Lorginir, on 17 June 2017 - 12:59 AM, said:
it isn't brutal, not really. ER small were already better than spls, these changes merely reinforces that.
Changes to IS smalls however once again indicates that PGI have no idea what and how they want to achieve.
Lorginir, on 17 June 2017 - 12:59 AM, said:
ER small were already better than spls, these changes merely reinforces that.
I can't tell whether i should be laughing
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Truth hurts? Poor little thing.
or vomiting. This is the kind of feedback that PGI litens to when they make decisions.
The cspl was considered marginally broken because its dps and boating potential were insane. The cersl's lighter weight came with a ton of caveats in return for advatages that were negated by better positioning. In a case where an ersl would outperform an cspl would almost always come down to being out of position since the extra heatsinks gained from an ersl wouldn't allow the carrying mech to out trade a cspl boat or mid range laser vomit @ the cersl optimal range anyway. This is why instead of switching between ersls and cpsls in comp, players instead would switch between the jenner iic A and ach for the same difference between sustained and burst dps.
The current changes are just asinine. The cersl is a worse isml that can't fill tonnage. The marginal increase in dps seen by the cspl is completely negated by the increased face time needed to use it, which detrimentally affects alot of mechs.
The Adder can no longer use ersls or cspls to compliment ballistics because there's too much face time required for the weapons to sync effectively. The adder isn't fast or manouverable enough to dodge around heavies and assaults to get the face time it needs.
The kit fox purifier loses its energy brawl and hybrid brawl builds because its defensive characteristics are worse than the adder's. The normal kit fox is beyond useless now for anythinv other than splat.
The arctic cheetah doesn't suffer as much as people think, since when armed with the B right torso it can maintain the facetime needed for that increased dps. However, this DOES kill build diversity. The srm builds were already mediocre, but now its main damage dealing component depends on facetime when the srms don't, dropping the build further into obscurity. The 5cspl and 6ersl builds are deader than a doornail because the required face time is too much, even for the cheetah.
The jenner IIC-A has been bricked. It used to be the energy brawler with sustain but horrible hitboxes to keep it under control. Then it grew massive, started handling like a truck nearly a year later, and now can't get its full dps out unless it circle strafes because it was hit absurdly hard by the engine desync. Don't tell me to mount medium lasers or mpls on it, because speaking as the single most prolific mpl jenner iic a user (second to shinvector maybe), that build died when the mobility nerf took hold.
The mist lynx has nearly the same mobility of old, allowing it to sit behind heavies relatively safely and take advantage of the spl's increased dps. But remember, its still a mist lynx, and there are still 101 other issues that this moderate buff to its playstyle doesn't nearly account for.
The Nova's hitboxes mean unless its able to put out offensive pressure, its going to evaporate. The sheer power of its spl burns allowed it to poke itself into optimal range and full commitment brawls. Since it can't even alpha strike to make up for the lost power and can't withstand the facetime needed for smalls, a whole niche has been killed off. My words for the Adder also apply to the hbkiic and stormcrow builds that rely on cspls, except its worse because they can't execute even a proper twist (max specced into mobility) in the new cooldown time for this laser! They are FORCED to facetank their opponent, or to fire off pathetic ghost heat limited volleys before retreating.
The ice ferret is utterly useless now outside of 5mls. Not even its ppc build has any use due to its mobility nerfs from skill tree introduction.
The Viper mg build might fare ok due to the large face time it needed before, but the spl and srm hybrids are screwed for reasons i mentioned in the arctic cheetah.
Also, gargoyles and executioners running ersls instead of cspls due to their speed have now been doubly hammered.
Hell i'm so far into this lets bring up the is small lasers. All the is laser changes have done are force all laser lights to adopt medium lasers. EXTREMELY few is mechs could even use the spl before, but now thats been broken, and the downsides are so universal for each mech that previously used to use it that I don't need to go into mech by mech detail.
Wtf PGI. Add onto this the wonderful grasshopper missle quirks, lrm kgc 000 quirks, addition of mobility to a plenty agile but power lacking medium, and now I too join the growing numher of players who don't think you play your own game.
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