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#1 eminus

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Posted 23 May 2018 - 03:11 AM

the CDA-2B which 80% of its weapons are in the arms and now you remove armor points from them?

#2 El Bandito

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Posted 23 May 2018 - 03:16 AM

Haven't driven Cicada-2B ever since Crab-27B became a thing. Are those arms super fragile now?

#3 eminus

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Posted 23 May 2018 - 03:27 AM

View PostEl Bandito, on 23 May 2018 - 03:16 AM, said:

Haven't driven Cicada-2B ever since Crab-27B became a thing. Are those arms super fragile now?



from 24 armor down to 18, it is comparable to an arm of a myst linx now

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Posted 23 May 2018 - 04:28 AM

Don’t forget that the X5 also has two of it’s six hardpoints now gimped. Haven’t tested for sure, but since it was not singled out as not having the change. Farewell quad laser and splat builds.

Just getting unbelievably.


#5 El Bandito

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Posted 23 May 2018 - 04:29 AM

View Posteminus, on 23 May 2018 - 03:27 AM, said:

from 24 armor down to 18, it is comparable to an arm of a myst linx now


Yeah but unlike the Lynx no one deliberately targets Cicada's arms. Also Cicada-2B has +12 structure on both arms.

#6 eminus

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Posted 23 May 2018 - 04:38 AM

View PostEl Bandito, on 23 May 2018 - 04:29 AM, said:


Yeah but unlike the Lynx no one deliberately targets Cicada's arms. Also Cicada-2B has +12 structure on both arms.


no because the arms of the cicada are nothing but also a torso

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Posted 23 May 2018 - 04:39 AM

View PostEl Bandito, on 23 May 2018 - 04:29 AM, said:


Yeah but unlike the Lynx no one deliberately targets Cicada's arms. Also Cicada-2B has +12 structure on both arms.

maybe not, but they still eat a fair amount of incidental hits due to their placement and size. it seems like there wasn't a whole lot of thought put into this change.

#8 El Bandito

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Posted 23 May 2018 - 04:39 AM

View Posteminus, on 23 May 2018 - 04:38 AM, said:

no because the arms of the cicada are nothing but also a torso


???


View Postcougurt, on 23 May 2018 - 04:39 AM, said:

maybe not, but they still eat a fair amount of incidental hits due to their placement and size. it seems like there wasn't a whole lot of thought put into this change.


I'm sure they'll change it soon enough. Just keep tweeting Russ about it.

Edited by El Bandito, 23 May 2018 - 04:40 AM.


#9 eminus

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Posted 23 May 2018 - 06:07 AM

they need to be sober when they are trying to balance things out

#10 Nightbird

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Posted 23 May 2018 - 06:10 AM

The same thing could be said about blanket statements

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Posted 23 May 2018 - 08:47 AM

I dunno, I mean yeah once in a while someone will shoot it's alpha and it'll hit your arm and blow a weapon.. but in most cases your torso will just last longer. So overall, even if some variants relay on their arms, I see no problem with this change. I like it

#12 Khobai

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Posted 23 May 2018 - 08:51 AM

not sure why they had to remove max arm armor

when they couldve just given side torso quirks instead

#13 MechaBattler

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Posted 23 May 2018 - 09:54 AM

Well I mean Cicada 'arms' aren't exactly huge. And even if they get it. Better the arm goes than the side torso?

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Posted 23 May 2018 - 04:25 PM

I don't know about the Cicada's arms but when I saw my Jenner's arms only have 14 armor now, I was like, "Is this a joke". Almost all a Jennerr's firepower is in its arms and with only 14 armor, even a near miss is going to be removing those suckers. I have zero desire to ever consider taking my Jenner's into a match again.

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Posted 23 May 2018 - 04:44 PM

View PostViktor Drake, on 23 May 2018 - 04:25 PM, said:

I don't know about the Cicada's arms but when I saw my Jenner's arms only have 14 armor now, I was like, "Is this a joke". Almost all a Jennerr's firepower is in its arms and with only 14 armor, even a near miss is going to be removing those suckers. I have zero desire to ever consider taking my Jenner's into a match again.


Yeah, rather lose a side torso than an arm!

Wait...

#16 Shadowomega1

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Posted 23 May 2018 - 04:48 PM

Was pretty much going to say you are more likely to lose the torso attached to the arm then the arm itself. Even more so now with streaks going for torso's more than limbs.

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Posted 23 May 2018 - 05:25 PM

Yup, my ballistic Jaegers now only have 37 max armor in the arms where all the weapons reside.

The only positive is that many still shoot torso - but if they start shooting arms I'll be neutered quickly.


But 37 max armor on the arm of a heavy is where weapons reside.... is .... really... really.... dumb.

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Posted 23 May 2018 - 05:30 PM

View PostMechaBattler, on 23 May 2018 - 09:54 AM, said:

Well I mean Cicada 'arms' aren't exactly huge.



You're joking, right?

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My X-5 in inventory. Painted it nice an lime green so you can see. That's blocking more than 50% of the side torso. Used to be great for getting out of bad situations where the potatoes on my solo QP team were too busy rocking back and forth mumbling "this is not happening, this is not happening" instead of playing the game. Now, not so much. Gone in two hits or less instead of three depending on what is shooting at me.

#19 eminus

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Posted 23 May 2018 - 07:49 PM

View PostKodiakGW, on 23 May 2018 - 05:30 PM, said:



You're joking, right?

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My X-5 in inventory. Painted it nice an lime green so you can see. That's blocking more than 50% of the side torso. Used to be great for getting out of bad situations where the potatoes on my solo QP team were too busy rocking back and forth mumbling "this is not happening, this is not happening" instead of playing the game. Now, not so much. Gone in two hits or less instead of three depending on what is shooting at me.



this is what I mean that a CICADA's arm is nothing but a side torso

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Posted 23 May 2018 - 08:24 PM

All these juicy lights... My dual HGauss love your delicious components.





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