The6thMessenger, on 08 March 2018 - 04:19 AM, said:
I actually agree with this.
I get that lights are hard to pilot, but they shouldn't be face-tanking assaults and heavies as they hug them literally in the front and get away with it.
A piranha or mist-lynx literally eating away my front-armor just i couldn't hit it because i couldn't look down enough from an Atlas or anni shouldn't happen. If it were from the rear understandable, but on the front where I could bear my weapons, and these little buggers are just eating me away like nothing, that's just wrong.
I get that lights are hard to pilot, but they shouldn't be face-tanking assaults and heavies as they hug them literally in the front and get away with it.
A piranha or mist-lynx literally eating away my front-armor just i couldn't hit it because i couldn't look down enough from an Atlas or anni shouldn't happen. If it were from the rear understandable, but on the front where I could bear my weapons, and these little buggers are just eating me away like nothing, that's just wrong.
Annihilator specifically does in fact have enough arm hardpoints to kill a facehugging 20 tonner quickly enough that humping doesn't work well. Now it's often not worth it to put those weapons there, but that is more because leg humping isn't actually that prevalent, the point beaing that you can build so it's not weak to lights, and if you don't that's more of a testament to light defence not being worth the investment because in reality lights aren't strong enough to warrant it, just like AMS usually aren't worth it because LRMs are so weak.
It simply pays of way more over time to just ignore the existence of lights and LRMs and just build focused damage dealers, and then just eat up the odd match where you get out of position and die to those things. But you can't then, after making this choice, use those odd matches to complain about the things that killed you being OP.
Edited by Sjorpha, 08 March 2018 - 06:08 AM.