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Switch to the K2 for a while then.

I love my Catapults (though now long mastered they've been shelved for a while, only brought out on special occasions), and while harder, you can still pull it off.

Maybe I'll grab the Catapults I'm missing some day (Jester and C1) if they're on sale.

I started with Cats not long ago and enjoyed - think it was a good beginners Mech - LRMS with some guns and heavy enough to take a bit of a pounding - eps with AMS - which I always take if I can. I like my Cats - I have a LRM 15/Laser build and a K2 which I keep changing the set up - presently with a Gauss rifle which I am getting the hang off and is starting to get me kills

Just running my Ravens at the moment - trying out AC2 with one but it just seems much less effective than the ER LL build?

then there is my Locust

AC2 are pretty suck currently.

The best Raven-3L builds are very simply:

2xERLL ECM for sniping and general scouting

3xSlas 2x SRM6 ECM for classic heavy/assault support

And for random pugging I guess NARC could be fun too. Lurms don't get a lot of use in group play.

Anyway, stormcrow is still my favourite mech.

LBX-20
3x SRM4
2ERMlas

While running 107km/h, full armor and reasonable heat efficiency... you can't beat that.

Though, I also love my 6 MPL stormcrow. It chews up faces.

Yeah my 3l is pretty standard

2 x ER LL
ECM
TAG

which works well - its the non ECm variants that are just well not as good but need to get the XP for them!

 Mr Morden wrote:
Yeah my 3l is pretty standard

2 x ER LL
ECM
TAG

which works well - its the non ECm variants that are just well not as good but need to get the XP for them!

Hey, I love my huginn.

I bought a dire yesterday here are my weapon stats just from one session. Its the best worst mech or the worst best mech, i can't decide.

C-ULTRA AC/5 29 9,384 4,973 52.99% 02:28:57 18,317

C-ER MED LASER 29 3,494 2,644 75.67% 02:26:12 9,876

It's the single best Assault in the game right now. That is what it is.

Triple Gauss with lasers or 5 UAC5 build is all you need.

Yeah I ran the 5 5's and 2 med as back up. I will need to try the 3 gauss.

It is the best assault mech if supported by the team, but the second a scout spots you lagging in the back of the pack its curtains.

You should try running 3 meds with the 5 5's.

Also, show me an assault that doesn't die to scouts if singled out?

I run my Raven 3L with dual srm4s and dual med lasers, ECM, full armor, DHS, FF, Endo and a 245xl. I refer to it as "aggressive scout".

New Innersphere pack announced
http://mwomercs.com/forums/topic/175273-new-inner-sphere-resistance-pack/


Panther, Enforcer, Grasshopper and Zeus

God dam PGI. If i learned one thing from games workshop, its to space your packs so far apart, that people will be able to buy everything!

Man, the Zeus. Ugly as hell but god damn I'm excited to see it being added. I wonder though, considering it's design, if it'll suffer from the other barrel-chested mechs like the Awesome and Thunderbolt.

Panther and Zeus - awesome

So a spider, st ives firestarter head, griffin xl and battymaster the 3rd.

Mhm, looked over the probable variants we are getting on Sarna. Not a single mech in there seems to be worth it. Not gonna invest in this one.

Ledabot wrote:God dam PGI. If i learned one thing from games workshop, its to space your packs so far apart, that people will be able to buy everything!

Ay.
However, this pack will be up for pre-order for at least 3-4 months (possibly more).

It's a 'rush announcement' so that the people who missed founders / phoenix and don't want clans can buy an Inner Sphere pack and qualify for the free Atlas and King Crab.
Work on the mechs won't even start for ages as only really the concept guys aren't already tied up with production of CW, Wave II and the King Crab.
So I doubt they'll be making these till December, release likely won't be till feb/mar next year I imagine.


I don't know if I'll bother tbh.
I'll see what they actually are when it goes up, and what the fringe bonuses are... but yeah, I've been pretty spendy on this game, the Dark Eldar release and computer repairs lately, so....

Y'know I missed the founders order, the phoenix order, and now the clans (mostly, but I really don't care about the clans). I think I might partake in this one, the Zeus is a favorite of mine so I might just go a la carte if the packs suck.

To be honest, you might as well go for the full pack.

Al La Carte will likely be around US$35-40 USD each, and won't come with any of the extras.

Even as-is, the premium time alone on the Zeus's Wrath Pack is worth around US$30, then around US10-15 worth of Mechbays, and the Faction Packs will likely have 3 colours and a Camo for each mech.

I might pick it up just for the extras...

 Ovion wrote:
To be honest, you might as well go for the full pack.

Al La Carte will likely be around US$35-40 USD each, and won't come with any of the extras.

Even as-is, the premium time alone on the Zeus's Wrath Pack is worth around US$30, then around US10-15 worth of Mechbays, and the Faction Packs will likely have 3 colours and a Camo for each mech.

I might pick it up just for the extras...

Not to mention, Phoenix pack cost like 50% more.

Btw, you guys seen the first two teasers for the IS quirk system?

If not, here you go:

Hunchback 4G - Tier 5 Brawler

Additional Armor (RT) +18
Additional Structure (RT) +12
AC/20 Range +12.5%
Ballistic Weapon Range +12.5%
AC/20 Cooldown +12.5%
Ballistic Weapon Cooldown +12.5%
AC/20 Velocity +12.5%
Ballistic Weapon Velocity +12.5%
Energy Weapon Heat Gen -15%
Energy Weapon Range +15%


- Yes all of the values stack with each other.
- Yes Cooldown is represented with a + symbol but that means being able to fire your weapon faster.

So you can see that we still completely accomplish our goal of making a statement that this 4G is about the AC20 and the quirks will stack in a way to make it just as effective as the previous quirk pass I teased last week. However now if you simply must take out AC2's then you will still bring in half of the ballistic benefit.

The new rule set is that each Weapon Specific quirk gives half to the specific weapon and half to the global family.


As compared to the Hunchback 4H - Tier 4 Skirmisher

Additional Armor (RT) +18
Additional Structure (RT) +12
AC/10 Range +10%
Ballistic Weapon Range +10%
AC/10 Cooldown +10%
Ballistic Weapon Cooldown +10%
Medium Laser Cooldown +10%
Energy Weapon Cooldown +10%
Medium Laser Heat Gen -10%
Energy Weapon Heat Gen -10%

I think I will have to go for this just for the Zeus and Panther to satiate my loyalty pangs for Archon Melissa and The Combine respectively

 Ovion wrote:

Ledabot wrote:God dam PGI. If i learned one thing from games workshop, its to space your packs so far apart, that people will be able to buy everything!

Ay.
However, this pack will be up for pre-order for at least 3-4 months (possibly more).

It's a 'rush announcement' so that the people who missed founders / phoenix and don't want clans can buy an Inner Sphere pack and qualify for the free Atlas and King Crab.
Work on the mechs won't even start for ages as only really the concept guys aren't already tied up with production of CW, Wave II and the King Crab.
So I doubt they'll be making these till December, release likely won't be till feb/mar next year I imagine.


I don't know if I'll bother tbh.
I'll see what they actually are when it goes up, and what the fringe bonuses are... but yeah, I've been pretty spendy on this game, the Dark Eldar release and computer repairs lately, so....

Wait, free King Crab?
How does that work with the packs? Does buying any one of them allow for that mech for 'free'? Or would it be more value to simply buy the KC with mechCredits?

Anvildude wrote:

 Ovion wrote:

Ledabot wrote:God dam PGI. If i learned one thing from games workshop, its to space your packs so far apart, that people will be able to buy everything!

Ay.
However, this pack will be up for pre-order for at least 3-4 months (possibly more).

It's a 'rush announcement' so that the people who missed founders / phoenix and don't want clans can buy an Inner Sphere pack and qualify for the free Atlas and King Crab.
Work on the mechs won't even start for ages as only really the concept guys aren't already tied up with production of CW, Wave II and the King Crab.
So I doubt they'll be making these till December, release likely won't be till feb/mar next year I imagine.


I don't know if I'll bother tbh.
I'll see what they actually are when it goes up, and what the fringe bonuses are... but yeah, I've been pretty spendy on this game, the Dark Eldar release and computer repairs lately, so....

Wait, free King Crab?
How does that work with the packs? Does buying any one of them allow for that mech for 'free'? Or would it be more value to simply buy the KC with mechCredits?

Anyone who has purchased a top tier pack (Founder, Phoenix Overlord etc.) Will get a free custom King Crab.

Anvildude wrote:

 Ovion wrote:

Ledabot wrote:God dam PGI. If i learned one thing from games workshop, its to space your packs so far apart, that people will be able to buy everything!

Ay.
However, this pack will be up for pre-order for at least 3-4 months (possibly more).

It's a 'rush announcement' so that the people who missed founders / phoenix and don't want clans can buy an Inner Sphere pack and qualify for the free Atlas and King Crab.
Work on the mechs won't even start for ages as only really the concept guys aren't already tied up with production of CW, Wave II and the King Crab.
So I doubt they'll be making these till December, release likely won't be till feb/mar next year I imagine.


I don't know if I'll bother tbh.
I'll see what they actually are when it goes up, and what the fringe bonuses are... but yeah, I've been pretty spendy on this game, the Dark Eldar release and computer repairs lately, so....

Wait, free King Crab?
How does that work with the packs? Does buying any one of them allow for that mech for 'free'? Or would it be more value to simply buy the KC with mechCredits?

As per this page Anyone who did certain things gets certain rewards.

'Cupcake Day' saw us get free Cupcakes, 2 million C-Bills, a Free Mechbay and such simply for playing the game. (And a half-price mechbay sale! I enjoyed that)
If you've ever bought MC, you get a free Centurion CN9-AH Hero + Mechbay.
If you've ever bought a pre-order pack you get a free Atlas AS7-S Hero + Mechbay.
If you've ever pruchased a Top Tier Mech Pack (Legendary Founder, Overlord Pack, Masakari Pack, Man O' War Pack, Wrath Pack), you get a free King Crab Hero + Mechbay.
If you've purchased the Masakari + Man O' War Pack you get a free Mad Dog Hero, 2 Mad Dog variants and + 3 Mech Bays.

And doesn't the King Crab look amazing:

The King Crab being a 100T Hero mech with Bay is valued at 7,800MC or roughly US$35.
With the addition of the Atlas Hero and Mechbay, simply for getting the Wrath Pack (if you haven't bought a pack before) nets you an additional US$70 of 'mech.

I expect the Crab to be following the angel theme that the other two have.

It's not Angels.
It's Nordic.

The winged beings are Valkyries not Angels.
The 'Rope' is the 'Thread of Life' and the Mechs names are reference to the Fates or Wyrds.

Yeah, I think I'm gonna save a few bucks and get the Zeus pack, I may not care about the light coming with it (I'm not impressed with light pilots, or their 'mechs), but the free King Crab and the associate extras that come with the pack are worth it.

Of course, I'll splurge on this pre-order only to have the next IS mech order be four of the mechs I've wanted since launch.

 Frankenberry wrote:
Yeah, I think I'm gonna save a few bucks and get the Zeus pack, I may not care about the light coming with it (I'm not impressed with light pilots, or their 'mechs), but the free King Crab and the associate extras that come with the pack are worth it.

Of course, I'll splurge on this pre-order only to have the next IS mech order be four of the mechs I've wanted since launch.

Not impressed by lights AND their pilots...?

I fear you have not seen a good light pilot then.

Good light pilot in an Ember or a Jenner-F would make you eat those words.

Depends on which one of my Ravens I am running, a scout, sniper, or thug. Each has strengths and weaknesses. Spotting can be a pain if the boats are watching everyone else or trying to be direct fire.

Crap... the new pack just became a lot more interesting...

It has faction specific warhorns...