Cato Zilks, on 20 August 2018 - 05:05 PM, said:
Yes, I agree. Twisting is good. But I never asked anybody in this thread if they thought twisting was good, if the Atlas needs armor quirks, or if the Cyclops was too nimble. I asked what yall think about having mechs be good in specifically one or two aspects of agility instead of being good or bad at all aspects.
Honestly, it kind of depends on what you're trying to do for a mech, and what role you want it to take. I think the general gist of the PTS changes were to make the mobility of generically underperforming chassis better, something that tweaking one or two attributes isn't going to do a huge job of doing.
That's not to say it couldn't in theory be used in more interesting ways - Take the dire wolf, for example- Its a mech that isn't suited well to brawling, even if it DID have good twisting - The nose is easy to hit from the side, the lack of shield arms, and the overall boxy, huge relatively unarmored profile don't fit the things you need to do a good brawler. We could instead give it good Acceleration and Deceleration, possibly even hill climbing speeds, to better make it a long ranged trader. In theory, you could do similar things between something like the MAD 2C and the MadCat2 Making the Marauder a better brawler, due to better profile, better twist, and better turn rate, but the MadCat gets better Acceleration, and better range quirks for better poking. You could also separate some of the big IS Assaults, making some of them have great torso twist, but fewer Armor quirks (Cyclops) while adding non-agility quirks to mechs that are similar, but slower (Like armor instead of agility on the mauler.) The bottom line is that yes, you could differentiate mechs more by separating out their various agility advantages.
Now, is that something worth persuing? Possibly, but it does add another dial to the mix, that has to be tuned accordingly. Tuning dozens of mechs in the fashion would take a lot of time and effort, and i'm not sure the juice is worth the squeeze in all honesty.
Edited by Daurock, 21 August 2018 - 12:30 PM.