Top Speed?

[Sly Dude]

Part of me has been striving for speed since I got the game. I made a really fast HOUND with a light cockpit, generator, and my best Mobility COM. (The Russel for top speed.) and I got 345, and when I went into the training I lost of course because I couldn't shoot but DAMN I couldn't be hit.
I wanna know what you guys can get with possibly some faster hovercrafts, better COMs, and lighter parts.
Thanks.
- Sly

[DrLime]

If you had the Nuemann speed chip (Tarakia experimental part) you could go a bit faster, but for practical combat value the highest I've gotten is 260 (pretty much the same setup, but with a few anit-hound HEAT rockets for offensive power).

[SS454]

A very effective anti-HG/Defender I made goes about 230. The armor piercing rounds from the giant cannon can stop someone in their tracks. But I also stop dead in my tracks when I fire it. So I pray that the guy is too disoriented to get a shot off at me while i start back up. :lol:

[Lt. Aveus]

Ive made a very effective scout with 4 machine guns that goes 301 on a hover, cant give you the parts list right now cos im giving my 360 a rest.

[SS454]

Ew I hate hovers. They are really slow to start and you can't stop in time before you run off that nearby cliff. Wheels are the way to go.

If you can get your hands on experimental parts, you could make a really fast scout. I currently have a lotto going on an experimental system device...I lost it last time so I hope I get it this time.

[Sl1pstream]

I've got 317 on a hover with 4 machine guns. Hovers take some practice but they're pretty good.

[Method85]

i have gotten my scout to around 345 with a sal kar hover, nueman chip, special back up generator, 4 machine guns, and a light c.ockpit....lol i got a spiker that wil go over 350

[Sl1pstream]

i have gotten my scout to around 345 with a sal kar hover, nueman chip, special back up generator, 4 machine guns, and a light c.ockpit....lol i got a spiker that wil go over 350

Wha?

That's impossible. Even if you had the hardpoints on the lighter chassis, which you don't, there's no way that weight, especially from the spikers, will not pull you down to at least 330.

I could be wrong, but I don't see how.

[Ringtails]

All you people are slow.

I got to lightspeed once, with a light scout with three machine guns. I just zoomed across the enemies' screens in nanonanonanoseconds. No hacks or lag whatever.

Seriously.

[Darkling Vladd]

Light speed??? proove it. Tell Unvoiced Hero about this and show him so he can tell me. I don't have a 360 yet. But light speed?... i'm not really believing it. Not buying here.

[Sl1pstream]

You might just want to turn your sarcasm-detector on.

[Ringtails]

Light speed??? proove it. Tell Unvoiced Hero about this and show him so he can tell me. I don't have a 360 yet. But light speed?... i'm not really believing it. Not buying here.
Well, believe it. I was literally going a lightyear per second (or whatever the conversion is). 385000 something something per something.

On a more serious note, I used a Nuemann speed chip (Tarakia experimental part) on my scout and got a speed of 270 or so. Nothing impressive.

[SS454]

My squad mate took up almost half of our lottery slots trying to get the neuman chip. So I only get one to two slots max to try and get one measly little part...grr..

[Ringtails]

Heh. I got it on my first try, which was my first and only lottery.
Lucky me!

[Darkling Vladd]

There's a lottery???? This will be fun!!! :)

[Sl1pstream]

I think the Neumann is in the standard shop now, not sure though. But yes, if you want a scout, that's probably the first part you should get.

[SS454]

There's a lottery???? This will be fun!!! :)

There's a lottery running 24/7....consult your squad mates for more info.


I just took up almost all of my squads slots to get the chip....teach em a lesson.

[Unvoiced Hero]

There's a lottery???? This will be fun!!! :)

There's a lottery running 24/7....consult your squad mates for more info.


I just took up almost all of my squads slots to get the chip....teach em a lesson.

he doesnt have a 360 yet so he doesnt know everything that chromehounds has to offer :P

[SS454]

There's a lottery???? This will be fun!!! :)

There's a lottery running 24/7....consult your squad mates for more info.


I just took up almost all of my squads slots to get the chip....teach em a lesson.

he doesnt have a 360 yet so he doesnt know everything that chromehounds has to offer :P

Did not know that. Well when he gets it, then he can consult his squadmates. :wink:

[Darkling Vladd]

thanks alot fellas

[FATALASSASSIN]

someone wana fill me in on what a spiker is i just got the game a few days ago. :?

[shinigami xbl]

I imagine that If I could get a Nuemann(I'm a Sal Kari faithful) then my Defenseless scout would go about 370 I imagine, I have it going 358 right now. On top of that,I believe missles CAN'T hit it because I don't have a generator at all. :P I'm going to have to test that with a squadmate tomorrow, I'll let you know.

[chromehound junkie]

360 is mine :mrgreen:

[NovemberMike]

yeah, I have a naked hound (hover chassis and c-pit) with a neumann chip that goes around 360 as well.

[bloodhawk3246]

365 is the fastest speed possible (unless there's a hoverbase I somehow missed...)

No weapons, however.

Base: HL-Ghazal
Generator: N/A
C-pit: C-Naml
Mobility Device: M02MC Neumann
Weapon Device: TC-Ithnan
Stability Device: M01RC Hopper

[DaHool]

I've got a mortar-scout that rolls 271.

It could be more but I focussed my system devices on rotation boost which comes in more handy when using one of my most-used tactics..

Which I will of course not describe here sorry guys. It's always most fun to use your very own strategy :wink:

[Cosmo_Kat]

365 is the fastest speed possible (unless there's a hoverbase I somehow missed...)

No weapons, however.

Base: HL-Ghazal
Generator: N/A
C-pit: C-Naml
Mobility Device: M02MC Neumann
Weapon Device: TC-Ithnan
Stability Device: M01RC Hopper

Then I must be God because I can go 366.

[Pastry]

yeah...my fastest hound goes 366 max...so I guess I'm a god too.........or maybe not, perhaps it's because I has the games fastest hover base and a really light c ockpit that sustains the power requirements of the hound...It has no generator and no guns...that's the only downside.

[SYKOJAK]

If 366 is true show me your builds so I can Proof them good gentlemen.

[FriendlyHobo]

312 with 4 machine guns, and 4 armor plates, on hover :D

[SYKOJAK]

That is what I thought. 365 KpH is the max speed. Far too often, people ramble on without having any real proof of what they are saying is true on message boards. I gotta say that I love Chromehounds, just because I can totally raise the BS flag, when I think someone is directly lying in print on a simple message board. Just by asking for a hound build.

[ultimentra]

I think if you put on one of the real light sal kar gens on there itll go faster.

[ed111]

any generator will slow it down to about 325-340 you just have to put in a stability chip as well as a speed chip.

[talondrake]

took me scout out last night, light cpit and gazal bass with one rotor - 361 top speed. Was playin distraction in the war so my sniper teammate could nail the enemy un-molested.

However - to him i say - bet i can fly onto those oil wells from here, watch this! and indeed i did fly right on top of them. Only to realise they explode on contact, bye bye base, bye bye speed, bye bye one and ONLY advantage of that build!

pi**ed ourselves laughin though...

[INF3SORD]

Well, I beleive I can put an end to this 365-366 debate:

http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/8287/1014044912lt7.png

Therefore, 366 is the official top speed unless those guys can prove that 370+ crap.

Wondering how to get 366 and not 365? Easy. The trick is that you have to use the Neuman COM as well as the MSK-AC1500 (140 stab. 88 rot.). In order to do that, your weapon device must be the 1 socket in order to set up a 5 - 1 - 3 socket ratio.

The thing is, the AC1500 and the M02AC Backus COM's have so much stability enhancement, that the speed can go up by just 1 more unit.


Oh, I guess I should also mention that for an effective Scout, I managed to get a 300 speed scout that is equiped with the Najm (847 range) NA Maker. I guess it's more of a fine trimmed Scout/Commander Hyrbid (being the commander that I am... dunno how I wounded up here explaining the 365-366 argument... whatever). Check it out here:

http://img133.imageshack.us/img133/1019/1014042344fa9.png

[SYKOJAK]

I would concur with you all now. Yesturday after getting the last of the COM chips, I was able to build a 366 Scout Hound. It requires the following hound parts: HL-Ghazal, C-Naml, M02MC Neuman, TC-Ithnan, MSK-RC1500. Those are the chassis, cockpit, movement chip, weapon chip, and stability chip needed to build the hound in question.