Glythe, on 07 November 2014 - 12:33 PM, said:
This game makes almost zero sense when you look at SRM and LRM launcher options. I don't know when it happened but sometime ago there was a nerf to the larger launchers of both weapons.
It makes no sense that 4x LRM 5 are better than 1x LRM 20. Russ and the team seem dumbfounded by what is going on here but it's quite simple. Somewhere along the line the LRM 20 got nerfed so it mostly doesn't seek center torso, but LRM 5-10s still do so people use those almost exclusively.
You really can't have the smaller version of a weapon dealing more damage than its heavier big brother. Small lasers don't usually do more damage than medium lasers. The smaller variant has a drawback for weighing less..... namely a huge range penalty.
Why then do small clusters of LRMs aim almost exclusively for the torso when large LRM clusters scatter everywhere? That's foolish from a balance perspective and leads to people gaming the system. This is why you see people chain firing LRM 5s because it gives a long range chest seeking weapon.
But the broken nature of this system does not stop with LRMs. We also have SRMs such as the SRM 4 that are deadlier than the SRM6 due to the difference in pinpoint damage. In fact 3x SRM 6 with artemis does less concentrated damage than 4x SRM 4 to a single component.
In both cases the heavier weapon that costs more critical slots and tonnage does less damage to the target than the "weaker" variants. That just isn't right.
LRM/SRM spread should be universal regardless of the number of tubes fired. Please change this for balance reasons.
1 x LRM20 = 1.26 heat per second.
4 x LRM5 = 2.97 heat per second due to Ghost Heat. That's over twice the heat.
Chain firing LRM5s is seldom desirable as AMS can eat that **** up easily.
If LRM5s were that godly, we would see 4xLRM5 AWS-8R, 4xLRM5 BLR-1S, and 4xLRM5 HGN-733 instead of heavier launchers.
But that's never the case.
Of course, selfishness prevails. I understand that. I understand that all too well. I too am one of those
"Too 1337 to die to LRMs" club and scorned the AMS for a long time. But later on I got to know firsthand, as a long time Lurmer, just how effective AMS umbrella works when even a single lance, or just two dual AMS mechs are equipped with it.
I am obviously not going to change people's mind with just a thread--hence it is simply an announcement, ahead of all the LRM quirked IS mechs you will be seeing this week, and all the Quad LRM15 Timberwolves you are going to be fighting against, next week.
This rainy season is not going to end anytime soon.
No tonnage to spare is such a crap excuse. Even Lights have tonnage to put in AMS, as evidenced by 30 ton Kit Fox cramming 3 of them. You are simply switching some offensive stats to defensive stats--and with the ammo buff, it is definitely worth the weight. Of course, that is probably unacceptable to the Min Max club.
El Bandito, on 05 November 2014 - 07:01 AM, said:
Finally, just to make it clear: Those who say, "AMS? But I need my DPS!", had forfeited their right to QQ about LRMs.
Edited by El Bandito, 08 November 2014 - 12:18 AM.
3
