haruko, on 16 June 2013 - 09:08 PM, said:
So I recently reinstalled MWO, and decided to save up for a Highlander.
Of course, I'd rarely ever see any aside from the occasional LRM boat Highlander or Gauss/PPC boat.
At first I figured it was because poptarting was nerfed, so everyone just moved on to Stalkers or something, but then I actually got one myself and holy ****.
WHY. Why does it reverse so insanely slow? 30kph reverse speed is absolutely ridiculous, I don't see any balance reason for it to be that way, there's nothing the Highlander does that the Stalker doesn't do better, especially now with screen shake, and it's lopsided weapon placement combined with it's sluggish torso twist speed means it won't do any better than an Atlas, on top of its pitiful engine ratings, so why the crappy reverse speed? It completely gimps the mech, you can't back out of any fight nor can you quickly move into cover due to the fact that it reverses as fast as a legged mech.
I know someone is going to tell me "well use it as a ranged mech!", but you can't even do that, as the arm mounted hardpoints require you to expose yourself out in the open, which is suicide in this current meta since you'll be stuck trying to slowly reverse while getting pegged with several PPC shots, or worse, you'll have to stop, turn around and expose your rear armor.
Anyone else think the reverse speed on it is ridiculous?
um...the reverse speed of a mech is 2/3 of it max forward speed. you can get a hgm up to just over 60 kpk max...to you do the math...assaults are slow. if you want a fast assault get pretty baby. and a 400 xl but expect a trebs armament.
and the HGM is more mobile thnan an atlas or a stalker. if it has JJ.
Edited by MasterErrant, 17 June 2013 - 03:18 PM.
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