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[Atheus]

blinkin, on 23 April 2013 - 09:53 PM, said:

ok this is beginning to make sense now. for the longest time NONE of the panels in the cockpit worked and all of my mechs were perpetually empty. i will have to start watching those panels then.

I took my highlander into testing grounds just now to experiment a little further, and although the panel showed the meters for each ammo crit (whereas it didn't show any ammo in other mechs), the meters did not move when I used up the ammo, so it seems at the very least the panels sometimes do not work, and perhaps are less likely to work properly in testing grounds. I did test my awesome in live matches earlier, though, so it's not just a matter of testing grounds vs. live that determines whether the panel works or not.

Agent 0 Fortune, on 23 April 2013 - 09:25 PM, said:

...I thought the double-standard on heat sinks 2.0x vs 1.4x was stupid anyway, but to find out that they kept it that way and willfully screwed the medium (and some light) weight class, really ticks me off.

Not so much that it breaks certain builds, but things that are so misleading and poorly labeled strike me as unpolished, and unnecessarily confusing. There's no reason they couldn't come up with a single number for the heat dissipation and capacity of a DHS, and rename them to something less misleading like "Enhanced Heat Sink" if the efficiency of the heat sink isn't actually double, but that doesn't happen. It's like they're afraid to fiddle with anything that isn't a blazing fire that needs extinguishing.

That's part of the purpose of this thread - I want people to understand these obscure but important details, but I also want to point out how even forum visitors (who are relatively informed when it comes to this game) are often lacking in key information, like the fact that shooting someone through a destroyed ST when you need to destroy their CT actually doesn't do as much damage as you might expect!

Edited by Atheus, 23 April 2013 - 10:13 PM.

[Agent 0 Fortune]

Atheus, on 23 April 2013 - 09:45 PM, said:

Ok so it turns out the ammo inventory panel in my highlander's cockpit works (it didn't work in my awesome, catapult, or my hunchback when I was looking earlier).

I just noticed it in a match I played a moment ago, so I can only say that the gauss ammo in my CT was used before my Head, which confirms that wiki article (and thus I) was wrong about that. I'll just delete that poll question, since the ammo order isn't of any particular interest if the head isn't used first.

As long as you are going the extra mile, does the game consume all ammo in a single location then move to the next or does it use one shot of ammo in each location in a rotating pattern?
(for the purposes of the poll, my guess is that it rotates per shot)

[Atheus]

Agent 0 Fortune, on 23 April 2013 - 10:42 PM, said:

As long as you are going the extra mile, does the game consume all ammo in a single location then move to the next or does it use one shot of ammo in each location in a rotating pattern?
(for the purposes of the poll, my guess is that it rotates per shot)

It fully consumed each ton of ammo before moving on to the next.

The bad news is, it seems deleting one question from the poll broke it, as I can't fill it out and submit it without it telling me that I need to provide an answer for all questions. Hmm. Anyone know how to fix that?

Edited by Atheus, 23 April 2013 - 10:48 PM.