So far the only affective combat situation Ive found the air 180 useful on is on the reaper. If running away from a battle to get max distance covered between you and said opponent, Run bunny hop air 180 shoot, air 180, land immediatly boosting again repeat and rinse till ur at a safe distance. This keeps your momemtum moving away from the enemy while providing a bit of coverage fire.
Not sure if this is more effective though than angle dashing backwards while providing cover fire since your able to provide more cover fire this way.
Havent used air 180 that much and not on jump pads to test the effectivness of it. I think it can be somewhat useful but in rare situations but it is only 1 slot internal so its not taking up very much valueable space so why not give it a try_
Forgot to add my advise about the AC in genreal. Its a useful item but it can really make you less of a player in the sense that it gives you a bit of an ego and makes you think you can escape everything you get urself into, so it makes you get urself into bad situations more. Where as if you dont have it, you think twice before going in and are essentially a better player because your thinking strat more versus skill.
I would recommend using Adv repair kit, extractor internals if not useing Ac because you will stay on the ground more so that healing from orbs stacking on each other is going ot be really helpful. Learn how ot dodge on the ground from boosting at angles then dashing sideways making urself a hard to hit target. If you learn to do this well you can break the turn cap rate of your enemy a lot which helps in duels.
For about 3 weeks I ran No Ac on any of my mechs besides zerker. Ive currently switched the reaper and infil back to AC. The reaper because cqc the ac helps him live longer versus someone using the same set up. The infil I switched back because ive been useing heat more and being in the air is advantageous to the heat cannon.
My advice using the infil without AC though is stick with the AR, you dont have to worry about judging how far on the ground they are to get splash damage with heat cannon because you arent in the air to help you judge that distance. plus with AR you can keep a little distance yourself so to help you stay alive and escape when needed.
Although I switched the infil back to AC, im thinking of going back to the no AC AR infil again, using the adv repair kit , extractor.
Edited by Skitzo1d, October 14 2014 - 08:32 AM.