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Personally I started with the Heavies, and still find I like them the most- enough armour to be able to brawl a little, but with enough zip to reposition if you need to.

Also, take a good look at your controls- that is, keymapping. Don't play with a controller, at all.

You'll want to learn whether you like having Locked Arms or not, as well as if you like having the Push-to-move throttle or the classic one. You said you've played the older games, so you might want to stick with unlocked arms and the 'sticky' throttle.

All good advice chaps, thanks.

I'll give it a go tonight with a Med and see what fits. Alas I do not see my trusty Warhammer available. :(

Also: what is the relevance of Ping? I see it every where but can see no relevance.

MWO is a Peer to Peer game (I think), which means it's sort of 'cloud hosted' across everyone's computers, and the person to host the match has the client that makes the 'big decisions'. Or, if it's Server hosted, it's about the same thing- but anyways, Ping is sort of how 'far away' you are from the server- the length of time between when a bit of information is sent to the computer that makes the important decisions (did that bullet hit, was that a crit, is there ground under your feet, etc) and your own computer. Lower is better, really high Ping (like, nearing 1000) is terrible, because it causes a sort of severe lag, where your client registers a hit based on the code that predicts what another player is doing (in the time between update signals), but they actually did something unpredictable ad so to them the shot missed- so it looks like they just didn't take a hit that clearly impacted.

Wrecking face in my Urbie this morning Good times!

I haven't used my Urbies, I'm waiting to get some C-bills for Ferro and Endo, I'll then get some XL-Engines and commit heresy by getting em to go 100kph

I'd forgotten how much fun a AC20 Hunchie is.

When you get premium time does it automatically activate?
Or do you have to activate it yourself allowing you to save it
I ask because I want to know if I should be playing Massive MWO for Premium C-bills bonus or just wait until It'd be easier for me to do so.

My Premium time button on the home area of the hanger is highlighted if that helps

 Overlord Thraka wrote:
I haven't used my Urbies, I'm waiting to get some C-bills for Ferro and Endo, I'll then get some XL-Engines and commit heresy by getting em to go 100kph

I'd forgotten how much fun a AC20 Hunchie is.

When you get premium time does it automatically activate?
Or do you have to activate it yourself allowing you to save it
I ask because I want to know if I should be playing Massive MWO for Premium C-bills bonus or just wait until It'd be easier for me to do so.

My Premium time button on the home area of the hanger is highlighted if that helps

Usually Premium time a day or two - you get from events is auto activated - banked premium time from purchases usually requires activation

 Overlord Thraka wrote:
My Premium time button on the home area of the hanger is highlighted if that helps

If the premium time counter is not counting down you've got banked premium time, usually from pre-orders. You can activate it all in one go with the button in game or perhaps preferably a month (could be a week; i am not entirely sure) at a time using the mwomercs-website. Your profile on the website should tell you how much active and banked premium time you've got.

Okay cool. Thanks

I'm going away later in the month and didn't want to waste any of my precious premium time

Anyone know when the next bigger update is? I'm tired of the current trial mechs

I'd imagine it'll probably be when the next clan wave comes out. The cauldron born and the Gladiator and stuff

21st is next major update, though don't know if the trials will change.

HUGE patch, I think a new map? some other bits, reinforcements, new stuff.

I'll be getting a new locust.

It's also honestly worth grabbing a few mechbays just so you can get more personal mechs.

I've got all the mechbays I need. I've got 15 free right now. And a shopping list that has yet to fill them.

 Overlord Thraka wrote:
I've got all the mechbays I need. I've got 15 free right now. And a shopping list that has yet to fill them.

Haha, you have no idea.

I have over 100 mech bays and I still need room.

Yep -= I only have 35 and thats nowhere near enough - need more Cbills

See I've got 15 empties and I don't buy mechs with MC.
I only farm C-bills. Too cheap for MC to buy them.
I intend to buy more than 20 mechs, but for now I'm good.

In case you guys missed it on the MWO forums, They are advising that you run the repair tool prior to the 21st patch. sometime when you can set and forget your computer for a while.

Why? Link?

 Overlord Thraka wrote:
Why? Link?

Patch is supposed to be quite large, so they recommended doing the repair tool beforehand to reduce patching time.

Info on the main MWO site.

 Alex C wrote:

 Overlord Thraka wrote:
Why? Link?

Patch is supposed to be quite large, so they recommended doing the repair tool beforehand to reduce patching time.

Info on the main MWO site.

Awesome. Thanks for telling me. I've run the repair. If it'll get me into MWO that much faster tomorrow more's the better!

I am going to have to run that before I go to sleep. Today is my only day off this week and I don't want to spend all my MWO time just downloading lol.

Got my 3V.
Brings me up to 8.

The resistance wave 2 looks fun. I WANT THAT BABY CRAB!!! The others look pretty cool too.

 Ruberu wrote:
The resistance wave 2 looks fun. I WANT THAT BABY CRAB!!! The others look pretty cool too.

I was excited until I saw that every variant of every chassis bar the Mauler had nothing but energy hardpoints.

Boring.

Its was a little bit of a turn off but I like center mounted weapons and they all have a lot mounted there. Hopefully these have good center armor.

The Crab will be a terror if it gets Stalker-like hit boxes XD

I'm thinking on getting this. Thoughts?
http://mwo.smurfy-net.de/mechlab#i=149&l=77499d2e23dcc3cb6721a541862b4a0f58c48a5c

This how you do wubmaster.

http://mwo.smurfy-net.de/mechlab#i=149&l=5e14440307c8a63fad32447e3242d52ff126f7d9

A battlemaster going only 57 (62) km/h is dead meat. Those things require the big engines.

Could always try:
BLR-3M

I love LBX10's, so no reason to drop that
You only practically need 3T of ammo for per gun most heavy ballistics in PUG matches.

Bump up to a 375, only lose a little heat disspation for it.

 Ovion wrote:
Could always try:
BLR-3M

I love LBX10's, so no reason to drop that
You only practically need 3T of ammo for per gun most heavy ballistics in PUG matches.

Bump up to a 375, only lose a little heat disspation for it.

That's a better build but.... I find that XL on Heavies and especially on assaults is a easy kill for the enemy. That and the basci cost for a XL 375 makes me gag. I think I'll stick with my build for now, and MAYBE upgrade to that in the future. Thanks anyways though. Prices are just too much for me

I'll try out my build and see how it works. I kinda like that Wubmaster build. But I just can't afford that kind of Engine

Looking foreward to the map upgrades

need more mech bays - filled my 37 :(

 Overlord Thraka wrote:

 Ovion wrote:
Could always try:BLR-3MI love LBX10's, so no reason to drop that
You only practically need 3T of ammo for per gun most heavy ballistics in PUG matches.

Bump up to a 375, only lose a little heat disspation for it.

That's a better build but.... I find that XL on Heavies and especially on assaults is a easy kill for the enemy. That and the basci cost for a XL 375 makes me gag. I think I'll stick with my build for now, and MAYBE upgrade to that in the future. Thanks anyways though. Prices are just too much for me

I'll try out my build and see how it works. I kinda like that Wubmaster build. But I just can't afford that kind of Engine

Yeah, the price of engines is mad, but once you've got one, it'll work for all.

The XL400 is pretty painful at 6.5mil, but it's not impossible.
Price of a Heavy Mech.

Go through your extra equipment / engines, sell off the spare and you'll quickly be partway there.





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