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[Novakaine]

Oh good gravy.

[Y E O N N E]

process, on 06 February 2019 - 01:42 PM, said:

Kinda goes along with being a light; standing still is death.

You don't have to be standing still to get rekt by a strike you could not possibly have known was coming.

[Prototelis]

BTW, isn't OP like a serious pro? He should be able to dodge strikes like future politicians dodge drafts.

Edited by Prototelis, 09 February 2019 - 11:27 AM.

[Water Bear]

I almost started a thread titled "this game has turned in to UAV warrior online."

The new norm is to have full or partial radar cover of the enemy team for basically the entire match.

The same is true of arty and air strike. Every game, it's a non-stop barrage.

In both cases, this is not even remotely in keeping with the aesthetic of Battletech or Mechwarrior. "Giant robots that would be kings of the battlefield if not for tiny UAVs and terrifying artillery strikes."

Edited by Water Bear, 10 February 2019 - 07:25 AM.

[Abisha]

Prototelis, on 09 February 2019 - 11:27 AM, said:

BTW, isn't OP like a serious pro? He should be able to dodge strikes like future politicians dodge drafts.

sure give assaults MASC then we can dodge

[Horseman]

Prototelis, on 09 February 2019 - 11:27 AM, said:

BTW, isn't OP like a serious pro? He should be able to dodge strikes like future politicians dodge drafts.

Can't speak for OP, but I dodged strikes in an Annihilator. Takes just a bit of tactical awareness.

[Prototelis]

Abisha, on 10 February 2019 - 10:05 AM, said:

sure give assaults MASC then we can dodge

You don't know where strikes are likely to be? How can you be pro level and not know that?

Horseman, on 10 February 2019 - 11:19 AM, said:

Can't speak for OP, but I dodged strikes in an Annihilator. Takes just a bit of tactical awareness.

Clip of me dodging an obvious one in a King Crab.

https://www.twitch.t...yHedgehogM4xHeh

Edited by Prototelis, 10 February 2019 - 11:29 AM.

[Darian DelFord]

Horseman, on 06 February 2019 - 02:04 PM, said:

"Unaware" in a class that depends on speed and tactical awareness?
The problem is in the pilot chair.

Does not matter if your standing still or not. I get creamed doing 177 KPH as if I were doing 0. There is no defense against it and all it takes is 1 shell to ruin any lights day.


Arties were lame to begin with. It was PGI's cheap way of trying to break of a group of assaults afraid to move forward. The fact that what 5 to 6 are dropped on each side each match makes playing a light difficult at best.

Yet we are the OP class according to most on these forums.

Sorry but I am Color Bling and I can not see the damn smoke easily.

Edited by Darian DelFord, 10 February 2019 - 01:17 PM.

[Prototelis]

I'm okay with how they affect lights. For the most part I have more than enough time to get away.

The fle is also fast enough to chase the pallets and use a strike as cover for an approach.

Also a big fan of dropping them behind someone after they've turned. Taken more than a few components by two timing a rear st and then dropping a smoke on the opposite side of their turn out of view.

[Variant1]

There was no arty/strike warrior to begin with, these are exagerations. If anything all pgi needed to do was increase the time it took for a strike to arrive by a few seconds. Also UAVs can easily be shot down. As for the arty it can be dodged even easier in a light

[R Valentine]

Steel Raven, on 06 February 2019 - 12:54 PM, said:

People need to dump some of skills points into Strikes to makes them deadly which means they are giving up points that could be going into Firepower or Survivability. It's cheap and annoying but it's rare that I run into a team with more than a couple strikes, even rarer one of them have the skill to drop the strike where it will hurt you are your team.

Oh please, you barely put anything into the consumable tree to get huge bang for your buck, unlike any other tree out there. In fact, when skilling up a new mech, the 5 points it takes to get two amazing strikes is the best first 5 points you can spend since it can amplify your damage output, and therefor your experience, almost two fold if you get a good one down on mining or canyon. Strikes are way over the top. Remember back when PGI had to nerf strikes so we couldn't carry two? And that was before you had the bomb strikes of today that are longer in duration, wider in effect, and more numerous in hits. And then PGI was like, "You know what we should do? We should take the thing we nerfed out and put it back in, only now even more powerful". Strikewarrior is alive and well and is only marginally weaker than it was on skill tree launch day, when airstrikes were a mile long.

[Horseman]

Variant1, on 11 February 2019 - 01:37 PM, said:

There was no arty/strike warrior to begin with, these are exagerations. If anything all pgi needed to do was increase the time it took for a strike to arrive by a few seconds. Also UAVs can easily be shot down. As for the arty it can be dodged even easier in a light

Strike warrior was a thing... years ago, when entire teams could drop strikes simultaneously at the same position. That is why we have a global cooldown on strikes now.

[Variant1]

Horseman, on 11 February 2019 - 02:47 PM, said:

Strike warrior was a thing... years ago, when entire teams could drop strikes simultaneously at the same position. That is why we have a global cooldown on strikes now.

woops forgot about that. Dont know why pgi didnt simply increase the time it took for the strikes to occur though it would make much more sense and wouldnt need to nerf it down the line too.

[Grus]

Strikes are avoidable, just have to have your head on a swivel.

[Oils]

Roll with it, changes are afoot, with patch notes
On the other hand bring back the LONG TOM @!

[Loodacris]

Do think they drop a bit too frequently. Don't get me wrong it does what it's supposed to and breaks up lines and assault momentum but the frequency at which it is dropped really takes away from the core mech on mech combat of the game. At the moment it feels like a "He who brings more, wins" kind of deal which imo a consumable isn't supposed to be.

[thievingmagpi]

Grus, on 11 February 2019 - 02:58 PM, said:

Strikes are avoidable, just have to have your head on a swivel.

I'm sure you'd like to ask any of the top light players what their thoughts are?