Vassago Rain, on 03 April 2013 - 02:48 PM, said:
I cannot stress this enough. This one change will likely ruin the game, and wipe out most players mech collections. Enjoy forcing this.
I know I won't when they lock ECM to my DDC's leg, thus ruining my ammo bins, and making the whole thing virtually useless. But we'll have...more jump jetting PPC/gauss snipers? That's lots of fun.
This is why I didn't spend a single coin on this game during the beta phase. I knew you'd force something like this to 'change the meta.'
I'll probably get a warning on the forums for this, but are you some kind of super *****? Did you eat a **** ton of stupid sauce as a child? Maybe dropped on your head?
I know you want ECM to be amazing, as a DDC pilot. But, for 1 second, pretend you didn't have a DDC. Pretend you have 0 mechs with ECM. Would it still be OK? I suggest you try forming an 8 man and NOT taking ECM once.
It will not wipe out everyones mech collections. I have 1 mech that uses ECM, a raven 3L, and even if there was a hardpoint lock (which I agree is dumb), it would not ruin that mech, no matter where it was. I can build a good mech around silly hardpoint layouts. There's more pressing mech customization to worry about than this.
Step back and examine it from the outside. The whole reason I got a 3L was to see if it was as crazy OP as it sounds. It is. Even with the changes to the 3L, it still is. this is coming from running mostly non 8 man teams, mind you, where the majority of the game is played. In 8 mans, it's not AS big of a deal, but still important.
ECM does too many things for its size (Guardian, Angel, NSS, denies things it shouldn't). There is no true counter to it but itself; it's still an arms race.