Again Aru:
The thing with weapons is that you need to think about what they do and what you want to achieve.
A LBX AC20 is a big shotgun spreading dmg and having a much greater possibility to do crit damage to zones without armor.
But THAT is not their primary property for you as ambushing assault pilot.
As you said once you've engaged you can do nothing but fire and fire and hope that an enemy dies befor you get finished by him.
An Assault mech has a hard time to get away once he commited to battle.
Thats the downside when piloting assaults.
So there are two ways.
Firing high alphas from the core of the pack with a med or longrange build while distributing and avoiding incomming damage as good as possible or if you have a short ranged build distribute the returning damage as good as possible by torsotwisting.
This distributing is only possible if the firing cycle of your weapons is as short as possible so you are not forced to hold your torso still for aiming.
There is no Assault ingame that can do that.
YOU CAN NOT FACE ANY ENEMY UP CLOSE AND HOPE TO SURVIVE IN AN ASSAULT IF THE ENEMY FOCUSES DAMAGE AND YOU ARE NOT.
LBX do not focus damage but they unload instantly and give you ample time to torso twist.
Weapons like MGs, Lasers or Flamers are the oposite.
You need to hold still to have them be of any effect.
So using spreadfire frontload weapons and streaming weapons together makes absolutely no sense at all because they add up downsides and nullyfy each other positive propertys.
So you could try dual
ERPPC and Gauss
But this seems like a waste.
The most noticable property of the targetting computer is added weapons range on lasers and mre important, if you want to justyfie the use of large targetting computers, higher projectile speed for Gauss and ACs for more accuracy and lower leading requirements.
Since a LBX has already very high projectile speeds and does spread there is no reason to use any targeting computer (except you desperately want the 8% level one crit buff)
What you get of the bat is whooping 40m range for your ERMLasers.
I could not come up with a realy good KDK-5 build but instead used an
insane one for leveling.
Keep close to your team and wait till midrange battle or at least only engage targets of oportunity with your large lasers. When bigger prey crosses the 300m mark select the most daring one an...well right claw..left claw..just don't try to alpha.
Edited by The Basilisk, 06 September 2016 - 04:39 AM.