Mechwarrior Online

[Rishathra]

I forgot to mention I am leaving for the US tomorrow. I'll be available starting March 1st 

Remember to avoid the porn this time.

[Merusk]

Public nudity, not porn.

Yes, even boobs.

[Falconeer]

Miami this time. I am gonna go "hotline" on it. Videogames told me to.


(By the way, about 8 months later the Michigan thing, the memory cards had been given back to the photographer. Some of the shots were pretty good and there's a chance some of you might have stumbled on a few of them, around, somewhere...)

[Rishathra]

Public nudity, not porn.

Yes, even boobs.

I know, I was just teasing him about how Americans look at everything body-related as porn.

[Lantyssa]

More importantly, make sure to share with us instead of saying we might stumble across it. 

[Slayerik]

More importantly, make sure to share with us instead of saying we might stumble across it. 

[Falconeer]

*NSFW*


*NSFW* (And feel free to den this).

This could have some from that shoot. Not sure, I don't remember, I wasn't there, it wasn't me, you must be mistaking me with someone else.

[Raknor]

Was fun seeing you in a match last night Slayerik.

[Slayerik]

Was fun seeing you in a match last night Slayerik.

I wasn't thrilled you saw me in my 6 PPC Awesome I was tooling around in, but at least I pulled off a kill before you guys steamrolled us :)

[Lantyssa]

I've only had a few drops in the last week, but the matches seem much better overall.  I'm seeing more variety and only a handful of ECM 'mechs.  Atlai have been almost non-existent.

[Samprimary]

lets all drop tonight. LETS DO THIS

[Samprimary]

DISCLAIMER: I did some postgame study of my video streams and figured that, for the most part, I rarely last much longer or do that much good after i've had a side torso blown off, so an XL engine is really not much of an issue in terms of survivability. I can use this to enhance the amount of heat reduction I have on me in sum, go faster, and have this as a weapons loadout ..



which means I can ridge-snipe with the whole team if the enemy team is doing a standoff or otherwise not allowing me the opportunity to close to range to a target.

or swat lights.

or flat-out murder anything that comes within 200m.

And if something absolutely, absolutely has to die now, I can press the big red button and do 110 damage all at once to a single panel.

[Segoris]

I dig it, say how that works out for you as I have not really found it necessary to put in the XL engine yet. Though, I have had some similar builds earlier trying to make a PPC brawler but kept trying to drop the MLas:
1) Option A - add 3x LLas and some DHS instead of the MLas and PPC.
2) Option B -drop the MLas for a tag in the CT (cbill & xp) and flamers on the arms - everyone needs flames for when an alpha strike kills something in one or two shots.

[Segoris]

Meh, wasn't liking the XL engines in a stalker, noticeable loss of survivability. Switched back to a standard engine, still wanting some range, so rebuilt Sam's old 4xLLas build to include 2x LRM15
STK-3F: 4xLLAS, 2xLRM15

It's just slow as shit, but it works really well besides that
Edit: pretty hit or miss. Against a lot of ECM out of range of tag = crap damage and slow, besides that it does well.

[Ironwood]

Building anything that can be diddled by ECM at this stage is an utter waste of time.

[5150]

I've only had a few drops in the last week, but the matches seem much better overall.  I'm seeing more variety and only a handful of ECM 'mechs.  Atlai have been almost non-existent.

Really? I had a match last night where we had 5 on our team (not all were ECM)

[Merusk]

I think she meant just the ECM variant.

[Slayerik]

I've been noticing a lot less ECM, and a lot more weight in matches. It's not uncommon to see teams with no mechs lighter than 65.

Had some good matches last night with Seg (and a couple with Sam). You both are quite beastly. Though, I would like to see ole Sam in anything besides a STK :) I know how it goes though, why use the rest when you are good at the best! I love having about 6 mechs I really enjoy. Anyway, hope to catch you guys this weekend (won't be on too much tonight with Valentines day and all). And I would still like to try some 8 man drops.

Also, Sam/Seg/Zet/Zal/Rag...try to have one of these available for gimmicky stuff:

Fast mech (100 kph min)
LRM wagon
Assault PPC madness (3 minimum), or Gausses
Heavy Brawler (AC madness?)
SRM splatter (Cat/Stalker)

[Segoris]

Building anything that can be diddled by ECM at this stage is an utter waste of time.

What Slay said - ECM hasn't been so bad lately. It's still noticeable, but no longer over abundant as it was. I think we went about 5-7 rounds last night with no ECM on our team, or one ECM on a light who quickly went and died within seconds. Though the number of losses were few still (even when I was soloing a couple of rounds, so it wasn't just because we were queing with 2-3)

I will say, if I'm going LRMs again, I'm sticking with that stalker build because it can dish out some damage up close when needed which is usually a really weak side of LRM builds. It's a good hybrid for range and brawling, and I usually don't like hybrids....especially Priuses, fuck those things as they make me rage at the thought and/or sight of them

[Ironwood]

You guys are having differing experiences from me.

ECM still silly on all my games.

[Slayerik]

My standard Stalker 5M build runs - 2 x LRM 20 , LRM 15, 4 Medium Laser, 1 Tag, Beagle A.P.

The 5 medium, 5 SRM is straight gangbusters....but for some reason I got bored with it quickly. I'm surprised how fun the LRM version can be (and can really rip shit up like last night). You just have to be smart about your salvos. People won't just sit there and eat 55 LRMS.

And yeah, fuck Priuses.

[Slayerik]

You guys are having differing experiences from me.

ECM still silly on all my games.

I only got one explanation....

Dirty Euros.

[Ironwood]

It's as plausible as anything else.

[Lantyssa]

If it's present, it's still really powerful.  It just seems a lot less common now.  You'll only have one or two 'mechs on a side with it instead of half the team.

[apocrypha]

Aha, forgot it was Valentine's tonight, I may not make it for a Euro drop...

[Ironwood]

Just been playing.  3 games :

2 ECM on Atlases.
4 ECM, 2 Atlas, 2 Raven.
1 ECM Atlas.

Seriously, maybe it is a Euro thing, even though we're not divided yet.

[satael]

Aha, forgot it was Valentine's tonight, I may not make it for a Euro drop...

Well, it doesn't seem like there's a huge turnout (just me) so better luck next time 

[Ironwood]

I too have been grabbed for some 'couple time'.

This is not as much fun as you might think.

[Segoris]

For IW's ECM numbers - compared to two weeks ago those are incredibly low to what I remember seeing. No one is saying it's non-existant, only that ECM usage is lower

[Merusk]

I too have been grabbed for some 'couple time'.

This is not as much fun as you might think.

Of course its not, you're Scottish.

[Ironwood]

For IW's ECM numbers - compared to two weeks ago those are incredibly low to what I remember seeing. No one is saying it's non-existant, only that ECM usage is lower

Fair enough for what you're seeing.  I'm saying that these are the kinds of numbers I've always been seeing, so the whole 'it's lower' argument didn't wash with me due to personal experience.

It's still utterly fucking game changing and only really needs to be put on ONE competent pilot to do so.

[apocrypha]

I'm with Ironwood, I've not noticed any drop in ecm numbers, although it always feels like the other team has more and better ecm players than my side...

[Ironwood]

Strangely, last nights games seem to go in my favour.  It was US that had the ECM's and even when the enemy had them, we seemed to stay tight and win.

I'm still quite impressed with the Good Raven Pilots out there.  It seems to be a real nimble little killer when used properly.  I almost bought the farm to one fucking around my Stalker last night until I got lucky with 4 Large lasers to his privates.

[Arthur_Parker]

There's still something wacky with hitboxes or ping, couple of days ago I was in a game with a raven who got 7 kills.  He was pretty good but more for target priority than movement, he circled a guy 4-5 times with me standing still outside the circle, even with him being totally predictable, having 2 srm6's and 4 medium's, I was barely scratching him, and that was firing straight through where he's been and where he's going to, in a direct line, no way that should miss.  Yet most of time hit detection is a lot better, so much so that you can target a single leg.

[Lantyssa]

I wish I knew what it was like to be on a winning team.  I've started settling for being the last one alive.  (3/4 matches.  woo.)