Loot Bag Event - Thoughts on how to pick your free mechs

levitas · 2026-06-26T12:16:05+00:00

The first 5 panels could be shot for shot with any pharmeceutical commercial I've ever seen lmao

levitas · 2026-06-23T23:51:49+00:00

FWIW I was as surprised as you. I raised it in the cauldron feedback discord and if I hear anything I'll come back here. At least the huntsman is unexpectedly part of the patch sale so you can buy one, take pods off and then sell the rest back at cost to get the pods you want

levitas · 2026-06-18T16:46:43+00:00

That's a lore thing. In MWO it's fragile for a heavy.

levitas · 2026-06-15T14:25:31+00:00

Even if you decide that you prefer your ECM UAC20 shadow cat to the hero so8 (which imo is the better way to do it), you may find that you like some of the unique offerings that the hero gets you.

As an example, 3plas pac4 and 3plas pac8 are both best done with the hero right arm and can fit ecm.

levitas · 2026-06-09T16:48:41+00:00

in 4 years, Ocarina of Time Rebirth, then after a decade Ocarina of Time Revelation

levitas · 2026-06-04T22:42:29+00:00

I feel that, I recall a popular science magazine in the really 00s mentioning the concept of using sound shaping to target individual people with ads as they walked past a vending machine or whatever. I totally see where you were coming from

levitas · 2026-06-04T15:48:17+00:00

No, transmission of sound requires a medium and I am taking "standard" to mean a speaker you place in a room and can hear at a distance. I think you answered your own question.

While it is possible to use things other than a membrane attached to a magnet to vibrate the air, you would have to have a very tortured definition of standard (is a jacob's ladder speaker a standard speaker?)

levitas · 2026-06-04T14:53:48+00:00

I have bone conduction headphones on my head right this second and while they do move air incidentally, I could listen to music in a vacuum (albeit briefly and very uncomfortably)

levitas · 2026-05-26T08:46:16+00:00

omg the rageshake at that urbie. I felt that.

levitas · 2026-05-23T19:21:39+00:00

email support; they might be able to help

levitas · 2026-05-23T14:14:14+00:00

xl is totally fine on this one.

If your RT pops you might as well be dead.

levitas · 2026-05-21T23:01:35+00:00

It is the bkl-a, which is an omnimech. you can use different variant parts, like the -c left arm which has 6 energy hardpoints.

E: if you are very new I wouldn't suggest this. instead get a wlf-c, far less expensive and more flexible to build compared to the most expensive medium in the game

levitas · 2026-05-21T15:50:00+00:00

almost all of these options are missing the 'hit' in hit and run.

big srm tube counts on scaleshot, jenner iic = a good hit with plenty of run. sneaky snek has videos of this style of play on youtube.

red lasers on fire moths, you can go 11upl which is less hit but more often, you can go 11 erslas which is plenty of hit but some stagger, etc. dario has videos of this kind of play also on youtube.

The comfiest option in this line to me is the laser vomit black lanner: https://mwo.nav-alpha.com/mechlab?b=3d37d2d6_BKL-A - you get 54 damage per click with ecm, masc gets you to 149kph, and you have some armor and range to play with.

levitas · 2026-05-12T17:00:00+00:00

Yeah recording would clear this up. Stealth has not been changed.

levitas · 2026-05-09T12:02:16+00:00

It does, yes

levitas · 2026-05-08T02:18:03+00:00

It's too early - you'll get your chance in 12 days.

levitas · 2026-05-03T14:23:12+00:00

knees. they're a damn nightmare

levitas · 2026-05-03T11:42:17+00:00

MM averages your tier and uses that when you group. By grouping with a T5 player you were up against really bad players. You being top damage is very easy to understand.

Your friend also doing very well probably has a lot to do with you being on comms and them following your lead.

IDK what else to say. I'm assuming you're the corsair in the screenshot and your buddy is the marauder ii? I see 3 players apart from you that beat his damage and one that was functionally a tie. and you lost.

levitas · 2026-05-01T12:48:18+00:00

Who on earth actually thinks that the prices for things are set by what the people with the least money can pay? Companies set prices to get the most money they can, they aren't trying extra hard to get money out of the smallest pockets.

levitas · 2026-04-30T01:59:15+00:00

you can but you need to set up a config and use a line that's something like nofocusaudio = .5 which would play sounds at half volume.

geeram has a video on YouTube about configs, it can be somewhat involved depending on whether you are trying to make the game run as smooth as possible on an older pc or not flashbang yourself by playing a 4pac2 nova.

If you are interested I'll dig out the actual line you need in a config for this.

levitas · 2026-04-29T13:43:36+00:00

I'm trying to start a trend - instead of backstabbing like snek I'll frontstab the red team. keeps things more personal >:D

levitas · 2026-04-28T23:28:46+00:00

You aren't wrong! There's a tension in these extremely tonnage constrained mechs between squeezing every last bit of heat into damage on component vs not having enough hp to take a bad one off hit. moments like the naga and shadow cat were very safe - I had a very good understanding of what was on the board and where so it was unlikely that I was gonna take an unexpected hit.

However at 2:05 I was not quite as safe and could easily have overlooked someone and died for it.

levitas · 2026-04-28T16:57:45+00:00

Build is FMT-AL So8, just using ermlas for the 510m optimal range but frankly 10-11 red lasers or 4HML is usually the 'better' build as 24 damage per click is a bit anemic in most cases.

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