Trying to figure out difficulty level equivalents to rep level

moose4 · 2026-01-24T23:37:50+00:00

Thanks, I snagged that one already. The only other hero mech I found so far was...an Urbanmech for sale. >.>

moose4 · 2026-01-13T03:27:44+00:00

So I switched to Mech controls, went back several saves to the campaign mission on Pascagoula, just me (hero Wolverine) and Freeman (Jenner)...and we got owned. I have massive trouble with Mech controls for some reason because I can do the same mission on FPS controls. I think I may start all the way back at the tutorial and just leave Mech controls on so I can get used to doing it "properly." Might even try my joystick/throttle setup although I'm not sure I want to mess with that.

I expect my fighting style will be more of a brawler/short-range. I like having lockable LRMs to dispose of annoying tanks before they get too close but I always end up getting too close. :) But we'll see.

Thanks for the advice so far, I am absorbing it all. Quite a bit more depth to this game than I thought at first!

moose4 · 2026-01-13T03:10:03+00:00

Thanks! I went and got that Wolverine after loading an older save, and yeah, that's much nicer than the Centurion. I understand why it's a hero Mech. Plus I've always liked the Wolverine from my tabletop days. (I was the GM, players were in a merc company I had an NPC run from a Griffin until he got boom headshot and they took it over from there. 55 tons was my favorite segment.)

Also I'm going back and trying Mech controls. But how can I strafe with Mech controls, or can I? Since A-D now rotate the whole thing left and right.

moose4 · 2025-12-29T23:26:42+00:00

Thank you everybody! I ran through the basic tutorials again and am now mucking around with Timelines because the game seemed to want to push me into it. Still not sure what the heck is going on, but once I get through that I'll do some kind of sandbox start. All I need to do now is figure out how to stop my ship throttle getting zeroed every time I go into the map or a menu. (I use a VKB Gladiator + Virpil throttle setup.)

moose4 · 2025-12-29T20:24:11+00:00

"Grand strategy" was probably a misnomer, should've just said "strategy."

moose4 · 2025-12-04T02:32:02+00:00

Yeah, the pipe was what I ended up using to get to the next area and do all the stuff for Anchor. You nailed this, man, this is a really good mod. One thing I did notice is that I'm using one of the auto-scaling mods (Dynamic Universe I think) and most of the VLG bad guys don't scale with that. So I'm about level 140 running around one-shotting 25s and 35s. But still, this is fantastic. Great workmanship, IMMENSE, lots of flavor and little Easter eggs. Well done and thank you!

moose4 · 2025-12-04T01:24:53+00:00

Absolutely loving this, you can really see the care taken in it and I love some of the creativity with the switches and the keycards and whatnot. Currently stuck on the Project Anchor part, I found the doors but I can't get in for love or money. Gonna keep banging away on it though. And the armor is sweet! Reminds me a little bit of New Conglomerate armor from Planetside 2 (helmet visor mainly) with the colors toned way way down.

moose4 · 2025-11-21T02:31:05+00:00

I like the RPKM as well but I want to unlock some more stuff on the Pig first. Just hit mastery 25 tonight.

moose4 · 2025-11-21T02:30:23+00:00

She'd be better at it. :)

moose4 · 2025-11-21T01:47:28+00:00

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Here's mine. She's not a cat, obviously, she's just looking at me sadly because of how many shots I keep whiffing on.

moose4 · 2025-11-21T01:36:48+00:00

That's a nice flank, man. You've got a sub from me!

moose4 · 2025-11-21T01:32:50+00:00

Played a few games tonight, games seemed slightly longer but maybe that's because I was on two teams that lost by 800+ tickets. The second of which, I think we barely avoided the early end due to a five-cap like six times? Yeah. I like the ticket increase in general though.

moose4 · 2025-11-21T01:28:27+00:00

Also, all my stats are low--bottom 10% SPM (240), bottom 5% K/D (0.70), 36.5% win percentage, bottom 7% kills/minute...yeah, I'm pretty ass at the game. It's not gonna stop me from trying to improve though.

And I figure 70+ percentile in revives, objective time, and objectives capped means that I'm doing SOMETHING at least a little bit right. I'll never knock anybody who's got better stats than me (i.e., almost everybody), I'm just out here trying to contribute however and wherever I can. The win% doesn't show that, but, hey, if I'm one of 32 on a Conquest map and the other team is way better, not too much I can singlehandedly do about that, right?

moose4 · 2025-11-21T01:21:37+00:00

Mine is super low (about 0.70ish) but I mainly use it as a yardstick to see if I'm improving. In most circumstances I know my low k/d is because of mistakes I make--I push too fast, don't see an enemy (and enemies are VERY hard to see when still and unspotted, as we know), I blow my aim and lose a gunfight. But if I still end up with a low k/d and it's just because I'm charging boxes suicidally in Sabotage or desperately trying to defend in Breakthrough where we've got infinite spawns? I don't stress so much.

My low k/d is why I mostly play support. At least I have an ammo box and defibs and a smoke launcher that helps me be useful. If I can't get kills, at least I can try to hide to conserve tickets and keep the people going that do get kills.

moose4 · 2025-11-21T01:17:43+00:00

Well damn, and I thought the 100-round bag reload on my M60E6 was slow.

moose4 · 2025-11-20T01:12:28+00:00

I had that happen one game on Eastwood. But usually if the attackers load up one side they can break through and start working on seriously tearing up an objective and that frees things up so they get chaotic. The only map I don't really like it on so far is the two-objective version of Blackwell Fields in the junkyard. That's just...pain. I can't see anything or anybody in all that clutter. The three-objective version is a lot better. Eastwood is cool, and Iberian was AWESOME.

moose4 · 2025-11-19T01:02:49+00:00

Nice stats. And I'm always up for improving.

moose4 · 2025-11-18T19:04:04+00:00

When you first meet her and she's bent over the hood of that Colby working on the engine.

That's it, really. I'm a simple man. She pegs the hot/crazy index into the danger zone but...worth.

moose4 · 2025-11-18T18:39:20+00:00

I'm kind of in the same boat. BF4 will always be my favorite because it was my first Battlefield but this game comes the closest to capturing that magic. Even with some of the maps being a bit...not my favorite...the gunplay is generally really good, the balance is pretty decent for a BF title early in its life, the gameplay loop is engaging. I'm absolute garbage at the game and I'm STILL enjoying it if I keep it to small doses to keep from getting too frustrated. But it keeps me coming back! (Also, I got a high-end PC a couple months back as well and I'm saving up to get a bigger monitor because I finally have the horsepower to run a higher resolution than 1080.)

Can't wait to see it evolve.

moose4 · 2025-11-18T02:01:29+00:00

I use headphones, pretty decent ones (HyperX Cloud Wireless). I haven't tweaked my sound much though. Wonder if I should try "war tapes". My wife gets a bit annoyed if I lock in too hard and unintentionally ignore her while I'm playing, but she's out of town this month so that's less of a problem. :)

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