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[Cichol Balor]

So if its only the clan ER PPCs that do splash damage does that just mean they are flat better than IS? doing a free 5 points of damage on top of the 10 base?

[Aidan Crenshaw]

C ER-PPCs are flat-out better than IS ER-PPCs, no matter if they deal 5 mostly useless points more damage or not.

[Cichol Balor]

Aidan Crenshaw, on 20 January 2021 - 06:13 AM, said:

C ER-PPCs are flat-out better than IS ER-PPCs, no matter if they deal 5 mostly useless points more damage or not.

This is true but im still unclear as to if thats the case or if my info is outdated do clan erppcs still do a total of 15 damage?

[General Solo]

Cichol Balor, on 19 January 2021 - 11:06 PM, said:

So if its only the clan ER PPCs that do splash damage does that just mean they are flat better than IS? doing a free 5 points of damage on top of the 10 base?

15 damage front loaded pin point what ever that means was a bit OP in PGI's view

Lessons learnt from the IS Highlander/Dragonslayer HyperPoptart Wars

Good days dem

So in order to keep the clan PPC's superior damage of 15 points compared to the IS PPC's 10 points those 15 points were distributed as 10 direct plus 2 x 2.5 damage as splash

if C3PO's memory serves correctly

[TheCaptainJZ]

Nowadays, it doesn't sound so out of line, but when clan tech was first introduced, the highest alpha was 2 AC 20s which can only be used at short range (but ghost heat was in play then too) or dual gauss which is 2 x 15. Both have drawbacks in that they take a lot of tonnage and slots. Clan mechs would have been able to stack multiple ERPPCs much easier so splash damage was added as a minor drawback. We didn't see quirks at all until about this time too, and I don't think any were armor based at first, so locusts were destroyed just by looking at them sternly.

[Aidan Crenshaw]

General Solo, on 21 January 2021 - 02:49 AM, said:

15 damage front loaded pin point what ever that means was a bit OP in PGI's view

Lessons learnt from the IS Highlander/Dragonslayer HyperPoptart Wars

Good days dem

So in order to keep the clan PPC's superior damage of 15 points compared to the IS PPC's 10 points those 15 points were distributed as 10 direct plus 2 x 2.5 damage as splash

if C3PO's memory serves correctly

Serves you just well this time. 10 plus 2x2.5 to adjacent components it is. Btw. this means if you hit an arm, you only deal 12.5 pts of damage, since arms only have one adjacent component.

[General Solo]

Got many a cherry red CT hitting a side torso
so they have their uses
I guess