honestly I dislike the whole implementation of Omni mechs in MWO. in the past (video games) Omni usually meant that the weapon hardpoints could mount any kind of weapon type. usually clan mechs would have a few "fixed" hard points along side a few Omni hard points and this allowed a certain level weapon load out customizations beyond the IS mechs while keeping different "same-weight" clan mechs useful. the implementation of Omni mechs in MWO however has them more limited than the IS mechs. Aside from the fact IS weapons do slightly more damage and weight a bit more, the clan mechs are far less versitle in MWO that what they should be by cannon and they feel far less advanced than what they should. They don't feel like the advanced invading force they feeljsut like "alternate" mechs. I think PGI struggled to much to balance them against IS mechs and I think they should not have bothered doing so. Sure clan mechs might have dominated the battle field then at first, but I argue that die hard IS players would have stuck to thier guns and made it work. after all in cannon the ISers did stick to it and won quite a few battles.
I think Omni mechs should have been done the same as other mw games and I think they should not have done "mixed team" drops (where a team has both IS faction and clan faction together). Further more to balance it out clans SHOULD have actually used star arrangements not Lance arrangements (ie 3 mechs to a star as opposed to 4 mechs to a lance). This would have balanced out any superiority in the clan tech alone. since clanners vs IS would be 9 vs 12. Also clan mechs should not have had full implementation of LRM's , because in cannon clanners find them dishonorable. Had PGI done them that way it would have blanaced out. clanners would have no lrm's going into fights, and they'd be outnumbered because of their star arrangement for mech formations , but then they'd have deadly weapons and mechs. It would have balanced out fine with no nerfs. but oh well .. PGI missed out on keeping things better cannon here. ask me the game suffers a little because of it
Edited by Demon Horde, 17 November 2014 - 09:18 PM.
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