![]() ![]() +1 to any talk of revising XL engine mechanics (i'm in favour of making IS XL's behave like LFE/cXL do now then reducing penalties on ST loss for LFE/cXL to heatcap, speed and dissipation by between 1/3 and half), new agility passes to restore what was lost with desync (but not caused by desync itself) and scaling down mechs (everything >25 tons would likely need assessing, 35tonners and barns like the Black Knight stick out in particular).Ī Weapon System pass sounds interesting. Low agility - the size and geo already make peaking a bad proposition, but being sluggish to accel/decel just murders it.Poor convergence - those arms could stand to be pulled inward a little bit it's way too easy to accidentally shoot a wall or a team-mate because of how far apart they are and trying to use projectile weapons against moving targets forces the player to stagger-fire left-right or miss, putting them at a huge disadvantage.This is compounded by the unfortunate combination of both lower arm and hand actuators that similarly preclude the use of Assault-worthy firepower in the arms and can even get in the way of having enough ammo for the few good loadouts it can manage. Hardpoints focused in limited-use sections - too many of its weapons are in head and CT, which are not particularly useful to IS on account of the guns that would justify a 95 ton 'Mech requiring more than one or two slots.The ear geo are missile pods only available on the Wolf Phoenix variant and the top pod is a missile hardpoint only on the 9P variant Horrendous hitboxes - the big ear vents and the little pod on top create bullet-magnets unnecessarily all three of those pieces are missile pods that should be variable-geo like on the Mad Cat Mk.Too big - this 'Mech is absolutely gigantic.The Nightstar is a perfect storm of problems: Now, if you'll allow me a moment to focus on one 'Mech in particular that gives me sadness: the Nightstar. The Marauder was also a better 'Mech when it was smaller and more agile. Good candidates for this are most of the 35 ton Lights (which also need some agility back). Avatar - see Sunder, but lighter and smaller and with chicken legsĪs far as 'Mech scaling goes, some need to be made smaller to be viable.Sunder - squishy fast-ish phallic Assault, kinda bad but meme-worthy.Raptor - 25 ton chicken-leg box bristling with guns.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |