Celebrating Arrival Of Spiders With Purchase Of New Cataphract 1X
#41
Posted 15 January 2013 - 09:19 AM
#42
Posted 15 January 2013 - 09:19 AM
#43
Posted 15 January 2013 - 09:22 AM
280 Standard Engine
3 MLaser in the arms
ERPPC, Gauss, CASE in the right torso
3 Tons of gauss ammo
Remaining tons & crits are full with DHS and Endo Steel
With the pip module added this build can be brutal at long range.
The zoom box isn't great but using it with thermals I can at least tell different hit locations at extreme ranges.
#44
Posted 15 January 2013 - 09:22 AM
55 firepower and a 1.26 heat efficiency is nice as well.
I also love the 3D, the speed and maneuverability with the JJ's is fantastic. Currently I have mine equipped with 4x MPL's and an AC10, 18 DHS. The MPL's are vicious when group fired, particularly against legs.
#45
Posted 15 January 2013 - 09:22 AM
KinLuu, on 15 January 2013 - 09:19 AM, said:
I just want to be able to blow their leg off and beat them with it.
I got pretty good at legging them with dual gauss.
Edited by Yokaiko, 15 January 2013 - 09:25 AM.
#46
Posted 15 January 2013 - 09:26 AM
*Glasses*
Third page.
POSTMODERN UAC5 JAM ENDING
#47
Posted 15 January 2013 - 09:26 AM
Lynette Steffeld, on 15 January 2013 - 09:19 AM, said:
On the bright side it's a lot better than our Mosin toting gauss friends, but word is that actually get their shots in... Out of my 200 rounds I usually miss 40-50, lol.
Speaking of shotguns, here's the million dollar question:
VIABILITY OF LBX-10 OUTSIDE OF LIGHT HUNTING.
DISCUSS.
*Strikes obligatory fabulous pose*
It's awful, the standard AC10 is far superior. Beyond 75m the LBX spreads it's damage far too much to be useful against anything with heavy armor. The high crit chance is negilible, the damge boost on a 1 damage crit is crap.
#48
Posted 15 January 2013 - 09:30 AM
#49
Posted 15 January 2013 - 09:31 AM
While the standard AC10 is more or less THE go-to brawler canon at the moment, I still have issues hitting lights with them, unless said light makes a mistake.
Which makes me wonder... If:
1> Collisions re-implemented
2> Trip Light mech of choice
3> LBX into the ground
Would step 5 be profit...?
Makes me wonder.
#51
Posted 15 January 2013 - 09:35 AM
Spinning Burr, on 15 January 2013 - 07:01 AM, said:
Been running this for awhile now and love it. The other one I like now is 3 lg lasers and one GR in the Illya. Got the 4x and thought I would like it but i was wrong so got 8/8 basic and sold it. WIll get the 2x I think next when I get around to it.
#53
Posted 15 January 2013 - 09:37 AM
Lynette Steffeld, on 15 January 2013 - 09:19 AM, said:
On the bright side it's a lot better than our Mosin toting gauss friends, but word is that actually get their shots in... Out of my 200 rounds I usually miss 40-50, lol.
Speaking of shotguns, here's the million dollar question:
VIABILITY OF LBX-10 OUTSIDE OF LIGHT HUNTING.
DISCUSS.
*Strikes obligatory fabulous pose*
They are too timid to make the LB10X work like it is supposed too. At close range the damage is supposed to ramp up for a nice bonus, at max range it should do the stated damage. Since there is no bonus damage from MWO's LBX weapons, they fail to be of much use.
#54
Posted 15 January 2013 - 09:42 AM
Lightfoot, on 15 January 2013 - 09:37 AM, said:
I've heard stories from TT players about something called BUCKSHOT.
Not sure if it's that or something else, but apparently there's some sort of special ammo that makes LBX cannons wail very, very loudly, and their targets even louder in the process.
As a ballistics enthusiast seeing different ammo choices would be so awesome. But then with the way things are now I think that's still a bit far away.
I once saw an Ilya with 3X LBX10s before, not sure how it did for the rest of the match, but I DO recall the lights running away from it VERY quickly.
Was a funny sight.
#55
Posted 15 January 2013 - 09:44 AM
Lightfoot, on 15 January 2013 - 09:37 AM, said:
They are too timid to make the LB10X work like it is supposed too. At close range the damage is supposed to ramp up for a nice bonus, at max range it should do the stated damage. Since there is no bonus damage from MWO's LBX weapons, they fail to be of much use.
In the fluff it was a proximity round so you would get the same spread regardless of range.
#56
Posted 15 January 2013 - 09:46 AM
2x AC10
2x L Pulse Laser
Seems to be working pretty well. Got tired of my UAC5s jamming all the time. An AC10 is pretty much 2 hits from an AC5 so works out well.
#57
Posted 15 January 2013 - 09:50 AM
JokerVictor, on 15 January 2013 - 09:22 AM, said:
Hope you don't mind if I borrow that. I've been struggling with 3D builds because I obsess over using both ballistic mounts. Might have to try a change of pace.
#58
Posted 15 January 2013 - 09:52 AM
Bagheera, on 15 January 2013 - 09:50 AM, said:
Hope you don't mind if I borrow that. I've been struggling with 3D builds because I obsess over using both ballistic mounts. Might have to try a change of pace.
Awesome, use it as a flanker... it doesn't have the straight firepower for frontal assaults. It's great in a brawl, can outmaneuver most anything, just get good at JJ turning.
Edit: I built mine around an XL 300, btw.
Edited by JokerVictor, 15 January 2013 - 09:52 AM.
#59
Posted 15 January 2013 - 09:52 AM
Lynette Steffeld, on 15 January 2013 - 09:08 AM, said:
I'm just not a fan of something that doesn't FIRE TEH BULLETZ at a very high speed. I think I'll be positively just laughing and holding down one button when RACs come out... that is, until they inevitably jam.
But that's when I hold down my OTHER button and pretend that lazors are green bullets. FUGGIN' FOOLPROOF/10
I've killed more lights who've made *mistakes* as opposed to lights actually moving. The one time I did kill a moving light was when both my lasers converged on the red core of a raven running towards me in a straight line.
Ain't that a b*tch?
That's heavy, man.
NOT AS HEAVY AS MY ILYA THOUGH HA HA H- *is shot*
On the weekend I was trying to get XP for one of my NOT Ilya variants, the 1X I believe, and being a true Ilya pilot and hero in general, my solution to piloting a Cataphract variant that isn't an Ilya is to just pretend that it IS an Ilya. Thus the 1X is mounting something like a Gauss, 3 medium lasers and an ER-PPC (because hey, they're the gauss rifles of the energy world!).
I saw a cheeky Raven in the distance harassing two of my team mates, and I actually MISSED with my gauss rifle, the guy was standing practically still as well. My second gauss round, which sounded remarkably like an ER-PPC struck the ****** right in the side and blew him up. And then it struck me that for once, my PPC had actually done *something* to a mech!
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