Guns Of Icarus Online
Main => General Discussion => Topic started by: The Mann on June 18, 2015, 10:21:22 am
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What is your favorite "Random" ship loadout.
We all like to experiment right? look for new ways to kill people or newer players before teaching them... *Cough*
Here are a few of my favorites.
Flare/Gat Pyra:
May seem strange but Awesome! You have a flare and a gat on the front. its amazing. the flare can instantly cause a 15 stack flame on anything it hits. heatsink give more ammo. The Gat can strip the hull.
Its more of a support ship but I used it yesterday with Satchmo and Keijo Perti and we annihilated some new players before letting them know that Chem Spray can only remove 3 stacks of fire at a time and only lasts a limited amount of time :).
Barking Dog/Mine launcher Pyra:
The Barking Dog will disable the balloon and some incen rounds in a miner can deal a lot of damage at medium range. lots of fun, slightly hard to control without practice and a decent mining gunner.
Had lots of kills this way. 8)
Let me know some of your random yet... working loadouts.
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Ayetach ran an event where every pilot was given a randomly generated ship and loadout!
One round I had what was close to a meta galleon, the loch flak kills were marvellous!
Another round Over Watch guys had a squid with a front mine..... I won't exaggerate, they kicked arse.
And another round I had a Hades flare Junker one side, double flare other side cant remember what was on front.. But I remember lots of jokes about the flare gunner having to wait until hull break just for lols, some legitimate flare spamming and a tough fought win.
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That sounds awesome!
If this is an event, please let me know if it will be done again?
That sounds like fun,
Giving people random ships reminds me of the unpredictability of the Wabbajack in Skyrim..
"Ayetachs Wabbajack Battles"
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Probably not going to happen again soon with Aerodrome starting up again for the summer. I do like the silly events though, and I'm not just saying that because I am the fastest squid pilot and won squid races. (Wait this isn't the bragging thread.)
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Brag all you like!
I intend for this thread to show people bragging about kills with ships and experimented loadouts. :D
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I did pole Ayetach about it just now so he can mull it over and look at hosting it again 8)
It was a lot of fun, random ships and gun combinations which made little to no sence.
Harpoons paired with mercs
A lot of us even flew a bit silly...
I spent half the round in my Junker flying in reverse :)
And I think the carro mine oyra.is very efficient, it is a build I use often, however the carronade Nerf hit it hard, it seems.you need.competant gunners just to.get a balloon pop...
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I would love to host more games like the ones I did, and I likely will in the future - currently life is a bit busy for me to schedule time for it on Saturdays but stay tuned, I'll be making postings when the time is ripe for madness ;)
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I did pole Ayetach about it just now so he can mull it over and look at hosting it again 8)
It was a lot of fun, random ships and gun combinations which made little to no sence.
Harpoons paired with mercs
A lot of us even flew a bit silly...
I spent half the round in my Junker flying in reverse :)
And I think the carro mine oyra.is very efficient, it is a build I use often, however the carronade Nerf hit it hard, it seems.you need.competant gunners just to.get a balloon pop...
If you read the patch notes L.Carro is now focused on disabling parts rather than popping balloon
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I did pole Ayetach about it just now so he can mull it over and look at hosting it again 8)
It was a lot of fun, random ships and gun combinations which made little to no sence.
Harpoons paired with mercs
A lot of us even flew a bit silly...
I spent half the round in my Junker flying in reverse :)
And I think the carro mine oyra.is very efficient, it is a build I use often, however the carronade Nerf hit it hard, it seems.you need.competant gunners just to.get a balloon pop...
If you read the patch notes L.Carro is now focused on disabling parts rather than popping balloon
I was away during that patch but thanks for the heads up, not sure why that change was made considering the Artemis can disable up close for the light weapons but balancing is a beast of its own..
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I did pole Ayetach about it just now so he can mull it over and look at hosting it again 8)
It was a lot of fun, random ships and gun combinations which made little to no sence.
Harpoons paired with mercs
A lot of us even flew a bit silly...
I spent half the round in my Junker flying in reverse :)
And I think the carro mine oyra.is very efficient, it is a build I use often, however the carronade Nerf hit it hard, it seems.you need.competant gunners just to.get a balloon pop...
If you read the patch notes L.Carro is now focused on disabling parts rather than popping balloon
I was away during that patch but thanks for the heads up, not sure why that change was made considering the Artemis can disable up close for the light weapons but balancing is a beast of its own..
They wanted to distinguish between the two. L.Carro is still effective against balloon, just not quite as much, and it's even more effective against components.
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As engineer i like to persuade my pilot to give me 2 flares on the top of a spire or side of a pyra.
As pilot I like my triple lesmok carronade mobula for the sound it makes. Another favourite for dealing with unhelpful crew is the "Ramming Trolleon" a galleon armed with a bow, a keel, 2 minelaunchers and 4 minotaurs in order of importance. Ramming a sqiud from above hard enough to pop its balloon and accelerate it to terminal velocity would have been a beautiful sight had it been visible from the helm.
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Carro merc double flare pyra
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As engineer i like to persuade my pilot to give me 2 flares on the top of a spire or side of a pyra.
As pilot I like my triple lesmok carronade mobula for the sound it makes. Another favourite for dealing with unhelpful crew is the "Ramming Trolleon" a galleon armed with a bow, a keel, 2 minelaunchers and 4 minotaurs in order of importance. Ramming a sqiud from above hard enough to pop its balloon and accelerate it to terminal velocity would have been a beautiful sight had it been visible from the helm.
Got to love the Flare guns!
Also, that Trolleon sounds like a lot of fun :D
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Carro merc double flare pyra
Now that is an interesting front loadout! :D How do you use it effectively?
Also, I'm seeing a lot of popularity with the flare guns! They are good weapons, even after the change of fire stacks from 20 to 15.
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So, dumb loadouts played for fun?
I'm still learning what is viable and what is not, so some of my "dumb" loadouts may not be as dumb as I thought. Equally, some loadouts I think are the bomb are likely troll loadouts past level 30. Anyway, my fave dumb loadouts are as follows.
Double merc pyra:
It's just so fun to sit and take cheeky little shots at far away ships, with two buff-charged engis manning the front, we knock out armour in 2-3 hits almost all the time. It can actually work pretty well if our kill ship allies let us know who they are focusing, because we can basically remove the armour for them.
In fact, one time we had a double merc pyra (us) and a double mortar pyra (ally) in a 2v2. The double mortar ally had no idea what he was doing and didn't know that mortars are useless prior to armour break. Thankfully, he was a chatty guy that was keen to communicate. And so, we camped the north of the map on Canyon Ambush, and baited, while he hid himself in clouds or behind rocks. Basically, anyone that charged were disabled and stripped in one or two clips from us, and the double mortars made for an insanely quick kill.
Probably the most fun we've had as underdogs yet, and boy were we underdogs back then.
5 incendiary gat junker:
Anyone with good chem cycles is not intimidated at all, and it sucks at killing, but probably the most fun you'll have if you meet that low level Mobula crew that picked it because "muh guns". It's funny how they fire on you once or twice before you can just sit and watch them scurry around desperately trying to fix/rebuild/extinguish. It's evil and fails against anyone that has a clue, but serves as a good learning exercise for the greener crew.
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Dual mec Pyra is a very good build, I have used it many times. :)
a five gat Junker is a very unusual build :) with incen rounds, it would be a great disabler/ amour stipper. :D
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Those two builds are actually legit for situations, for example along side a heavy flak spire or a flak fish, all gat Junkers are not rare in public matches, as long as the ally has explosive damage.
Double merc pyra, I've seen use on a swival pyra in competitive, very efficient
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Dual mec Pyra is a very good build, I have used it many times. :)
a five gat Junker is a very unusual build :) with incen rounds, it would be a great disabler/ amour stipper. :D
I did think that the dual merc had served us rather well for it to be that dumb a build. It works well for us because our gungineers are reliable as hell for landing their shots. I call a component to disable and in the next shot it will be down. Charging hwacha fishes are probably the most entertaining thing to deny, especially when you wait out that rebuild before hitting it again.
Honestly, double merc pyra makes me feel like the biggest douche in the game, and I love it, even if flying it largely consists of "press a a little, press d to straighten out, move backwards to avoid sand cloud"
Those two builds are actually legit for situations, for example along side a heavy flak spire or a flak fish, all gat Junkers are not rare in public matches, as long as the ally has explosive damage.
Double merc pyra, I've seen use on a swival pyra in competitive, very efficient
Well, I think I will be sticking to pubs for quite a while, maybe til we hit our early twenties. Our clan is small and unfortunately, only four of us are regulars right now. I'll try not to get too attached to loadouts that only work in pubs, though, for the sake of a potential future.
I prefer support/disabling/stripping ships to kill ships, but the all gat/flamer junker is only something I go for if I see an exceedingly low-level crew rolling out in one of the harder ships for pure bullying purposes. It's a real giggle.
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Squid with Mercury front, Flare on the side and Mine Launcher on the back. I saw a random dude in one running match bring it and everytime I used it, it brought great success with it.
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Squid with Mercury front, Flare on the side and Mine Launcher on the back. I saw a random dude in one running match bring it and everytime I used it, it brought great success with it.
That sounds like fun! :D
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Carro merc double flare pyra
Now that is an interesting front loadout! :D How do you use it effectively?
Also, I'm seeing a lot of popularity with the flare guns! They are good weapons, even after the change of fire stacks from 20 to 15.
Before the pyra nerf I used to love carro merc on dunes. I used the carro on gunner side but there's reasons it can be on balloon side (I've since seen it by SPQR with carro on balloon). Wrench buff charged, span mall buff heavy clip. When out of carro range the gunner buffs/repairs.
Rush in with merc, and carro when it gets in range. Both can target guns if necessary. It's best on dunes due to low ceiling and easy to tempt ships to lower altitude. Disable, pop balloon, ram. Kinda like a mix between carro art and gat carro. Keep some distance, not always point blank.
Flares used to cause 10 fire stacks per shot. Do they now cause 15?
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Flares used to cause 10 fire stacks per shot. Do they now cause 15?
I honestly have no idea... I thought it used to be 20. As for the 15 stacks now, i'm pretty sure it is 15 however, I could be wrong.
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I like the hades merc front side banshee pyramidion, there is something oddly satisfying watching the hades and the mercury mercilessly go at it at a target. It's actually more effective than some may think and we took it for some competitive matches as well.
Another weird pyramidion build is a mercury banshee front and side gatling, where in long range you shoot the merc and the banshee, and in close range the once main engineer shoots the side gatling in combination with the front banshee of the balloon engineer - and the engineer who once shot the mercury is now a main engineer on the bottom deck. Quite a silly and fun one :P I think we took it once to an scs, was interesting.
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Flares used to cause 10 fire stacks per shot. Do they now cause 15?
I honestly have no idea... I thought it used to be 20. As for the 15 stacks now, i'm pretty sure it is 15 however, I could be wrong.
They did, I messaged Eric about it numerous times, but he keeps saying that the ignition chance was replaced from being in aoe to being in direct for the flare arming time change. So by what he says the ignition on aoe before was 15 and now changed to direct it's 15 too... I told him numerous times it used to be 10 and not 15 but he just kept saying that this is how it is intended to work and at some point I just gave up on writing emails to him about it because I got the same stubborn response.
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Dementio made a post about a merc double artemis heavy carronade spire that I enjoy. I switched the gunner on merc to a spanner mallet buff engi, they buff the main engine and keep the merc buffed. At close range the merc engi jumps down to heavy carronade and uses buff charged with the two artemis.
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Dementio made a post about a merc double artemis heavy carronade spire that I enjoy.
I am Daniel. It's nice to see people enjoy a build that one self created, even if they switch out their gunner :P
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The other heavy carro spire I like is nicknamed the shatter spire because it relies on the secondary damage from gats and the heavy carronade. There's 3 engineers, top spanner mallet chem heavy clip, bottom gat is wrench buff chem heavy, and carronade is spanner mallet buff heavy (used to use charged pre carro nerf). Top right gun is usually a flare gun.
Everyone aims for components. It takes 10 shots to break a small gun and 20 to break a heavy gun from an unbuffed gat. A gat, a buffed gat, and a buffed heavy carronade will rapidly break all components. Use heavy clip for longer range then switch to regular gat. Carronade can pop/damage balloon or aim for components. Charge!
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You would think Mercury and double Artemis is an evil combination and then you see this thing, oh dear!