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[Lykaon]

TexAss, on 02 July 2014 - 02:33 AM, said:

No but, pinpoint alphas are, and there is no way around them, except perhaps convergence, which won't come for a long time.
And since GH is a pile of **** which is not visually understandable at all, especially for new players, this is my attempt to make it more understandable and user-friendly.

"no way around them"

Well we could,without even touching convergence mechanics (that seem beyond the abilities of PGI to unravel)

ONE: Remove all sources of pin point front loaded damage.This was partially done to clan ACs and PPCs but the final steps were not taken.

All ACs made Burst fire,All PPCs made into splashing damage,Gauss Rifles converted to fire three five damage rounds in rapid succession (this will disperse gauss damage if fired from a rapidly moving platform like a poptart but remain accurate if fired by a deliberatley moving sniper)

If this is still not enough the next mechanic to investigate is group fire mechanics.

Two: Grouped weapon fire delay: each weapon discharged after the first will have a 0.2 second delay in firing.This will spread out the discharges of weapons over a brief period of time allowing for players to react to incoming weapon group damage.

The solution to front loaded damage alpha strikes is to allow players reaction time to react to the high volumes of damage.This allows player skill to be the determining factor rather than a mechanic taking the skill out of the equation.

[Shae Starfyre]

I would prefere a simple percentage over weapons groups of how much heat that grouping will convey.

KISS

[Nothing Whatsoever]

This type of idea is fine by me. Although I'd still also like to explore redoing our Heat Capacity to having a universal scale with Heat Effects.

With tweaks to dissipation as necessary, with changes to our Heat Capacity and including Heat Effects, I'd like to see how such a revamped Heat system could work out.

Here is a table with values adapted from the original BT scale.

Spoiler

Due to MWO's real-time action, I thought taking the scale up to 50 with having the first override-able shutdown occur start at 30+ Heat could be a decent starting point. And who wouldn't want more opportunities for ammo explosions and also allow us to dump said ammo if it's going boom?

And with the PPC/Gauss/AC5 issue(s), I'd say place them all into the same Heat Scale penalty group. The system already uses the weapon with the higher base heat to scale the penalty so firing:

Two ER/PPC with, say, one Gauss is like firing 3 ER/PPC on the scale 57.15 heat.

Two ER/PPC with two AC/5 could trigger like firing 3 or 4 ER/PPC up to 92.40 heat.

One ER/PPC and two Gauss would trigger the scale like firing 3 ER/PPC 57.15.

Two ER/PPC and two Gauss would trigger the scale like firing 4 ERPPC up to 92.40 heat.

And so on, with whatever other combo is causing the biggest headache.

[Roland]

This type of system is greatly preferable to Ghost Heat, I believe.