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[OneEyed Jack]

Sephlock, on 07 August 2013 - 03:31 PM, said:

So that is how the system works? You don't need an actual undestroyed component to hit with your mgs to get the extra damage, just stripped armor where you are shooting? Or do engines (but presumably not Endo/ferro) count as indestructible crit targets, allowing you to crit them over and over until the enemy dies?)


What about actuators?

Wouldn't this mean lasers got a buff of sorts?

You do need an un-destroyed component to land crits on, but engines serve that purpose indefinitely. I've never been sure about the "built-in" components (actuators, gyros, head components). I'm pretty sure Endo and Ferro follow canon rules of being un-crittable, but I have no proof.

[Royalewithcheese]

Mawai, on 07 August 2013 - 02:48 PM, said:

Wow. If your numbers are accurate then a MG went from being not very useful to massively overpowered in one patch.

3 DPS on internal structure makes one MG more effective than any energy weapon and puts it near the top of ballistics. A gauss rifle is 3.75 DPS. Except a light mech can throw 4 of these on and continuously fire them with huge amounts of ammo, no heat and no significant tonnage.

In addition, you cite 12DPS against internal components which exceeds the damage from any other weapon in the game.

You may have been arguing for more effective machine guns but if your numbers are accurate then they are now the most OP weapon currently in the game.

Only against unarmored components, and only as long as they have things to crit. Last match I had a 4xMG spider on me for like half a minute with no noticable effect.

However, does anyone know if the engine works as a perpetual "thing to crit?" Has PGI's game mechanic Jenga finally paid off?

Edited by Royalewithcheese, 07 August 2013 - 04:55 PM.

[Sephlock]

Royalewithcheese, on 07 August 2013 - 04:55 PM, said:

Only against unarmored components, and only as long as they have things to crit. Last match I had a 4xMG spider on me for like half a minute with no noticable effect.

However, does anyone know if the engine works as a perpetual "thing to crit?" Has PGI's game mechanic Jenga finally paid off?

I'd really like to know this as well.

Also lol @ "game mechanic Jenga".

[Rippthrough]

Deathlike, on 07 August 2013 - 02:40 PM, said:

In the same game I was referencing.. the Spider-5K pilot had 7 kills and 3 assists.

This is not fiction... I wish it were.

And a nice 850+ damage if it was the one I was playing

Yes, it was the final buff that actually doesn't make taking machine guns feel like intentionally gimping yourself any more.
You'd still take small lasers if you had the option purely in terms of damage output, but the dakka makes up for it.

Edited by Rippthrough, 07 August 2013 - 05:15 PM.