Mason Grimm, on 10 January 2012 - 05:48 AM, said:
Normally I try not to post twice in a thread with only one respond in between but when someone throws down the Logic Gauntlet™ I just have to rear my ugly bald head!
Say we do it how you want; we make sure that the weapon pods are separate hitboxs and don't affect the torso at all because "they are disconnected". That means, due to their size, they probably get less armor than the torso right?
KABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM
You have been hit while sneaking around a hill because someone saw your bulky pods moving in the distance. Now what are you going to do? Your reloads have just suffered an ammo explosion since the "pod" was wiped out. This damage transfers inwards, as per core rules (and even logic dictates you cannot ignore this rule).
Now what does your logic tell you?
"But but but but the clans have CASE and that protects the rest of the mech since only the section with the ammo is destroyed (to paraphrase this rule)". Great, so now you have created a weapon system with no negative drawbacks to it's use. Essentially an "I win cause I can sneak around anywhere and still have my missiles fire without worrying about taking any damage rendering me combat ineffective" button.
It is what it is. This is how the mech was designed.
People will still play the machine becaue they love the look of it or they want to be Aiden Pryde or whatever their reasons are. The mech is still effective when used in it's proper roles.
And yet I don't think people had problems with separate armour for the pods in (bashing my head begins in 3...2...1...) MW4. You could still pretty easily destroy the pods but they weren't in the insta-gib situation like you're trying to portray in your post. I still stand by my point.
By the by that "sarcasm" was totally unnecessary Mr IThinkImBetter'CauseImAnCommunityModerator.