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[XWorldEaterX]

I don't really understand why people talk about fotm and cheese builds ect, I mean there is only so many ways you can build a certain mech unless you are going to try something crazy and probably make an ineffective mech.

I have only been playing for about two weeks and am just now finding out right now that SRM boats are a cheese build? What else do people expect you to build?

I recently bought a C4 cat because I liked my K2 and wanted to try a long range missile boat. After hating it I turned him into a brawler with srms and pulse lasers. I liked it a lot more then long range thats for sure.

But what else can you do? Put on some close range missiles and long range missile? Those builds just never seem to work so well for me. This leaves you with using srm 2,4 or streaks. Not a lot of options and why would you use srm2 or 4 if you have the weight for 6's and streaks are way too risky.

Sure this build is powerful but I notice a lot of people use gauss, ppc and ac/20 and ultra ac/5 which means you must wait for your team to engage so you can go in and pick people apart or find a flanking enemy.

[Procobator]

I use my srm cat as my money maker mech. If you build it for speed and you are sneaky you will almost always hurt the enemy.

[Pr8Dator]

Guys, this is just a bragging thread by another Splattapult who thinks he suddenly got really skilled...

Edited by Pr8Dator, 31 December 2012 - 05:25 PM.

[XWorldEaterX]

Pr8Dator, on 31 December 2012 - 05:24 PM, said:

Guys, this is just a bragging thread by another Splattapult who thinks he suddenly got really skilled...

What exactly takes skill? I mean unless you are really known then everyone just assume you are a no skill cheese building pug playing non talking noob..... I mean I guess I could build myself a badass atlas with nothing but two machine guns and a flamer. If I got a kill with that would I then be called skilled?

I mean numbers on the board hardly mean anything anyways. I was in a game yesterday were a guy sat afk in our base the whole round, Then a heavily damaged raven and cent came up and were looking at him for a few seconds. They opened fire, he opened fire and killed both of them before the rest of the team destroyed him and he made top of our side with the most xp because he got 2 kills.....

Edited by XWorldEaterX, 31 December 2012 - 06:10 PM.

[Tasorin]

Bilbo, on 31 December 2012 - 11:36 AM, said:

The SRM Cat was a FOTM mech a while back. Then EVERYBODY realized how easy they are to ruin at range. They went away and were slowly replaced by SSRM Cats. These were ruined by the ECM implementation. There might be enough ignorant souls out there to keep the build and its cousin the 20 Cat viable for a while. In the end they will fall out of use again before its over with.

90 point Alpha Strike says what?!?

See you in the cave.

[GalaxyBluestar]

srm boats are legit it's just that over 50% of the time you'll be fighting under the 400m mark so unless you have a friend or two covering you you'll find them cleaning you and the house more often than not.

[SpiralRazor]

Joseph Mallan, on 31 December 2012 - 10:51 AM, said:

No they are not. You Cat is Boating them. Boated weapons have that appearance of OP.

Theres no such thing as boating on an A1....it has all missile slots.

[SpiralRazor]

Actually, to be clear,

SRM A1s were hugely popular back when SRMS delivered a tight stream of missiles all to the same panel...That was 90 points mostly to one location.

When the spread value on them was increased they lost some of there appeal. During both of these times, Streak Cats were always popular to counter trollmandos and the Jenners.

With the advent of Tag and Artemis, and the preponderance of slow moving Assault mechs in game combined with the absolute worthlessness of Streaks on an A1, the old SRM based Cat made a resurgence and is viable because your primary targets are A- Big and B- Slow.

[Taron]

Well, those SRM6 are verry strong, but i changed the mech now to 2 LRM5 and 4 SRM6, it's more effective.

[Sifright]

Sug, on 31 December 2012 - 11:05 AM, said:

God I love blowing the "ears" off catapults and then leaving them.

people like you are my favorite enemies in a catapult. taking my ears off is slower than coring me via CT when you slowly take my ears you give me more time to explode people

[Daekar]

My favorite Centurion build is a CN-9A with 3x ASRM6 and 2x MedLas. Max armor most places, DHS, 5 tons of ammo, fastest engine I had left for. People ignore me, and then start exploding. . Then they shoot at my arms and I laugh because there is nothing in them!

Yes, SRM6s are a bit OP, but no more than anything else. Boat them, and they're ridiculous.

[Karl Split]

ITS OVER 9000!

[TexAce]

Ahh, there's nothing better than blasting 4 premade ecm commandos in one match with my SRM6 using my Awesome.....what a great day it was.

Loving hunting these little buggers with this weapon (if you know how to handle it). They were so impressed they wanted me in their clan. lol

[ElmoWithAGun]

As a 6xSRM6 A1 pilot, I have seen numerous of copy cats (no pun intended) that have dueled against me and lost. A lot has to do with the pilot, not the mech. Your mech can have the most devastating loadout, but it means nothing if you can make your shots count.