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Hepten has really been a lot of fun to master. The Point D Vulcan and Tow on a Type C chassis was a big change of strategy than pursing targets on foot with Berserker. I've gotten all the elite parts, and especially with the Cinder thrusters, the entire robot design looks amazing. I'm currently running it with an Advanced Armor Fusor and an Advanced Repair Kit, as well as 3x Repair Kits and a Shield. Your favorite Heavy? Enlighten me.

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I don't really use c classes but my favorite is also the brawler with the hawkins.. tons of health to tank damage for your team if needed and pretty reliable damage output..


Rocketeer is also enjoyable because it's dumb and is good at annoying people into making mistakes
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Brawler is my favorite c class and one of my favorite mechs in general. While the Vulcan is fun I wouldn't actually recommend it. Flak and Hawkins are both far superior. Your internals are fine although using repair kit is generally considered scrubby / a fuzzy bunny move. Orbs and a shield are good choices as well.

I definitely recommend trying out the other weapon options if you haven't.
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Brawler is my favorite c class and one of my favorite mechs in general. While the Vulcan is fun I wouldn't actually recommend it. Flak and Hawkins are both far superior. Your internals are fine although using repair kit is generally considered scrubby / a fuzzy bunny move. Orbs and a shield are good choices as well.

I definitely recommend trying out the other weapon options if you haven't.

I have, but the Flak Cannon is garbage if you can't get close, and the SA Hawkins feels too much like a sniper weapon. The Point D feels much more at home to me from Berserker, but the Flak is hands down better than the Point D in 1v1s.

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I swap between hawkins and flak.

 

Anywhere i'd use vulcan i prefer flak.



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Grenadier my pick of choice, just don't run vulcan on gren or vanguard, fuzzy bunny move.


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Vulcan on Brawler is considered to be worse than vulcan on Grenadier due to the Gren's slightly increased mobility, vastly superior ability, and higher heat capacity. Flack is better for CQC and Hawkins is vastly superior on any ranged map. I'm not saying that vulcan Brawler is bad, I'm just saying that there are better options. 


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Use RevGL Grenadier and never go back.


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I have, but the Flak Cannon is garbage if you can't get close, and the SA Hawkins feels too much like a sniper weapon. The Point D feels much more at home to me from Berserker, but the Flak is hands down better than the Point D in 1v1s.

Hawkins is prefered in most situations for a few reasons

  • Better heat: longer damage over time
  • Best accuracy: theres not really much of a spread on the gun so every bullet goes where you want it to
  • Best Damage drop off: damage drop is smaller than most other guns
  • Moderate DPS:  its dps isn't that much lower than vulcan.  If you factor in almost all of its shots hitting at even medium range and no drop off it has a higher effective dps in most situations.

Flak requires you to get to know how to play brawler real well.  A power surger helps too.

 

ps Adv armor fusor + ARK with orbs is cheese AF.  Repair orbs and internals are kinda broken so anybody with self respect doesn't equip them.


Edited by PoopSlinger, 08 February 2017 - 05:21 AM.

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Swap out your adv repair kit for the adv reconstructor for less cheese and lots of free heals as long as you are picking up assists/kills...


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Swap out your adv repair kit for the adv reconstructor for less cheese and lots of free heals as long as you are picking up assists/kills...

*advanced armor fuser


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* Advance Armor Fuser is best suited i think...

 


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Long time ago i did this. If i remember it right the biggest pain in the a$$ was to catch on to people and create opportunities at the right time. When ability ON people would scatter and im left with nothing.

It's a shame i never gotten to exploring the brawler properly :/

 

 

edit: Brawler is to me always seem to be this mech with wich you just ignore your defence almost totally. You charge head on (at least in flak cannon case) and your main goal is to land perfect shots not caring about your hp.


Edited by dorobo, 09 February 2017 - 05:51 AM.


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edit: Brawler is to me always seem to be this mech with wich you just ignore your defence almost totally. You charge head on (at least in flak cannon case) and your main goal is to land perfect shots not caring about your hp.

Some of the best Brawler pilots I ever played with (cond0m, Tim, Butt, others) maneuver the flak Brawler like a big, fat scout.
Their movement is aggressive, but also seemingly fluid somehow, and they are even able to use the close range advantage to break enemys' turncap sometimes.
For a beginner like me, it may seem that basically ignoring defense to a large degree will get you some kills, but the really good players take full advantage of every ounce of movement and shoulder dodging to squeeze out some incredibly effective gameplay that is difficult to wrap the brain around.

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flak Brawler like a big, fat scout

 

I should notice that only flak-brawler have his own, unique, agressive movement style, and can use it with 100% effectiveness, due the ideal combination of speed and weapons reloading speed (very easy to use, and very comfortable/relaxing gameplay).
Any other C-class mechs (gren, sa-brawler, vanguard and other) can't use flak-brawler movement style. Yes, other mechs can "repeat" it, but they will suffer by weapon reloading speed, and lose part of their dps while moving), but brawler can shoot and move forward at the same time, without lose of dps and with his regular speed. None of this not working with Vulcan-d.


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*advanced armor fuser

 

You need both the fuser and reconstruktor for best results.



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You need both the fuser and reconstruktor for best results.

I use the Advanced Armor fuser and Basic Reconstructor, which, while it doesn't give the best results, can be a big help.


 

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