Building the Best MWO Sniper | Gauss vs PPC

tbh its not Gauss or PPC ... it's Gauss and PPC and Large laser ... with 4 martell medium backups for when stuff goes south ... and dont forget the srm6 pair ... it's Called a sniper .... it's jb is to snipe enemy mechs specially command ones as it has plenty of room for 3c and targeting cockpit ...

I'd argue the gridiron can do it better with light gaussx2 but thananos isn't mech credits so this one is great if you won't spend real money

Except one of the best snipers in the game is a 2 gauss 4/5erlarge dwf, speed is not something you need for a sniper, lots of really good snipers are slow assaults. Also lppc is not a sniper weapon.

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grid iron with 2 lgausses

Also thano is lacking in self defense and armor. I like the hunch II with 2 gauss and 2 er med lasers for a med mech, Heavy sniper either night gyre .

I'm still using my Gaussapult from way back in the day! Meta or no, Gaussapult is a go!

Carl Friedrich Gauss would be appalled at how you pronounce his name. Truly an affront to mathematicians the world over.

Somebody really should teach him how to toggle arm lock.

I’m confused. Why aren’t you target locking the enemies?

sorry if i'm asking a dumb question, but how do you get that magnifier/scope like window in the middle of your screen?
Is that a mod?

Been a bit, but I like using the hbk-iiC with Gauss rifles. No jump jets, but nice weapon mounts and decent speed. I can’t seem to get the hang of stealth sniping, I feel I’m much more effective when informed of weak points.

I'm too broke to try either of these xD

Made me sad, when I realized for 3 years I've never had a unit or friends to drop with in MWO! Ah well, carry on. Hunchback GI is so much fun with x2 light gauss, they cycle at around 1.4 seconds with skills

Some seriously satisfying kills with both Mechs. Great vid. I don't have many friends to play with, so I'm always looking for good sniper solo builds. I'm gonna try the PH build.

Rad video bro

I know I'm late to this party but a MAD-4L makes a great gause sniper. It's got full stealth capabilities and jumpjets. Mine has a Gause rifle in each arm, 4 tons of ammo, 2 Er large lasers on the right torso and a mk VI targeting comp, a light 300 engine with 2 internal DHSs and a jump jet in the CT it's still got weight for nearly maxed armor (I gave up 3 points on each leg). It's an amazing build that can sit near the back and snipe while using the ER larges to whittle down more armor and if you do get flanked it's got great armor and can brawl suprisingly effectively.

I've got one of those 2xGauss Thanatoseses. They are indeed a lot of fun.

Thanks. That was great!!!!!!!!!!

nightstar 9j 3 erppc 2 light gauss

UM-R80(L) with 3x light PPC, stealth armor and two JJs

If you want a stealth sniper, you can easily just do both PPCs and gauss on many assault mechs, the MAD-4L marauder II variant is a great example of this, with easy to handle double gauss and double ERPPCs. You draw a lot more attention with such a large mech, but 50 pinpoint damage pretty easily cripples or outright kills most mechs, with two shots being enough to threaten even assault side torsos.

If you feel too vulnerable to lights, then I'd suggest something like the Black Lanner A or the Shadowcat B with much higher mobility that's more of a harass-sniper. You can also get decent sniping performance on a Cougar E/H or an Adder Prime using dual ERPPCs, but both of those mechs are quite squishy and the Adder has no access to ECM or jumpjets.

Sniping mechs are pretty tricky in this game, since you tend to either lack damage or lack mobility on most of the extreme-range builds, and keeping track of enemy movements is crucial to avoid getting caught out by an opportunistic light/medium mech that hunts you down.

EDIT: Also stealth armor sucks, especially for snipers. You're so far away that the ECM handles all the stealth for you anyway, so you're better served just bringing more heatsinks/a bigger engine/etc.

Anyone still run a catapult k2 for sniping dual gauss?

I want to like the Thanny. Seems as though it has so much going for it, but whenever I play one I just get melted. Bad hitboxes maybe...

Definitely a fan of the Thanatos generally speaking. The sniper build you ran is popular in the game. Unfortunately you couldn't run when you could no longer hide. Speed and mobilty are part of any good sniper toolkit. Bigger engine in the Thanny with more weight friendly weapons. ER Large is a good long range poker and weighs 1/3 what the GR weighs.

both of the gauss builds are sadly very bad for actually contributing to your team. you’d be a lot better off playing a NTG-H So8 with 2G 2ERLL or a DWF-C with 2G 4ERLL. if you want a medium, a HBK-IIC-A with either 4ERLL or 2PPC 6SPL is great. or you can take the base HBK-IIC and play 2Gauss.

the second PXH is nice but it’s not a sniper mech, it’s a LPPC light.

Great Video <3

You can add 2 erl to the thanny with a little work. That gives you another 18 damage on back shots or when you don't care if they know where it's coming from. I like 2 erppcs on the Phoenix hawk.

the thanatos with light gauss will allow you a faster rate of fire and equip jump jets

way too much back armor it looked to me, nice builds otherwise

Good video thx for the info !!!

1st off thx for the video review, nobody is doing this content anymore.

how can these be a great sniper choices, none of them are clan????
Thanatos isn't fast. XL engines are a liability on IS mechs. PH mech in 1st match was red, cored and lucky.
I would have gone with the SunSpider SNS-D. They just fixed the quirks on this and with ECM and skilled out this is a very viable option. no issues with XL engines or ammo explosions. Night Gyr would work too but it's too squishy. I do a lot of sniping in my shadow cat and Cougar