1453 R, on 20 September 2022 - 01:33 PM, said:
Again: I have never once - not once - in the entire history of my playing this game seen someone choose to deliberately shut down to vent heat. Not since my recent return to the game, and not in the years I played it before then when I was higher tier and saw a wider swath of play. Not one single time, in every match I've observed, have I seen someone with their Override on decide "Okay, mission accomplished, time to preserve my 'Mech" and choose to manually shut down.
I do so semi regularly, I'm surprised you haven't seen this yourself. Sometimes it's advantageous too push DPS while in-cover by firing beyond the overheat level, even when I start with override on sometimes I will turn it off temporarily too force shutdown. If you're not taking damage and exposed safer and faster to overheat too "vent heat" and you can put out more damage that way then waiting for cooldown without damaging your own mech with override. So I don't know why you think it wouldn't be utilized? Unless I'm mistaken somehow with my strategy.
Edited by Carl_Johnson, 20 September 2022 - 03:01 PM.