Why No Love For The Ppc?
#1
Posted 13 November 2012 - 05:39 PM
#2
Posted 13 November 2012 - 06:44 PM
An ER Large Laser gets you more range, no travel time, fewer slots and tonnage, and barely less damage with barely more heat.
An AC/2 gets you more range, roughly same tonnage and slots, less heat, and more dps with the same travel time drawback.On larger mechs where hardpoints are the bottleneck rather than tonnage, guass becomes a more attractive choice for long range heavy hitting.
Edited by BOOMLegShot, 13 November 2012 - 06:47 PM.
#3
Posted 13 November 2012 - 06:56 PM
The dev's refuse to balance the current gauss to match the TT variant in both aspects, min range and ammo capacity.
The ammo per ton buffs in the close beta made everything even worse regarding the Gauss's general utility over everything else.
Edited by Mordegar, 13 November 2012 - 06:57 PM.
#4
Posted 13 November 2012 - 09:39 PM
It's like the Granddad you have that comes over every Christmas who's slowly losing his marbles. Everyone talks about how awesome he used to be, but all you know of him is his maniacal laughter while he craps behind the TV.
What were we talking about again?
#5
Posted 13 November 2012 - 10:21 PM
Secondly, it's hard to balanse the energy weapon of AC10 damage potential, but it's heating level is way too much still.
#6
Posted 14 November 2012 - 12:19 AM
#7
Posted 14 November 2012 - 02:18 AM
#9
Posted 14 November 2012 - 04:05 AM
#10
Posted 14 November 2012 - 04:11 AM
#11
Posted 14 November 2012 - 04:23 AM
#12
Posted 14 November 2012 - 04:23 AM
however PPC's are really good to those who gets practice with them.
be surprised how much volley's/damage you can get out of 1 erppc.
guass has had to unique ability to brake through lag compared to most guns for the last few months.
this to me is the main factor of why guass is used over ppc's.
#13
Posted 14 November 2012 - 04:42 AM
skooter, on 14 November 2012 - 02:19 AM, said:
I saw a vid of you! Fk that was funny...
Haha, although that was not my video, the build I used was almost identical.
I got a few funny remarks when I got the (rare) one shot or people wondering why I was sitting still for so long. Not practical but so worth it.
#15
Posted 14 November 2012 - 05:31 AM
If I were in charge of balancing them, I would drop their heat by 1 for PPCs and 2 for erPPCs, then we would finally see a sniping alternative. Yes they ought to have disadvantages, because of the no need for ammo, but currently the disadvantages of heat far out weigh the benefit.
I hope that gives another perspective to PPC's, my 'feel' comes from spending some time getting used to them and trying builds of all shapes and sizes in their current guise. I like them, but like LL's more currently for the same job.
#16
Posted 14 November 2012 - 05:35 AM
As an old TT guy, I know I was looking forward to marching around in something Warhammer style - twin PPCs blazing. The number of heat sinks you need to do that has approached stupid though, I think it's something like 30 heat sinks to keep each PPC from cooking you off. DHS help somewhat, but still only some.
That being said, when I buy my K2 I plan on sticking with PPCs. Then again, I'm one of those guys that insists on using a joystick even though I could get finer aiming with a mouse.
#17
Posted 14 November 2012 - 06:42 AM
#18
Posted 14 November 2012 - 10:19 AM
#19
Posted 14 November 2012 - 03:20 PM
The ERs are just too hot for the damage they put out: Three of them, with 20 DSHSs, in an Awesome-8Q can fire twice before shutting down, for all of 30 points in a strike, if the damn things converge, which appears to be a problem as they weigh 7 tons each.
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#20
Posted 19 November 2012 - 09:29 AM
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