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[The6thMessenger]

IIRC, LRMs was geared for DPS, which is balanced out by inconsistency. Is that really a good mix? Cause it would end up being too powerful if you could make it reliable, and you can make it reliable with team-effort and/or poor enemy skill. Combine that with the IDF role, it can be really frustrating because you got arguably no-risk weapon doing the most Sustained DPS versus actually risky weapon.

The first changes are the buff to the homing system. The point of the easy-weapon is that it's cheap, and easy to hit, the lock-cone nerf defeats the point of a supposedly easy-weapon. It's not put at it's former glory of 45 degree cone though, but investment with Targetting Computers, would allow a good compromise.

Homing Buff:
- Lock Cone from 25 to 35
- TC adds 3/5/7/9/11/13/15/17 degree to the lock.
- LRMs and ATMs are also Fire-And-Forget

Here's a relatively simple rework that should be available for XML change:

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iLRM
Damage/Missile: 1.35
Ammo/Ton: 150 (from 240)
Damage/Ammo-Ton: 202.5 (from 240)
Velocity: 240

LRM5
Damage: 6.75 (from 5)
DPS: 1.0385 (from 1.54)
Cooldown: 6.5s
Missile Health: 1.3 (6.5 total health)
Heat: 2.97

LRM10
Damage: 13.5 (from 10)
DPS: 1.8243 (from 2.70)
Cooldown: 7.4s
Missile Health: 1.2 (12 total-health)
Heat: 4.86

LRM15
Damage: 20.25 (from 15)
DPS: 2.53 (from 3.75)
Cooldown: 8.0s
Missile Health: 1.1 (16.5 total health)
Heat: 6.075

LRM20
Damage: 27 (from 20)
DPS: 3.1395 (from 4.65)
Cooldown: 8.6s
Velocity: 240
Missile Health: 1.0 (20 total health)
Heat: 7.29

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CLRM
Damage/Missile: 1.15
Ammo/Ton: 150 (from 240)
Damage/Ammo-Ton: 172.5 (from 240)
Velocity: 240

CLRM5
Damage: 5.75 (from 5)
DPS: 0.8846 (from 1.43)
Cooldown: 6.5s
Missile Health: 1.4 (7 total health)
Heat: 2.76

CLRM10
Damage: 11.5 (from 10)
DPS: 1.554 (from 2.50)
Cooldown: 7.4s
Missile Health: 1.3 (13 total-health)
Heat: 4.6

CLRM15
Damage: 17.25 (from 15)
DPS: 2.15625 (from 3.49)
Cooldown: 8.0s
Missile Health: 1.2 (18 total health)
Heat: 5.75

CLRM20
Damage: 23 (from 20)
DPS: 2.67442 (from 4.35)
Cooldown: 8.6s
Velocity: 240
Missile Health: 1.1 (22 total health)
Heat: 6.9

The point of these LRM changes is to gear LRMs from DPS towards Alpha. The increase in damage should allow small individual launchers to be a bit better alone, more bang/ton, however this is balanced by really long cooldown that translates to lower dps, and low ammo count. The point of the low-ammo-count is to make the choice of LRMs more compromising for people need more tonnage to compensate, and to make boating less attractive.

The point of the low ROF higher-damage LRMs is to have it more tactical and not spammable, and with less ammunition makes missed shots a lot more wasteful which makes spamming even more discouraged and make LRMs less annoying, likewise less missile in the air means AMS is more impactful. It also achieves the lower sustained-DPS for a supposedly risk-free weapon. Pair this with TCs, then it's even more compromising to the build when they chose to make it even easier to get a lock.

To balance the superiority of Clan-Tech, I have made the distinction between damage/missile than cool-down instead. To put this into perspective, the Clan LRM20 is at 5 tons, the IS LRM20 is at 10 tons. That being said, due to the stream-fire nature, the CLRMs do have higher missile health.

ATM Changes:

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CATM
Damage/Missile: 1.8/2.4/3
Minimum Range: none
Volley Interval: 0.10s
Ammo/Ton: 105
Damage/Ammo-Ton: 315
Velocity: 270

ATM3
Damage: 5.4/7.2/9
DPS: 0.6/0.8/1
Cooldown: 9s
Missile Health: 2 (6 total-health)
Heat: 3

ATM6
Damage: 10.8/14.4/18
DPS: 1.08/1.44/1.8
Cooldown: 10s
Missile Health: 1.9 (11.4 total-health)
Heat: 5

ATM9
Damage: 16.2/21.6/27
DPS: 1.62/2.16/2.7
Cooldown: 10.0s
Missile Health: 1.8 (16.2 total health)
Heat: 7

ATM12
Damage: 21.6/28.8/36
DPS: 2.16/2.88/3.6
Cooldown: 10s
Missile Health: 1.7 (20.4 total health)
Heat: 9

The ATM change is there to further differentiate from the LRMs. The ATM retains it's sweet-spot damage, but it's mid-range and long-range damage is tweaked to have a narrower differences, to make them less of an ammo-waste when not using it at the sweet spot. The mid-range damage also makes it more competitive with the LRMs, only losing out on the sustained damage, and being heavier and more vulnerable against ams.

The increased volley interval is to further spread the volley of the ATMs, they still deal their damage but a wider duration as opposed of a quick burst. This is to normalize it with the LRMs.

Without minimum-range, it is more different than LRMs and is truly more usable at a wider band of range, like the ATMs is supposed to be. The close-range vulnerability is still reflected with lower-DPS/ton versus SRM.

Misc Changes:

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SRMs

CSRM Damage: 2.15
CSRM2 Damage: 4.3
CSRM2 DPS: 2.15
CSRM2 Missile Health: 1.2 (2.4 Total)
CSRM4 Damage: 8.6
CSRM4 DPS: 2.8667
CSRM4 Missile Health: 1.1 (4.4 Total)
CSRM6 Damage: 12.9
CSRM6 DPS: 3.44
CSRM6 Missile Health: 1 (12 Total)

iSSSRM Range: 360m
iSRM Damage: 2.35
iSRM2 Damage: 4.7
iSRM2 DPS: 2.35
iSRM2 Missile Health: 1.3 (2.6 Total)
iSSRM2 CD: 3
iSRM4 Damage: 9.4
iSRM4 DPS: 3.1333
iSRM4 Missile Health: 1.2 (4.8 Total)
iSSRM4 CD: 4.5
iSRM6 Damage: 14.1
iSRM6 DPS: 3.76
iSRM6 Missile Health: 1.1 (6.6 Total)
iSSRM6 CD: 6

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MRM

MRM10 Missile Health: 0.8 (8 Total)
MRM20 Missile Health: 0.7 (14 total)
MRM30 Missile Health: 0.6 (18 total)
MRM40 Missile Health: 0.5 (20 total)

Health Adjustment based from here: https://mwomercs.com...e-vs-ams-chart/

The SRM damage buff is merely to make it more competitive, and produce a better brawling scene. The iSSRMs are now made consistent with C-SSRMs, this is to put them on a mid-range niche than simply a side-grade of the actual iSRMs. With the suggested ATM changes, the SSRMs still have the advantage of bone-targetting and actually higher DPS and ROF. The health of the MRMs and SRMs are still also buffed.

As always, the numbers are not fixed, they are just there to convey the concept.

Edited by The6thMessenger, 27 March 2019 - 03:11 PM.

[Livaria]

I wasn't so sure at first, but It does make a fair amount of sense the more I thought about. So perhaps this is worthwhile to consider.