*Bara makes a 4xAMS video* Me: "okay, no missile mechs for the next 2 days..."

@super-zw3ep

3 жыл бұрын

They can’t stop us all!

Last enemy: PREPARE FOR RAMMING SPEED

that second game. 1207 damage and 8 kills by the patient guy in the back.

@ActionNerdGo

3 жыл бұрын

On screen Ace of Spades in someone else's Stream.

@hko2006

2 жыл бұрын

His video kzread.info/dash/bejne/hqNlkrmTcbDOZpM.html

GeeRam with 8 kills. It's impressive how distractions + ranged pinpoint can really work in tandem.

That second game was beautiful. GG and well played GeeRam.

Before the recent patches, I ran the A with 2 AMS+2 LAMS (don't remember the rest). Anyway, I took down not quite 2,500 missiles on Polar Highlands. I stayed out in front of my team so the missiles had to travel through my whole area of affect. I stayed behind terrain and just batted the missiles out of MY sky. Minimal DMG at the end of the match, and was still MVP (highest match score). I LOLed, but haven't been able to do it again.

@solace001

2 жыл бұрын

Your build sounds just like mine. I'm coming back after a year away so I haven't rebuilt mine since there seems to have been patches on l-ams. I named my Piranha 'Half-Way' because that's where I am and that's how far the missiles get. I've had those fights where I knock out 2k plus as well.

Nice Ace of Spades in that video

Nice. This one's not a walking meme. With four AMSs it's a support build. Cool.

GeeRam on that second match. Congrats! Ace of Spades!

I'm a bit surprised you didn't max out sensors instead of survivability tbh. Radar deprivation, targeting decay, sensor range/speed and seismic sensors sound more useful than a few extra points of structure.

@belloffields

3 жыл бұрын

I honestly like to get both. You get like +40% bonus structure. And everyone knows how hard it is to get a few points of damage on a juking light mech.

@DoctorDinosaur

3 жыл бұрын

You WANT those rockets, so radar deprivation is off the table. Gotta bait the enemy.

For an itty bitty mech with itty bitty weapons, that thing seems to grind and shred.

Barra, can you try that Mad Cat build that got the Ace of Spades in the second game? Looks like a fun build!

@clydecraft5642

3 жыл бұрын

I put that build on my madcat 2c but with 2 med pulse in the torso and much more ammo for extended fights

@atma-media

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah he def carried

@indivisibleat0m

3 жыл бұрын

Came in clutch for sure

@tarron3237

3 жыл бұрын

@@atma-media The way it played out he did. If he gets rushed by lights, though, his armor is missing on the front line and he most likely just dies.

Great Video! Thank You!

Jesus your Piranha forgot it was a light mech that last game, also that was a great damn game. One of the best I have seen in a while.

Baradul : I'm out of ammo! Cool

personally i would forsake most of the survival tree outside of the AMS nodes and throw that into range in the offense tree to make the AMS have more range, because i find that rang on the AMS matters alot. Side note, for some reason i cannot run this exact build, when i try it im missing .4 tonnes... it makes no sense? bara didnt shave any armor how am i missing almost half a tonne. never mind i spotted it, he shaved cockpit armor.

I play my Piranha A all the time, I love being a support mech with it, Shred unarmored stuff and rip missiles down, It's great. I do like how a regular mech for me is considered a "challenge" mech

Great matches!! Nice to see that Piranha be so effective! More MG ammo and you may have crushed it in that second game!! Thanks, Bara!!

I had a match in the 3 LAMS nova build where I destroyed 1100 missiles (on Polar Highlands).

@tarron3237

3 жыл бұрын

Shot down 1600 in my Kit Fox recently. Gotta love the support mechs 👍🏻

I love the oddball builds. more!

1200dmg from that MadCat, wow

woo that made a nice change of pace

It's only a secondary matter to do huge amounts of damage in this build. I try to keep assaults alive that get hammered with LRM and the assaults deal the damage for me. This build can be a gamechanger if the enemy sports lots of LRM and I love to bring it out.

@tarron3237

3 жыл бұрын

You're right. And it's great to not only have dmg-focused ppl on the board. Sadly you don't get rewarded properly for this kind of team-oriented gameplay

@unit29909

3 жыл бұрын

@@tarron3237 well very rarely but sometimes someone says something like "nice AMS-ing" over the voice chat. And I appreciate this. It's nice when people notice what you do.

Hey don't say it never sees the light of day! It's my favorite Piranha variant! So it sees the light of day about 0.0001% of the time :P But really, this is the most fun Piranha IMO. Just don't expect high match scores...

This is, in fact, the only Piranha that I play. I only use machine guns on it, as a hold over from ye olde clams heat. I could try swapping in some lasers. Ammo is sparse, so I have to hang out with the assault mechs or other unprotected, and wait to attack until the second half of the game and, uh, "secure" some kills.

@itsaknickname8867

3 жыл бұрын

Same. Keep looking around for friendlies with missile warning icon and run over. Try and position slightly in front if possible.

Interesting, I ran a similar build prepatch but with minor changes. Same engine, 2 laser and 2 standard AMS for heat control (4 laser AMS = constant overheat naps). I standoff more, so 8 LMG for more range. Surrendered most of the head armor and some arm/leg for an additional 0.5 ton and carried 0.5 ton less MG ammo to upgrade lasers to 2 small ER and 1 micro pulse for damage. Additional LMG ammo unlikely to break through intact armor so more laser is more useful was my thinking. Plus it helped use up wasted heat capacity. Waste of AMS to run around with light pack but if you do, TURN OFF THE AMS UNLESS YOUR PACK IS GETTING TARGETED. Nobody wants to try and sneak around with a guy whose AMS is lighting up the sky like strobes pointing directly at them whenever a missile flies by.

@itsaknickname8867

3 жыл бұрын

As an experiment I maxed out cool run and heat containment prepatch and then loaded 4 laser AMS because what's the worst that could happen? Tourmaline desert and LRM rain meant I was shutting down every 3-5 seconds. Had to manually shut off AMS just to stay operational. And you can't only turn off just the laser AMS when running mixed types. So sorry nearby friendlies but when I'm too hot you just gotta eat it.

"I'm still alive for some reason" Because the mech has broken hitboxes

Very interesting second game. Great job with the Piranha! I think you should've mentioned the 1,2k dmg on the Mad Cat II. He was a very good sniper. Ofc that means not sharing armor, so yeah.. Luckily it played out.

LRMs and ATMs and Streaks can give you a really bad day as a piranha that should help. I would skipped the lasers for more ammo

I have a new mech!!! I fucking love AMS builds and supportive lights.

This looks like fun...just built one! I don't have the skill to do quite as well, but let's see what happens.

Didn't realize there was another teammate still alive or I would have backed out of the fight and regrouped with the mad cat.

@winoodlesnoodles1984

3 жыл бұрын

Honestly, keeping a couple distracted so the mad cat could engage 1 at a time may have been your best play there. Not so much for you, but for the team. I have done that before in similar games. My team is down on players, but by keeping enough of the opposing team occupied, we had a numbers advantage where it mattered. By the time I got killed, 6 of my team killed 4 of the other with no losses. The remaining fight was 6 of mine vs 5 of theirs. FYI : Similar tactics have been used in war quite successfully.

For Game 2, GeeRam's perspective is on Twitch. See the first game: www.twitch.tv/videos/1022202571 He got left and pushed, and was isolated away from the team. I recommend checking it out. It's an interesting contrast.

That's pretty close to my mech 'Half-Way'. I use that piranha everyday and get more kills with it then you think.

I shot down 3546 in a kit fox c about a week ago! we still lost the game though, it was a pretty intense constant stream of missiles.

Haha nice, poor tripple AMS Kit Fox tho...

Lol in the beginning when you Bara was expecting a locust a raven a flea another piranha. I was saying to myself probably going to run into the commando. Most under sung mech in the inner sphere 20 ton class.

Smol corsair

I kinda liked playing the build although it’s been a while sense I played the mech so I cannot remember my load out

AMS should have the option to target UAVs. Maybe as a toggle like ECM. Same for arty/air strikes (reduced hit chance or damage I guess though). Seriously if they had use across multiple meta variations they’d see so much more play. AMS should also respect LoS/LoE - shooting through walls is heckin’ dumb.

oh bara, i felt the meh in your voice when you saw the damage from the first game, dont feel too bad, sometimes youre the eagle, sometimes you are the wind. I like to see challenge builds from you, i actually bought my second piranha recently strictly to try and make 12HMGs work on the PIR-1 and... it looks like this build is just as difficult to play, excellent content though, well done.

I just don't have the patience to play a light mech (except easy mode urbans). I get myself killed to early.

Wow. Two Stalkers.

Has the heat bar moved in any shape or form? I did not spot it, so more ammo...?

@Baradul

3 жыл бұрын

Can't reduce any more heat sinks. 10 is the minimum.

That was a serious team mech. If you had communication, you would have been super annoying to the other side.

I wish the scoring would be 50% increased if players actually won doing the mission. Otherwise PGI should have just have one open map and skirmish as the only mode. Second match would have been such as easy win with all of you ten feet from their base. Just stand on it, fight from there and force them to come to you.

Somebody kept shooting pulse lasers right over top of you, didn't connect at all.

Rename that mech to “Battlestar Piranha” based on the amount of flak it puts out Cylons aint got shit on that mech lol

How very topical.

The moment when Bara thinks he got 1 shot, but is targeting the wrong mech. Ahhhhh I see.

worst cockpit?

great play. i play mechs on mechwarrior3, or is this the same game , but with mods? imagenesing this picture. i in this mech see in a blink a atlas, i shoot almost blindly 1 bullet, and ???? bullet go strait to the head of pilote. how do you mean lucky shot?

@andreberrevoets1552

3 жыл бұрын

at maximal range of gun

@ghoulbuster1

3 жыл бұрын

Repeat that again but in a human language.

first?

You're short range. You play domination. You see some other guy going to the circle. You can do nothing to enemies at the circle. What is the point to go there instead of doing what you mech is best for - going all around and killing the lonely slowest heavy or assault mech of the enemy team? Sitting in the circle doing nothing at all risking getting a stray shot w/o any ability to return fire - what for?

@belloffields

3 жыл бұрын

He's AMS specialized, carrying less weapons to protect his team. Also, if anyone hangs out with their assaults, or simply turn around, the early solo flank is extremely risky.

Third !

Wh..

GeeRam does that every match - hides in the back and lets his team do all of the work. He's good at killing half dead mechs and hiding, just like Omega_V.

@tarron3237

3 жыл бұрын

That seems to be the flip side of the coin

@geeram3762

3 жыл бұрын

I can understand why you might come to that conclusion, but it just isn't the case. In this game in particular, I shot their rears quite a bit and did everything I could to help my team from my position, a position I chose because I was in a slow assault mech with range and I correctly predicted my teams nascar. Usually in a position such as that one I end up going down after killing one or two and dragging many others out of position so my team can win the game. This is far better than the alternative of trying to keep up with the team and getting left behind, resulting with little damage or impact. This was an unusual situation because the enemy ignored me for the most part despite knowing my isolated position and taking damage from the rear. I believe this is because my team was capping their base so they felt pressured to respond, but it could also be bad awareness from the enemy. Again, I can understand why you have come to the conclusion I hide, but in my opinion recognizing your team is nascaring and choosing to hold a strong position instead of joining that nascar is not hiding, it's using your brain to try and win the game. Here is my perspective of the second game in this video - kzread.info/dash/bejne/hqNlkrmTcbDOZpM.html

@jpeterson9087

3 жыл бұрын

Interesting take. It's wrong.

Second! lol

why do so many players waste bullets on mechs with no open components?

@devil8975

3 жыл бұрын

Machine guns do damage to armor. Damage is damage.

@khornetto

3 жыл бұрын

Plus at times some people will panick a bit if you machinegun them. It's a reminder that the moment their plating is gone, you are gonna crit them to hell and back. Sure if they are fresh maybe it's not the same as if their armor is orange-red and the doubt is higher.

@carloserausquinhoyos3298

3 жыл бұрын

@@devil8975 nope, crit damage to open components is not the same as damage to armored components. trading one for the other isn't a good idea

Every time I see a guy using advance zoom with mid range weapons and a 90% assault mech at the end of the match, it's usually a loss. The guy got really lucky and did very little to support his light mech teammate at the end. Just because he put up a 1200 damage game doesn't make him a great pilot.

Booooo play living legend boooo