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[Livewyr]

Mcgral18, on 13 September 2015 - 11:59 AM, said:

Then how do you stop it?


You don't always want to fire after the charge.

Off topic: LOL my first thought was "Well, hit 'R'.. duh." (Been playing wayyy too much Skyrim lately.)

[SaNMaN]

First off... Whomever has been responsible for screwing up the GAUSS should be SHOT OUT OF ONE into a brick wall! I've been playing BT/MW since tabletop an almost everything else since 92' the gauss isn't some hypersensitive glass gun AND its NOT suppose to have a limiting charge timer on it... its suppose to charge up just like the damn lasers do.. and HOLDS it in the capacitors.. all based on the mechs Powerplant...the delay in firing(RoF) is a direct response to its 'Pre-Charge" state, drawing power from the Mechs Powerplant...as well as reloading the next round....

Devs have been listening and giving into the crybaby sissy whiners that cant play anything with any difficulty to it... Hell I bet most of them would do away with FriendlyFire too!... you Devs have already destroyed the Repair&Reload aspect of MWO and cheeseballed the game enough... Stop with the cheeseballing...stop with lowering the bar under the guise of 'improving the game" an bringing "balance" to it...theres NEVER going to be TRUE balance when you have vehicle/weapon/equipment/player skill variations saturating every aspect of a game.

Hard to even call this MechWarrior anymore... might as well call it Mech Assault 2.....bleh!


~ Disgruntled Founder

[Cataclysm315]

If the gauss has to charge, then we should be able to fire it as many times as we like without rate of fire coming into question. I say remove the gauss charge, but maybe keep PPC damage spread as I don't want sniper warrior coming back

[Nedolon]

If they remove the charge from the gauss, why would anybody still use AC20 (besides quirks)?

I would definetly support something like increasing the charged time to 5 seconds. Everything above 2 seconds would make it much easier to handle.

[Cataclysm315]

Nedolon, on 04 December 2015 - 06:37 AM, said:

If they remove the charge from the gauss, why would anybody still use AC20 (besides quirks)?

I would definetly support something like increasing the charged time to 5 seconds. Everything above 2 seconds would make it much easier to handle.

Higher damage and yeah, quirks

[Weaselball]

[MookieDog]

Nope. It's just more gauss/ppc meta for players who can't brawl that snipe and pop tart. Gauss is good where it is, clan ppcs don't need to be 15 damage, you already have the best weapons in the game. But then again most pilots who play clan mechs just want insta kill weapons. How many builds are there for ERPPC/gauss.....ya not buying it.

[Chound]

Mcgral18, on 13 September 2015 - 10:24 AM, said:

I can see the cERPP 15 PP FLD being a powerful quirk for certain mechs; think an 8/8 Omnipod bonus to the Summoner (1 E hardpoint) or Adder (2E, but both in the lower mounted arms).

Ice Fridge also available, and while it has 2E, it's suicidal (removing half your armour) to mount 2 ERPPCs.


As a general rule? Hell no.



Gauss Charge could be removed, but then you'd need to change a few things. Don't let two fire together. Enforce chain fire on Gauss if multiple are fired together. Otherwise, you'll get nasty things such as:
DWF-PRIME

Still plenty powerful, but a touch below what Dual Gauss is now.

You'd also need to increase the cooldown to 5s at minimum (presently 4+0.75, so barely a change).


If you want Dual Gauss 30 PP FLD, keep the charge.

2 gauss rifles fire at the same time. the mech shuts down from overheat or if override engaged then the mech blows up. Add two seconds to the cooldown time.before a gauss rifle is "ready" and say it's a charge time.