My feelings of machine guns in MWO are kinda.... meh.
In my experience with running them, they don't really do much even with exposed/non armored parts. I understandably don't expect them to do as much damage as even a small laser but when I ran the locust in testing grounds and exposed a few parts on a few mechs so that section/part was orange (exposed) and then I laid on that exposed part for long time with machine gun fire, it was.... underwhelming. The exposed part would have come down faster had I fired just one regular medium or small laser. Machine guns (especially only two) and its ammo seem like a waste of tonnage.
I must admit that I do not often run mechs with machine guns so I have little experience with them.
The locust has only 2 machine gun slots. Maybe MG are only reasonably effective run in larger groups/bigger mechs. Should I use the slots for machine guns or just stick with a bigger engine as speed is the lifeblood of any mech?
Edited by Blue Pheonix, 05 December 2016 - 05:22 PM.