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[MadHornet]

Any 'mechs you guys have trouble do anything in although you are a good pilot with them? It might be purely superstition, but some 'mechs I pilot just do not get any satisfying matches at all despite the effort, and then switch to another 'mech only for it to be happy dandy land with consistent 600's?

[ocular tb]

Kit Fox comes to mind. Don't have the Purifier so can't comment on that one. I've had a lot better luck with the Adders recently than I've ever had since 2014 but prior to the new tech I would have put the Adder and Kit Fox in the same category of mechs that just don't click with me. Maybe some day the Kit Fox and I will come to terms and I'll learn how to use it more effectively.

[King Kahuna]

Uziel... Most of my collection can net great games. The Uziel (fan from other games) is the biggest pile of steaming mech poop that I have seen so far. Cant make it perform for anything.

[InfinityBall]

None that I'm good at (I suck at lights), but a 33% win percentage on my Arctic Cheetah no matter how bad I am is ridiculous

[El Bandito]

None. We will see if Roughneck is the one.

[Hobbles v]

ocular tb, on 07 August 2017 - 06:11 PM, said:

Kit Fox comes to mind. Don't have the Purifier so can't comment on that one. I've had a lot better luck with the Adders recently than I've ever had since 2014 but prior to the new tech I would have put the Adder and Kit Fox in the same category of mechs that just don't click with me. Maybe some day the Kit Fox and I will come to terms and I'll learn how to use it more effectively.

The purifier is the best Clan light in the game imho. ECM and 5 ML, one of the JJ legs

[ocular tb]

Hobbles v, on 07 August 2017 - 07:43 PM, said:

The purifier is the best Clan light in the game imho. ECM and 5 ML, one of the JJ legs

I do tend to see a lot of them and hear good things about them so I believe it. Someday I'll pick it up and see what happens.

[Y E O N N E]

Battlemaster. Games just don't work out in that 'Mech for me, I end up getting too focused.

Recently, I've shelved Marauders for much the same reason. It's like if I want to do well, I should only play Locusts and Blackjacks.

[Fox With A Shotgun]

Hobbles v, on 07 August 2017 - 07:43 PM, said:

The purifier is the best Clan light in the game imho. ECM and 5 ML, one of the JJ legs

KFX JJs are really, really overrated. You lose so much leg structure, your already squishy legs become even squishier. You might as well go all the way if you're going to brawl with the purifier. 8 MiPL and fill it with as many heatsinks as it will fill, plus a TComp. Murder everything that comes close.

As for my cursed mech? Adders. I can make a Kit Fox work; I can't make an Adder work. I just...I don't know. I think I detest its cockpit too much.

Edited by Fox With A Shotgun, 07 August 2017 - 07:54 PM.

[stealthraccoon]

My COM-TDK is just not on the same wavelength as me... I can rock my LCT-3M with 4 ML and dual AMS; put 4 ML on the TDK and I shed my arms faster than a yellow-bellied crawdad. Even my JVN-10F with the same turns in good performance - I may just need to paint it Liao colors, that's what got my CTF-3L to work right!

Edited by stealthraccoon, 07 August 2017 - 08:27 PM.

[Kiiyor]

MadHornet, on 07 August 2017 - 05:45 PM, said:

Any 'mechs you guys have trouble do anything in although you are a good pilot with them? It might be purely superstition, but some 'mechs I pilot just do not get any satisfying matches at all despite the effort, and then switch to another 'mech only for it to be happy dandy land with consistent 600's?

When the MadCat was at it's peak, I sucked in it.

I had an average of 600 damage per match in my Awesome over thousands of games, but couldn't for the live of me eke any performance out of the MadCat, even thought it was a dream to pilot, and had everything going for it.

Now I have the MCMKII and i'm making up for lost time

[Lucifaust]

Mist lynx :/


edit believe it or not i've had a lot of success with adders esp as a hit-and-run type player

Edited by Lucifaust, 07 August 2017 - 08:49 PM.

[JediPanther]

Atlas and every other over 65 ton mech. Even troll builds don't get me a 300 plus damage or a few kills. It's just one big slow moving target yet the enemy ones seem to dance around me while alpha-ing out the rt and then ct before dancing away. Unless I shove a lrm 20 on it for *some* damage before trying to close distance.

Put me in a light and I'll have matches were I get 3-4kills and out damage all of charlie lance in the really good games. The bad ones i just die faster.

What is worse is that I've piloted the locust so much that even other fast lights doing 120-140 seem slow. 97kph and under I turn on the frame counter to make sure that mwo is working. Ironically even with all the fancy new tech and clans I still prefer my IS and when I decide to play some thing other than light I jump into a Catapult more often than not. founder C1 with nearly 810,000 historical xp on it including whatever it had to get the first 91 points. My cat still rocks almost stock load out with the bap,dhs,artemis upgrades. St I just went for as much range and velocity on the lrm.

Edit: Spider 5v and locust 1vp. ct only laser hard points just suck *** no matter what you shove in it and throw 55-60 points into fire power. The only reason I bought the hero panther was for those nice laser hard points spread out instead of its gorilla all weapon arm the other have. KK is rather good except for when you forget it is speed cap engine of 290 or 97kph. speed tweaked one of them just to see how fast it can go...124kph. You can't out run a line backer or enemy light with that slow speed.

Edited by JediPanther, 07 August 2017 - 08:56 PM.

[4rcs1ne]

For me it would have to be the Kodiak. I find that I either do >1000 damage and carry the team to victory or sub 200 damage with little contribution.

I just can't get consistent results out of this mech.

[Lucifaust]

JediPanther, on 07 August 2017 - 08:51 PM, said:

KK is rather good except for when you forget it is speed cap engine of 290 or 97kph. speed tweaked one of them just to see how fast it can go...124kph. You can't out run a line backer or enemy light with that slow speed.

Technically you could outrun a linebacker(115 kph?)

Matt2496, on 07 August 2017 - 09:28 PM, said:

For me it would have to be the Kodiak. I find that I either do >1000 damage and carry the team to victory or sub 200 damage with little contribution.

I just can't get consistent results out of this mech.

I agree. I thought kdk's were amazing until I piloted one. They have potential, but often they're just big, shiny damage magnets. Lol

Edited by Lucifaust, 07 August 2017 - 09:49 PM.

[Fox With A Shotgun]

Lucifaust, on 07 August 2017 - 09:49 PM, said:

Technically you could outrun a linebacker(115 kph?)

Not enough of a speed difference to outrun it when you're evading. Remember that you're dodging and weaving in an S-shape, while he's moving in a straight line.

[WrathOfDeadguy]

My Oxide is definitely cursed. Even when it was one of the best lights in the game, I couldn't make it work for me. Its W/L ratio is hovering around 0.2.

My Anansi, in contrast, is sitting at a W/L of 1.8, and my AC20-trolling RVN-4X is at 2.13 (it's the only config I've ever run on it- honest!). There are 'Mechs in my stable that should be terrible but which I can't seem to even force a bad game in, but try as I might I can't pull my poor Oxide out of the septic tank.

I've got a couple other 'Mechs that are hard luck cases too- my Yen-Lo-Wang, my Roc, my GHR-5J... but all of them are either at the lower end of their class rankings, or are 'Mechs that I'm just bad in, so at least their bad stats make sense. None of them are as vexing as the Oxide. I should be good in that 'Mech. I do well with other punchy hit-and-run striker lights, even ones that are slower or larger or both. I never did anything unconventional with it- the config I was using should have worked, and the tactics I was using should have worked. Except... they didn't. At all. I haven't had a single good game in the thing- the handful of wins it has to its name were entirely down to the rest of the team.

I've slapped MRMs on it now just so I can hang back a bit more and maybe for once not die before even doing its own armor rating in damage, but I'm not hopeful. I haven't tried that yet because I'm sort of afraid to even drop in it anymore.

[Vellron2005]

Lately, I can't do right in a Kitfox.. or a Hunchback IIC, or a Huntsman..

[o0m9]

Definitely the Pakhet.

Really, any clam SRM boat in general, but especially the Pakhet. I just get torn up in that thing.

[Luminis]

This is even stupider than assuming a 'Mech is cursed, but...

I recently applied AJ Light Orange to my Deathstrike. Didn't get one good game for the better part of two days (gotta admit, my idea of a "good game" might be asking for a bit much). I switched back to another colour and poof, matches became much, much better. I'm not superstitious and I know it's coincidence, but I had that happen with a few 'Mechs - different colour each and every time.

Kiiyor, on 07 August 2017 - 08:39 PM, said:

When the MadCat was at it's peak, I sucked in it.

Same.

I have the TBR-C(S) from the Steam Heavy Performance pack, and even when the Timber Wolf reigned supreme, I always failed to put up great performances in it. It's hard to believe it, but the damn thing sits at a 0.5 WLR, making it the worst 'Mech I own. Would've sold it for C-Bills if I could.