0
is absolutely destroying balance right now.
Why aim for the legs? when the right and left torsos have barely more ( and often significantly less) armor then the legs?
Why aim for a dangerous arm mounted gauss rifle when when the side torso it is connected too essentially has the same armor and health and has a better chance of out right killing the mech in addition to killing both the arm and the torso piece in the process?
Why would you pilot an atlas (a mech who wins the award for most distinguishable , most broad and most easily hit mid section in the universe). when you can just pilot a stalker and get better weapon load outs and effectively the same amount of defense?
versus even questionably competent teams Ive had to stop fighting after just the first engagment because the 64 armor plating over my gauss rifle was obliterated in just one shot .
that leg armor ? oh its at full , my arms? damage free. hell even my center torso was almost un-damage. but one freaking piece of armor gone and i might as well walk into the out of bounds and alt -f4 and play minesweeper while i wait for my mech to get salvaged.
mechs should not be able to alpha pop other mechs in the first volley , it just should NOT happen
right now the effective armor of any given battle mech is basically the the equivalent of the total armor of either their center torso or side torsos ( for xl engines).
at best 90+ armor .... 2 volleys , at worst ...... 30.. .. 1/2 of a volley
That is just boring , there is no sense of strategy, no need to leg a dangerous mech so that it can be delt with later.
no need to disable a dangerous limb on a particular mech. just core em in one solvo and move on.
It is like i am playing insta-gib on unreal tournament, which is fine if this was year 2000 and this game was unreal tournament , but this isn't , and needs to change .
nothing short of increasing the armor value of center torso left and right torsos by 50% would be viable.
Till then, well I can always just load up unreal tournament if i wana play insta-gib
Edited by Saltychipmunk, 16 April 2013 - 04:24 PM.
