GBO2 RX-78NT-1 Gundam Alex: 450 cost gatling spam!
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- Опубліковано 12 чер 2023
- This video contains two recent matches I had with the LV1 Gundam Alex on Gundam Battle Operation 2. It is a 450-600 cost general with great turning speed, superb walking speed, two dodge rolls, a rapid fire albeit low damage beam rifle and a high DPS gatling gun. Its weaknesses would be slow boosting speed, only having 13000 HP and having no Forced Injector skill. This suit has always been sort of alright but quite flawed at the same time. It has always been great at breaking enemies legs with constant harassment with the beam rifle and gatling gun, but its ability to help the team out with stuns or to frontline leaves something to be desired. I thought that this first match went really well but the second match unfortunately had one of the enemy team members disconnect halfway through. I hope that you enjoy watching!
The Alex can choose between a beam rifle or bazooka for primary weapons. The bazooka is pretty superb with only 5 seconds cooldown time, but Alex isn't suited for frontline play in the first place so it isn't the best option. The beam rifle at LV1 has 950 (1900) power, 30% (70%) heat, 0.8 seconds cooldown, 15 seconds overheat, 1 second swap time, 400m (450m) range, 3 seconds focus time, 35% (65%) stagger value and 1.2x (1.1x) leg damage modifier. This has low damage per shot but it has low heat and short cooldown time, so you can do good damage with successive shots. It also does increased damage to the enemies legs.
Its primary melee weapon is a beam saber with 2200 power, 2.5 seconds cooldown, 0.77 seconds swap time and standard modifiers. This has the standard Federation saber moveset but the high base power means it can hit fairly hard.
Its first sub weapon is an arm gatling gun with 125 power, 45 ammo, 600 RPM, 8 seconds reload, 0.77 seconds swap time, 150m range, 1250 DPS, 5% stagger value and 1.3x leg damage modifier. This has short range but outstanding DPS and decent stagger ability. It can stagger the enemy in just 2 seconds on its own but the extra leg damage means it can easily destroy enemies legs.
It also has a head vulcan but this has only 2% stagger value and 498 DPS, so it isn't worth using when you have the arm gatling gun and beam rifle.
It has a large shield with 3000 HP which grants +15% walking/turning speed once it is destroyed. If your Alex is equipped with cruise control then this bumps your walking speed up to 161, which makes you incredibly evasive considering the strafing speed modifiers.
The LV1 Alex has 13000 HP, 17 ballistic/beam resist and 15 melee resist. This is really awful durability for a 450 cost general, one positioning mistake could mean you losing almost all of your HP. It has LV2 Emergency Evasion for its defensive skill which can help with survivability though.
It also has 135 walking speed, 190 boost speed, 60 thrust and 72 turning speed. This seems like pretty mediocre mobility for a 450 coster at first, but the 95% strafing speed modifiers of the Alex means that it excels when skirmishing and shooting around cover. This means you can make up for the durability issues by taking full advantage of the mobility of Alex around cover to avoid taking damage in the first place. Alex lacks skills like Flight Control or Forced Injector like what some other 450 cost generals get though.
Overall I think that while Alex is definitely usable and is capable of outputting good midrange DPS, it is outclassed by newer and stronger options at this point. Having an Alex on the team is a little bit like being down a man in a teamfight, since Alex lacks instant stuns to directly support allies along with lacking the durability to realistically frontline. So while it can wreck enemies legs if your teammates aren't having too much trouble on the frontline, it lacks the ability to actually help out on the frontline that much. These are weaknesses that Pale Rider VG and Jeda lack, so it would be a better choice to play these suits that still have good midrange DPS while also offering frontline ability at the same time. I think that Alex probably needs a buff at this point. It would be nice to see it get +1500 HP, LV1 Forced Injector, +5 boosting speed and 7% stagger value on the gatling gun. Not to say it would be a bad idea to play it in its current state, but just that you need to be aware that it is fighting an uphill battle. Thanks for watching, and I hope that you enjoyed it!
Music used:
Dynasty Warriors Gundam, Calling to the Wind
Dynasty Warriors Gundam 2, A Good Thing is Possible - Ігри
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I respect the hell out of that Nero Trainer in the beginning going directly into the enemy team to get that power attack off. Leroy Jenkins moment
The worst part about the Alex is the lack of room for parts customization. You can't customize Alex to deal or take large amounts of damage with how few upgrade slots there are in each field.
I really agree with this. Even by like, level 5 it feels like its lacking part space compared to the average lvl 1 at that same level.
@@Kiyosuki anyone fielding a level 5 Alex deserves to be sentenced to 100 matches fighting Agguguys as a support
@@ghostofthecommentsection Oh god its not THAT bad. lol
...but I wouldn't take it in a ranked match.
Anyways the point is that at any level it feels like it has less slots to work with compared to others. It should at least have maybe a few more ranged slots since it's all it has to work with for offense.
It’s got a Gm cold districts machine gun strapped to its arm, that’s terrifying 😮
I dont quite know my mobile suits yet, but you mocking the limping Marasai at 4:10 fucking sent me
Yeah I definitely think it might be time to at least buff Alex's HP. I get why they initially did it, with its speed and double dodge, but with the power creep now it just isn't enough especially for an MS meant for the front lines. It doesn't help that with its weirdly limited part space, all you end up doing most of the time is beefing up its HP which leaves little for anything else. In the very least give it a bit more space for ranged since it's basically the brunt of what it has to work with.
Now if I were in charge I'd give it the option to shoot both of its arm gats at the same time, or let it have its Bazooka at all times, but I'm not. lol
What's kind of a shame is the Chobham version of it came out so much later, and as a separate unit. What would have been a really cool and feasible gimmick is if Alex started in Chobham armor as a really slow but tanky MS that could shed its armor off on command, regain a bit of HP, and be a much faster but more delicate standard Alex. Sort of like how it is in the EX Versus games. That would have been sick.
4:16 You didn't HAVE to tackle that man. But by god you did it to em.
Recently picked this suit up and it's fun to harass with but it feels super squishy with some niche damage.
So if your team is struggling than it's just going to make this suit worse and it'll probably net you a lose.
However if your team is coordinated than you'll be having a good time supporting them (which is odd cause it's a general).
Thank you, good sir. As a former Alex main (CA is my favorite Gundam), I absolutely love seeing a great player really use this suit well. The bazooka is a player favorite, but the beam rifle is what it should use. I never even saw the bazooka before GBO, but the rifle has been in so many games that it's practically canon. Really wish they'd buff it to be closer to the Zero Shiki's rifle.Keep up the great work and thanks for the vid.
Gundams having low health never made sense to me. Meanwhile some random msv design no one's ever heard of and is canonically made from scraps is tanky as all hell.
Tbf the Alex didn't exactly come off as tanky in it's own show. A Zaku 2 kai was able to cut most of one arm off, damage the chest with a narrow swipe and cut it's head off one handed and battered. The most impressive thing it did was tank the ship mines and shotgun rounds while it had chobham armor on but this version doesn't have it.
@@lonelyswordsman1177 beam and heat melee weapons have always ignored armor, that's not really saying anything about the Alex. But you have gundams being made of superior armor and being functionally immune to ballistics of the era for the OYW. BB seems to give priority to prototypes and one offs, except if the prototype and one off is a gundam lmfao.
@@abrahamjarque7001 Eh, how effective heat weapons are tends to vary depending on show and who it's hitting. I distinctly recall seeing Amuro's shield stop a heat axe at one point.
@@abrahamjarque7001 balance issue
Unit with shields usually have reduced health
That is assuming if the shield were destroyed....
@@lonelyswordsman1177 I don't know, I think the fact Christina even survived that fight is a testament to how tanky it actually is. It was already damaged after the Kampfer fight, where it took a dozen explosives stuck to it, (even if the Chobham armor took most of it, it still had a lot of exposed parts.). It didn't even have time to fully re-arm. It got its arm critically damaged, took a *direct* hit to the cockpit with a full swing of the Zaku kai's heat hawk, got banged up, took MORE explosions, got decapitated, lost its other arm, and took the Zaku kai exploding point blank. The fact the pilot survived, and there was at least enough of the Alex left to rebuild into Tristan I think suggests it was actually pretty beefy.
And remember this thing was meant to be overgeared for speed too.
If anything, I think the Alex in this game should have way more powerful thrust and speed if we're talking lore accurate, but obviously it's hardly the first time GBO2's sidestepped around lore accuracy for the sake of in game balance. I do think it's a bit too brittle though. It made some sense at the time but with the power creep by this point I think it could at least use a bit more HP.
Bro when I told you I was feeling nostalgic from hearing the music from dynasty warriors gundam
Glad my favorite Gundam is pretty good in this game. I don't have many good matches but when I do it's usually in the Alex.
Been absolutely loving this suit on PC, there’s been nothing but 500 for like two weeks so we rockin the lvl 2
I feel like there isn't much reason to play Alex over something like Galluss-J or Rick Dias at 500 tbh
Or Methuss Heavy if you want pure build stun shooting.
It feels a little bit better at 500 cost to me for some reason. It gets great scaling on its weapons and the extra parts slots can fix some of the weaknesses.
the guerrilla stun machine itself
its a rear of the frontline to midline suit anyone rushing in w it is crazy its speed makes it too good a flanker and harassment suit to just unga bunga w it constantly
Gundam Alex the leg destroyer
Where do you get these stats such as stun value and increased damage to legs? Is it just testing or is there a secret hidden alexandrian library of GBO2 knowledge?
It is from the GBO2 JP Wiki, but the English GBO2 Wiki should be having those sorts of hidden values added eventually.
haha that last battle with the other Alex at 280 hp left was personnal
Ironically I have had more success playing this at 550-600 cost especially in places like ruined city. Granted with an overturned part but still nice
overtuned parts and max enhancement really let the basic suits shine sometimes
simple kits big stats u just go play it no gimmicks just pure playing the suit to whatever it does thats it
@@Nomadic_Gaming That said, you will need to use the Overtuned parts on the higher level versions of the respective suit to truly see it shine, since the bonus increases according to their level. The higher, the better.
@@chaosgreyblood that’s essential what i said because its common sense u dont use overtune parts one lower level suits
I fcking love the gattling spam, just turn off my brain and brrrttt
3:50 typical hammer user
Nice showcase, I've been thinking of trying out the Alex but it does lack more stun options as i expected.
Do you have any footage of the G line light armor, by the way? I'm interested in how a skilled gameplay on it looks like
I should try out G Line since it is pretty fun. But no I don't have any videos on it right now.
So anyways I started blastin'
Can someone explain to me that why the game on ps5 look so much more responsive than on pc? On pc it’s very hard to combo and everything feels so delay even when I’m on full connection bar
Think we'll ever get banshee norn and FA unicorn?
I have a feeling that they will come for the upcoming 5th anniversary
Avengerr could I ask for you to include who you get disabled by so I can know what the ms names are. Cuz I can't go off of look alone yet, I've not encountered varying ms as I'm still low rank and commonly see a lot of ms.
Well I cut that bit out to improve the flow of the match for people watching. So I probably won't add that back, sorry.
@@avenger1_gbo260 c c c c c rinnnnnnge
is there a Zeon MS that plays like this?
Pale Rider VG is technically zeon. Gelgoog Marine Commander Type is at the same cost and plays very similar.
😮 perché non usi ms 18f titania
I will use it soon
You should try the bazooka, because it's powerful and stuns, giving time to make a heavy attack with the sword and then when he's down you shoot him in the legs. I use this technique and it always works
Yep I used to but if I want to melee them I would just use another suit. Alex seems better as a shooter these days.