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[Roadkill]

LegendaryArticuno, on 08 March 2016 - 01:24 PM, said:

If Archer gets LRM20 specific quirks... many will consider it the biggest waste of money they have ever spent.

LRM20 specific quirks will automatically categorize a mech as bottom-tier. Weaker general quirks would be much better than having strong-OP LRM20 quirks.

Not if they're the right quirks.

LRM-20s are bottom tier LRMs primarily because their spread is so bad. I'm around 50% with LRM-5s but only 30% with LRM-20s, and that's pretty much entirely due to the LRM-20's spread. It's just massively terrible.

So give the Archer spectacular LRM-20 spread quirks. Like, reduce LRM-20 spread by 50% on the Archer. That one quirk would make the LRM-20 the go-to LRM for the chassis, and I don't actually think it would be OP because of the fact that LRM-20s are so bad to start with.

Even if that somehow doubled LRM-20 accuracy, they still wouldn't be OP. Their cycle time, heat, and weight are still enough to make even 60% accuracy not that big of a deal. Think about it... that'd be a 10-ton weapon with a cycle time of 5.5 seconds that does ~12 damage after a time-to-target of anywhere from 2-5 seconds. That's not OP. That's... like, average.

Edited by Roadkill, 08 March 2016 - 02:17 PM.

[TKG]

Empyrus, on 07 March 2016 - 11:58 AM, said:

Which is? Surely not Jaime Wolf's 'Mech, which is effectively Archer IIC. Well, at least the later one, previously he piloted standard ARC-2Ws.

That's who I meant since I kinda ignore the other one. But realistically, all they had to do was mimic the succession war era model he piloted rather than the tech upgraded model he would wind up being killed in. Remember the dragoons had to appear to be an IS merc unit...extremely advanced tech would have been a dead giveaway. So that means for the most part his archer was probably a refurbished Star League model. Still since neither Wizkids nor FASA ever specified to assume it's IIC would put it at odds with the actual story line.

[Sader325]

Structure quirks are the only quirks that matter.

[Gas Guzzler]

Sader325, on 09 March 2016 - 05:26 PM, said:

Structure quirks are the only quirks that matter.

Missile heat gen would be nice TBH

[MischiefSC]

Pfft.

Lrm5 heat reduction and cooldown 25% each.

Cuz we haven't had a good lurmageddon in a long time.

[Javin]

Pretty garbage quirks for the Archer. Underwhelmed. No reason to buy them.