1. Extremely easy to do focused damage via alphas with little to no down side.
-Cover is extremely abundant, most mechs can sneak out and do two alphas at range and then slink back and hide while heat dissipates.
OR
-Use the single jump jet that all pop tarts have to pop up, do a single aimed shot on the descent and then rinse and repeat. The majority of your lift for JJ's come from the first JJ, at least 45%. So why spend the tonnage for more lift to pop tart?
2. Weapon damage is generally tied to the original TT values, however the firing rate is all over the place
-Compare an AC/10 that fires at 2.5 secs to a PPC that fires at 4 secs. Both weapons have the same heat as TT, same weapon weight as TT, however because the AC/10 is an AC it gets to fire 1.5 seconds faster than the PPC. The only difference that should exist between the PPC and AC/10 would be PPC's get a minimum range and the AC/10 fires at a shorter range. They were basically analogous weapon systems for damage, but now if you have the mounts AC/10's are a better investment than PPC's now for a medium range focus fire weapon.
-Energy weapons already have had a very heavy "ghost heat" penalty placed on them to slow down firing. So lets pile on another fire rate nerf as well. It makes perfect sense in Bizarro World.
3. Ghost Heat
-It is an extremely poorly documented mechanic in the tool tips, ie not documented anywhere in the game for a new player.
-It is a band aid to deal with highly focused pin point damage.
-Its easilly avoidable by adding AC's to 2 PPC's
-It was used primarily to deal with 4 PPC stalkers and 6 PPC stalkers. I'm fairly sure the developers could have come up with a better method to deal with focused ppc damage than ghost heat.
4. SRM's are useless
-Tonnage for tonnage, crit space for crit space placing a SRM in your mech gimps you significantly due to the massive spread the devs added to SRM's let alone the poor hit detection that the devs put on SRM's.
-You can be at 40M and have a light mech center mass while firing SRM's at the mech and 20% of the SRM's might register.
The sky isn't falling but me personally, with the basic game play issues the game is putting out, I have converted from a whale to a free to play player. I haven't bought anything since March of this year and when asked about the game from friends who left, I avoid the topic and instead talk about Civ V, Skyrim or Xcom.
Edited by Rhent, 10 December 2013 - 07:17 PM.