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>>2692772Gang's all here.
Also forgot to link the previous thread: >>2028559
>>2693039Me in the middle.
>>2692772So lads, what will be the next robutt released?Also mumble IP:Host: kong.stepoff.comPort: 7777
>>2693876Put it all on Albatross, baby!
>Play a game of Emerald Vale>Annoyed that our (assault) snipers didn't do much>Fine I'll do it myself (in my cougar with PPCs that I haven't used in months)>Get 800+ damage in 4 games in a rowWhat the fuck? I can't tell if sniping is overpowered or if this mech is. I mean for sure the mech is good, the PPC mounts are fantastic. I was just following the old TF2 strategy of watching long "hallways" and people were basically just walking into my shots. I would've figured you could do more damage with an assault sniper, though, on account of having more weapons.
>>2694922Assaults can't reposition as well, and are obligated to carry more weapons than they can sink because of their weight capacity.
>>2694922Clan erppc is easy damage as its 15dmg from a gorillion kilometers
>>2694980Yeah I'm retarded. I thought it was only 10 damage like an IS PPC. That explains a lot.>>2694946That's fair, although, I was mostly in the same spot for each game. Or at least the same general area.
>Oh it will be a normal mission>But we'll butt fuck you with 5 lances but its okay because its Fun™
>>2695910Don't do those events unless you have dropship full of mechs to swap through between missions. Also aim for the legs you scrub.
>>2695965>Aim for the legs
I almost reinstalled mumble but I can't bother with the microphone settings. Did it have any noise suppression plugins? Because the microphone activates from keyboard clicks because they're as loud as my own speech. Why do I care anyway, there's nobody there.
>>2696746Dude stop living in the past. If you care so much make your own modern guild/clan and lead it or find a new hobby. You've been extra drunk on nostalgia. Not good. also star me going to my mech
>>2692772What happened to smurfy's mechlab?
>>2697035He dieded and then someone made a better one (mechdb)
I'm playing a Mad Cat Mk2 with 2x hag40
I'll have the never ending Heavy + assault mech lance spawning special please.Hold the cbills
>>2697964>not using the stalker all range "missile boat" 3H for ai with:two 20 LRM (group 1)two 15 LRM HL (group 1, 2)four medium lasers (group 2)This beast along the Catapult variant that use an Arrow IV (with 4 small chemical unassign) have been my best ai amage dealers by far
God damn the writing and character design in MW5:Clans is bad. Unbelievably soulless. It's like a fucking CW show for teenage girls.The progression system is lame>components, research, honorShit shit shit. They clearly had no idea how to fill the gap that getting rid of salvage left.The mech bay is... OK, but terrible UX/UI.Actual combat is fine, but damn. It has felt like a slog to get through this game because it's just deeply unsatisfying
>>2698954Did you reach the "twist" mission where you have to make a choice?
For those who plays MW5 merc, how can you play this game without TT_AI3? Vanilla AI is so bad I could never go back. I played 150 hours so far and I think I'm ready to add YAML with Coyote Missions now and enter true mech autism. Also big prop to the disembark mod that give fallen mechs a chance to self-explode and wreck havoc around. Don't think I could play without this one and all the great chaos it adds. Maybe MWO one day but I'm pass tryhard PVPing at my age.
>>2699232No I have not.... VGH
Gonna get the Blackjack Arrow for the hero medium. What should I get for the others if I have no other hero mechs and like brawling? I'd also be down to try sniping as well. I don't like laser vomit.
>>2701072Marauder Blight Atlas Warlord grug brain off mode mechs
There's not even 5 posters here and half of them are just retards that cant move on from a decade old clique. What's the point ? Many such /vg/ and /vm/ thread cases
>>2701199I actually think I got a Warlord from a previous event. But yes, turning my brain off would be preferred.
>>2702010
>>2702010>open niche /vm/ thread that has zero impact on your life and you could just ignore>nooooo how can people exist in this space anyways hop on the mumble
>>2704205I never said it shouldnt exist I asked whats the point. You look like you play lightmech only>>2703486Retard I kek'd
just bought the sunder, what do I think of it?
>>2704241>play lightmech onlypretty based
>>2705535A visually not great looking mech
>>2705535Fun gimmickboat as long as you don't just spam LACs.
>>2705586I miss my tarbabby.
I really want to like the Quickdraw but man does it suck
>>2707853>facetime RAC buildidk play a hit and run laser variant or do missile spam, it's got bad geometry and isn't super tanky on top of having absolutely dogshit arm mountsIt's not so bad with side torso lasers that are nice and high up
>>2707853If you're going to be using RACs on a humanoid, you may as well go XL and swap the Lasers for MXPLs.
>>2708318>>2708289Explain the difference between MPL and MXPL; the MXPL seems useless due to the lack of damage>quicker cooldownI can still get more damage out of the MPL vs the MXPL but thats my opinion
>>2708517MXPL has better DPS, but requires you to stare people down. Pulses do their damage in one quick spray that you can twist after. If you just want a sidearm for an ERPPC or AC or something, use a bank of Medium Pulses and ER Smalls since they have almost the same cooldown and duration. If you're already relying on RACs, Rocket Launchers, LRMs or Streaks, anything where you're stuck staring at people anyways and can't break the lock to soak damage with an arm, just run the X-Pulse.
>>2707853Tbqh senpai you built it in the worst possible way
>>2709108nuh uh, my 8 year old mechlabs build wouldnt lie to me
Holy shit I swear the players were not this bad last weekend.
>>2711013at least the lrm spam died down a bit
>>2711149I just ran ECM/stealth and could deal with that for the most part. What I can't deal with is my team mates spreading across the map completely on their own and then dying to the enemy murderball. Or all of my assaults cowering behind walls and hills the entire match instead of sharing armor and pushing.
>>2696746You're supposed to use push to talk, you retard.
>>2712559No thanks
6xLight AC/5 KGC is lol.
>>2719364Explain why and how to play it.
honor the dragon!
>>2695976some mechs have extra leg armor specifically to fuck you for trying this. good luck
I havent played in a while and so I wanted to try all the new weapons. I decided to throw together trash builds on whatever stripped chassis I had with spare engines I already owned.That's how I ended up with this.900 damage first match. Just getting in peoples face and dumping ballistics into their CT.
>>2722509LAC/5s are great, it's just that not many chassis can boat enough for them to outpace LBX/5s or AC/5s. If you're having fun with that pick up the Sunder hero when it goes out for MC, you can fit seven of the bastards if you're willing to strip the arms.
New patch noteshttps://mwomercs.com/news/2026/07/3093-patch-notes-july-21st-2026
Drop the jump jets for an extra heat sync or leave as is?
Sunder? More like blunder!Can't believe Alan Mattila went into this piece of shit willingly.
>>2723544You don't have to deal with hitboxes on tabletop.
>>2722509Put in a few MLs, a light engine or light ferro, downgrade the targeting computer, and max out your fucking head armor you're in a goddamn king crab. That has one of the biggest cockpit hitboxes in the fucking game.
>>2692772>2026 and /gerg/ somehow still exists despite being gone from /vg/ for YEARS>somehow I haven't known that this place has kept going on /vm/Granted I never bothered looking but man what the fuck is this yearHow many kong lords do we have here? Did Pardo finally kill himself? Does often does the mumble pop off or do most of y'all do group drop on discord?
>>2725174Electronic old men are forever.
nah I mean you can call me gay or whatever but honestly Kong was just a really comfy place, yeah there were a few WEIRD people (you know who you are/were) but I wouldn't trade the time I spent hanging out in Mumble with most of you for anythingI know we can never have that again but it's still nice to reminisce every once in a while
>>2723289This must be bait but I'll bite because this game is known for having a massive amount of retardsAnyway, add ferro, remove dhs from arms, up your engine to max (275)Do whatever the fuck you want afterI'm not a fan of the mpl but this mech struggles to use tonnage which is crazy that you somehow have such a small engine in it, you can preserve them if you wish but it probably means xl goes 275->265Frontload your armor moreExample build: >https://mwo.nav-alpha.com/mechlab?b=cd3b6f69_HBK-IIC-BAny counterargument you might present will be dismissed as shitter talk t. Ancient Kong Lord & Goldchamp title holder and no the Ancient Kong Lord part is not a jokeAlso I know a certain Taylor Swift fan wouldn't be this retarded because he's a Kong Lord so this is probably someone else
>>2727638Kong was something that will never ever ever EVER happen ever again, at least not until discord stops existing, and games go back to being smaller scale. I reminisce of the golden times sometimes, too.
>>2727638>>2728259It happened at the exact right moment on 4chan. Before this place got too big, and before stuff like discord and social media really took off and ruined the internet at large forever, too. Like the snows of yesteryear, gone from this earth.
I know the Red Reaper isn't a comp viable mech, but it looks like so much fun. Surely it's quickplay viable, right?
>>2729479It's hard not to be quickplay viable with a half-dozen Energy hardpoints and a few Missiles. The shield'll eat more damage than you'd think from people who have spare heat for their lasers and want to catch the twist.
It was always dead dead dead because the player base was far too split and you couldn't see what people were actually queuing for so you couldn't just match them, but I miss Solaris 7.I build some really fun 1v1 mechs that just aren't viable in regular matches.
>>2729555I wish faction warfare had actually been done well.
>>2729849Did anyone here ever play the faction warfare mode for Mech Assault 2? It looked fucking awesome, but I never had Xbox live as a kid.
>>2727947>Also I know a certain Taylor Swift fan wouldn't be this retarded because he's a Kong Lord so this is probably someone else
Also>Shitter talk>1 armour on the back
>>2730335normally I'd excuse it as a mechbay default thing but he says >frontload your armornigga you're going to POP if a light gets behind you, the split should be like 52/8 or maybe 54/6 if you have situational awarenessSomeone WILL flank you and you WILL take backshotsIf you have 6 armor, you can react to thatIf you have 1 armor, you're not reacting you're going yellow/orange and risking eating crits
>>2727947My KLORD radiation scanner suggest that there's a 61% chance that this is a genuine pastor post.
>>2725174>How many kong lords do we have here?I think Connor is here, and I know Dashing posted in the last thread. I can't identify others but I suspect there's about three or four here. Pardo is still harassing people online, you can't expect retards like that to do the world a favor and kill themselves. Mumble is dead, and discord doesn't play MWO.
hmm
>>2730654Built for the kong dong.
>>2730746Milhouse is not a meme.
>>2731559Nah there were at least two or three guys that put kong dongs on their mechs.
#removeghostheatfromflamersBring back flamer boats, they are so fucking fun
>Average quickdraw user spotted in the wild
>>2736009>Quick to draw, fast to die
I played the event queue with Gausszilla
>>2736009It's called a QUICKDRAW DesperadaClearly you're supposed to alpha strike (quick draw) and instantly kill the other guy
>>2692772how do one get more rocket launcher ammo in mwo?
>>2740080You don't
>>2730354Giga shitter take, 5 more armor is NOT saving you from any threatening backstabber. And most bigs have enough structure to tank the graze of some dinky light mech.Dying via backstab is lack of situational awareness issue
I went to test the buffed Night Gyrs in the event queue and they feel a bit overpowered, I didn't get to shoot with my 3rd mech before the match is over so that damage is split between two mechs.
>>2745947Who?
>>2745948Jules
>>2745958who?
>>2746525Kakos King of Kong Killerman of Konglets Kolos
>>2745958Jules Gonzales, I remember you. Why'd you change your name?
>Gargoyle not on sale>Every other shitter mech is
>Stalker 3fb and Battlemaster 1g bought>*crack* *sips*Yep its denial of anything clan era onwards time
>>2747353I graduated to a Kong Lord so I changed my name to that like 100 years ago and then PGI force namechanged that for who knows why about a year ago
What are some MWO streamers
>>2711159>What I can't deal with is my team mates spreading across the map completely on their own and then dying to the enemy murderball. >Or all of my assaults cowering behind walls and hills the entire match instead of sharing armor and pushing.War. War never changes.
>first game with CPLT-C3>no skills yet>it's a free winWhy the fuck were people still crying about the Arrow's nerfs? I thought they went too far with it, sure, but now I've had a chance to try it and wow I can't believe the kilometer-ranged homing AC/20 is good who would have fucking thought.
>>2749957>for who knows whyWe're still a bogeyman to them.
>>2750600Catapults will always be relevant.
I played the Kodiak-4 with 2gauss 2erppc
I played in some fucking tournament and it was the most boring shit ever what was I thinking
Things that make you go Hmm™
>Bump skill levels from 91 to 100>Everything is suddenly betterGive me a paid dev position
>All konglords deadI am declaring myself a Konglordhello is anyone there?
>>2767548What would (You) do with 9 more points that can't be done currently?
>>2784130Put it into more things
>>2784279Which things?
>>2784721Pic related>Could throw more into skeletal>Could throw more into radar depth>Could throw more into your mother
>>2784731At that point just remove armor, structure and radep and the points they'd cost. Make their bonuses innate instead, they're a tax on your Mech being usable and the first dozen or so matches it takes to get them running without spending GSPs suck.
>>2784731>any skill tree on anything ever not maxing armor+structure9 more points would not fix you
>>2750600They're still free wins if you're attacking something without AMS. But they're more vulnerable to AMS these days.
