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[Y E O N N E]

Spheroid, on 18 October 2018 - 10:41 AM, said:

Crits are a non-issue. Machine gun boats going for the kill prioritize legs or rear CT. Both those locations have little or no equipment to crit. The low TTK is from massive base line dps that is doubled against exposed structure. Altering crit behavior does not raise TTK.

Rear CT, yes. Legs, no, unless it's already weak.

Smarter MG-boat play is to hose down a rear side-torso and destroy a 'Mech's ability to fight, unless the 'Mech is light enough to kill through rear CT in the same amount of time. Critting out an ANH in seconds and then leaving it is a far more intelligent use of ammo than sitting there and hosing it to death.

[Shortpower]

Bush Hopper, on 18 October 2018 - 04:26 AM, said:

Oh man, MGs are still situational (require uptime, low range etc). Invest some points in crit reduction in the survival tree if you are bothered too much

Useless, maxed the survival tree and still lost weapons instantly to a 4 machine gun build in solaris (forget which mech as it was 2 days ago) but it's actually useless. The values would need to be multiplied 3-4x to actually be of value for reinforced casing

[Dragonporn]

I think every PIR pilot should run this in the background:

[Mcgral18]

Spheroid, on 18 October 2018 - 10:41 AM, said:

Crits are a non-issue. Machine gun boats going for the kill prioritize legs or rear CT. Both those locations have little or no equipment to crit. The low TTK is from massive base line dps that is doubled against exposed structure. Altering crit behavior does not raise TTK.

I mean, they're directly related

The bonus damage is because of Crits, hence the CritDamMult variable on MGs (and Flamers, Gauss and PPCs)
Increase damage, remove/reduce CritDamMult, and you have a more consistent, less ganky weapon

[Palor]

If PGI added a .1 heat to the MG;s of all types, it would make boating 12 of them not as easy.