Sometimes when you are in the criticals, it is better to overdrive and fire all you have until you are OH and die if you know you cannot escape.
Did that on my Splat stalker today. Almost 500 damage in under three minutes. Took critical damage, so I just waded right in there.
Not horrific but certainly not the monster it can be... I still have my Invasion whale that I can't sell, but it's so damn slow that I can't stand it. Give me a Banshee or Stalker if I'm going assault. I used to be ADDICTED to my Victors, but the anti-jump sniper nerf annihilated them.
May not be the best, but not really bad. Decent functional heat probably and decent DPS. Would think about downgrading the LRM and upgrading to 3x AC10.
I don't see the issue... Just another of the hundreds of people pissing me off and pushing me away from the game by rolling in these terrible builds and fully taking advantage of a new map that pushes that meta. Good map concept, terrible final execution. God I hate what that map created... That it truly one of the best builds for that shit map.
Note that the picture has PPCs, while the build has ER PPCs. With regular PPCs, you would get about 40% heat efficiency. Coupled with a max speed of 118 kph (127 with Speed Tweak) I actually find that to be pretty decent.
Sometimes the weapon grouping and what not is glitched in view mode so ignore that when you see people ahving everything in group 1. The build with 2x PPC can actually be decent, the build you show use 2x ERPPC and have NO JJ!!!! It is quite ok really. Another variant would skim some armor for another JJ for better jump snipe, but either one is functional.
I use this build in a couple of my Firestarters. As a dedicated sniper it's not a bad build. Stay on the fringe of the battle and it can be damn effective.