arivio, on 15 August 2016 - 02:38 PM, said:
Weapons used in Comp.
IS: ERLL, LL (sometimes), LPL, ML, SPL, Gauss, AC5, UAC5, AC10, AC20, MG, SRM, Flamer.
Clan: ERLL, LPL, ERML, ERSL, SPL, Gauss, ERPPC, UAC10, UAC5, LBX20, SRM, Flamer.
I notice that every weapon is there... except for LRMs.
So, you are telling me the flamer is a better weapon? Show me a comp team that has beaten another comp team and is at the top of the leaderboard boating nothing but flamers.
Doesn't exist, right?
So flamers must be bad. Right?
Really...
Same logic you keep applying to LRMs...
Vincent Quatermain, on 15 August 2016 - 02:48 PM, said:
Right, so then, to return to the point of the thread . . . when you get the uncommon opportunity to drop in an FP match, why would you take mediocre weapons and sandbag your team? Given the long wait times for these matches, shouldn't you have the common decency to bring a strong drop deck so that you aren't wasting other people's time?
Experiment and testing are precisely how comp players arrive at the best build. Do you think they just meditate and become one with the mechlab? Ommmmm . . .
((Also, you should note that there are comp builds with MGs (usually on a fast mech with small lasers), and some teams are using LBX10 in FP (at least for Inner Sphere). Flamers and LRMs are just for troll builds, though.))
Ah, "fun" . . . the universal scrublord mating call.
You know what's not fun? Struggling to win because your teammate is just interested in their own fun, and doesn't care about how they're harming everyone else.
1. Taking a few LRMs is not "sandbagging" your team. Taking a mech/dropdeck of pure Flamers, MGs and/or TAGs (12 TAG Hunchback anyone?) would be sandbagging your team. LRMs can do a lot within a team. But. Whatever. I must be wrong and you must be right because "competitive players" something or other...
2. So let me get this right, competitive players test and experiment. I'm not allowed to because I am suppose to take their word for it only. If my results disagree with theirs, I must be wrong because "I'm not a competitive player". Really? That's what you are telling me here.
3. This is a game. What else am I suppose to do with it? Treat it like it's a second, third or maybe even fourth job? No. I play games to have fun. But, continue along with your argument... I guess taking LRMs is the equivalent of damaging teammates intentionally? Well gosh. I guess I'll just have to bring what everyone dictates I'm suppose to bring, because I'm not a tier 1 player, so I can't make my own decisions and I'm not permitted to have fun that doesn't line up with their version of fun...
PS: I just got done playing 5 matchesin a row that resulted in losses with my Nova Prime set up with LPLs. But funny how I got a win on the first match I played with my Nova D, which has 2 LRM15s and 5 sm lasers... Guess I was sandbagging my team so much with my LRM mech we accidentally won...
MovinTarget, on 15 August 2016 - 03:06 PM, said:
Okay, moderators, this thread can be locked.
Agreed. Seen as I'm now being told that Flamers are a primary weapon being used in comp play...