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[Bishop Steiner]

Pyed, on 24 March 2017 - 10:53 AM, said:

O ya. Huh. Never bothered to look, just kind of assumed they were Civil War era.

Welp, better hope that RAC2 has enough of a punch to make it a primary light/medium mech weapon on its own. Otherwise it's still gonna be rough to make much use of ballistics below about 50 tons.

Heavy Machine guns are post civil war. For the IS. 3068. So, I'd say it's not a hard fast "3067 or earlier".

[Pyed]

Bishop Steiner, on 24 March 2017 - 10:54 AM, said:

Heavy Machine guns are post civil war. For the IS. 3068. So, I'd say it's not a hard fast "3067 or earlier".

Just so long as they don't give the clams their damn HAGs.

I'm pretty psyched that, with the RACs, for *once* IS is getting a weapon type with mechanics there's no clam equivalent to.

[Quicksilver Aberration]

Pyed, on 24 March 2017 - 11:02 AM, said:

I'm pretty psyched that, with the RACs, for *once* IS is getting a weapon type with mechanics there's no clam equivalent to.

You better pray they never add the Clan RACs then.

Honestly I was hoping for the more interesting weapons to be added though, HAGs, Plasma weapons, Magshots/AP Gauss, Protomech ACs, Rifles (buffed so they are the IS counterpart to Proto ACs), HVACs, etc.

Edited by Quicksilver Kalasa, 24 March 2017 - 11:14 AM.

[Bishop Steiner]

Quicksilver Kalasa, on 24 March 2017 - 11:13 AM, said:

You better pray they never add the Clan RACs then.

Honestly I was hoping for the more interesting weapons to be added though, HAGs, Plasma weapons, Magshots/AP Gauss, Protomech ACs, Rifles (buffed so they are the IS counterpart to Proto ACs), HVACs, etc.

you forgot the bestest of all... TSEMP!!

[Trev Firestorm]

So... is there a downside I don't see or would HAGs just be stupidly brokenly OP?

[Quicksilver Aberration]

Bishop Steiner, on 24 March 2017 - 11:29 AM, said:

you forgot the bestest of all... TSEMP!!

I did forget that, certainly better than the Mech Taser, that's for sure.

[Bishop Steiner]

Trev Firestorm, on 24 March 2017 - 11:39 AM, said:

So... is there a downside I don't see or would HAGs just be stupidly brokenly OP?

depends on the mechanics used. If they had a spool up, spool down, like the RAC, among other things? They would probably be doable.

Of course, most (note I don't say ALL) who want them, want them to be OP wrecking sticks, because why wouldn't you want you new gun to be OP as heck?

[Quicksilver Aberration]

Bishop Steiner, on 24 March 2017 - 11:49 AM, said:

depends on the mechanics used. If they had a spool up, spool down, like the RAC, among other things? They would probably be doable.

Even without that, if they were burst fire like Clan UACs that would be somewhat limiting as well, though I would definitely not let it fire 40 shots (cuz hit reg) and instead would start with something like 8 (at 5 damage per maybe?)

Edited by Quicksilver Kalasa, 24 March 2017 - 11:54 AM.

[Bishop Steiner]

Quicksilver Kalasa, on 24 March 2017 - 11:52 AM, said:

Even without that, if they were burst fire like Clan UACs that would be somewhat limiting as well.

HAG40 gonna need a long burst.

But with various things, like spool up, (current gauss has charge up too, after all), and such, I think it could be reasonable without being broken. Which is why PGI will of course, if they ever add them, make them BaF.

[FupDup]

Quicksilver Kalasa, on 24 March 2017 - 11:13 AM, said:

You better pray they never add the Clan RACs then.

Honestly I was hoping for the more interesting weapons to be added though, HAGs, Plasma weapons, Magshots/AP Gauss, Protomech ACs, Rifles (buffed so they are the IS counterpart to Proto ACs), HVACs, etc.

The IS counterpart to Proto ACs are Light ACs...