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[Shifty McSwift]

[Kmieciu]

Prosperity Park, on 25 July 2017 - 02:42 PM, said:

Nope, all FaceTime builds are trash and ineffective, like UAC/5 Jagers, pentAC/5 Maulers, ERLL Battlemasters, all RAC builds, and anything that requires you to fire 2 volleys before retreating. Hell, firing 2 volleys of ANYTHING requires more facetime than a HLL (except AC/2, which is already anytime weapon) therefore everything that has to be fired twice is trash.

UAC/5 jager is not primarily a face-time build. It spits out 30 damage faster and further than any 2xGauss mech out there. Faster than any laservomit. It's a hill-poker first and foremost.

Second thing: 10 DPS from a single RAC5 is actually not that much.
The old superquirked Dragon-1N pumped out 9 DPS from a single AC5. For a total of 4 tonnes less, higher range, higher projectile speed, no spin up time and no jam chance. And it ran so cool you would run out of ammo before hitting the heat cap.

And still it was considered a joke in comp.

Edited by Kmieciu, 27 July 2017 - 05:47 AM.

[Lily from animove]

Kmieciu, on 27 July 2017 - 05:40 AM, said:

UAC/5 jager is not primarily a face-time build. It spits out 30 damage faster and further than any 2xGauss mech out there. Faster than any laservomit. It's a hill-poker first and foremost.

Second thing: 10 DPS from a single RAC5 is actually not that much.
The old superquirked Dragon-1N pumped out 9 DPS from a single AC5. For a total of 4 tonnes less, higher range, higher projectile speed, no spin up time and no jam chance. And it ran so cool you would run out of ammo before hitting the heat cap.

And still it was considered a joke in comp.

beeing ont he receivign end of a jeager menaign there isn't muchto "face" most of the time it's a very thin line of mech over a hill and when your hardpoints are low you can't even shoot. Jeagers are the most annoying mechs when it comes to this ability. And the slim line can quickly dosappear again, and pevent any sight extremely quickly.

[Tordin]

If the RACS didnt have the crazy shake and linding effect, they would indeed be much worse facetank weapons. Its the weapon's advantage. Its a supressor, big-mech flanking, ripper weapon.
I like RACS but sure they need some fine tuning.

[Toothless]

I was finding gauss and PPCs have too much face time, so now I just arty strike from across the map then disconnect so as to avoid any return fire.

If your mech gets shot and youre not there to see it, then did it really happen?

Edited by ZacharyJ, 27 July 2017 - 06:19 AM.