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Dragon's center torso has always been one giant target. Never liked it in MW4, doubt my opinion will change.

Its a sad but true fact. The only fix is of course unthinkable, being changing the mech itself.

Just went ahead and installed MW Mercs last night. I need to practice lol.

Stormfather wrote:The Dragon, like almost anything else that relies on an AC5 as it's main gun,

The Grand Dragon variant of the Dragon relies on a PPC as its main gun.

anything with a ppc is great imo. one of my favourite weapons in the game next to gauss rifles and medium lasers

My favorite weapon has, and always will be, Gauss Rifles.

Give me a mech that can mount 2-3 of them, and I'm a happy sniper.

sadly, that looks like its going to be the katapult for me for a while at least.

Give me a mech that can mount 2-3 of them, and I'm a happy sniper.

Good luck with that. They have changed things a bit in MWO, if you were to put two gauss in a cat, you would have to take a really bad engine and almost no ammo or armor.

Deathshead420 wrote:

Give me a mech that can mount 2-3 of them, and I'm a happy sniper.

Good luck with that. They have changed things a bit in MWO, if you were to put two gauss in a cat, you would have to take a really bad engine and almost no ammo or armor.

I have it on good authority you can get a catapult with 2x gauss, 60 rounds of ammo, same armor as a normal catapult, but its about as fast as an atlas.

Horst wrote:My favorite weapon has, and always will be, Gauss Rifles.

Give me a mech that can mount 2-3 of them, and I'm a happy sniper.

sadly, that looks like its going to be the katapult for me for a while at least.

So what you're saying is that you want a TDK-7X Thunder Hawk

Shrike325 wrote:

Horst wrote:My favorite weapon has, and always will be, Gauss Rifles.

Give me a mech that can mount 2-3 of them, and I'm a happy sniper.

sadly, that looks like its going to be the katapult for me for a while at least.

So what you're saying is that you want a TDK-7X Thunder Hawk

I'd actually like a madcat MKII more... though the thunder hawk is more likely to be introduced into this game I think

I don't care what I use, as long as I can fire it without line of sight. And it should preferably explode. A lot.

God, I miss playing a Heavy Gunner with a decent Commander in Chrome Hounds. It's just so much fun to be God's Finger.


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And I think I've just discovered what my Mech's name is going to be.

Horst wrote:My favorite weapon has, and always will be, Gauss Rifles.

Give me a mech that can mount 2-3 of them, and I'm a happy sniper.

sadly, that looks like its going to be the katapult for me for a while at least.

I assume Fafnirs have you lying on the ground moaning and shaking?

and just to help you along on the moaning http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Devastator

2xGauss Rifles
2xPPCs
4xMedium Lasers

as weapons, dump the PPC's and maybe the lasers (Can't remember the weight differences betweenGauss and ppc) and you could maybe get 4 gauss rifles

Anvildude wrote:I don't care what I use, as long as I can fire it without line of sight. And it should preferably explode. A lot.

Catapult with x6 LRM10's?

YES

God damn I hate catapults.

EDIT: [Somebody HAD to be "that guy", so had to close comment]

Not like they know who I am anyway, right?

Rule number one about closed beta: don't talk about closed beta. There is an NDA involved, and I don't know how seriously Piranha is taking it.

That being said, I have it on good authority that, in the beta, your MC resets every time they release a new build, so you shouldn't worry about spending it.

I cant wait for everyone to get let in. I'm excited for you. If your as big of Battletech fans as you all seem, you are going to love this game.

I have been a PC gamer for the last 10 years or so and only a handfull of games have made me go oh wow at the graphics, this is one of those games. I have it on good authority that this game has really really good graphics. I have also heard that they have been patching away at it fine tuning things and it also runs smooth now as well.

I do kinda wish it had a single player campaign though... I always loved those about the other mechwarrior games.

I do kinda wish it had a single player campaign though

Me too, it's the only thing missing. Maybe they will make one down the road. They did have it originally planned to be single player.

I'd also love additional battlefield elements aside from battlemechs. Infantry, VTOLs, tanks, that kind of stuff.

Still, it's an awesome game even without a campaign and those other assets. It's surprising what you can do with such a simple type of gameplay when it's coupled with neat graphics and such a cool franchise.

Hmmh ... I noticed the first post has the pilot names of people interested in dakka's merc unit. Any way that other pilots could be listed there as well, just to have a list of dakkanauts for people to group with for impromptu games later on?

Of course Lynata. Just send me a PM with your name. I'll make a section for non-merc unit Dakka-players

Awesome! PM away.

well it has been made public on mwomercs.com that since all founders should now have been invited to the beta we can now publicly announce we founders are in the beta.....

Indeed

It's fun. I can't get the hang of lights, although I've seen some really good light pilots. If people want to play, hit me up in game any time (pilot name is the same as here).

I'm having a great time in my Awesome.

I love that mech...

I can't see the point in mediums, really. Not fast enough to evade fire, not enough armor / firepower to actually threaten a heavy.

Mediums exist to kill lights. Just as Heavies kill Meds, Assault kill Heavy (and med), and Lights kill Assault (well, have a good chance due to speed).

Also, it's more that the mediums put in to MW:O are kinda really slow. A few examples of (IMO Better) faster Mediums:

TR1 Wraith - 118KPH
ASN-21 Assassin - 118KPH

More importantly, is something that can keep up with lights in a scout role... stuff that's in the 85KPH range, and there really isn't a medium like that in MW:O yet. The strength of the medium isn't the Hunchback and Centurion, it's the Phoenix Hawk, Shadow Hawk, Griffin, and Chameleon.

Shrike325 wrote:Mediums exist to kill lights. Just as Heavies kill Meds, Assault kill Heavy (and med), and Lights kill Assault (well, have a good chance due to speed).

Also, it's more that the mediums put in to MW:O are kinda really slow. A few examples of (IMO Better) faster Mediums:

TR1 Wraith - 118KPH
ASN-21 Assassin - 118KPH

More importantly, is something that can keep up with lights in a scout role... stuff that's in the 85KPH range, and there really isn't a medium like that in MW:O yet. The strength of the medium isn't the Hunchback and Centurion, it's the Phoenix Hawk, Shadow Hawk, Griffin, and Chameleon.

Just outsize the engine in an awesome, and you book it at 75kph.

Add in medium pulse lasers and SRMs, and you can frag anything foolish enough to mess with you

Im a big Fan of mediums as my primary mech (favourite was the Bushwhacker) because i feel they are good "brawlers" no they don't have the heavy armour heavies and assaults do or the speed a light does but it has that "jack of all trades" kind of feel to it. I belive they are great support mechs, either taking the fire away from a heavy/assault for the "easier kill" while the bigger and better armed mechs alpha strike the enemy or supporting lights in reconnaissancefor a trap or anything else like that. Yes there are heavies and assaults that can move as swiftly as mediums but they are fewer in number than fast mediums. As previously stated MW:O has yet to get the type of medium mech i love and the speed they usually hold. But so far its a top game really really fun.

Also hiding behind an atlas in a jenner spamming srm6's into its back repeatedly is very very amusing, especially when you take them down

My favorite mech of all time is the Daishi <3

Favorite assault:
Madcat
Fafnir
Favorite heavy:
Thanatos
Catapult (4 LRM 20s xD)
Favorite medium:
Hellspawn
Favorite light:
Osiris?

But really though, in good hands, the Daishi is unstoppable... and def the best (and sexiest) mech in the game.