I feel you'd love the Koloss stone rhino hero mech, Mask, 56 kph speed, 80 or so with MASC and it has 112 damage alpha strikes with 6 SRM 6s and 2 LBX 20s, Thinks a face melter of a brawler and I annihilate things daily in it. It also has SRM HSL +2 so it can fire all 6 of the SRM 6s without ghost heat, Lasers aren't necessary on it, just excess heat for not much more damage.
"otherwise i wouldnt have put it in the video" Even if the match was bad, but it showcased key points about the mech (good or bad), you'd put it in. You're good about that.
I love the 4x LB-20x Build. You get one in the Campaign and I was head shooting everything. I could not believe it seemed better then the Gauze Rifle. Put them in Chain fire, it works great.
You can actually alpha strike four LBX-20s without ghost heat! It's a lot more damage at once and a lot more satisfying to hear them all go off at once and instantly delete a light or medium mech
I have either a cyclops or an atlas kitted with two LB 20s and it is a lot of fun! But double the dakka is something I'm not sure I can resist. *Adds stone rhino to cart*
Love the content Bara, you're a credit to the community and we're glad you're back in action! I bought the Howl because of your vid with the triple atm 9 and 4xHmg. Love that thing!
If you want a real fun Stone Rhino build, try out the Aksum Legendary mech with 4x Ultra AC-5s and 2 Ultra AC-10s. It hits hard, though you won't have that much ammo so you'll want to make the bursts count.
I love this build. I was so anxious from the time they put up stats until release to be able to build this. I surprised a LOT of people with it when they finally did come out. :D
@@LavaDa1shi Fascinating, I think the Koloss is one of the meh versions of the stone rhino, especially when I'm playing a light or medium. But if I turn the corner and I see a stone rhino geared to the teeth with ballistics it's like well this is going to hurt.
The 3 mechs that you shit you pants when you see them: Fafnir Annihilator Stone Rhino I don't include the direwolf because those tend to be long range builds so you don't even see it before it blasts you.
@@zalin2000The rest of the stone rhinos I consider no scarier then something like a dire wolf annihilator or fafnir. (which is not that much since I usually find most of them fairly easy to play around or against) but in mwo the meta afaik is fast brawl big assaults are too slow to be easy to use in a brawl, except for mechs like the spirit bear or koloss which are very fast because of masc, so you now have a mech that has some of the most firepower of anything in the game and because of masc is fast enough to use the firepower and is one of the easiest to use mech assault mechs imo. but I do not consider it much scarier then any other assault just one of the slightly scarier ones, what usually determines how scared I am is the pilot not the mech.
K2 is a very versatile mech. Can run a lot of different set ups, dakka, and the high hardpoints? fantastic. I run mine as a sniper with dual AC5/ Dual LPPC.
Played this in a match w/ Baradul about 4 days ago on Ceres. Unfortunately got wrecked early when the team let an Arctic Wolf get behind us and it cored my Rhino. If you can face your enemies, its terrifying. If someone gets behind you, its a trainwreck.
The other way to play this build is to make other get chainstunned. You just press 1 2 3 4 with equal interval - enemy mech's cockpit shakes again and again. MW4 and Dire Wolf LBX-20 worked well.
Mmm mmmm I just love the Stone Rhino ever since 3055 technical readout... hell I have all my books. Just love it getting some air time. LBX time.. that poor Raven though.😅😅😅😅
The lore of this thing is so baffling to me. The clans took a mech design associated with one of the people they absolutely hate the most, Stefan Amaris, and are like "You know what we need to do? Make Amaris' Folly somewhat more usable."
Not even. Smoke Jags saw the Matar as a challenge of “We can make what the Inner Sphere couldn’t” and they *succeeded* . The Stone Rhino truly is a show of the Genius of the Scientist Castes.
So I understand that the aesthetics and stats of a mech are more or less divorced, the game has to look good and it has to play good. But man, those top cannons look like they would be SO vulnerable to getting shot off. Ok, I'll go now.
They are linked to your mech so damaging those will damage the mech (Center torso I think) but those high weapons do help if you're peeking over an obstacle, as lower weapons can impact the cover. Kinda neat but it does actually affect gameplay in some ways :)
Gausszilla can run this build too, possibly better because it can fit a PPC in the center. It's also balanced by the fact it's very slow and has to be in your face to do heavy damage
how does a crit work on lbx is it that each pellet has a chance to do more dmg... or is it that when your shooting structure with it it wrecks more shit more often?
curious how this compares to an anni with same weapons. KINDA interesting that this newest mech is so meta. probly to be nerfed just before the NEXT "stone rhino" is released. War Robots anyone? lol
"you never find me", dies 40sec later in a 100t Assault, who dealt nine damage for a whopping 9 match score xDDD
how is this tier 1 :(?
16:57 "You never find me" - Famous Last Words
Famous last words followed quickly by death or rarely, someone with the skill and build to evade, or evade and skirmish really well
Baradu: "are you happy?"
Me watching the video: "Yeah, I'm happy."
I feel you'd love the Koloss stone rhino hero mech, Mask, 56 kph speed, 80 or so with MASC and it has 112 damage alpha strikes with 6 SRM 6s and 2 LBX 20s, Thinks a face melter of a brawler and I annihilate things daily in it.
It also has SRM HSL +2 so it can fire all 6 of the SRM 6s without ghost heat, Lasers aren't necessary on it, just excess heat for not much more damage.
"otherwise i wouldnt have put it in the video"
Even if the match was bad, but it showcased key points about the mech (good or bad), you'd put it in. You're good about that.
I fear no man. But that thing Terrifies me.
I love straightforward builds like this. It does only one trick but it does it extremely well.
4x LBX is quite the shotgun fetishists delight
ROFL! I'm horrible, I saw that comment and immediately thought of TTB talking about Germans and Flak Cannons
I love the 4x LB-20x Build. You get one in the Campaign and I was head shooting everything. I could not believe it seemed better then the Gauze Rifle. Put them in Chain fire, it works great.
You can actually alpha strike four LBX-20s without ghost heat! It's a lot more damage at once and a lot more satisfying to hear them all go off at once and instantly delete a light or medium mech
I have either a cyclops or an atlas kitted with two LB 20s and it is a lot of fun! But double the dakka is something I'm not sure I can resist. *Adds stone rhino to cart*
Try no XL and 4x LB10 on sleipnir if you have that bot. It's like the LB20 build but you just get way better range, spread, and rate of fire.
Love the content Bara, you're a credit to the community and we're glad you're back in action! I bought the Howl because of your vid with the triple atm 9 and 4xHmg. Love that thing!
If you want a real fun Stone Rhino build, try out the Aksum Legendary mech with 4x Ultra AC-5s and 2 Ultra AC-10s. It hits hard, though you won't have that much ammo so you'll want to make the bursts count.
I love this build. I was so anxious from the time they put up stats until release to be able to build this. I surprised a LOT of people with it when they finally did come out. :D
This exact build is the very reason I want an SR-4! It's a big mech with big guns which is my very play style in MWO
"otherwise i wouldnt have put it in the video" woahhhh my mind!! My immersion!! 🤯
Good video Bara. Seems like a build especially suited for Solaris City. 🙂
I run 6x LB-5x on my SR-4. I didn't think it was possible to get 4x LB-20Xs on the mech and still have it feasible. I'll have to try this later.
I will have to say there is nothing in mwo that is more intimidating to run into than a stone rhino.
imo most stone rhinos are not that scary, the koloss can be fairly scary though.
@@LavaDa1shi Fascinating, I think the Koloss is one of the meh versions of the stone rhino, especially when I'm playing a light or medium. But if I turn the corner and I see a stone rhino geared to the teeth with ballistics it's like well this is going to hurt.
The 3 mechs that you shit you pants when you see them:
Fafnir
Annihilator
Stone Rhino
I don't include the direwolf because those tend to be long range builds so you don't even see it before it blasts you.
@@zalin2000The rest of the stone rhinos I consider no scarier then something like a dire wolf annihilator or fafnir.
(which is not that much since I usually find most of them fairly easy to play around or against)
but in mwo the meta afaik is fast brawl big assaults are too slow to be easy to use in a brawl, except for mechs like the spirit bear or koloss which are very fast because of masc, so you now have a mech that has some of the most firepower of anything in the game and because of masc is fast enough to use the firepower and is one of the easiest to use mech assault mechs imo.
but I do not consider it much scarier then any other assault just one of the slightly scarier ones, what usually determines how scared I am is the pilot not the mech.
Wish we could see the reaction of the Fafnir pilot at 8:13. Probably thought his armor would keep him in the round for a while, and then WHAM!!! 😵
4 x Snubs on a K2 is a good build. I typically run mine with a 1 - 2 punch. With good heat management, it's a good skirmisher
K2 is a very versatile mech. Can run a lot of different set ups, dakka, and the high hardpoints? fantastic. I run mine as a sniper with dual AC5/ Dual LPPC.
TTB in the trenches with 4x shotguns... *"When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again" intensifies.*
The sound of those 4x lbx 20 is incredible
YEEEEEEEEES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ALL THE WAIT WAS WORTH ITTTTTT!!!!!!
They call it...
*The Doom Stick*
Played this in a match w/ Baradul about 4 days ago on Ceres. Unfortunately got wrecked early when the team let an Arctic Wolf get behind us and it cored my Rhino. If you can face your enemies, its terrifying. If someone gets behind you, its a trainwreck.
Man, game 2 that texture flickering takes me back to that age of gaming. xD Back when that was normal in most games. :P
I like this Doom-Boomstick. Got 4 Kills, 5 Assists and 820 DMG in the first Match.
Baradul rolling across the battlefield with the shotgun from Phantasm
This mech looks like ED-209 from Robocop. It really deserves a matching paint scheme.
My Marauder II - Alpha is painted up and equipped like an ED-209 :D
It's one of the few RAC builds that I enjoy
Love the MWO content you make it look so easy glad to know every game is not a good game for you…. lol
i bet the amount of bullets u shot at that Raven did weight more than him xD
16:36 expert shooting, most of people use full strike for one target in such situation
Baradui!!!!! Been likes ages!
:)
Baradui sounds like his french cousin
6:30 Sounds like me in my KGC-0000 packing a AC20 and SRM6x4. I'll be useful ... eventually.
This is the Stone Rhino you take out for a Shotgun Wedding.
That was awesome.!!
The other way to play this build is to make other get chainstunned. You just press 1 2 3 4 with equal interval - enemy mech's cockpit shakes again and again. MW4 and Dire Wolf LBX-20 worked well.
Mmm mmmm I just love the Stone Rhino ever since 3055 technical readout... hell I have all my books. Just love it getting some air time. LBX time.. that poor Raven though.😅😅😅😅
That was terrifying...
Quad gauss is a thing too.
Better yet is 2 lg pulse 2 lbx 10 2 gauss build. Cycle weapons in duos keeps enemy stun locked and rocking.
Ich habe das gleiche Build. Es macht so viel spass :)
Speed is life.
This build needs to be called:
D E L E T E B U T T O N
ROFLMAO! Anyone who is that last player alive and taunts "You will never find me!" never seems to last
The lore of this thing is so baffling to me. The clans took a mech design associated with one of the people they absolutely hate the most, Stefan Amaris, and are like "You know what we need to do? Make Amaris' Folly somewhat more usable."
Not even. Smoke Jags saw the Matar as a challenge of “We can make what the Inner Sphere couldn’t” and they *succeeded* . The Stone Rhino truly is a show of the Genius of the Scientist Castes.
They did it for lulz
Between you and TTB I think House Steiner would have the whole IS on LOCK!
how does it all fit?!?! thats some insane weight capacity on this one!
Bro shot that raven and it went to Mechwarrior 5.
Hi Baradul. I struggle with a proper AC-Build for the Stromcrow. Any chances you could feature this beautiful chassis any time soon, please?
Hah yes, the mech that could barelly walk and would melt after 1 A.S. perfect :P
So I understand that the aesthetics and stats of a mech are more or less divorced, the game has to look good and it has to play good. But man, those top cannons look like they would be SO vulnerable to getting shot off. Ok, I'll go now.
They are linked to your mech so damaging those will damage the mech (Center torso I think) but those high weapons do help if you're peeking over an obstacle, as lower weapons can impact the cover. Kinda neat but it does actually affect gameplay in some ways :)
It kind of feels weird watching Baradul after TBB. You realize there is an S button.. lol
I must build this............
wow, the power creep is real
Gausszilla can run this build too, possibly better because it can fit a PPC in the center. It's also balanced by the fact it's very slow and has to be in your face to do heavy damage
how does a crit work on lbx is it that each pellet has a chance to do more dmg... or is it that when your shooting structure with it it wrecks more shit more often?
Raven: "Just gonna... scootch past ya here"
Bara: "No."
But damn that stone rhino is ugly
if the stone rhino can be that powerful then they should bring back the way they first made the moon walker mad cat.
i am looking forward to the Stone rhino. does the top turret like thing count as a hit box for the torsos since those weapons are on the sides?
Yes they do, one dorsal gun per side torso
Tip of the spear? Quad 20-X is more like the business end of a sledgehammer.
Biiiig shotgun!
...should i be worried that a jump-capable mech can also carry up to 4 LB-20X autocannons...? I think i should, i really really should...
hold on ... how can you fire 4 LB 20 without GH? i don't see any HSL quirk on the sr4
Ten thousands tons of metal rocks)
Behemoth mech... must be... ahh the MW4
How do you get a stone rhino
You can fit that?!?!
Fancy my double UAV action? - Upinya :)
Putting builds like this on the table is how you get customs banned. So many location and pilot consciousness rolls...
curious how this compares to an anni with same weapons. KINDA interesting that this newest mech is so meta. probly to be nerfed just before the NEXT "stone rhino" is released. War Robots anyone? lol
When do we get videos of you in an assault mech and you get murdered by a hunting scout mech?
Heavy sandblasting galore
assault mechs in the front sharing armour .. what the hell is this
No mw5 for 10 days?
TODAY
You skipped leg day pretty hard with this build, how often has that been biting you in the ass?
Deleted previous comment, my math was all wrong.
are you german?
Yes
100 ton mechs that sit in the rear waiting for light mechs to "soften them up" are losers. You're a goddamn main battle tank go smash something
Where are the MW5 videos, Bara?
don't worry, they are coming back
Not a good build
Mechwarrior 5 dead ?`:/
Nope. It's coming back.
It's not "another stone rhino", it's "another shadow cat" © Sean Lang
A masc makes that build
And quirk to ammo
And drop coolshot
And 1 UAV
You can't fit MASC
If this game had realistic demolition physics that building will be gone cuz you put half your ammo into that thing! Lol