MechMaster059, on 22 April 2024 - 05:52 PM, said:
Tags are absolutely worth using. I consider a Light Tag a requirement for STREAKs. Without it your mech will be hard-countered by any mech equipped with an ECM. You only need to stay out of the 90m bubble for your Light Tag to still be able to give you a lock. The lock time reduction is also a big deal for STREAKs making it much easier to get a successful hit against enemy light mechs zipping around.
A Tag will dramatically increase the lethality of ATMs because the spread reduction means a majority of the ATMs will slam into the enemy mechs CT even at long range.
Remember, TAG's lock-time reduction and spread reduction apply only on IDF locks. So mounting a TAG on your own mech will never give you those benefits. It only makes an ECM shielded or active stealth protected mech targetable (red brackets).
Valley Pirate, on 22 April 2024 - 08:32 PM, said:
So for everyone giving me crap for not knowing that it doesn't work within ECM range, or that it's not a 'hard counter' etc -
The weapon tool-tip LITERALLY SAYS "Counters ECM."
That's it. No caveats or exceptions. Just COUNTERS ECM.
So it's only good on a brawler, who will need to be within a few hundred meters max. Now it's also no good inside of 90 meters. I'm already sacrificing cover and putting myself in a tough position by brawling. Not to mention giving away my position with a bright red laser that I MUST keep active. And the tool-tip is straight-up wrong.
So yeah, I'm salty about it. But more than that, the equipment need to be changed to be worth having at all. Not sure why a direct-sight laser guidance system being somehow WORSE at close range makes any sense, but there you have it.
Edit: thought I'd also mention that I do, in fact, have a light Beagle on the 'Mech where this is happened, meaning I'm now wasting even more tonnage and slots for zero gain. Granted it may have been crit out at this point, but I don't recall being open anywhere at the time this went down.
Yeah, we all know that the tooltips are badly worded at best, flatout wrong at worst. You can have a fit about it, or educate yourself about it as best as possible. There's a fine (and what's more important, up to date) wiki about all kinds of stuff on
https://mwo.nav-alpha.com/wiki
From a lore standpoint, your laser-guidance system needs some radio connection to the missile it guides and that is scrambled by the ECM. You could also ask yourself why a tiny red beam of light would not only bypass, but outright shutdown an electric device.
Edited by Aidan Crenshaw, 22 April 2024 - 09:37 PM.