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[Voidsinger]

Prophet of Entropy, on 01 December 2012 - 10:36 PM, said:

also in TT it had a minimum range of 60m also in solaris rules it had a lower ROF then autocannons.

Just a minor nipick, but in the Solatis VII rules, it had exactly the same delay as an AC/20, 2 and all other ACs and the LB-X had a Dl of 1, except the AC/2 and MG which were 0.

Minimum ranges were in though.

Pedantic man strikes again.

Edited by Voidsinger, 02 December 2012 - 02:25 AM.

[Krivvan]

Bluten, on 01 December 2012 - 10:37 PM, said:

This guns needs some kind of nerf. It's the only Ballistic anyone ever uses!

Your knowledge is outdated. UAC5/s, AC/5s and AC/2s outnumber Gauss Rifles at the moment.

Edited by Krivvan, 02 December 2012 - 02:28 AM.

[Monky]

In all honesty, a ton of AC20 ammo, if hit, will cause 120 points of damage to you. Gauss rifle ammo is inert, therefore the only risk of using it can come from detonating the Gauss and making it fragile. As far as practicality, this simply puts in a partial disadvantage to using the Gauss that other ballistics already have.

The only builds this will make 'risky' are the Gauss in side torso + XL engine builds, as CASE won't help them. Every other ballistic is far more volatile if the ammo is struck than Gauss will ever be.

Edited by Monky, 02 December 2012 - 02:43 AM.

[OldChieftain]

I find them as fragile as most weapons. It is because most of the time these things are on Catapults, and the Cat carries it in it's side torsos which give it a fair amount of armor coverage and the odd arm in the way....I pretty much use zoom and aim for the RT of every mech I engage (except for Big Al, always the left eye...). then the left. This handles hunchies too. Streakcats are easily de-eared, and the ac frak boat can be litterally dis-armed....Though since there is nada in those torsos on the 4x picking a leg, where the ammo usually is hiding is easier....No, the weapon is no more fragile then any other really and it does occupy a number of critical slots making it easy to hit, it is a big, solid weapon.

[Lykaon]

Oxford, on 29 November 2012 - 11:49 PM, said:

Gauss Rifles are supposed to explode for 20 points of damage when they take a critical (as the capacitor banks explode).

Where that is coming from it the dreaded table top rules.
They are not nerfing anything.

Except the substantial reduction to internal health values that is.

This means that a gauss rifle is a large target taking up more than 50% of the available space in a given location that can house it.On top of that it will have fewer internal hitpoints making it easyer to KO than it is now,and that is it's very easy to KO now.And once it'***** and it's substantially reduced internal health is depleted it explodes.

I will give it a test but maybe reduced hitpoints AND exploding is a bit much.

[Zero Neutral]

Already swapped to AC/20 on my Catapult.

Already swapped to AC/20s on my Catapult.

[StandingCow]

I'm all for the change. You wanna snipe, better do it from a distance.