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[Skadi]

Royalewithcheese, on 02 April 2013 - 02:36 PM, said:

In the Battletech universe, there's a lot of technology that people can no longer reproduce due to the Succession Wars obliterating existing infrastructure and knowledge. It's not implausible that "good thermal imaging" falls into this category. Of course, the real reason for the range cap is game balance, but the idea of a complicated system like thermal imaging being unreliable in the Inner Sphere actually fits with BT lore pretty well.

http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Lostech

I like your name. that is all.

[MadAndrew]

Good programming is lost tech in this game atm.

Your argument that patch is bad is now invalid.

Blame lore and succession wars.

[Corvus Antaka]

not for me. on ultra high i can see the mechs with thermal XRAY vision. PGI default settings.

[aniviron]

Pretty sure the range nerf was intentional, given how poptart sniping and er ppc/gauss were dominating at higher elo brackets.

To the people who are complaining that the thermal camera range is unrealistically short: you do know what game this is, right? That in this game we have missiles with a shorter range than a bottle rocket, that an lrm weighs 11 pounds, it takes thousands of .50cal machine gun rounds to breach armor, and most of the lasers have a shorter range than a conventional handheld laser pointer, and the artillery rounds are long range at 1km instead of 100km? Also, walking tanks?