MA - Lancer tales

Awesome! Lancer is the best! 🙏🏽😎

Would it help to know it can jump and avoid incoming javelin fire? I’m finally starting to get the timing down where I can dodge it about 50% of the time. 

Besides giving Lancer more grapes, I’m also loving the Killshot with MR8’s the more I use it.

A lot of BP’s, and then a lot of a-coins to get it to R4. I don’t understand why the light bots cost more to rank up than the med’s and heavies. But it is what it is. It’s a very fun build. 

how come you like KS MR more than KS jav?

Why did you chose Lancer over Shadow to run with? I am looking at both, not sure yet, have time, so I am wondering your opinion. Thx!

MR8's seem to do more damage in a short burst. Plus, you can close in on your target at shorter range and finish it off with a dash if the MR's don't kill it. The advantage of jav's is you can shoot from behind cover, which combined with their minimum range of 30m makes it just a little more difficult to line up a target for a murder dash.

I certainly don't dislike Javelins - I'm still running them on the Lancer. I'm just finding the MR's more effective on the KS in most situations. For some tournament maps (like today's), I'd put the Javelins back on KS, but otherwise I just have better luck with MR's.


Simply put, I already had the Lancer and didn't want to dump more resources into obtaining and upgrading yet another mech. And I thought I'd have more fun jumping around than having to constantly monitor and time that stealth ability. Lancer generally seems like an all-around more useful mech, but that's very subjective. I've seen some really good pilots driving opponents crazy with Shadows, so a lot of it is really a matter of personal preference.

He means the 2 and 4 En cost weapons that lights tend to use until heavily leveled... you can get them to R3 and 4 cheaper than EN 6+ weapons that end up on Mediums and Heavies.

I think it is because they will mostly use those weapons, costing less to max, overall.  It's a form of balance to keep the light bots from ending up like Mag Geps, for example.  It would be mass slaughter if maxed lights with maxed lower cost weapons were easily acquired in lower divisions.  By making the bots expensive, it keeps them in "end game" territory for most people.  Hell,  maxed Lancer is pretty damned tough... a lot of HP for such a hard to hit target.  

This is only my guess... I don't mean to speak for Redfiend, and he can probably be more clear about it.

Thank you both, I get it.

   Yep, that looks like quite the dangerous little mosquito! I put lots of resources into my Jav 6s this week.  The tune up is helping in tournament, on Killshot. I am focused more on weapon upgrades. 

RPG 6s are pretty effective, and underestimated imho. Range and ssplash are good. I put resources into mine recently as I use them frequently on my Jugg for challenges or cpc.

So the Lancer project has taken a turn. Because Killshot is just getting melted way too easily trying to line-of-sight it with the MR8’s, I went back to the familiar surroundings of javs on it, them put the MR8’s back on Juggy which I’d had some decent success with before. I put RPG6’s back on the Lancer for now, which are obviously not as effective as javs, but the javs are just better on the Killshot. Now I can’t decide if I want to level up the RPGs or MR6’s. For some reason I’ve never done will with the MR6’s, so I’m leaning towards staying with RPGs. Which unfortunately means I have a SB12 and carb 8’s all sitting idle now.

I really kinda painted myself into a corner dumping so many resources into the Lancer. I have Killshot, Panther and Juggy leveled up to playability and that’s about it. MD, Ares and Guardian are all too low to do anything with, and resources are so hard to come by, I need to use them in the stuff I play most. It’s not a very good situation to be in, especially when the level of competition gets increasingly relentless to the point that I can’t weaken my hangar. This game does NOT soften up your enemies when you lose a lot, and I don’t have the patience to lose a lot while upgrading under-leveled gear.

The only good news in all of this is, Killshot hasn’t lost a step with javs back in its holsters.

Jugg is R5. I do have LA8/LA10 for it, but my long-range game is terrible and I only find that load out effective on one or two tourney maps, and useless (to me) in CPC. 

I’m close to that Panther setup - SB16/PC8 (I just like PC better than carb), which has been very good. 

MD is only at R3 - having blown so many resources on Lancer, there wasn’t enough to go around for another lightweight.  I run it when I have to for challenges, but that’s about it. 

Killshot - my problem child. It’s R4, and I’d been running MR8’s on it for awhile, but it’s just too soft to leave exposed, even as quickly as MRs unload. Getting into and out of line of sight to get a shot is long enough for 3 hits from LA’s, which is all it takes to vaporize it. So the javs are back on it, and it seems happiest with that setup. I was pretty much owning yesterday’s tourney map with it. 

And Lancer has R4 RPG6’s again, which are ok, but desperately need ranking up. In fact everything other than Jugg and Panther desperately needs ranking up. My other mechs are soft, and weps are all R4 and relatively ineffective. My biggest mistake was wasting a crap-ton of a-coins on those goddamm carbines. I could have had THREE sets of weapons up to R5 for what I blew on those, which are currently sitting unused because I have no good use for them. Might put them back on Jugg, maybe, I don’t know. I do know I’d be in a much better place without them.