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[Mechwarrior Buddah]

I assume all the weapons will be forward facing?
I remember in battletech TT more than a few mechs had rearward facing weapons

[Redshift2k5]

All forward facing

[Starne]

As said above, any rear-facing weapons will be forward-facing in MWO. See the Concept Art for the Centurion and the Dragon for evidence. Both mechs are tequipped with two medium lasers, one of which was traditionally rear-facing. In the concept art, both Mechs have two forward-facing medium lasers. Frankly, I think this is for the best. Rear-facing weapons are extremely situational anyway, not to mention extremely hard to aim. If a Jenner is running circles around you, a single rear-facing med laser isn't going to do you much good, especially if you can't actually see what you're trying to shoot.

[Woska]

The rear facing weapons just don't translate well into this kind of game. Even in the table top game there was a rule in there somewhere that a rear facing torso weapon could be made forward firing, but it had to stay that way for the duration of the game.

[Randalf Yorgen]

hmm The Atlas had two rearward firing med lasers, it kind of needed it. would be nice if it was an option in the mech lab to play around with

[Mechwarrior Buddah]

Starne, on 09 June 2012 - 09:56 AM, said:

As said above, any rear-facing weapons will be forward-facing in MWO. See the Concept Art for the Centurion and the Dragon for evidence. Both mechs are tequipped with two medium lasers, one of which was traditionally rear-facing. In the concept art, both Mechs have two forward-facing medium lasers. Frankly, I think this is for the best. Rear-facing weapons are extremely situational anyway, not to mention extremely hard to aim. If a Jenner is running circles around you, a single rear-facing med laser isn't going to do you much good, especially if you can't actually see what you're trying to shoot.

Yeah I figured as much, it was a random thought that popped in there lol