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[Aetes Nakatomi]

I have two flamers on my 5 AC5 Mauler if I pug (in group play I use 1 med laser and an extra ton of ammo). They comes in handy for shutting down the face hugger assaults and heavies that derp into you during a pug matches. In the group queue they are next to useless on an assault as the Enemy actually tend to target and call out such things 'keep over 90 away from Mauler alpha it's running flamers'.

[Random Carnage]

I think I just heard the OP's mouth clamp shut from here. He's never posting again

Despite the issue he had with flamers, I suspect the result wouldn't have ended much better for him had said DWF been packing quad UAC10's instead. Cabin ventilation wouldn't have been an issue...

[Damia Savon]

I give the OP major props for being a good sport by clarifying the situation, not tossing a tantrum, and liking people's posts.

Well played Sir, very classy.

[Sadist Cain]

Hindel, on 20 March 2016 - 01:54 PM, said:

Nothing much to say about getting hit by 8 flamers, instantly hitting 90% heat and just watching the Dire slaughtering you. You shoot back you shutdown and die. You don't shoot you die. Who ever thought of this in PGI team should get FIRED! .. by 8 flamers or more.

Edit:
I should have said that I was in Stalker with a STD 300 in it, so I couldn't get away. Clearly i made a mistake posting about this and I'm so sorry guys, this was my first and last post since open beta.

No need to throw toys out the pram and go off in a huff.

Your mistake wasn't posting about this, it was getting all angry about a mechanic that may well be broken without considering what you could've done to not get flame grilled

[iLLcapitan]

[MechWarrior5152251]

The thing that keeps Dire Whales from being OP is that they are Bullet Magnets.

[Roughneck Cobra]

What Ive always wondered is, why do the flamers not have any fuel? If they were to dump heat from the engine and ignite the exhaust, well.. Im not even gonna go there with these enviroments and so on, but it does highlight flamers being void of a fuel supply, I know they are rarely used but when you use them right, jesus you get buggered unless you got cannons!

[iLLcapitan]

MechWarrior5152251, on 24 March 2016 - 05:17 AM, said:

The thing that keeps Dire Whales from being OP is that they are Bullet Magnets.

WRONG. The only thing that keeps it from beeing op, is the low flamer range.

[Roughneck Cobra]

iLLcapitan, on 24 March 2016 - 05:19 AM, said:

WRONG. The only thing that keeps it from beeing op, is the low flamer range.

I'd use one to this day, if the engine block wasnt a joke, only thing thats ever stopped me happily rolling a Dire over a Fatlas, is the pathetic engine block.

[iLLcapitan]

Stryker Ezekiel, on 24 March 2016 - 05:22 AM, said:

I'd use one to this day, if the engine block wasnt a joke, only thing thats ever stopped me happily rolling a Dire over a Fatlas, is the pathetic engine block.

+100
it's so sad.. got 3 dires all elited and cannot bring myself to sell them.. nor to pilot them, feels like a turret sim

[cazidin]

One has to wonder if anyone will edit their posts and apologise to the OP. He may not read them, he may not even return to the forums, but I think it'd be respectful if unlikely. Anyone else?

[zeves]

thank you for makeing us laugh

[Metus regem]

LegendaryArticuno, on 20 March 2016 - 02:51 PM, said:

How are you in Tier 2?

LRM's, lots of LRMS's.... you can LRM your way to T1...

This is just more proof that PSR means nothing.

[Nightmare1]

The OP cracks me up.

It's like saying, "She's gonna plaster that cake in my face and I can't escape! Waaah!"

Edited by Nightmare1, 24 March 2016 - 01:25 PM.

[Yosharian]

Jesus wept.

[BigFatGator]

Nightmare1, on 24 March 2016 - 08:21 AM, said:

The OP cracks me up.

It's like saying, "She's plaster that cake in my face and I can't escape! Waaah!"

Wish I could unsee that

[ChronoBear]

Chimera11, on 20 March 2016 - 06:40 PM, said:

"As the flamer dire approached, I could feel my impending doom. It lumbered along furiously, moving like a beached whale. I watched it run towards me. I knew there was nothing I could do...in mere hours, it would arrive and rip me apart limb from limb. I contemplated moving, but decided that was a noob strat and realized that real men facetank assaults. In the time before my doom, I read up on all the latest Mercnet gossip and started flirting with a young Kuritan pilot by sms."

"But then, as I knew it would..."

"It got within range"

This right here - This is the post that wins today. Thank you for making a hard day at work just a little bit better. lol

[Nightmare1]

I've only seen two or three flamers in matches since they got buffed. I can't see them as anything but only slightly improved as a result, so, to the folks saying that they need nerfing, all I can say is...

...Dude, for real?

I mean, c'mon, it's only 90 meters. You should be able to kill nearly anything before it gets that close to you, and if it's a Light, then it shouldn't be able to flame you for long before your allies chase it away.

The only way flamers work is if you're stupid or running around by yourself. But I repeat myself.

I'm still cracking up over this thread.

It reminds me of this old B.C. Comics:

[Gravitas]

Paigan, on 21 March 2016 - 02:45 AM, said:

Say it's not a DWF, but something like this:
http://mwo.smurfy-ne...799a2bfc9088294

Yeah, I was wondering if an EXE-D build would go for laughs. I might be crazy enough to try it at some point. I just threw weapons at it in Smurfy to see what I might get to stick.
http://mwo.smurfy-ne...dd975fa97c4e8e1

Not optimal I'm sure. But MASC just might make it unexpected. Or still dead. Either way, fun times.

[NoiseCrypt]

Because the Deadpool Zamboni scene isn't available you get this instead...