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[Tywren]

VeeOt Dragon, on 21 March 2025 - 07:52 PM, said:

no it was just another equally unimaginative meta build instead.

In what reality is a King Crab with rocket launcher 20's, machine guns, and flamers a meta? Because i saw that today.

[Rosarius]

Xypherious, on 23 March 2025 - 07:34 AM, said:

Wow. Boreal Reach sucks ***. Thanks for the 1v1 Shooting gallery, PGI. So much fun.

*shrugs* bring a weapon appropriate to the fight or don't, the choice is yours

[Tywren]

Rosarius, on 24 March 2025 - 07:16 PM, said:

*shrugs* bring a weapon appropriate to the fight or don't, the choice is yours

No, he's right, it's a garbage map made by the same brain trust that gave us the original Polar Highlands, which in the end needed a complete rework, just like Boreal Reach does. Coverless rolling hills, and standing on opposite sides of the map, sniping away at each other with the high mounts on Stone Rhinos, and Blood Asps is boring, **** play.

[Rosarius]

Tywren, on 24 March 2025 - 10:07 PM, said:

No, he's right, it's a garbage map made by the same brain trust that gave us the original Polar Highlands, which in the end needed a complete rework, just like Boreal Reach does. Coverless rolling hills, and standing on opposite sides of the map, sniping away at each other with the high mounts on Stone Rhinos, and Blood Asps is boring, **** play.

While it is true that Boreal favours mid to long range builds with good hill peek profiles, you need to remember it was put into a game mode designed around map bans. If a player was in a brawl mech didn't want to play Boreal they could just ban it, just like a player who might be in a ranged mech could ban Caves. In EQ the map is fixed, so a player can choose a mech they think is best suited for the map, or they can play Quick Play while they wait for the next map.

Boreal is unlikely get get any kind of rework as it is only used in EQ and private lobbies, it is what it is

For what it's worth, stone rhinos and blood asps aren't that good on Boreal, you see their torsos rise above the hill long before they can actually shoot you. I had great success in War Emu (good mounts / hitboxes / survivability), Bullsharks (excellent mounts / survivability), Annis (good hitboxes / survivability), EXEs (great mounts for poptarting), and Dires (seven AC5 glass CT)

[Gopper]

Tywren, on 24 March 2025 - 10:07 PM, said:

No, he's right, it's a garbage map made by the same brain trust that gave us the original Polar Highlands, which in the end needed a complete rework, just like Boreal Reach does. Coverless rolling hills, and standing on opposite sides of the map, sniping away at each other with the high mounts on Stone Rhinos, and Blood Asps is boring, **** play.

boreal meta was varied for mid-long range i was able to do well with 5 gauss gausszilla blc stalker dakka anni etc and there is liao jungle and ishiyama caves for brainless w keying and hiding in ditches with brawlers

Edited by Gopper, 26 March 2025 - 09:15 AM.

[Tywren]

Gopper, on 26 March 2025 - 09:15 AM, said:

boreal meta was varied for mid-long range i was able to do well with 5 gauss gausszilla blc stalker dakka anni etc and there is liao jungle and ishiyama caves for brainless w keying and hiding in ditches with brawlers

If you think Ishiyama's all about walk forward while firing, you're a very unimaginative player. I actually had to change my skill layout to unlock seismic sensors, and pop UAVs on that map. It's a map for stalk and counter stalk; finding a niche and waiting for your opponent to walk by before springing an ambush.

If anything BoringReal is the map of walking forward mindlessly while vomiting blue lasers at each other. nothing but fire and counter fire; bonehead, and braindead sniper play. The smartest thing I'd seen on that entire map was one guy who used jumpjets to get on the roof of the arena elevator for a completely unobstructed view of the entire map before cutting loose with the blue pew pew.

Edited by Tywren, 26 March 2025 - 03:52 PM.

[Kamiko Kross]

Gopper, on 26 March 2025 - 09:15 AM, said:

boreal meta was varied for mid-long range i was able to do well with 5 gauss gausszilla blc stalker dakka anni etc and there is liao jungle and ishiyama caves for brainless w keying and hiding in ditches with brawlers

Did he hit a nerve?

[Gopper]

Tywren, on 26 March 2025 - 03:42 PM, said:

If you think Ishiyama's all about walk forward while firing, you're a very unimaginative player. I actually had to change my skill layout to unlock seismic sensors, and pop UAVs on that map. It's a map for stalk and counter stalk; finding a niche and waiting for your opponent to walk by before springing an ambush.

If anything BoringReal is the map of walking forward mindlessly while vomiting blue lasers at each other. nothing but fire and counter fire; bonehead, and braindead sniper play. The smartest thing I'd seen on that entire map was one guy who used jumpjets to get on the roof of the arena elevator for a completely unobstructed view of the entire map before cutting loose with the blue pew pew.

hiding and waiting for your enemy for the first shot is what makes caves brainless you dont have to put in any effort approaching with a brawl mech and there is no places on the map to play from for example on steiner i've played with the onion against receive mechs and it was fun because of the approach or when i do brawl mech mirror 1v1s on steiner cause there is rocks and structures to play around instead of just spam jjs and masc if you have it and twist while shooting at 100m simulator that caves is boreal becomes interesting when you realize there is a lot more to trading with dakka mechs and hill peekers than just standing still

[LordNothing]

today i ran the duelist and it did not live up to its name. lost most, won 3 or 4. got a headshot (now 13% guillotine).