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Thanks to the Commando..
Wall of Text allert, for the ones wanting to read personall Impression on
ECM and Lights from the other Side.
First of all, i am realy not new to the Teamwarfare and Mechwarrior,
both together a never had but combining the experience was easy..
In most FPS i am the HEAVY/Assault Guy, the Person who gives Support
and goes into the Brawls to break resistance. Before the ECM patch a
played LRM Cat C1F with Lasers, and CTF-1x with PPC both quite
sucessfull Puggin only. It was such a fun i activated Premium so that i can afford it.
Because the Repaibills are skyrocking when you go out Brawling... in every game.
But i was still doing 250-300 Damage on the CTF and peaking in some games and
around 400 on the Cat C1F.
When the ECM hit i thought.. good no great Deal go on your CTF-1X no matter at all,
but even with fixed Lag Issues my Damage done on the CTF-1x is about 50% before ECM, so it was frustrating all over the bank. ( Before i never had issues hitting Lights with direct Fire weapons)
On Saturday morning i swallowed down my personal pride and got myself me into a
Commando 2-D ECM.
I made the Build extremly Cheap with standard 150 engine, 3x SSRM2, 2 Tons Ammo for Welfare 75%, M-Laser and Endosteel, together with ECM the whole build is around 2,5M C-Bills.
Mostly i went with the Train meaning a didn't rush but stayed behind the first Medium/Heavy so the 97 was no draw back, i went Light hunting with the SSRM Brawling with Big Guys after Combat started. My KDR didn't suffer so much my W/L Ratio stayed the same because i was upping my Team. Sometimes i had real fun when i saw that we had a light rush on our Team i joined etc. All together in a Mech of 2,5M C-Bills.
I had lot of Fun in it, but sometimes it was only Rush for the Cap, and it was my job to do this or to get the last secounds out.. because i am expandable, my repaircosts are extremly low.
But this extrem Cheap build was totally a addition to the Team and helped to secure the Victory several times. When i wasn't directly hunted by enemy Jenners or Ravens (in 50% of the cases i stayed victories but with a beaten Up Mech) i could go for the Money Making and
Hunting down other Big Mechs..., which are totally Helpless, i circle them at 100 Meters taking cover comming out... and the Ammo normaly runs out after 2 Biggies solo killed and one beaten up ! Thats enough for the Welfare money i guess.
The M-Laser in this build is only for one Purpose installed: Making money, i can Tag enemy Mechs with it, a swift pass over one Mech an i will get the C-Bills for the Kill-Assist.
I could easily earn 219k up to 238k when in combat and victorious.
It feels to some extend as Cheating doing this played before Heavy's.
When i was in Premades lot of People were wondering why the enemy had already their back open... guess what? it was Commando time before but then i went hunting Lights.
Running the Commando 2D ECM is running a Cash Cow. When you get beat up you get at least the Flat line Money netto, you will have spot some mech and did some Damage, thanks to Lagshield, i had several times Lasers, Ac's PPC beam passing me without doing Damage, so a onehit is very unlikely when on speed, i was sometimes hit when ambushing and los a Arm instantly... but so oder so i could combat out the 19k money for Repairs easily...
And thats the whole point in the Commando build, extremly cheap to repair so Cheap that it putts the Extra money a Hero/Founder Mech gives into Shame, because the Repairbills on them are far higher. You are as helpfull to the Team as a Medium/Heavy, you get kills, kills Assist, you do Component Damage, you are superior to any Light Mech except Cicada/Raven WITH ECM.
On Sunday evening it got a little harder to play on the Com-2D ECM, because lot of players have returned from Mastering the other variants on Cicada and Raven and now are playing them in Full Buff, making it harder for a small cheap build Commando.
Nethertheless, i made 18 Millions in C-Bills with Premium Bonus, considering Reapris that would be 60% without so dear PGI, you have a solution implemented for New players:
The need to Grind to the Com-2D ECM on trial Mechs. They need 2,5M only then they will do 4-6 Millions per Day in C-Bills...
The 2,5M Commando build is simply OP for the Money you need to putt into it. the 2,5M Commando declasses any 5M Builds on Medium or Heavy Base, Assault only eats up more Ammo... and the only real enemy are the Raven 3L for 6M or so build.. And the only Item making him that ridiculous Op is the ECM, with 2x SRM4 he will stay a killer.
Thats my impression after 2 Days playing Commando 2D ECM... and i will keep up doing because i want a Stalker and i guess this think will need lot of Money to mantain.
Oh i forgott, i was playing FPS shooters with my Friends this weekend as everyweekend.. so no 24 hours fulltime Gaming for MWO.
Edited by Elkarlo, 17 December 2012 - 01:39 AM.
