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That goes for Lasers, Autocannons, ...
But when it goes to UPPER CHASSIS: taking all those Arm nodes on mech where you have no weapons on arms...
That's so bad, it visually hurts as they do absolutely nothing for mech.
Other than that some boosts look bit too big and some bit too small. But in general I love them. Much more diversity.
What's good IMHO:
+ refund cost = one tree refund can be done in one or two matches so it is not prohibitive for people who will want to change stuff on mech. Increasing cost would be bad, and decreasing it below 15k would be bad too. so 20~25k seems about right with current rewards for matches.
+ All that stuff which is in trees
What's Bad:
- Initial skill cost in ComStar Bills is way too high since it is thrown away once "refunded"
- values: stuff like "Target info Gathering +3%" is nothing in comparison to "+1.25 AMS overload" or "Armor Hardening +3%"
- placement of some upgrades: Players who want Advanced Zoom are likely going to play outside of their sensor range anyway = yet another wasted points to get one point you want from entire tree.
Change Suggestions:
=> Trees: Trees should have multiple entry points (points from which player can start taking skills based on different play-styles)
=> Trees: moving to any connected node (current "Only Downwards" is very bad)
=> Cost: Initial skill cost increase from 100k to 125k. Removal cost reduced to 0k. Skill is not thrown away as it is re-attachable module to system and can be inserted back at 5k cost (cleaning pins, solder, whatever reason). If player decides to sell this removed upgrade, it will refund 25k (so total cost of gaining and throwing away upgrade will be 100k).
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Defensive Tree:
It is apparent that increasing 400 Armor by 15% is much greater bonus than increasing 150 armor by 15%.
Proposed changes based on weight class (trade-off):
Assault: Armor Hardening +3% (Speed -0.1%); Skeletal Density +6% (speed -0.1%)
Heavy: Armor Hardening +3.5% (Speed -0.2%); Skeletal Density +6.5% (speed -0.2%)
Medium: Armor Hardening +4% (Speed -0.4%); Skeletal Density +7% (speed -0.4%)
Light: Armor Hardening +4.5% (Speed -0.8%); Skeletal Density +7.5% (speed -0.8%)
"AMS Range Increase" is missing.
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Lower Chassis
Only Speed Tweak has proper value, other are way too big. (total +50% acceleration/deceleration, +30% turn speed). While I love Arctic Cheetah, this is too much.
+30% total to Acceleration/deceleration is just fine. +25% turn speed is still quite high, but with reduced acceleration, it will likely be OK.
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Jump Jets
They are kind of underwhelming and this tree is quite a waste.
Vent Calibration should give +2% bur time instead of 1%
Lift Speed should give 2.5% maybe even 3% boost to initial speed as total 5% increased starting speed is nothing.
+ Add 4th branch to tree: "Fall Damage Threshold" = increases minimum required speed at which mech has to collide with ground to take damage. (While "Defensive - Fall Damage" is for everyone, jumping mechs are much more likely to hit the ground at higher velocity.) => Make Jumpers Jump Again.
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Mech Operations
Looks like it is mostly about heat. Yet I feel like it should be only about all the non-heat related parts of tree.
(I wonder what's logic behind taking all those heat reducing nodes on mech which benefits from "Magazine Capacity" placed at very bottom)
=> Move Heat to its own tree, enrich it with "Engine Heat Reduction" = Engine generates 30% less heat while running in total 5 nodes taken (6% per node).
=> "Hill Climb" Can as well be moved to "Lower Chassis"
Remains: "Speed Retention", "Quick Ignition", "Improved Gyros", "Magazine Capacity". I would move "Advanced Zoom" Right next to "Improved Gyros".
"Magazine Capacity" does not improve AMS ammo magazine capacity?
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Sensors
"Target Info Gathering" should give same benefit to all Weight Classes. +7% Lights have would not hurt Assault Mechs too (Currently +2% = total waste).
"Seismic Sensor" should be different based on weight of mech: Light +80, Medium +90; Heavy +100; Assault +120 (Better contact with ground.)
"Target Retention" as above, size matters when it gets to signal processing: Light +180, Medium +200; Heavy +220; Assault +240
"Enhanced ECM" Should favor Light mechs over Heavy ones: Light +22.5%, Medium +20%, Heavy +17.5%, Assault +15%
Edited by Fox2232, 09 February 2017 - 01:51 PM.
