For about a week or so in the closed beta, a K2 with pulse lasers was the "meta" because you just had a constant stream of DPS. Lots of "comp" teams used it and would just dogpile a single person and leg them in seconds. It was actually pretty goddamn broken. I can only remember MGs being useful a couple of times during when I played MWO though, and really only for crit seeking.
Until you mount 4 or more they're shit for actually doing damage, but you can just kind of briefly spray MG fire at an opened component and you're practically guaranteed to knock something out. Once you hit 6 MGs you actually start doing reasonable sustained damage - the IS has the one Javelin variant that will mount 6 and the Blackjack hero mounts 6. Light Machine Guns are strictly for critseeking, even massed their damage sucks. Heavy Machine Guns get surprisingly painful at 6 or more but their range is garbage.
I don't think any of those were in MWO the last time I played with the exception of the Mist Lynx. But yeah I do remember specialized boating MG builds.
Something that in TT the Assault would usually reward with a kick so powerful, it'll blow the pilot's soul out his ass by sheer force of impact...
The big one for me is Battletech Revised it has the whole inner sphere, new mechs, and a dynamic faction system completely offline. The missions you do actually affect how wars between the great houses go. Also there's no op clan bullshit.
No idea. I've been playing too much Living Legends to care. The team are making a sequel in MW5 so maybe someone will be able to salvage a good game out of that piece of shit.
Now does it slow down as fast as RT? Is it better with the lack of clan stuff?
All the overhauls have some amount of slowdown. But revised has the least. Mostly at the very end when you get the high paying contracts where every enemy lance is full Assault mechs.
I started playing around with Extended the other day, since it has flexible start dates and sounded like it had the most non-DLC content, but holy hell is it sloooow. I might wind up switching over to Revised if that's faster!
Yeah, iirc that was one of the (several) reasons I uninstalled BT in the first place. I love piloting Assault mechs as much as the next nerd, but if you want to make it hard, then have me comp-stomp a full company of Mediums and Heavies. I've never understood that "the enemies get better as you do!" approach to open world gaming; yes, it's nice to maintain challenge, but I'd rather be challenged AND feel like a badass who's finally earned his stompy privileges after dozens of hours of struggle, then be one of a thousand faceless mooks in an implausibly OP mech.
I've heard several people singing the praise of MADs now; what's good about them? Something about a bonus to called shot hit percent...?
Marauders have two effects: A giant bonus to called shots for the Marauder itself that makes the hit probability of an aimed shot >30% from the get-go and damage to all your units is reduced by 10%.
You'll stomp entire companies of mechs in lategame every mission. The game first increases difficulty by throwing heavier units at you and then it just amps up the number of hostile units, until you regularly fight 3 lances.
Yeah it's been mentioned that taking out collisions/knockdowns more or less set the stage for annoying PIR leghumpers, but generally in MWO if you're a fatty you want to hang with your lance/company if at all possible (other players have an AWFUL habit of abandoning anything that moves slower than 64kph to run in circles like morons) so you can get a lancemate to clobber the PIR humping your leg. Sticking together is in general a better idea, but good luck getting other players to cooperate. It actually gets MUCH worse as you go up in PSR tier - the lowbies are way more likely to at least stick together in my experience, barring idiots who were never going to play like they were on a team anyway.
Not sure about the DLC but the OC is a pretty basic revenge/payback story with a bit of "my dad was WHAT?". Some of the side missions can be played as if you were some bleeding heart or commie liberator whatever and there is an early campaign mission where you're the leverage for some exploited workers to get their employer to the bargaining table. Beyond that whoever is calling this narrative the main thrust of the OC story is a delusional faggot.
Okay, because that didn't sound anything like what MechWarrior was about to me and given the kind of bullshit lately I wasn't sure if they had those kinds of writers on board.
I do know several missions I'm going through is dealing with an independant colony trying to deal with some Davion royalty thats been squelching the populace.
Killing Davions is based no matter what flavor of political ideology you swallow.
Most of the missions I had on had me either to deal with Crappies or Davion, chose to deal with Davion.
One of the hero mech missions has you helping the Kuritans put down a popular uprising by first leveling their bases and then secondly by blowing up their leader and then finally by luring his remaining followers (who have decided LOKI of all groups can be properly trusted to supply them with guns) into an ambush by said Kuritan forces.
