Impressive or not?

I was in a match last night. Total time was 4:38. A guy on our team had 985 dmg, 5 kills, 6 assists. In a Stormcrow. I've done those damage numbers, but I doubt I've ever come close to that under five minutes.

I pm'ed the guy afterward, he didn't find it very impressive. Is he crazy? Or am I just easily impressed?

 

Actually you can look at this one of two ways... Artillery was mega effective that round OR he is a terribad shot... If he had that many kills with 200 points of damage? I would quake in fear cause that mofo would know how to shoot to kill but spraying all over the place?

 

Agree. Good players are minimalist. They deal the less dmg possible to destroy the most possible enemies

 

Let's look at a couple builds shall we?

This one can do 936 damage in about 2 minutes



Constant firing, this one can put out 1170 damage in 4 minutes 38 seconds



The rest of the most popular, high rated builds are more or less the same @ about 5 DPS

 

Depending on the mech and situation, damage can rise pretty fast.
Not in a Stormcrow, but here's the last game I played tonight:


(Jagermech, 2 gauss, 4 MLas, the very same mech I recommend on this thread)

On this game there was no preliminary skirmishes, instant brawl. I fired my first shot at the first minute mark, the fight was between buildings but I still had a decent rate of fire and only missed one shot (aiming at a spider, how silly of me). If our team hadn't been obliterated in the meantime 1000dmg in 4m30s minutes would have been piece of cake.

 

Lets also not forget ammo explosions which can send your damage total rocketing.

 

For that matter, knock out a side torso and you get credit for the arm and all equipment in it as well

 

I don't agree with some of this for a number of reasons. If he had 5 kills and did 200 damage, he might have been just getting the last shot on several mechs just as easy as being a crack shot. Also it really depends on the weapon system, if he is using LRM's or SRM's he isn't going to be doing pinpoint damage and will be spreading it out more than using ERLL's. Besides there are plenty of situations where you are shooting arms or side torso's first just because your not in a position to take a shot at the center.

 

As far as the "spray and pray", high damage might also mean a lot of "shot of opportunity" moments. Hell, the highest damage I ever got in a Raven was in sniper mode, just popping in and out of cover and peppering the nearest mech with some fire. Took me a while to get some kills in, but it wasn't exactly amenable to pinpoint accuracy One does ones best, at times.

 

You are entitled to your own thoughts of course but I've had games where I've killed 4-5 mechs and score 500 damane or less. I've also had games where I have purposefully stripped mechs to up my damage for a contest or just bragging rights.

Killers get it done. Showboats crank up the damage levels.

 

Lol.

 

Killers shouldn't need to break 1000 remember.

 

Oh, I have no issues killing mechs. I was just trying to see if I still had what it took to break 1200 in a Raven. Among the UMAD guys its considered a badge of honor to take out a Super Chicken and pull some decent numbers with it. Any one of those guys can easily kill 5-8 mechs in a round but ripping them apart (showboating) is what I seem to have lost the ability to do.

 

I get it, just busting your balls.

 

Doing lots of damage means you either got lucky with ammo/internal explosions... suck ass at hitting specific places and thus spread too much... or, if you're really good, it's for showboating when you dissect a squad of turds like a cat w/ a mouse.

But you should be doing lots of damage. Otherwise you're being inefficient. Risk it to be efficient, that's how you should approach the game, too much timidity in the game from most. Not saying derp forward full tilt, but if aren't pumping out lots of damage then what the fuck are you doing.

 

Ok, here's a challenge for those who don't think this is very hard. Post a screenshot of 900+ damage in a game that was under 5 minutes long...By a medium mech. I've only got screenshots for the last couple months, and only have one game at 5:02 where I have around 900 dmg...In a TBR. In the example above, the BNC has great damage, but still less DPM. (995/4.63minutes=213 dpm for the SCR I reference in the OP)

Now, I don't doubt that some of you have these types of games under your belt. Are they common? I really don't think so. And for people downplaying the damage/kill ratio...it's still 5 kills in under 5 minutes. Keep your shorts on.

 

falc - thats not impressive, cmon man... ur coring out retards in assaults that dont even torso twist or soak dmg while u hold down spacebar and mouselook... if anyone posts a video and calls me out to watch it, it better be fucking beastmode XL

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OshzK8P6yLU