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[Victor Morson]

Recently, PGI has added hard point listings to 'mechs before you buy them, and updates us with the hard points available on each variant when released. There's just one problem... it doesn't indicate where.

That makes a massive difference.

Take for example an Awesome that has 2 missile hard points and 2 energy hard points in the CT. Not only does this mean you only have 2 crits to work with, but 2 of the hard points are shared!

I knew this ahead of time, of course, from reading the forums. It's not even a bad Awesome, do I don't mean to derail the point, the issue is that if I were a new player purchasing this 'mech without consulting the forums (something you should never be expected to do in a game like this), I would be EXTREMELY angry to find out I basically got "bait & switched" by the listing.

I bring this up now as I scour the forums for information on Cataphract hard points. I'm interested in the model with the 2 missile hard points, but again, if they are in the CT or shared with the ballistic or something, they're going to be useless to me and why I want the specific variant. Again, I think you should not have to go searching internet forums to find out basic information on an in-game purchase of an in-game 'mech.

Long story short, please break the hard points up by locations in the mechlab, if not the patch notes as well!

Edited by Victor Morson, 20 November 2012 - 01:21 PM.

[Eldridge]

Bumping. I was going to make a post about this myself, fortunately I found this one. Its not too old.

I defineitely agree with Victor on this, there should be some way to see where hardpoints are mounted BEFORE you purchase a mech. I think clicking on the hardpoint in the purchase screen should highlight the mech body parts that have that hardpoint on them. This would allow players who dont have all the mechbuilds memorized to know what they are getting.