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[Anjian]

The OP is very true in my observation. I tend to be most troubled by AFK assaults at the beginning of the game, or the Late to the Game assault.

Lately I got tired of playing squishy Novacats and will go back to playing my Mad Cat II sniper (2 ERPPC, 2 Clan Gauss). Back to being an assault pilot. I wonder if the Fafnir and the Blood Asp are any good, at least for a basic $20 package on each.

Edited by Anjian, 10 April 2018 - 11:55 PM.

[kailii]

The Rainbow Warrior

Mounts and groups weapons by color, therefore prefers Lasers.
Aims very carefully before sending a stream of MLAS and SLAS at an enemy 800 metres away.
Usually prefers Clan Mechs due to hardpoints, but is strangely addicted to the Flashman.

Battle Cry: "Cool!"

[Lethe Wyvern]

Brilliant post. Thats a friend request.

[Vellron2005]

Brain Cancer, on 10 April 2018 - 11:33 PM, said:

Sure, we can do that.

Oh come on, at least make it a hail of potatoes falling from above

[evilauthor]

Cnaiur, on 10 April 2018 - 05:50 PM, said:

The Boy Scout

Like his namesake, this pilot is prepared. For anything. A single LRM 10 and a Large ER laser for long range engagements. An LBX10 and a ML for medium range. And an SSRM 4 and two machine guns for up close work. Although useless on the battlefield, the Boy Scout is known for his cheery demeanor and upbeat temperament.

Battle Cry: “Something something LORE.” or “GLHF!”

Yup, this is me. Although I only separate my weapons into LRMs, long range direct, and short range.

[Duncan Aravain]

The "R-less" Infowarrior


More than willing to engage the enemy, but prefers to leave his teammates in the dark on exactly is going on in his neck of the battlefield. Always communicating in voice or team chat, but usually with vague or unclear information and a voice that slowly climbs in octive as the match progresses. Tends to ends communication shortly after his mech's death with a final condemnation of the team for not responding to his information.

"The enemy has something in the sky overthere."
"I think I see an enemy mech that's using lasers."
"I need help over here. Help me now"
"Where is `Foxtrot 4`?".
"Watch out!!!!"

[Stridercal]

I guess i'm the Lore-Loving Boy Scout?

[knight-of-ni]

The Overweight Sniper

This often silent player finds a perch on the farthest point on the map to rain down damage at the maximum range of his weapon of choice, which consists solely of erll's, erppc's, or (u)ac2's. Getting the occasional high damage match reinforces the belief that "he is doing it right".

The Overweight Sniper is typically the last mech on the team to survive, maintaining near perfect health right up to those last seconds of the match before being overrun by the other team.

You typically won't hear this assault mech pilot's battle cry, and perhaps that is an admission of guilt. If you did hear it, it would be "Firing from range in an assault mech is better than sharing armor with the rest of the team on the front line".

UPDATE: Revisions based on comments from Eisenhorne

Edited by knight-of-ni, 11 April 2018 - 09:55 AM.

[Grus]

The Underhive Warrior

Plays to the best of his ability but still cant brake 100 damage in a assault mech because hes getting killed in the first 5 min to a light mech with less than a 30pnt alpha. Crys on the forums for change and wont listen to people giving them advice to become a better player.

[Eisenhorne]

knight-of-ni, on 11 April 2018 - 09:14 AM, said:

The Overweight Sniper

This often silent player finds a perch on the farthest point on the map to rain down ineffective damage at the maximum range of his weapon of choice, which consist solely of erll's or erppc's.

The Overweight Sniper is typically the last mech on the team to survive, maintaining near perfect health right up to those last seconds of the match before being overrun by the other team.

You typically won't hear this assault mech pilot's battle cry, and perhaps that is an admission of guilt. If you did hear it, it would be "Firing from range in an assault mech is better than sharing armor with the rest of the team on the front line".

Does having effective long range fire make this a different category? I saw an ANH-2A once spend ~5 minutes getting up onto the wall in HPG, and once up there he rained hell down on the enemy with UAC2's or AC2's, I wasn't sure which. He ended up having 1200+ damage. On one hand, we could have taken such a beating in that 5 minutes that he would have been overwhelmed and died. On the other, he crippled the enemy team once he got there. I'm still not sure how I feel about that.

[knight-of-ni]

Eisenhorne, on 11 April 2018 - 09:36 AM, said:

Does having effective long range fire make this a different category? I saw an ANH-2A once spend ~5 minutes getting up onto the wall in HPG, and once up there he rained hell down on the enemy with UAC2's or AC2's, I wasn't sure which. He ended up having 1200+ damage. On one hand, we could have taken such a beating in that 5 minutes that he would have been overwhelmed and died. On the other, he crippled the enemy team once he got there. I'm still not sure how I feel about that.

That's hilarious, and also a good example. I'll revise the definition.

[Lily from animove]

I do serve to protect their ***, it's a gret job of safety and walkign HP you gt, also they cannot go solo with their slow butts

[jss78]

I think I'm guilty of a dumb thing not listed... It only looks like an Assault. Runs a huge LFE engine and a weapons loadout which might maybe be acceptable on a 65-tonner.

kailii, on 11 April 2018 - 12:10 AM, said:

The Rainbow Warrior

I used to have a Cicada with 2xLL, 2xML and 2xSL in a beautiful symmetrical loadout. It was very pretty. And I did in fact call it the Rainbow Warrior. I think I may have broken 1k damage with it.

[MW Waldorf Statler]

The Steering Wheel -Zoom Warrior ...stand most as Last of teh Bluse Field ...Heroic around of lights in a 50m Range in Highest zoom her try follows the little Bandits in snailmotion and rythmic Stop and Go Motion in only 2 Axis to hit with a large Laser and a Gauss Rifle

The Tunnelcharging Pilot

most to find of Crimson ...in the Tunnelcharge or Ridgecharge ...stop short before the entry by Enemy fire and is wondering thats more can firing in a small place as out ? which F++++Guy blocked the Supportfire from my team behind me ? better im go backward to make Place for my Team...

[Alexander of Macedon]

knight-of-ni, on 11 April 2018 - 09:14 AM, said:

The Overweight Sniper

This often silent player finds a perch on the farthest point on the map to rain down damage at the maximum range of his weapon of choice, which consists solely of erll's, erppc's, or (u)ac2's. Getting the occasional high damage match reinforces the belief that "he is doing it right".

The Overweight Sniper is typically the last mech on the team to survive, maintaining near perfect health right up to those last seconds of the match before being overrun by the other team.

You typically won't hear this assault mech pilot's battle cry, and perhaps that is an admission of guilt. If you did hear it, it would be "Firing from range in an assault mech is better than sharing armor with the rest of the team on the front line".

UPDATE: Revisions based on comments from Eisenhorne

Also depends heavily on player skill. Someone who can hold burns is nasty in, say, a 6x cERLLas Supernova at 600-800m, provided they position aggressively enough to keep firing effectively.

[Lily from animove]

Alexander of Macedon, on 11 April 2018 - 10:48 AM, said:

Also depends heavily on player skill. Someone who can hold burns is nasty in, say, a 6x cERLLas Supernova at 600-800m, provided they position aggressively enough to keep firing effectively.

if the target is a siting duck eating those long beam durations, sure. But welcome to pokemech, you aren't supposed to play like this.

[evilauthor]

Eisenhorne, on 11 April 2018 - 09:36 AM, said:

Does having effective long range fire make this a different category? I saw an ANH-2A once spend ~5 minutes getting up onto the wall in HPG, and once up there he rained hell down on the enemy with UAC2's or AC2's, I wasn't sure which. He ended up having 1200+ damage. On one hand, we could have taken such a beating in that 5 minutes that he would have been overwhelmed and died. On the other, he crippled the enemy team once he got there. I'm still not sure how I feel about that.

~1200 damage would imply that this guy is hitting with most if not all his shots, which means he actually has the skill to make this build work.

[Lily from animove]

evilauthor, on 11 April 2018 - 11:35 AM, said:

~1200 damage would imply that this guy is hitting with most if not all his shots, which means he actually has the skill to make this build work.

people forget that blowing of sidetorsi is going to give you also the ar HP of a mech. During some of the ranking events to get highly listed it was important to kill and raise damage, you can artificially raise your damage beyond whats needed to kill an opposed mech for the sole reason fo farming damage.

Edited by Lily from animove, 11 April 2018 - 11:40 AM.

[Dimento Graven]

Vellron2005, on 11 April 2018 - 03:15 AM, said:

Oh come on, at least make it a hail of potatoes falling from above

[Alexandra Hekmatyar]

Eisenhorne, on 10 April 2018 - 08:29 PM, said:

Just gotta mash that W key the entire time, and you'll (usually) be OK.

What about just use cruise control for us lazies?