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[LordNothing]

TWIAFU, on 04 January 2018 - 05:33 AM, said:

It's why you don't solo in Group Queues. You take a Lance of OP Ubanmechs, utilizing the OPness of your voice to talk, coordinating the OPness of teamwork, to decimated every Scout group in front of you gleefully pointing out they lost to Urbanmechs. What are you going to do - we converted our Dropship to run on salt. Same thing as before. Those precious 'new players', 'casual', and 'just want to play for fun' players you all are so worried about would go right back to complaining about you boating Streaks, again, for Scouting. You would be right back to clubbing poor seals and that is something you are very much against, right? Now, if you want to beat IS; Talk to your team! Not rocket science, but damn, people cannot grasp this. Group up!

im only saying that invasion was easier and faster than scouting for collecting the 250 score bags. i dont know why you need to bring up this teamwork thing. i certainly did not need to group up to do 300 bags. those that did probably lack the skill to pug in fp effectively. thats like the hardest thing to do in the game and thats why i do it.

[sub2000]

LordNothing, on 04 January 2018 - 08:11 PM, said:

im only saying that invasion was easier and faster than scouting for collecting the 250 score bags. i dont know why you need to bring up this teamwork thing. i certainly did not need to group up to do 300 bags. those that did probably lack the skill to pug in fp effectively. thats like the hardest thing to do in the game and thats why i do it.

lol. you "pugged" IS, and since full pug teams were getting ghost drops if ever formed you were dropping with a group 100%. In vast majority of drops against pug teams with max a lance of "premaids". As I already wrote, more than 75% of active FW players with good positive W2L ratio were stacked in IS. More of it, those who were clan switched to IS or started to do scouting exclusively. Indeed scouting for clan was easy.

Edited by sub2000, 05 January 2018 - 02:46 AM.

[LordNothing]

sub2000, on 05 January 2018 - 02:43 AM, said:

lol. you "pugged" IS, and since full pug teams were getting ghost drops if ever formed you were dropping with a group 100%. In vast majority of drops against pug teams with max a lance of "premaids". As I already wrote, more than 75% of active FW players with good positive W2L ratio were stacked in IS. More of it, those who were clan switched to IS or started to do scouting exclusively. Indeed scouting for clan was easy.

i pugged both sides, is was more fun, and arguably more lucrative, though i only went clan for maybe the last 10 of the 250 score bags. scouting in both here and there but those games were hell.

Edited by LordNothing, 05 January 2018 - 05:11 AM.

[topgun505]

Samial, on 03 January 2018 - 11:12 PM, said:

Yeah i guess we wouldn't want to use our brains or anything...

BSW with LBX 10 MRMs and a few medium lasers...


I dunno those huntsmen are pretty damn op...

Given pilots of equal skill, IS should win scouting matches every time. Hands down. Between BSW and ASN mechs, there is nothing in the clan arsenal under 55 tons that can keep up with those mechs in a close in brawl. The Huntsman and Hunchbacks are the closest in matchup but they still pale by comparison.

[xe N on]

At first, 50 to 55 ton mediums mechs are much slower than 35 ton light, but only slightly more mobile and agile than heavies. Most mediums mechs have bad hardpoints. They lack the firepower of heavy or assault mechs and have less armor, but are nearly as easy to hit as heavies.

Therefore, medium mechs nor have a real purpose in quick play, neither in FP invasion. Simply look at the stats ins this thread

https://mwomercs.com...en-waiting-for/

Most top performers don't use mediums mechs. For good reasons.

Scouting is the only game mode in which medium mechs can shine. So, rename it into reconnaissance instead of scouting and let it as it is.

Edited by xe N on, 05 January 2018 - 06:19 AM.

[Nameless King]

Scouting is fun

[PocketYoda]

Kaeb Odellas, on 03 January 2018 - 11:35 PM, said:

There's nothing particularly "brainy" about standing next to a glowy thing for 5 seconds.

And brawls aren't exactly mindless affairs either. There's a skill in picking good lines for approach, identifying the most dangerous target to focus down, breaking LOS to disrupt enemy attempts at focus fire, etc.

Thats actually terrible game mechanics not a customer issue.. Now if we had to scout a convoy or a mech base etc and destroy their mechs body guards or something... anything would have been better than a glowing cloths line to touch..

Dakota1000, on 04 January 2018 - 04:06 PM, said:

Ah, the mech you have is decent but its build is suicidal. Huntsmen have a bit more firepower over the Bushwackers usually if they bring 6 ASRM6, but they'll just lose out because of lower sustainability and lacking armor.

Which variant of the Bushwacker do you have? Here's the best you can get for scouting.
http://mwo.smurfy-ne...dca9f2ecd5372e6

You could also run it balanced out, just make sure you don't put any ammo in your legs.

I purchased the $20 three pack so those three.

• - BSW-X1
  
• - BSW-X2
  
• - BSW-S2

Edited by Samial, 05 January 2018 - 07:13 AM.

[C E Dwyer]

Scouting is fun i'm logging in to play it.