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Rogue Jedi, on 05 January 2016 - 03:37 AM, said:

not really, the CDA despite being smaller can go at the same speed with an extra 2 tones of pod space if both have the same armor, it also looks a lot smaller and seems to handle better, the IFR really needs to downgrade its engine to give it a better weapons payload, or to put it another way why take the IFR when you can take the ACH which is the same speed, more agile, and only has 1 ton less to play with despite having 3 tones of fixed Jumpjets and being 15 tones lighter

Yeah,but overheat quicker too. Every mech have good and bad points,Ice Ferret lacks on firepower and tonnage,but is good at speed and less heat generation,also if i remember correctly,it have jump jets. Cicada is good too,but a laser loadout makes the mech overheat quicker than Ice Ferret. Ice Ferret is the clan equivalent of IS Cicada. Also if u compare a light versus a medium clannies,i can say the same on IS side. This is how i see myself.

Edited by LuxNyx, 05 January 2016 - 03:53 AM.

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LuxNyx, on 05 January 2016 - 03:40 AM, said:

Yeah,but overheat quicker too. Every mech have good and bad points,Ice Ferret lacks on firepower and tonnage,but is good at speed and less heat generation,also if i remember correctly,it have jump jets. Cicada is good too,but a laser loadout makes the mech overheat quicker than Ice Ferret. Ice Ferret is the clan equivalent of IS Cicada. Also if u compare a light versus a medium clannies,i can say the same on IS side. This is how i see myself.

sorry no Jumpjets on the IFR but you are correct, every Mech has good and bad points, the IFR just seems to have far less good than bad in my opinion, that is a Mech I own but have been unable to make work, while the CDA is one of my favorites, indeed I mostly learned on it, it was released soon after I first started playing back in Closed Beta

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Rogue Jedi, on 05 January 2016 - 03:37 AM, said:

not really, the CDA despite being smaller can go at the same speed with an extra 2 tones of pod space if both have the same armor, it also looks a lot smaller and seems to handle better, the IFR really needs to downgrade its engine to give it a better weapons payload, or to put it another way why take the IFR when you can take the ACH which is the same speed, more agile, and only has 1 ton less to play with despite having 3 tones of fixed Jumpjets and being 15 tones lighter

Besides having different strengths and weaknesses between items such as hit boxes, weapon options, etc... If the Cheetah and the Ferret were completely equal in all other regards, the Ice Ferret would have one advantage, health. It's got more armor and structure (base, not sure of quirks) over it's lighter cousin.

Besides that, preference. I run mechs I like, rather they have a competitor that "can do the same job but better" or not.

I say, we should try and get all the mechs, even if they ultimately are just different skins over the same battlefield role.