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[Troa Barton]

This is a post with the intention of helping people who have not got their 15 250 match scores yet.
To clarify I already got mine but this post is for the people who haven't.

Getting 250 MS as a clanner in scouting was difficult as most of my builds are built to kill rather than pad scores. Tried a few mechs and builds that I otherwise wouldn't trying to get that MS up. It's less about getting kills and more doing raw damage, destroying components, scouting, and flanking bonuses.

In the end the mech / build that was most effective for me was this:
http://mwo.smurfy-ne...c80e2bdbf5ba9e4
Double coolshot, a lot of survival skills, laser duration / cooldown / heat gen, and full cool run.
This build is more than capable of coring someone out in a hurry often times I would kill opponents too quickly to get the 250 match score.

I would leg bushwackers, crabs, assasins, kintaros, lights and CT every other mech that wouldn't torso twist. XL check everything, if they are open on a side torso you may as well get some components, cripple, or outright kill them.

if a component was open I would keep my MGs on it for component destruction to pad my match score.
If someone with a flamer build got ahold of me I would just fire the MGs until they were open. Just wait out a flamer build they will overheat themselves, pop a cool shot when they do and nuke them.

The last mech alive would get picked apart again to get component destructions.

I would play somewhat aggressive early on getting early damage with my range. Tank a bit of the early damage as they would advance and rotate to the back when they finally closed.
It works on all of the maps but positioning is important using height and range whenever possible.

Just remember to get the advantage first before slowing down to pick them apart.

Please share your tips / builds for clan or IS respectively and how you got your 250 MS for the people who are still working through it.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone, cheers.

[ForceUser]

Step 1: Laser Vomit
Step 2: Profit

[davoodoo]

1. hope my team doesnt camp
2. play the game to the best of my ability

[Spheroid]

Play invasion and don't be a potato.

[Helsbane]

Shoot robots and don't die needlessly. Think paintball, not armored combat machines. Live longer, kill more, know your group vs the number of puglets you're with and be realistic about their capabilities. Expect that there are three more enemies around the corner than the one you see. Understand that cover is the best armor and keep it nearby whenever possible. Never shoot from the same place twice if you can help it. Be faster than the idjit that brought lurms on attack mode, and let the deathball eat him as you escape. Learn to time the drop on arty and drop them around corners as you evade, allowing anyone after you to find it the hard way. Direct fire > indirect fire every damn time.

[Asym]

It took 68 scouting matches to get 15 250 matches... Huntsman streak boat, 1 ERmL with AMS... 23 games at 240-249.

Only to get a free mech I already have. Scouting is a huge mess and the weight difference is at best stupid and at worst, unethical.... A meta BSW with 5 tons more armor is a Pocket-Assault. I know for a fact at least one pug player has left MWO this event and is taking a few months off... I am worn out and tired of losing.......

Good luck at 250 and whatever you do, don't listen to those who are saying "ah just drop Invasion" and you'll easily get the 250... Total BS so they can farm you for points..... Stick to scouting because you'll lose 3 or 4 to ever 250 match you have. PUGs and Potatoes, 60+ games....... AND, if someone says "you can join my team" - DON'T - because the other three players will use you as fodder and they'll get 250+ and you'll be d-e-a-d.... Play by yourself.....

[R Valentine]

Didn't bother. PGI's lame events will lure me into faction play no longer.

[Remover of Obstacles]

http://mwo.smurfy-ne...50385a7351953ad

After trying a few things, I went the streak route and it is consistently getting enough damage to get the match score.

Add in an UAV and two strikes.

I could add AMS I suppose.

[Zh0u]

As a new player, these tips will be useful for me as I attempt to farm over the weekend. Hope I can make it in time.

[Nema Nabojiv]

Asym, on 23 November 2017 - 04:58 PM, said:

It took 68 scouting matches to get 15 250 matches... Huntsman streak boat, 1 ERmL with AMS... 23 games at 240-249.

Good luck at 250 and whatever you do, don't listen to those who are saying "ah just drop Invasion" and you'll easily get the 250... Total BS so they can farm you for points..... Stick to scouting because you'll lose 3 or 4 to ever 250 match you have.

So it took you 68 matches and you still didnt get that 250 mathcscore was meant to be farmed in invasions? You pretty much guaranteed more than 250 if you do about 1800 dmg which isnt all that hard.

[Kwea]

6 srm 4s on a Bushwacker P1. Pointed 3 times out of 4 in scouting.

[Bohxim]

If you're on IS, a potential way is running an ams mech in scouting. The sheer amount of streaks and atm in scouting looks like it would guarantee you the match score without even firing. But it's just speculation on my part

[Mechrophilia]

Took me about 30 games. The legging technique wins games but kills the enemy too fast to generate a high match score. Streaks kill components, inflate DPS, and prolong fights...all of which help match scores. That's the rout I went.

[Curccu]

Spheroid, on 23 November 2017 - 04:47 PM, said:

Play invasion and don't be a potato.

Why first half of the sentence? Isn't "don't be a potato." enough?

[Davegt27]

Thanks OP its pretty cool that someone wants to help out others

[arcana75]

If you play Scout to aim for that 250MS, mathematically speaking there's only about 1000 MS to spread across 4 players, and that's if most of the team is doing SRMs to spread damage. And due to that, odds wise most of the time only 2 player MAX will get that 250MS, the other 2 will get less. Or worse 1 player will hit 350MS, then a 2nd player will just go under 250, and the other 2 about 100+. Therefore for you to get 250MS in Scouting, it's basically a given that there will be 2-3 losers in the team, even if your team won. Also if you want 250MS, you're going to need at least 400-450 damage, and then some. I once posted a 49x damage match and still got a few points shy of 250, like 248 or something can't recall.

Odds wise, it does seem like it's easier to get 250MS in Invasion, however you're still going to need to do some good, but there will be more "winners" of the 250MS. BTW I don't know for sure how exactly MS is counted in Invasion but it's definitely different from QP. In QP if you post 800 damage you can hit 450MS, but do that in Invasion and you barely hit 150MS. Don't quote me but it could be total MS divided by the number of mechs fielded, so you pretty much need to do at least 500 damage per mech fielded to get 250MS.

I checked a video I recorded a few days ago, I posted these results for a Siege Attack as Clan: 4 Killing Blows, 33 Kill Assists, 3 Solo Kills, 4 KMDD, 1 Suicide (believe you take a MS hit here), 1578 damage. Match Score? 258. Only just made it. So even in Invasion, it won't be a sure thing to get 250MS. You can get Scout done in 5-7 mins, win and still "lose". In Invasion you could do it in 15-22 minutes and still ggclose "lose". So think very carefully how you want to use your limited time when chasing after 12 250MS games.

I'm still wondering how MS in Invasion is calculated, so anyone who knows pls share the knowledge.

Edited by arcana75, 24 November 2017 - 01:15 AM.

[Trissila]

Don't need to get 250. Just 9 matches of 150, one victory in scouting, and then walking away from the absolute dumpster fire that is FP. A Night Gyr/Atlas is not worth enduring that much stupidity.

[Appogee]

arcana75, on 24 November 2017 - 01:12 AM, said:

I checked a video I recorded a few days ago, I posted these results for a Siege Attack as Clan: 4 Killing Blows, 33 Kill Assists, 3 Solo Kills, 4 KMDD, 1 Suicide (believe you take a MS hit here), 1578 damage. Match Score? 258. Only just made it.

Team Damage hugely reduces your Match Score now. (This was stealthed in by PGI in the same patch where they nerfed Strike damage.)

PSA: FP is great fun when you're part of a team. Even a team of six is usually enough to put up a good fight and/or carry. You don't have to be in a unit to be in a team.

Edited by Appogee, 24 November 2017 - 01:23 AM.

[LordNothing]

alt-f4

[Tarogato]

I didn't bother. Couldn't get 250 match score in scouting, and playing invasion matches is torture, so I'm not doing it.