Hey, played a few more games. I know that this build won't work in the higher tiers, but my match scores in Tier 5 have been doing pretty well. I got 600 damage on a loss (I think i sent a uav too and did some team points) and PSR went up. Other matches have been 500 damage, one close to 700 damage. If I get careless its a lot lower. One of the last game I got 4 kills, 2 directly from the rotary setup alone. My last game I got a MS of nearly 600, 5 kills and took out the last madcat (obviusly softened up already) with rotaries at range. This was playing defensively, but I think it's working. I'll need to switch away from LRMS next when the field gets competitive and use the kinds of builds people are suggesting here, but so far this setup seems to work for tier 5.
Like some have pointed out, there is no consistency toward whether there a good players from one game to another in this tier. One game you got somebody like RWTumbleweed that knows the board and is decent at calling. Another it's just random single battles while the other team concentrates on a single mech at a time and wins pretty quickly.
I seem to have found a build that I can use to get the damage scores up even on loss games when I can't count on the team like at all, so I'll probably use it until I get up tiers, then switch to MRM's as opponents get better. I mean I tried using tactics in this tier and they just don't work consistently. I never know if I'm only isolating 1 enemy mech or 2 or i'm going to isolate 1 mech and then a light mech swings by and I'm fighting a losing battle with 2 mechs because the person that was there a second ago ran off someplace else. There is not team tactics from one game to another.
This is completely different than faction play which is always extremely punishing on angles and choices. But then the quality of the team is typically always higher, but ofc anybody with a drop deck can play. Even on losing faction matches people generally don't disconnect or suicide. They usually can hit things and move, but there are a lot of good players in the tiers as well that create new accounts to play there or just people that know what they are doing like the people that have posted on this thread, just a bit harder to find. I will report back when I make some progress. Hopefully this will be helpful to other people as well some day. People are probably learning a few map tips already
Edited by TrowaBarton, 21 January 2020 - 11:49 AM.