The screenshot describes the excruciatingly embarrassing death I had after buying a new mech: I was standing at Theta in the cauldron and was volleyed through the back within 1 second of pressing return on the first comment... The shame.... :blush: PS: Yes that is the first time I've even sat in any variant in the chassis as I was saving them till last to do.
It could've been worse Remarius. At least you didn't say something like "I'll show you bitches how this is done" beforehand
Grinding XP for assists and tagging maybe? Maybe they've just read how awesome MGs are for critting and misread the fact about the open armor?
Not sure on why thats a problem. I had someone in lance running in a similarish build the other day and targetting for my LRM boater. He called every target for me as if it was in the open or cover, tagging where it wouldn't give away his position, etc. I got 6 kills, he got a lot of targetting rewards and our team walked it. Win-win. Not like you can do much with a Locust.
LOL Max Armour, Max STD engine and no upgrades http://mwo.smurfy-net.de/mechlab#i=14&l=ff17b71a9bf314ea88a79f1eea6c0a272345a5e2 24'56 tons free still
http://mwo.smurfy-net.de/mechlab#i=14&l=9e2230636379fab84b3b33d498a896f9ac65de84 you forgot a few heatsinks
Two tons free but marginally more useful: http://mwo.smurfy-net.de/mechlab#i=14&l=5467ac87e6f8a74b7e8180a78b3314c476855413 Alternatively drop a couple of tons of AMS for a BAP. Stupid mech won't take the command console as that was my plan to max the weight.
Not totally crap, but totally underpowered builds for the Mechs: reconstructed: http://mwo.smurfy-net.de/mechlab#i=88&l=abe0d90c5326c084c716ff47918afa30238d2c3c http://i61.tinypic.com/200u1ip.jpg[/img] reconstructed: http://mwo.smurfy-net.de/mechlab#i=181&l=2efca0a3eb00883a052c665e1a1866cfccba313a here the CTF-4X: http://i58.tinypic.com/2ypnk3t.jpg[/img] reconstructed: http://mwo.smurfy-net.de/mechlab#i=44&l=0190193c3d81d11f0e4084c2ab1071f54f6b01f1
That Nova makes me cringe, if only because I made a serious attempt at building a Ballistic-based Nova when I first got them. I even made one that was semi-playable...but they're laughable compared to the laser builds
I've seen a few people playing around with different nova builds in anticipation of the nerfs. Usually its not an all out ballistic build though.