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[Entail]

Hi.
I've been playing for a while but
can someone tell me if I can fire 2 Large lasers + 1 ER large laser without
heat penalty?

I know you can't fire 2 er ppc and 1 ppc without incurring heat penalty.

I can't find the answer anywhere on the forums and configuring
my mech in mechlab with 2 Large laser + 1 ER large laser
gives me no warning of heat penalty.

I asked some on friend's list and they aren't too sure either.

I hate heat penalty so much, but hiding the information from players...
especially a player from 2012 (this isn't my original account) isn't such a great idea.

How do you expect a new player to find this information?

[luxebo]

Yes, 2 LL + 1 ER LL has ghost heat when firing together. Use Smurfy: http://mwo.smurfy-net.de/mechlab

[TercieI]

LL, ERLL and (bizarrely) LPL are all grouped for ghost heat.

Here's what's even worse: if you fire 2LL and an ERLL together, you'll get the same total heat as if it had been 3ERLL. It's usually a bad idea to mix them for that reason. Look at the Smurfy chart that luxebo linked. I have a few builds where I'd like this and they end up with 3LL. The ghost heat on that is really pretty minimal.

[Koniving]

What you can do is fire them in sequence. This video was made to deliver a message, but if you just watch it for how to fire the lasers you'll find it just fine. Note I'm using standard heatsinks and if you look at the heat sink monitor you'll see I either had 38 or 42 of them.



The weapons in use are 2 Large Lasers and 2 ER Large Lasers. Their heat is the same as they are now, so there's no difference in this video other than the use of a LOT of standard heatsinks increasing my threshold and my cooling to well beyond that capable of the double heatsinks but requiring a very high risk setup to exploit the heat system. But ignore that part.