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[cazidin]

Greetings Mechwarriors. Today I have a simple question. For those of you who have fond memories of or perhaps even boot up Mechwarrior 4 Mercenaries from time to time, which is your favorite mech, weapons or loadout and why? This can include the Mektek patch if you have it.

Were there any mechs you felt translated poorly to the engine? Any weapons left too under or overpowered?

[AztecD]

Awesome 8Q, damm i loved that mech in MW4

The Argus
http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Argus

[KodiakGW]

Favorite mech: Cauldron Born (Ebon Jaguar) - Loved running two LBX20s and an LBX10. Can't because of locked engine, heat sinks (in engine) and locked armor points on the arms.

Which brings up the thing that didn't translate to MWO, LBXs. Will see what the change to them after I install the patch on Tuesday.

[Afuldan McKronik]

Bushwacker. Two LBX10 and a LL.

[Stonefalcon]

Dire Wolf 4 RAC/10s

[cazidin]

Ballistics seem to be a popular choice thus far. What do you all love about them in MW4?

[Afuldan McKronik]

That you could push mechs over with them. Plus they felt just right. Low heat weapons that could sync with energy and missiles which were higher heat.

[Zordicron]

cazidin, on 14 April 2016 - 02:15 PM, said:

Greetings Mechwarriors. Today I have a simple question. For those of you who have fond memories of or perhaps even boot up Mechwarrior 4 Mercenaries from time to time, which is your favorite mech, weapons or loadout and why? This can include the Mektek patch if you have it.

Were there any mechs you felt translated poorly to the engine? Any weapons left too under or overpowered?

That is a hard question for sure.
IS PPC as a weapon, somthing satisfying about the visuals and sound/fizzle pop affects with hud scramble etc.
Mechs-
Light: Prolly the Cougar, but shooting enemy as you ran away from them in a Raven, and troll build max speed Osiris was pretty fun.
Medium: Shadowcat for myself, Uziel for my lancemates. "Ryoken" was more potent usually, but less fun IMO.
Heavy: bigger engine Thanatos was my fav, I had lots of silly troll boat loadouts(including a really really fast one) for Nova Cat. Argus was a work horse for me and my lancemates, and the Catapult was a solid, stout mech in that game for utility.
Assault: err, I dunno. The way the game played you basically took the biggest badass you had. Fun wise, dakka boat Atlas was amusing for me(small UAC's), twin Thunderbolt Mauler was pretty lol. I used the Awesome a LOT for my lancemates.

Most of the fun in MW4 was taking what they gave you and making it work, and trying some new oddball stuff for the missions. If you limit yourself to some "goal" of a certain mech to play, you really miss out IMO.

My comments do not count the MekTek stuff.

[Elkfire]

Uziel with dual PPCs and an SSRM-6, or the Ryoken/Stormcrow with LRM launchers in the shoulders and lasers in the arms. Obviously we don't have the Uziel in MWO, and trying to replicate my favorite build with similar mechs hasn't worked well due to PPCs being generally subpar. The LRM/laser Stormcrow isn't much good either since I'm not a fan of Clan LRMS in MWO.

[AlphaToaster]

If I remember right:

Loki w/ 3x Clan LBX/10's and 5 Clan Medium ER Lasers

All weapons were 400M range, ran w/ active radar off, firepower was 85/100 which was really hard hitting for a heavy if I recall.

I remember 1 alpha strike could take out a Mad Cat's ear. I liked to run up close while the enemy played long range, and take out as many ears full of LRMs as possible before retreating back into cover.

[Tordin]

Cougar with large pulse lasers. Oh and the Hellhound with LBX 10's. Many more but these are the ones that struck me first in efficiency.

[WrathOfDeadguy]

Argus with CGauss, 2xERLL, and CLRM20. Alternate config 1xCUAC20, 2xLL, 1xCSSRM6.

Awesome with stock 3xPPC, all other weapons removed.

Uziel with 2xPPC and 1CSSRM6.

Once Mercs came along, Puma... with 2xERPPC.

I really liked PPCs.

Honorable mentions: HGauss/1ERLL Hunchback, 3xERLL Wolfhound and, before Mercs rearranged the hardpoints, 3xERLL Uller. Those last two ran hot as hell, but they were so much fun.

[CK16]

Mad Cat Mk.II stock configuration! You know when Gauss Rifles were nasty hitting, sounding, and sweet looking (miss my blue coil tracer :/)

[Coolant]

Battlemaster IIC with 4 CUAC10's & 2 HML's.
Tenchi with 4 CUAC5's and 2 MPL's.

Hope we see the Heavy Medium Lasers in MWO soon.

[S 0 L E N Y A]

DWF with 3x UAC20

Fafnir with stock heavy guass was also good.

Anything with a LongTom for trollin

[cazidin]

Tordin, on 14 April 2016 - 04:09 PM, said:

Cougar with large pulse lasers. Oh and the Hellhound with LBX 10's. Many more but these are the ones that struck me first in efficiency.

Even in MW:4 Large Pulse Lasers were excellent weapons, eh? How'd PGI mess up LBX Autocannons so much?

CK16, on 14 April 2016 - 04:59 PM, said:

Mad Cat Mk.II stock configuration! You know when Gauss Rifles were nasty hitting, sounding, and sweet looking (miss my blue coil tracer :/)

A lot of games from that era had a blue coil tracer effect for their railguns. IT looked good for the time atleast.

Boogie138, on 14 April 2016 - 06:32 PM, said:

DWF with 3x UAC20

Fafnir with stock heavy guass was also good.

Anything with a LongTom for trollin

DWF with 3x UAC20 is very meta, apparently.

Your builds make my 4 LL build sound incredibly weak. Maybe I should load it up again and try a Ballistic boat?

[dervishx5]

3 LBX10 Hellhound

[XxXAbsolutZeroXxX]

I think I used the sunder with ppc capacitor.

Longbow with Arrow IV.

Atlas II, forgot which loadout.

Behemoth II with heavy rail gun for laughs.

Supernova with dual AC20's and support weapons.

Annihilator with 4 x AC10.

[El Bandito]

Executioner with a lot of Gauss and a lot of ERLLs. Yeah, I tryharded.

[Alan Davion]

My favorite mech has and will always be the Shadow Hawk, however from what I remember in MW4 it just didn't feel right to me. Not being able to replicate the stock or a semi-stock 2H loadout made me sad in the pants.

However, the Warhammer/IIC, Marauder/IIC and Marauder II were quite fun from what I recall. Can't wait to see what the WHM IIC, MAD IIC and MAD II look like here in MWO.