buggers coming
Advanced Target Decay: 6,000,000
AC/20 Cooldown: 3,000,000
LRM 15 Cooldown: 3,000,000
LRM 10 Cooldown: 3,000,000

Total cost: 37,389,225 C-Bills.

Watching lighter mechs try to hold the line while 2+ Assaults LRM from the back: Priceless.

Thinking you're not even partially at fault when your team loses because your LRMs pulled decent damage: [redacted]

Note: Sarcasm flows through this post (for the sarcasm impaired).

[Rushin Roulette]

Mister D, on 01 March 2016 - 11:31 PM, said:

Takes a little help from teamates sure

OK, Ive got to say that this is the understatement of the year. Its like saying a soap box car needs a little help to get to the top of a hill.
That Atlas is completely useless without complete support from your entire team.
You may be able to narc your targets, but need to get close enough to them that your LRMs will be useless within the next 0,5 seconds if the opponent sees your build adn know s what he is doing. You may be able to TAG your opponent,. but they will know where you are even before they get the incomming missile warning due to the laserpointer you are waving around. Same result, it just takes longer for them to reach you due to the TAG range.

Once the opponent gets to you, 2/3 of your damage dealing weapons are in your centre torso, meaning a circling light just has to worry about a single med laser and the occasional short burst of 3 med lasers and an MG if they happen to run directly infornt of you.

Destroying your Right torso will not kill you, but give you severe ammunition problems for your weapons on your left torso. Destroying your left arm will deffinitely end up destroying all your LRM launchers and may end up destroying your Engine due to the amount of ammunition that is exploding there if it has not been used up by that time (low probability, as Ammo is first taken from the Torso before Arms /legs are used up).

Basically, you are a slow walking suicide dud as soon as anything comes close to you and you need 100% support from your teammates to keep locks for you until you reach the fight and also to keep any mech from targeting you to be able to deal good damage. If you are in the fight and getting your own locks, you are too slow to re-position yourself if needed.

That is so far from being a "good" LRM boat that it isnt even funny any more.

[Cyborne Elemental]

If the 1MG didn't give it away.

Still funny seeing all the reactions.

[Divine Retribution]

Mister D, on 02 March 2016 - 03:58 AM, said:

If the 1MG didn't give it away.

Still funny seeing all the reactions.

That's why I started adding a sarcasm notice. It doesn't always translate through text and some won't notice it for various other reasons.

[Neathdrawls]

nice Atlas!

http://mwo.smurfy-ne...4ed53001d171559

But 4 LRM15s on a Highlander IIC !

And smack stuff with a UAC10 and 2 MPL at nearer ranges!

[Cyborne Elemental]

http://mwo.smurfy-ne...fd21f00babeecec
I really want to try this though.

[nehebkau]

Thunderbird Anthares, on 01 March 2016 - 11:08 PM, said:

why would you boat LRM on an Atlas?

To make Katsumi cry.

[Mechteric]

That is a horrible LRM "boat". It's not even a boat at all really, I'm pretty sure you must have at least 60LRM's to quality as a boater.


The only good LRM mechs are the faster medium and heavy mechs since they can more effectively get to an angle on the field to put their LRMs to good use to flush out enemies.

[Yosharian]

Probably one of the worst builds I've ever seen

[Agent1190]

You want to Narc. In an Atlas. So you can launch LRMs.

SRSLY?????

Find a buddy with a Raven. He Narcs, you fire. There, I just saved you 4 Million C-Bills.

[mogs01gt]

Milocinia, on 02 March 2016 - 02:35 AM, said:

Am I doing it right? KGC-0000

dat tag high mount OMG!

Mister D, on 02 March 2016 - 05:38 AM, said:

http://mwo.smurfy-ne...fd21f00babeecec
I really want to try this though.

that seems pretty effective.

Edited by mogs01gt, 02 March 2016 - 07:13 AM.

[Tyler Valentine]

El Bandito, on 01 March 2016 - 11:17 PM, said:

Wubshee is just as expensive. BNC-3M

19,539,544 + 18,000,000 for modules = 37,539,544 C-Bills. Just to wub.

...and that 'mech actually kills things.

[Lily from animove]

Mister D, on 01 March 2016 - 11:31 PM, said:

Ok, so that can't be the reason after a 15 game loss streak playing mixed lights and heavies, That I switched to this, and have had one loss out of 10 so far..

so statistically lrm's are pro and you can even p2w, just buy MC for around 130$ and then spent them on c-bills

MWO confirmed for P2W

Edited by Lily from animove, 02 March 2016 - 09:10 AM.

[el piromaniaco]

Divine Retribution, on 02 March 2016 - 03:35 AM, said:

Note: Sarcasm flows through this post (for the sarcasm impaired).

Mister D, on 02 March 2016 - 03:58 AM, said:

Still funny seeing all the reactions.

Thanks for that thread Mister D.

It's a great inspiration for every LRM-minded MechWarrior. I already feel my Tier rising just by building those mechs to your suggestion in the mechlab

[Lily from animove]

Mister D, on 02 March 2016 - 05:38 AM, said:

http://mwo.smurfy-ne...fd21f00babeecec
I really want to try this though.

needs more ammo in the XL side torso xD
needs less ac 10 and more lbx 10 becasue lbx sound > Ac 10 sound.

but honestly this kind of build is what MWO should be about some mixed weapons that people should manage to use and not one button config machines.

[Cyborne Elemental]

I think the only real reason it was a successful build was because of the tubecount its about the same intimidation effect as LRM-5 spam, it wasn't the DPS, nor the platform, but more to do with endurance of nonstop missles and keeping up with information.

Also I chose LRM-10+ART because LRM-15 and 20 shotgun just too much, DPS on paper doesn't exactly translate to damage on target, Even though LRM-15 might be puking out more DPS, the % of missles that will miss their target or do glancing blows is not worth the tonnage, at least I know that a better % of these LRM-10 will be landing.

Having AMS, NARC, BAP, and Tag with target decay vs the hordes of ECM and RadarDep saturation, its the little things that can turn the tide, because you create a more level playing field for your team to capitalize on.

Revealing targets and giving your team targets for a long time, seeing where the enemy is and where they are going, LRM's were just icing on top of a big fat cake of near indestructible Steiner Scout lance prowess.

That is the best part, and maybe the worst part, because unless I'm getting focused by a good chunk of the enemy team, you're not stopping an Atlas, not with these quirks, and not in time before I've planted enough Narcs to slow an advance.

I could probably accomplish the same goal I set out with in a Raven, an Iceferret, Shadowhawk, or StormCrow, but I won't be staying alive long enough to capitalize on it.

Bottom line, it still comes down to Team support, I was just having some fun and it ended up working well enough

That and I got bored of laser vomit, and havn't touched LRM's in a long time, and when I did nobody would ever target for me, so I solved that problem myself

Edited by Mister D, 02 March 2016 - 09:33 AM.