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[Asym]

Brain Cancer, on 17 March 2018 - 11:03 PM, said:

Of course. Damage equals matchscore, so firing spread damage as inefficiently as possible will both pad damage and matchscore easily at the cost of, y'know, actually killing something quickly.

ATMs > both.

Hey BC !!!

What you said above is so true.......but, I wasn't hired to kill pilots outright.... I was recruited to simply keep their heads down while the real killers "did their thing"... Sorry, I may be a darn good long range shooter in real life (I just got back from the range in fact a moment ago) but, I was recruited because I like IDF and combat support roles. Like, in another game, I am a Morgami specialist and spend the entire match "catching others on fire" all of the time.... It's a hoot ! Causing confusion, interrupting decision cycles and just playing merry hobb with their best laid plans......which, always fail on contact, because we think, plan and inpplement missions that way.... Shame that crew won't come back......

So, I like the IDF role and whether I "kill" something is less important that did the team "achieve victory"..... I haven't played in a few weeks and all of the "LRM woe as me" forum posts had me a bit concerned that LRM's were nerf'd out of existance. Yes, PGI has over-done it again but, all of the lock-on missles at least still work to some degree of effectiveness.. I do have an ATM-24 mech and I'm still a little "yeah ATM's are OK" about it. I hate the narrow "effective range" window.....

If I can get 100 loot bags, anyone can. Thank you PGI for the MC. Not that I have any need of it, it's just nice to save up since I now I only play events with MC..... Faction play is coming up in a few days and that is in Scouting I hope because Invasion is something I will not PUG (being a potato and all) ever again and the teams I belonged to aren't playing MWO anymore (shucks...)

BC, et al., good luck with Solaris.

[Jay Leon Hart]

I would *love* an LRM event.

Just bust out the old ECM 3x AMS Kit Fox and laugh all weekend

[Asym]

It would be like that headshot event a few months ago ! Polar looked like the Bagdad airspace the first night of Desert Storm !!! There were PPC's and Guass rounds flying everywhere ! Can you imagine 8 LRM boat on each side..............whoa........that would be sooooo cooool....... A thousand LRM's in flight at once and 4 tri-AMS Kit Foxes melting in the snow....

Come on PGI, we dare you......

[Siegegun]

Jay Leon Hart, on 18 March 2018 - 04:11 PM, said:

I would *love* an LRM event.

Just bust out the old ECM 3x AMS Kit Fox and laugh all weekend

Yes... laugh while standing next to my Lurm Boat. I <3 Iron Dome cutefoxes! (on my team anyway...) And for added potato power you can take lurms too and we can Lurm together! We could be like a potato voltron. Ill take out my Lurm warhawk and you can stand on my head and ill wear you like a hat.

[Vellron2005]

Oh if they make a LRM based event, my biggest concern is that I won't be able to choose which LRM boat to use..

Do I take a Supernova? A MadCat Mk2? A Warhawk? An Awesome? Archer? Mauler? Timberwolf? MadDog? Trebuche? Arctic Wolf?

Sooo many choiceeeees

Edited by Vellron2005, 19 March 2018 - 06:59 AM.

[Zergling]

Vellron2005, on 19 March 2018 - 06:59 AM, said:

Oh if they make a LRM based event, my biggest concern is that I won't be able to choose which LRM boat to use..

Do I take a Supernova? A MadCat Mk2? A Warhawk? An Awesome? Archer? Mauler? Timberwolf? MadDog? Trebuche? Arctic Wolf?

Sooo many choiceeeees

The obvious choice is Locust

[LordNothing]

i dont even think i own lrm launchers anymore, i keep liquidating them for cbills.

[Appogee]

Cathy, on 18 March 2018 - 09:38 AM, said:

lol I might log on for a LRM event just for the novelty and the tears

I would play my triple-AMS Kit Fox for a week, just for the fun of it

[Knight Captain Morgan]

Why do you think they added those extra metrics to future events?

Now there can be concurrent;
X number of spotting assists
Y number of missile damage
Z number of ams missles destroyed

[IllCaesar]

A LRM event where only damage from the 200m-300m range would actually be pretty fun. People who can use LRMs decently will find success and you'll be able to farm those who can't, even with AMSboats.

[evilauthor]

Zergling, on 18 March 2018 - 08:22 AM, said:

They come in sizes of 5, 10, 15 and 20.

And AMS only has a 50% chance of shooting the missile down. Which is still incredibly effective by AMS standards in TT, but it doesn't totally render them ineffective.

There's a work around for this. Use LRMs with Thunderbolts. IIRC, the AMS system can only shoot at one missile volley per turn and it has to shoot at the FIRST missile volley shot at it. So confuse the AMS by having it shoot at the LRM volley instead of the Thunderbolt.

A similar strategy could work in MWO if AMS doesn't prioritize Thunderbolts over LRMs and SRMs.

Or you just stack multiple Thunderbolts and fire them like standard LRMs... except each missile does something like 5 or 10 damage instead of 1.

[Wulfe09]

The6thMessenger, on 15 March 2018 - 02:11 PM, said:

Paul admitted that it wasn't balance in mind with people who actually know how to play the game, so they know that it's bad and they're fine with it.

this, PGI is balancing the games for potatoes, the kind who reee'd "teamwork OP PLS NERF" and got PGI to nerf group tonnages.

>in a team based objective game.

[Dragonporn]

Wulfe09, on 22 March 2018 - 01:21 AM, said:

this, PGI is balancing the games for potatoes, the kind who reee'd "teamwork OP PLS NERF" and got PGI to nerf group tonnages.

>in a team based objective game.

But... but teamwork is till OP.