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[Koniving]

4er3BaPa, on 15 May 2018 - 09:32 PM, said:

Long Tom not use nuke. Only Thumper in Jihad Era (Grand Titan Vengeance use it once).
Please stop to move this game to 3D Defcon, use conventional arms and Rules for a Knight!

Um.

The one in BATTLETECH is not a nuke... in MWO, the Long Tom was something that did 1,360 damage to a single target within 300 meters of the impact point, for all targets within that 300 meters, and then the damage gradually went down from there.

As such, it was...


Basically... anything at the time had less than 1200 total HP... So it instantly killed things. And that's after reducing its damage and preventing it from damaging the head.

As such it was removed from the game...

Now the BT version, you're correct it isn't a nuke its just artillery... that did at most 270 damage to at most 18 targets within a total 180 meters diameter.

300 meters "epicenter" with up to 800 meters shockwave... 1,360 damage to all targets within the epicenter... No maximum damage output in terms of how many enemies within that blast wave, meaning in terms of the game it could put 32,640 damage to players if all 24 players were within that blast area... not counting damage to turrets and key objectives.

Or BT's 30 damage in the 30 meter epicenter, 180 meters diameter, and 270 damage maximum spread across 18 maximum targets (assuming Mechs, you can double this for vehicles) in tabletop.

Edited by Koniving, 24 May 2018 - 02:59 PM.

[Chef Kerensky]

lol remember this ******* mechanic

there were people who liked this

[Bishop Six]

Ace Selin, on 03 June 2016 - 09:01 PM, said:

Dropped in a PUG counter attack today with 11 other dudes who i had never seen before, good sign that new people are playing i thought, some even in trial mechs, asking what we had to in this mode, surely a number of new converts to FW. So someone decided to call when a 12man was spotted on the Clan side. The Clanners had satellite and knew where we were moving but by wave 2 we were still good only 4 mechs down and knew they had a number of broken mechs too. Then the Clans got the LongTom, we spread as much as we could and still lost 4 mechs. At this point the PUGs started complaining, the game had turned from a we might win against a 12man to a this is crap, LT sux, this game sux, we cant win now situation for many. A fun game for all had turned into a horrible game for many on our side. I called for the attack as quickly as possible and to try to stay near the enemies so the LT got them and us, which did happen. For the fourth wave one poor guy was insta killed by the LT a second time and stated he would be uninstalling the actual game to never play gain and three others said they would not be playing FW any longer. 4 FW players lost, GG LongTom GG.

I have a unit, im a seasoned MWO & FP veteran, but looks like many who arent rightly hate the LongTom and wont be around to help make FP into a viable option.

Its so sad to read this, written in June 2016...