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[Mechwarrior Buddah]

Was thinking about getting the package cause nostalgia (I mean what is a better reason for buying mechs now lol), but Im reading all kinds of hate on it and how its been changed already to appease the tears of ppl

so is it still worth getting?

[LegendaryArticuno]

ARC-5W is surprisingly a lot of fun with 9x LRM5's. Play Polar Highlands and watch as you score highest damage with little effort and risk.

The rest of variants are varying degrees of average to bad.

[Bishop Steiner]

LegendaryArticuno, on 26 March 2016 - 07:11 PM, said:

ARC-5W is surprisingly a lot of fun with 9x LRM5's. Play Polar Highlands and watch as you score highest damage with little effort and risk.

The rest of variants are varying degrees of average to bad.

I love ARC-5Ws with 9 LRM5s. When you pop out of concealment at sub 180 meters from them, they die so nice.

[Mechwarrior Buddah]

Bishop Steiner, on 26 March 2016 - 07:21 PM, said:

I love ARC-5Ws with 9 LRM5s. When you pop out of concealment at sub 180 meters from them, they die so nice.

Thats why Im not the moron standing out without the rest of the group. So that when someone pops out of concealment they meet half (if not more) of our team on coms lol

Its worked really well for me so far in the history of this game lol

[Brewmen]

For Nostalgia's sake if I had it all over to do again I would just buy the basic pack. The 5W and 5S work the best for me.

[Mechwarrior Buddah]

Brewmen, on 26 March 2016 - 07:30 PM, said:

For Nostalgia's sake if I had it all over to do again I would just buy the basic pack. The 5W and 5S work the best for me.

Funnily I really just want the lrm5 spam one for shits n giggles lol

How important is it to have 3x mastered? I havent played since before they were making the change to make it less important by nerfing the numbers

[El Bandito]

Mechwarrior Buddah, on 26 March 2016 - 07:06 PM, said:

Was thinking about getting the package cause nostalgia (I mean what is a better reason for buying mechs now lol), but Im reading all kinds of hate on it and how its been changed already to appease the tears of ppl

so is it still worth getting?

They are working for me so far. The 5W and Tempest, at least. I won't recommend using cash to buy them unless you really like Archers, or lurms, or both. Just play carefully, and the mech will not let you down. If you are the impatient type then the mech is not for you.

Edited by El Bandito, 26 March 2016 - 07:48 PM.

[Mechwarrior Buddah]

El Bandito, on 26 March 2016 - 07:47 PM, said:

They are working for me so far. The 5W and Tempest, at least. I won't recommend using cash to buy them unless you really like Archers, or lurms, or both. Just play carefully, and the mech will not let you down. If you are the impatient type then the mech is not for you.

theyre available for cbills?

[Brewmen]

It helps, I am currently mastering mine. Finished the first three levels and working on the final perk, hope to have them finished tomorrow if I get much time to play. I love the look of them but functionally there are better performing missile boats out there. The low cockpit, and open bay doors they are going to see you long before you see them to get you own locks.

[Navid A1]

Bishop Steiner, on 26 March 2016 - 07:21 PM, said:

I love ARC-5Ws with 9 LRM5s. When you pop out of concealment at sub 180 meters from them, they die so nice.

You do that to me and i push a NARC up your face and 3xSRMs as toppings.

and then it will be amusing to see you run

Edited by Navid A1, 26 March 2016 - 08:15 PM.

[Brewmen]

No, It will probably early to mid summer for MC then another few months for cbills, others would know more about release dates than me. I'm just going by the maruader release and what I have read.

See if I can post my archer stats, I liked how El Bandito did that. I was getting too aggressive in the 5W or it would be a bit higher. I'm not good with the laser build archers yet.


ARCHER ARC2R(S) 42 19 22 0.86 22 36 0.61 12,325 36,399 04:58:57

ARCHER
ARC2R 42 19 22 0.86 22 36 0.61 12,325 36,399 04:58:57

ARCHER
ARC5S 37 16 21 0.76 51 22 2.32 17,541 54,023 05:32:01

ARCHER
ARC5W 37 17 20 0.85 46 29 1.59 12,067 49,870 04:19:32

TEMPEST 41 24 16 1.50 24 27 0.89 11,555 36,157 04:55:27

Edited by Brewmen, 26 March 2016 - 08:11 PM.

[El Bandito]

Mechwarrior Buddah, on 26 March 2016 - 07:51 PM, said:

theyre available for cbills?

*edit* Might have to wait for about 4 months for that.

Edited by El Bandito, 26 March 2016 - 08:04 PM.

[Bishop Steiner]

Navid A1, on 26 March 2016 - 08:00 PM, said:

You do that to me and i push a NARC up your face and 3xSRMs as toppings.

and then it will be amusing to see you run

on top of 9 LRM5s? What kind of HAX are you using man? None of my Archers get 13 hardpoints.....

Edited by Bishop Steiner, 26 March 2016 - 08:12 PM.

[Navid A1]

Bishop Steiner, on 26 March 2016 - 08:12 PM, said:

on top of 9 LRM5s? What kind of HAX are you using man? None of my Archers get 13 hardpoints.....

Oh... lol...sry... didn't catch that... I thought youwere talking about 5Ws in general
yes i agree.... i like doing that to 9xLRM5s 5Ws too

[Ted Wayz]

It is tracking closer to the Warhammer than the Rifleman with some time left in the event. And the Warhammer is a good mech.

Good thing it got buffed...

[Mechwarrior Buddah]

I guess Id say yes...



First game in it since getting it. Though the stupid doors I really dont like. Its like "here we'll give you a good missile mech but itll have giant upward raising doors cause lore"

um... yea

[LordNothing]

i was gonna get a basic pack but they released the kodiak around that time and i decided to get that instead.

Edited by LordNothing, 27 March 2016 - 01:04 AM.

[Escef]

The Archers are mediocre. I enjoy them because they were my babies from table top. Mostly a nostalgia mech, but it's my nostalgia mech. I'd avoid XL engines on them, and they do just fine as IDF support. Direct fire or SRMs are kinda questionable as a focus, but you can do it. You have enough hard points to bring some serious firepower to the game, but don't brawl unless you have backup, trying to solo-brawl with an Archer usually ends with a dead Archer.

[Rhent]

Compared to other heavies, the archer is an underperformer. For quirks, the Catapult is better for LRM's. For energy boats you are better off with the thunderbolt. Overall, I'd suggest you get the Marauder, its a better overall mech. A MAD-3R and you can run 2 PPC's and an AC/10 and do decent damage quirked in the mid range. There is really no way to get a decided niche for the archer. It doesn't have SRM quirks to allow it to brawl well and use the durability quirks. The LRM quirks are an embarassment. Its just outclassed by the other properly quirked heavies.

I was so disgusted with the quirks, I put in for an immediate refund and got it on launch. I was expecting something in the LRM category to make up for the lack of hard points, but that didn't happen.

Edited by Rhent, 27 March 2016 - 01:21 AM.

[BulletChief]

I like the 5W with 5xlrm5 and 4xsrm4...
It's ok at longer ranges (just like every 5xlrm5) but absolutly killing it in its sweet zone 180-297m

I use the R and T as mediocre laser builds. I'm in T3, everything works here ...

Edited by BulletChief, 27 March 2016 - 01:49 AM.