Jables McBarty, on 05 July 2016 - 11:16 AM, said:
Perhaps I should have prefaced my screens by stating I regularly rate about 500-600 damage in my HGN-IICs, and that an 800+ damage score was a euphoric outlier. With the agility quirks and structure buffs, I am now regularly hitting 700-1000 damage per game. So it's a significant bump of about 200 damage per match.
And I humbly beg your forgiveness for posting such paltry scores on the Forums, O GREAT ONE, but please understand that about 15% of my meager 3000 matches have been in a HGN-IIC, and the quirk love felt so good that I just had to share them.
Your sarcasm doesn't change facts. Highlander-IIC is a bad mech for too many reasons, most important one being the flawed hardpoint distribution compared to IS Highlanders. The only reason you even see mechs like Victor, Highlander or Executioner still having some mild success on the field is because they can be made into high-alpha one-sided energy/ballistic boats, unlike the IIC. Apart from the bad placement of those hardpoints on IIC, they also lack in number. Add to that the obvious too big and too damn slow and you get the idea. There isn't a thing that HGL-IIC does better than other mechs.
Nobody can argue that added quirks made IICs better, but better doesn't mean good, it just went from utter trash category into simply trash category, is all.
Think whatever you want tho, really. As I said, I got all Highlanders including three IICs, I like Highlanders, always did, but it doesn't affect my opinion which remains same ... Highlander IIC is a piece of trash compared to most assaults.