Jason1138, on 30 November 2012 - 07:48 AM, said:
i honestly don't see what the spider is going to do that the jenner isn't doing now
the commando is already pointless and the raven is basically pointless except for ECM which only 1 variant fits anyway. the last thing we need is another pointless light mech, but we're getting 2 with the flea and the spider
the game needs ALOT more mediums and heavies. like 3x as many as we have now. those are the classes that are supposed to make up most of the force on the field, and instead we're getting a game that's weighted towards lights
game should be 20/30/30/20 or 10/40/40/10, instead its 30/25/25/20
if we ever actually put weight limits on drops then obviously the commando and flea and all that will make total sense as options, but until then why would you pilot a 20 ton mech over a 30 ton?
I don't like the Spider either. I guess they didn't have many light mech options (which is true).
The reason I never thought the Spider would be chosen is because as it is canon, it wouldn't fit in MWO. At that time, I didn't know they could move some hardpoints to fit a variant to the game (like they did with the Cicada) - which I have no complains (canon sometimes is stupid).
The original Spider variants are this:
I know, horrible, right?
But I think they will do something like this:
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Spider SDR-5V (Jump) - moving the center medium lasers to the side torsos (no visual difference, but what a change in terms of hardpoints).
LA
LT 3e (medium laser)
CT
H
RT 3e (medium laser)
RA
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Spider SDR-5D (Jump) - less total hardpoints because of the weapons in the arm advantage.
LA
LT 3e (medium laser) - or could be in the CT.
CT
H
RT
RA 2e (flamer)
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Spider SDR-5K (Jump)
LA 2b (machinegun)
LT 1e (medium laser) - or could be in the CT.
CT
H
RT
RA 2b (machinegun)
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Spider SDR-7M (Jump, Endo Steel, Ferro Fibrous) - maybe with possibility of mounting ECM to make it more different than the SDR-5V.
LA
LT 3e (medium pulse laser)
CT
H
RT 3e (medium pulse laser)
RA
These modifications would make the Spider a viable light mech.
Edited by Odanan, 27 December 2012 - 10:14 AM.