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[TML Winston]

One of the hardest and one of the most craziest mech to play in the Spider. It does very little alpha damage and it relies on jump jets and speed to get away. When the Spider came out, PGI touted that we would see Spiders jump and jump around the maps.

Setting a few great pilots aside, the Spiders only advantage is jumping around and getting away. The "Jump Jitter" introduced will do very little to stop true Pop Tarting, as a good Pop Tarter already fires ON the way down in a heavy mech. All the Jitter does is make a HARD mech even HARDER to play.

My Raven is not affected and now will become even more effective against jumping lights. Thanks for that! However, I would prefer that the Jitter be CUT down even more, or back to what it was, just to make Spiders fun to play.

Also my Highlanders and Cataphracts fire on the way down, so this will do very little for that. Nice not fixing the core problem.

Winston

[Deathlike]

PGI has once to referred to the mythical 6MG Spider. They don't fear the Spider.. they simply haven't brought such a majestical creature into existence yet.

[William Mountbank]

Just loaded up the new patch and played in my 5D.

The 4s PPC cooldown was a bad enough hit at the Spider, but the screen shake basically randomises hit probabilities during mid to long range combat, and makes short range combat a splatfest rather than a game of targeting specific areas of your target. And anyone who thinks jumping off a mountain at 151kph and shooting on the way down is poptarting doesn't understand light mech piloting, or that Spiders are the primary JJers.

It's more like TT though, I guess, rolling dice to see the hit chance.