Wintersdark, on 23 March 2017 - 06:51 AM, said:
But this nerfs PPC/Gauss Mechs too? They specifically nerfed PPC's and Gauss here.
And, yes, there have been blanket nerfs to clans. Lots. Lots and lots.
And yet... Ignoring a couple downright poor Mechs, the Average Clan Mech is still objectively superior to the. Average IS Mech.
We still have Clan XL's, lighter weapons, smaller weapons, half sided ES/FF.
Clans where simply stronger before, and they're probably still stronger now.
It's not like our Timberwolf, Stormcrow, Hellbringer, Hunchback IIC, Ebon Jaguar, and such are weak Mechs unable to hold their own.
Jesus people. This patch's nerfs are small. Don't be that guy who cried because his advantage is smaller than it used to be. It's still an advantage.
The gauss and PPC nerfs this patch only were a few changes to the crit damage they deal. UACs got cut down by heavy jam chance increases and jam duration times and higher heat, SRMs got spread increased ontop of already higher values for clanners, ERML, ERSL, and LPL had max range heavily reduced, Clan components got weakened by a considerable amount in the health department, and the TCs got their bonuses based off the TC7, which was regarded as the most useless one now.
Basically I'm just saying that in comparison to the other weapon types gauss and PPC combo is looking like the best weapon sets at the moment and the meta agrees. ERML and LPL spam still continues as a second class meta but UAC builds that aren't full boats and SRM builds are the underclass.