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[Mattressi]

So, I've bought a CN9-A and I'm trying to put more armor on its CT. I've taken off my LRMs plus ammo, so I've easily got enough weight for it. The problem I'm having is that it says the max armor is 64, but the most I can actually get is 50. I have 32 default, and apparently have 18 "available". So, I put the 18 on and nothing. I've still got enough weight for more and I've easily got enough money to buy more. I've tried dragging more armor onto it, but that doesn't work either.

I know this is probably a simple thing, but I've tried searching and can't find anything on it. So, how do I add more armor to my available armor? Or simply, how do I reach max armor?

[Arcturious]

Max includes rear armor, if you add rear and front together you get the maximum. It's a balancing act to decide how you portion it out.

[Mattressi]

Thanks so much for that! I never thought to try taking armor off the back. I just figured that back parts were completely separate entities.

[Adrius91]

That confused me when I was new as well.

[Thirdrail]

Yeah, I also found this baffling. The way it's presented is a little squirrelly. Luckily a nice person in a match explained it to me.

[razorjack]

how shooting other mechs works ? how to deal damage ?
you first need to break an armour in some place and after then you can deal damage hitting that place ??

[nungunz]

razorjack, on 04 November 2012 - 03:00 PM, said:

how shooting other mechs works ? how to deal damage ?
you first need to break an armour in some place and after then you can deal damage hitting that place ??

Missile and Ballistics deal all their damage at once (IE and AC/20 does 20 damage to the location it hits, each SRM missile deals 2.5 damage to the location it hits.). For example if you shoot that AC/20 and hit a Jenner in the center torso (say 30 armor on the front center torso), it will now have 10 armor left (30 - 20 = 10).

Once the armor is gone, you need to destroy the internal structure (I have no idea how many points of damage this is).


Both types of lasers (regular and pulse) do their damage over time. A medium laser does 5 damage....so if you hold the laser over the right torso for 0.2 second, over the center torso for 0.7 seconds, then over the cockpit for 0.1 seconds you will do the following damage:

Right Torso: 1 damage
Center Torso: 3.5 damage
Cockpit: 0.5 damage