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[Fiona Marshe]

9 TAG Hunchback.

[ReemusX]

Nyte Kitsune, on 06 March 2016 - 12:09 AM, said:

My most amusing moment was when I was in Panther. Was just a pug drop, but I had heard and seen once, a light riding atop an assault like a hat. Was my turn, I was attempting to jump over a friendly assault to try to get some shots in on the light, a Jenner, that was trying to kill him, and landed on top of him. There he was, twisting and turning with me on top along for the ride. We killed the light, I legged it, I believe he got the kill. We finished the match like that, I got the last kill will still standing atop him.

I think I have a vid somewhere of my ride as well. It was a few days ago

[Aresye]

Most humorous thing I've ever seen actually happened just a couple days ago.

In group queue on HPG, my team is doing the normal counter-clockwise rotation, when all of the sudden somebody calls out, "Dire Wolf on top of HPG."

Half my group goes, "Wait...what?!" as we look up, and sure enough there's a freaking DIRE WOLF on top of the walls.

Then, in the most majestic way a 100t flying pig could fly, it slowly begins to rise as it attempts to jump from one wall segment to the other side, all the while my entire team is shooting the insanely easy to hit blimp that's floating across the sky.

Lost an arm and one side torso before the jump jets ran out barely halfway across the gap, in which it fell right in the middle of my team and was promptly devoured.

[Not A Real RAbbi]

Not nearly as entertaining, but I liked it...

A few hours ago, I was doing some CW drops with the {QQ} teammates. Counterattack on Emerald Taiga. I was in my second (I think?) mech, a RFL-3N with Gauss and 4x ML. Go chasing after this straggling ACH, over a hill, and find that a teammate in an Ilya Muromets was face-tanking the poor, legged (again, IIRC, and it MAY be a bit fuzzy) Cheeter, with his back to me and standing between me and the enemy. I had no clear shot, until...

I could JUST see the bum leg between the Ilya's legs. "Why not?" Took the shot. Landed all of it. Between-the-legs killsteal. Apparently, the mech was THAT tore up, that the damage that transferred leg-to-torso was enough to pop the torso, and I got the K.

Also, take note when you kill a CPLT in Testing Grounds or the Academy. Sometimes, they fold over into a kind of dying cockroach position, and begin to spin at a slow, varying rate. Break dancing Catapults. I've officially seen everything I wanted to see in this life.

Edited by Sister RAbbi, 06 March 2016 - 12:42 AM.

[RestosIII]

Nyte Kitsune, on 06 March 2016 - 12:09 AM, said:

My most amusing moment was when I was in Panther. Was just a pug drop, but I had heard and seen once, a light riding atop an assault like a hat. Was my turn, I was attempting to jump over a friendly assault to try to get some shots in on the light, a Jenner, that was trying to kill him, and landed on top of him. There he was, twisting and turning with me on top along for the ride. We killed the light, I legged it, I believe he got the kill. We finished the match like that, I got the last kill will still standing atop him.

Just tonight I was in my BH MAD with 6 MLas and an AC/20 doing some obscene poptarting when I suddenly DIDN'T fall back down. I'd apparently flown backwards slightly, and landed on top of an allied Cicada. The Cicada either realized what happened or was really eager to fight, and charged over the hill and straight towards a lone Hunchback IIC. That we the most scared Hunchy I've seen to date.

[Parmeggido]

Assault on Alpine Peaks, end of the match, last enemy is hiding somewhere. I'm in a Jenner that's pretty beat up, so I decide to head for cap instead of play hide and go seek. The other light on my team follows me over there, and when we arrive, I decide to be clever and JJ on top of the mobile field base. The allied light likes how I look up there, and decides to join me. Unfortunately, both my legs are red, and as he clips into me, my mech begins rubberbanding back and forth onto the base, quickly causing my legs to pop and him to get a tk. His apologies were profuse, as was my laughter.

Terra Therma. I was in a Kit Fox, and the match was only going ok. Suddenly, I notice our 3 atlases are heading around the central volcano, while the rest of the team is holed up inside, trading with the enemy. I join the atlases to provide ECM as they move around. We come around to the back of the enemy team, and not a single one is looking anywhere except the center. It wasn't until the second or third mech evaporated they realized what was going on, and by then it was too late. Atlas surprise is best surprise.

[Moldur]

I was in HPG manifold in a light. After the enemy had come through, I turned the corner to go into the enemy's moon surface part of the map and got blasted by a guy in a 9ppc Direwolf.

I wasn't exactly sure what had happened (as it was right when I turned the corner,) so I went back toward my team out of panic. I was cherry red CT.

The guy in the dire typed "you're lucky."

This was after ghost heat. The guy was shutdown for a good minute at least.

[Koniving]

Jump jet Atlas glitch.

On tablet - remind me to get video or YouTube flying Atlas (or jump jet Atlas) with Koniving in the search.
It's 5:40 am now. Will be off work after 11 and home by 3:00pm. Should be able to put it here soon after.

[Koniving]

Another.

3...2...1...Boom.

Credit to Lordred for video.
Counter: Koniving.
"Let's murder this thing" Part-time Canadian.
4th guy - will credit later when can watch.

Edited by Koniving, 06 March 2016 - 02:51 AM.

[Prof RJ Gumby]

SQW, on 05 March 2016 - 09:36 PM, said:

I often wondered if those dead chassis block shots or just line of sight. Some of the animation seems to show bullets hitting the dead mech but I've also gotten hit when I try to take cover behind one...

RestosIII, on 05 March 2016 - 09:41 PM, said:

They block shots. I've taken cover in the remaining hull of a dead King Crab with my MAD before and none of the shots aimed at me punched through. That's why it's even better that I got a headshot on the guy. I missed the thing I was aiming for.

Appogee, on 05 March 2016 - 09:43 PM, said:

Dead chassis don't block shots. In fact, that led to another funny moment...
A team mate and I were in Lights, terrorising a Heavy enemy by circle-strafing it.
He killed it a micro-second before I Alpha'd it. My alpha went sailing through the now-dead enemy and TKed him.

Just to clear it up, mech corpses actually behave 2-ways. When the mech die it's corpse becomes 'weapon-transparent' until it stops falling down/moving. When it freezes or the ground (or just stays still on its legs), it starts blocking shots. This is probably made to avoid creating chaos with HSR getting confused by kinda random way the mechs fall down and allowing shots in when they should be blocked by the one falling down and blocking shots when they should go next to the mech falling down.

Edited by Prof RJ Gumby, 06 March 2016 - 03:24 AM.

[Appogee]

Prof RJ Gumby, on 06 March 2016 - 03:23 AM, said:

Just to clear it up, mech corpses actually behave 2-ways. When the mech die it's corpse becomes 'weapon-transparent' until it stops falling down/moving. When it freezes or the ground (or just stays still on its legs), it starts blocking shots. This is probably made to avoid creating chaos with HSR getting confused by kinda random way the mechs fall down and allowing shots in when they should be blocked by the one falling down and blocking shots when they should go next to the mech falling down.

Ah, that explains what I experienced. Thanks for clearing this up.

[ILikePeaches]

Was having a duel in my kit fox against another kit fox under the bridge on canyon. Fired my JJ then suddenly phasing and rubberbanding through the bridge and into the sky for a good 10 seconds.

[Doman Hugin]

The closest of fought battles, we only won because we had a 0 ping DC on our side.
"everybody's dead Dave"

Edited by Doman Hugin, 06 March 2016 - 06:03 AM.

[Agent1190]

Was dropping CW on Boreal Vault (Hold Territory) - a team mate and I focused a Black Knight CT as he was approaching Alpha Gate. When he died, he did a full forward flip before landing on the ground. No one recorded it - trying to get it to happen again, but no luck so far.

Edited by Agent1190, 06 March 2016 - 06:26 AM.

[Empyrus]

Frozen City, long ago. My 'Mech was Cataphract CTF-4X, armed with dual Gauss Rifles.
When the match begins, an opponent complains that that he forgot to go to toilet.
A moment later, i see someone peeking over an hill and fire both Gauss Rifles, getting a surprise head-shot and the first kill of the match.
Right after that, the same opponent who complained about having to go to toilet writes "THANK YOU!!!" and disconnects. Guess my lucky shot was also lucky for him.
Was quite amusing.

[GeoFalke]

Metus regem, on 05 March 2016 - 10:24 PM, said:

In a match with me in a super stock UM-R60L on Crimson, Red Team has a KGC pilot talking smack about Urbanmechs. I proceeded to drop through a gap over the docks to land on said KGC and murder it.


Many moons ago, I was piloting a Dire Wolf, and had a red Commando get ontop of me, and slowly killed me....

I just bought a UM-R63 and am curious as to whether I should scrap the lasers, downsize the gun, or scrap some of the armor for a bigger engine, or if I should just get used to the super slow 32.4 kmph, because max armor in the front still doesn't seem to last long, but that LB-10 X AC does monster damage at close range with a machine gun dual bound underneath it.

Excessive Paranoia, on 05 March 2016 - 08:55 PM, said:

I was on canyon network and a Jenner IIC tried to jumpjet across C3, but was sniped mid-air. In death, it pitched forward into a face down position and fell flat on its face, rolled forward onto its back, and then lay there with its feet wiggling.

I laughed for the rest of the match...

had something similar happen to me in my Pirate's Bane on Terra Therma. the match was going ok for the most part and I was doing hit-and-runs on their heavies and counter-scouting their lights, but the snowball effect started to happen and of my last two remaining team mates, one was as snow leopard who was lagging out and the other was a King Crab who DC'd at the start of the match. I got into a tight spot and started to haul ***, but I got tagged by I think an AC20 and I faceplanted spectacularly at 150 kmph. no slide, no bounce, just *FWACK*

both teams started giggling at my form to which I replied in all chat "OOOH LOOK, A PENNY!" everyone stopped and sides broke orbit for a good 2 minutes.
we still lost when everyone regained their composure.

good times

[Trauglodyte]

I was in Frozen City a few years ago in one of my very rare LRM mechs. I had 2 friendlies brawling with an enemy target so I let loose a volley of 3x LRM15s. I killed the enemy target that was right at the middle of the drop ship only to also kill the two friendly mechs, due to them face humping the target. Whoops!

[Prc]

[Mcgral18]

RestosIII, on 05 March 2016 - 09:41 PM, said:

They block shots. I've taken cover in the remaining hull of a dead King Crab with my MAD before and none of the shots aimed at me punched through. That's why it's even better that I got a headshot on the guy. I missed the thing I was aiming for.

Prof RJ Gumby, on 06 March 2016 - 03:23 AM, said:

Just to clear it up, mech corpses actually behave 2-ways. When the mech die it's corpse becomes 'weapon-transparent' until it stops falling down/moving. When it freezes or the ground (or just stays still on its legs), it starts blocking shots. This is probably made to avoid creating chaos with HSR getting confused by kinda random way the mechs fall down and allowing shots in when they should be blocked by the one falling down and blocking shots when they should go next to the mech falling down.

From my experience, they block hitscan but not projectiles.

As evidence:


I found that pretty humorous. 9 SRM4s VS a poptart

[Roughneck45]

Mcgral18 that was some epic **** right there haha.

For me, there was a hunchback with only a few HP left on the cockpit, jenner went flying through the air and kicked his face ftw.

Man I'd love some real DFA.