Appogee, on 21 February 2016 - 11:13 PM, said:
You can fit out a Storm Crow in any conceivable configuration. And it will still be far tankier than any IS Medium.
lol tankier....
You do realise that is exactly the opposite of what pgi is going for right?
Quote
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.
Build heat balanced builds. Like I said, remove or reduce the weapons. i.e. clan mechs carry less weapons than they are supposed to.
Quote
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.
So IS AC's that hit a single point for full damage aren't as good as clan AC's that split the damage to different locations? Okay...
Quote
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!
Talk to Russ about getting the IS versions in.
Quote
---
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.
So by your reasoning the Jagermech is the best mech in the game as I do better by far with that mech than any other mech in the game.
Oh wait, my wife decided to abandon her clan account because, as she put it, "clan mechs are crap".
Clan mechs must suck!!!
Stupid reasoning...
Still, I do wish I wasn't locked into certain builds with my clan mechs though. Makes no sense to nerf them that hard.
Quote
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".)
Dire Wolf is one of the worst mechs in the game imo. Does a lot of damage to anyone who gets caught in front of it but otherwise it's a waste of tonnage.
I admit that the ACH is very good. I had great matches in the trial version, but I'd expect that as most lights are OP anyway (yes I played them) and IS have more to choose from...Oh wait they don't because omnipods make up for that clan weakness. i.e. lack of mech variants.
Well what do you know....balance.