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| 1 | - | I used to do this in Mechwarrior 3, with a large or heavy mech outfitted with nothing but machine guns. A few machine guns going off is no big deal, 20+ at once would cause some serious aural chaos and often lagged up the map, sometimes even crash people with lovely onboard sound. Plus it's almost impossible to see MG fire in the chaos of battle so it'd take a while to figure out just who that jerk was, ho-hum... Also, even though I only had enough ammo for just a few seconds' worth of firing, it turns out that an all-MG loadout can kill just about anything with an alpha strike. :V |
| 1 | + | I used to do this in Mechwarrior 3, with a large or heavy mech outfitted with nothing but machine guns. A few machine guns going off is no big deal, 20+ at once would cause some serious aural chaos and often lagged up the map, sometimes even crash people with lovely onboard sound. Plus it's almost impossible to see MG fire in the chaos of battle so it'd take a while to figure out just who that jerk was, ho-hum... Also, even though I only had enough ammo for just a few seconds' worth of firing, it turns out that an all-MG loadout can kill just about anything with an alpha strike. :V |
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| 3 | - | Another fun thing to do was take that one chickenwalker light mech, strip it down to nothing but a MASC and a few heatsinks and maybe a single light laser or MG for annoyance purposes, and play Road Runner to a server's collective Wile E. Coyote. It was more annoyance than outright griefing, but every now and then someone would get seriously pissed that I was moving at 3x speed compared to even other light mechs and was more or less untouchable, and obviously not playing to win. The best was when a heavy would show up and I would circle around to its backside, plink at it for a few seconds with the light laser, and just as it was hauling its ponderous bulk around to shoot me, broadcast "*beep beep*" and vanish. And do it again 30 seconds later. |
| 3 | + | Another fun thing to do was take that one chickenwalker light mech, strip it down to nothing but a MASC and a few heatsinks and maybe a single light laser or MG for annoyance purposes, and play Road Runner to a server's collective Wile E. Coyote. It was more annoyance than outright griefing, but every now and then someone would get seriously pissed that I was moving at 3x speed compared to even other light mechs and was more or less untouchable, and obviously not playing to win. The best was when a heavy would show up and I would circle around to its backside, plink at it for a few seconds with the light laser, and just as it was hauling its ponderous bulk around to shoot me, broadcast "*beep beep*" and vanish. And do it again 30 seconds later. |
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| 6 | Another big asshole thing people would do on MW2 was fix up a mech with nothing but the absolute most powerful short-range weapons... and Arrow IV batteries. Apparently on the heaviest mechs, if you did it right, you could cram on an ER PPC, a pair of AC/20's and a pair of Arrow IV's, along with enough ammo for a few alpha strikes. But this isn't the asshole part... the asshole part is that they only engage point-blank. Remember on MW2 how internal ammo explosions and reactor breaches were area-effect? Yeah. A good one of those pilots could, on certain maps only, get 2-3 with their brutal alpha strikes and inevitably take out 1-4 more when they finally went kaboom from being such a walking powder keg. Also of note, firing all those guns at once instantly overheats the mech, so if he does it while not already at 0 heat... he explodes. God rest the souls of any poor saps in range of his reactor breach/ammo cook-off. |
