Hey everyone, I'm pretty new to the forums even though I've played the game for about a year and a half (500 hours).
My mmr has stagnated at ~1950 recently. I've defeated players with much higher mmr in a 1v1 before, but at the same time I still tunnel-vision quite a bit in anything that's not a 1v1.
For this reason I decided to try my reaper. I finished purchasing all the mechs a while ago but never really used it. And I've heard it's a good mech to improve with because of how "underwhelming it is".
Well I have to say I'm thoroughly enjoying reaper, with all 3 weapons. I mostly use the slug rifle to "pop tart" people. Aka hop up, give them a slug and a sabot, and fall back down (then repeat) EDIT: I meant over cover, not out in the open. For example, shoot just over a hill in Bunker (yeah, snipers in bunker, don't you love them) and fall back behind said hill.
My position has improved a lot thanks to using the reaper, and now I keep finding myself harassing the enemy with my (grim) reaper.
There's an assault fighting an enemy vanguard? He needs help. I proceed to pepper the vanguard.
Enemy is retreating? I preposition to shoot from a flank. I always look for spots where I can shoot from an "extended-medium" range and makes it hard for mechs like raiders to get close, such as elevated platform that would require the enemy to either go take the ramp or fly up.
I actually prefer the reaper over the SS so far, because the mobility is great for harassing enemies always from an ideal range, and scope in time is shorter so "quickscoping" is a bit easier for me.
I even played a DM full of scouts around or slightly above my mmr and actually came out first. As long as no one surprises me, I can keep enemies at a range where I can just ignore their primary and focus and peppering then while I dodge their secondary (like TOWs).
So if I have to 1v1 a scout, I keep a range, dodge TOWs, and pop ability if it's really close and I can't afford to miss a ke-sabot unscoped.
As for the other weapons, I like the rpr best. The ability turns it into an AR on steroids imo. And it's nice in some games where I'm having trouble with the slug.
Ok sorry for bothering you with that long-ass into, but I my issue is that I hear so many people saying reaper in underwhelming, and I'm wondering if as I continue to improve I'm gonna have a harder and harder time using the reaper, or if I might actually make it work.
I'm having such a blast with the reaper, racking up major assist galore and allowing my teammates to finish off people, that it sorta makes me sad when I read people much better than me that it is not a good mech, because I'd like them to be wrong.
I have good footage of everything I just said, but I haven't gotten around to rendering anything. I could upload something if you'd like.
Until then, what are your thoughts on reaper? Please elaborate as must as you want I really want to hear other people's opinions on it! :-)
Edited by Murder_by_Spoon, 24 March 2016 - 05:23 PM.
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