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[Star Hustler]

This one is for all my commando lovers like myself. I recently started playing my com-2d a lot and I decided "eh what the hell lets see how bad my stats are." So I went to my mech stats and right now I'm at a 1.5 K\D ratio. I thought to myself "am I on drugs or is this for real?!" so I refreshed the page and to my absolute astonishment it was still 1.5. I was almost positive my stats would be awful! So I couldn't help but beg the question "did the commando receive some sort of buff or upgrade that I am unaware of?" I ask this because I am no miracle player. I consider myself just a tad bit better than your average joe schmoe. If someone could please enlighten me on this I would be most grateful.






*** to those helping me with the guide I haven't forgotten I'm just taking a little break and trying to summarize all the information ***

[ocular tb]

I haven't played them in a while, but seeing them and fighting them in game I'd say they are certainly in a better place now than they have been in a while.

[BrunoSSace]

They are tough light things now. With the armor quirks, ammo quirks and missle spread quirks it has really help these little guys out. Its good, I like variety of mechs. Makes me want to pick one up, maybe.

[WrathOfDeadguy]

I can't claim to be great with them, but COMs were my first light 'Mechs and they've always been good fun even when they were awful. Since they're one of the few lights that didn't get totally shafted by the rescale, it's only natural that they'd be better now than they used to be... and the nerfs to the LCT didn't hurt. Being the fastest 'Mech in the game and one of the tiniest isn't a bad place to be these days. TDK was my first hero and is still a back-burner favorite.

Still wish PGI hadn't given them vintage tape decks for arms, though. Dynamic geo did not do them any favors.

It also still makes no sense that the COM-2D is the slowest of the IS ECM lights, despite the COM being the fastest chassis. Raise the poor thing's cap to 225 and at least let it get a 9th engine sink.

[Pur]

99.99% of Commandos play like spaz twits, doing the ancient derp circle strat that only works against dingbats who can't aim while turning.

But there are some great pilots in the game obviously, so if they play a Commando they can give people trouble in more skillful ways than the above.

[Deathlike]

Only a few variants are worth talking about like the Commando-1D. It's a version of the old Splat-Huggin (in a way), but more tanky.

Otherwise, not so much, despite the Commando itself being fun but not really comp-viable as a whole (maybe the 1D).

[Star Hustler]

wanna hear something really ludicrous? I'm running a com-2d with one medium laser, 2 SRM4's and no ecm at 146kph. try and wrap your head around that lol

[The Mysterious Fox]

kinda tired of one of these things running around spamming airstrikes and the such.

[Star Hustler]

[DAYLEET]

They are good on the account of their small size and being able to shake off so much damage, like the locust.

[Yellonet]

Yes, they are quite good, but shooting off its arms is often very easy, and that is not good for the TDK

Edited by Yellonet, 16 July 2017 - 10:53 AM.

[LORD ORION]

Star Hustler, on 15 July 2017 - 03:36 PM, said:

This one is for all my commando lovers like myself. I recently started playing my com-2d a lot and I decided "eh what the hell lets see how bad my stats are." So I went to my mech stats and right now I'm at a 1.5 K\D ratio. I thought to myself "am I on drugs or is this for real?!" so I refreshed the page and to my absolute astonishment it was still 1.5. I was almost positive my stats would be awful! So I couldn't help but beg the question "did the commando receive some sort of buff or upgrade that I am unaware of?" I ask this because I am no miracle player. I consider myself just a tad bit better than your average joe schmoe. If someone could please enlighten me on this I would be most grateful.






*** to those helping me with the guide I haven't forgotten I'm just taking a little break and trying to summarize all the information ***

Hitreg goes to crap, bad lights look good.

[Star Hustler]

LORD ORION, on 16 July 2017 - 10:56 AM, said:

Hitreg goes to crap, bad lights look good.

woooorrrdddddd

[stealthraccoon]

Snubnose PPC, Rocket Launchers and Stealth Armor... 'nuff said!

Edited by stealthraccoon, 16 July 2017 - 12:13 PM.

[Escef]

The Commando was never outright bad or anything. Skilltree did nice things for it, though. Extra toughness and ammo on a fragile, tonnage starved frame is never a bad thing.

[Mar-X-maN]

IDK about that but I am currently trying to win enough MC to buy the hero Commando because
MW2: Mercs intro.

Edited by Mar X maN, 16 July 2017 - 01:41 PM.

[Curccu]

commando is very good at brawling atm 2D with 3xSRM4 is lethal and hard to kill...

[The Lost Boy]

I like the 1D with 2 srm 4s, and 2 small laser. Getting 43 points of armor on each leg is nice too. 3 tons of srm ammo is nice too with the extra missile ammo nodes. With the small laser getting cooler and a little more damage on tuesday it will be even better.

[Magnus Santini]

I like the 1B, with medium pulse lasers. You can be in the next town before the enemies decide who is going to look behind those buildings.

[Star Hustler]

boi I just finished climbing tier 2 with my com 2d feels frackin great man