Your most cringeworthy builds.

In short, loads of assaults out there are just slower fatter mediums?

 

Seeing a lot of assaults who are just obsessed with being 2 Kph faster so they forgo most of their weapons to get that 1 size up engine. Its sad. Speed is good but I can't foresee the need for any assault to really have bigger than a 325 if it means losing 70% of your firepower. I see it time and again Battlemaster with a massive engine and whats he do with it? Gets to position and sits like everyone else.

 

GAH!!! AGAIN WITH THE ASSAULT MUPPETS! Just saw this guy.

Does this look similar?

http://mwo.smurfy-net.de/mechlab#i=14&l=b504b027885c63baabd00fc8821abb340665844e


TO THIS!
http://mwo.smurfy-net.de/mechlab#i=2&l=e91a6703333c08834586ca31cd106778c12867c2

 

To be fair though, an awesome is just a heavier heavy.
I think that guy is trying to do this. So definitely more DHS, BAP is thrown in cause I feel like it, maybe I should throw in 3 BAP instead.
http://mwo.smurfy-net.de/mechlab#i=14&l=163fc75f5750219ba086c18b7961efb6fd3d84f8

Unless you go PPC the best you can go with the cooling is this though. I rather run a thunderbolt.
http://mwo.smurfy-net.de/mechlab#i=14&l=d72befc3b9fa7e981bea0a43fca5ba1e2b78d311

 

except that awesome has almost 200 points more armor to soak up firepower. On the other hand the hunchie has a lot more speed... idk...

 

What to we chant here? Optimize or go home.

This is how I think I would have done it.
http://mwo.smurfy-net.de/mechlab#i=14&l=5721e38cfee8fd8c11415c10608aebaea01d0dc7

or this even if you have to zombie

http://mwo.smurfy-net.de/mechlab#i=14&l=6b66d40b82f5b518fc1b9a09b04c94f6b5e068de

both are hot as hell but at least I am using my tonnage and at extreme range that 4 ERLLas could still sting

 

3x ERLLas works great. Not sure about 4x ERLLas, maybe too hot with ghost heat. Personally I would take out one DHS and drop in AMS, and run 3x ERLLas 4x MLas. On the other side, 3x PPC is good also if you don't mind the heat. Then again, awesome is a bit lacking in terms of what it can do, esp the type Q after ghost heat.

 

oh yes, totally agree. Those builds were made in about 30 seconds so they are far from polished I just used them to illustrate utilizing the tonnage. Lets face it if you finish with your build and you have 11 tons left over you are using the wrong mech.

 

yeeeeeeeeeeeeah

 

Lol just ran in to this guy...

http://mwo.smurfy-net.de/mechlab#i=72&l=f599fda54cbf4f14c562c027ee114cf7d874e854

Annnnd this guy

http://mwo.smurfy-net.de/mechlab#i=120&l=6867961ac7138162a9f93420dd681e4ab32d044c

 

Wow...okay um new low. Just had this guy in my match.

http://mwo.smurfy-net.de/mechlab#i=89&l=d3c32b1b151b1a64f4799b34dde8420c2a224e95

 

I dub this build "Sitting duck."

 

This looks like an homage to a canonical mech: the Banshee BNC-3Q.

 

In that case then I think it is nice and good.

While I would not do such a thing (aka F*ck SHS, etc) I actually think that people building adaptations and replications of canon mech are really cool. NOTE: this does not extend into running stock pieces of crap mechs into battles.

 

kinda wish I was making this one up...

http://mwo.smurfy-net.de/mechlab#i=120&l=b49326b0dd53b504ed83b4e514c66d505dfce4eb

 

^ wow

I saw this one yesterday... I have a screenshot of it, but not with me atm.

here is what I was able to replicate. I'm not sure what engine he was running, but I know it was a STD and went at least 65 kph. Noticed at least that much, but it wasn't top speed, before he died.

http://mwo.smurfy-net.de/mechlab#i=118&l=56317b63148df0af235917147b3149e29e8d012e

He might have actually been running no DHS, because he was over-heating much faster than he should have from what I remember spectating him until he hit the dirt. Based on that, I'm fairly certain he was running this:

http://mwo.smurfy-net.de/mechlab#i=118&l=603e2c11c62137b2c3e4147775f6b04ef4f5d215

 

Saw a 6x Flamer Battlemaster the other day. I tried to be nice and suggest flamers were "underpowered" and that he should consider reworking it but he defended his build saying he was working with his lance and only needed to do 200+ damage to have contributed. At the end of the match he had only done 180 damage.

 

Just had a game with this bad boy. Nothing says 'fear me' in a Victor more than 3 flamers, lbx10, and AMS. Pls note the 21DHS as well in the smurfy.

http://mwo.smurfy-net.de/mechlab#i=87&l=eebb405d1dbc2e3902e3ee22f4a82455ed5375bf
Did amazing dmg too and when I laughed at his build he and another person attempted to correct me saying it was fine and not everything had to be meta. Oh, and I should shut up since I died before him and he couldn't wait to see the end of round screen. I think I beat him...
http://i.imgur.com/1CzAv1X.jpg[/img]

 

Makes me laugh when this happens to me. They don't seem to understand that they were on the field twice as long as I was but somehow managed to do half (or less!) of my damage.

Mediums and Lights I can forgive a couple simple mistakes. But Heavies and Assaults should be pumping out the DPS. Unfortunately it seems like the more tonnage they have to play with the worse the builds get.

 

Nice Flaming Dragon Slayer LT.
I was in a match earlier today with a catapult with 4 flamers... that's all, nothing else. Wasn't sure if the guy was serious.. hear: