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Please, and I mean it, please look at what you are claiming before posting it for the world to see. A lot of these mechs I'm seeing DOA posts about actually have a role to fill. The Mist Lynx and Ice Ferret are both Clan scout mechs. Yes, the Ice Ferret/Fenris is a medium, that makes it an interesting and almost unique mech (Excluding the Cicada). While the Mist Lynx/Koshi also serves as a scout mech, this is the first of the Clan light scouts. The Kit Fox/Uller is not a scout, it's a support mech, utilising long range weapons combined with it's ECM and multiple AMS to assist it's larger brethren, same can be said for the 35ton Assault mech, the Adder/Puma, it's not a scout mech, it just sits back raining thunder.
With the absence of CW I can understand why some people might dribble DOA nonsense about these mechs. While the spider/firestarter/cicada can fulfil the roles of these mechs in PUG battles, in CW Clan pilots will be unable to take these IS mechs and will instead rely on these Clan designs to fill the scouting/harasser roles.
Weapons!! Weeeee. Pulse Lasers are another DOA post I see all the freaking time, why don’t we just say all weapons except for the LRM are DOA and PGI just rename the game to “LRMWarrior Online”? I hate these pulse laser DOA posts because pulse lasers are not DOA, I find them to be quite the valuable and powerful piece of equipment.
Years ago PGI told us how lasers work, how they distribute their damage. Take the medium laser, while you see a continuous beam, PGI has set it to distribute its damage over approximately 40 evenly timed pulses during the course of the beam duration while the medium pulse does it’s damage over 5 to 10 pulses. Sure, if you are firing your weapon with the precision of the base turrets then how many times your weapon pulses seems pointless, but players won’t always have the accuracy of these Godlike turrets. It is in events where our beam doesn't hit the target all the time where pulse lasers are dealing more damage, whether the pulse deals 0.1 damage or 2.0 damage, you do the math.
Weight wise let’s look at pulse lasers, on heavier mechs where they have less hardpoints but more tonnage pulse lasers are an optimal choice. One example, my AWS-8Q runs 2 PPCs, 2 Large Pulse and 3 Medium Pulse, it’s got loads of tonnage available even with a max size engine so why would I load up on ordinary lasers when I have the tonnage to use Pulse lasers that while heavier, have shorter beam durations, deal more damage and are more likely to kill that annoying light mech on 5 HP CT structure than ordinary lasers are?
So I say again, if you’re going to go on a rant about the pointlessness of certain mechs, weapons or modules please do us a favour and ask yourself "Is my brain DOA?". I asked myself and I'm pretty sure my test came back negative, but I lost the results so who knows?
Now that’s over, I need to make a post about how tactics are OP, PGI needs to nerf tactics.
Edited by Stonefalcon, 18 November 2014 - 09:34 PM.
