Some mechs? Which? Dragon's belly is nowhere near the size of dragons belly on BT artworks for example. Not to mention that Dragon runs like a sumo fighter. Big number of mechs are also oversized.
There is magic except quirks, you just have to think beyond what we have now. If for example Dragon has ridiculous belly then we can remodel it to fit BT arts, it really is too big, and whole dragon looks too clumsy. It still will be somewhat big (the belly), but then we can make an advanced damage model where shooting 1mm of Dragon belly poking out of cover wont destroy whole mech - it'll just scratch this 1mm of armor.
Quirks are ridiculous idea that prevent global balancing procedures and working on unique profile of weapons. We can't make global change to WeaponX due to it being underpowered on most mechs, because MechX has some ridiculous quirks making this WeaponX a tool of destruction on this MechX.
If anything, quirks should be based on visual appearance of mechs and also should be at flat amount, because percentage amounts are getting out of hand after certain level.
For example - Orion has nice radiators on the back of its hardpoints when you mount weapons on them. Why not give it some -2 flat points of heat for those hardpoints then? This actually makes sense.
Notice how I can't talk about defensive quirks, becuase there are none (okay, some structure/armor buffs, wow so much). Most of them are concentrated on increasing weapons damage output/range.
Also notice how Stalker was nerfed due to its LL mandess and TDR-5SS wasn't touched. Tip - TDR-5SS can outrange every clan mech with its ERLL + Module (Clans needs to mount module and about 5 tons of TC). It can also hillhump, it can zombie, it can run fast, it can torso twist... And on top of that it is lighter than Stalker and you can take two or even three of them for CW.
Without those quirk madness we could just look at LL/ERLL/CERLL and balance them on the global basis and not on the per chassis basis (which [per chasis basis] is far more bothersome and time consuming).
Edited by JustEvil, 17 May 2015 - 05:28 AM.