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[Felicitatem Parco]

How can we say "we don't know how much heat penalty stealth Armor will cause?"

Do you even know what stealth Armor is? It traps in your Mech's heat so it does not black-body radiate in the Infrared spectrum. That is how it makes you fall off heat vision sensors - it traps all your heat.

Engaing Stealth Armor will make you run as if you have 0 Heatsinks installed. That is how fast you will build-up heat. You will still have your same heat capacity, but you will shed zero heat while SA is engaged.

There is no controversy, missing information, or guessowrk here.

Edited by Prosperity Park, 03 May 2017 - 09:32 AM.

[N a p e s]

One nitpick, it's not like having zero heat sinks installed cause they do add to your maximum heat capacity but your heat dissipation goes to zero when the stealth armour is engaged.

Makes sense

[cazidin]

Alright, so in exchange for being imperceptible to thermal sensors, I have zero heat dissipation and this costs me tons and critical slots? Why take this, exactly?

[Juodas Varnas]

cazidin, on 03 May 2017 - 10:47 AM, said:

Alright, so in exchange for being imperceptible to thermal sensors, I have zero heat dissipation and this costs me tons and critical slots? Why take this, exactly?

Well, it sounds pretty cool
*STEALTH ARMOR*

[Karl Streiger]

Isn't it just 1 HPS (or 10 heat points per second)
Of course ERPPCs will be offlimit

[Admiral_Korean_Jesus]

Dual Guess Stealth Armor Boat, I dig it. Heat neutral ninja 30 damage pin point to your bum awesomeness kind of excites me.

[Necro Ash]

in TT it was same armor / tonne as standard armor and took 2 crits in all locations (except head).

Having it active was 10 heat per turn, maintainable for normal mechs if you're not doing anything (surveillance maybe?).

Also, in TT it changed the 2d6 to hit modifier for range from +0/+2/+4 to +2/+4/+8 for short / med / long.

It didn't make you "invisible" or some such.

I expect there to do no Dorito over the mech, and no "R" functions work on it while Stealth is active. Balance from Dev stream was something along the lines of not interacting with objectives while active either. If they can't "R" you, and you can't "R" them without turning it off it is a limited tool, with specific purposes.

Won't stop me from trying to get a whole bunch of Stealth ASN-DD's into one game at the same time though.

[Grey Ghost]

Mikato Soul, on 03 May 2017 - 12:13 PM, said:

Dual Guess Stealth Armor Boat, I dig it. Heat neutral ninja 30 damage pin point to your bum awesomeness kind of excites me.

Not possible. I don't know of any ECM Mechs (a requirement for Stealth Armor) on the I.S. side that can mount Dual Gauss.

[AnTi90d]

cazidin, on 03 May 2017 - 10:47 AM, said:

Alright, so in exchange for being imperceptible to thermal sensors, I have zero heat dissipation and this costs me tons and critical slots? Why take this, exactly?

The best idea I've heard, thusfar, is to only use it when missiles are locked on to you.

Toggle it on, walk a few steps into cover and toggle it back off.

So, I guess it's like an ultra AMS that only benefits one mech and earns no match score.