Rakshasa, on 18 August 2016 - 03:25 PM, said:
That Orion was the first enemy mech I encountered, and I saw them for maybe 2 and a half seconds. My Warhammer has the heaviest armour possible. One glance, boom. One and a half tons of armour blown clean through. I was only lucky it didn't have a lancemate next door to slice my side torso off.
Comparative skill and loadouts aside, that's not BattleTech. That's a twitch shooter with no regenerating health. Anything which increases TTK and makes running battles, brawling, and tanky, heavy, mech-like combat possible I'm all for trying right now, because watching AC Kodiak's rip opponents to shreds in seconds, or Ebon Jag's peek out from behind cover to laser vomit for huge damage before taking cover again, is starting to get old. Just hope this new mechanic works better than Ghost Heat.
Although I can't help but think how mech less faffing about just having cones of fire would have been by now. So many mechanics to try and manage the effects of being able to place shots with pixel precision.
I call bs on that Orion IIc 800m taking all your ST armor in 1 hit. Warhammer has 54 ST armor up front if you front-load