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qeurul, on 25 October 2016 - 02:42 AM, said:
Conclusion:
When you combine the three factors above, you get the easy to drive, easy to position suppression machine, that just shoves everything off from its sight, essentially giving you the "driving by itself" feeling. Now if you take even one out, the 'magic' evaporates like smoke in the air. As it is said many times before, there isn't anything that special to Kodiak, and even the KDK-3 chassis itself.
How does all of the above add up with you? If we wanted to do something about it, I myself think it like this: when the 'magic' is only in the KDK-3 dakka build, lets alter only the behaviour of that combo. Maybe just adding UAC 5/10 jamming percentage on KDK-3 would make it stand out less?
When you combine the three factors above, you get the easy to drive, easy to position suppression machine, that just shoves everything off from its sight, essentially giving you the "driving by itself" feeling. Now if you take even one out, the 'magic' evaporates like smoke in the air. As it is said many times before, there isn't anything that special to Kodiak, and even the KDK-3 chassis itself.
How does all of the above add up with you? If we wanted to do something about it, I myself think it like this: when the 'magic' is only in the KDK-3 dakka build, lets alter only the behaviour of that combo. Maybe just adding UAC 5/10 jamming percentage on KDK-3 would make it stand out less?
I very much disagree with the underlined part. Being a Clan Assault battlemech with 400 max engine rating and 4 ballistic high mounts is very very special. It allows a fast Assault ballistic build that does not sacrifice durability or firepower. It is something that cannot be duplicated on any other mechs.
Closest thing one can get is the IS quad UAC5 Mauler, but that mech is forced to equip standard engine which heavily limits its mobility and is forced to strip all of its arm armor to fit in enough ammo. Meanwhile the Kodiak-3 doesn't even have to strip any armor from its highly protective arm armor while running faster and carrying bigger firepower, and peeking more effectively.
Increasing UAC jam chance for the KDK-3 will attract too much negative backlash, I believe. And the PPFLD KDK-3 build is still gonna be effective.
Edited by El Bandito, 25 October 2016 - 03:05 AM.
