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[Sephlock]

In every place where a mech has a ballistic slot, allow unlimited numbers of ballistic weapons.

Now, hear me out here....

The two lightest ballistic weapons are the AC2 and the MG.

MGs are so hilariously weapon that you'd really need to OMGWTFFFFFFF BOAT THE HELL OUT OF THEM to get any mileage out of them, and even then they'd be super short range and you'd run the risk of ammo explosions.

AC/2s are heavy enough and their damage is scattered over enough rapid fire shots that even if a mech boated then it wouldn't be a problem (we might need to add "macro" to the list of filtered words on the forum, but otherwise things should be fine).

Either way, the game gets MOAR DAKKA, and MOAR DAKKA = MORE FUN!

I for one enjoy fighting dakkamechs because it breaks up the monotony.

[Syllogy]

I don't see the math that proves that this makes the game 400,000% more fun.

... maybe 40% more fun at best.

[Sephlock]

DAKKADAKKADAKKADAKKA

Oh, and as a pleasant side effect, this would lead to more mechs carrying ammo = MORE EXPLOSIONS!

KABOOM!

[Parliment]

the 20 mg jager ... neato

[Zerstorer Stallin]

Im pretty sure PGI has a position open for you. I think its a perfect match.

[blinkin]

i heard of a similar system where any mech that could mount more than 2 ballistic weapons in a component would be allowed to mount as many as they want. so there would still be a difference between the dedicated ballistic sections and ones that have a single ballistics slot. if we make it too general we run the risk of making many mech variants entirely obsolete, like many of the jager mechs and one of the hunchback variants.


so to sum it up, i like the idea but i think only mechs with 3 or more ballistic slots should be changed.