PGI should add the ability to press and button and have your ally's loadout appear on the hud next to their mech. Especially with all of the specialized weapons (normal, pulse, heavy, ER) that look identical on your mech.
Well, the first one might be a warning what to expect of the player. ;) (For the non-german speakers: It roughly translates to: "Completely wasted, won't hit anything")
Agreed on the strikes parts, strikes are really annoying right now, a simple fix would be to greatly increase it's global cooldown so it isn't spammed by the team in such a short amount of time. Strikes are free damage with no slot or weight restrictions and costs next to nothing since playing 1 match already overcomes the cost and majority of people don't even actively dodge them because they're too concerned with being shot by the enemy. Alot of the times you can't even see the smoke anyway because it's behind you or behind a hill or something. Just my 2 cents.
I like that you're talking about teamwork a lot - it helps out in the PUG games where everyone tries to run your builds if they also remember to not go Lone Wolf, lol. Also - hit me up anytime you need a Mist Lynx buddy: mistlynx4life is my pilot name. ;)
Join a team? Some of the teams playing in the tournament last year set up actual positions, including defenses. Defense doesn't seem to work in PUGs, but if you have a real, coordinated team it seems to still be viable in MWO. And every once in a while you'll see some of the MWO video channels showing some traps.
I'd rather have two large lasers instead of the light ppcs. Slightly heavier, but like you said, you're running max armor. Side note: monster brawler build: mwo.smurfy-net.de/mechlab#i=146&l=c909351356a5b3bb3672cd41e979049cdbd002e7 75 alpha with no ghost heat, NINETY-FIVE with double tap....
I'm curious...have you noticed that the Battlemasters are now much more useful with the new Tech? Heavy PPCs, ERMedLas, and MRMs are some of the more interesting things that can be done!
Yeah, kinda. The 1G and 2C have never not been meta, they just got even stronger because of the LFE and ERMLs. My Hellslinger seems to like MRM50 and 4x ERML. The other two BLRs are still mediocre, just due to lackluster quirks.
nothing to do with his loadout just the chassis itself is pretty trash anymore. big, tall, side, and squishy. Other assaults seem to take a beating and keep going but the banshe, just melts. Reason you never seem them played.
They have trouble, that's for sure. They are very big and don't get armor or structure. The bonus agility isn't really enough to keep you alive. And the 5 large pulse meta build gets nerfed every patch
Banshees were the only assault chassis I managed to feel comfortable in. But it took a while. I had to learn how to torso twist properly. This chassis doesn't forgive it if you don't. Sometimes when I played in a team I was occasionally used as shield in pushes. I twisted like a madman and it was incredible how much of a beating I could take. Of course I don't know if this is still the case. Haven't played it for 9 months.
Dear MoltenMetal, can you do some NightGyr builds? I use the Champion and Hero mech almost exclussivly if Im going Assault to a point where I scraped everything out of the default B variant to put it on the JF-Kite (hero) Ive been using 2 ER Large and 3 Ultra AC2's
Hello, been watching your videos for a long time now. Really really helpful. If you had to pick 4 IS mechs for a drop deck with jew civil war tech, what would they be? :)
presume you meant 'new' civil war tech? it may not be obvious to the international players, but in north america that typo could be construed as some sort of hatespeech due to our wild political climate :(
A simple fix to strikes IMHO: make each one 100K C-bills and scale up the cooldown the more strikes the team uses (i.e. 30 seconds after the first use, then 40 seconds after the next use, then 50 seconds after the third use and so on....). That way, it serves its intended purpose (preventing camping one spot for too long) and still becomes less spam-able than it is now.
I have noticed a lack of good games as well, either we get rolled or we roll over them? I bought a King crab and I haven't had a game over 300 dmg with it. It's really discouraging. :(
Sunny Hill King Crabs have an incredibly large center torso that is easy to core out. If you want a great reliable Assault Mech, go with the Marauder IIC. Incredible Mech! The MAD-IIC-A and the MAD-IIC are the best variants.
Hmm I guess if you have the hard points a ton less is still a ton less :D. Would still love a Grasshopper PPC build or jsut a good grasshopper build (Mainly because I have 3 and dont have good builds right now)
5J, 5H, and 5P. I actually use the 5J the most due to current LURM spam and it's double AMS to keep the team alive. I think it was the 5P I bought because of the PPC quirks it used to have. But now I'm a bit lost with what to do with them. In many ways a Black Knight seems better as a Wub boat, same with the pure LaZor Roughneck with its super high mount points.
lol, I ran a similar build on my Banshee 3S for a while, but with some bigger targeting computer and an U-AC10 instead of 20, all achieved wit ha slower 325 LFE. It's a nice build nontheless and it's good that someone gives the banshees some love. Have you tried to copy&paste your new tech cyclops (MRM+ Heavy Gauss) into the 3S? mwo.smurfy-net.de/mechlab#i=146&l=1ee463017266a259f3ea07d1c096b2b074f177b9
"i'm struggling to find good games cause players aren't playing as a team these days", well its not these days cause its always been a bit like that in QP, also they have increased the threshold for Tier assignment in QP apparently so potato games should decrease, or maybe people in higher tiers just want to do it their way after all and having high tier guys doesn't help that and finally the other team was presumably tier 1-2 also........and they weren't so teamy.
right, Baradul is tier 1 so theoretically he shouldn't get tier 3 or lower which is my point about teamwork, i would expect the team skills of tier 1 and 2 players to be superior to tier 4 and 5 so this should be improving
If he was in the solo queue he would only get tier 1 or tier 2 players. check out the announcement on the mwo website. mwomercs.com/news/2017/09/1885-changes-to-solo-quick-play-matchmaking-restrictions
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If youre doing badly, and I was when I recently returned to MWO, it doesn't move much at all. Now that I'm winning more than losing again, and doing well enough in the losses to either go even or sometimes even go up. Its much faster. Its about doing well even in losses(and carrying the wins) that speeds the process up, but its like molasses if you don't.
PGI should add the ability to press and button and have your ally's loadout appear on the hud next to their mech. Especially with all of the specialized weapons (normal, pulse, heavy, ER) that look identical on your mech.
Or just allow us to target allies, like you could in older Mechwarrior games.
You're so informative! watching you has helped me grow a lot as a player. Thanks for the uploads.
Built this MOD today, I like it. New to game and needed help. This MOD works well for me. Thanks!
I enjoy all of your videos, thank you for taking the time to do this. With any luck I will meet you on the battlefield some day
At the point in the video where Barudul warns us about heat management; can't wait to see how many times he shuts down.
"Bin voll treff nix"
"Fallen Chicken of Despair"
I always wonder how people think up those names!
yea ikr
always makes me giggle when sitting in the "god damn it, push that ready button already - simulator" screen.
Well, the first one might be a warning what to expect of the player. ;)
(For the non-german speakers: It roughly translates to: "Completely wasted, won't hit anything")
Changed out AC 20 and replaced with Rotary AC 5, upgrade to Target comp# 2, and ANOTHER Double heat sink! much more fun!
lol the falling down part happened before the shooting part lol
sometimes your interpretation of english is just awesome :)
Finally a PPCs + AC build... =D
OR you could go with 5 LPPC, HPPC, and RAC/5.
Hi Bara! bring this beast to 2020!
I love these builds with the marauder
BTW the weapon geometry hasn´t been updaten on all mechs yet, hence the "Laser-PPC"
Agreed on the strikes parts, strikes are really annoying right now, a simple fix would be to greatly increase it's global cooldown so it isn't spammed by the team in such a short amount of time.
Strikes are free damage with no slot or weight restrictions and costs next to nothing since playing 1 match already overcomes the cost and majority of people don't even actively dodge them because they're too concerned with being shot by the enemy.
Alot of the times you can't even see the smoke anyway because it's behind you or behind a hill or something.
Just my 2 cents.
Hi!! you had a good team in first match, congrats it is hard to see such a team!!!
No joke about lack of teamwork these days...
Great Video! Thank You!
I agree that today's games are just going on your own and point hunting instead of cooperating and winning the game...and this is now in 2019.
I chuckle when folks say High
Damage is everything. Pinpoint head shots would be the most effeciant kills and next to no damage done.
I like that you're talking about teamwork a lot - it helps out in the PUG games where everyone tries to run your builds if they also remember to not go Lone Wolf, lol. Also - hit me up anytime you need a Mist Lynx buddy: mistlynx4life is my pilot name. ;)
DriFD3S here. . . 5 PPC's and 4 PPC models... PGI working as intended?
Why don't I ever see you on the Battlefield, Baradul???
Take care!
Ive played with him recently. he streams often on twitch too
Omg ! Dude ! Your hand ! 0.58
I wish there was another stratagem than "muderball and win".
well the other option is lurmagedon
Join a team? Some of the teams playing in the tournament last year set up actual positions, including defenses. Defense doesn't seem to work in PUGs, but if you have a real, coordinated team it seems to still be viable in MWO. And every once in a while you'll see some of the MWO video channels showing some traps.
channel the murderball into a vulnerable area and arty them to oblivion.
problem with the banshee S is its about 20-30% less agile than the other banshees in terms of torso twist and aceel/decel
I'd rather have two large lasers instead of the light ppcs. Slightly heavier, but like you said, you're running max armor.
Side note: monster brawler build: mwo.smurfy-net.de/mechlab#i=146&l=c909351356a5b3bb3672cd41e979049cdbd002e7
75 alpha with no ghost heat, NINETY-FIVE with double tap....
This is insane lmao
I'm curious...have you noticed that the Battlemasters are now much more useful with the new Tech? Heavy PPCs, ERMedLas, and MRMs are some of the more interesting things that can be done!
Yeah, kinda. The 1G and 2C have never not been meta, they just got even stronger because of the LFE and ERMLs. My Hellslinger seems to like MRM50 and 4x ERML. The other two BLRs are still mediocre, just due to lackluster quirks.
Loving the vids. Keep em coming.
Robot Kenshiro o7
banshees are super difficult to use IMO now..so squishy...
agreed.
imo one to many ppc.
nothing to do with his loadout just the chassis itself is pretty trash anymore. big, tall, side, and squishy. Other assaults seem to take a beating and keep going but the banshe, just melts. Reason you never seem them played.
They're still good as laservomit if you abuse the high hardpoints.
They have trouble, that's for sure. They are very big and don't get armor or structure. The bonus agility isn't really enough to keep you alive. And the 5 large pulse meta build gets nerfed every patch
Banshees were the only assault chassis I managed to feel comfortable in. But it took a while. I had to learn how to torso twist properly. This chassis doesn't forgive it if you don't. Sometimes when I played in a team I was occasionally used as shield in pushes. I twisted like a madman and it was incredible how much of a beating I could take.
Of course I don't know if this is still the case. Haven't played it for 9 months.
650M cbill and 3k SP into baradul's account for finding an invisible ppc. :) #dailydose :D
The first hit did not hit ! :DDDD
yea you corrected yourself, but you never fail to make me giggle
hmpf :P
Tiny Baradul is tiny ^^
Dear MoltenMetal, can you do some NightGyr builds? I use the Champion and Hero mech almost exclussivly if Im going Assault to a point where I scraped everything out of the default B variant to put it on the JF-Kite (hero) Ive been using 2 ER Large and 3 Ultra AC2's
Hello, been watching your videos for a long time now. Really really helpful. If you had to pick 4 IS mechs for a drop deck with jew civil war tech, what would they be? :)
presume you meant 'new' civil war tech? it may not be obvious to the international players, but in north america that typo could be construed as some sort of hatespeech due to our wild political climate :(
Brian Sweeney yes.. I meant in game civil war. Not referring to which mechs I'd prefer to help me keep my slaves
that's what i figured but you know its only a matter of time before some guy comes along and tries to stir up trouble :)
Strip some leg armor and the targeting computer, up the engine to LFE350 and put an extra heatsink there (might need to strip some arm armor too).
max engine for Banshee 3S is 345, so your idea is not possible.
P-P-P-P-P-C
am I right!
A simple fix to strikes IMHO: make each one 100K C-bills and scale up the cooldown the more strikes the team uses (i.e. 30 seconds after the first use, then 40 seconds after the next use, then 50 seconds after the third use and so on....). That way, it serves its intended purpose (preventing camping one spot for too long) and still becomes less spam-able than it is now.
I have noticed a lack of good games as well, either we get rolled or we roll over them? I bought a King crab and I haven't had a game over 300 dmg with it. It's really discouraging. :(
Sunny Hill King Crabs have an incredibly large center torso that is easy to core out. If you want a great reliable Assault Mech, go with the Marauder IIC. Incredible Mech! The MAD-IIC-A and the MAD-IIC are the best variants.
Man everytime I don't run a AMS I get murdered by missles.
Why do you run without arm-lock even on builds where all the weapons are in the torso?
+Nick because I am used to it. I have the feeling that the mouse feels different when I have arm lock active
I'm sad that the 3 SNPPC AC20 Banshee 3E got nerfed.
Also what is the benefit of 3 LPPC over 1 PPC + 1 LPPC ?
Weight. The Light PPC weighs 3 tons, a regular PPC weighs 7.
Hmm I guess if you have the hard points a ton less is still a ton less :D. Would still love a Grasshopper PPC build or jsut a good grasshopper build (Mainly because I have 3 and dont have good builds right now)
Which variants?
5J, 5H, and 5P. I actually use the 5J the most due to current LURM spam and it's double AMS to keep the team alive.
I think it was the 5P I bought because of the PPC quirks it used to have. But now I'm a bit lost with what to do with them. In many ways a Black Knight seems better as a Wub boat, same with the pure LaZor Roughneck with its super high mount points.
3 lpl 4/5 ermlas or mlas is what I've run on them since day one and they work for me, can also do a lot of mpl if you want to
holy shit!
I wish DFA worked in this game!
@MoltenMetal zum ersten Mal Deutsch sprechen gehört :-D
Was ist dein lieblings-mech allgemein?
Warhammer 6R wahrscheinlich. Man kann soooo viele Builds damit bauen.
Danke :-)
Overkill? You haven't been in the matches I've been in then, they focused the legs of my MAD even with max leg armor.
lol, I ran a similar build on my Banshee 3S for a while, but with some bigger targeting computer and an U-AC10 instead of 20, all achieved wit ha slower 325 LFE.
It's a nice build nontheless and it's good that someone gives the banshees some love.
Have you tried to copy&paste your new tech cyclops (MRM+ Heavy Gauss) into the 3S? mwo.smurfy-net.de/mechlab#i=146&l=1ee463017266a259f3ea07d1c096b2b074f177b9
You have one of the largest Units member wise in the game and you are having issues finding people to play with who play like a team?
Why laser duration?
Laser duration is unlocked from another build but not active at the moment. Only the filled hexes are.
OK. Thought they looked filled in, maybe I just didn't see them properly.
"schlecht, wür dich ma so sagen" hahaha :D
sucht ihr noch leute eigentlich bei MM? :)
"i'm struggling to find good games cause players aren't playing as a team these days", well its not these days cause its always been a bit like that in QP, also they have increased the threshold for Tier assignment in QP apparently so potato games should decrease, or maybe people in higher tiers just want to do it their way after all and having high tier guys doesn't help that and finally the other team was presumably tier 1-2 also........and they weren't so teamy.
the recent changes made the pug queue better as the matchmaker should be going +-1 of your level. In theory tierl 3 can be matched with tier 2-4
right, Baradul is tier 1 so theoretically he shouldn't get tier 3 or lower which is my point about teamwork, i would expect the team skills of tier 1 and 2 players to be superior to tier 4 and 5 so this should be improving
If he was in the solo queue he would only get tier 1 or tier 2 players. check out the announcement on the mwo website. mwomercs.com/news/2017/09/1885-changes-to-solo-quick-play-matchmaking-restrictions
Your video now has a 25 second mandatory add first that cannot be skipped....really bugging.
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Yep, I understand ;-)
6:43
Dude you're telling me, my K/D has dropped significantly this past week. I'm thinking it's a new wave of players or something...
Matchmaking changes
you are only playing against people in your own tier range
Problem is there is nothing ABOVE tier 1, so it's both long term players and v.good players.
If youre doing badly, and I was when I recently returned to MWO, it doesn't move much at all. Now that I'm winning more than losing again, and doing well enough in the losses to either go even or sometimes even go up. Its much faster. Its about doing well even in losses(and carrying the wins) that speeds the process up, but its like molasses if you don't.