Gyrok, on 17 January 2016 - 07:41 PM, said:
The ST speed loss penalty is complete BS, has no backing in lore or TT, and is an undue penalty on the bad robots. Not to mention it precludes brawling entirely because the second you lose a ST you are essentially a free morsel for the mechs that just shot your ST off.
Think about that...your mech is already now crippled...and your movement is also crippled, so you cannot even maneuver safely out of harm's way? I say a stiffer heat penalty or something else makes a lot more sense than killing the one thing that actually gave the bad clan robots something of a fighting chance.
There was already a heatsink penalty in place for losing 20% of the engine, but it didn't do anything because the penalty was so small, and keep in mind that the penalty for losing your side torso is
separate from losing 20% of the engine.
Do you want a
giant heat penalty instead? Losing 20% of engine heatsinks didn't do enough, so do you want it to be 50% of engine heatsinks lost instead? That doesn't seem appropriate to just stack a huge penalty in 1 area, and I would think that being able to use your weapons without instantly overheating (with a reasonable movement penalty added on top of that) is preferable to not being able to sustain any firepower due to losing
at least half of your heatsinks (while retaining full speed), but I guess you might feel differently.
Clans need an appropriate penalty for losing 20% of the engine and the previous penalty didn't cut it, it's really pretty simple in that regard.
Gyrok, on 17 January 2016 - 08:22 PM, said:
It's more that the quirks are too strong whether or not a STD engine is being used, because that STD engine durability comes at a
high cost, but that still does mean those quirks are too strong yes.
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Clan ST speed loss penalty is too much when a mech like a BJ1X can soak a 45pt alpha strike and keep ticking...with an XL engine
No, the speed penalty for clans isn't too much, it's the Blackjack's quirks that are too much. Some mechs that feature completely ridiculous quirks is not an excuse to campaign for a lesser penalty on cXL engines or whatever else, it's the ridiculous quirks that need to be toned down.
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The tech tree has to be balanced before the mechs can be.
PGI refuses to add the missing high tech IS weapons and advance to 3060-ish.
ER lasers, UACs, RACs, LBXs, SSRMs, XPLs, etc. would go a long way to solving these issues.
I actually agree that newer tech should be added, but only assuming that it was properly balanced, such as x-pulse lasers having standard laser range but also being
exceptionally hot as noted on Sarna.
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