Fade Akira, on 23 May 2016 - 05:19 PM, said:
This all sounds great mate, but have you thought the reason you like it so much is that it is OP?
Fragility??? Lol???? Is that a joke?
Just like the launch of the clans. Everyone loved it! Reason being, it was OP as ****.
Actually, I tend to perform much more consistently in my Cauldron-Born than my Spirit Bear. Sure, I've had my 900-damage tears where everything goes right, but I don't know if you've noticed that the Kodiak is about this size:
As a buddy of mine so succinctly put: "It's
HUGE! Even when you
miss it, you still hit it!"
Yes, the fragility is
real. So is the firepower, and to be fair the KDK-3 probably didn't need agility quirks. But a number of the others actually sorta kinna need all the help they can get. The Spirit Bear I love so much? It has
seven hardpoints. That hasn't been acceptable on (most) assault 'Mechs since 2014. The KDK-1 and KDK-5 are so overblessed with energy hardpoints that they can't actually use them all - g'head,
try and make an effective build with 9 or 11E that doesn't melt. Direstars, while hilarious, don't count. The KDK-2 is a hot mess that sacrifices half its usable weapons for Class I jump jets that do it no good whatsoever, and the KDK-4 only halfway works because it was blessed with a second ballistic hardpoint.
Most of the Kodiaks? In fact,
every Kodiak except the Spirit Bear, including the oh-so-busted KDK-3? I would take one of my Warhawks over those suckers pretty much whenever. Sure, the Warhawk has less raw killaging potential, but frankly it has
enough, it moves better than any non-cXL400 Kodiak (i.e. any non-Spirit Bear), and even if it's horribly oversized the Warhawk is
still noticeably more durable than a poorly-run KDK.
Yes - by all means, remove the agility quirks from the
one variant that can actually match a Whale for shooting power. There's a reason Whales are Whales. But the rest of them really don't need to be made suck simply because some folks are mad that they can't facetank three of the things at once in a Centurion.
It weighs a hundred tons. It's
going to beat you if you derptank it. Don't do that - it doesn't work on Atlases, it doesn't work on Whales, there's
no damn reason it should work on Kodiaks.
GurpGork, on 23 May 2016 - 05:41 PM, said:
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However, just quickly browsing the leaderboards from the event over the weekend. We see the kdk3 had top pilot match scores that were on average over 1,000 points higher than the other variants !!!
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Remember - there's, like, twelve Kodiaks in every match. There's a lot more metal to kill, more damage to be scored, and just generally more points to be
had. Yeah, comparatively the KDK-3 is still doing better, but keep the overinflated top-heavy nature of the event weekend in mind.
Edited by 1453 R, 23 May 2016 - 05:45 PM.