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[Battlemaster56]

As the title said I'm not looking for the most meta heros just once that look fun for, so far I picked out the Black Knight and Thantos heros but I'm unsure what else I can pick out that may keep me busy from grinding my multiple variant mechs.

[Tarl Cabot]

Define your version of "fun"....

[Battlemaster56]

IDK, something that I can mess with on the fly. Or something not so meta that I get so bored with it.

[VonBruinwald]

PIRATES' BANE for the adrenaline junkie.
Dakka-Bird (Huggin) for the shenanigans.
FLORENTINE cause haters gonna hate.

But most importantly: K-9. Today, you can WOO-WOO all the way!


But SOON^TM this:

[Battlemaster56]

The Flornite did catch my eye, just never see many of those in the game. Huginn maybe...

[MischiefSC]

The GHR hero with ballistic arm is fun.

Uribe hero K9 is magical and everyone should own several.

Phaket is fun.

[TWIAFU]

Never go wrong in the fun department with a K-9

[Battlemaster56]

I got one never hurt get a second one, proboly get it later when I get paid agian, and just get some from the heavy category.

[LordNothing]

i think id probibly grab the nanuq, kaiju, and boiler. they fill in holes in my hero lineup. unfortunately the sale only runs 5 days and i dont get any money till the middle of next month.

[Mystere]

K-9. I like it so much I have a pair, both with the sirens and lights looping on a macro.

[BrunoSSace]

Im going to come across super bias here but do you own an ilya-muromets? Out off all the Heroes I own its one of my favorites. Rocks triple lbx 10 and 2 er medium lasors like a boss. Look at anything and kill it. Has insane Armor quirks, its like an Atlas and old Annihalator had a baby.
Grasshoper is also supper soild. Can do Gauss and 6 er medium lasors well or even 3 er larges and 4 er mediums. That is probably my favorite, can rack out nice damage at good ranges. Pluss can do xl engine if you so desire, but a light 325 works well on it as well.

[Moldur]

Everybody lets get 6 lights for $30 and just flood the queue

[Battlemaster56]

BrunoSSace, on 16 September 2018 - 06:39 PM, said:

Im going to come across super bias here but do you own an ilya-muromets? Out off all the Heroes I own its one of my favorites. Rocks triple lbx 10 and 2 er medium lasors like a boss. Look at anything and kill it. Has insane Armor quirks, its like an Atlas and old Annihalator had a baby.
Grasshoper is also supper soild. Can do Gauss and 6 er medium lasors well or even 3 er larges and 4 er mediums. That is probably my favorite, can rack out nice damage at good ranges. Pluss can do xl engine if you so desire, but a light 325 works well on it as well.

Ilya did had my eye for some time, just wasn't sure if I could rock back then, with the new tech I think I can make something out of. And the Grasshopper that one is contending with the Black Knight just not sure whicj one Ill be more leaning to.

[Bowelhacker]

Ilya Muromets. Close the thread.

[GeminiWolf]

Anyone else love to say Phaket out loud... aaah just Phaket!... Man this was a roll, ah Phaket all! bwhahahahaha its much better than saying "Deck all" for Decal, oh wait its pronounced "DEE CAL" ah Phaket who cares bwhahaha

[Appogee]

I hate Urbies ... but I got my Ace of Spades in a K9, so there's some irony for you.

I find JR7-Oxide to be my most fun Hero.
Stealth ASN-Dark Death is fun, too.
Sleipnir is fun when dakka is the go.
VPR-Medusa is fun thanks to its JJs and speed.

Vanguard is my current go-to Mech in the PUG queue. A good compromise between fun to pilot and delivering reliably good match scores.

Edited by Appogee, 16 September 2018 - 11:30 PM.

[Mister Maf]

I got the Black Knight Partisan, Black Lanner Bellonarius, Roughneck Reaver, and Awesome PB. The Awesome is pretty wacky and I mainly got it for the challenge (it's not actually that bad but it's certainly not the best) but I'm having a lot of fun with the other three:

• I didn't see much point on the Mjolnir when the Black Knight is basically the same thing with 5 more tons. Realistically there's more overlap than you'd expect with this thing and the standard variants because the heat savings with a ballistic weapon is counteracted by having fewer heatsinks, but it's still a fun mech.
  
• A lot of the omnimechs seemed kind of pointless because you would do the same thing with them that you could with any regular variant, but the Black Lanner hero's omnipods have a really interesting set of hardpoints and the default build takes very little tweaking (one ton of MG ammo for a heatsink and lasers to small pulse and you're jet set).
  
  I actually happened to have basically the exact same build on a Centurion as a joke mech (the joke being it's a Centurion that runs over 130 kph), and this unique Black Lanner legitimizes it into a really effective flanker by trading regular top speed for MASC and more machine guns. Just make sure to max survival because while it plays like a light, you're a lot bigger than a light and consequently much easier to hit.
  
• Roughneck Reaver is unique because it's the only Roughneck with high laser mounts without being a complete laser boat, so I figured that'd be neat to play with. I've got the least playtime with this one as of yet but so far it seems pretty decent, as Roughnecks tend to be.

I don't really get the Thanatos — 5 missiles in the arm??? — but I don't particularly care for the chassis to begin with, so that's just me. The Roughneck Powerhouse and Archer Tempest are also solid picks if you don't have something in their role already: Powerhouse is a great brawler that's just different enough from the regular Roughnecks to make it worthwhile, while the Tempest is arguably the best IS ECM heavy.

Most of the others in the "heavy" tier IMO have standard variants that can do the same thing just as good if not better. The Marauder for example is fine I guess if you like Marauders but I think the MAD-3R is both superior and more interesting than the Bounty Hunter. Zeus Skokomish is unique because it has MASC so if you want a gimmick build to surprise flankers with a fast assault mech that's an option but IMO the Linebacker omnimech obsoletes it. Just about everything else in the heavy lineup is only really worthwhile for the paintjob compared to standard variants, if even that. I didn't see enough mechs I was interested in to fill up the bundle in the other weight tiers.

Edited by Mister Maf, 17 September 2018 - 12:12 AM.

[BurningDesire]

my problem with the sale is i cant buy 5 medusa's

[LordNothing]

BrunoSSace, on 16 September 2018 - 06:39 PM, said:

Im going to come across super bias here but do you own an ilya-muromets? Out off all the Heroes I own its one of my favorites. Rocks triple lbx 10 and 2 er medium lasors like a boss. Look at anything and kill it. Has insane Armor quirks, its like an Atlas and old Annihalator had a baby.
Grasshoper is also supper soild. Can do Gauss and 6 er medium lasors well or even 3 er larges and 4 er mediums. That is probably my favorite, can rack out nice damage at good ranges. Pluss can do xl engine if you so desire, but a light 325 works well on it as well.

ilya used to be one of my favorites when it was the only mech that can carry 3 ac10s. its somewhat less interesting when running other weapons. now we have annihilators and that new victor and several others ive probably forgotten about.

Edited by LordNothing, 17 September 2018 - 01:15 AM.

[Battlemaster56]

Well I got the mechs I'll be messing with Thanatos SA with 5 srm4's+ 3ml, Blk Knight AC 20 + 5mpl, ButterBee 4 srm6 + 4 mpl ( may change to 4 mrm 20 with ersmalls), and Reaver 4ml+ 2 uac 10's (may change to rac5's for extra lol's)