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[Hoffenstein]

Koniving, on 27 February 2014 - 11:32 AM, said:

I saw that and kinda shook my head. It'd never survive in MWO.

Haha, it would shuffle along sooooo slowly with those huge honking feet.

[RapidFire7]

HammerMaster, on 27 February 2014 - 07:06 AM, said:

Yeah.. Don't try and min/max slots when it is something still missing from game. Mechs with hands can:
Punch.
Pick up a severed arm or leg to use as a CLUB.
Salvage missions.
Hand held addon weapons.

I think removing the hands could be considered as optional - have it as a removable part in the mechlab, but if/when the things you have listed are introduced to gameplay, those abilities won't be able to be performed with a mech without hands.

[Koniving]

Hoffenstein, on 27 February 2014 - 12:10 PM, said:

Haha, it would shuffle along sooooo slowly with those huge honking feet.

Knowing the Japanese, they would 'drag' around like skates.

[cSand]

Modo44, on 27 February 2014 - 08:11 AM, said:

Dude. I would pay so much to be able to flip tanks...

lol YES

[Dirus Nigh]

Puerto Rock Punisher, on 27 February 2014 - 07:14 AM, said:

Ha....Thats funny, these are not Gundams, there hulking, lumbering machines...... Mech warrior lore is very funny... Hopefully they introduce this into the game soon, instead of wasting our precious load out space....

Hands on a battlemech are very functional. They are used for taksed that you would use your hands for. You need to realize that Battletech is a living breathing world were things are done for a reason.

[GreyGriffin]

Hand actuators are used for...

• Lifting and carrying salvage and cargo
  
• Standing back up after falling over or going prone
  
• Punching things
  
• Grabbing things with which to hit other things
  
• Flipping tanks
  
• Combat engineering

I ran a Battletech mercenary campaign where my players got pretty liberal choice of 'mechs, and they ended up extremely poor. Why? The whole lance had 1 hand actuator. When they needed to bug out of a combat zone and didn't have time to deploy the half track and the loadermech stuffed in the cargo bay, they got to haul exactly 5 tons of salvage.

[Grey Ghost]

The question is, will hands ever be used for anything in MW:O?