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[Xavori]

By asap, I mean tonight. Like immediately. Like take down the servers as soon as you read this and give them back those 5 tons.

It's hard enough getting enough damage for a 250 match score in scouting. Asking us to do it while shooting at the glass cannon Huntsmans and Hunchback IIC's is a bit much.

[ScrapIron Prime]

How does the stormcrow make things magically better for the clanners? The Huntsman has exactly the same available tonnage and can mount pretty much the same hardpoints (plus or minus their body locations).

[FireStoat]

Equip your Huntsman with ATM's and a few lasers (medium or small) and drop in a group with 1 or 2 fellow pilots with the same build. As you close the distance on an enemy IS, call the target and unleash at range 300 as you charge in. Yes, ATM's are garbage up close. But yes, starting a fight with an enemy dead for free is OP as hell.

Do not try this with a solo drop. You need a buddy and yourself to launch about 45+ ATMs at the target to assure a kill or a smoking ruin of a crippled enemy mech on the first try.

[Racerxintegra2k]

I think OP, is saying he wants more armor to farm on clan mechs.

[suffocater]

I agree, the Stormcrow has to come back!

[ScrapIron Prime]

Racerxintegra2k, on 22 December 2017 - 12:40 PM, said:

I think OP, is saying he wants more armor to farm on clan mechs.

Oh. Yeah, huh.

[Damnedtroll]

I would put a different option all together... you can do scouting with mech going over 120 kph only, it would be funny !

[Xavori]

ScrapIron Prime, on 22 December 2017 - 12:36 PM, said:

How does the stormcrow make things magically better for the clanners? The Huntsman has exactly the same available tonnage and can mount pretty much the same hardpoints (plus or minus their body locations).

I think you misunderstand.

I'm not trying to make things better for Clanners. I'm trying to make things better for me...in IS...which you can see
<------------ over there.

[ScrapIron Prime]

Xavori, on 22 December 2017 - 12:57 PM, said:

I think you misunderstand.

I'm not trying to make things better for Clanners. I'm trying to make things better for me...in IS...which you can see
<------------ over there.

Yeah, i figured that out with a bit of an assist a few replies ago.

Maybe try aiming for arms and side torsos instead of legs. If you strip part of the armament off them, you can spend more time picking the last two mechs apart for points. it's like torturing ants...

[Levi Porphyrogenitus]

Here's a better alternative: allow Scouting scores to count for the event at 150+ like QP rather than trying to match the 250 requirement for regular FP matches.

[Jay Leon Hart]

Damnedtroll, on 22 December 2017 - 12:51 PM, said:

I would put a different option all together... you can do scouting with mech going over 120 kph only, it would be funny !

So Clans would only get to use the ACH, JR7-IIC, ACW (BM), VPR or IFR?

IS would certainly dominate Scouting

[Jackal Noble]

ScrapIron Prime, on 22 December 2017 - 12:36 PM, said:

How does the stormcrow make things magically better for the clanners? The Huntsman has exactly the same available tonnage and can mount pretty much the same hardpoints (plus or minus their body locations).

Except the stormcrow goes like 20% faster
Huntsman is one of the easiest mechs in the game to leg, wayy more than the crow. Hunchback can do some work but can't really take very much punishment.
Not really my cups, but neither is scouting. Sure you can win in a Clan mech if you drop organized, and you go against pugs. Even then, you're bound to have issues with dealing some of the infamous IS scouting mechs that are crazy durable. You drop against another coordinated group coming with bushies and assassins? Nope. Your best bet is to have an ace in the hole light to jump in the ring. That or Nova SPL spam and try to leg before IS srm magic missiles shred you. Further testament to how off kilter FW is. Funny enough, you can even have the odd string of wins in scouting Clan, but it matters not as everyone else is getting their *** handed to them by pugs and units alike. Clams OP.

Edited by JackalBeast, 22 December 2017 - 02:44 PM.

[James Nostra]

Worry not. The Black Lanner is on the way

[Asym]

SCR is a lot more durable. A streak SCR is pretty good. So far, I haven't seen a 250 match yet and I can't use the BSW because I'm clan..... What a bunch of crap this event is for FP..... It's 5 days in CW just to get the 100 stuffers because each match runs over 35 minutes and an average players won't see 250 every match (especially attack which just seems to be more prevelant with PUG teams...........no, there is no "data' to support that but out of the last 10 FP matches, 6 were attack (all huge stomp losses), 2 were defend (and we lost (stomp) both to a comp team) and 2 were (domination and conquest...lost both to a 1/2 and 1/2 comp teams).....SO, what's the point PGI???? What is the gosh farn point to this? Holiday cheer??? Getting stomped every match???

SCR's won't be back in my lifetime and this game isn't going to change until Solaris drops and subsequently fails.... then, we may see PGI listening a bit more......

[The Lighthouse]

James Amirault, on 22 December 2017 - 03:08 PM, said:

Worry not. The Black Lanner is on the way

Hmmmmm...........

[humpday alt]

If you were smart, you'd just drop in Ice ferrets and stay at range.
I dunno...tactics? Don't fight an enemy at his own game? You know...use your brain?

Just a thought.

[Nightbird]

Nope, 50 tons is plenty

[Bombast]

I see a lot of people still haven't read paragraph two... I guess if I'm honest, it took me a second to catch on too.

humpday alt, on 22 December 2017 - 05:48 PM, said:

If you were smart, you'd just drop in Ice ferrets and stay at range.

Please tell me you're not one of the jerks grouping up in Ice Ferrets and intentionally dragging matches out to 15 minutes...

[Simbacca]

Or make scouting, actually scouting and reduce the tonnage cap for InnerSphere and Clan to nothing larger than 40 ton mechs.

[Jingseng]

finally.

A clan nerf is actually a stealth IS nerf.

tears: begin.