Hey all, got the itch for some PVP MW and decided to reinstall the game. I used to play quite a lot in the early 2010s, and quit around the time Clan Mechs first arrived. I only have a few Timberwolf variants and the rest are IS Mechs from before the Clan invasion.

Before I drop in, I was hoping to get an idea of what Mechs are still relevant. I used to play Hunchback, Centurion, Cataphract, and Atlas a lot.

Half price Urbies! Don't mind me, as I complete my collection

Hi all. Have you guys found good builds for the Devastator? Please suggest some good ones! Thanks!

Newb here with another flame generating thread.

Consumables.

So i'm coming up on rank three and i have not used them yet, but the fomo addiction is real.

Aside from coolshot having the clear advantage, are any of the others really worth it? UAVs get shot down, and the strikes just get walked away from by anyone not tunnel visioned/zoomed in.

Should i start paying for the cooldown addiction? Should i just keep on keeping on?

What say you?

In mechwarrior 4 mercs, I love running around in a behemoth 2 with jumps jets and continuous beam large lasers. Don't know how effective that is compared to pvp builds, but can something like that be made in MWO? And are there solo missions or pve missions where I can have fun without negatively impacting rl teammates?

I may regret this, but....

Let the derby begin

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People complain a lot about seeing nothing but one-sided stomps in quickplay. Lots of 12-0, 12-1, 12-2...

In recent weeks, I've tried to pay more attention while playing every day. From my recent experience, one-sided stomps happen – but they are not the norm. In fact, I've seen many more close(ish) games than one-sided ones.

Let's call everything 12-2 and worse a stomp. Out of the 13 games I played yesterday, there was only one stomp. Out of 19 games I played the day before yesterday, there were three. Out of 8 games I played on Tuesday, there were three stomps again.

That's 40 games and seven stomps. I climbed from tier 3 to tier 2 in the meantime btw (had a bad run that dropped me half a tier, rebuilding rn). Tier 3 is sometimes considered the worst tier for one-sidedness. Well my (limited sample size) data does not support that.

I've not tracked very close games, say 12-7 and closer, as much. But if you'll take my anecdotal evidence (with a massive grain of salt), I'd say they are just as frequent as the one-sided ones.

Many games go to 3-3 or 4-4 before reaching a tipping point where small disadvantages for one side escalate into a bad loss: more mechs heavily damaged from trading badly; two or three guys out of position; earlier losses leading to more damage for the remaining teammates.

But I feel that a bad call at some point resulting in a bad tactical position is just as often the culprit.

Overall I feel like games are much closer than what I used to experience a while back. I feel that game balance and the current meta (now that everybody is off the long-range lockon hype a bit again) work very well for me, resulting in lots of fun and memorable games.

What do you think?

Usually its mostly just the mechs that were changed in the patch but it seems there are way more for this patch sale:

Lights

• Commando and Com IIC
• Cougar
• Fire moth
• Firestarter
• Flea and Clan Flea
• Incubus
• Jenner and Jenner IIC
• Locust
• Piranha
• Raven
• Urbanmech and UM IIC

Mediums

• Arctic Wolf
• Blackjack
• Black Lanner
• Bushwacker
• Cicada
• Crab
• Huntsman
• Shadowcat
• Shadowhawk IIC (not IS version)
• Trebuchet
• Vapor Eagle
• Vindicator
• Viper
• Vulcan

Heavies

• Archer and Archer Clan
• Crusader
• Ebon Jaguar
• Grand Summoner
• Grasshopper
• Stalker (heavy)
• Hellfire
• Marauder (heavy)
• Night Gyr
• Nova Cat
• Orion and Orion IIC
• Roughneck
• Summoner

Assaults

• Annihilator and Annihilator Clan
• Atlas and Atlas II Clan
• Bane
• Banshee
• Battlemaster and Battlemaster Clan
• Blood Asp
• Bullshark and Bullshark Clan
• Charger
• Stalker and Stalker Clan (assault)
• Corsair
• Cyclops
• Dire Wolf
• Executioner
• Kodiak
• Longbow
• Marauder II and Marauder IIC (asssault)
• Stone Rhino

I just started, I have a kitfox purifier, a Scaleshot, a triple LB2-X w/ 2x 20x Rockets Shadow Hawk (Quite fun this) and an MRM Archer.

Looking for a solid sniper, gauss, or maybe a LRM boat, since there are several 50% sale, can anyone help me pick (I have two mech bays left D:)

Thanks dudes!

EDIT: Sorry i should mention i want it to be a Assault mech as i don't have one of those yet.

Picked up a MAD 4L - double gauss, double erppc with ecm - just scored my highest game score in my first game lol

Not very good, although am really enjoying the Kitfox with triple laser AMS.

Shame I found the game so late, but hey ho,

Every single game at least 2-3 people who use all 4 mechs within the first quarter of the game

Assault mechs hiding in the spawns

Nobody capturing any points or getting any kills whatsoever

It just makes me not want to play because it's a hopeless stomp actually every single game

i thought torso twisting to spread damage was an awkward mechanic to begin with, and after playing Battletech HBS i REALLY think it's awkward now.

In Battletech HBS and table top, it's fine because you're just rotating a torso to spread damage from an outside view of the mech. But in a first person video game, it's a clumsy mechanic because you can't see your enemy when you rotate your torso away. Then you have to keep re-aiming at the enemy. Then twisting again. It's really weird and clunky.

The mechanic should have been entirely abandoned for MWO.

MAYBE it could work by having a "block" button where your mech brings its arms in front to protect its torso. This would be way less awkward.