When I was a nubbins I did [BLANK]....

Sometimes all of us need to have our ego shrunk down a little. This is a spot to do just that. A spot where we can tell all of our embarrassing MWO stories of stupid things we have done.

Here is a good one to start us off.

Typing furiously before the ready counter reaches zero. Trying like mad to get a game plan together. Oops the counter reaches 0 and we launch...crap gotta get those last instructions out as quick as I can...

Type:
"Okay we are light so lights go for their cap to pull some back" \[enter]

The problem was in my fury to get it typed as quickly as possible I hit both the \ and enter simultaneously...
...While in my Jager typhus build...

I put an AC40 and 2 medium lasers square into the back of our ONLY assault from 5 feet away and cored him....

 

haha! I had a similar event prior to the Gauss charge-up. I was running the silly 3 Gauss Ilya binded to alt.

Needless to say I alt+tab'd right into another heavy's rear CT... Can't remember what the mech was as my window closed and when I got back in it was just a lifeless pile of scrap :whacko:

Lesson learned: Press ESC before using alt+tab!


Also, dropped with Phil and the gang during NGNG community night and forgot my LB10x on my Orion... oops... Yeah that was quite embarrassing.

 

On Alpine and calling out "Lights, get Kappa!" ... while dropping "Any" and being in an Assault map and having 3 lance mates in TS to poke fun at me for the rest of the drop -.-

Force of habit because Conquest is my usual mode.

 

This one time in a tournament, Koreanese was on other team

and I'm like, oh yeah, puttin the kibosh on this mofo

Forest Colony

I was tarting in 3D he was busy sweeping up the daily top score for mediums in a 9000 ML hunchback

I saw him from maybe I dunno, 300-400m away hugging corner between rock and archway near mid away from shoreline

I tart him once or twice with PPC alphas and I'm closing in range

I go around corner and he goes shoulder, shoulder with those MLs and pops my shoulder off, was XL since running tourny variant

He lived with red core

I don't even... I don't even think I could ever explain what the fuck happened. He had to have perfect patience and shot placement to kill me before I killed him. At that point I just walked right into him obnoxiously to get the kill up close but with all those MLs he fried my shoulder in span of a few secs, I was basically fresh. Fuckin Kor, he was a good player, one of very few in this game that was also a nice person

 

I was humbled by one of the great players; at least a player that I personally admire (avoiding name and shame here).

I saw him in a match and I hunted him down. I waited, I was patient and BLAM. I got him. Everyone always pumped this guy up as a god and "he's the most amazing player" and "omg I hope you never face him cause you're dead" blah blah blah blah.

I smoked him six ways from Sunday 1v1 in my Jenner and he in his.

Right before I get to do my victory dance and cock off a little bit he says "That was a hell of a dance man, you've got some skills".

Instant deflation of ego; how could I cock off at that point and not lose face? I couldn't. Plain and simple.

He was as good a losing player as he was a winner and that kinda schooled me a bit.

Nobody else may have seen that but it was embarrassing to me!

 

Sell mechs I thought sucked, when I had no idea how to play them or the game. Ive sold like 2 Catapults, both the A1, two Hunchbacks and a Jenner.

 

If it can comfort you, I think you're not the only one. For example, I bought the spider-5K three times. :blush:

 

Same here! ahahaha I was going to post that. Just sold it for the 3rd time!

 

Yeah, I've sold my fair share of mechs that I regret now. I was thinking when I bought my Phoenix package that I would Basic out every chassis, sell the mechs I didn't want to keep, and Elite the rest. That way I would have a bunch of empty mechbays and I could spend my limited MC on other junk like colors ad Hero mechs. Now I'm scared to sell off any mechs since you never know one day when you want to test out a crazy and/or awesome build.

 

When I was a noob (I bought a founder's package, ignored the game for a few months, and came back several months after Open Beta), I bought a Flame as my first mech.

It was absolute hell to learn how to play in that thing. I clocked so many hours just learning how to NOT GET CORED.

Although the plus side is it made me really, really good with fragile mechs

 

Speaking of "sell something and regret it later", I just noticed I had a XL275. What a useless engine, it's the same weight than the 280! Hop, sold, 2 million cbill for me!
Ok, next thing on the list: rework the raven-4X. What's the new engine cap again? ... 275... gniiiii

 

ow no! how could you?

you can use the XL275 on the Ravens, the Spiders, the CN9-AL and of course on some Heavies like the Jagermech or Catapult!

 

On spiders, jags and cats, and a lot of other mechs you can mount the 280 that weight exactly the same. On slow centurions I don't like the XL.

 

When I first started playing I dropped into a river city assault match... was in my hunchie I think.... I played it a lot back then, and it is still one of my favorite mechs. It was a good match up, as at the end of the engagement there were three mechs left standing... two of us, one of them and he was capping. I was cored and legged and my partner, in his Raven, was pretty bad off & taking off to cap, I followed suit, since I was usless otherwise and fairly close to their base. When I got there I parked my mech, went AFK and grabbed a pop (soda) figuring we had the match won 2 - 1 on the cap. When I got back, to my dismay, my partner was screaming all sorts of obscenities over the txt at me to move my mech into the cap, but it was too late we had lost a sure win because I failed to move close enough to the base to add to the cap....... I felt very small reading all the comments from my teammates berating me for being a noob, nugget, dork, dumbass etc. Certainly didn't feel like a MechWarrior.

 

I did both of these to my poor, abused Hunchback 4G.

Installed Ultra AC/5 ammo to feed my two AC/5s.
Installed an XL engine.

I feel sort of noobish saying this, but I was extremely happy when I realized that the Shadowhawk 5M comes with an XL275 engine. It's very tempting to try that on my YLW and my 4SP.

 

LOL! I did this already... First thing I thought of when I saw that XL275

In my opinion, the 4sp handles the XL better, but that is probably my piloting, not the mech itself.
I've been running the Hunchie for a long time (first mechs I elited) and usually use it in a Hit , Duck & Cover, or backstabbing the big guys style.... good urban mech.... So, the the extra agility serves it well. I haven't quite figured out my YLW, since I just recently re-purchased it after selling it during my first month of play (first hero mech I bought) because I kept dying in it.... :whacko: Still dying in it, but I haven't Min/Maxed it yet either. still running it stock.

 

Now I know where this mysterious XL275 came from...

It's also the mech itself.
Not saying that it handles the XL well, but it sure handles it better than the regular hunchy Hunchback.

PS: my suggestion for your YLW. Close to the stock design, but nicely optimized.

 

Put ALL of my ammo in the LT and RT, with XL Engines, and a slot of CASE for every ton of ammo in that torso... I only put more CASE on because I kept dying very fast due to my LT and RT being detroyed so for some reason I thought that I needed CASE for every ton of ammo so I wouldn't die... Needless to say that didn't work. To the legs with you!

 

Thanks, I'll try that route with it. My problem with it so far is heat management when I get in a bind.... which the chassis seems fairly good at getting me out of if I keep on my toes about it.