ICEFANG13, on 14 November 2012 - 09:19 PM, said:
... no weapon can mindlessly kill something at any range. LRMs are closest though.
You just can't mindlessly kill with LRMs. People think that, and they think that the proper means to that end is to put 1000 missiles in the air. Both are wrong.
I carry a total of 540 missiles into any given match - a whopping 18 full salvos with my two LRM15s. I usually have ammo left over. Picking your target and choosing your shots are the keys to making LRMs effective. And sure, LRMs have guidance to them, which may make them seem 'mindless', but don't forget that at long range I have a full 3-5 seconds before my shot hits target. That's a lot of time for someone to move (or die) making my volley a waste. If anything, I need to think *more* about my shots, because I don't want to waste my ammo blindly firing.
B3RZ3RK3R, on 15 November 2012 - 12:03 AM, said:
Anyway, he let loose both his LRM launchers but he was partially behind a crane so it soaked up almost all of one side of the launchers. He stood there and got off 3 launches before I melted his noggin' (had an ER LL and reg PPC). My damage readout showed yellow around upper half of my mech like barely touching gold color; so I guess maybe 5-10% damage on each of the armor locations? Was not expecting so little from sitting still myself with no AMS.
So I trotted down the hill and started into the street with the low buildings on one side and I think the tankers (or something close to their height) on the other side. LRM hunchie jogs out of their base and fires from other end of the street. Can't remember why I did, but I think something blocked me or I was too far away to get to an adjacent street infront of me for cover.
I went into reverse and curved behind some cover, taking up two flights from the hunchie. I looked again at my damage readout: was in the orange-red on my torsos!
I can't remember if that hunchie was bone stock or not, but shesh he had to be emptying at least a LRM 20 at me! You know, the kind of "OUCH!" you would expect when a cloud of missles come at you! (and no they were not SRMs!)
I won't say LRM's are "overpowered" or "nerfed", but I definitely will say that something hinky is going on with their damage registering!
This is the other thing with LRMs - a single volley from my Cat means anywhere from 1-30 missiles may hit you. That's a very wide damage spread.
Take the first Cat - he was probably all "OMG my LRMs are so weak!" when the fact is he was launching 2/3rds of them into terrain. And then there's the Hunch - if he had an Artemis'd LRM 20, and he hit you with 15-20 of those missiles, that is a lot of damage, even for an Atlas.
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