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[Black Fish]

That's what the CTF-3L is going to have with a 340 engine and a 29% speed boost from MASC.
I excite!

[Bombast]

Give it a red paint job and maybe you can get it up to a 460 rating.

Edited by Bombast, 09 October 2016 - 08:12 AM.

[Alistair Winter]

Excellent. This Cataphract should be able to die at higher speeds than any of my other Cataphracts.

[Wintersdark]

MASC is a lot of fun

[DrSaphron]

Alistair Winter, on 09 October 2016 - 08:25 AM, said:

Excellent. This Cataphract should be able to die at higher speeds than any of my other Cataphracts.

You're doing it wrong! Cataphract is still a very capable mech and I think giving it masc is just the shot in the arm it needs so it is no longer overshadowed by the newer mechs.

[GrimRiver]

This game really needs more MASC mechs(non champ/hero)

It's why I love running my EXE-D, I couldn't get into "Bub"(if you ever watched X-men you know who I'm talking about)
because MASC didn't leave much room for weapons/ammo.

It's Nos for mechs. lol

[Black Fish]

I very much enjoy MASC on my scats, on the phract it's just going to be extremely fun.
I think phracts' extemely low hardpoints is somewhat mitigated with good hitboxes and quirks though..

[El Bandito]

I will look at the quirks. PGI might derp and remove durability quirk to compensate for MASC.

[Bud Crue]

An 0xp without ECM. Do you or would you play it? I kinda doubt it if you have any other choice at 70 tons.
How about if you gave it MASC?
Still no?

I love Phracts. I am not excited about this Phract.

[Deathlike]

XL on Cataphracts... especially w/o JJs... good luck with hiding those "broad shoulders".

[S 0 L E N Y A]

DrSaphron, on 09 October 2016 - 08:33 AM, said:

You're doing it wrong! Cataphract is still a very capable mech and I think giving it masc is just the shot in the arm it needs so it is no longer overshadowed by the newer mechs.

Lol. No.

[LordNothing]

i just realized i get this mech. my impulse bushie purchase which ive been face palming over for the last week.

i could have had a hangover.

Edited by LordNothing, 09 October 2016 - 12:15 PM.

[Paigan]

Black Fish, on 09 October 2016 - 08:10 AM, said:

That's what the CTF-3L is going to have with a 340 engine and a 29% speed boost from MASC.
I excite!

My EXE finds that cute =)

[Black Fish]

Paigan, on 09 October 2016 - 12:41 PM, said:

My EXE finds that cute =)

Heh yeah I realised short after posting that the Spirit Bear actually has 520ish with MASC, but I dont own it or any EXEs so I'm still exited about the first heavy with MASC.

Edited by Black Fish, 09 October 2016 - 09:11 PM.

[Captain Stiffy]

Bombast, on 09 October 2016 - 08:12 AM, said:

Give it a red paint job and maybe you can get it up to a 460 rating.

If they can get it into HPG Manifold it might go ever faster because it's in space.

[N0ni]

Already have a build picked out for it involving an XL325. So that's 80.9 after speed tweak and if my math is right 104.3 with MASC.

Oh baby the dream.

[Captain Stiffy]

I love my muro a lot. Or I did before the Kodiak-3. The chassis has problems though.

You never see cataphracts or awesomes anymore. PART OF the reason for this is the change in weapon-sizing making their bulky barn-door torsos even worse. For the phract add to this that your main weapons are generally speaking torso and arms and are low-mounted and there are just so many better options.

Except for the 3xLB10x muro. Little money maker that thing but the nerfs over time have kinda made it too slow or XL reliant so the KDK-3 trumps it in spades. (and 4x lb10 is all I ever wanted but that's way off topic)

Many of these mechs (the ones where the elbows and hands take up crit slots) were designed (in the lore sense) to be able to raise their arms up or straight forward and other things that you can't do in MWO. Mechs like especially the marauder or muro or anything like them.

TLDR why can't I override my arm actuators? Mech's with 2 arm actuators would gain tremendously from this and it would add some flavor to the mechs that isn't weapon-related. Convergence is wonky and crappy as a mechanic now anyway so I don't see a problem with allowing for both.

Edited by Captain Stiffy, 09 October 2016 - 09:29 PM.

[RestosIII]

N0ni, on 09 October 2016 - 09:21 PM, said:

Already have a build picked out for it involving an XL325. So that's 80.9 after speed tweak and if my math is right 104.3 with MASC.

Oh baby the dream.

All of this talk of MASC and insane speeds for a weight class is just making me think of the Firemoth. I'm not happy.

[Random Carnage]

Black Fish, on 09 October 2016 - 08:10 AM, said:

That's what the CTF-3L is going to have with a 340 engine and a 29% speed boost from MASC.
I excite!

Just means it'll take longer for the bits to stop.

[RestosIII]

Random Carnage, on 09 October 2016 - 11:18 PM, said:

Just means it'll take longer for the bits to stop.

Like those videos of people's RC cars hitting a rock at 100 mp/h and turning into deadly projectiles?