Spr1ggan, on 28 June 2017 - 10:42 AM, said:
The Cheetah isn't actually that great a light anymore since the CSPL nerf. Take 2 high skilled players and put one in a Cheetah and the other in an FS9/WLF and have them duel. The IS mech should win every time or maybe 9 times outta 10.
I duel achs all the time using locusts,jenners or whatever light I'm usually in. Assuming both mechs have the exact same weapon and skill tree points and started the duel with full armor no damage then you could try and determine who is the better skill. You'd have to have them battle a set and not just one duel to make sure there wasn't some thing like a lag spike or wall or rock hit box impacting movement.
The is light is at a disadvantage from the start assuming it is running the is xl engine. The moment the ach gets the side torso open it's almost a guaranteed win for the ach. If that is light is a rare light running an std engine it loses it's speed to keep up and track the ach. It has to reverse and counter the movement of the ach.
Often it comes down a list of variables that I see in solo que that determines who wins that light duel. In cw or group play I'm sure there are more. Let's say its a skirmish match and very early on in the match in polar highlands. Our two lights are out and encounter each other at a range of 1035m from the nearest team mate, which is the lrm range for a pretty buffed 3h lrm boat. Here's the variables that come into play assuming the following: Is light has std engine, both mechs have same weapon load out, and exact same skill tree nodes.
The variables to determine the winner:
1. Experience of the pilot at piloting the mech in basic light mech movement.
2. The pilot's knowledge of lights' strengthens and weakness in general.
3. Heat management. If one alphas vs one who uses group/chain fire the one alpha-ing risks overheat and shut down.
4. Knowledge of a light's hit boxes.
5. Knowledge of light mech fighting tactics.
6. Spread vs focus damage. If one light is just shooting randomly at the other it would lose to the one focusing on one or two section of the other.
The only way I could think of how to find out which pilot is better is to do a private lobby to avoid some random person from interfering. Both pilots would have to build as close as possible the same build on their respective mech and exact skill tree. I'd also want both pilots to have recording software and upload the unedited video to youtube for comparison. We'd also need some observers or spectators recording but not be active in the duel by using weapons,support items like tag,narc,bap,cap,uav,seismic sensor,providing locks etc.
Ideally the video from both pilots would start out by they showing them build the mech and showing no skill tree nodes active if they have any or a blank skill tree prior to the duels. the duels would have to be around a number like 6 or so inorder to prevent general net ping and connection issues from giving an (dis) advantage to either combatant. We all know connection to mwo can be bad.
How you'd you go about determining which mech is the better? Until the new is gear comes out the is lights that use xl still retain that built in weakness compared to clans which can survive the side toro loss.
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