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[Flying Dice]

You might just not be close enough for the AMS fire to render.

[Flying Dice]

*sigh*

As much as I liked that LB 10-X build on my CTF-IM, it just wasn't reliable enough, too many games where I couldn't get in and brawl properly and ended up having really shitty results (and unlike the 4x Kodiak builds you can't just ruin someone's day by clicking them once or twice), so I went back to the chainsaw build (but dropped one of the MLs for an extra ton of ammo). Had a couple of the solid 500-ish matches that it likes to deliver (one beautifully fucked up one where my UACs jammed four times in a row T.T), and then... this happened.

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So yeah. That's what happens when people ignore you long enough to expend all of your ammo on that build. Granted, I don't think I've ever actually had a match that good, the CTFs are usually favored targets since you have to run an XL to get decent weapon tonnage and the massive STs don't get much armor. The IM is only viable at all because it gets the triple ballistic hardpoints that (unlike that shitty 4X) aren't double-stacked in the arms (not to mention that the 4X can't even break 60kph without speed tweak). And that's why I will never have the IM elited, because all of the other CTFs are steaming turds; they're 70-tonners that have shitty mounts and less damage potential than 'mechs ten tons lighter. *rant over prematurely*

Almost got enough to buy a Mad Cat timbie. Those things are so fucking expensive even on sale, especially considering that most of their stock builds kinda suck. But OP meta blah blah. :X

[MrRoboto75]

I took the opportunity with the sale and all to get a timber as my first not trial mech.  Its currently set like this, which is probably awful but that's okay.  I usually get around 260 to 300 damage/score or so.

[se5a]

yeah I've had a horrible afternoon with it, every faction game that came up ended up being against a team where 8 or more were from a single faction, and our disorganised teams just got steamrolled.

[Rince Wind]

I don't usually do disorganised faction matches anymore for that reason.
Also too many people that just run in with their new mech instead of waiting until a full team is ready.
So now I usually run with the FRR on their TS.

[Flying Dice]

FRR for life, friend.

[Rince Wind]

Let's kick those stupid Clanners back to their boring home world's.

[Wiles]

Well I finally got around to picking up a third Timber so I can master them thanks to the heavy mech sale. I'm not very inventive when it comes to builds, this is what I ended up playing with: TBR-PRIME

I might strip a heatsink or two for more ammo but other than that I am satisfied with it so far.

[Flying Dice]

Better bland than my useless weird-ass cGauss+6x cSPL build. 

Also I take back what I said about the Cataphracts. The 0XP is also salvageable and has great structure quirks too. Gonna pick one up and see how that works in practice. Since the upcoming free one looks decent, that rounds out at 3 of 8 variants not being useless trash.

[Rince Wind]

Free Cataphract?

[Kanil]

If you bought an IS mechpack in the last year(ish) then you'll get a very colorful Cataphract next month. There's a handful of other 'mechs that you can get by buying other things (like MC or clan mechpacks.)

Details.

[Flying Dice]

Notably, free Blackjack if you've bought any MC at all.

We don't know how they're quirked yet, but the BJ-2 has four missile hardpoints(!!). Meanwhile the CTF-3L can mount MASC(!!) and has a good spread of energy hardpoints plus one torso ballistic mehfest.

The new Stalker is going to dominant dropdecks in FW too, it's got fucking ECM and the right hardpoints for laservomit hillhumping.

[Kanil]

I wonder what kinda quirks they'll give to the BJ-2. I don't see it being more useful than the Griffin, but if it gets a whole bunch of streak quirks or something silly like that, it might be kinda cute.

'course if it doesn't get good quirks, then you can say it isn't power creep, so that's nice too?

[Flying Dice]

Honestly I'll just be happy to have a BJ that isn't built for hill-humping or poptarting. Those are all well and good but goddamn it gets boring after a while.

I half-expect the CTF to have LBX quirks since it comes with one stock. That + a bunch of pulses and MASC would be hilarious to watch, real Six Million Dollar man shit.

[Rince Wind]

Ah, I haven't spent money on this game yet, and at the moment have none to spend anyways.

Edit: Ah, and don't you love people that complain about the team after they die without ever trying to coordinate anything beforehand? Assault pilots nonetheless, not someone in a Locust that dies if he stands around to assess the situation and call targets.

One more on the blocked list.