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[InfinityBall]

Obviously no N&S, but what "interesting" combinations have you seen recently?


Ot: I've got a build that's clearly heat bugged. Pretty sure it's heat displaying bugged instead of heat creation bugged. Where do I go to report that?

[Trenchbird]

OT: Is it a mech with new tech? New tech is... Crazy heat bugged. Same with Flamers. I think the heat system is very poor at detecting heat from burst-fire weapons properly.

On-topic, an Atlas I saw back in Tuk 3 that had two LRM-20s and two LRM-5s, plus two medium arm lasers as backup. I mean, it's not the most "Special" build I've seen, but I had such a feeling of animosity towards the loathsome thing. I wanted to put the poor mech down. Only a truly depraved soul could defile such a beautiful brawler mech in such a way.

[InfinityBall]

Catten Hart, on 14 August 2017 - 08:35 PM, said:

OT: Is it a mech with new tech? New tech is... Crazy heat bugged.

Yeah, It's got a bunch of heavy lasers. Fire them once, go to 25% heat. Fire them twice, go to shutdown.

[Bombast]

I saw a Night Gyr that had about 2000 rounds of LRM ammo 7 minutes into a match. Presumably that means he had close to 3 or 4 thousand rounds overall.

That's just absurd.

[El Bandito]

Direwolf with HMGs. How do people come to the conclusion that slapping the shortest ranged MG on the slowest mech is gonna work?

[Trenchbird]

You'd think they'd stop grabbing the idiot ball and just slap twin Ultra 10s on one instead. That'd work better.

[Tincan Nightmare]

El Bandito, on 14 August 2017 - 08:44 PM, said:

Direwolf with HMGs. How do people come to the conclusion that slapping the shortest ranged MG on the slowest mech is gonna work?

That's ok, even worse was the troll King Crab build I spectated in a match that had 6 mg's as it's sole weapons! And this was before the CW tech drop, so just plain MG's. So much waste of firepower .

[InfinityBall]

Tincan Nightmare, on 14 August 2017 - 08:48 PM, said:

That's ok, even worse was the troll King Crab build I spectated in a match that had 6 mg's as it's sole weapons! And this was before the CW tech drop, so just plain MG's. So much waste of firepower .

I saw a KC recently with a bunch of MGs and some RLs. I do not believe he had a good match score

[Funk1777]

rac2 lbx5 and a lrm20 non-artemis Warhammer. I think it may have had a small laser or two on it. I couldnt spectate long.

Edited by Funk1777, 14 August 2017 - 09:26 PM.

[Alexander of Macedon]

Atlas with one LLas, one MLas, one AC/5, one SRM6. That was all.

[Fox With A Shotgun]

KGC with 6 HMGs and what looked like 40 tons of ammo.

Seriously. It had 30k rounds of HMG ammo left on it by the time I was spectating o.O Must have been something like this: KGC-000

Icing on the cake was, it died to an ammo explosion!
Also, the cheese was very strong in this one. Too bad it was on Polar Highlands.

ARC-5W

Edited by Fox With A Shotgun, 14 August 2017 - 10:44 PM.

[DAYLEET]

All night yesterday i was boating MRM on different Mauler. Crap weapon on a crap chassis.

[Jackal Noble]

InfinityBall, on 14 August 2017 - 08:40 PM, said:

Yeah, It's got a bunch of heavy lasers. Fire them once, go to 25% heat. Fire them twice, go to shutdown.

Post your build so we can provide more insight.
Heavy larges have a ghost heat of 2, while heavy mediums have a ghost heat of 4 - and that triggers even with er mediums. The ghost heat penalty for exceeding the 4 heavy medium laser limit is quite harsh.

[razenWing]

DAYLEET, on 14 August 2017 - 10:41 PM, said:

All night yesterday i was boating MRM on different Mauler. Crap weapon on a crap chassis.

what's wrong with the mauler? Besides, Baradul just released a MRM God Mauler video. Seems legit.

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See as much as I like to jump in and rip newbie builds... I realize... people have whatever right they have to run whatever. Bad builds is only bad builds if the person doesn't know what he's doing.

A person that likes long skirmish but brings brawl weapons... that's a bad build for him.

I mean, I've seen meta builds with terrible aims. For those people, lasers, gauss, ppc, are pretty terrible weapons. They might benefit more from mrms, lbx, and srms to hit a general area.

With all that said, I remember seeing a heavy mech with 1 missile launcher, 1 ballistic, 2 lasers, 1 ams with like 10 tons of ams ammo. (or a few assaults with like twin lrm 10 ish type small caliber launchers but bring like 30 tons of ammo)

those are generally pretty bad.

[Jackal Noble]

One of the worst builds I've seen is one of my own; Tried to make an Assassin Darkdeath work with stealth armor and a light Gauss rifle and failed miserably. Works better with an HPPC and even then, I usually end up cycling back to standard weaponry

[kapusta11]

Anything that involves LRMs?

[razenWing]

JackalBeast, on 14 August 2017 - 11:25 PM, said:

One of the worst builds I've seen is one of my own; Tried to make an Assassin Darkdeath work with stealth armor and a light Gauss rifle and failed miserably. Works better with an HPPC and even then, I usually end up cycling back to standard weaponry

like this?

http://mwo.smurfy-ne...65b27d58f1ed7b4

[Shifty McSwift]

It's still that atlas I saw that was using AC2, a machine gun, small lasers and srm2s, who was playing like a coward and got upset when I had the audacity to just laugh into the mic after I saw his build, that was seriously his choice of atlas weaponry and playstyle.

[DAYLEET]

razenWing, on 14 August 2017 - 11:23 PM, said:

what's wrong with the mauler?

Everything. It's the worse assault i played this year so far. Its hitbox each have their own zip code. It cant move for **** even when using the tree. You cant roll damage you can only stare and you are not given any meaning full armor/structure for all that obligatory staring.

razenWing, on 14 August 2017 - 11:23 PM, said:

Besides, Baradul just released a MRM God Mauler video. Seems legit.

Is killing a mech by stripping all its armor on all its component all at once a good thing now? Im sure you could make a lrm mauler look good too if thats your thing. i don't see the point. MRM are the worse weapon system right now in the game. They dont have a niche place. They dont do anything average enough. They suck on all points. They stream fire, making them terrible at damaging a component. They have an insane spread making them doubly terrible at damaging components. Anything under 60 tubes isnt going to do any good since you need to first strip a mech of all its armor first.

The game was so stale though that so far its fun to shot 80mrm, just highly inneficient vs srms. When you get all the clowns with mrm and lrm on your side you lose. Take a 10-q or a bushwacker with asrm4 or srm6 to remember what a good missile system looks like.

[BTGbullseye]

Saw one mech, can't remember which, but it had 2x LBX20's with a grand total of 1 ton of ammo on the mech, and nothing else... He fired all 7 shots, and got 2 hits. (3 misses were from outside maximum range, the other 2 misses were just fired into the side of a mountain before we even left the spawn area completely)