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Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 12:45 am
by NightRychune
yeah
imo given the current maps and the way they're designed there's just not much reason to try and do anything long-range, it's too easy to close the gap - particularly with the 2x armor values compared to BT standard - and force close-range engagements
running an XL engine on an assault brawler like that is very risky since it's easy to core if you get flanked and your RT/LT get targeted from behind since they have relatively little armor, but having 70kph top speed makes it even easier to maneuver into favorable positions, and i find i prefer that build to the 7x med laser lawesome build since it provides significantly higher damage
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 9:47 am
by Adept
That's very interesting. Personally I just put in a smaller engine dropping the max speed to 40, and made up the difference in heatsinks and maxed armour. The durability is doubled? That explains why the weapons seem so badly nerfed!
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 4:10 pm
by Adept
Btw, I'm enjoying the game much more after updating my computer to a point where I can run the game with high settings with no slowdown.
Archer type founders catapult is my favorite so far. 2 x LRM 20, 2x med laser for close defence.
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 5:37 pm
by Viscur
LRMS only work decently if you have a group with lrms. I use 4 medium pulse and 2 srm6's in my founderpult.
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 5:43 pm
by Adept
I'll have to consider that Viscur. I just feel that mechs with no arms are kind of sucky for beams.
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 8:06 pm
by tsubaki_sanjuro
agri isnt in the closed beta
and wont be playing tomorrow
Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2012 1:45 pm
by tsubaki_sanjuro
anyone still in this?
agri is tearing it up as a jenner-bitch
Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2012 2:14 pm
by Adept
What's your callsign Agri? I can come online occasionally and back you up as a REMF Catapult jockey. I'm having low motivation though, since the bastards wipe out all my mods and achievements any time a patch happen
Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2012 3:55 pm
by tsubaki_sanjuro
Adept wrote:QUOTE (Adept @ Sep 3 2012, 03:14 PM) What's your callsign Agri? I can come online occasionally and back you up as a REMF Catapult jockey. I'm having low motivation though, since the bastards wipe out all my mods and achievements any time a patch happen
agri is "diseased_otter"
but it is annoying when they do that, i just hope closed beta ends soon
Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2012 5:57 pm
by tsubaki_sanjuro
we really should have a list of who is who
assuming it doesnt breach the NDA
also the gausspult is such cheese, especially vs light mechs at the start of games
but then they should be jinking anyway
pewpew
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