AureliusDean, on 30 January 2017 - 05:36 PM, said:
I'm interested in faction play, but it looks to me like it's a pretty elite deal. Am I right? What does a 5 month newb need to do before he or she clicks that tempting red button without suffering a massive amount of vitriol and scorn?
What should I have loaded on my decks?
I'm asking because campaign warfare, by all forum accounts, is a situation where people are waiting and waiting for games to start. Would it be better to get games running and have some action than sitting waiting for the uber grognards?
Not so much elite, just a thing of training and amassed ressources.
First and foremost the playstyles found in FW differ from solo queue.
Since you have 4 mechs in Invsion FW you have to manage your armor, ammo and dmg output of each mech to be of maximum effect for your team. (So know your mechs, stregths and weaknesses)
For example a barely touched Assault that last 4 waves and still has ammo is a waste of tonnage and hitpoits that your team has to pay for. Or the other way round a KingCrab filled to the rim with AC ammo going down after 20secs of enemy contact would also be a serious waste.
Therefore you have to consider not only single mech configs but also dropdeck layouts, you have to
learn the maps, and make contact to other ppl to group up and organize. (Don't be one of the solodropper puggies beeing steamrolled by any 48 man team of locusts because youve got no idea how the gamemodes and maps work.)
So again short and crisp:
-- Do you need to be an elite player?
> No just willing to cooperate and in possession of 4 elited mechs
-- Do you need to be allout meta busdriver?
> Absolutely not, just have some usefull and logical mechbuilds
YOU CAN WORK WITH.
-- Do you
need to be in a unit or what ever have any chance of success?
> Coordinating your layouts and strategies in a group hightens your chace of success exponentionaly, but there are some ppl around that play FW regularely and have some success doing so by organizing pug groups often to the shocked amazement of organized but overconfident premades.
Hope this helps
have fun
Edited by The Basilisk, 31 January 2017 - 01:52 AM.