ScarecrowES, on 20 July 2016 - 05:13 AM, said:
Let's use a lesson we should have all learned by now not even a full day after the Viper's release... big engine plus good mobility quirks equals deadly.
There's a simple fact that a Jag will lose in a direct fight with a Backer. Linebacker is still going to be able to put down 70-point alphas, but its going to be able do do that at 105kph. That big engine is going to give it good accel/decel and turn from thw get go, but with any mobility quirks you're going to run circles around the Jag all day.
The Jag turns slow, has terrible twist range and speed, and has no arm traversal. You can bet the Backer will be the opposite at all of that.
Having a lot of guns does you no good if you can't put them on target. And even if you can, what's the average max sustainable alpha on a Jag? Most people won't put more than 6 mediums on there, and probably less if you're running with LPLs too. The repeatable 70-pt alpha from the Linebacker seems pretty competitive there. Not to mention cooler.
If you focus on only the gun tonnage and not what you gain from dropping some, yeah, the Linebacker looks like the poor cousin. But when you look at thw whom package the picture becomes a bit different.
An' Ebon Jaguar can also do a an nearly 70 alpha (68), but with 100% effectiv to 500 meters. The Linebacker only if you use short range weapons.
The big engine means nothing, until you can use it well. Most ppl are, excuse me, too stupid for that. As I said, the Linebacker is only 17 kph faster. Thats nothing. For a loss of more than 10 tons of free tonnage. The Linebacker will not outcircle the Ebon Jaguar. The Stormcrow can't do it (proofed it with a teammate and it has the same speed as linebacker), so the Linebacker will don't do it too.
Twisting is nice, but if you aim and dont only shoot from where the lasers are coming, twisting will save your life 1 time, at the second time, the twisted torsoside is destroyed by jags lasers. you loose your half damageoutput, you loose 25% of speed, etc. Keep in mind the Linebacker will not have more armorpoints than the jag.
You say "having a lot of guns you no good if you can't put them on target" and in the last sentence "the repreatable 70-pt alpha from the linebacker seems pretty competitive there." yes... if you are hit the target, as you say. If not, you will get 50% heat for nothing. Let us take an veteran pilot, how can use nearly 100% of mechs possability. It's useless to talk over hit or not to hit, because than, every mech is bad, from locust to kodiak.
I will stay by my point, the linebacker is a overengine mech. Look at the stormcrow, 10 tons lighter, same speed, with 3 double heat sinks, she got 20 free tons . The linebacker, will, to his low free tonage (17 t) not be able to use large pulse laser (6 tons), ppcs (6 tons) or auto cannons (8t - 12 tons) effective. The pilots will work with small - medium lasers, srms, lrms and some freaky players maybe uac2 or uac5. So all in all it will be more an' short range attacker. But with a lack of free tonnage, as you see stormcrow got the same speed but 20 tons of free tonnage, (23 without 3 dhs) and is much smaller.
PS: What I forgot, 70 alpha... which weapons do you putting in and how good is the heatmanagment?.
Edited by Corviness, 25 July 2016 - 05:15 AM.
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