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I bought a stock Awesome with 3 ppc and 2 medium laser, I did really badly at first but now do ok with him.

I'm much happier with my track record in my Pretty Baby, rocking 3 LRM 10, TAG, and 2 ER Large Lasers. Missile spam and ER laser sniping is a joy.

Just achieved "Seriously?!" and earned the title of Bridesmaid in my Ilya, 665 or so damage, 10 assists, no kills.

And they said quickdraws were bad...

Heh, I can't really recall seeing any Quickdraws.

Just 138 matches to go to get my D-DC!

2x mlas 2x PPC 2x SSRM with jump jets and an XL3000 si pretty good.

 Soladrin wrote:
2x mlas 2x PPC 2x SSRM with jump jets and an XL3000 si pretty good.

Goddamn, how much does an XL3000 set you back!?

 Ovion wrote:

 Soladrin wrote:
2x mlas 2x PPC 2x SSRM with jump jets and an XL3000 si pretty good.

Goddamn, how much does an XL3000 set you back!?

Like.. 5m?

I've got an XL400 in one of my battlemasters.

An XL300 is 4.9mil
But what's a 3000 gonna be? 49mil?

Adder screenshots:

http://www.mwomercs.com/news/2014/04/838-adder-screenshots-revealed

Has anyone here played Hawken? I'm curious as to how you
think the two games compare community wise and gameplay
wise. I know only the slightest of things about each game.

I have played Hawken.

It's far more like a generic shooter, just with robot skins, than a'real' mech game imo.

It's not a bad game persay, but it's just not a mech sim.
Everything moves too fast for what it is, and not especially like a robot.
It's a lot 'smaller' too, because even the largest Hawken mechs are sub-Light mech sized.

MWO is very much, stompy robots.
Giant lumbering things of metal, you feel like you're in a walking tank.
And with only 1 life, you have to be more careful and think tactically, as charging in is game over.

The mechs in hawken are akin to the battlearmour in the mechwarrior universe. Dam impossible to hit and they swarm around your mech in 3 dementions latching on to the top of mechs and drilling into them etc. elementals are the famous example. Like trying to hit flies with chopsticks.

I played it way back, but I didn't really like it. It felt like I couldn't hit anything and yet I was constantly being taken out. Not a good feeling when you don't have anyone to play with. UI was dam confusing back then too.

Eh it's ok. It's pretty much dead though.

Any of you have / can reccomend a group to play with?

I keep meaning to sign up to one.

Honestly, any group is probably going to be hit or miss until proper Community Warfare. I'm signed up with 71st Nostradamus because 1: they're okay with 'casuals', and 2: I was invited by their leader and he seemed like a cool guy.

Right now, unless you're running with one of the super-serious groups that essentially organize their own inter-group tournaments, there's nothing different between dropping with some buddies and dropping with a special group, aside from maybe outside organization and having to listen to other people giving orders.

The main benefit I gather from being in a group is:
A - Better stats.
B - Hopefully a few more more C-Bills / improving.

If you do earn better in a group, then that's good as I still have another 115 matches to go to get my first atlas. :(

I'll go check out 71st nost though, see if they'll suit.

I still have another 115 matches to go to get my first atlas. :(

I see you have almost passed the tutorial.

Who found the public test really really bad? Who even tried?

The waiting times were crazy. I don't know how many people were taking assaults, but dam, I was taking mediums the whole time and got 2 matches per hour. I ended up giving up and just playing in the normal game.

 Deathshead420 wrote:

I still have another 115 matches to go to get my first atlas. :(

I see you have almost passed the tutorial.

Spoiler:

MechMatches PlayedWinLossesRatioKillsDeathsRatioDamage DoneXP EarnedTime PlayedATLAS AS7-D-DC 580 318 258 1.23 550 304 1.81 233,437 411,681 2 days 12:44:14

Already have these:


That said, you have almost as many games in just your Atlas D-DC as I have played all together.

 Ledabot wrote:
Who found the public test really really bad? Who even tried?

The waiting times were crazy. I don't know how many people were taking assaults, but dam, I was taking mediums the whole time and got 2 matches per hour. I ended up giving up and just playing in the normal game.

Didn't even try.
Got an Atlas to grind!

How long are wait times/matches?

I don't have as much time to play a really involved game on the side.

Yep, I've evolved into a filthy casual.

Not long.
You have up to a minute in the ready screen, and I don't think it's ever taken more than a minute max to find a match, usually a lot less than that.

Wait times to get into a match have never been longer than a minute for me.

Matches can last 20 minutes max I believe? But I'm often dead and out of the match 2 minutes in.

The only issue I can see is how long it takes to grind a new mech, if your time is limited. Not all of us are Soladrin, getting 12 hours in a day.

15 minute matches, most rarely go beyond 12.
You can comfortably get 4-6 matches an hour.
Potentially more at a push.

Sweet. Are league of legends level angry at you when you suck?

Eh?

I find people are generally pretty easy going.
You're used to the constant idiocy of PUGs (even when you're a PUG yourself), so you just kinda, take it in stride and move on to the next match.

If you want to play with groups and with voice chat I'd say hop on the NGNG teamspeak server and mwolobby, lots of people there.

https://mwolobby.com
ts3server://voip01.n1585.hypernia.net:9992

That said, you have almost as many games in just your Atlas D-DC as I have played all together.

That's not even counting the year of closed beta stats that they wiped, and I used the atlas almost exclusively.

My next highest is my stalker 3f @ 400 matches.

Thanks to my handy-dandy Excel document:
Total Matches Played 603
Total C-Bills Earned 41,144,862
Total XP Earned 254,807
Win / Loss Ratio 0.75
Time Played 46:27:37

Atlas D-DC:
7,032,842 C-Bills remaining,
103 matches to go.

Well, Quickdraws are fully elited, CBA to master them.

Onward to Orions! Found a great build for my Protector:

STD 295 engine
AC10
PPC
2x Large Laser

Has Ferro, endo and double heat sinks. Works like a charm with a 38dmg alpha and 20 dmg pinpoint shots from the Ac10 + ppc.

Got my ATLAS DDC

Put 2 Med Pulse Lasers, 2 Ultra AC 5, LRM 20, AMS and ECM on it, and painted it black.

Gonna try it out, replacing LRM with 2 SRM 6 and an SRM 2 to keep with the close range brawler theme.

If you want a brawler just throw an AC20 on there already.