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[Kalimaster]

That's right. My (or other players) Mechs with ECM are now GODS ! ! !

With a couple of additional skill unlocks, and AMS, your cannot lock onto my Mech with LRM's at a distance. Put a ridge between us or any kind of terrain hump as I dart back and forth, even if you had a chance your missiles just plow into the ground.

Your MRM's are about useless, as are SRMs

And combined with the closing of the targeting rectile in previous patches, and AMS buff, your Steak Missiles are a joke. By the time you might have a chance of getting a lock I have shifted position just enough where you have to start over.

With this last patch, ECM is king, and missiles can go to the trash can.

Hey Russ and others---best idea yet to create super Mechs. LRMs and other missiles no longer an issue.

[Prototelis]

Fake news

[K O Z A K]

I guess all the mechs I've been killing with lrms, mrms, srms and streaks were actually just ejecting, damn, and here I thought it was my missiles killing them

I assume you now having these super god mechs means your kdr is going to be like 10, right?

[Battlemaster56]

Laughing with Incubus 3 and Sabre in the corner.

[Nightbird]

ECM mechs that were good before are still good, those that were bad before are still bad now. No changes.

[Mystere]

Kalimaster, on 27 March 2019 - 08:32 AM, said:

That's right. My (or other players) Mechs with ECM are now GODS ! ! !

With a couple of additional skill unlocks, and AMS, your cannot lock onto my Mech with LRM's at a distance. Put a ridge between us or any kind of terrain hump as I dart back and forth, even if you had a chance your missiles just plow into the ground.

Your MRM's are about useless, as are SRMs

And combined with the closing of the targeting rectile in previous patches, and AMS buff, your Steak Missiles are a joke. By the time you might have a chance of getting a lock I have shifted position just enough where you have to start over.

With this last patch, ECM is king, and missiles can go to the trash can.

Hey Russ and others---best idea yet to create super Mechs. LRMs and other missiles no longer an issue.

Then suddenly:



So much for your GOD!

Edited by Mystere, 27 March 2019 - 09:18 AM.

[dario03]

So all direct fire weapons are god killers then???

[Bud Crue]

Hold up a sec...

So if mechs with ECM and AMS are “gods” and a guy boating LRMs or Streaks kills such a “god”, does the LRMer or Streak boater become like a greater god in this theoretical pantheon, or ascend instantly to some heretofore unknown MWO heavenly game mode, or at least get some sort of “god slayer” title, or what? Seems to me this should be a pretty big deal if what the OP says is true. Such an amazing achievement ought to at least get the player a decal or something.

Or maybe this is just absurd hyperbole about yet another ****ing balance pass that doesn’t really change much, for most.

[Tom Sawyer]

OVER 9000!

[Mystere]

dario03, on 27 March 2019 - 09:42 AM, said:

So all direct fire weapons are god killers then???

Nope, they are fake-GOD killers.

[kuma8877]

Weird, my SRMs are killing lots of ECM and AMS equipped mechs just fine. I guess I didn't get the memo...?

[Sniper09121986]

Battlemaster56, on 27 March 2019 - 08:45 AM, said:

Laughing with Incubus 3 and Sabre in the corner.

Are these any good at all? I just do not see any use for them that is not occupied by Attic Cheater or other Clan lights, so never actually tried them. Also my own go-to carrier now seems to be, drumroll... Prihanna!

Spoiler

The FLE-20 guy seems to have similar idea. LRM rework, 40% assaults in the queue, go figure

[Battlemaster56]

Sniper09121986, on 27 March 2019 - 11:36 AM, said:

Are these any good at all? I just do not see any use for them that is not occupied by Attic Cheater or other Clan lights, so never actually tried them. Also my own go-to carrier now seems to be, drumroll... Prihanna!

Spoiler

The FLE-20 guy seems to have similar idea. LRM rework, 40% assaults in the queue, go figure

Personally and with some bias I say yes they are. They're more agile than the Cheetah and have a more workable tonnage if you don't mind not having ecm or jj's. The best variants to run is the 1,2,4, and Sabre.

I found mid range poke with erml or mpl mix with some mg or light mg's is nice and for the Sabre if you played the Vulcan hero you can do something similar to it. Knife-fighting is more difficult since the legs are a easy target, but I seen a few beat other lights in knife-fighting.

[Asym]

OP. I am the GoD of Potatoes ! My Huntsman PA is a streak boat and I rarely play anymore........guess what..... A ECM Hellbringer had your kinda of thought I think cause he ventured out and I started hammering him with 7 streak launchers at max range and he must have thought he'd break lock and guess what, he fell apart component at a time..... And, I'm just a potato........ Same with several light ECM's mechs that all of a sudden were getting hammered at 400 and it never stopped....till they fell apart. If I can do this, imagine a really good player out there using missiles......

ECM helps; as do all of the other anti-missile systems but, what can be seen can be hit; and, what can be hit can be killed......... no matter the systems.....

[Novakaine]

Funny I've been taking great, but rather sadistic joy in lurming the crap out of them.
Even post patch.

Edited by Novakaine, 27 March 2019 - 12:45 PM.

[Nameless King]

Kalimaster, on 27 March 2019 - 08:32 AM, said:

That's right. My (or other players) Mechs with ECM are now GODS ! ! !

With a couple of additional skill unlocks, and AMS, your cannot lock onto my Mech with LRM's at a distance. Put a ridge between us or any kind of terrain hump as I dart back and forth, even if you had a chance your missiles just plow into the ground.

Your MRM's are about useless, as are SRMs

And combined with the closing of the targeting rectile in previous patches, and AMS buff, your Steak Missiles are a joke. By the time you might have a chance of getting a lock I have shifted position just enough where you have to start over.

With this last patch, ECM is king, and missiles can go to the trash can.

Hey Russ and others---best idea yet to create super Mechs. LRMs and other missiles no longer an issue.

Try that against people who know how to use them, pretty sure this is only king against newer or lower skill players.

[Teenage Mutant Ninja Urbie]

.. lol?

[crazytimes]

If only there was a counter for ECM. There could call it Touch And Go, or Threads Aren't Great or even Tug A Grandma.

[The6thMessenger]

You mean everyone forgets their existence until they need something?

[JRcam4643]

Novakaine, on 27 March 2019 - 12:45 PM, said:

Funny I've been taking great, but rather sadistic joy in lurming the crap out of them.
Even post patch.

Reminds me of my Mad Dog A, It has LRMs, ATMs and Streaks all packaged together.