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[Y E O N N E]

Back in my day, Locusts were as big as Jenners and Small Lasers only hit 90 meters.

[Eatit]

Back in my day, Computer monitors only had one color. My Timex Sinclair 1000 had a 16k RAM pack for those bigger programs.
Computers like the TSR80 were king. Typewriters were manual and White Out was a miracle from God. The internet of today didn't exist.

[Acersecomic]

Back in my day there were people playing this game.

[General Solo]

Mmm Streak2 boat Cats OP

Edited by OZHomerOZ, 10 May 2019 - 12:43 AM.

[Thorn Hallis]

Back in my days a Jenner would have killed an Atlas within two seconds if it just had true double heatsinks.

[Karl Streiger]

Thorn Hallis, on 10 May 2019 - 01:26 AM, said:

Back in my days a Jenner would have killed an Atlas within two seconds if it just had true double heatsinks.

Almost have forgotten that statement, thanks for sharing

[FupDup]

Thorn Hallis, on 10 May 2019 - 01:26 AM, said:

Back in my days a Jenner would have killed an Atlas within two seconds if it just had true double heatsinks.

Back in my day a 6-MG Spider would have a devastating effect on the back of an Atlas!

[Thorn Hallis]

Back in my days we had visiual ammo cookoffs.

[Davegt27]

Back in my day players feared the Dire Wolf (oh crap! A Dire Wolf)

Back in my day everyone hated the Firestarters

Back in my day we did not have voice coms
salt had to be typed in chat and the speed of typed insults always amazed me

[R5D4]

Back in my day Jenners could fit under the gaps in the ramps on HPG Manifold.

Back in my day we thought that "the next map" might actually have different routes that only some mechs could take to make the gameplay more interesting.

Edited by R5D4, 11 May 2019 - 06:45 PM.

[HenryFA]

Back in my day 6 PPC Stalker is legit

[FupDup]

HenryFA, on 11 May 2019 - 08:07 PM, said:

Back in my day 6 PPC Stalker is legit

6 PPC Stalker was always outclassed by 4 PPC because the latter could shoot much more often.

[PPC Principal]

Back in my day, i could stare down just about any opponent in my Banshee 3E with 3AC5 2LL 2ML or 2UAC5 2AC2 4ML and pretty much win every fight without dieing in 3 seconds due to getting CT shot

Back in my day, an Atlas was scary

Back in my day, the Huginn was OP

Back in my day, there was a time to kill

[A Really Old Clan Dude]

Back in my day

we had to drive into the city to the one and only store that stocked battletech to buy the battletech board game and miniatures.

cresent hawk inception was the coolest game out.

playing a game you only needed one ton of ammo

[Anjian]

Back in my day, there were giant robots to watch in TV.








I was drawing giant robots all over my school notebook. Parents thought they were too big a distraction for homework and are too violent for children. But they sure kicked *** like no other. Today, things feels like 1000x less epic.

[Anjian]

But seriously, when i started MWO, Catapults and Cataphracts were the meta, especially a jumping Cataphract and a Catapult with Gauss. It was cool to have that Catapult with the pointed nose. No one nascared, we got Predator heat vision, and half of the forums threatened to quit when ECM was introduced.

Edited by Anjian, 13 May 2019 - 12:37 AM.

[TheCaptainJZ]

Back in my day, you didn't get any bonus for being a new player.
Back in my day, the only manual you had was key mappings. And you had to test things in combat.
Back in my day, you had only 2 mechs in each weight class: Commando vs. Jenner, Hunchback vs. Centurion, Dragon vs. Catapult, and Atlas vs. Awesome. And one of each of these was superior so if you had 2 Commandos instead of 2 Jenners, your team would suffer.
Back in my day, there was no "Host State Rewind." You had to guess if your shots would hit with lagshield fully deployed.
Due to no HSR, everyone pretty much used lasers because they did damage over time and you could adjust the aim until you hit the target.
Back in my day, Raven 3Ls reigned supreme with streaks that did extra damage (due to area of effect), a magic Jesus box (ECM), and a lagshield that make them nearly invincible. Shoot the legs with lasers!
Back in my day, people complained because the Centurion AH was removed from the game to be replaced with the Yen Lo Wang. You could no longer level up Centurions unless you owned all 3 and one you had to use real money for (that was an unfair move for sure).
Back in my day, Alpine was played. A lot. And you'd max out time because the last enemy spider was ER Large Lasering from halfway across the map in the hills.
Back in my day, you could go up and down hills without slowing down. Even in an Assault.
Back in my day, you could hit the spawn points in River City when the match started, and if you had your graphics levels low enough, buildings would disappear.
Back in my day, smurf vision was the only vision.
Back in my day, 30 pinpoint damage was unfair, but that's what Gausscats had. "Catapults shouldn't have gauss because the hardpoint is a machine gun! You can't fire a big gun out of such a small hole." So PGI created dynamic weapon art (later) instead.
Back in my day, there was no matchmaker other than equal weigh classes. ELO came next.

Edited by TheCaptainJZ, 13 May 2019 - 03:35 AM.

[Daneel Hazen]

Back in my day you had to use a vacuum tube targeting computer that could weigh up to FIVE TONS!

Oh wait...

[Besh]

Back in my day, we had R&R ( Repair and Rearm ) in MW:O, and I loved it ( though tbh, it caused a damnload of problems XD ).

Edited by Besh, 13 May 2019 - 04:00 AM.

[Weeny Machine]

Back in my days there were no clans in the TT game yet They were implemented a couple of years later

In MWO terms: Back in my days there were light mechs which were really OP (can you imagine an OP Huginn?)

Edited by Weeny Machine, 13 May 2019 - 10:03 AM.