/gerg/ - Giant Extreme Robots General

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>the latest literally pay to win grab deals haven't even been added to the OP
You're fucking fired.

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Shout out to my main man Whispers

We go way back

#KONGisKING

>>171157581
Hi There!

hi im new is this game pay 2 win????

Fucking dashing he's a double nigger.

Hello?

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Shout out to my main man Whispers

We go way back

#KONGisKING

>>171158275
I pre-ordered that mech. Looking forward to it.

I can't wait for a single RAC/2 to trigger ghost heat with itself and shut the user down after firing a single one for 3 seconds.

RACs will have increasing heat rate as you fire as well to incentive firing in bursts :^)

>>171159442
The obvious fix is to remove ghost heat from RAC/2s so that a king crab can have six of them and mow down everyone like a tommy gun drive-by in a mafia crime drama.

>>171159701
I would buy a King Crab just for this.

Right so instead of being able to fire 6 AC/2s for like 4 seconds you can fire 4-6 RACs for... what? 2-4 seconds before heat and jamming fucks you?

>>171159249
The Mad Cat Mk II doesn't bring much new to the table, but it'll be great, like most clan assaults. The Uziel will be ok, though many of it's variants are trash under the MWO system. The Cougar is just a tweaked Addar, so it will be pretty good, though not ground breaking.

The Annihilator will be absolute trash, unless RACs somehow are able to bridge the gap between IS/Clan ballistics, and the inherit weight disparity between the factions, and also be overpowered enough to make piloting a chassis that can crest a hill, and then still need 10 more seconds to get it's weapons over the hill as well, worth it.

I'm biased, because the MkII is my favorite mech - so I naturally got the full deal Ultimate on that one. I'm getting the basic Annihilator package too, because I've been asking for that mech for a while (color me just as surprised as you all are though that the Fafnir and Blood Asp weren't the first mechs to hit the ground).

I don't see the Cougar being very good, personally. It's Timber Wolf speed in a mech under half the weight. It can pack a lot of firepower for its size, but it won't be good as a "light mech". It'll play more like a fragile light-medium.

The Uziel has the benefit of high mounts, but the drawback of a low cockpit. This means you can hill peak pretty well, but your mech shows up over the hill before you can see over it yourself, so you might take a few more shots than otherwise. I think it has the potential to be a solid medium, though. Just not my taste or style.

And back to the Annihilator, it has the problem of super high cockpit with lower arms. Some of its hardpoint locations seem decent, but it will be bad at hills. Corner peaking it should be OK with - and the Hero variant can fit 4x MRM30s. So.

>>171159948
It's either 2 uac5's/ 4 ac2's, or 4 uac5's. The 6 ac2's just never works. You gotta get in there and brawl at some point.

Taking MWO's game mechanics into account as well as likely hit boxes for the Uziel, I think you will find her to be a disappointment, the ST's are going to be easy to hit and XL check. The low mounted cockpit is going to give you Archer type problems with the high mounts that are on the Uziel.... I just hope that everyone that wanted it, will understand that the Uziel is not going to be the "epic" medium mech they are expecting it to be, as well as the Annihilator is going to be just awful.... Yea, the IS really got shafted with these mech choices...

Good bye Cbill, so many upgrade for my mech, so many thing to try, so few Cbill to spend...

Uziel and the Mad Cat look sexy too.

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>>171148886
I dont know what that is
>>171157139
What
>>171159109
DELETE THIS

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Shout out to my main man Horko

We go way back

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>>171160681
you are no horko of mine

>>171160078
When I started playing the Marauder IIC grab deal was already over so now I'm justifying buying the Mad Cat IIC grab deal.

MRMs!

M.R.M.s !!!!

I'll rename my MWO acc to MRMKing and will play exclusively with them as my main weapon!

I wonder which mech will be best with them? Trebuchet? Kintaro? Or I'll bust out my ol' trusty Catapult :D

Did this game ever get good? I have not played since launch except for a few brief forays.

>>171160978
I suspect MRMs may turn out to be a bit subpar after whatever balancing they do to make sure mechs can't one shot each other with point blank 80+ MRM volleys, and will only really shine on mechs with low missile hard point counts.

>>171160978
I already changed my alt account's name to that. ha ha ha.

>>171160681
What's your opinion on Million Live?

all I can say is that makabe is da best

>>171160978
:D

I have 2250 MC, what's a good thing to spend it on?

>>171161573
save it.

Only one that will play well is the Mad Cat II.

Annihilator pure nostalgia mech and there's nothing wrong with that, but will play very badly

Cougar great looking mech but 86.4 KPH in a light, only the very best players will get any joy from that.

and finally the Uziel.....

I have no words, all I can say is it must again be nostalgia of playing MW4 while tripping. Otherwise I just can't see a reason for wanting to play a mech that looks like it fell out a dogs bottom

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>>171160859
Why the fuck would I go to that? It's literally nothing but middle aged IT nerds with their fat white wives.
>>171161452
Literal trash made by a butthurt Namco wanting full rights to the CG pie

Happy for the people who will get their "favourite mech of all time" but for me the game is just missing the basics and the groundwork to build something good on. Year after year they promise great things and at the end there are mechs, and mech packs, and more mechs...

Why don't they run a nostalgia server with the old closed beta version? I would play that all day.

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>>171161806
t. haru "use your geckos don't worry about losing them the blueprints are already in game" ko

>>171161806
don't you want to meet le martini and xenuria

I don't care how stupid it sounds or looks, but if MRMs stream out like lrms do then I'm looking forward to making a firehose splatlas. Just piss rocketspam everywhere like the new god of screenshake.

using sarna as a reference, If tonnage is kept as it is, looks like you can do 4*mrm20 for 12 crit slots and 28 tons.

>>171162020
>>171162258
Fuck off to Eve general

I will so cram RACs on any mech I can if they are not complete dogshit.

My terrible napkin math tells me I can fit 6 RAC/2 on a KCG-000 with a Light 300 engine and ~10 tons of ammo.

I hope RACs are good because I really enjoy ballistic spamming people to death.

If nothing else I guess this means I get to replicate my 2x UAC2 adder build on some lovely IS lights, so that's cool.

Alright I haven't played in awhile because I was holding off to see how much the new skill system would fuck us, what is this engine decoupling I have seen people talking about?

>>171160978
I cant wait to shit up my awesome with them ooh baby ohhh

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>>171161806
Does this mean the whole "ML will overtake CG" just a non-elaborate meme?

also fucking fight me already faglord. I need to collect insurance from my meme ships

#KONGisKING

>>171164498
That MILF decal. Yeah, I'm pre-ordering just for that.

Any news about the beta?

Battletech as a setting has a whole licensed mercenary system acknowledged by all the Great Houses, right? I'm guessing the difference between mercenary and pirate is basically that Comstar has approved your unit, you stay within the limits they and the Houses have defined, and while you might get screwed here or there you're also able to do things like take contracts for different sides, visit civilized space, and retire somewhere you haven't pissed off too badly without getting arrested or vigilante-killed (probably). I'm assuming your force in the campaign will be "legal" mercenaries, which I guess might make keeping ownership of your weird unique dropship a little trickier since that's pretty hard to hide on a unit manifest.

It sounds like it's just another lever of social control developed by Comstar to keep the Houses weak and divided, since it creates a large floating pool of military force that can be bought to prop up the losing side of any major war and maintain the status quo, as well as encourage low-level raiding and feuding by providing an easy way for nobles to bulk out their forces outside of the direct control of their liege. Nobody in a position to win control of the whole Sphere would allow an official body to exist where people are legally allowed to take jobs fighting the new government, they'd have to abolish or completely reform the system - I'm guessing under the current rules contracts against Comstar were forbidden since they're meant to be the 'neutral guarantor', so whoever the new boss is would at least take that spot.

What does it take to survive a small laser hit?

There have been mythical tales of people surviving being shot in the head, being sprayed with countless bullets and even taking grenade explosions right next to them.

So what do weapons fired from a mech with your body and is possible to survive (some of) them?

>>171165842
Way back some comprehensive math happened on /tg/. A small laser is equivalent to a 40k lascannon.

Now for what this means to a person? They fucking die.

Or you do the easy thing and look up how weapons deal damage to infantry in Battletech. Small laser = a few poor fucker die, small pulse laser = a bunch of poor fuckers die.

This is why Elementals are scary motherfuckers. They will eat a standard Large Laser and still come at you, jump on your cockpit and rip you apart.

#KONGisKING

>>171166479
>tfw we'll never get Elementals or other power armor
>tfw we'll never get melee combat with the mechs

>IS LBX20 will take 11 crit slots
>making it a side torso only weapon

Welp, there go my dreams of having a brawler weapon that doesn't suck dicks.

Also, two threads? fucking learn to make one you dumb niggers.

>>171169453
Do you have any idea how difficult it would be for PGI to balance Elementals in this game?

Lau Hu when?
Is MWO p2W?
Quad mechs when?
Wasp. Stinger, LAMs when?
Discord or Mumble?

I thought I'd get all of those out of the way.

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>>171169453

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>>171172212

>>171172114
>>171172212
>>171172312

Anon I love Heavy Gear but I'm not gonna pay $40 for a game that looks like a PS2 launch title in 2017.

double LBX20 on Hunchback is so nicer than I thought

5.5 tons of ammo and 1jj, stripped arms and 1/4 of leg armor, 225xl, you just nuke things and the range isn't so bad

>>171169932
Lao Who?

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>>171172628
Looks like you need your eyes replaced anon.

Who the fuck will post in both threads?

>>171175087
Apparently you.

>>171175810
>>171175736
Apparently me.

>call a faggot in a twin goose twin pepsi kodiak a tryhard shitter because even in that he cant break double digit damage
>shitter reports me for hurting his precious little snowflake feelings
>get a 72 hour ban from a GM Patience faggot

So this is how PGI treats customers that have spent over 200 dollars on their game?
They ban left and right every single report they receive from a nobody F2P shitter?
And right before they announced the new grabdeal, its like they dont even want my money at all.

>>171176667
WAT?
I've been shitting on people literally for years, never had a ban, once had an e-mail warning.

How gold must he be if one his report will ban you?

>>171176667
>calls someone a faggot
>gets reported
>mad that the mods actually did something
kys
do it more so you get permanently banned you goddamn child

Alright Omega lance give a ready op and go weapons hot.

>>171176879
>>171176879
He was a tier 5 F2P tryhard shitter in an unpainted basic green kodiak metacancer that didnt even break double digit damage.
Sure that GM Patience faggot must be proud of his work cowering behind the safety of a computer screen issuing bans let and right must make him feel powerful no matter the nobody faggot he is irl.
The typical internet forum moderator syndrome.
Cant wait until the PIG loses the MW license and all their employees end up under a bridge begging for money.

>>171177114
>Sure that GM Patience faggot must be proud of his work cowering behind the safety of a computer screen issuing bans let and right must make him feel powerful no matter the nobody faggot he is irl.
Kind of like how you did calling someone a faggot over the internet in that game and just now on an anonymous image board?

top kek

>>171177114
gid gud you scrub

nice double digits you shitter

>>171177226
I didnt call him a faggot I called him a tryhard and a shitter, and he was both, so I only stated the truth.

>>171177387
a bloo bloo
get bent kid

>>171177551
Get gassed worthless shitstain.

>>171177830
>tfw not an angry child getting upset over video games

>>171177114
>>171177387
>>171177830

Holy shit, the autism is real.

>>171177985
I miss those days too.
Being young and your only worry is winning online arguments because you are too pussy to approach that cute girl from class.
Good times.

>Americlaps asleep, europoors waking up
>Raging autismo appears

Really gets the neurons going...

>>171178410
For your information I am 28 years old, I have a job that I make 2.5K dollars a month + extras, I have my own apartment and I have a woman.
I am just not gonna take shit from worthless pathetic shitstains over the internet.
Especially from a colossal faggot nerd shitter which is paid less than a McDonalds employee working for the PIG to ban people in their shitty online game because I hurt the pretty special snowlake feelings of some faggot shitter kid.

>>171178815
what the fuck did you just say about me you little bitch

>>171178815
Is this some delicious OC pasta?

>>171178762
This is Australia prime time.

Oceanic games are filled with raging autismos and subhuman slanties.

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actual Loki hero fucking WHEN???

>>171180489
Next month.

Wave 2 and Wave 3 (+mad dog) clam heroes in April.

>>171180847
Literally said so in their "this is what we're doing next year" roadmap post.

Resistance heroes in february, newtech announcement march, clan heroes april.

>>171178815
>28yo "adult"
>posts like a little kid on a chink cartoons web forum

>>171180939
They also said the new skill tree will come out February 21st.

>>171180979
Yeah, but here's the thing:

In-game feature goalposts will be shifted like they're buoys during a high tide.

Mech packs are not. They never shift the timetable on stuff they're going to sell.

>>171181676
Find nearest industrial sander.

Plug it into a power socket and push the start button.

Place your head on the belt.

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>>171182097
>seriously considering a build with 5.5 tons of AC/5 ammo

>>171182493
You can shave more armour to up it to 6t, 900 damage, which is fine enough for an average match

MRM Griffins are going to be dank

>>171182673
Only if you don't miss. Which isn't going to happen with Clan UACs.

Plus there's the problem of the ammo feed order screwing it over in that it needs armor in the arms to protect the ammo that will be sitting in there right until the end.

>Crusader
>Applejack
Why can't the pre order reward patterns be good?

>>171183262
You can easily place 95% of your CUAC5 shots, what?

You don't need to armour the arm either, sure you have the chance of losing the ammo if you don't protect it but you also have free Clan CASE so it's not like it's fucking you up for losing it either. This is hardly intended to be a comp level build, but it's entirely serviceable.

>>171182694
>Large laser ranges
>Slower rate of fire
>MRM-10's are the only substitute for SRM6's, no confirmation on whether or not Artemis will affect them and how they'll fire.
>If MRMs fire like IS SRMs/ LRMS, then they're fucking obnoxious. If they fire staggered similar to clan LRMs like they're supposed to, then they're kinda questionable in usefulness.
>MRM10 is 3 tons, MRM20 is 7 tons

>>171185383
MRMs will most likely fire just like any other IS missile because the tube count on mechs stops at 20, but MRMs keep going up to 30 and 40.

Don't forget MRMs do half as much damage as SRMs, the same as LRMs. Damage potential with SRMs will almost always be higher, not only because of tonnage constraints but crit slots too. You can't even fit 2 MRM30s in a side torso with an XL engine.

They are basically dumb fire LRMs that go in a straight line. I hope they have decent velocity at least.

>>171185706
mrm40 zuesfists aww yiss

>>171186342
>MRM40

You can fit 3MRM20 in the power fist on a Zeus.

>>171186342
>The shit resistance variant zeus
>can put on a MRM40 in one fist, LBX-10 in the other, and 4x Light PPCs

Master Splatter.

>>171187002
Yeah no you won't.

>>171187002
>Resistance variant
>Shit

It was the best Zeus when Zeuses were actually worth using.

>>171187509
So? It's shit now even if that is true.

>>171187617
It's still about as serviceable as it was with Gauss + 3ERLL.

>>171187002
mrm 40, rac 5 and er meds w/ lfe

>>171186715
6t is still going to be srm bomb fist

>>171186715

it's the 1M component mechs that are going to use big mrms.

>>171187856
You can still SRM with it but it's entirely possible to load that many MRMs on it, and if you want to fuck things in the face I don't really know why you wouldn't, that's 60 damage compared to 36~. LB10 and a couple of MPLs or whatever still isn't making up that damage.

>>171187917
Heavier robots will certainly benefit from slotting in multiple MRMs.

>>171188169
what i mean is that the crapload of variants that have like 1 m in a torso and 1 in an arm or something will now be able to fit a pair, or a single mount will benefit from a mrm 40

>>171185383
It would be fine if they tweak the launch speed of MRMs versus Clan LRMs. There are also modifiers you can stack onto it like launching more than one missile per tick, effectively multiplying the fire rate. 5 missiles per tick at Clan LRM rates shouldn't be too unwieldy.

Plus there's velocity to consider; we just don't know enough to pass judgement besides that it will definitely be the better compromise choice for mechs with mixed hardpoints than either of the alternatives.

>>171185706
>MRMs will most likely fire just like any other IS missile because the tube count on mechs stops at 20, but MRMs keep going up to 30 and 40.
This line does not make sense, did you mean just like Clan LRMs?

>>171189365
Meaning if you put a MRM40 in an Atlas then it will fire four times, each time in a volley of 10 because the Atlas doesn't get any more missile tubes than that. So, functionally identical to IS SRMs and LRMs.

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Shout out to my main man Whispers

We go way back

>>171191519
Who?

is mwo pay to win?

>>171161573
Hoard it for sales. Get a Pirates Bane.

I don't play MWO (haven't been brainwashed to that extent by you ComStar types yet) but the MkII was my favorite 'Mech in MW4 multiplayer. I like to load up with an asymmetrical mix of LRM10, LRM15, small and medium pulse lasers and go to town making the opposing team wonder just what the heck is that loadout and learn the hard way that the primary weapons are 2x LBX/20, 2x LBX/10 on different interlocks for a continuous stream of cluster munitions.

The fact that back in the day a lot of MW4 players hated the MkII design, just made blowing things up sweeter.

---

And what, no light autocannons? JagerMech style dual AC/2, dual AC/5 loadouts were my other favorite.

>>171199851
no its not

In anticipation of MRMs and all the other tech, I've installed MW4:Vengeance again and boy it hasn't aged well. It was my favourite game back then and the title that introduced me to the universe but I had a better time even with the MW2 playthrough I've done a couple of weeks ago.

MRMs were probably my favourite weapon because they were the least awkward between the railgun style lasers and the ACs that are just repainted lasers.

Say what you want, I've been spoiled by MWO. It actually is by far the best Mechwarrior game we got yet from a pure gameplay perspective. With all the grind and questionable business decisions from PGI it's easy to forget that. Now if we only had combined warfare and single player missions in MWO...

>>171180489
After I get my pony mechs

>>171199851
it's P2Haveprettymechswithpinkandpurplepaintjobs

>>171161573
Colors, decals and one-shot camos to trick out your mechs.

Pretty upset there won't be some skill tree change soon. I was counting on getting back all those cbills I spent on skills to get some XL engines. Now I guess I'll have to start saving for light xls from scratch

My money says that stealth armour will be relegated to the Raven, and maybe one or two other ECM medium or light mechs, and nothing else.

>>171205439
I'm alright with the skill tree getting 'fixed'before it hits release...but I really, really, really want the ability to Master a mech without needing 3 variants.

Seriously, that should be pretty simple to just release to give a little something.

I'm just happy content is getting added. Imagine if we had a ticket based battlefront style of game, that would be way better than our current CW

I had to uninstall because my limit of hearing 30-something guys whine over voice was hit and I hit a skill wall because of 30 FPS on my GTX260

Will miss Mech Of Duty with Cicadas, Vipers, and Locusts but it became a drag

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Is the Flea in yet? Because I know exactly what I want to do with the new tech

That may be the dumbest way I've ever seen ATMs implemented, but ATMs are very good. Base is 3x12 damage at SRM ranges, 2x12 at LRM ranges, and then 1x12 at longer-than-LRM ranges.

There's no reason for a Clan machine to use SRMs or LRMs if ATMs are in play, especially if they're direct fire.

Tabletop Light PPCs have slightly better range than Inner Sphere ER Medium Lasers for the same heat and damage, but weigh 3x as much. They're not bad for assaults who're crit locked and need to kill some tonnage, but most of the time ER Mediums will serve you better.

Heavy Gauss does 25 damage base but is going to have a pretty crippling damage drop-off. 18 tons per unless my memory has failed me completely. Light Gauss Rifles are some of the better "light" ballistic weapons in tabletop so chances are they'll be garbage in MWO. They're still too heavy for most light `Mechs but are a good fit for lighter mediums with ballistics slots.

>>171206182
>Light Gauss Rifles are some of the better "light" ballistic weapons in tabletop
Comrade, you couldn't be more wrong

>>171206182

tabletop ATMs require an absolute shitload of ammo and require you to perfectly memorize which ammo is better at which ranges or else they underperform cLRMs by a lot - and even then they still underperform cLRMs a lot of the time. (they are definitely better than clan SRMs, which puts them in good company with almost every other weapon in tabletop battletech.) ATMs in tabletop are catnip for grogs. they're overcomplicated and only better than the simpler alternatives in very specific corner cases.

LPPCs are huge in tabletop. they neatly outrange all of the short and middling-range weapons, while still being light and heat efficient enough to fit on anything that isn't a light mech. they do not have "slightly" better range than an IS ERML: they have half again as much range, same as a PPC and longer than a cERML. barring some sort of nerf, LPPCs are probably going to be a big deal in MWO, since they have both their statistical advantages and the fact that they place all of their damage in one instant spot.

in tabletop, LGRs are too heavy for their relatively bad damage, but they have really long range. the range is the only reason to bother with them: they outrange both LRMs and regular gauss rifles.

>>171205563
I'm going to use it on my ECM Cyclops and Atlas.

>>171205865
Sure it isnt the pentium 3 holding you back? Maybe you can get another 500 mb stick of ram to make it a gig

>>171205865
Get a job and get something better than a $300.00 Walmart prebuilt rig.

>>171206484

I wasn't talking about tabletop, I was talking about PGI's implementation of ATMs since they can't figure out how to make ammo-switching work. Unless they have cooldowns that are significantly longer than SRMs (or fire in an arc like LRMs) they completely obsolete the Clan Streak SRM in MWO since they're useful at all ranges and their only downside is their weight, and they may do the same for standard SRMs unless you've got a lot of missile slots.

In a slot-limited `Mech like a Summoner, a 7-ton ATM-12 with a 36 damage (assuming PGI doesn't buff ATM damage like they did with both SRMs and LRMs) close-range alpha is significantly better than the stock LRM-15 or the single SRM-6 you can cram into its only missile slot.

Plus, there's also something hidden in PGI's fucked-up implementation: ATMs will be lock-on weapons for sure, which means we're basically getting iATMs in all but name.

Cool

#KONGisKING

>>171205865
Get a real computer instead of whatever late 90's toaster you're using now.

>>171212624
Rude

#KONGisKING

>>171205865

GTX 260 was released in 2008. Just go to Best Buy or some big box store and drop 500 on a new computer and it will be leaps and bounds better than what you have now.

>>171217843
But I don't want to cut open my case again

>>171219632
Then don't complain about not being able to play games from this decade, you dumbfuck.

Why do we have 2 /gerg/ threads?

>>171221118

because robitts are so HEUG and awesome they need two threads to fit into /vg/ without exploding

I've been out of the loop for like 6 months, I heard that MWO is back to being a dumpsterfire; What happened?

>>171221658
People like you keep making stupid posts like that.

>>171221237
Don't you mean GIANT and EXTREME?

>>171223369
STOMPY ROBBITSS! FUCKHEUG! WHAT CHU GUNNA DO WHEN THEYS STOMP ON U NAO!?

>yfw that totally went in your head to the tune of team america, and you heard it.

and that, ladies and gentlemen, is how you develop mind control powers.

motherfucking pop culture.

>>171221118
The more incredible thing is that somehow they are both alive when usually we struggle to keep ONE alive.

>>171225482

shhh.... don't talk about it or they'll die.

i bought the wolfhound hero, for the ecm, i am so bad.

i also am getting the ZOOSE hero because LEL 2 fist M slots and 2 LT M slots.

>MASC + LFE FOR FAST FOR EVER
>is erml + mrms + rac5 for LOL

>>171225482
YOU KILLED THE THREADS! YOU MONSTER!

>>171228439
Hi there!

>>171232528
I pre-ordered that mech.

>>171217843
Nah it's cool, really. I try to make gaming a low priority because I was utterly focused on Eve to the point where I was missing out on life. I built this box kind of cheaply years ago and at this point the PSU, mainboard- really the whole shebang needs an upgrade. Andromeda and Wildlands are looking like turds so the gaming PC might stay old.

The Mac takes all the money.

MkII.... Does that mean maybe an expansion of the Clans? It's covered in Clan Diamond Shark dekels (decals for you south of Vancouver types)...

>>171234356
Unlikely for now. They would want to keep that until the next set of grabdeals later on

>>171203423
Here's hoping MechWarrior 5 can scratch that itch for us. Although, MWO is the only game I'll be able to play my beloved Mad Kitty Mk Desu for a long time.

Why does the new event not include anything about green paint?

>>171234079
Don't know what you've been reading but Wildlands is pretty fun. Not the best thing ever, but a really solid game.

When you buy a color, is it unlocked for all mechs or just the one you bought it on?

>>171238158
Each and every mech you own.

>>171160859
What game?

>>171238158
just the one

Hello?

>>171240143
Is it me your looking for?

>>171240214
I can see it in your eyes
I can see it in your smile
You're all I've ever wanted
And my arms are open wide
'cause you know just what to say
And you know just what to do
And I want to tell you so much
Quad mechs when?

PGI just announced 3 mechs I really like at one time (Uziel, Cougar, Madcat MKII). Now I need to decide if I want to get one of the 3, and which one.

I'm thinking the Uziel, but the Madcat MKII is tempting. I just don't enjoy playing Assaults that much, so I could pass on the Madcat MKII and the Annihilator (which is just ugly to me anyway). I really love the Cougar, but it will be a difficult beast to play in MWO with the low speed.

So many decisions.

>>171242156
Cougar won't be worth buying unless you also get the reinforcements for the ECM head and JJ STs.

Uziel works fine out of the box, so does Mad Cat MK II.

>>171242395
It will be good but not worth buying.

That doesnt stop nostalgia vision

>>171242156
Simple way to decide... Do you side with the IS or the Clans for Faction stuff? If IS, pick the Uzi, if clans, pick the MadCat or the MILF.

If you play merc, then you better go rob a stop and go and get the cash to get everything.

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Who's ready for the Mad Cat MKII?

>>171242395

the thing is, piggy will have to increase the size of the mechlab ct for the uziel since it won't have any slots for its trademark ct missile slot since at the moment mechs can fit a 2 slot weapon there, and that's IT. so no mrm >10 for that slot. which defeats the point of that ct M slot.
>buy uziel, fit the biggest missile i can to the ct, an srm6 / mrm 5/10
>it gets a HUGE TOOB on the ct, with fuck all missile tubes in it.

Y u do dis, piggy???

>>171243725
They aren't going to increase size at all, what the fuck are you talking about?

The CT missile has always been pretty much worthless, and it's true on other mechs as well. Enjoy your NARC or SRM6.

>>171243869

except the uziel's whole schtick is the big missile point in the center. have you never SEEN one?

they have a huge cylinder as big as the fucking cockpit sitting above it between the shoulders.

>>171244151
Which literally always mounts an SRM6. Are you fucking high? The design has never been known for being a missile boat or carrying a lot of missiles or anything of that nature.

>>171244151
The Uziel's shtick is being a 50ton 2PPC poptart and nothing else. The missile is not the centerpiece of the design even if it looks cool.

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Eagle when?

>>171245059
quad mechs first.

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>>171245059
Fuckin Hawk when

>>171245770
quad mechs will be here before this.

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>>171245945
WE NEED TO GO FURTHER

>>171246649
I would so love to see that in MWO.

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aM i KAWAII? UGUU~

#KONGisKING

>>171247481
>210 km/h
Yeah... das kawaii desu

is this game pay to win?

>>171251768
It's pay to paint your mechs.

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We go way back

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They just started up a St Patrick's themed loot bag event. The big prize this time is a Banshee champion robot.
https://mwomercs.com/tournaments

>>171253983
got 1 cockpit (green lights) and 70mc from 25 loot bags

opened another 3 and got air freshener, okay

Stealth armor needs ECM to function, therefore the IS mechs that will have it by that time are:

Pirate's Bane
Commando 2D
Spider 5D
Javelin 11B
Raven 3L
Assassin 27
Assassin DarkDeath
Cicada 3M
Phoenix Hawk 1B
Phoenix Hawk 2
Griffin 2N
Tempest
Cataphract 0XP
Stalker 3FB
Cyclops 11-P
Atlas D-DC

>>171183442
>not liking the two best camo patterns in the game.

>>171254440
Why did you copy my post? This thread is the shitposting thread, leave the serious thread alone.

>>171254913
Hi There!

>>171255019
I'm looking forward to playing that mech in a couple of months.

>>171234079
If it's a loaded up pro model you should be fine. I can play decently booted in Win10 via boot camp on a loaded 2015 MBP.

I believe in you.

>>171253983
fuck yo couch.

why are people so fucking retarded

>we have a sliver of our base left but it's 3v1
>the 1 enemy is a locust
>they fucking leave their own base to cap the enemy base
>locust just caps it

seriously

>>171257341
dude, i had an entire freaking team of potatoes ignore 5 guys standing on our base right next to or behind them in order to lose trades sniping horribadly at one fucking medium 1500m away.

>guys, they're behind, on the base.

>guys, there's a full lance here, assaults too

>will you stop making stupid trades and turn the fuck around and shoot at something you can actually hit!!!

I just won the Banshee too with only two lootbags earned so far. My number of mechs owned has gone up 50%!

So I WAS saving up for an atlas to fufill my dream of running directly into enemies at full throttle and alpha striking them until one of us is left standing, but this Banshee looks like it can pull that off pretty well too. I didn't see a specific build in the OP for the banshee, so I made one in the browser mechlab and wanted to know what I might be screwing up before spending cash. Is there such a thing as too many heatsinks on a brawling assault? Is that anywhere near enough AMS ammo? Should I bump up some of my med pulses to large at something elses expense? etc.

Also, is there anything I should actually know about Faction play before jumping in without a faction assigned? Does it basically give the same C-Bill/exp payout as normal matches?

>>171257965
>up 50%

are you new?
jesus that's lucky

also AMS is trash don't bother using it
you shouldn't really care about heatsinks, it depends on your build

>>171257965
it's a championship mech so it's the 'best' variant of the chassis and can take the 'best' loadout.

in this case, it's putting in small lasers FIRST into the torsos, THEn 3 LLAS in one side, and 2 in the other (iirc)

the small lasers aren't there to be used, they're there to force the LLAS up into the highmounts (which makes the retardedly tiny cancer dots right next to the cockpit whilt your puny small lasers take up FUGHEUG laser bulges in the bottom of the belly near the hips

http://mwo.smurfy-net.de/mechlab#i=145&l=cd00fe8f9123d611dfce5ea7cbf74d321e2b02ba

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pic semi related, wheat the piggy do with your lasers.

The banshee is one of the best laser vomit poking mechs in the game, and the only thing that really competes with it in that arena is the battlemaster which is just slightly lighter but otherwise pretty much the same thing. It doesn't make for a very good brawler because it is all energy weapons, which are better for firing and then backing off to cool down. It's up there with the KDK3 as one of the mechs in the game where you should reliably be breaking 700-800 damage in a game if you don't make ridiculously bad decisions that get you killed early. Good games in the banshee will see greater than 1,000 damage, and they're not too rare.

Shove a small laser in the first laser slot on the banshee's torsos, then pile 3 large pulse lasers on the right side and 2 on the left, jam an XL400 into that bitch and load it full of heat sinks. Run around blasting people's faces off with staggered 3-2 large pulse laser shots while looking like Earl Hindman from Tooltime from behind whatever cover you can find.

The atlas is one of the best brawling assaults, but it really sucks at doing anything else that isn't brawling. You're totally at the mercy of your team while playing one.

In faction play you do everything as murderballs of 12 and wipe the enemy team from the map. If someone goes and does their own thing and doesn't die with everyone else, then your team will likely lose because you're fighting four series of 11v12s. The only exception to this is if the enemy team has even more people on their team being stupid.

I got it on the 15th draw. Banshee 3M is so good.

The odds of getting it on any given draw are apparently 1/100; fortunate for you guys. I usually wind up having to play the whole event to get the mech.

All you gotta do is buy ALL the mech packs for 175 draws, duh.

>>171221658
pgi has made two attempts at Huge Sweeping Game Updates that were badly implemented and got spiked before being moved from test to the live game

the live game itself has barely changed. there's a new, very snipey clan heavy now, i guess.

Ayy liao

#KONGisKING

Which one will feel good to play between watching Gurren Lagann?

>>171157554
Love the skin on that one...


The MK. II is a solid mech, just one that could be better less 5t of weight... AS for the other mechs, well I just hope know how they are not going to be top shelf mechs....

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>>171246649
>>171246763

Probably will show up somewhere else first.

So, after taking a deeper look into the packages, this is what I've come to conclude for now:

The Uziel will probably be decent and given my lore-friendly playstyle it will be hella awesome to pilote.
The Annihilator is one of my favorite 'Mechs, but it's speed will make it pretty much unusable in MW:O. You might get away with 4xLightGauss sniping, but meh. I'll get a few for CBills later on.
Cougar: I might get a couple at CBill release to do my Adder stuff with ECM cover, but I don't see any reason to chose it over my beloved Adder.
The MadCat II will probably be a good 'Mech that can do the standard Clan Assault stuff.

What I did notice though:
- There is no MASC and barely ECM. Especially with the low speed of the Cougar and Annihilator I'd expected these to have as MASC variant (prob. Hero). Heck, give that Annihilator Hero a 400 Engine and he would probably wreck everything in his way.
- None of the upgrades seem all that compelling. Sure, there are a few thing you can do better with the upgrades, but I am not seeing anything really interesting that'd require me to put in more money. (This is a player speaking who demises the Laser vomit Meta and refuses to play that. :P)

All together, I'll get the Uziel and MadCat II standard packs as mentioned, but I see absolutely no reason to invest any more right now.

Funny thing: my 'discount' Annihilator Direwolf (4xLB10X) will probably beat the original Annihilator in most categories. Kinda sad though.

Haven't logged in to play since the Lucky Charms started, so you can win 1 bag per match and a total of 25 bags per kind of match?

I'm stoked that this means HBS will be getting model data for SNPPCs, HPPCs, and LPPCs. My pipe dream of seeing a late-era expansion is slightly less ridiculously unrealistic! I hope HBS will do ATMs properly should they choose to tackle such an era, though.

And the Annihilator! That's technically 3025-appropriate. (One of you MWO folks start bugging PGI to get me my Imp, please!)

>>171266651
HBS can't even handle ammo switching so if they ever make Inferno SRMs it would be a separate weapon from a regular launcher. They both have serious programmer issues.

As a PPC fan, the light and snub nose ppc will be featuring in at least 90% of my builds. ATMs sound interesting and might see some use too.
It will also be nice to have LAMS and MRMs, my good ol' CPLT-C1 will feel great when all this new stuff hits the mechbay.

>>171262229
http://mwo.smurfy-net.de/mechlab#i=251&l=c2e80efdf7166a938dc1ffee12c46939548c8aee
Awesome, I took your suggestions and this is what I got out of the ordeal. I'm more than a bit afraid of using XL engines but hell, I'm used to running around in my ACH with 40 armor on the CT so I think I could get used to it. I guess this mech is how I'll learn to get good at positioning and poking around corners.

That 6.5 million CBill engine though

>>171267274
The Katapult can fit twin heavypepsi.

Lao Hu?

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We go way back

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>>171270394
We need this first.

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>tfw you haven't played robots in forever.

#KONGisKING

Just always be torso twisting and you'll do fine with XLs. They're bad in brawlers, but the mobility benefits far outweigh the survivability issues when you're running a laser vomit mech.

The default build isn't bad with its standard engine and it can still do work, but the 400XL 5LPL version is about as optimal as it can get.

>even Vass is double thread posting
>both threads are STILL up
I love this new meme, Dudebot you've outdone yourself.

>>171274314
If he'd be banned 90% of the shitposting would clear up overnight.

>>171274373
Not just on /gerg/ but on 4chan entirely. Dudebot is actually SkyNet.

>>171274314
Hi There!

>>171262229
This is exactly what I wanted to know, thanks!

Guys is MWO p2w?

>>171277742
Dunno, you better ask the other thread.

>>171157307
>>171157643

Just curious, why is there two threads?

Anyway, where are my Armored Core bros from the now ded /acg/ I've been searching for you. What do you guys think of Soul Saber 2? It plays like a armored core game and has 6v6 online battles.

>>171278375
yes

Nope, no Banshee for me yet. Guess I have to actually play now.

cool story

>>171281449
>tfw got the wubshee on my 3rd grab bag.
>but it's only +30% XP and thus utterly worthless to me.

:^)

>>171278375
yes

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We go way back

>>171287836
who?

>>171274515
That mech looks awesome.

Lao Hu when?

>>171296127
After they make the Balius.