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Gasoline, on 01 October 2017 - 09:46 PM, said:
Don't get me wrong, but people tend to say this about pretty much every friggin mech that get's released. Other than the Night Owl and the Sloth Bear I don't see a mech that has been nerfed into oblivion. Yes, there're a lot of niche mechs and the Piranha may be one of them. But first of all, it's something different, it's a weight class that is missing in the clan ranks and it's a BattleMech. Second there'll finally be a reason for Micro Lasers. The funniest thing is, the Piranha is the first mech clan pilots have to upgrade to double heat sinks as the Prime comes with singles (only the Prime tho)... It might even get Javelin/Assassin-like hitboxes. You can max out the armor on that thing by just switching to Ferro-Fibrous without losing any weight (you actually gain a net 0.1t). In TT it's just shy of 1 point of armor in the head and 2 on each leg (double the armor for MWO - so 16/18 head, and 14/18 legs) and has 16 available crit slots. Also downgrade the MG's to LMG's to get more ammo per tonnage. The CT heat sink has to move if upgraded to double heat sinks, because of the CT energy hardpoint. I would probably downgrade the Lasers to ER Smalls just for better sustained dps and less facetime. Now slap on more ammo or a TC1 and you're set. I doubt the Howler is any better, Prime has 3 LRM5 and 3 tons of ammo, -2 has 4 ATM3 and 2 tons of ammo (with an even downgraded engine and MASC) and -3 has one ER PPC and a TC... and it's a lot slower. Also that thing has a giant shoot me here shoulder. But while we're at it, I still want the Icestorm, but that won't happen any time soon (just 2 variants and one is Jihad-era).
