InspectorG, on 13 April 2015 - 09:14 PM, said:
Humanoid hitboxes, JJ, ECM, 4E-2M or 6-7E, about as fast as a FS, Ferro + Endo...Clan Lazors and lighter SRM.
Hot? Sure. If you dont take advantage of Clan range and cant juggle heat.
Unlike IS lights...it can lose a ST and live.
Only thing i see ruining it are if the Hitboxes/scale are coded by a crackhead. Otherwise, it will be THE light to run.
And if its scale is smaller than the FS...whoa boy. Tears will flow even moar.
Humanoid hitbox? I heard nothing good about those. People complain about huge CT's, being bad at XL engines, and easy to hit.
I always heard non humanoid Hitboxes are much better (raven, stormcrow, timberwolf, stalker, etc)
JJ? it has 6 for a 30 tonner, Spider does a lot more. Firestarter can't jump as high. But it isn't that impressive. But it is admirable.
Ferro + endo isn't always a good thing and with this logic wouldn't that make mechs like the Adder, Mist lynx, Ice ferret, etc competitive?
this also blocks out good areas with hard wiring and such. Which can ruin placement of Targeting computers, AP, ammo, heatsinks, etc.
Also this is slower then most IS mechs. It may survive a ST destruction, but in the next few seconds the other one may easily come off too (ESPECIALLY if the discussion on clan XL engine changes eventually comes in game. Where if say you lost a ST to a king crab... he'll kill you before you can get away)
Also Panther and urbanmech do not seem to have that much of a problem with standards. And most IS mechs have good hitbox where ST isn't that big of a problem. Hell some of my IS lights only run a grand total of front and rear of 6 armour points for the ST's and I'm doing quite happily and fine.
Clan lasers isn't that much of an advantage for light mechs unless it's ER large laser snipping or large pulsing. And if that's the case the adder out does this mech already as well as the mist lynx.
Lighter SRM's however is the redeeming factor and this is why I can't wait for this mech to be in game. alas SRM's isn't a meta/ competitive thing and doesn't improve this mech by much
And I swear if I go to a different thread and use the "lighter SRM's" excuse I could see people bashing me everywhere for that opinion because of "inaccurate!" "it spreads!" etc. Such as the nature of this forum.