Adridos, on 18 January 2013 - 08:42 AM, said:
Hero mechs are simple variants. The more they differ from the normal mech's capabilities, the closer they are to the P2W point, which noone wants to get.
So, you do consider the Ilya Muromets P2W, right?
If the combat system and weapons/equipment are proper balanced, there is no way of having OP mechs or variants.** Therefor, you could make any hero variant and the game wouldn't be P2W.
** That's kind of the objective of Battletech when it gave us rules to build our own mechs (unfortunately, they never balanced the weapons well, being the Autocannons weak and the Medium Lasers OP, for instance).
PS: Of course, that exclude the clan weapons and equipment, which will always be better than the IS ones (don't try to balance them like MW4 did!).
And, for God's sake, how adding one ballistic hardpoint to the Awesome (at the expenses of, lets say, 2 energy ones) would be P2W?