MechWarrior5782621, on 14 January 2023 - 12:16 PM, said:
I'm excited to finally have a new clan mech, clan snub PPCs, clan MRMs, clan heavy gauss, etc. It's about time!
Another suggestion: give us the option to save a loadout & skill tree together. This would make it much more convenient instead of having to switch both of them separately each time.
So weapons missing from the near-future timeline:
Anti-Personnel Gauss (Clan)/Magshot Gauss (IS)
Hyper Assault Gauss 20/30/40 (Clan)
Light Autocannon 2/5 (IS)
Improved Heavy Gauss (IS)
Improved Heavy Lasers (Clan)
Reflective/Reactive Armor (both?)
Streak LRMs (Clan, 3080's or later)
Chemical Lasers (Clan, super-far-future)
Artemis V (vs current Artemis IV. Not sure when, or what the real difference is).
Not likely to see any artillery systems due to crit-splitting and range longer than biggest map diameter (so no Arrows, Snipers, Long Toms, etc).
EDIT: Plasma Rifles (IS)/Plasma Cannons (Clan) (ammo-based giant flamers).
EDIT2: MML (IS). Kuritan take on ATMs, but with only two range/damage brackets instead of 3.
I like the paired save suggestion. I'm thinking it'd simply come with an overall cost that you either can or can't afford. I think that would lend itself well to choosing loadouts pre-match, which is something lots of people have requested over the years, but which only makes sense for Omnimechs, and would lead into a good reason to introduce IS Omnis.
Edited by C337Skymaster, 15 January 2023 - 05:30 PM.