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COMMIEGIR, with the help with Numlock, coins ‘Word of Lowtax’
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New BattleMech(s):Hunchback HBK-4SPHunchback HBK-4JHunchback HBK-4HNew Map(s):Frozen CityNew Item(s):LB 10-X AC
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The "Anders" account gained Closed Beta access (Actually registered 11/1/11
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Pringlescan makes A Post, alerting the greater MWO community to the presence of an organised Goon Group. Rage ensues.
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Mittens officially recognises the title of Word of Lowtax on the brown sea. WoL comes into being.
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Our crest is born via Mjilaeck.
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The mighty SoloDrakban made the WoL Auth Services live, marking the official establishment of the Word of Lowtax community.
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The Commando is released. 215 kph commandos that could start capping an enemy base in about 20 seconds, to them crashing clients, to high ping people seeing them just blink around the map horror movie style.
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The Umbrella enters the game
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Because it crashed the game constantly.
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Alpha version was informational only, as the game had no numbers available for mechs/weapons before this.
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Helmer locks the very first goon hangout thread in the Closed Beta forums. He actually compiled a list of all the 'problems' with that thread and posted them:
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Brofist sobers up long enough to start the first monolithic WOL SA thread
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Quincy becomes the first reformed J4G in WOL. He assumes lordship of the penile legion.
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The manual WOL authentication system. Takes up habitual alcoholism once more.
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The golden age of Munchbacks, Lawesomes, and Mawesoms dawns
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Twice as many as the next closest organization
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Increased ammo per ton by 25% for all ballistic weapons (other than the machine gun) Gave the "bullets" used for the autocannons, gauss rifle, and PPCs a 0.25 m collision radius (it was previously 0, a single point) Gauss rifles become godly. The Gausspult is born.
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Caustic Valley enters the map rotation
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Awesomes released. Goons use nothing but Mawesomes with massive XL engines until engine limitations are imposed.
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A bug where goons dropping in a group would randomly end up on the other team is fixed.
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The Lords of Lowtax (Pringlescan, Triskian, Anders, Mjilaeck, Brofist) meet together for the first time
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A bunch of West Coast Bros with gigantic collars decided to make an honest go at it.
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4 Mechs nobody plays anymore were released to people who shelled out crowdfunding.
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Anders looks at the Bropocalypse Now Wiki page and notices that he's been given the title of "Public Relations"
In an attempt to rehabilitate the Less-than-popular image of Goons in general, he assumes the gimmick of a Public Relations Officer, who says everything, and means nothing. The most saccharine platitudes, vague statments, and plain ol' made up facts are at his command. Never get angry - the pubbies will do it for you. If they want information - make it up. -
Belsarius, Ikarti and shankymcstab form KDR Squad. Get mad about robots.
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8 Atlases walked up the G-line, found another 8 Atlases. The shot each other.
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Horrace: "What's 3rd person view key?"
fil5000: "alt something"
some pubbie: alt f4
IGPDavid has disconnected -
and tell us they want to be BFFs
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The list of pubbies we've tricked into pressing ALT+F4 hits 300.
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Dubwrecktor Two Beans releases his acclaimed Mechwarrior Remix
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The Lord of Lowtax are established by Pringlescan. The celebration ceremony featured many tinfoil hats.
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Repair and Rearm were added, leading to the hilarity of pubbies refusing/forgetting to repair and coming out with little to no armor.
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Bropoc defeats an apparent Tryhard Group, Draagun.
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The first RHOD tournament begins. Bropoc give it a good go, but cease to give a fuck after round 1.
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Some strange folk with questionable hygene decided to start shooting robots at strange times.
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Nobody cared.
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The first newbird jabber channel was created on the GSF Jabber infrastructure.
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Becomes a tragic day for one more reason.
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WoL's first attempt to get newbirds up to speed for competitive play, develop new tactics, help improve overall coordination and provide oldbirds an outlet because "we aren't killing enough," but it seems people took the tournament way too serious. It was ended practically right as it started.
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Mawesomes and Hunchbacks no longer hilariously OP.
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Match winnings reduced severely. Many people cried.
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The first WOL commanders join the newly created commanders group
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MFT becomes first MWO 'Fitting Tool' as update enables the building of mechs.
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PGI claims to have been monitoring SA megathread coverage for the previous 4 months
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PGI claims to have been monitoring SA megathread coverage for the previous 4 months
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NDA covering the early stages of closed beta is lifted. Goons celebrate by filming people dying.
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Goku Keresnky is conceived using genetic material from Sailor Moon and Agincourt
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Previous thermals were multicoloured, similar to MW2
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Run Hot or Die II Tournament begins
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PGI Upgrades MWO to CryEngine 3.4 Netcode is broken until Jan 8th. Open Beta delayed until October 25th while bandaid fixes are put in place.
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Goons show Paul Inouye how much we love him by Tackling Him Repeatedly.
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the_nest is established as a newbird friendly chat zone.
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Nephyx successfully wrangles 7 spergs against some Robinson Rangers and A Legend is Born
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Amechwarrior finishes his magnum opus- The Newbird Guide and wiki guide is born
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Due to the 3049 Mech Romney government's defunding of Sesame Street, BigBirds_Nursery channel was shut down.
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Double Heatsinks, Endo Steel and Ferro Fibrous Armor enter the game.
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Light mechs become king, Dragons cease to have a purpose.
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Raven 3Ls are released, to little fanfare. Awesome 9Ms are expected to be the next Super Mawesome. Are not. The Yen Lo Wang causes goons to finally start considering the notion that PGI may not actually have a fucking clue what they're doing.
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New forums, stats and cbills wipe. Phase 1 Matchmaking delayed. WOL experiences a huge surge in numbers and up to 10 8 man groups at a time surge through the hordes of wide eyed newbies. Surprisingly servers do not crash, however the recent patches have made the game hilariously unstable anyway.
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Several goons achieve a K:D ratio in excess of 100 within the first day
MWO mumble shoots past 110 simultaneous goon pilots -
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Huge anti-premade sentiment sweeps the brown sea, with countless threads appearing to complain about organized play.
http://mwomercs.com/...groups-forever/http://mwomercs.com/...27#entry1310327http://mwomercs.com/...re-mades-exist/http://mwomercs.com/...ling-just-read/ -
The Violent Combat Robot Show Podcast Episode 1 Airs.
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The Honour Roll, having peaked 1000, attracts unwanted attention. Convincing pubbies to press Alt+F4 to enable third person view becomes bannable after a change to the code of conduct. We respond by publishing a final video containing all of the names of those we duped.
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Artemis is implimented, along with some tuning of the arc of LRMs. As a result, when artemis is equipped, LRMs made a sharp 90 degree turn and landed on your head, making cover pointless and headshots common. Goons did the right thing: loaded up on C1s and DDCs packed with LRMs+A and 10t ammo.
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8 Mans removed, max group size locked to 4. Goons invent Sync Dropping.
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DHS were modified from 2.0x the head disspiation of a single heatsink to 1.4. Engine heatsinks did 1.0. Pulse lasers were modified as it was found they were doing 50% less heat than anticipated. Large Pulse lasers became unusable. Medium pulse lasers became vastly inferior to Medium Lasers. Medium Lasers became the stalwart weapon, with the Hunchback 4P and Jenner F seeing huge boosts in popularity.
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After 2 days of hilarious goon slaughters on account of Boating exclusively, PGI patch Artemis. LRMs become totally worthless for several weeks until tuning brings them back to roughly pre-patch levels.
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Don Dongington and Hodlum establish the Flaming Drongos for Aus Goons. Immediately has the largest player roster in WoL. Is dead within 2 months. Doctors suggest alcohol poisoning.
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Local stores sell out of tinfoil.
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After months of "Remember Me" button not working on MWOMercs.com, it is removed to "prevent security exploits."
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Red5x5 gives us Montage of the Newbird
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Dead Like Rev and Professor Curly record The Story of Battletech
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UAC5s don't jam nearly enough and as a result turn the UAC5 into a mudermachine.
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Pubbies start to notice that putting 6 SSRM2s on an A1 means you don't have to aim, and get to kill everything that walks.
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River City Night is added to the map rotation. Usage of thermals goes from 70% to 90%. Does not change back until thermals are nerfed.
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A bug causing streaks to always home in on the CT of a target is fixed. Streaks become less overpowered but are still commonly used to murder you.
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Raven 3Ls become king until host state rewinding and netcode fixes are implimented. Jenners are rendered useless.
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Streak cats had been becoming increasingly prevalent and dangerous until this point, however the introduction of ECM makes them totally impotent. The A1 Splatapult begins to see further use.
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The Guassapult is finally topped from a long reign as the Most Optimal Robot.
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The first competitive games of RHOD II begin
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The MWO forums suffer a drive-by injection attack on their IPB forum software. For most of the day their server admin Kyle blames faulty anti-virus/malware scanner software, even when faced with proof of the injected code. It takes at least a week or more for Google and most browsers to stop flagging mwomercs.com as a malicious attack website. Rumors still abound to this day that the attackers obtained the user email database list.
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This is the first of several factors which contribute to PPCs being a godweapon. At this point they were still somewhat hot, but starting to see more use amongst goons.
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WOL activity is believed to have peaked at around this point. So we celebrated by booting out shitlords.
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Known shitlord and prolific YouTube pubbiestar VassagoRain creates yet another misguided video, accusing ECM and brawling of ruining MechWarrior Online. Within four months the game is an unfun snipefest.
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Goons get drunk en masse and play robots. KDR and 2 Drongos Kill Kaos with 6PPC Stalkers
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Formerly invincible lights are now more vulnerable. Streaks become easier to lock on as the netcode becomes a tonne more stable. Hitting lights with energy weapons is still tough, ballistics very difficult.
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WOL leadership thread goes live and the first directors are revealed (Jade Raven, Mashed, Hubis, Agincourt, and Stalkerr)
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Goons get drunk, this time with extra drama. Goons say nasty things and get purged. KDR and remaining Drongos form a drunken alliance. Other Goons got mad at them For Being Better At Robots Than Them
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&c Nickel completes Squawk.gif
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WoL explodes in turmoil. Brofist sobers up, takes up his mighty hammer and the horror is squashed.
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The Spider is released. Goons laugh. Target decay is added, LRMs get a small boost. Large Lasers are still better.
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Metro posts a wall of unintelligable bullshit
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A new subforum of Off Topic is created, named after our homeworld. Goons rejoice. Rev cried a little. Number19 posted so much he had to spend time in hospital.
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You take some mechs and some mechs and some mechs and some mechs you get a mech-mech stack!
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Bok, with the help of Dryerlint, revamps the newbird guide to include recommended builds. Goes live on both SA & WOL
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A bad Awesome hero mech launches. Nobody buys it.
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The metagame begins to shift dramatically towards long range over traditional brawling. Large Lasers, Gauss and PPCs become the new gold standard for many, with long range combat being preferred by serious players.
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Dubwrecktor Two Beans releases his Violent Combat Robots Remix
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Pilot lab perks finally start to work as advertised. Mechs get notably cooler once elited. Fast Fire does something.
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ZZzzzzzzzzz HUH? Oh. Yah some bad robots.
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Still pretty broken.
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ELO added. 8 Man queues so dead by this point that it doesn't actually do anything.
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A bad cicada hero mech launches.
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Testing grounds launch. Gwaihir gets excited.
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PGI Impliment Host State Rewinding for Lasers - the game will check with your client where the enemy was according to you at the moment you pulled the trigger, and recalculate trajectory. This means you don't have to lead for ping. Light mechs no longer viable. Don finally shoots something with a LL. Metagame permanently shifts further towards long range combat with ER/Large Lasers. PPCs increasingly common.
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Jagermechs launch. AC20s are fun but recent metagame changes make the Large Laser and PPC far more workable
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Is vastly better than Alpine.
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A bug related to missile splash damage causes LRMs to become hilariously effective again, similar to the First Festival of Artemis. Goons do the Right Thing and equip a bunch of Stalker 3Hs loaded with LRM20+A.
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This is my dong, There are many like it, but this one is mine.
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The issues with splash damage and criticals are patched out. LRMs go back to normal.
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Over the next few weeks, poptarting begins to see even more popularity amongst pubbies, notably groups who played in previous Mechwarrior titles. The Cataphract 3D and Trebuchet models are used increasingly with jump jets to inflict long range damage while remaining covered while not firing.
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wordoflowtax.com jabber server goes live, meaning goons no longer get Directorbot messages. We celebrate by squawking more.
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The Highlander Hero Mech is released. It's a smaller Atlas with Jump Jets. Goons buy it.
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Blue thermals are changed to "white hot" thermals. Goons weep. KDR and Don bitch because they'd hacked the old ones to look better. All vision enhancement modes now have very short draw distance and are less fit for sniping.
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The remainder of the highlanders are released. The 733P and 732 are bought by every single poptarter. Goons respond by buying them also and spamming allchat with PART OF THE PROBLEM while poptarting.
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Host State Rewinding is added for PPCs, Gauss, LBX and Autocannon, in conjunction with the release of the 733P, this causes a serious imbalance towards the poptarting tactic. Many goons leave the game in disgust until PGI can sort it out. PGI respond that they do not see a problem with this imbalance and make no promises to fix it.
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Don Dongington decides to do a history of MWO. Anders posts a thread. Don appointed as loremaster/historian. Immediately regrets decision.
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Goons discover PGI is actually located at a mall in downtown Vancouver.
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PGI outdoes themelves. There Are No Words.
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Anders terrorises NGNG's live stream
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AC5 range is buffed, fixing everything that has been plaguing the game for the last couple of months.
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Bropoc vanquish a kong 8 man streak cat team when Jaderaven disovers they're running fuck all in the way of leg armor and that Streak ammo is pretty explosive.
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After months of constructive criticism and also incessant whining by all about the horrible state of the metagame, PGI finally nerf the Jump Jet mechanic. Goons can finally dust off their brawler mechs, although SRMs are still horribly broken and often do not register damage.
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The spriritual successor to the Super Lunchback, the Backlejack 1X is born. Sporting 8 energy weapons and an XL295, goons flock to this sleek, fast murdermachine en masse. Conquest queues are never the same again.
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M A L I C E finds his way onto our mumble's public area and proceeds to regale goons with his tales of woe, and plans to sue IGP for banning him. For like 9 hours straight, seriously.
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We have a massive party, with tournaments and games and so much booze. Zero drama results, as Tinal is still banned,
