What is the best robot in the game?

[PlayerOne]

I am new to this game. Are heavier robots better than lighter robots?

[mainhunter]

For Beginners, I would't recommend buying an assault Mech, you will get frustrated verry soon and its hard in the beginning to grind the c-bills for 3 variants. Maybe for beginners, clanner Mediums are more forgiving, because you dont die when loosing a side torso. The storm crow comes to my mind, who is easy to drive, has a small profile, you can boat it with superior streaks, LRMs, SRMs and make a laser boat out of it. You can also mix it with a gauss and lasers.

And to the guy above me: no Locust beats any Assault when both have the same skills.

[Dakkaface]

Kaeseblock の投稿を引用：

No. They play differently.

The best mechs for starters are mediums and heavy class mechs. Timberwolf, Thunderbolt, Stormcrow and Hunchback are all solid choices for beginners. They offer a good balance of firepower, armor and mobility.

Light mechs are more difficult to play, since the have less armor and rely on good and fast movement to not die quickly.

Assault mechs are more difficult to play, since they are so slow. You really need to think ahead and position yourself correctly, depending on the battle situation. If you get isolated from the team and get caught (especially by enemy light mechs), you are basically dead, since assaults move so slowly.

Listen to this man, OP. He speaks wisdom.

[Zeleglok]

Nope, they are not. For solo play, there're good, ok and subpar mechs of all weight classes. GOOD heavier mechs have more carrying potential for an average player, though.
In solo queue i would recommend a medium or a heavy.

Imho, best mechs for solo play are (only c-bills available variants as of 12/12/2015 are included):

-- Lights --
Locust LCT-1E ( Requires GODLIKE skill )
Firestarter FS9-S
Arctic Cheetah ACH-PRIME ( has best CT quirks of all ACHs, everything else you can change )
RVN-4X

-- Mediums --
Stormcrow ( any but SCR-B, CT quirks worse on that, everything else you can change )
Blackjack BJ-1X
Enforcer ENF-4R
Wolverine WVR-6K
Shadowhawk SHD-2H ( Requires certain skill )

-- Heavies --
Quickdraw QDK-5K or QDK-4G ( slightly more damage and less mobility on second ).
Timberwolf /Hellbringer / Ebon Jaguar - variant doesn't matter.
Thunderbolt TDR-9SE
Grasshopper GHP-5H

-- Assaults --
Battlemaster BLR-3S or BLR-1S ( Requires expensive XL 380 engine or higher )
Banshee BNS-3M ( Requires expensive XL 380 engine or higher )

All loaded with different combinations of Small Pulse/Medium/Medium Pulse/ER Medium/Large Pulse Lasers except the SHD, which runs AC/5s or AC/2s.

To all who just read this: best here means overall most effective (winrate, damage output, kdr etc potential) as seen by me, not most fun to play for you. There're numerous non-laserboat mechs in the game which are also quite good, like Banshee BNS-3E or Highlander HGN-732B, as well as non-laserboat configurations for some of the listed, which are fun to play. But TS asked what the BEST chassis are :)

[Woolish]

URBANMECH IS THE BEST MECH IN THE GAME! Im not joking its super cheap and has the most powerful cannon for a light mech, its cheap too! Its a little slow but you have so much armor its hard to kill you in such a small mech. Buy it and you will win every match

[MarmonRzohr]

PlayerOne の投稿を引用：

I am new to this game. Are heavier robots better than lighter robots?

In short: no.

That being said it's harder to carry PUGs in light mechs than in medium and heavy mechs. You certainly can, and in a big way, it just takes more experience and practice. Also medium and heavy mechs are easiest to learn the game in because they are the most fexible. My advice would be to play some games in mediums for a start then decide if you want more speed and agility or less and more firepower and switch up accordingly.

Don't spend your CBills till you spend some time in each class and see what feels more comfortable.

[[F8L] Mycrus]

PlayerOne の投稿を引用：

I am new to this game. Are heavier robots better than lighter robots?

locust - one of the fastest in the game
urban mech - only one with 360 torso rotation

it is known.

[kesmai]

none.
there are no robots in this game.

[Durr]

i personaly love the shadowcat with two med ER lazors and 3 SRM 6.
you can just come out of nowehere hit with a volley of missiles, jump over him hit him again and then just keep darting in and out hitting with 18 short range missiles which fire like a shotgun spread.ive done over 600 damage a match in this mech and by no means am i a superlative pilot

[Scanz]

there is no best robots.
its depending on your play style and whishes

[Grimmrog_SIG]

good mechs for starters: Stormcrow, Timberwolf,

Sure people will say you the pilot matters, but there are still some mechs easier to play good than others and some have more potential than others.

[Shadow of the SPQR]

It's all about the flavor.

[wolf74]

It all Dispense on you and you game style. Case and point http://home.grandecom.net/~gswolf/images/UrbanMech%20Good%20Game.jpg

That almost a Stock UrbanMech UM-R60L 30tons (only Add EndoSteel and remove the extra Single heatsink to add 2.5 tons of AC 20 ammo)

as you can see I was 2nd Highest Damage & Match score in that game the mech Pilot that beat me out was a 100ton Direwolf.


P.S. the UrbanMech is the underdog of Battletech or another way to look at it the VW-Bug of battletech they where one of the cheapest Mechs ever made.

[Ordellus]

PlayerOne の投稿を引用：

I am new to this game. Are heavier robots better than lighter robots?

I would say the light class in general if you're dedicated enough to actually become good with them....

If you're not then go with a clan heavy or clan medium mech if you want "pretty much better than everything else"

[Phlinger Phoo]

Timberwolf, Direwolf and Stormcrow are the best. They are so good they led the blanket nerfs that left the rest of the Clans nuetered as a by product.

[Playgu]

Timberwolf (heavy), Stormcrow (medium), Arctic Cheetah (light), Ebon Jaguar (heavy), Hellbringer (heavy) is decent too, Direwolf (assault) possess immense firepower but is really slow and easy to kill which makes it very hard to pilot for a new player.

Devs have, lets say issues, with balancing Clan mechs and Clan tech. Clans won both major events in this game and pretty much all competitive teams are Clans because when everyone uses the best mechs the game is balanced. The upcoming Jenner IIC and Hunchback IIC will be at the same level so you can buy those two as the "starter" pack. Heavy performance pack is nice since you get best mech with 30% c-bills earning bonus + lots of other stuff.

A few words about prices. Clan mechs are really not more expensive (C-Bills wise) than Inner Sphere mechs, it's just they come equiped with XL engines which cost more, and clan version of such engine is much better because you don't die when you lose side torso like with IS XL engine.