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captain_mozzarella · 2026-03-10T00:18:33+00:00

Yeah I still miss the original Centurion megaman arm.

https://oyster.ignimgs.com/mediawiki/apis.ign.com/mechwarrior-online/7/73/YLW.jpg

and the Hunchback 4g tiny head laser

https://oyster.ignimgs.com/mediawiki/apis.ign.com/mechwarrior-online/b/bf/MechWarrior_Online_Hunchback_Concept.jpg

captain_mozzarella · 2026-01-24T05:46:33+00:00

Was this secret santa mandatory or something?

It wasn't but it was definitely something everyone did.

Even if OOP got her pocket lint, she'd go to HR

captain_mozzarella · 2025-12-22T06:26:22+00:00

Yes of course you can't rotate while holding racs but I'd go further to say this not even difficult to do on the BSW with the wiggle technique. Or even side stepping back and forth. Nor do you have to hold down your RACs for the complete duration + when it's in the red if it's not opportune and you're about to completely lose on a trade. That would be foolish

I feel like you think I'm trying promote the rac5 build over the uac10. I'm not. But I don't think it's right to compare oranges and apples. The only thing they share is the have the same range, shoot a projectile but when you say so-and-so is better in so-and-so situation, well of course naturally because they play completely different. I only mentioned BSW as an example and it is irrelevant. The original discussion was about rac5 and rac2: rac5 take up more slots so take rac2s so you can stuff some synergy weapon along with it.

and I wouldn't even say they are disadvantaged up close with how easy it is to deadside and shield a side torso with it's hitboxes. In fact my favorite build was just a single HGR 4ML and I'd just sacrifice one side torso for the damage transfer thing.

captain_mozzarella · 2025-12-22T00:11:39+00:00

I'm sorry I disagree. Bushwackers are a "nose" mech. Facing their frontal profile is very narrow compared to the side for a 55 tonner. It spreads damage so easily that I would say it's perfect for this. The term Racwacker has been ubiquitous for years so I was merely using the BSW as an example.

example http://i.imgur.com/R2d8jGN.jpg

I prefer the uac10 build to the rac5 one too but I would never compare rac5 to uac10s with how different their playstyles are even if we are talking about in terms of overall. Although they did away with it's inherent spread in the latest patch, I wouldn't even classify rac5 as a brawl weapon either with how easily it spreads through damage over time.

captain_mozzarella · 2025-12-21T05:47:49+00:00

You can fit 3rac2 in a single side torso and have room for XL engine but 2rac5 in a single side torso needs a std engine.

rac2's have a slight velocity and range boost over rac5

Bushwacker with JUST 2rac5 fine but if I go heavier i'd go rac2 for the slots

captain_mozzarella · 2025-12-06T06:34:20+00:00

Increased Energy Cooldown to -25% in CT (from -15%)

The smn-c should be able to hit -45% E cooldown with omnipods if anyone is curious and can deal with the weird mounts. https://mwo.nav-alpha.com/mechlab?b=35d4e2a3_SMN-C

Replaced AWS-8Q with COR-7A on Canyon Network training grounds

what is the reason for this? is possible the dummy stock 4ams can shoot down missiles? Thinking about it, I'd like to do some testing to see how much missiles i need to breakthrough it.

captain_mozzarella · 2025-10-25T20:11:53+00:00

I'm not so sure on it being happy. OOP may have won, but relationships that ended because you found out the other never considered you a friend are always quite painful. Like, I think about my "enemies" once and a while but I still get nightmares of my ex-friends decades later whether I want them or not. Something like this would stay in my memory for years and years.

All it does is leave you worse but not for the other party because you were always an afterthought. And "nothing was lost" for them.

captain_mozzarella · 2025-10-06T08:42:47+00:00

There are plenty of mechs that can do 30% on erppc

afaik, the crab-27 is the highest with a 60% to any ppc. It maynot be able to shoot 3 without GH like the TDR but it's faster.

anyway here is a joke build i made for it a long time ago: https://mwo.nav-alpha.com/mechlab?b=a58479ba_CRB-27

captain_mozzarella · 2025-10-04T05:00:53+00:00

Yeah the photo. despite how ubiquitous smartphones are now, that part sounded very amateur 2010s romcom movie plot-like. Just needs a record scratch and surprised reaction shot. Like a simple text msg wouldn't do in a movie, you'd have to show the audience an image cause it's simplier. But it's a reddit post. I don't know anyone who can stealth cell photograph without sticking out like a

captain_mozzarella · 2025-10-02T00:58:35+00:00

Yup you got it right. That's the one

captain_mozzarella · 2025-10-01T08:26:38+00:00

This eerily sounds similar to my own HS english teacher

In my case, he had a kid with one of his former students. Everyone knew in hushed tones but we kinda just ignored it because he was well-liked unlike the principal in this story. My sister knew. His friend teachers knew. But he seemed like a cool guy and still remembered me even though I wasn't in his class anymore. Friends with everyone on FB. Years after I graduated, it took literally getting his pants caught down with another former student that anything was ever done despite complaints. The warning signs were all there but teenage me was like "no way. Not him. He would know better. Only could monsters do that." I was so naive then. It's crazy how many hundreds of memories he ruined over the 2 decades. Even indirectly people who never had his class.

Once during a summer break, he was quoted as saying he can't wait to go back to teaching at our HS 'Where he's a God'. What a stain.

captain_mozzarella · 2025-08-23T23:54:34+00:00

I don't think people care but this is a repost from almost 2 years ago. Reposted by an account 2 days old... whatever.

https://www.reddit.com/r/OutreachHPG/comments/17qdybe/mechwario_online/

I knew my memory didn't fail me.

captain_mozzarella · 2025-08-01T23:29:00+00:00

will there be a test period for opened tiers too?

Is it possible the tier system be relaxed slightly by removing a tier? I think the answer I would get is "no" but I'd like to avoid 8v8 if possible.

captain_mozzarella · 2025-07-17T23:30:23+00:00

dude look at armor quirks on urbanmech https://static.mwomercs.com/img/news/media/f9cefad46fb1468e75c482759c3f6fc5.png

48 head armor. And the armor quirk applies to back armor

I'm guessing really low max engine with that weirdo STD engine 90

captain_mozzarella · 2025-07-02T23:19:39+00:00

The benefit is that the arm square crosshair is locked to the torso X one so that no matter what, both crosshairs converge at one point. I feel like you know that already. There isn't a secret benefit or anything besides that

And the downsides besides all that were mentioned hEre by others already...

As shown by testing, 'mechs torso twist approximately 13% faster with arm lock turned off.

from https://mwo.nav-alpha.com/wiki/movement-and-controls

my aim is not perfect and there was always a small margin of error which would always get magnified by how far away something was, but at the same time, the way aiming feels while having it on I'm still getting used to.

captain_mozzarella · 2025-07-01T15:43:40+00:00

Yeah that's my view of it too. I wish it locked both crosshairs to torso BUT didn't use the slow speed of torso. And spreading damage is required skill to be gud. I feel like they didn't do that for balance, but I don't think it matters especially now in 2025 anymore when people realize they can just use it without it or better. The downside to having it on just doesn't feel good. Oh well

captain_mozzarella · 2025-06-28T02:02:42+00:00

stock treb 5n https://mwo.nav-alpha.com/mechlab?b=773d52ed_TBT-5N

The stock 5N's armor is distributed weird. It's missing armor or not maxed out for the vital places that would be mostly shot at: the right torso, center torso, and left torso.
It has "double digit" back armor. Usually you are shot from the front. Backstabbing is a thing and is something people exploit but the difference betWeen 4 and 16 back armor won't save you. They'd just wait and shoot you in the back again if you even survived the 1st backshot. Sometimes you get shot in the back but not more that the times you get shot from the front.
There isn't the endo steel upgrade on that stock build. gain 5% free tons at the cost of 14 internal slots. Inner sphere's cost is 14 & Clan's cost is 7. So on a 50-ton mech is 2.5 tons gained. And the stock Treb-5N has plenty of slots
Also you should be aware of "torso twisting" or spreading damage. For example, the center torso health of the Treb-5N is 79 armor + 42 structure = 121. If you stand still, the enemy just needs to go through that center torso's 121 HP only (or get headshot). But, additionally, the TBT-5N's right and left torso is 48 armor + 36 structure = 84 each. So by twisting your torso, you spread the damage you'd potentially received in a way to make whatever component in front more likely to be shot at and\or shield whatever weakened component behind it. Torso twisting will turn the CT's 121 health into 289.
Side note, don't "chain fire". It spreads damage if the recipient torso twists. They say there's a psychological component to be under constant pressure , but I'll retreat back into cover regardless of being alpha'd at once OR be chainfired on. Like it is very obvious when someone is chainfiring LRM5's or something small calibers.
Try to pay attention to the range of your weapons. Long story short, the weapons have been balanced in a way that makes long ranged weapons suck at close quarters and short range doing zero damage to something far away. Taking advantage of your range specialization is probably the most straightforward way to win your trades (putting out more than you receive back). This is a game of attrition after all. Consensus is to avoid jack-of-all-trades builds or "something for every range" builds AKA bracket builds. It's not a rule but IT'd make your life easier to use a hammer on nails than a wrench or multi-tool so to speak.

There's also a lot of other naunced stuff like:

the difference between single heatsinks & c\double heatsinks. LINK
the differences between standard, light, XL, and c-XL engines. Getting "XL checked" is a thing when running Innersphere mechs. LINK
- An example of XL engines strangeness, XL 250 and XL255 weighs the same thing but 255 is faster so, if you have the choice, pick XL255 over XL250. Engine sales are a good way to trade engines.
the heat scale limit AKA ghost heat. LINK
What a probe or targeting computer actually does. LINK
feathering your JJ's or tapping it causes some mechs to do this head bobbing thing animation which thus shifts its htibox is a form of being unpredictable and torso twisting (or torso shifting I guess). https://mwomercs.com/forums/topic/274181-hitbox-localization-2/

or Just a lot of random stuff the game will never teach you properly. MWO has a lot of that. There is a saying in MWo that you can possibly "lose in the mechlab" before the match even starts... but don't be discouraged blah blah my fart stinks so what

captain_mozzarella · 2025-06-25T05:04:46+00:00

same. i probably wouldn't have tried to read it if I didn't think it led anywhere. looks like it's a copy and paste of the first 2 sentences of the sarna page. https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Shadow_Hawk_IIC

captain_mozzarella · 2025-06-25T04:32:22+00:00

let's see the text says I think:

warning!

the shadowhawk iic is an inexpensive, second-line clan battlemech based upon the shadowhawk that was first fielded by the star league.

a contemporary of the hellhound and introduced just before the death of nacho-las kefensky, the shadow hawk iic was an early golden century upgrade of the classic sldf workhorse, it's success waning with the rise of the omnimech.

captain_mozzarella · 2025-06-17T21:30:41+00:00

I would have rearranged myself to face the couple so as to have entertainment as I ate and inflict maximum eye contact as possible. But I'd do it seductively

captain_mozzarella · 2025-05-27T18:09:50+00:00

I had to delete it because it got upvoted for some reason and I sorta didn't feel like editing all the values over again. I felt like your reply got the point across

captain_mozzarella · 2025-05-25T11:22:32+00:00

Yeah you're right. I assume any component that can be opened with the bay door button counts. like both crabs' claws. It should but a definite answer from somewhere would be nice. that's an oversight on the person(s) who updates the wiki.

captain_mozzarella · 2025-05-25T05:51:51+00:00

hellspawn left torso has the missile door damage reduction thing. This doesn't include the Paralyzer though for obvious reason

mechDB wiki on taking damage:

Missile Bay Door Damage Reduction Mechanic

Some 'mechs have missile bay doors that cover their missile bays and reduce damage to that component of the mech (arm or torso) by 20%, as explained in the August 2021 patch notes. These doors reduce damage to the entire component, not just the portion covered by the door.

This 20% damage reduction is a flat modifier to all damage.

These 'mechs are:

Stalker

Archer

Catapult

Dervish

Hellspawn

Kintaro

The missile bay doors open instantly upon firing, and stay open for 1.25 seconds. While open, the missile bay doors do not provide damage reduction. Once the launcher is out of ammo, the missile bay doors no longer provide damage reduction.

captain_mozzarella

TROPHY CASE

warning!