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[Xigunder Blue]

This is something I have noticed. The missiles in the game, with the exception of the Streak, are all guided missiles, meaning the launcher acquires the target and guides the missile unless the target is lost. A homing missile (which we use in todays technology) has the launcher acquire a target then the missile guidance system uses onboard tech to 'home' in on the selected target. Launcher is no longer needed - Like the Streak. While that makes the Streak a superior weapon there is one problem. Somehow the ECM unit can reach out and lock down the launcher so the Streak missiles will not fire at all. (ECM reaches into a mech console, halts the effect of a button push and prevents the launcher from firing at all - sweet). From any srm range. Why we cannot fire the Streak as a simple SRM in LOS vs ECM is beyond me. Any Mechwarrior in a Merc Unit would juryrig that in a New York minute in the field. And my ENTER key won't space a new paragraph for posting. Did the forum master get mad at me?

[Merky Merc]

Do not use logic when thinking of BT weapons. Your brain will melt when you think about flaws with.... any of the weaponry.

[Undercover Brother]

STREAK SRMs, according to BT lore, exist to save ammo... That's all. Without a weapons' lock, firing at a target with STREAKs won't do ANYTHING. No missiles will launch.

[Trauglodyte]

Well, if you want to get technical, "rockets" are dumb fired non-homing continual thrust firing projectiles where as "missiles" are rockets that are guided. In MWO, the only missiles that exist are LRMs and Streaks where as regular SRMs are rockets that fire in a straight line and simply converge on the center point of your iron sights at the point in the straight line.

[ElLocoMarko]

Merky Merc, on 29 March 2013 - 11:56 AM, said:

Do not use logic when thinking of BT weapons. Your brain will melt when you think about flaws with.... any of the weaponry.

What he said. I had lengthy threads talking about how ECM works and behaves in 2013 and it was all useless. ECM is a magic box. It will behave however the developers choose. Hopefully, if they change it at all, they make streaks more globally usable as the Raven and Commando have a real monopoly on actually using the weapon.