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[The6thMessenger]

Have you ever met a pilot that just uses one mech, with one setup at most times? Like 90% of the times.

There's this one guy, usually salty and annoying, that just keeps playing LRM warhawk. Another is a jump-lrm trebuchet, there's this streak-cat, there's this exellent flank-striker commando that hunts potato lurmboats. Warglaives we know of to be a total ninja of an ACH.

I understand that we as players, have a choice. We have our own preferences, like me making the Urbie my virtual waifu. There are those who play to enjoy, others play to win. Some try to pad their stats, others try to experiment. But man sometimes i wish that they're just on another mech, cause sometimes one-trick ponies are kind of cringy, like that jump-snipe meta or the LRMs on lower tier, or the Laser Vomit Battlemaster on FW, or that hell-bringer.

Of course, on the interest of transparency, those guys worries me when on the enemy team. If War_glaviez is on the enemy team, I usually think we already lose.

Quote

"I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times." -- Bruce Lee

Maybe it's the frustration that i have to go and -- there i say deal with the master. I could nail War_glaviez with my streak-cat, so whenever I see him on the enemy i usually go after him. Cause lots of times he's already predictable. In fact, i could say that i'm usually scared of War_Glaivez when he's on the other side.

/rant

[ScrapIron Prime]

A single mech with a single loadout is very much Battletech lore. But to each their own. Enjoy their predictability.

And yeah, I could very much enjoy this game with just one or two mechs in a single configuration, but the beauty of it is... I don't have to.

[Paigan]

I played 90% WHK (but with lasers, I'm not the LRM guy ) before the MADIIC.
Then 90% MADIIC (MOAR LAZ0RZ!!!)
And back to 90% WHK since the skilltree.

I also play SHC, SCR and like a dozen other Mechs on occasion, but I always get back to the Clan 85 tonners because I find them the most fun to play with their mixture of lots of armor, weapons, heat sinks and still okay mobility.
90+ are just too fat.
The Gargoyle is somehow just a fat, fast and undergunned heavy.
And everything below that already lacks seriously in firepower and armor.

Oh, and "one trick ponies" can indeed do the trick every time, if you just have the right pony =)

Edited by Paigan, 12 June 2017 - 05:15 AM.

[Ced Riggs]

I practice 10,000 kicks.

[DGTLDaemon]

There was a time when I played a 3xLPL Hellbringer 90% of the time. It wasn't exactly a popular meta loadout, and it was a tricky build to play (you had to split your LPLs in groups of 2 and 1 to avoid ghost heat, and losing your LT meant losing all your weapons). But somehow I always did better with it than with any other mech or build, and my personal damage record in QP still belongs to that Hellbringer. Couldn't surpass it even in my Kodiaks in their glory days And then came the LPL range nerf, and a full-LPL loadout became inferior to the standard LPL+ERML laser vomit. So now I don't have a favorite mech anymore, although my loalty HBR-F with 2xLPL+3xERML+TCOMP1 comes pretty close to being my favorite. Still, I can relate to those players who pick just one mech and build and stick with it. And if I was given a choice, for instance, to play a new map and/or a new game mode every month using the same mech as opposed to playing the same maps and modes over and over again, but with different mechs, I'd happily go with the former

[Bud Crue]

In normal Group Queue QP I play (or should say played) mostly my Quickdraws, to a slight but notable lesser extent my Cataphracts, then everything else about equally. But for the need to have a variety of mechs to account for tonnage variation in Group Queue I'd have probably played them and nothing else (at least in QP). Now though, I am taking this opportunity of PGI's promise of the next few months of nonstop changes to balance, skills tree and underlying mechanics (all of which will be particularly impactful on IS mechs) to experience Clan mechs and am trying as wide a range of diverse mechs as I can afford, and confess that I am having a blast.

[Ced Riggs]

The mechs I enjoy the most change like seasons.

These days, I enjoy the Raven 4X with 2 LPL, the HBR-F laser vomit, and Huntsmen of any coleur. Dragon 1C, Javelins, all fun mechs. New tech will make Roughnecks bump up, and also help some other loadouts become a bit more fun because faster.

Life is actually decent these days.

[Asym]

Open ended universes are meant for this type of play: find something you like and use it.

Our team goal, before they left, was to create a player platform of specialists that could be called on in combinations for matches.....

I enjoy the LRM part of the game so I have 1 LRM mech in each class. The only exception is the Night Gyr's I purchased before the skill tree because they were a really efficient platform... Each of the 5 are outfitted for unique roles: sniping, brawling, LEM, anti-light and interdiction....

Out tactics for a match dictated what mechs and specialists we would bring depending on what we knew of the enemy......

[G4LV4TR0N]

You shouldn't care about such players because there are just few of them. Real majority are people running same boring "meta" builds all the time, no matter map or mode or anything. When I do CW and it's PUG vs PUG I expect something more than 10 Battlemasters fighting 9 Night Gyrs then on next wave swapping into 9 Grasshoppers vs 9 Ebon Jaguars. And yes, all same builds, completely.

Edited by G4LV4TR0N, 12 June 2017 - 06:12 AM.

[DeeHawk]

What part of it do you percieve as cringe? Just going full meta cheese because it's proven to work? And then getting good at it? Or is it the fact they the refuse to be versatile?

Off course those are pilots to be immensely feared in his own habitat, but remember there is no cookie cutter, all-round, good-for-every-situation-builds. As someone pointed out, you should be able to beat him with his own predictability.

When that is said, I am one of those guys. I have 1 million spare XP on my KGC-000. I like specializing, and the new skill tree even encourages it. It's also far from any kind of meta, but I found a play style to make it work really well, and I feel I add something different to the games with it.

[Burke IV]

I tend to stick with one mech with one build on it for long periods of time. Catapult to stalker to maddog and now huntsman. Very similar builds on all of them aswell. My first mech was a trebuchet.

Edited by Burke IV, 12 June 2017 - 07:26 AM.

[Mystere]

I've been called a terror in my Founder's Jenner and the Ice Fridge, of all things. The former has the most number of drops of them all.

So don't worry. Once I'm done fooling around with the skill tree, LRMs, joysticks, throttles, rudder pedals, and macros during this long event,




I offer no guarantees, though. Playing MWO using a full HOTAS/pedal setup is fun and a "different" challenge on it's own. So it might take a while.

Edited by Mystere, 12 June 2017 - 07:42 AM.

[Novakaine]

Hey, I like my jump lurmbuchet.

[Sha Shou]

Whenever I see War_glaivez, on the other team, I warn my team to watch their backs as he usually likes to erml asses off.

[Old dirty B]

As long as my Locust 1E startsup i dont need another mech, 100% dedicated to my one trick pony

[Captain Polux]

I'm a one kick 10k times kind of guy.

[Michael Abt]

With 6.5mio XP on my HBK prior to skill tree I am one of those one-mech pilots. It is a T4 mech and I've been called masochistic for sticking with it.

This is my mech. There are a lot of other mechs – better mechs – available, but none of them is like my HBK-4G(F). This is my Meta.

[Ryllen Kriel]

Some people just have their spirit-mechs. I certainly have mine. When piloting one, unless the recent lag issues spike, I know I can have at least a decent match.

[Aggravated Assault Mech]

I can't remember if Veigle said he has 4000 games in his Cicada or 40000.

[Paigan]

Aggravated Assault Mech, on 12 June 2017 - 10:19 AM, said:

I can't remember if Veigle said he has 4000 games in his Cicada or 40000.

40.000 would be 2-3 years of daily 8 hours of Cicada playing, without weekend or holidays.
Even 4.000 would already be a LOT.