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[Chados]

These 'mechs should have the same structure buffs as the R60. Additionally, the UMs in general should have armor quirks to compensate for slow speed and carrying one big gun to boot.

A UM plays like a medium that is slower and more fragile. It can't hang with Ravens or Cheetahs in the speed game. That isn't what it does. It carries a big peacemaker and isn't afraid to use it. Players ought to be encouraged to play the UM for its peculiarities, rather than trying to force it into the standard light meta. Carriage of AC10 and AC20, the traditional UM main armament, should come with some form of bonus, and the UM ought to be able to grapple with an Arctic Cheetah and have a chance of escaping to fight another day. Presently, the UMs are about right, and I'd respectfully move the dev team to carry over all three UM variants without changes other than upping structure and armor across all three.

As for the infowar nerfs, that seems reasonable for a mech designed to fight en masse in movement restricted environments. If they are supported by Ravens or tied into the company net, that should make it better for them, however.

[Kmieciu]

The slowest light mech in the game doesn't have any quirks to help it out.
Working as intended?

[Iain Black]

basically dead 3 weeks after i bought them.