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Don't quote me on this, but I'm pretty sure empty ammo bins can't get crit so having half tons just increases your chance of an ammo explosion. Be careful though since in the lower tier matches people will face tank and RACs shit out damage so you might end up boosting yourself running this.
Running half-ton just to fit the armaments I want with a good engine while not immediately running out of ammo from the RAC/5's, would run full ammo bins otherwise. I'll have to test it out though so thanks for the advice, might end up removing the half tons or adding less of them or move them around a bit if what you say is true, though I surprisingly don't see a lot of retards trying to face tank a King Crab even in another Assault.
 
Don't quote me on this, but I'm pretty sure empty ammo bins can't get crit so having half tons just increases your chance of an ammo explosion. Be careful though since in the lower tier matches people will face tank and RACs shit out damage so you might end up boosting yourself running this.
This is MWO, right? Pretty sure empty ammo bins can still take damage and be destroyed without exploding there. Like on the tabletop, actually.
 
This is MWO, right? Pretty sure empty ammo bins can still take damage and be destroyed without exploding there. Like on the tabletop, actually.
It might bem but I'm fairly certain empty bins don't count for crit potential like CASE doesn't, otherwise everyone would've been running half tons.
 
This is MWO, right? Pretty sure empty ammo bins can still take damage and be destroyed without exploding there. Like on the tabletop, actually.
Would not be surprised, but the balance is all over the place so I'm not 100% sure. Fucking Cauldron, they buff mechs they play and nerf mechs they can't pilot or die against too often, tale as old as multiplayer balance patches. Seriously their new pet light mech has penis hardpoints.
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Is it even an always-online matchmaker-based live-service game with microtransactions if the developers don't fuck up the balancing? Really, it's part of the genre's DNA by now.
 
Clan archer in MWO is BULLSHIT. Absolutely broken AF pay 2 win.

I got maybe an hour in this weekend and holy fuck two times I got friendly fired down down. Once an absolutely retard on RACs. Another "oh you run low back armor sorry I didn't check my lbx is mounted low"

Both sloppy mistakes but fuck me.

Bright side of new patch the hunch backs got more armor on the hump. Really grooving on my basic bitch 4g now.

I don't like quads much but hit me with some quad BA that's not a sloth or that lyran one.

Might miss my weekly game night to go skiing. Last week got a double blind game in super fun. Hunchbacks are absolutely amazing in it and had a custom Zeus with hot loaded LRMs. Hilarious. I know the Zeus isn't good but in blind city fights it's a terror because it can move as fast as your avg intro med and piles of armor with a heck of a kick.
 
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As a Stalker main I simply do not care about meta shifts. High mounts go *bzzzt*.

Clan Stalker is very good though, I still think the 7D, 3FB, and Misery are able to go toe to toe or surpass it.
 
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I got maybe an hour in this weekend and holy fuck two times I got friendly fired down down. Once an absolutely retard on RACs. Another "oh you run low back armor sorry I didn't check my lbx is mounted low"

Both sloppy mistakes but fuck me.
Nah not even, guarantee those fucks were using zoom, which is basically most cases of accidental friendly fire.
 
This is just making me want to boot up MW5 Mercs. My main issue is just trying to kill time until the Clan Invasion starts so I can go pummel the shit out of those assholes in Warzone missions for loot and C-bills.
 
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This is just making me want to boot up MW5 Mercs. My main issue is just trying to kill time until the Clan Invasion starts so I can go pummel the shit out of those assholes in Warzone missions for loot and C-bills.
I'm just hoping MW5Clans survives long enough for modding and career mode to be added. Just get that far, guys, and the community can fix the rest.
 
I miss the days when people used the fucking chat if they don't use microphones, speaking into the void is getting tiresome. But when we do get people talking it's pretty cool...unless they're sweats. Also, I swear this game loves to put me into a match where either the map or the enemy team just hard counters me.
>Fast, mobile mech
>ENTIRE ENEMY TEAM IS LRMs
>No AMS to be found
Like seriously, it was awful. Mostly for them, they countered me hard but not really anyone else. Last match I had a brawler on a long range fighting map. Ffs.
This is just making me want to boot up MW5 Mercs. My main issue is just trying to kill time until the Clan Invasion starts so I can go pummel the shit out of those assholes in Warzone missions for loot and C-bills.
I try to play MW5 for a least a week, modded or not I just stop and delete the game within a few days and don't touch it for months at a time. I seriously can't play this game it's beyond boring. Also I believe there's a mod that lets you choose the Clan Invasion date. Sadly the clan invasion mod is fucked, especially with the Fafnir (they take no damage outside of melee, they barely take melee damage either even with pumping up the melee damage in...YAML I think, I just hotkey kill them). They turned off posts and bug reports (but not the forum so people post there) and pretty much moved everything to some dicksword. People reported it, nothing happened, nothing continues to happen for 10 months. They clearly abandoned the mod.
I'm just hoping MW5Clans survives long enough for modding and career mode to be added. Just get that far, guys, and the community can fix the rest.
Given the layoffs, I doubt it. Which is a death sentence given that unless they shape up now or convince the higher ups that continuing to work on the game is worth the time and money to at least add better modding support and hope more people come, MW5Clans is fucked. It currently has less players than even MWO.
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People saw/played Clans, went right back to MW5 because it got a slight population boost a bit after release, maybe a week.
 
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Dude, ya can't complain about voice coms being too sweaty and serious in the same breath about people not communicating.

I want to hear:
"3 mechs in Delta 4, fire on Foxtrot, right torso"

I don't want to hear:
"Guys stay together! STAY TOGETHER! WAAAGH THERE IS A LIGHT IN FUCKOFFVILLE SHOOTING ME! HELP!"

Give me sweaty try hard any day of the week over a chatty cathy just contributing to sensory overload.
 
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Dude, ya can't complain about voice coms being to sweaty amd serious in the same breath about people not communicating.

I want to hear:
"3 mechs in Delta 4, fire on Foxtrot, right torso"

I don't want to hear:
"Guys stay together! STAY TOGETHER! WAAAGH THERE IS A LIGHT IN FUCKOFFVILLE SHOOTING ME! HELP!"

Give me sweaty try hard any day of the week over a chatty cathy just contributing to sensory overload.
I should have elaborated that by sweaty I mean "YOU DIDN'T DO EXACTLY WHAT I WANTED IN 0.1 SECONDS? REEEEEEEEEEE *leaves*" I don't see it often, but I see it more than I want to. But nah I rather just have people be causal in quickplay. If it were ranked or something that's entirely different.
 
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Given the layoffs, I doubt it. Which is a death sentence given that unless they shape up now or convince the higher ups that continuing to work on the game is worth the time and money to at least add better modding support and hope more people come, MW5Clans is fucked. It currently has less players than even MWO.
Oh. Oh christ.

Yeah that's over. Hope the modders didn't quit on MW5Mercs. Maybe they can backport the Clans shit to it.
 
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People saw/played Clans, went right back to MW5 because it got a slight population boost a bit after release, maybe a week.
The number of MW5 players is likely higher since it was an EGS exclusive, easily at 800-900 players if you factor that in.

Dude, ya can't complain about voice coms being too sweaty and serious in the same breath about people not communicating.

I want to hear:
"3 mechs in Delta 4, fire on Foxtrot, right torso"

I don't want to hear:
"Guys stay together! STAY TOGETHER! WAAAGH THERE IS A LIGHT IN FUCKOFFVILLE SHOOTING ME! HELP!"

Give me sweaty try hard any day of the week over a chatty cathy just contributing to sensory overload.
Shots calling is a thankless job so people don't do it.
 
Shots calling is a thankless job so people don't do it.
If you catch me in the right mood I'll do it. I've got a clan on there and if I'm playing with my guys its usually all in our Discord.

You are totally right. First guy to get blamed is the one to speak up. You'll sometimes get an attaboi if you sweep the match with a good team.
 
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If you catch me in the right mood I'll do it. I've got a clan on there and if I'm playing with my guys its usually all in our Discord.

You are totally right. First guy to get blamed is the one to speak up. You'll sometimes get an attaboi if you sweep the match with a good team.
Honestly its less being blamed and more often than not you're trying to herd cats and it can be very frustrating when people don't listen to you.
 
The number of MW5 players is likely higher since it was an EGS exclusive, easily at 800-900 players if you factor that in.
Sadly Epic doesn't have a Steamcharts/SteamDB equivalent so I can't verify but I doubt it, truly.
Shots calling is a thankless job so people don't do it.
I thank them :(
Honestly its less being blamed and more often than not you're trying to herd cats and it can be very frustrating when people don't listen to you.
I hate it, disorganized, scattered, doing retarded decisions, it's a gamble on whether we'll get people with brain cells or not.
Oh. Oh christ.

Yeah that's over. Hope the modders didn't quit on MW5Mercs. Maybe they can backport the Clans shit to it.
Most of the OGs who made some of the best mods are still there, some relatively interesting new mods are coming out still too. Someone recreated some MechAssault missions in MW5.
 
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I try to play MW5 for a least a week, modded or not I just stop and delete the game within a few days and don't touch it for months at a time. I seriously can't play this game it's beyond boring. Also I believe there's a mod that lets you choose the Clan Invasion date. Sadly the clan invasion mod is fucked, especially with the Fafnir (they take no damage outside of melee, they barely take melee damage either even with pumping up the melee damage in...YAML I think, I just hotkey kill them). They turned off posts and bug reports (but not the forum so people post there) and pretty much moved everything to some dicksword. People reported it, nothing happened, nothing continues to happen for 10 months. They clearly abandoned the mod.
I'm using a different mod setup, Known Universe with Yet Another Mechlab and its various addons, but swapping out YAW/YAWC for the Yet Another Revamped series that has a lot more weapon and ammo options. No more needing a special SRM to launch inferno missiles with YARW/YARWC.

I tried CI but ditched it because its low quality through and through.
 
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It's crazy how overtunned Light Mechs are in MWO. Fast, tanky, jank hit registration so damage is even less, mostly good hardpoints (Cockmando, 5 hard points arranged like a penis, I'm not joking), good heat management, it's quite literally what the balance patchers (Crucible) use so they buff them to hell (along with a few other IS mechs) and nerf the already fucked Clan mechs.
I'm using a different mod setup, Known Universe with Yet Another Mechlab and its various addons, but swapping out YAW/YAWC for the Yet Another Revamped series that has a lot more weapon and ammo options. No more needing a special SRM to launch inferno missiles with YARW/YARWC.
Noted for my next inevitable 2 day playthrough, also oh yeah I forgot about Known Universe.
 
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