Not me thinking "well they are obviously hinting at an imminent CG in Colonia and they are giving people a heads up to get over there"
...
Fdev, if you don't actually mean soon then don't write "soon". it's been 10 days and two weekly updates.
nothing going on in colonia.
So have been running a new campaign recently with no imports. I hadn't played the main story in years, so I wanted a refresher before the new DLC. After I finished, I caught the bug again and kept playing till 3047, where I am pausing till CR.
anyway... one of my side goals for this run was to play mechs I didn't normally use. I am a big fan of the Battlemaster and it has always been my go-to fast assault, but this time around I wanted to give a fair shake to some others, and by far the Charger has been the standout.
The 1A1 is, of course, garbage. This was actually the first assault I managed to salvage in the game years ago and I spent way too much time trying to make it good at...anything...
I think that experience may have soured me a bit on the whole chassis. I also think I skipped over the 1A5 because it's default config seriously skimps on armor. To me, half the point of heavier mechs is fit more armor on them, I aways like to run them at max armor (shaved down to the nearest half ton). I think I filed it into the same category as the Cyclops (another mech I have slightly more respect for after this run). The 1A5 kinda rules. Max the armor, drop the AC/20 down to an LB 10-X (you should have at least one before it shows up in 3023) and you have a tough, fast (74 kph after speed upgrade), punchy mech that brawls with the best of them.
The 1P5 was also a nice surprise. initially it had many of the same issues as the 1A5, but after a few tweaks I found a very nice arena build. Just swap the AC/5 for an ultra, drop the SRM-6s down to 4s (ideally infernos), and drop the axe down to a sword then bam, a fun arena mech that can do all four damage types. I ran this until I finally snagged an HGN-VEST.
Of course there is also the otomo 3K-S, which... yeah it's good. But it's an otomo, so that kinda wasn't a surprise.
I am sure the regular 3K is good too, but since it's a 3049 mech, it now has to compete directly with Clan mechs which... no.
So this run was a lot of fun. Have I converted anyone to the cult of charger? Did any of you dismiss a mech chassis before later finding out it was much better than you thought?
I was doing some AX at the remains of Titan Oya since it is right next to the CG.
I noticed something extremely strange. every interceptor that shows up just spontaneously dies early into the fight.
so far it has happened to 1 Cyclops and 2 Basilisks.
I had only managed to kill one heart on the first two interceptors before it's health immediately drops to zero. on the third interceptor (pictured), I didn't even get through the first heart.
I am playing in solo so there are no other players around bombarding it with mod shards, and no weird network issues.
is this a known issue? has it happened to anyone else?