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[CDLord HHGD]

Escef, on 11 November 2015 - 06:36 AM, said:

I am amenable to this proposal.

I'd also like a "fake" arty strike consumable. Just a red smoke canister to make people panic.

And a Smoke consumable, lays out a smoke screen around a hundred meters across that dissipates in 15 to 20 seconds. (For extra poops'n'giggles, make it so that it fizzles and produces next to no result on HPG Manifold.)

A Chaff consumable that scrambles sensors in a 30 meter radius for 10 to 15 seconds would also be interesting.

We have a huge amount of potential design space in consumables that can be used to add more depth to the game, yet people want to cry about it existing at all? People blow my mind.

I had an idea for a new UAV consumable. Instead of the current UAV, the one would act like a locked missile magnet. When it's up, all missiles that require a lock (LRMs, Streaks) would track to it instead. Wouldn't take much to destroy it BUT even a slight redirect of incoming missiles could mean the difference in getting to cover (or the cover you already have).

[Grey Ghost]

Mister Blastman, on 10 November 2015 - 03:32 PM, said:

How about no more consumables and remove the ones we have?

Aw c'mon, I'd hate to see the UAV gone completely... Perhaps change it into a mountable version, maybe something a Light could still mount without sacrificing too much? Basically a super simplified version of the NapFind recon drone.

[Lugh]

Escef, on 11 November 2015 - 06:36 AM, said:

I am amenable to this proposal.

I'd also like a "fake" arty strike consumable. Just a red smoke canister to make people panic.

And a Smoke consumable, lays out a smoke screen around a hundred meters across that dissipates in 15 to 20 seconds. (For extra poops'n'giggles, make it so that it fizzles and produces next to no result on HPG Manifold.)

A Chaff consumable that scrambles sensors in a 30 meter radius for 10 to 15 seconds would also be interesting.

We have a huge amount of potential design space in consumables that can be used to add more depth to the game, yet people want to cry about it existing at all? People blow my mind.

To be worth it, it would need to have many charges.

Chaff doesn't scramble sensors. Chaff adds an errant pingable to radar. Meaning that it gives the homing missile two different targets to choose from and the missile always chooses the closest. It would add precisely NOTHING to MWO.

An EMP pulse consumable would scramble the sensors the way you describe. And the PPC SHOULD do that as an innate affect too.

[Roadbuster]

cdlord, on 10 November 2015 - 10:18 AM, said:

Strafing Strike would act like Air Strike except its AoE would be a line perpendicular to the user centered (?) on the smoke signal.

I think this is the game you want to play.

[CDLord HHGD]

Roadbuster, on 11 November 2015 - 07:02 AM, said:

I think this is the game you want to play.

No, sry, but this is what I want to see.

[Mister Blastman]

Grey Ghost, on 11 November 2015 - 06:48 AM, said:

Aw c'mon, I'd hate to see the UAV gone completely... Perhaps change it into a mountable version, maybe something a Light could still mount without sacrificing too much? Basically a super simplified version of the NapFind recon drone.

I wouldn't mind if the UAV took up a critical slot on certain 'mechs that were allowed one. That is okay. But I'd like to see this arty madness go away.

[Escef]

Lugh, on 11 November 2015 - 06:49 AM, said:

Chaff doesn't scramble sensors. Chaff adds an errant pingable to radar. Meaning that it gives the homing missile two different targets to choose from and the missile always chooses the closest. It would add precisely NOTHING to MWO.

Chaff is basically a cloud of metallic confetti that bounces EM waves like mad.If you think you're getting a reliable radar ping off of that, well...