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[El Bandito]

Gas Guzzler, on 22 December 2016 - 07:44 PM, said:

Its easier to just lop off the whole side torso....

SuperNova's shape means its STs are not easily shot off from the front..

Edited by El Bandito, 22 December 2016 - 08:03 PM.

[Y E O N N E]

El Bandito, on 22 December 2016 - 07:57 PM, said:

SuperNova's shape means its STs are not easily shot off.

Its size, the pointedness of its CT, and the placement of its arm sockets means they look to be about as easy to dismantle as the sides on a Stalker. Which is really easy.

This is no 90 ton Marauder.

[El Bandito]

Yeonne Greene, on 22 December 2016 - 08:01 PM, said:

Its size, the pointedness of its CT, and the placement of its arm sockets means they look to be about as easy to dismantle as the sides on a Stalker. Which is really easy.

This is no 90 ton Marauder.

Yeah the STs do look pretty big now that I got another look at it. STs are prime targets.

[Y E O N N E]

Beyond the Boiler, which is obviously going to be a Gauss machine, I suspect we'll see a lot of SNV-3 running a STD 325 with 5 or 6 cERLL in an attempt to replicate the Stalker. The SNV-3 can shove two into the CT, so even with the STs gone it can shoot. It does not, however, have the Stalker's high mounts, so it won't hull-down as well. Might be good for advancing through a gate on Borreal, though.

[Gas Guzzler]

Yeonne Greene, on 22 December 2016 - 08:11 PM, said:

Beyond the Boiler, which is obviously going to be a Gauss machine, I suspect we'll see a lot of SNV-3 running a STD 325 with 5 or 6 cERLL in an attempt to replicate the Stalker. The SNV-3 can shove two into the CT, so even with the STs gone it can shoot. It does not, however, have the Stalker's high mounts, so it won't hull-down as well. Might be good for advancing through a gate on Borreal, though.

And one in the head... 3 ER LL zombie is pretty cool

[RestosIII]

Yeonne Greene, on 22 December 2016 - 08:11 PM, said:

Beyond the Boiler, which is obviously going to be a Gauss machine, I suspect we'll see a lot of SNV-3 running a STD 325 with 5 or 6 cERLL in an attempt to replicate the Stalker. The SNV-3 can shove two into the CT, so even with the STs gone it can shoot. It does not, however, have the Stalker's high mounts, so it won't hull-down as well. Might be good for advancing through a gate on Borreal, though.

I've always wanted to puke out 6 large lasers in a lore build, but with ghost heat, the Supernova is gonna be terrible for my purposes. Only 2 canon builds, one of which gets ghost heat just firing half its weapons? Lol no. Now, if PGI made ERLLas not have ghost heat when firing 3 on it specifically... I'd be sorely tempted.

[Y E O N N E]

RestosIII, on 22 December 2016 - 08:25 PM, said:

I've always wanted to puke out 6 large lasers in a lore build, but with ghost heat, the Supernova is gonna be terrible for my purposes. Only 2 canon builds, one of which gets ghost heat just firing half its weapons? Lol no. Now, if PGI made ERLLas not have ghost heat when firing 3 on it specifically... I'd be sorely tempted.

You will probably be able to do 3+3 okay. Three cERLL is roughly analogous to four isERLL in terms of both heat and damage, and you do get one extra heat-sink per gun over the isERLL.

[Gas Guzzler]

Yeonne Greene, on 22 December 2016 - 08:40 PM, said:

You will probably be able to do 3+3 okay. Three cERLL is roughly analogous to four isERLL in terms of both heat and damage, and you do get one extra heat-sink per gun over the isERLL.

You can fire 2-2-2, works pretty well in a Marauder IIC with a similar amount of heat sinks. You can also fire 3-3 without shutting down.

Edited by Gas Guzzler, 22 December 2016 - 08:46 PM.

[RestosIII]

Yeonne Greene, on 22 December 2016 - 08:40 PM, said:

You will probably be able to do 3+3 okay. Three cERLL is roughly analogous to four isERLL in terms of both heat and damage, and you do get one extra heat-sink per gun over the isERLL.

Gah, you shouldn't make me think it's possible! I really don't have the cash to grab the Supernova, especially considering I would only run the main variant in most cases. But if it's possible without exploding, especially considering it uses a STD engine, and I'm a sucker for STD engines... At this rate, I need to find a rich dude that Is willing to sign me on as a sponsor in return for mech packs. Damn you PGI, selling a mech that brings back MW3 (First Mechwarrior game I played) nostalgia!

Oh, and to anyone that loads up medium/MPLas on it to just make it a fat Nova, you're ruining it. And I hate you for it.

[Gas Guzzler]

RestosIII, on 22 December 2016 - 08:52 PM, said:

Oh, and to anyone that loads up medium/MPLas on it to just make it a fat Nova, you're ruining it. And I hate you for it.

What about cLPLs....

[FireStoat]

Not a chance from me.

Huntsman was a very fun medium mech purchase. No regrets.
Marauder IIC is an exceptional assault purchase. Great stuff.

Supernova is slow with a low engine cap and crap mounts. No thanks.

[Snazzy Dragon]

Never touching it, because if I want to do clam laser vomit there is always the MAD-IIC.

[jjm1]

Boiler with 30% or more UAC jam chance is my only hope for this mech TBH.

otherwise even more stupidly awesome quirks like 50% ER-L laser duration, mobility and extra heat dissipation so its a laser turret with enough bite to be remotely viable against the devastating burst damage pop-tart meta it will be up against.

[QuantumButler]

if ERLLs weren't hot garbage I'd probably grab deal, but they've been nerfed into being pretty much worthles except on some FW maps so a robot centered around them is just a bad deal.

Wait for Cbills.

[Y E O N N E]

QuantumButler, on 23 December 2016 - 04:46 AM, said:

if ERLLs weren't hot garbage I'd probably grab deal, but they've been nerfed into being pretty much worthles except on some FW maps so a robot centered around them is just a bad deal.

Wait for Cbills.

Even isERLLs are worthless without quirks. Which is why you never see them on 'Mechs that don't have quirks. Both have atrocious damage-per-second of burn time.

PGI should do something about that.