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[William Warriors]

Tired of getting killed all the time at the beginning of the game by having my head shot. Since this game does not feature ejection when the mech goes down, CAN PGI ENABLE THE OPTION OF MOUNTING TORSO MOUNT COCKPIT? PLEASE!!! IT IS SUPPOSE TO BE AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME PERIOD..

[ShadowDarter]

it was never a option, and for you getting head shootted you might want to look at how you are using cover, and traversing the maps.

Cockpits where placed in the head for one reason, its the most distant place on a mech from that highly radioactive reactor core, and its ability to steralise the Mechwarriors...

[One Medic Army]

Are you playing a Catapult?
Do you stick your head up over the tops of things and sit there?
Do you keep explosives (ammo) in your cockpit?

[J0anna]

The catapult and the hunchback are fairly easy to headshoot - do not stand still in them. Getting headshot early in a match is more about your mistakes than your enemy's skill.

[Bhael Fire]

PGI hates heads!!!! They want to kill all heads!!!! Atrocity!!!

[William Warriors]

One Medic Army, on 23 February 2013 - 01:24 AM, said:

Are you playing a Catapult?
Do you stick your head up over the tops of things and sit there?
Do you keep explosives (ammo) in your cockpit?

Depends.. I pilot both Cats and Awesome.. and yes, most instance it was the friggin cat which got nailed. I hate Cats.

And no.. one must be mad storing ammo in cockpit.. virtual or real..

Edited by William Conrad, 23 February 2013 - 01:30 AM.

[TheFlayedman]

I'm not the best of shots but even i can headshot a cat that has run right up to me, alpha strike me and then shutdown. It always makes me laugh when they do that.

[Jabilo]

I have been headshot only once in the game and I was mad as hell!

I raged in chat about aim bots.

Then I realised I had walked straight up to a catapult with twin ac20s and stood in front of him. My bad.

Keep moving and twisting and you will hardly ever get head shot.

Edited by Jabilo, 23 February 2013 - 01:35 AM.

[Hawks]

Heads are underpowered. Buff heads.

[Rylant]

I rarely die to a headshot. Don't stand still... EVER, keep moving.

Rylant

[Hawks]

Hmm...that reminds me...I haven't headshotted an Awesome in a while. Either they've changed the size of the cockpit hit box at some point, or I've just stopped trying.

[xRatas]

Head is a good place to store ammo. It gets rarely critted before it breaks anyway.

Catapults are real easy to headshot, awesome needs a bit of luck.

Just turn away from enemy when recycling weapons, and keep moving at least bit sideways all the time, and it will become much more rare to get headshotted.

Catapults have some excellent characteristics, which are balanced with easily hit cockpit, no arm movement, and stuff like that. K2 and A1 are top tier mechs, decent mobility mixed with good firepower. Survivability is the biggest tradeoff there.

[Shadowsword8]

I almost never get headshot. Just 2-3 times in a catapult, and maybe once with a Stalker. In fact, I tend to love it when I lose some head armor, because it means some of the damage didn't go to my CT.

Maybe it's because I keep moving in the open and always try to keep cover between me and the enemies I'm not actively shooting at??

You might want to try the thing called "situational awareness" too...

Edited by Shadowsword8, 23 February 2013 - 03:20 AM.

[Adrienne Vorton]

strange...my cat mostly diesfrom center torso coring... maybe i am just too careful with my head

[The Silent Protagonist]

Come on, we all know that torso-mounted cockpits are OP. No need for them to be added.
Serious answer: It's a bad idea, as it removes one of the main tactical options when facing someone. There'd have to be some crazy drawback like reduced visibility or... umm... cooking yourself with the engine if heat goes above 90% or something. Delicious boiled Mechwarrior!

[Beeman]

I don't recall ever being instantly killed by headshot early on in a match, but I know it has to have happened at least once.

I also don't really have a problem with it. I mean, it's odd to think about giant gauss rifles or gargantuan AC20s mounted to tiny machine gun slots, but it doesn't really bother me.

[Elizander]

The only times I died to heatshots was when I was piloting a Catapult and standing still in front of my enemy for some silly reason.

[Shatterpoint]

What are you piloting? I can only recall 1 time that I've been nailed with a headshot, probably been more but not in recent memory.

Someone took out my hunch with a snipe shot, I was gunning it along a good speed and the head just vanished on my paperdoll thing as the mech dropped and slid to a halt.
I was pretty shocked but if it was luck or epic skills it was still a sweet shot.

[KingCobra]

Hawks, on 23 February 2013 - 01:38 AM, said:

Heads are underpowered. Buff heads.

I could not agree with this more heads shots and back shots are the worst i have ever seen them in beta so far.Many times i have broched this topic that the mechs die to easy and to fast.For 35-100 ton machines they seam like paper dolls.You would think you would run out of ammo before you killed one if you read the BT novels it would take a entire unit to kill mechs with team effort and concetrated fire to down one.Now you have head shots and back shot eather killing the mech in 1-2 shots all day and night long its just idiotic really.And yes i have been head shot many times in multiple mechs at the start of a battle so i know the OP is right and should be mad we all should be mad at dieing so easy with or without skill or any other factors.

[General Taskeen]

Torso mounted cockpits exist in BT, among other things like Small Cockpits, and Armored Cockpits...

Torso Cockpits also have a lot of disadvantages, according to the "rules." It would actually be more challenging to use it than not using it at all.