Butane9000, on 12 January 2014 - 08:05 PM, said:
I agree with hero mechs being different and not better, but your example hardpoint loadout was a direct downgrade to an existing variant. As in, being inferior.
I don't know what my own would be, but here are all of the possible hardpoint ideas that aren't yet done by existing Raven variants:
A. All energy
B. All ballistic (would be horrible, though)
C. All missile (rip-off of Oxide, so unlikely)
D. Direct fire only (no missiles, just energy and ballistic)
F. Ammo-based only (no energy, just ballistic and missiles; might be kind of sucky though)
E. Something like the 4X or 2X, but with any one hardpoint traded for a second missile slot
G. 3 missile and 2 something else (probably energy)
H. 2 AMS and some kind of weakness to counteract it (i.e. quirk or engine size)
Those are the possibilities I can think of. There's a good chance it would have jets, but not guaranteed.