Wolfways, on 21 February 2016 - 11:05 PM, said:
Negated by IS having more options to choose from (i.e. more mechs).
You can fit out a Storm Crow in
any conceivable configuration. And it will still be far tankier than any IS Medium.
Wolfways, on 21 February 2016 - 11:05 PM, said:
Negated by high heat generation.
So stop boating high heat weapons. Build heat balanced builds. Or if you just can't play any other way than laser vomit. Alpha, hide, repeat.
Wolfways, on 21 February 2016 - 11:05 PM, said:
...rarely used because of the stream firing
And here we see the mental prison most Clanners seem to have locked themselves into. It's not hard to land a stream of AC shots. I and many other players do it successfully every day. Clan UACs are
fantastic.
Some Clan players think laser vomit is their only option. "Hold the laser point on the target" is the definition of easy mode.
Wolfways, on 21 February 2016 - 11:05 PM, said:
and the other which is only used to fight light mechs.
A self-guided weapon system that completely vaporises an IS Light Mech in two passes. And delivers up to 70 point Alphas to every other Mech they shoot at. Which the IS has absolutely no equivalent of.
Yeah, what a terrible weapon system those Clan Streak 4s and 6s are!
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But seriously, get a grip. Clan Tech is
inherently phenomenal. Being able to fight on with only one torso and a crapton of lighter, longer-ranged weapons, adds at least 30% to my score every match. I have chassis that I can min/max to my heart's content and I'm not confined to playing whatever specific Mechs with specific loadouts made it into Paul's Magical Quirk Cookbook.
The remaining IS quirks - on only
some IS chassis with only
some specific loadouts - are a paltry balancing offset to the significant advantages that
every Clan Mech inherently receives.
Even though I am personally benefitting from the recent over-nerfing of IS Mechs, I think it's just embarrassing for those of us who pilot Clans Mechs to have been complaining in the first place.
(And they're STILL complaining! "My Dire Whale got killed by an Oxide, Uncle Russ, you must nerf!" "My ICF isn't as good as my ACH, Uncle Russ, you must buff".)
Edited by Appogee, 21 February 2016 - 11:30 PM.