Posted 31 May 2016 - 07:50 PM
Ok, ignore all the LRM hate: you play the game the way you enjoy playing. No matter what anyone says, 120 damage and 0 kills with 1 assist does not help you team, whether you are in a lrm boat or handing out lazvomit. So the people that say LRMS are useless assume 1 they are better at dishing damage than you, and that you don't know what you are doing. Neither of this assumptions are necessarily true. I brawl a lot in an lrm5 spitting maddog, and I do well enough usually getting a 300-400 match score.
The OP gave some good advice, though on some maps its good to engage at longer distances. One thing, if you are getting your own locks, you are going to pop up on enemy radar, and you can draw a lot of lrm fire that way. If the enemy is lrming you and not the team, guess what you are sharing armour. Unless you are on polar, then most of your shooting should be under 500 meters.
Get Artemis, use it, it increases your penetration and damage, and you should be doing a lot of firing with LOS.
Get advanced target decay and radar dep, also whatever lrm you are using, get the coldown module at max, and what the hell, get the range increase (I have found myself in a duel with three red lrm boats on polar with their missiles exploding in front of me while i was hitting them and being called a cheater). Speed-you should always be in motion, and faster is better -maddogs do 87Kph and that is a pretty good speed. Since you can go that fast, you should. Sometimes your opponents will be dumb enough to let you stay in once place and kill them, but that's rare.
Get two medium lasers or three small lasers as a minimum.
ammo-6-7 tons at least..but LRM20's consume ammo fast, fireoff a lrm 5 and you can get a sense of how much ams the other guys have without depleting your stock fast.
remember you are a support weapon, and support the team, including making sure you are drawing fire,
Pick mechs designed as LRM mechs, mad-dogs, archers and such. Don;t for god's ske go lrming in an assault mech.
and remember the guys who complain the loudest about you rbring LRMS in Faction warfare are mostly trying to account for the fact that they YOLOed theri way into battle and are proud of their 400 damage and 1 kill in their direwolf.
You want to know how you contributed-match scores of 250-300 mean you held your own, match scores of 400 mean you did well, and match scores over 500 mean you carried the team. If you are under 250 you helped less than you needed to, whatever the weapon.