Knightshadowsong, on 16 January 2018 - 05:41 AM, said:
So this is the reason for all the unity forsaken MG boats! For Unity's sake! Those things are insanely OP! NERF THEM! NERF THEM HARD! Like I don't care if they do a bit more damage, But the crit chance needs to drop by more then half! a .50 cal wouldn't be able to tear through Battle-mech armor like tissue paper (and yes it dose no matter what you people say) And most Mech weapons wouldn't be destroyed by a .50 cal. They are Anti infantry weapons. NOT ANTI MECH! and before you say it. A10's gun is NOT a 50 cal. look it up. and even if it was, BT Armor is much stronger then current armor. so even an A10's gun couldn't go through it.
The whole battletech universe is highly illogical. Comparing BT with any real world logic makes not much sense. To enjoy the lore you need to abandon everything you know about engineering and physics.
But for the sake of argument let's compare BT to reality anyway:
So even if Battlemech machine guns are .50 cal like you suggest, why do you assume they use the same ammo as our real-world weapons do?
What if it's the ammo construction that penetrates the mech, and not the caliber?
For example take tank-ammo. We developed lots of different shell types (HEAT, Sabot, APCR/HVAP, HESH/HEP) to deal with advancements in tank-protection (sloped-, spaced-, reactive armor, ect.). Modern tank ammo can penetrate much stronger armor than WWII ones of the same caliber did. So why shouldn't future shells be able to penetrate even better armor like the ones Mechs would use? The caliber is only one of many variables.
And btw why do you even argue about penetrating armor? MGs only crit when the armor is already gone, so they just need to penetrate the much weaker structure to destroy vital components like weapons. Totally imaginable even with today's realistic guns.
But all this is totally irrelevant because a competitive game's balance don't care about such lore details. What count's is if the weapon is overperforming or not, but not how realistic or true to the lore it is.
Edited by Daggett, 16 January 2018 - 10:32 AM.