Khobai, on 25 August 2014 - 01:52 PM, said:
Sounds like the problem is theres not enough clan mechs that have multiple ballistics slots, rather than the fact UACs are too weak.
No, and that's a silly concept. You shouldn't have to boat 30 tons of Ballistics before they become "good".
For one thing the SMN, the TBR and the WHK can all take 2 and in some cases 3 Ballistics.
Go ahead, try and build those in Smurphy's, see what it gets you.
1) The Summoner barely has enough tonnage to run 2x cUAC 2s, much less 2x cUAC 5s - without shaving massive armor off or having no back up weapons. (Mister Blastman runs a 2x UAC 5 build with lasers, and I have no idea how he does this without running around in his underoos).
2) The Timber Wolf is in the same boat. The mech everyone loves to complain about, including yourself, is limited to 2x UAC 5s or 2x UAC 10s but the 2x UAC 10s ends up with only 2x Mediums for back up. Neither are particularly amazing builds and the Laser/Missile options are better. It has the hardpoints, but it quickly runs out of tonnage - because a lot of the hype about this mech forgets it only has about 28 tons to max 30 tons (extreme armor shaving) of realistic pod space.
3) The Warhawk can run 2x any ballistic it wants...but that's about it. It quickly runs out of crit slots or tonnage and hardpoints to do anything else of value. And now you have 2x UAC 10s on a mech that has 20 DHS. Or you could transfer the same build to a DW and get an additional 20 tons of stuff, and enough hardpoints to boat lasers on top of your boated ballistics.
So maybe the problem is with the Dire Wolf then?
The Mech that got the cERLLAS nerfed.
The Mech that partially got cERPPC nerfed.
The Mech that is the only one that can massively boat cUACs and apparently because of this, cUACs have to be a bad choice for every other clan mech.
Squally160, on 25 August 2014 - 02:40 PM, said:
my quad UA/C10 Whale says UA/C's are fine. But Ill gladly accept buffs. MOAR DAKKA
Nice of you to not even read the first post, thanks for stopping by.
Edited by Ultimatum X, 25 August 2014 - 02:49 PM.