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[FRAGTAST1C]

O L L O, on 12 April 2020 - 01:49 PM, said:

I would put the ammo in the legs.

Yep, I'd put ammo in the legs as well. I just dragged and dropped the ammo.

[jjm1]

I have a KCrab with 6MGs.

I did manage 1k with it once or twice, but that was from leaning on its 3 LPLs. Half the time I forget the MGs are even there. But saying that, they do work better than you might think for a throwaway build.

[Azooazerick]

Wow this Post got more attention than I thought it would. Ultimately what i Decided to do with my Cataphract was.. maybe not wise. But its fun, I slapped 2 UAC10s on it, with the extra weight efficency, i put another Double heat sink on it, And slapped 2 medium lasers for when the UAC jam up. Then upgraded the engine getting an extra 4.5 KPH out of it. its range is a bit on the rough side, Poking mechs with double tap UACs has been fun so far. No doubt there are other mechs that do this better.

Heat is still sometimes an issue for intense fights. 4 AC 5s would probably be better overall But i kept running into ammo issues. I could have probably removed my AMS and its ammo for the extra slots i needed for the ammo. But Sometimes AMS is so useful to have. I may keep playing around with it. But i think i figured out something thats both fun and decently effective.almost feels like a waste of hard points BUT...

CTF-4X



my armor in the game is quite a bit better due to Skill tree stuff.

Edited by Azooazerick, 14 April 2020 - 07:26 AM.

[LordNothing]

hmgs are nice with mrms, as they can get the kill shot after you sandblast their armor away. lmgs might be better for this but that many hmgs are nasty no matter what.

[FRAGTAST1C]

Azooazerick, on 14 April 2020 - 07:10 AM, said:

almost feels like a waste of hard points BUT... CTF-4X

my armor in the game is quite a bit better due to Skill tree stuff.

Here's a slight alteration. It runs on a bigger engine, increasing the top speed by about 7kph and carries slightly more ammo...

CTF-4X

Don't worry about the legs. They're still safe.

Edited by FRAGTAST1C, 14 April 2020 - 08:30 AM.

[Azooazerick]

FRAGTAST1C, on 14 April 2020 - 08:28 AM, said:

Here's a slight alteration. It runs on a bigger engine, increasing the top speed by about 7kph and carries slightly more ammo...

CTF-4X

Don't worry about the legs. They're still safe.

Will heat be an Issue? or are light engine more heat efficient than i know?

For some reaosn it never occrued to me to put a light engine on it. Dont know why. Thanks!

[Gladiolix]

Azooazerick, on 14 April 2020 - 08:46 AM, said:

Will heat be an Issue? or are light engine more heat efficient than i know?

For some reaosn it never occrued to me to put a light engine on it. Dont know why. Thanks!

Same heat as in your build. It's all about the number of sinks you have in your mech. Your build has 9 sinks in engine +3 in mech, where as Frags build has 10+2.

[FRAGTAST1C]

Azooazerick, on 14 April 2020 - 08:46 AM, said:

Will heat be an Issue? or are light engine more heat efficient than i know?

For some reaosn it never occrued to me to put a light engine on it. Dont know why. Thanks!

There is no difference in heat sinking between STD, LFE and XL engines. The rating, however, decides how many heatsinks the engines comes with. A 250 rated engine has 10 heatsinks which is the minimum required to make any mech work. By using a LFE, you reduce the weight and can use a higher rated engine thereby reducing the number of external heatsinks you MUST have. Plus, the bigger engine gives you more speed.

[Ignatius Audene]

Why dont you run uac10 on the cata 3d? I mean the mech with quirks for it? Don't search loadout for mech. Search mech for loadout!

Edited by Ignatius Audene, 14 April 2020 - 11:15 PM.

[Azooazerick]

Ignatius Audene, on 14 April 2020 - 11:14 PM, said:

Why dont you run uac10 on the cata 3d? I mean the mech with quirks for it? Don't search loadout for mech. Search mech for loadout!

Cost Mostly. Its a huge investment to have to re upgrade a fresh mech. Like i said, CTF-4x was my first mech i bought and heavily upgraded. If i had the funds that is absolutely a good idea. I currently keep swapping back and forth between 4 AC 5s and 2 UAC10s. I stripped out AMS so ammo isnt really an issue anymore. but it does suck not to have it. Anyway. I appreciate everyone's suggestions and will stop bumping the thread.

[FRAGTAST1C]

I don't know if you know about this but have a look here...

https://grimmechs.is...im.org/Database

That site has pretty much covered most of the great builds and mechs. It's a great starting point for basically everything related to which mech to buy and how to mech

[Ignatius Audene]

Go with 4 ac5 no ams and as much ammo as u can fit. Enough armor quirks to compensate the face time and rly good in dps.

U can go 2ac5 and 2uac5 after u got ammo nodes and u are not to trigger happy. Xl255 is my engine if i remember correctly.

Edited by Ignatius Audene, 15 April 2020 - 03:48 AM.