LOL, uuups... Honest mistake, i promise.. I have always had the utmost respect for Soy's skill as a player and even learned a thing or two from him as well.
I think it would be really funny to play as casual and derpy as possible, while still leading people to believe I'm returning to kick all their asses again. It'd be like, next-level troll shit from the Ironic Galaxy... ...a true return from Exodus. I brought clantech. And cookies! Anyone for tennis? ps - look at how tryhard Elmer is in that clip
First time on a lot of these maps, for example the tin foil HPG: This mech is hilarious btw So... I'm like, binding more hotkeys after each match and shit... did they change zooming btw? Or is it just that pushing down on my scroll button doesn't work cuz its broke and so my new rebinds simply feel odd? Also, here's a difficult question to phrase: back in the day you used to have to actually own as in physically have the 3 variants in your mech bays when you went 8/8, which then opened elites and then you could sell off the ones you didn't want at that point... has that changed? I don't have 3 mech bays open for 3 kit foxes... I only own 8 and half of em are still holding dusty 3Ds.
Zoom has been developed slightly, you can instazoom max range, use targeting computers to enhance, etc. But keybinds should have remained as the base functionality is the same. Not sure about the requirement of actually having them in a bay, never tried it myself. But as a tip, once the rewards for loyalty in CW comes in there is a low tier reward which is a mechbay. Some players take 1 week contracts with all factions to farm mechbays, one per faction.
So long as you get them to 8/8 basic, and you've had lights through elite as a trio before, you can sell off the unwanted ones right away and just take one KFX to Master. You CAN sell them off right away, the skills system remembers that they were basiced out.
But do I need to own all 3 simultaneously when I initially unlock 8/8? From way you make it sound, I can buy at em one a time... buy first and go 8/8, sell it, buy next one, 8/8 sell, buy last one, 8/8, then keep that last one and elite/master it.
you need to OWN 3 variants of the chassis to unlock the Elite and Master slot. That is my current understanding.
You can buy one, do the 8/8 basic skills and sell it when finished doing so. Then you can go on and use the same lone mechbay for 8/8 basic on another variant and you'd still be able to master the third one afterwards without any problems. Did it myself this way when doing the Warhawks. I'd say you can safely get rid of at least one 3D. I also still own two of them, but sadly they're not the monsters they used to be anymore. Dual Gauss is still very strong, but that's more because of the Gauss' power.
Did you already have the Dire Wolves done though? Most poptarting 3D's are two energy and 1 Gauss now.
Warhawks were my 8th assault to master. The basic rule that you need to do elite through 3 mechs of a certain weight class to enable the master slot obv. still holds true. This in turn implies that you need to keep all variants of a mech if you haven't played through that weight class yet.
Yeah that was what I was implying. Soy has just returned so he's unlikely to have done the Adders or Mist Lynx's so he'll need all three. We've just got used to having more flexibility as we received quite a few free mechbays this year overall so its less of a requirement for a lot of people than it used to be.
Lol now? We made 2 ppc gauss 3D meta a long time ago, that shits still flying? xD My Kit Fox builds are siiiiick SICK I tell you! So IS mechs don't count towards the clan shit? Cuz I have all the IS lights mastered from a while back...
Well they're not popular but you do see them occasionally. The series of jump jet tweaks and advent of clan XL engines changed the focus to other platforms. Of course my Direwolf can now dual gauss/ERPPC poptart too so..... (Its clumsy in the air that said)
AFAIK the IS and Clan skill trees aren't seperated. You can go all the way through the KFX if you mastered an IS light before. This was my main critique when then Clans came out btw. I would have wished for a seperated tree so leveling them would have been some challenge - or at least a bit more grindy for those who simply wanted the most cheesy Timber as fast as possible.
Ok thats fascinating, not that it would have effected me much personally, as in most cases theres very little difference between the CT's.
Poptarting is still done, much less though due to: 1, Jumpjet changes (mech type is treated differently, try getting a Highlander to jump as opposed a light) 2, Fall damage 3, Gauss chargeup 4, Ballistic speed variations desynched the lead times Mostly we see clan PPC (IS too but clan is 15 pts afterall) and SRM tarting.
Ahem... try getting a DWF to jump. It will go decently high but its very sluggish. 5. No longer recovering heat in the air which hurts a lot as you have more downtime between shots. For reference, there are some mechs that are now synched again due to the quirks.
I'm poptarting just like it was getting back on a bicycle after not riding for a while. Really, I don't see the problem at all. I'm tarting left and right in my Fox with 1 PPC, like half of my shots are tarts; come at me hoes. PS - made my first post on official forum since getting banned like, a lonnnng time ago. http://mwomercs.com/forums/topic/187595-exodus-return/
You should take a look at the Timberwolf or Summoner snipers around then. Currently using my TBR-P with 2x cERPPC for poptarting and 2x cSPLas + 3x cMG for close range engagements. Summoner is equally fun with either 2x cERPPC or cERPPC + cGauss. They are quite costly, though.
Oh it's no question the TBR-S podded out smokes the fuck out of anything, but again I dunno if I'm keen for tryharding. Might say well, you don't know that, yes I fucking do. It's not rocket science. I took at a look at that a long time ago when they first put the variants on smurfy even though I wasn't playing, and it was like a 5 minute gaze thru the mechs to single out the JJ wolf as a tarting platform of sheer rape and terror. Assuming the profile (ears) aren't nerfed. JJ Dire is same shit.