Bruh moment right there XD It was double funny because afk ppl tend to die at the end without even firing, coming back to the fight should be illegal XD
Love the Kodiak. Mine is set up with eight medium pulse lasers for close in brawling and a single gauss rifle for long ranged fire support and to give me some heat neutral damage when I inevitably start cooking.
You got hit in the back because pgi killed the Kodiak hit boxes then the ghost heat killed uac10 firepower and then they killed the mobility. Thank goodness they just buffed the mobility if they would fix the hit boxes then it would be playable
10:30 Baradul is doing a zombie (no side torso's) with a Kodiak. I thought something was strange, then looked back and saw he was running a STD engine to fit the Gauss weapons.
1st match literally sometimes happen, the DC-ed enemy assault in early game suddenly move and plummeting all remaining teammates ;w; (but in my case it was a MRM Cyclops)
With the two high mount PPCs, I think I'd keep those and replace the lower two with some sort of autocannons or the likes. With such huge pauses between shots you're going to get cooked.
Will this sort of positioning work with something like a quad LB5-X AC build? I'm really struggling with the KDK 3, but it's one of my favorite mechs and I want to be successful with it...
@@REALdavidmiscarriage Your mechs will be fine. They will just change the weapon stats they changed in the last patch. As for loadouts pretty much anything that works now will also work with pre-patch weapon stats. No loss my friend.
@@bojcio didn’t find anything in the patch notes! which weapons did they change and to what value? and what did they change them back to! God I hope they don’t turn the damage up! the TTK is already a bit too low for my taste.
I use them regularly, they didn't, they suffer from the same problem +2 damage is not worth double the cooldown. To put it into perspective, that's a 25% damage increase at the price of 100% cooldown! They're just way too slow, even when you boat them.
you twisted hard right, i replayed the vid, the enemy was at your 9 and you twisted hard right, thus exposing your right shoulder blade, which was yellow from arty
Yeah what they did to the Kodiak is kind of a warcrime, there is a reason you dont see many of them on the battlefield anymore. How every its a two edged sword, seeing 5-6 100Ton mechs being nimble and running around like heavy mechs while dishing out pain left right and center wasnt to pleasent either....
In competitive and organized play paper thin back armor makes sense, but in the chaos of QP you need bit more in the back 8-10. It allows for more flexibility and won't leave you vulnerable as soon as you get touched. Conversely I think maxing out leg and head armor is not required in QP, headshots are very rare and leggings on heavier mechs are the result of a fluke more then intention. You can easily get 1 ton shaving leg/head armor and use it for something. I believe - thin back, max legs, max head is a really strange habit born of competitive mentality that is not useful in QP.
IDK, he is a very experienced player and the tiers are often blended. I'm a new player in Tier 3 and even in games against known tier 2 and 1 players I've managed to rack up 700+ damage games in medium mechs pretty regularly.
I'm late to this one. Fell a bit behind on my daily dose. Worth the wait though. That first game was great damage. When I saw your build and mech speed I figured you'd be chewed up. Yes I know it's a video and maybe you did get owned many times before you had a video to put up but still. You did get a video and it was great. The second game I don't think you over twisted to the ice ferret but I think you did to the Anni that was across the way. I actually really like the Kodiak although I know it's not meta in anyway now. The new damage on the gauss is kinda terrifying even with the bad cooldown. Be interesting to see what they come up with when they roll back the patch. Good games today Bara. Thank you for them :D
getting hit in the back at 2nd game is due to over twist with arm lock free, assaults have such a terrible torso twist that by the time you starts to twist back the torso already caught up to your arm twist. If you twist with arm lock on it won't be happening much though you would feel like you are the slowest mech in twisting.
Ewwwww...standard engine on a clan mech...isn't that like, a cardinal sin or something? And that 5 armor on the back is just...I mean I saw that and just about started a prayer for Bara because I just knew what was coming...four gauss is scary, sure, but god help you if even a single enemy decides to focus you.
@@devil8975 Fair...but wouldn't they be loathe to lose a hundred ton mech because they carelessly stripped out the already thin back armor and lost the entire mech and four pricey gauss rifles to a scout? It's also slow as hell, even for an assault. Just seems like a configuration no self-respecting clanner would allow...or volunteer to pilot, for that matter. I mean I'm all four having four gauss rifles on a single mech for obscene sniping power and I know clanners love decisive battles but this just seems like a tough pill to swallow. Even solahma units tend to receive mechs that can actually reach the battlefield...
@@bojcio high level players also forgo weapons skills for mobility, decrease leg armor while increasing engine cap, as well as, increase overall damage/match through snipes
Galaxy brain Marauder II strats. Run streaks, wait until everyone is nearly dead on polar. Be fresh, rush in, win.
Holy crap! that 1300 point game ... that was incredible
Over 800 damage taken as well. I would say Bara got every C-Bill worth of the mech in the first match. :)
@@winoodlesnoodles1984 he's like this isn't a very good build. I don't recommend it. Deals 1300 damage and takes 800.
Regularly showcases LRM builds.
Baradul: Stop the missiles.
Love the content keep it up.
Baradul doesn't whine about lock and shows his face to the enemy.
@@zapa47 He also still locks enemies in case it would benefit a teammate in second line
Missile builds choosing Polar highlands? Say it isn't so!
@@durgan5668 isnt that a country western song?
Who knew that just...not playing was one of the strongest tactics.
Bruh moment right there XD It was double funny because afk ppl tend to die at the end without even firing, coming back to the fight should be illegal XD
4:30 for positive affirmation.
Love the Kodiak. Mine is set up with eight medium pulse lasers for close in brawling and a single gauss rifle for long ranged fire support and to give me some heat neutral damage when I inevitably start cooking.
Similar, but an ultra 20 in my case!
Watching you actually connect your gauss shots reminds me just how terrible my aim is. I think I've actually connected six gauss shots - ever.
big humanoid on polar
i call it the Yeti...
You got hit in the back because pgi killed the Kodiak hit boxes then the ghost heat killed uac10 firepower and then they killed the mobility. Thank goodness they just buffed the mobility if they would fix the hit boxes then it would be playable
That artillery got you in the back in the second match.
Loved the Teddy Bear when it came out. Umpteen nerfs later, it’s gathering dust.
i go back to my quad lbx teddy every once in a while
Sad to see the Kodiak so slow these days, I used to love it for it's heavy tanky mobility with 4x LB10X =(
10:30 Baradul is doing a zombie (no side torso's) with a Kodiak. I thought something was strange, then looked back and saw he was running a STD engine to fit the Gauss weapons.
Can't wait til I get my new laptop so I can finally play this game I backed all those years ago!
1st match literally sometimes happen, the DC-ed enemy assault in early game suddenly move and plummeting all remaining teammates ;w; (but in my case it was a MRM Cyclops)
With the two high mount PPCs, I think I'd keep those and replace the lower two with some sort of autocannons or the likes. With such huge pauses between shots you're going to get cooked.
"Okay, this is gonna sound crazy, but just hear me out. Gausszilla, but MORE BEAR." - Unknown technician caste member to Bryan Kabrinski, probably.
Oh my god dude you are makeing my tier up life hell with these b uilds you build them toooo well tiers1 2 3 4 are full of your builds and it hurts
Bara, how the f do you even hit anything without zoom ^^ I cant even see them on the monitor ^^
Saw someone using this on the enemy team. I was in my anihilator and shaking with fear!
can you do a quad assault gaus version?
Smart people take a summoner strip all the armor and give it 5 lrm20s 100.
How bad is the ghost heat for firing more than 3 guass? Shouldn't it be negligible since they are such cold weapons?
Were wondering just this... Gonna build something to test out in the testing grounds sometime.
@@Iliyena87 You just can't it's a charge limit.
@@yucasshaeldari8641 Hah. Thats... Tremendously stupid in reality but good fix for a game I guess ;)
high velocity results in lags with hit registration, so the front hit can become the rear shot.
Already have such a thing on WLF.
HA! I remember a game that I was facing a full Streak Catapult. Shut down and all he could do was stomp around me and glare hatefully.
unless he has an active probe thingy that can detect shutdown mechs
Great Video! Thank You!
Will this sort of positioning work with something like a quad LB5-X AC build? I'm really struggling with the KDK 3, but it's one of my favorite mechs and I want to be successful with it...
Is this on PC only or can you get this on Xbox also
Have you hugged your Shreddy Bear today?
you got it in the back from air strike early on
Is Gauss has a very hight crit chance?
I'm surprised how squishy the Kodiak is ...
Baradul: What do you think about this: 2 Gauss, 2 UAC10, 4 HS
Weapon CDs aren't synced well. Gauss for peeking, Dakka for poking.
@@mechtechau I think more of Gauss for peeking, Dakka for hurting and Las for finishing if possible
@@grindcorejoe6661 if you boat everything, you'll excel at nothing. You have to play every mech differently.
Not gonna recommend ut unless you are a master of fire control. Change the Gauss to lb10 or uac5 could be better, or whatever suits yourself.
wait pre rollback? they’re gonna do a rollback? WHAT!?! they gotta be kidding?
Yep! Check the latest dev vlog
@@Chahol17 so basically all my mechs are gone now? amazing
@@REALdavidmiscarriage Your mechs will be fine. They will just change the weapon stats they changed in the last patch. As for loadouts pretty much anything that works now will also work with pre-patch weapon stats. No loss my friend.
@@bojcio ah ok interesting! I haven’t played in 3 months or so so no harm done lol
@@bojcio didn’t find anything in the patch notes! which weapons did they change and to what value? and what did they change them back to! God I hope they don’t turn the damage up! the TTK is already a bit too low for my taste.
Seems you can only charge 2 guass at once now
Its been like that for a very long time my friend.
quadiak
Nice mech just don't camp out like a girl scout and snipe and expect help if you're by yourself
The only weapons that actually benefited from the patch Was light guass rifles
I use them regularly, they didn't, they suffer from the same problem +2 damage is not worth double the cooldown. To put it into perspective, that's a 25% damage increase at the price of 100% cooldown! They're just way too slow, even when you boat them.
@@bojcio i just got a 1400 damage game with quad light guass. dont see an issue with them tbh
Kodiak quad gauss doesn't seem to be a good combo. Bad mobility plus the long cooldown on the gauss rifle is just too harsh for a fast paced game.
Berfed
First!
Andrea you are faster than a gauss rifle, with quirks 😁
@@amerant1973 hmm
*2000 projectile speed mode on*
you twisted hard right, i replayed the vid, the enemy was at your 9 and you twisted hard right, thus exposing your right shoulder blade, which was yellow from arty
That little legging/tripping animation the MAD-IIC did at 8:17 was beautiful
Yea that looked pretty cool!
I’m glad they add those kind of details
Yep, when you shot me in the face. I felt it. Boy that packs a punch.
"the gauss can crack a cockpit", I'd say so, you just about decapitated me at HPG
Yeah what they did to the Kodiak is kind of a warcrime, there is a reason you dont see many of them on the battlefield anymore. How every its a two edged sword, seeing 5-6 100Ton mechs being nimble and running around like heavy mechs while dishing out pain left right and center wasnt to pleasent either....
Keeps people grinding for other mechs.. kinda sad
when you only have 5 armor in your back things like this happen an arti can really make you have a bad time
In competitive and organized play paper thin back armor makes sense, but in the chaos of QP you need bit more in the back 8-10. It allows for more flexibility and won't leave you vulnerable as soon as you get touched. Conversely I think maxing out leg and head armor is not required in QP, headshots are very rare and leggings on heavier mechs are the result of a fluke more then intention. You can easily get 1 ton shaving leg/head armor and use it for something. I believe - thin back, max legs, max head is a really strange habit born of competitive mentality that is not useful in QP.
Wait you guys dont put 25 armor in your rear?
@@CallsignYukiMizuki That's 15 armor points that are needed up front where you're mostly getting shot from lol
@@skyvipers Absolutely
Got shot 4 times while I was in my fafnir, and was CT. The shots where so close together though, I figured it was a quad clan guass.
The Fafnir got a CT so huge that you cant effectively spread the dmg. Could have been a Tier S meta if not for the tremendous CT hitbox.
It's a night and day difference between this video and the one you made in 2016 on the same mech!
You got hit in the back on game 2 because you tanked an entire arty strike that popped your whole back
This reminds me of the rifleman 3
Honestly, it was a bunch of ultras it looked like. Team damage?
kodiaks used to be super agile but NOFUNALLOWED NERF
I need to get me a big ol death teddy
ahhh man. Only 17min :/ -WE NEED MORE! :D
What version of the game do you play ? My gauss still do 15 damage and 1 for heat
1309 dmg with 1 kill how is that even possible x) ?
have you played this since the agility and quirk pass?
I want one in MW5 Mercs!!!!!!!
Ahhh the joys of running Guass rifles... a swift breeze goes by, and you pop and your weapon and ammo explodes.
You got outrun by an Urbie
I wonder how many takes it needs to find n optimal game like this so you can upload it. Except if I am playing a different game.
IDK, he is a very experienced player and the tiers are often blended. I'm a new player in Tier 3 and even in games against known tier 2 and 1 players I've managed to rack up 700+ damage games in medium mechs pretty regularly.
is that Iceland?
I'm late to this one. Fell a bit behind on my daily dose. Worth the wait though.
That first game was great damage. When I saw your build and mech speed I figured you'd be chewed up. Yes I know it's a video and maybe you did get owned many times before you had a video to put up but still. You did get a video and it was great.
The second game I don't think you over twisted to the ice ferret but I think you did to the Anni that was across the way.
I actually really like the Kodiak although I know it's not meta in anyway now. The new damage on the gauss is kinda terrifying even with the bad cooldown.
Be interesting to see what they come up with when they roll back the patch.
Good games today Bara. Thank you for them :D
I wonder what can be done with the Hunchback Grid Iron with the gauss change. Probability still useless.
Now do 6+ light ppcs on a hunchback, grasshopper, black knight, or the Top Dog before the revert.
Impressive, but not a mech I would field. I prefer a double Gauss with some back up firepower and a bit more speed for a sniper build.
Actually my most favoured mech is the kodiak
The Kodiak is the Wish version of the Atlas.
For a moment there I read this as "the Welsh version of the Atlas" and I was like "ummm ..."
Hell even the Atlas is the wish version of Atlas... :)
Eyy that's the same camo I ran on my Kodiak all those years ago.
Gauss rifles are simply broken now. Not useful.
Why not all of them on Left Click?
1) convergence 2) peeking 3) recharge time = pace shots because 2nd shot is better aimed
The new gauss rules are trash
That's a Lot of Damage =)
getting hit in the back at 2nd game is due to over twist with arm lock free, assaults have such a terrible torso twist that by the time you starts to twist back the torso already caught up to your arm twist. If you twist with arm lock on it won't be happening much though you would feel like you are the slowest mech in twisting.
He lost his back armor at 13:21 to the artillery that landed on him.
buff..nerfed...BIRTHED
Ewwwww...standard engine on a clan mech...isn't that like, a cardinal sin or something? And that 5 armor on the back is just...I mean I saw that and just about started a prayer for Bara because I just knew what was coming...four gauss is scary, sure, but god help you if even a single enemy decides to focus you.
Kodiak is a second line clan mech. Most clans are loathe to waste expensive resources like endo steel and xl engines on non front line(omni) mechs.
@@devil8975 Fair...but wouldn't they be loathe to lose a hundred ton mech because they carelessly stripped out the already thin back armor and lost the entire mech and four pricey gauss rifles to a scout? It's also slow as hell, even for an assault. Just seems like a configuration no self-respecting clanner would allow...or volunteer to pilot, for that matter.
I mean I'm all four having four gauss rifles on a single mech for obscene sniping power and I know clanners love decisive battles but this just seems like a tough pill to swallow. Even solahma units tend to receive mechs that can actually reach the battlefield...
with so little heat created by the gauss, couldnt u just ignore ghost heat? less time aiming, more time twisting?
instead of ghost heat you can't charge more than 2 gauss rifles at a time
@@Umimugo thanks, i wasnt aware of that
Why. Would. You. Not have AdVaNcEd ZoOm?
High level players consider advanced zoom a waste of skillpoints or so I've heard.
@@bojcio high level players also forgo weapons skills for mobility, decrease leg armor while increasing engine cap, as well as, increase overall damage/match through snipes
damage reg not working correctly in mwo? that cant be true! PGI are perfect programmers
Sweet, now we know how to win MWO games. AFK till the end and clean up the rest XD jk Keep it up Baradul!