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[Solaxxas]

Topic is pretty self-explanatory. Share some golden advice aimed at you or just anyone, in the chat.

What prompted this thread was this nugget I saw some days ago;
"Don't use Trial mechs because it hurts the team."

[Norris J Packard]

LBX's are good.

[Zero Neutral]

Norris J Packard, on 12 February 2013 - 05:41 AM, said:

LBX's are good.

AS7-D-DC with 2x LBX10-AC and 3x SRM6 is very fun to use... both torsos are shotguns. It is quite highly effective tbh.

Edited by Zero Neutral, 12 February 2013 - 05:44 AM.

[bloodnor]

aim for the atlas's cockpit. it's funny as they don't have one according to the hitbox

Edited by bloodnor, 12 February 2013 - 05:48 AM.

[Norris J Packard]

bloodnor, on 12 February 2013 - 05:48 AM, said:

aim for the atlas's cockpit. it's funny as they don't have one according to the hitbox

Yes they do, it is the left eye (if you are looking at them, it is the right eye).

I head shotted one this morning.

[FerretGR]

Solaxxas, on 12 February 2013 - 05:40 AM, said:

Topic is pretty self-explanatory. Share some golden advice aimed at you or just anyone, in the chat.

One of my biggest pet peeves: the sideline critics. You got yourself on the sidelines, and I'm still fighting, 'nuff said.

A good one from the other day: I was playing with my PPC AWS-8Q, on Forest City, sitting on a hilltop, zoomed in and sniping for the majority of the match. When it became obvious that my team was getting slaughtered, I waded out into the action, blasting away. These things are PPCs, so I inevitably overheated when blasting my way towards the enemy, no longer paying attention to heat like I should. Upon overheating, my thermal goes off and I unzoom, at which the always assistive peanut gallery chimed in with a "god, Ferret, why won't you zoom?"

Well done, peanut gallery, well done.

Edited by FerretGR, 12 February 2013 - 06:01 AM.

[Esplodin]

team: Light - WHAT ARE YOU DOING?

me: scouting left

team: Get back to the caldera and form up!

(enemy rolls pug from left)

[Thirdstar]

Norris J Packard, on 12 February 2013 - 05:41 AM, said:

LBX's are good.

No you see 10 shots that all do one point of damage are fricking awesome.

As to thread - "Thirdstar go check the base for that capper" I was in my D-DC.

[Magik0012]

"ALT-F4 for 3rd person view"

[Monkey Bone]

Go in the water, stick together, don't enter tunnel etc.

[jakucha]

To not stick together and basically go off on your own. This was from a usually non-pugger saying it didn't matter for PUGs because he was arrogant or something, so he goes off on his own and dies first.

[Booran]

Armchair generals spouting military jargong and ragequitting when they're first to die.
"Cover the flank, diamond formation, enemies half a klick away" *boom* "lol noobs" *quit*

[Ilwrath]

Join our clan at "insert website". After sync stomping my poor pubbie team.

Yeah sure I really want to become a member of your lamer-club because that is why I play online games.

Worst "advice" ever.

Edited by Ilwrath, 12 February 2013 - 06:09 AM.

[bloodnor]

buy the advanced zoom module

[Thirdstar]

Oh forgot the best bit of advice.

"Just shoot the ears off of that A1"

[jakucha]

Booran, on 12 February 2013 - 06:08 AM, said:

Armchair generals spouting military jargong and ragequitting when they're first to die.
"Cover the flank, diamond formation, enemies half a klick away" *boom* "lol noobs" *quit*

ALPHA I GOT TANGOS ON MY TAIL, I CAN'T SHAKE EM

Edited by jakucha, 12 February 2013 - 06:11 AM.

[MegaBusta]

Zero Neutral, on 12 February 2013 - 05:44 AM, said:

AS7-D-DC with 2x LBX10-AC and 3x SRM6 is very fun to use... both torsos are shotguns. It is quite highly effective tbh.

For that tonnage, why not put in 2 UAC5s? Or an AC20?
The main draw of most ballistics is focused damage at a low "heat buck", at the cost of tonnage. The LBX is unfocused, which would be okay until you realize that SRMs are functionally very similar, but do the job much better. Yeah, you're out of missile slots, but instead of trying to make the ballistic slots function like a very expensive, crappy missile slot, how about you focus on their strong points?

[Norris J Packard]

Thirdstar, on 12 February 2013 - 06:02 AM, said:

No you see 10 shots that all do one point of damage are fricking awesome.

As to thread - "Thirdstar go check the base for that capper" I was in my D-DC.

I wish there was a weapon that did the same damage, weighed 8 tons less, took up two less crit slots and was cheaper!

Oh wait, there is. It's called the AC/20.

[Thirdstar]

MegaBusta, on 12 February 2013 - 06:12 AM, said:

For that tonnage, why not put in 2 UAC5s? Or an AC20?
The main draw of most ballistics is focused damage at a low "heat buck", at the cost of tonnage. The LBX is unfocused, which would be okay until you realize that SRMs are functionally very similar, but do the job much better. Yeah, you're out of missile slots, but instead of trying to make the ballistic slots function like a very expensive, crappy missile slot, how about you focus on their strong points?

Because Zero likes WINNING dammit.

[Taizan]

Magik0012, on 12 February 2013 - 06:05 AM, said:

"ALT-F4 for 3rd person view"

For me that translates into - if you want 3rd person view, leave the game. Not that ridiculous, albeit a bit devious ;-)