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[CDLord HHGD]

mark v92, on 29 May 2015 - 08:43 AM, said:

enough battletech weapons that should be added.

MRM launchers
Arrow IV
Long tom cannon
Sniper cannon
Thumper cannon
Heavy small/medium/large lasers
Small/medium/large X-pulse lasers
Binary laser cannon
Plasma cannon
Light/sub nose PPC
Light AC's
PPC capacitator
IS ER lasers
Proper LRM
ELRM
Proper ECM (guardian/angel)
HAG
Proper flamers
ER flamer
Heavy flamer
Machine gun array
Heavy/light machine gun
LAM system
Bomblast laser
Light/heavy/improved gauss
Rotary AC's
Thunderbolt
Mech mortar
Micro laser
Chemical lasers
ATM launchers
Light TAG
Light BAP
MML launcher

and a load of ammunation options.

Probably forgot something.

Should be enough to last a while.
But yeah, time to add some more weapons to the game and fix the old forgotten weapons like flamers.

cdlord, on 29 May 2015 - 04:41 AM, said:

http://www.sarna.net...Equipment_Lists

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Joseph Mallan, on 29 May 2015 - 04:10 AM, said:

No. We would just switch which weapons we would use. You've been here at least as long as I have. Once a weapon is proven effective, the masses flock to it. Then complain cause everyone is using it.

As for the AC10. Making it MORE would be wrong. It is the middle of the road AC. Good punch (not the best) good range (Not the longest) good rate of fire (not teh fastest). The AC10 is exactly what it is meant to be. A good weapon.

That might be the case if weapons like AC10 and PPC were buffed too much, but other weapons like (S)SRM2, MGs, flamers, and LBX cannons not being terrible would be good for the game. ECM also needs to not be a ridiculous jesus box so that LRMs can be consistently useful (like any weapon system should be) instead of a crapshoot 98% of the time.

Just like Bandito pointed out, pulse lasers were buffed a while ago to not suck so much and it was good for the game because there was more weapon variety with people actually bothering to use pulse lasers ever. I would hope that players would not be against fixing barely used weapons (due to them being bad) because they don't want other weapons to get too popular.

If your argument does extend to not fixing any of the bad weapons (not sure how broad your statement is here) just because of this:

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Once a weapon is proven effective, the masses flock to it. Then complain cause everyone is using it.

Then I'm not convinced because that's not what happened when pulse lasers got buffed.

[AlphaToaster]

I say keep it simple.

Just take the regular Clan AC's, and make them fire a single slug like IS AC's. Leave the LBX and UAC's alone.

When I purchased Clan Wave I, I was under the impression that the Clan AC's were going to have switchable ammo. I know PGI said they can't do this because of coding limitations, but it would still be nice for them to deliver on the weapon system in some way for people who supported PGI. Especially considering the regular AC's are pretty much forgotten/ignored.

I think most would agree that the Clan AC's (the non-UAC versions), see very little use. When making the choice for AC's on my mechs, I don't even consider the standard Clan ACs.

Edit: And before I forget, I would be OK with making the standard Clan AC weigh the same and take up the same number of slots as the IS AC, for the sake of balance.

Edited by AlphaToaster, 29 May 2015 - 09:38 AM.

[RagingOyster]

TheArisen, on 28 May 2015 - 09:31 PM, said:

I actually really like the Gatling gun idea, I want to be able to mount an A-10 on my mech!

You want to mount a plane on your mech?

mark v92, on 29 May 2015 - 08:43 AM, said:

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LAM system
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As in Land-Air Mechs? Please for the love of God NO

Edited by RagingOyster, 29 May 2015 - 06:55 PM.

[TheArisen]

cdlord, on 29 May 2015 - 04:15 AM, said:

I shall explain....

Weapons manufacturers!

The Pontiac AC fires like they do now.
Another manufacturer has a range buff.
Another has a RoF buff.
Another fires like Clan ACs (because you know, why not?).

And this is just ACs. Lasers, PPCs, LRMs, SRMs.... They all have these differences in LORE. Don't tell me you've exhausted lore until you actually have.

I actually made a thread about this very thing awhile back. I'd prefer we get differences between manufacture's and other in timeline weapons. Its just some lore weapons arent anything to look forward to.

[mark v92]

RagingOyster, on 29 May 2015 - 06:49 PM, said:

As in Land-Air Mechs? Please for the love of God NO

whoops.
Laser anti missile system
LAMS

Edited by mark v92, 29 May 2015 - 07:36 PM.