Finally was able to grind enough credits to buy one of my favorite mechs from when I was younger. The AWS-9M which was piloted by Major Adam Steiner, and a mech I always had in my lance when playing battlemecn but there seems to be something very wrong with it. When I took out on the battlefield, my mech shutdown within a few seconds of firing. My first shot with the ER-PPC's sent my heat too around 90%, and when the weapons were ready to fire again. My mech shutdown and sustained damage to the center torso. This was roughly about 6 seconds of gameplay.
So I decided to take a look at the awesome in the mechlab just to make sure everything looked fine. The mech has the right amount of heatsinks (20 DHS) and the engine rating is also correct. I also took the mech to the training grounds and tried firing just 2 of ERPPC's but the mech was still shutting down, the only difference is that it lasted about 10 seconds. Then I tried a single PPC, the mech was capable of sustaining its fire with just 1 weapon. This can't be right. Took the mech back to the mechlab, pulled everything off and back on and took it into a live game. Same problem, I am unable to sustain fire only I use a single PPC, using 2 or 3 was forcing my mech to shut down and get destroyed. It feels like I am unable to even defend myself against other mechs that are firing ballistics non-stop. Other thing I noticed, that very few mechs were even using ERPPC, a few had PPC's but they were also shutting down from sustain fire but were lasting a lot longer then I was.
Can a dev or someone explain what's going on here?
Edited by Black Arachne, 29 January 2014 - 01:23 PM.