KraftySOT, on 14 October 2014 - 12:43 PM, said:
Still bothers me that people say "Urbies max speed is..."
You have no idea what pgi will set its max engine too. For godsake its not about the stock load out. Anything you can do with a Raven you can generally do with an Urbie...its got an energy and ballistic in the arms. Theyre high mounted. Its got JJs, you can put in a faster engine. You end up with a mech just like the Raven, but no ECM (or maybe it does, who knows).
But you get to be in an Urbie...
Mindblowing people are so obtuse.
Actually, we sort of do. All lights to date have had an engine cap that is 1.4 times the starting engine, although it occasionally gets rounded. In this case that would be an 85 rating engine, which IIRC is something like 42.5 kph.
Even if it gets a quirk where it's 1.4 times a 100 rated engine it's max speed is going to be like 75.6...well, I guess there's speed tweak as well. Even if they give it an additional quirk that up's it's max engine to 1.5 instead of 1.4 you're still looking at like 89.1 kph with tweak.
Having played the Vindicator this is insufficient to be useful.
And with all that extra tonnage devoted to the engine you're still using a 150 rated engine which means 4 additional tons for heat sinks to get to 10, which means you can mount an AC/10...and 1 ton of ammo with a pair of Jump Jets...with an XL.
Not to mention it's tubular shape is going to make it very easy to hit, so say good-bye to your side torsos, which means death. Or you can take a cripplingly small standard engine, and be only slightly faster than a Dire Wolf...and have to devote 2 more tons for heat sinks.
Getting to be 'in an Urbie' is a punishment, not a reward. I'd take a Raven over an Urbanmech every day of the week.
and as for Mindbogglingly obtuse people, just look at all the people that are desperate for a mech should be the worst mech ever released, unless PGI gives it a staggering number of positive quirks, not limited to (min engine rating 100, max engine rating ~150-200, 360 torso twist, 4x thrust on jump jets (so 2 JJs become 8), ability to launch with less than 10 heat sinks, and a deflector shield that reduces it's silhouette and profile to that of a spider) then it might, just
might be useful.
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