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[Lightfoot]

MWO's jump-jets have been nerfed so much to stop a comparatively few players from 3PV pop-tarting that they should never be forced on any player.

Jump-jets are in such a state of utter uselessness just to block pop-tarts they no longer work well enough to evade danger with. In fact you move so slowly with a Heavy and up you just hang in everyone's crosshairs so they do the opposite of what their true canon function is. Add to that that they block heat dissipation in a game without DHS 2.0's, but DHS 1.4's and you would be stupid to use them at all.

And they take up too much payload for something that never works for anything other than getting over small rocks. Here is a video of how jump-jets allow a hundred ton mech to do a DFA (Death From Above) on a heavy mech by cutting the thrust at the right time, in other words it's jump fuel is not expended at the time of the cut-off.



Not even a heavy can jump that high, fast, or far in MWO, but that is kind of the lowest benchmark for functional jump-jets in MechWarrior lore. So make the jump-jets a lot better like in the video or allow players to drop them from the mech's equipment payload. The ability to do a DFA is such a fun thing! We had that in MW3 and MW2. It wasn't easy, but it was always a threat if you had jump jets.

Edited by Lightfoot, 16 March 2015 - 07:21 PM.