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The issue for the Wolf Hound is that it's a Fire Starter with worse quirks, no jump jets, and worse Hit Boxes. About the only advantage it has is nicely clustered hard points but that's not worth much.

The Black Knight was a big disappointment for me. Even after the fix, their hitboxes still suck. They're massive (only slightly smaller than an Atlas), and they're basically a Grasshopper that's 5 tons heavier with no jump jets, worse hit boxes, and worse quirks.

 Overlord Thraka wrote:
Honestly I thought the Crab was the weakest followen by the Mauler.
I've actually had some REALLY nice games in both my Wolfhounds and Knights, but have get to come close to that with the crabs.
Mauler's a sad middle of the road for me, they seem way to fragile and the whole Dakka doesn't normally work because you have to face-tank everything.

I've done my best with Maulers using Dual Gauss Dual Large Lasers with the only module I own. (Advanced zoom)

Quad LBX10 Maulers are straight up terrifying.

But then LBXs are severely under-rated anyway so~

 LordofHats wrote:
The issue for the Wolf Hound is that it's a Fire Starter with worse quirks, no jump jets, and worse Hit Boxes. About the only advantage it has is nicely clustered hard points but that's not worth much.

The Black Knight was a big disappointment for me. Even after the fix, their hitboxes still suck. They're massive (only slightly smaller than an Atlas), and they're basically a Grasshopper that's 5 tons heavier with no jump jets, worse hit boxes, and worse quirks.

Eh. Triple Large Laser Wolfhounds can be downright MEAN. I've had 600+ 4 Kill games in the R varient.

Anvildude wrote:

 Frankenberry wrote:

 LordofHats wrote:
Well Maulers aren't out for Cbills yet, so the only people who have them are the people who bought the full R2 Pack (and most were predicting the Mauler would be DOA, myself included). But the Mauler is really nicely sized for its weight, has decent hitboxes to run a reasonably safe XL and just mounts a mountain of dakka.

To be fair there is no mech currently in game that can match the firepower of a Dire Wolf. The closest you'll get is a Brawl Atlas, which has the innate problem of being a Brawl Atlas. Dire Wolves were a major power creep alongside the Timber Wolf, Storm Crow, and the Firestarter's god quirks.

Brawling Atlai are the only ones I play and were the first I elited - and I agree to a point about the Direwolf and firepower, but there have been a few times (more often than not)where I can completely out pilot and outshoot a Dire pilot. I can't claim to be amazing or anything, far from it, but from what I've seen Dire pilots suffer from a 'dakkadakka' syndrome - they tend to think they're far scarier than they actually are.

I think I might drop the a la carte price on the Mauler just so I can have a massive dakka option in my inventory.

To be fair, you're an Atlas pilot. It's... rather difficult to psyche out an Atlas pilot based on Mech size.

Which is funny when I think about how nervous I get when I see a pair of light mechs run off from the enemy pack and get behind me.

I call hacks;



Hat Hax

Probably the best game of CW I will ever play.

Way to go Mr. Hat!

And on event weekend, no less!

Dang dude. Dat's really good.

My best ever was like 4 Kills 1500 DMG.

I've (kinda) done better in PUG solo queue

It helps to have a team that isn't timidly hiding around the corner not doing anything. Mine was pretty aggressive that game and it let me have a lot more freedom to attack.

 LordofHats wrote:
It helps to have a team that isn't timidly hiding around the corner not doing anything. Mine was pretty aggressive that game and it let me have a lot more freedom to attack.

That's why I stopped playing PUGs. Very low levels of teamwork and no aggression. Coming from Red Orchestra and Red Orchestra 2 where coordination and teamwork is the norm even in PUGs, I tired of the situation very quickly.

Well guys, as of this moment I now have my grand prize Mech, a Centurion 9AH.

I didn't win one, but I do have one in my stable. Decent mech, not a huge fan of the lack of energy hardpoints though.

Bought some MC on sale, now just gotta wait for a mech bay sale. My current 63 bays are all full!

 master of ordinance wrote:
Well guys, as of this moment I now have my grand prize Mech, a Centurion 9AH.

I got that at like my 6th grab.

The AH is proving a challenge, although I am running it completely stock with just a slight armour shift to the front atmo. I am not sure what to do with the loadout.

 master of ordinance wrote:
The AH is proving a challenge, although I am running it completely stock with just a slight armour shift to the front atmo. I am not sure what to do with the loadout.

Sold mine as already have L version Loving the Maraduers and some handy events recently

 master of ordinance wrote:
The AH is proving a challenge, although I am running it completely stock with just a slight armour shift to the front atmo. I am not sure what to do with the loadout.

I sold mine also. Yen Low Wang is just so much better. Now if it had been the LBX variant of the Cent, then I woulda kept it

Heyo! I'm hosting a MWO thingy on Friday! PM for details!

You can always just post here.

Working on friday

DOGGON BROTHER'S ACCOUNT

`Overlord Thraka

Okay. Guess I'll just post things here instead of going through the PMs. That was a dumb idea on my part.

Starting about 4 or 5 PM EST on Friday the 15 on January.

I've sent out invites but have yet to get any full confirms for yes

Not doing faction warfare unless we were to get a large group of 5+ players going

Skype is a maybe, and I just don't get along with Teamspeak so that's a maybe on a lesser scale

That's the plan as it stands. Just let me know it interested

I'll be on. I think the thing about Skype is both scale (I don't think you can get more than 3 or 4 people at once without the professional paid version) and privacy- Skype is often used by people for personal or work calls, and so they'll often use their real names, which they don't usually want to share with relative strangers just for game chat.

That's why Teamspeak tends to be the choice for those- though there's other free group-chat programs out there. And of course, there's in-game text chat...

There's always the in-game VOIP.

Anvildude wrote:
I'll be on. I think the thing about Skype is both scale (I don't think you can get more than 3 or 4 people at once without the professional paid version) and privacy- Skype is often used by people for personal or work calls, and so they'll often use their real names, which they don't usually want to share with relative strangers just for game chat.

That's why Teamspeak tends to be the choice for those- though there's other free group-chat programs out there. And of course, there's in-game text chat...

I understand that.

Also, AFAIK you can have unlimited sized group, but video chat is only 1 on 1 unless you do have the premium

Apparently Ovion may or may not be Morningstar1 on MWO (or something similar, couldn't remember it exactly). And it may or may not be our Ovion.

Anvildude wrote:
Apparently Ovion may or may not be Morningstar1 on MWO (or something similar, couldn't remember it exactly). And it may or may not be our Ovion.

It is. xD

My fiancees account - she wants that CDA-2(C), but is still a bit new to get the kill-most-damages.
'course... she's a medium pilot and I can't play mediums worth a damn... but we'll get there. xD

 Ovion wrote:

Anvildude wrote:
Apparently Ovion may or may not be Morningstar1 on MWO (or something similar, couldn't remember it exactly). And it may or may not be our Ovion.

It is. xD

My fiancees account - she wants that CDA-2(C), but is still a bit new to get the kill-most-damages.
'course... she's a medium pilot and I can't play mediums worth a ****... but we'll get there. xD

Okay, I thought it was a alt.

If she doesn't have it already, 8 Med BJ 1-X is amazing

 Overlord Thraka wrote:

 Ovion wrote:

Anvildude wrote:
Apparently Ovion may or may not be Morningstar1 on MWO (or something similar, couldn't remember it exactly). And it may or may not be our Ovion.

It is. xD

My fiancees account - she wants that CDA-2(C), but is still a bit new to get the kill-most-damages.
'course... she's a medium pilot and I can't play mediums worth a ****... but we'll get there. xD

Okay, I thought it was a alt.

If she doesn't have it already, 8 Med BJ 1-X is amazing

Me and her have both bought a trio of Blackjacks now.

 Ovion wrote:

 Overlord Thraka wrote:

 Ovion wrote:

Anvildude wrote:
Apparently Ovion may or may not be Morningstar1 on MWO (or something similar, couldn't remember it exactly). And it may or may not be our Ovion.

It is. xD

My fiancees account - she wants that CDA-2(C), but is still a bit new to get the kill-most-damages.
'course... she's a medium pilot and I can't play mediums worth a ****... but we'll get there. xD

Okay, I thought it was a alt.

If she doesn't have it already, 8 Med BJ 1-X is amazing

Me and her have both bought a trio of Blackjacks now.

I've got like 200,000 extra XP on the 1x

Dunno if any of you caught the Townhall last night with Russ but apparently he actually had answers to a lot of questions (nothing satisfying about flamers and machineguns though, so...keep whining about them ).

Looks like the next mech release will be the Kodiak, which is pretty nifty given that they're looking to make it akin to a IIc variant rather than an omnimech (upgradeable engine being a big part of this), comes with a MASC too and some of the builds I thought about given it's hardpoints are pretty terrifying. Yay second clan 100 tonner!

Looks like over the next couple months they're going to be going knee-deep into CW even more than they are now - which sucks for this solo-dropper with no unit because...well, quickplay is the only fun I can have (I'm a filthy casual).

Here's the reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/OutreachHPG/comments/43cp8q/january_29th_townhall_summary_recap/

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6Vsm46noJw

 Frankenberry wrote:

Looks like the next mech release will be the Kodiak, which is pretty nifty given that they're looking to make it akin to a IIc variant rather than an omnimech (upgradeable engine being a big part of this),

The Kodiak is one of a number of Clan Battlemechs and is one of the most requested mechs by fans. I look forward to my Clan Atlas, but I am concerned it'll be fugly. The Kodiak hasn't always gotten the good end of visual design. Hopefully the PGI art team does it right XD

comes with a MASC too and some of the builds I thought about given it's hardpoints are pretty terrifying. Yay second clan 100 tonner!

But- but- MAH LORE! Apparently only the Hero will have MASC, but that buff (plus the upcoming MASC rework) could be pretty nifty. A 100 ton mech that can go over 70?