Tarball, on 21 November 2012 - 02:16 PM, said:
I'd love to try all your suggestions but i can't see my screen due to the blur and shake. Otherwise i'd happily give your suggestions a try.
A. you don't have to see your screen to run away.
B. If your screen is blurred and shaken that means the screens of the rest of your lance are not.
C. You can ID a target at much longer range than that of an SSRM2.
Seems like you need to worry more about learning the basics of mech combat than about the balance of SSRM2s.
Complaining that a streakcat has the advantage at his optimal engagement range when he has already targeted you and is hitting is ignorant. If your complaint was valid then the streakcat driver could make an equally valid complaint about how he is helpless to engage anything beyond 270m. Oh noes, nerf lasers, autocannons, gauss rifles, PPCS, and LRMs!
...and before trying to shrug this off as the opinion of a streak cat driver know that I don't have a catapult in my mechbay. I drove the streakcat when it truly was overpowered and mastered it EXP-wise in a single day.
What I AM concerned about is the viability of SSRM2s on every other platform. After the previous nerf streaks were useless and I pulled them off of everything I had them on and replaced them with SRM4-6, and changed the role of my scout-hunter to flanking direct fire support. I also found my viability vs. the jenner disappear entirely in any other light or medium. I don't want to go back there.
Edited by random51, 21 November 2012 - 02:43 PM.