Red squirrel, on 03 November 2013 - 12:39 AM, said:
Especially the Awesome hitboxes you suggest would make this mech viable again.
But I also think you overdid it a bit. e.g. the Dragon just is a huge CT and should stay the way it is.
It is good that there are some mechs were XL engines work better because of the small side torsos.
And the Dragon is the archetype XL heavy.
With the Orion it is true that it is completely useless as a brawler which is really frustrating. But then I love my supprot Orions with large XL enigens. Never ever had a side troso kill (maybe once).
Finally, when the pelvic area becomes a leg hitbox maybe the best course of action would be to increase armor on the legs.
Because mechwarrior without killing mechs by legging is no mechwarrior. PGI already chose a very friendly approach letting you still walk with one leg.
But okay, you do not die when you lose your legs. maybe you are luckey and fall against a wall with your stalker - then you can still pew pew a bit
XL should be a risk for all mechs. Some mechs may run it better than others and that's ok.
If you look at the actual hitboxes very little has changed for the dragon straight on, it still has that massive nose CT.
What does change is when you torso twist away and you take damage on the side of that big nose it counts as the side torso's. That's it.
Good marksman can still hit that CT, the big difference is that they will have to "AIM" for it, instead of just lobbing in shots.
Edited by Carrioncrows, 03 November 2013 - 03:56 AM.