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Post by ѻﻭɼﻉ on Sept 4, 2022 14:24:39 GMT -5
 Over the next month a wild storm front will be moving in, our skies filled with violent and pervasive Seraph lighting that touches down on all mechs within reach. This will be followed by an event never seen before in our battlegrounds, the appearance of Mars turret hatchlings turning our combat into a sort of 12v12, the turrets essentially being an extra mech firing at you, often from behind or flanking positions, turning you into a mech sandwich for the foreseeable future, so dress appropriately. |
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Post by 079 on Sept 4, 2022 14:27:24 GMT -5
Eh, with this Fafnir 2.0 meta, we already know the basics of what to do. Another storm to ride out, just like the one before it.
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Post by ѻﻭɼﻉ on Sept 4, 2022 14:50:20 GMT -5
Eh, with this Fafnir 2.0 meta, we already know the basics of what to do. Another storm to ride out, just like the one before it. Also in some respects the Mars meta will be kinda similar to Shocktrain, not in the instakill sense, but more with it being difficult to avoid taking enemy fire. Being behind cover will become less of a safe zone, so high levels of durability and repair will be necessary |
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Post by munkeeee on Sept 4, 2022 15:10:01 GMT -5
It’s a campers wet dream, I’m putting my chips on it now. Curious if you can damage and/or destroy the deployed turret, and if it gives damage to the mars bot in doing so. I see the counter to it being a bendy frenzy, which may also be an appropriate time to dust off some of those long range bots and weapons and saddle up.
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Post by ѻﻭɼﻉ on Sept 4, 2022 16:07:45 GMT -5
It’s a campers wet dream, I’m putting my chips on it now. Curious if you can damage and/or destroy the deployed turret, and if it gives damage to the mars bot in doing so. I see the counter to it being a bendy frenzy, which may also be an appropriate time to dust off some of those long range bots and weapons and saddle up. Hmm, camping is problematic and infrequent in top leagues from what I can tell, because of speed. Even Yamantau will continue to be challenging to run camping mechs for very long, so I dont exactly get your point about that. No, turret cant be destroyed nor indirectly used to damage Mars. I can definitely see Mars having a dual advantage with bendies, as it is already the most popular Mars build in test server. Launch turret from relative safety, and continue to shoot bendies at same target while maintaining that safety. Its going to be quite deadly actually. Imagine even merely three Mars attacking an area; that is basically six angles of enemy fire coming in from different directions. This is why durability and repair will be a priority. Sure, the same can be said about multiple Khepris hitting us from different angles, but this is a bit different because it is MORE firepower assaulting us. Can you imagine the chaos of 6 Mars moving in and launching turrets? That is twelve angles of enemy firepower coming at you. |
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Post by munkeeee on Sept 4, 2022 16:35:38 GMT -5
It’s a campers wet dream, I’m putting my chips on it now. Curious if you can damage and/or destroy the deployed turret, and if it gives damage to the mars bot in doing so. I see the counter to it being a bendy frenzy, which may also be an appropriate time to dust off some of those long range bots and weapons and saddle up. Hmm, camping is problematic and infrequent in top leagues from what I can tell, because of speed. Even Yamantau will continue to be challenging to run camping mechs for very long, so I dont exactly get your point about that. No turret cant be destroyed nor indirectly used to damage Mars. I can definitely see Mars having a dual advantage with bendies, as it is already the most popular Mars build in test server. Launch turret from relative safety, and continue to shoot bendies at same target while maintaining that safety. Its going to be quite deadly actually. Imagine even merely three Mars attacking an area; that is basically six angles of enemy fire coming in from different directions. This is why durability and repair will be a priority. Sure, the same can be said about multiple Khepris hitting us from different angles, but this is a bit different because it is MORE firepower assaulting us. Can you imagine the chaos of 6 Mars moving in and launching turrets? That is twelve angles of enemy firepower coming at you. Welcome to the new “rant” hahaha. I thought about the bendies on those things, that’s gonna hurt. Gonna be an interesting few months that’s for sure once this killer gets let lose. I’m already plotting a viable spider hangar to act as bait to see the limitations of grief this idea is going to be. |
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Post by shawngonakillyou on Sept 4, 2022 17:15:55 GMT -5
Load jump units so you can jump over walls to safety from the turrets  …mostly kidding… I can’t get test server to work today, but I was previously using mostly fainter with different module setups on Mars to really get a feel for the guns and the executioner (no, no, no, no, no, no, no)….I had planned on different Mars builds today if I can get it rolling and bendies was on that list. I also loaded fainter on most med slot bots to see how they fared with them (typhon, Fafnir, Ravana, fenrir, and harpy). hopefully it functions later. |
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Post by BB on Sept 4, 2022 18:38:50 GMT -5
Ive lost count of how many meta cycles my Striders have endured and survived thru. Will the MARS META be the one that finally does me in?  |
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Post by Sgt. Beacon on Sept 4, 2022 20:59:15 GMT -5
Eat some popcorn, and wait for the nerf herders.
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Post by shawngonakillyou on Sept 4, 2022 22:15:18 GMT -5
I put this in a separate post already, but relevant to the turret comments in this thread, count the kills I get while NOT actively shooting at someone…
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Post by munkeeee on Sept 4, 2022 22:33:24 GMT -5
So basically this is Mars and it’s mini me….  |
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Post by ѻﻭɼﻉ on Sept 4, 2022 22:50:39 GMT -5
shawngonakillyou thx for posting the video….exactly, now imagine 3-6 enemy Mars in the field at once. 
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Post by shawngonakillyou on Sept 4, 2022 23:27:09 GMT -5
What I will say is that Mars is reasonably squishy. I’ve been smashed real fast by anything, literally, anything with sonics. Clearly level 8 will not be the same as maxed, but the fenrir I ran and the typhon fared better and about the same respectively.
they definitely tuned down the executioner. Closer to 5-10% when the bot perishes. It played better, but I still smashed it in the review feedback. Just a stupid idea.
But that turret with the bendies is just an insane combo. I am loving the fainter because I do like rangey play, but the bendies and the turret leave no cover. One or the other can pull down any shield and a salvo can finish of the rest. This’ll arrive just in time for Pix to be nerfing the shields, so they’re gonna compound the complaining on this bot in a way that is not truly causal. The fainter is just plain OP, so if you catch someone in the open, they’re going down. The bendies give a better feel for a live server level weapon, and that was devastating more due to the combo.
I captured some play here that actually shows both things in this post - sonic devastation and then bendy mayhem…just before the server crashed🤦🏻♂️
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Post by ѻﻭɼﻉ on Sept 6, 2022 12:19:37 GMT -5
shawngonakillyouIm not a fan of the Fainters, will stick with my Pulsars and Hazards. As for squishy, you should know better than to determine performance on test server, and especially one that has no pilots, drones, or motherships like we recently had. Trust me, it will be a very different story in live server. Even in live server, Strider for example, is relatively squishy, however equipped with all the modifications it is way more difficult to take down. Mars is gonna be a pita
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Post by shawngonakillyou on Sept 6, 2022 13:19:14 GMT -5
shawngonakillyou Im not a fan of the Fainters, will stick with my Pulsars and Hazards. As for squishy, you should know better than to determine performance on test server, and especially one that has no pilots, drones, or motherships like we recently had. Trust me, it will be a very different story in live server. Even in live server, Strider for example, is relatively squishy, however equipped with all the modifications it is way more difficult to take down. Mars is gonna be a pita What I am feeling is an improved typhon/Erebus. Will be a PITA for sure, and yup - test server acknowledged, but so are all the other bots and weapons. It is not exact by any stretch, but should be directionally accurate. I think the turret will be the worst part of Mars more so than it’s relative tankiness. I think it will most depend on how much the shield levels up and what Pix does to shielding in general. I didn’t think I’d like the fainter given their viper-like mechanics, but I am pleasantly surprised. |
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Post by GuitarGuy on Sept 6, 2022 16:20:03 GMT -5
I think in this meta what would be fun is a squad play all Skyros for EVERY BOT and just sit on the beacons for the win.. All those pilots up in there air being a sniper..totally 5 capped.. Would'nt get much damage but I bet the right squad could shut down a game in less then 3 minutes...
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…mostly kidding…
