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gbghg
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Posted - 2013.03.19 03:17:00 -
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well i tried to see how fast i could get a methana to go today, it turns out the answer is far too fast. I dumped everything and just went for speed, I stuck 2 altered nanfibre chassis mods on and a jovian powerplant, for the high slots i fitted a nitrous booster and a shield extender so i had some tank, the basic speed was listed as 52m/s. called it in in manus peak OMS spent the 3 minutes the LAV survived barely avoiding crashes, fishtailing, and swearing my head off. I also spent a significant time airborne  |
gbghg
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Posted - 2013.03.19 03:57:00 -
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Bojo The Mighty wrote:gbghg wrote:well i tried to see how fast i could get a methana to go today, it turns out the answer is far too fast. I dumped everything and just went for speed, I stuck 2 altered nanfibre chassis mods on and a jovian powerplant, for the high slots i fitted a nitrous booster and a shield extender so i had some tank, the basic speed was listed as 52m/s. called it in in manus peak OMS spent the 3 minutes the LAV survived barely avoiding crashes, fishtailing, and swearing my head off. I also spent a significant time airborne LOL you're telling us. We did this test with some Bunny help and dear god we flew. It was so funny when you ran someone over though, popped air like a slow mo Michael Jordan dunk.
didn't manage to actualy run someone over as some douche pulled out a swarm early on and the lack of any kind of reper or hardeners meant i had to keep my distance, but i actually flew over a squadmates dropship as it was taking off, it's my racing fit if i ever end up in an empty corp battle |
gbghg
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Posted - 2013.04.20 19:17:00 -
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Bojo The Mighty wrote:Updated! New Schematics, new Version! Let's welcome the Attack Methana 2.0! Updated for this current build and hopefully the next to come! We have done testing on this version and it has proved to be well competent for an LAV and very fun! Enjoy!
I can testify to this new version, i was helping bojo test it, and even ran with it myself with hunter junko a couple of times, and that thing has pretty good survivablilty. and it's a shame i got DC'd that time we were running support for grodd's tank, running convoy was interesting  |
gbghg
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Posted - 2013.04.20 19:28:00 -
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Bojo The Mighty wrote:Bojo The Mighty wrote:If you know of any more useful information and knowledge that you would like to pass on about Light Attack Vehicles primarily used against infantry, feel free to post on this thread.
Version 2.0. Thank you to gbghg from L.O.T.I.S, General Grodd from Ahrendee Mercenaries, and a hobo with a minigun. Your help was really useful in the testing! One thousand blessings of grace!
I saw it, I saw it (after i posted that, but the point remains)
and if you feel like running counter LAV, Installation, or are just suicidal and want to bug a tank, cycled missiles are your friend, high damage, high rate of fire (which is the general counter to appalling accuracy, aka missile's strange spread), the advanced variant can kill a turret quite quickly, the method to do this i'd recommend is use cover to get close to the turret, then charge straight at it, don't even brake, the collision damage won't kill you, and you'll be safely under it's field of fire. Just get your gunner to hold down R1 and then get out as quickly as you can when it's dead. only danger when doing this is enemy infantry so be careful. |
gbghg
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Posted - 2013.04.22 21:09:00 -
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Bojo The Mighty wrote:ladwar wrote:
i know, I have been trying but its hard to find it actually worth doing at times.
Actually when we were testing this, it was pretty worth while. We just did objective hit and runs for the most part, and even had a few car chases (FUN!). The best luggage to bring with this is an HMG in the passenger seat. Anyways we lost few of these and made orbital worthy points, which is fairly good for an LAV.
bojo got around 700 warpoints 1 match, just from assists, SL commision and a few roadkills, i got over 800 wp. pretty good considering we didn't lose an LAV the entire round. |
gbghg
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Posted - 2013.04.22 23:57:00 -
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Something I just realised, if you decide to go with missiles and have a high enough level in circuitry and combat engineering you can switch the nanofibre plates for polycrystalline plates. Can add about 200 extra armour with field mechanics LV5 |
gbghg
L.O.T.I.S.
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Posted - 2013.05.01 22:19:00 -
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Okay bumping this back up for the ignorant masses today, was using my cycled missile variant with hunter junko gunning for me, we got an orbital and had some fantastic times killing turrets and turning red berries into jam. This thing can take 2 rail guns hit in succession and still be alive if you get the DCU on. |
gbghg
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Posted - 2013.05.01 22:43:00 -
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ladwar wrote:I don't believe it till I see it and I don't trust reddit at all. handling was never a problem for me.
Same, I can drive it just fine, the occasional terrain induced spin just adds variety. |
gbghg
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Posted - 2013.05.01 23:04:00 -
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ladwar wrote:its takes a little practice to drive backwards after taking a forge gun round but once you know how to handle it and actually tried it is pretty simple but the controls are not normal compared to all other games.
It's also pretty good to learn what you can and can't drive on, for example knowing that I could use a staircase as a ramp to get to safety saved my methana from enemy fire. |
gbghg
L.O.T.I.S.
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Posted - 2013.05.02 01:29:00 -
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Bojo The Mighty wrote:ladwar wrote:I am disappointed that they made a new type of LAV and instead of making a more tanked version or a attack platform the just toke the MTL and beefed up its speed and made it cost as much as the LLV and call it the scout LAV... this is in no way helpful. I thought it was going to have innate scan bonuses as well, like a reduced profile and a passive scanner
Yeah that would have made more sense and made it more attractive as well. |
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gbghg
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Posted - 2013.05.02 22:38:00 -
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Just confirming here that armour upgrades level 4 let's you put polycrystalline plates on the blaster variant. |
gbghg
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Posted - 2013.05.04 18:21:00 -
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I am, well I'm getting the methana at least, not sure if I'm going to take it any further than that. I'm going to outs load of sp into dropships and most of the rest into vehicle support and turret skills. I'm probably going to put a million or so sp into infantry corp skills and get one of the base medium suits just to use to earn ISK. It's going to be painful for a while but my infantry fits will get stronger once I've finished maxing vehicles. |
gbghg
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Posted - 2013.05.09 11:38:00 -
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Logi LAV drivers, I bring good news
https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=74876&find=unread |
gbghg
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Posted - 2013.08.07 21:17:00 -
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Bojo The Mighty wrote:ladwar wrote:hey bojo have you seen any new ways to tank up a methana now for uprising with the decreased PG? I need people to help me test out this fitting again, I no longer have the ability + Options to.
I tried remaking it at the start of uprising, the PG nerf means that the original layout is impossible. And I lack the ISK to mess around with LAV's. |
gbghg
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Posted - 2013.08.08 14:04:00 -
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Bojo The Mighty wrote:Bojo The Mighty wrote:Think I found a god-set up
2 Azeoptric Ward Shield Extenders, 60 mm Nanofibre Plates, and CPU/PG Upgrades
I took so much damage with it my head spun. I got hit by swarms, a tank, and a forge all in one sitting and still managed to go off and repair my Methana that had >1/3 armor left.
I think I'll make a different methana post on it and I will need to do some more research into it, but it looks promising.
PS: I lost the methana when it got it's wheels stuck in the air balancing on a hill Please tell me I can still remake the 'Jaguar' Methana! That thing was f'ing tough! I took 3 shots: forge, forge, railgun and only started burning a little. It was the damn toughest LAV short of Logistics. So no crappy turrets! Please tell me they did not nerf this fitting out of existence.
I'll try it out, but tbh I prefer to drive sagas now. |
gbghg
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Posted - 2013.08.08 19:34:00 -
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Bojo The Mighty wrote:gbghg wrote:
I'll try it out, but tbh I prefer to drive sagas now.
It's the built in resistance to swarms, it makes a huge difference and the saga 2 has a built on hardener and turret. Add on the fact that I got them when they were 15k they only cost me about 100k a piece. |
gbghg
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Posted - 2013.08.08 21:01:00 -
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Bojo The Mighty wrote:gbghg wrote:
It's the built in resistance to swarms, it makes a huge difference and the saga 2 has a built on hardener and turret. Add on the fact that I got them when they were 15k they only cost me about 100k a piece.
tisk tisk gb, you know very well that a Saga is a fluzy skank! How dare you cheat on Lady Meth for some Swarm Resistance! We all know that Methanas can tank more anyways! 
I'm sorry, but lady meth isn't what she used to be, sleazy saga is cheap and can handle messy situations better right now. And awesome abron can be great fun if fragile. |
gbghg
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Posted - 2013.08.08 22:32:00 -
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Bojo The Mighty wrote:Bojo The Mighty wrote:Think I found a god-set up
2 Azeoptric Ward Shield Extenders, 60 mm Nanofibre Plates, and CPU/PG Upgrades
I took so much damage with it my head spun. I got hit by swarms, a tank, and a forge all in one sitting and still managed to go off and repair my Methana that had >1/3 armor left.
I think I'll make a different methana post on it and I will need to do some more research into it, but it looks promising.
PS: I lost the methana when it got it's wheels stuck in the air balancing on a hill Please tell me I can still remake the 'Jaguar' Methana! That thing was f'ing tough! I took 3 shots: forge, forge, railgun and only started burning a little. It was the damn toughest LAV short of Logistics. So no crappy turrets! Please tell me they did not nerf this fitting out of existence.
It can be done, provided you run with a local pg extender and a CPU extender, and fit a std missile turret, otherwise you run into PG issues, and if you fit a second extender you run into PG issues. And even now it's tight on both. |
gbghg
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Posted - 2013.08.12 18:12:00 -
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Bojo The Mighty wrote:Rei Meix wrote:gbghg wrote:
Edit: ran a match in this and it has a simply insane tanking ability, didn't lose it once despite taking some stupid DPS, however I have 1 major gripe with it. Lack of reps, it takes too long to get back to full health, armour can be dealt with quickly with either a rep tool or parking next to a supply depot, the shields however take way too long to regenerate. If I wanted to stay in the fight I had to roll with about 300-500 shields.
Swap one Azeo Extender with a booster than. It should fit(? since they have close PG reqs) and it'll provide somewhat similar albeit less EHP, while giving you lower downtime. Though you'll still have to find that supply depot for armor reps. Yes insane tanking ability, but god forbid regeneration. That's why the Attack Methana has a regenerator. But have you tried the easy way out? Recalling then redeploying?
No I haven't, I just parked next to a supply depot till the armour regenerated and went around road killing Merc's with 30% shields. |
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