Thanks for pinning down what works and what doesn't (or has no meaningful effect anyway) guys!
Kin3ticX, on 15 April 2015 - 08:34 AM, said:
Dont worry too much about what pinpoint does. Just get all your elites to have speed tweak, double basics(cooling and handling), and eventually the master slot.
Yeah, speed tweak is always first, and then fast fire. Even if pinpoint does nothing meaningful, it's still obviously worth it for mastering the chassis - this for the double basic skills moreso than the extra module (with two other mechs of the same weight class).
JC Daxion, on 17 April 2015 - 12:15 PM, said:
pin point does nothing to speed up the arm/torso cross hair? the arms are always on the same spot, but put a large laser in an arm, and then one in the torso you will see them lag behind on convergence, does PP do nothing to help that? I could swear it does, but perhaps not.
As far as I understand it, pinpoint would work as follows: imagine you're aiming at something 1000 meters away. Your weapons will be pointing at that spot. Now say an enemy crests a hill directly in front of your, only 50m away. You put your crosshairs over that mech and immediately fire. Now, your guns were set so that the beams would cross 1000 meters distant. The target is now only 50m away, so those beams hit far apart.
Pinpoint would act so that the time it takes for your beams to switch from crossing at 1000m to 50m would be reduced.