Yeonne Greene, on 02 July 2017 - 08:25 AM, said:
You can already close up on a Gauss boat fast enough and with enough output that it becomes a contest of who can get the damage where they want it sooner, as you described in your post. A contest of skill. You can't do it with Medium lasers, mind you, but you can do it with pulse lasers or SRMs. There's also the torso pitch mechanic which can be exploited against the likes of the Battlemaster, Night Gyr, Mauler, etc.
So, ironically (or not), that hypothetical concept is already how MWO is...just not in public queue because the people who play this game are, frankly, miserable at it.
In your own words, you effectively need the more front loaded weapons in order to achieve it. FLD vs Semi-FLD isn't quite FLD vs DPS. In the end, everything relies on FLD in MWO, or it is considered to be "woefully underpowered." So while the concept is somewhat there, it's also quite incomplete. And that makes me a very sad puppy. But that's why I work on the stuff I work on. And who knows, maybe one day I'll be able to take my crack at a BT Sim. Or maybe I'll use all I learn and conceptualize to make an inspired semi-knockoff franchise.
Or maybe it'll all remain a fantasy in my head and maybe in a few animations.
(I'm currently working on a faction warfare style introduction and planetary campaign concept, with a story-esque narration, some description of gameplay, reference images [using Megamek], and the intent to rival the popularity of
this Faction Warfare concept which netted a total of 131 likes on its original posting and an additional 27 likes in a subsequent repost on a related but ultimately unpopular thread. We'll see how well received it is when I'm done.)
Edited by Koniving, 02 July 2017 - 10:15 AM.