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[TheComet]

I have to ask as I noticed certain weapons such as flamers and lasers heat up components, in some cases up to white hot.

Does this increase any damage/internal damage hitting the section while heated or is it purely cosmetic?

[WhupAzz]

It is purely cosmetic as far as i know it would be cool if it did have an affect tho

[Dude42]

Yea. It would indeed be cool, might even make flamers somewhat useful. But sadly, no.

[RadarGhost]

Flamers do heat up the Mech you are hitting, meaning you can force an enemy to hold fire for fear of shutting down. You can flame a mech up to 90% heat but not actually cause it to shut down purely from your flamers. They have to actually generate some heat themselves to trigger a shutdown.

The 'glow' effect itself can be useful too if only to easily tell which enemy mech just took a facemelting from the rest of your lance in order to spot targets to focus, or more easily spot an enemy at a distance. Your fancy camo paint job is not much good if your whole torso is glowing bright orange from being toasted by my lasers.