66 replies to this topic

[Dozer6]

Love em,
Can't get enough of em,

Dusted off the Archer last night for a spin and guess what? Yup, Alpine peaks.

I began drooling, sweating, shaking with excitement and anticipation of the pain and tears about to come as i peel open armor like sardine cans for my team mates to pick off like a bear pulling salmon from a river.

I started locks at 1300 m and began firing like an old bar drunk chain smoking in the corner booth.
Watching my reticle i knew i was making contact.

After my first 1000 missiles and a final blow, i moved in tight with the second line. "Yes i got lucky and had some talented peeps on the team".

Did some direct firing and popped a Treb that was letting his lurms go as well. Drained another 800 missiles before helping a MK2 take down a locust that came in behind with my 4 mrl's.

Got my final 320 missiles before a perfect gauss shot from accross the map put me down.

Love em.

Makes popcorn...

[ScrapIron Prime]

Love me some Alpine Peaks! Alas, i always seem to drop there when I'm running my Warhammer with AC/20 and 2 Snub Peeps.

[Temporary Axis]

It's a trap!

[Teenage Mutant Ninja Urbie]

*snickers*

[crazytimes]

Have you tried chain firing LRM5s? You don't even need locks, just keep spraying and it's a bonus if they hit something. The fafnir is a good platform for it too.

Make sure you take Artemis to keep them spreads *tight*.

[account redo v1]

I'm saving PSR, GXP, and Cbills for my LRM 100 Marauder II.

PSR: So I don't lose rank (but I keep fluctuating between tier 3 and 4 anyways at the moment)
GXP: Because it needs a lot of heat skill nodes to fire without shutting down from ghost heat of 2 lrm 20 and 4 lrm 15
Cbills: Because I have the mech, but it will cost almost 8m cbills to outfit it.

[w0qj]

I don't care about my PSR for now, as a newcomer.
For each of my 100+ unskilled Hero/Special/Loyalty mechs, I'm just dumping 14-15 GSP to start it off, and then take my time leveling it up. You will get killed easier being unskilled.

But you get to fiddle around with a lot of different mechs playstyles that otherwise you might not get around to try (especially if one is bound by PSR rankings)!

account redo v1, on 23 February 2021 - 01:49 PM, said:

I'm saving PSR, GXP, and Cbills for my LRM 100 Marauder II.

PSR: So I don't lose rank (but I keep fluctuating between tier 3 and 4 anyways at the moment)
GXP: Because it needs a lot of heat skill nodes to fire without shutting down from ghost heat of 2 lrm 20 and 4 lrm 15
Cbills: Because I have the mech, but it will cost almost 8m cbills to outfit it.

So what is the difference between LB5-X and LRM5 then?

crazytimes, on 23 February 2021 - 01:49 PM, said:

Have you tried chain firing LRM5s? You don't even need locks, just keep spraying and it's a bonus if they hit something. The fafnir is a good platform for it too.

Make sure you take Artemis to keep them spreads *tight*.

[Willard Phule]

There's a reason LRMs are the most popular weapon in the new comp group queue.

[Aidan Crenshaw]

Willard Phule, on 24 February 2021 - 04:10 AM, said:

There's a reason LRMs are the most popular weapon in the new comp group queue.

Whats that?

[Grumpy Old Man]

I had real trouble completing the AMS portion of the current event, despite all the Mechs I used bringing AMS except for one. Most of them even fielded double AMS with 2 tons of ammo. Maybe it depends on when people play.

[Willard Phule]

Aidan Crenshaw, on 24 February 2021 - 04:20 AM, said:

Whats that?

The same reason they were the preferred weapon of the old "solo queue?" No effort required and you get to hide someplace safe while your team facetanks damage to give you locks, of course.

[PocketYoda]

Lurmers are scum.

Lurmers only do well when their team does all the heavy lifting for them.

Edited by Samial, 24 February 2021 - 06:38 AM.

[Willard Phule]

Grumpy Old Man, on 24 February 2021 - 06:19 AM, said:

I had real trouble completing the AMS portion of the current event, despite all the Mechs I used bringing AMS except for one. Most of them even fielded double AMS with 2 tons of ammo. Maybe it depends on when people play.

I played my Corsair and got it in one match.

[Aidan Crenshaw]

I'm sorry, Willard, I should have been more specific. My question was referring to the last part of your sentence.

Willard Phule, on 24 February 2021 - 04:10 AM, said:

the new comp group queue.

[Willard Phule]

Aidan Crenshaw, on 24 February 2021 - 06:27 AM, said:

I'm sorry, Willard, I should have been more specific. My question was referring to the last part of your sentence.

How else would you describe it? It's not the "solo queue," since premade groups are there. It's certainly not "quick play" when you wait 15 minutes for a drop. There are all sorts of well known, elite, T1 comp group players there.....more now than before the merger. "The new comp group queue" sounds a whole lot better than "the backed up toilet queue."

[Dozer6]

Willard Phule, on 24 February 2021 - 06:40 AM, said:

How else would you describe it? It's not the "solo queue," since premade groups are there. It's certainly not "quick play" when you wait 15 minutes for a drop. There are all sorts of well known, elite, T1 comp group players there.....more now than before the merger. "The new comp group queue" sounds a whole lot better than "the backed up toilet queue."

Just shat myself, "backed up toilet que"!!!!!!!!
Brilliant!!!!!

[Aidan Crenshaw]

Sorry, not my experience. I neither wait 15 minutes nor drop that often against premades of comp players in the Quickplay Queue.

[ScrapIron Prime]

Samial, on 24 February 2021 - 06:21 AM, said:

Lurmers are scum.

Lurmers only do well when their team does all the heavy lifting for them.

You've not played around good lurmers then. The best ones fight from just behind the brawl line so they're sharing armor and getting their own locks.

[Dozer6]

ScrapIron Prime, on 24 February 2021 - 07:08 AM, said:

You've not played around good lurmers then. The best ones fight from just behind the brawl line so they're sharing armor and getting their own locks.

Preach it brother!!!

[PocketYoda]

ScrapIron Prime, on 24 February 2021 - 07:08 AM, said:

You've not played around good lurmers then. The best ones fight from just behind the brawl line so they're sharing armor and getting their own locks.

Yes those fabled good LRM spammers.. Yes yes..