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[Lobster in Leggins]

Oriffel, on 08 November 2024 - 11:54 AM, said:

If you wanted to make something fragile....why not give us a new light? or fast glass medium?


Maybe you can be the first Mechwarrior game to give us the singer/wasp, the most common mechs in the BT universe, that we never get to use.

Or something newer and cooler. New stuff has been so assault heavy. A show assault with no armour just feels like a bad compromise. Wish that post came out before i placed my order.

i dont understand why people are so concerned about the usefullness of the bane.10 uac2 will be beast mode, at least in tier 3-5 you will wreck mechs easily.playing the ultra violet with his famous build and i never was in the situation to call it a bad mech

[Gezkill]

Lobster in Leggins, on 30 November 2024 - 07:49 AM, said:

i dont understand why people are so concerned about the usefullness of the bane.10 uac2 will be beast mode, at least in tier 3-5 you will wreck mechs easily.playing the ultra violet with his famous build and i never was in the situation to call it a bad mech

Standard UAC2 spam requires you to stare at the target. The main issue is that you can dish the damage but you absolutely cannot take it in return. Combined with that fact that the Bane is a wide boy and its guns are located in the arms equals your not going to do the necessary damage the mechs supposed to do.

The only good variant is the LRM boat and thats it because your not being shot at.

[Allen Ward]

Bought the package and optimized them as much as possible. I play Assaults a lot and not terribly bad only. This Mech I personally call "The Pain" and not because it is a pain for the enemy. It just doesn't work. No speed, no flexibility, armor/hitboxes are hell and the weapon crunching (8xLRM15 and such nonsense) is just not worth it (no Tag, no Laser). In my opinion it's probably the worst design ever. Can work in very well trained and coordinated lances where it is protected and supported well. But for standalone play I would choose any other mech over it.

[Derek Icelord]

Yeah, the whole idea of a "glass cannon" 100 ton mech with how MWO plays is just absurd. I regret buying the Bane. It's hitboxes are absurdly bad, it's slow, and because it has laughable armor quirks it dies quickly. The CT is so massive you can get hit by a mech you can't see yet.

PGI, you nailed the glass half. Where's the cannon?

[BlueDevilspawn]

Share your builds and recordings of gameplay and then we can decide if it’s “the Indian or the arrow”. I’ve played plenty of Bane and if I carelessly expose thinking I can tank like another assault, I’ll lose a bunch of armor. But if I play cagey, use the high mounts, and trade well (which I usually do), the fire can overwhelm plenty of targets. I’d say the cannon part is functioning just fine. I’ve said it before…. “Anyone who typically brags about tanking xyz damage instead of shooting and killing will fare poorly in the Bane”.

[Milocinia]

Personally I'm having a blast with the 1 and L so far, not tried the others yet.

The key is to imagine you're a 2nd line medium or smaller heavy - allow one of the heavily armoured assaults to take the initial focus fire then poke yourself out and dish some dakka but being very wary of retreating if you become the focus. Be that 2nd, 3rd or 4th mech that comes around the corner, the one that makes the other team s*** themselves for committing too much into the skirmish.

Very first match in the 1, removed the MGs and added endo/ferro and just added more ammo and a couple of DHS. Kept it at 10x UAC2. 1100 damage and 5 kills. Trust me I'm not even particularly good at this game either.

I think I prefer dual "LBX" HAG on the L even though having a single shot UAC20 is so tempting! Still experimenting but doing reasonably well with this variant.

Honestly I'm loving the Bane so far.