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[Willard Phule]

Star Commander Horse, on 08 February 2017 - 07:22 AM, said:

Just do LORE builds and listen to the constant complaints of people spectating you after they die....
"that build sux man!! wtf are u thinkin????"

Or if you REALLLY wana troll take an non-Artemis LRM Catapult with one Flamer as a backup. People will HATE you

And there's always the "Assault mech on Heavy (or Medium!!)" loadout with only 2 points armor on everything. They assume you have XL engine but....armor? Naaaah

But....I can't mount 2 CSRM6s rearward....

WolvesX, on 08 February 2017 - 12:59 AM, said:

Greetings fellow Mechwarriors!

I just wanted to gather some views/opinions the tier system and "playing for fun".

I feel that the tier system rates me way too high for example. Sometimes I play good meta builds/mechs and that shows in the stats, but often I play "selftrolling" mechs like Mr. Streakcat or 8 LB2X Dire Wolf.

I also love my Wang or crap Awesome builds just because I like Awesomes. Its just for "fun" so to say, a kind of "selftrolling". The tier system begins makes me think about this in a strange way.

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IF I play a challange/troll mech, I potentially hurt my team. Most people like to win, so IF I decide to challange myself with a crap build, I might anger other players with it. Am I way overthinking this?

Thank you for your input!

EDIT: See it that way: If this was a MOBA like say LOL and my team would need a specific character to win and I have more fun playing an other character nad pick it, the outrage is great... but this is an arcade arena shooter.

Depending on the latest patch and how the HSR is operating at any given time, not all "troll" builds are all that "troll." For a while there, the HSR was loving PPCs. Put a CERPPC on just about anything and it was normally a halfway decent build. Nowadays, it seems like ballistics are getting the love.

[FuhNuGi]

RestosIII, on 08 February 2017 - 09:58 AM, said:

The fact that you made this thread right when I'm making evil plans of "Stick AC/2's on everything that can have AC/2's" is worrying to me. Are you spying on me?

Please accept my minor expression of disappointment due to the lack of accompanying and possibly humorous animation .gif

/end hijack

[RestosIII]

FuhNuGi, on 08 February 2017 - 10:15 AM, said:

Please accept my minor expression of disappointment due to the lack of accompanying and possibly humorous animation .gif

/end hijack

[FalconerGray]

Snazzy Dragon, on 08 February 2017 - 06:52 AM, said:

I don't think a dire wolf with one machine gun (and absolutely nothing else) counts.

Does anyone have that screenshot of the Dire Wolf with one of everything? GOAT build.

[Requiemking]

To the OP, I happily play whatever I want, but I keep the troll mechs in the potato farms. Nobody cares what you have there. Just this morning I saw a stock Atlas K.

[Grayseven]

In my mind, there are two ways to a meta build. Way 1, some brainiac with a spreadsheet and a lot of time crunches the numbers and plops out a "best build" based on math and stuff. Way 2, some schmoe starts playing around in Mechlab and throws various combinations into a mech looking for that just right build.

I'm a schmoe. I try things out and sometimes stumble across a good build that I really enjoy based on my style and abilities. Earlier this evening, I was playing around with a Viper and various omnipods and put 4 small pulses and 6 er smalls into it, took it out to the Desert and after firing off various combinations watched my mech overheat and when I powered it back up watched as parts of my mech blew off (left torso, right torso, center torso, in that order) over about a 7 or 8 second span with my heat not dropping below 100% before it blew.

Learned a lesson: Just because you can doesn't mean you should. I'll forget it later. But it was fun.

I also "discovered" the C-UAC10, 3 ERML build on my own for my Adder. Another fun one, if I'd learn to stick with the big boys and not go running off willy nilly.

I'm not really certain what is or isn't meta at any given time. Don't care. Do my best to be a contributing team member and try to ensure my builds do the same. As long as I have fun and don't ruin anyone else's (on my team, to heck with the red guys) I'm good.

[a gaijin]

Willard Phule, on 08 February 2017 - 10:02 AM, said:

But....I can't mount 2 CSRM6s rearward....

I couldn't find a man-walker mech with a low enough CT energy hardpoint to stick a single flamer in