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[TELEFORCE]

I'd like to see both the Longbow and Crusader in-game.

[Davers]

By LRM, i assume you mean range quirks for SRMs?

[Bud Crue]

RestosIII, on 18 September 2016 - 08:28 AM, said:

I'm really hoping you ARE sarcastic about map packs due to the buckets situation.

Yes. Of Course. I'll put it more bluntly.

Ahem

SCREW THE LONGBOW, THE STONE RHINO, THE MADCAT IIC, THE WASP, THE CRUSADER and ever other gdam mech left in this or any other time line ever. There is no lore. CW is about to be a thing of the past. The only thing left is basic game play. More mechs will not make that game better. More maps...and any other substantive content...just might though.

They are in the process of taking what little is left of diversity of modes out of the game with the quick play-ization of CW. Lets at least ask for more and better maps to play this single mode game on. More mechs, just seems to get us more mechs (we've gotten what? one new map in the last year? Remodels don't count imho) . I just want pretty much more of ANYTHING other than mechs, cuz more mechs, and the money they raise, does NOT seem to be translating into new content (in fact we are getting LESS content once they are done with CW revision). So if I am reduced to begging for content, I'm begging for maps. Anything other than mechs.

[Spheroid]

@Bandito: Must it be a "true" hero? Ala Carte Mauler-1R® is the same price as a standard package + hero add on. I submit that income boosted lurm assaults are already in game.

Edited by Spheroid, 18 September 2016 - 09:48 AM.

[Novakaine]

A missile boat that's actually a missile boat.
PGI turned the Archer into anything but that.
I mastered them and then parked them.
Horrid abomination.

[LT. HARDCASE]

How is the Archer not an LRM boat?

[crashlogic]

BattleBunny, on 18 September 2016 - 05:33 AM, said:

there is plenty of LRM platforms in the game as it is.

Since, as my FW clanmates tell me, LRMS are useless, why not add one more lrm boat?

[DovisKhan]

Juodas Varnas, on 17 September 2016 - 11:00 PM, said:

What's the "Archer Treatment"?

****** on arrival quirks


If you had the MDD when you bought an Archer you felt a very significant downgrade (which is according to the lore legit of course since MDD is the evolution of ARC)


Basically if you build ARC as an LRM boat, you are limited to 5W, which has no lasers as backup weaponry, which means you either:

1) Carry no backup weapons

2) Take an XL engine - deathtrap

3) limit yourself to slow speed and have mediocre LRM capability with mediocre SRM capability


MDD can do everything better, it's faster, can carry LRMs, more ammo, active probe, targetting computer and cspls which run very cool

You end up with an all round great mech



So yeah, people saying Archer was dead on arrival weren't lying



Then it got quirk buffs, but it's still inferior to a Catapult and nowhere near as good as a Mad Dog

[crashlogic]

Oh I like my archers, My 5w build is 6x lrm5's with BAP and 3 by Streak 2s. Its as good as my MDD's and better in some ways. I am happy with my other builds too, though they are more reliant on LRM10's with artemis than I like (more that LRM10's and I spread damage way more than I like). I think El Bandito also has some success with his archers.
The extra armour on the archer is better, and TBH I sold all my cata pults because the Archer is a better IS missile boat in my own experience.

Edited by crashlogic, 19 September 2016 - 06:04 AM.

[Tordin]

Not bad pic of the longbow OP, but still I prefer this iteration

[Bishop Steiner]

Novakaine, on 18 September 2016 - 10:17 AM, said:

A missile boat that's actually a missile boat.
PGI turned the Archer into anything but that.
I mastered them and then parked them.
Horrid abomination.

PTS is holding out some small hope on that front with LRM changes.