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[BoomDog]

Reading and rereading about ECM gave me a queasy feeling in my stomach.

I can see how pre-mades can adapt to this tech, and it would increase teamwork and strategy.

However, as a pugger, I can see lots of problems. Unless I'm misunderstanding how it works.

Currently, scout mechs have been turned into fighter planes. They don't scout as much as they make use of their speed to avoid damage and do strafing runs, or just circle strafe you. This works surprisingly well once you add in the lagshield.

So wouldn't ECM just turn them into stealth fighters? Now throw in your flickering battlegrid and HUD. Isn't it hard enough to keep them in your sights without this? I don't use streaks, but I can see why people with high pings use them on lights. Now those would be useless too.

I pilot a fast medium, so there's been several times I've returned to base to attempt to drive off base cappers. Now throw in that you're not going to get any LRM support to help drive them out. People using streaks aren't going to go anywhere near cap. And lets be honest, TAG would be useless from a distance trying to keep it on a fast light.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding the system. If so, please fill me in.

[BoomDog]

So am I interpreting this right or not?