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[Bilskirnir_]

I was curious about why there are two different style of reticule tracking for the centurion.

As when i have played all of the different centurion i noticed two follow the arms and can actually use them to fire to the sides. While the other two follow the torso and the arms drag along, this one you cannot fire on the sides.

The two break down into the two categories:

Arm-tracing:
CN9-A
CN9-AL

Torso-tracing:
Yen-Lo-Wang
CN9-D


I don't know if this is by design or not, but i play each kind i feel the Torso-tracing versions are completely inferior as the centurion is more reliant on it's right arm weapon. When i tracing with it's arm you are more likely guaranteed to hit then when compared to the torso-tracing weapons which are laser and missile which can be generally be less accurate since they are not your main weapon most of the time.

I don't know if this is by design or not

Why I am posting this in the suggestion forum is as a suggestion to please keep the consistency of arm-tracing with the centurion across the board, because it makes the torso-tracing ones inferior and frustrating when piloting.

Thanks!

[Willie Sauerland]

For clarification purposes: There are two reticles - one for the torso and one for the arms. Is this what you are talking about?

I thought all mechs had both these reticles. While the reticles (like the Catapult) are very often in the same place, most other mechs have the round reticle which moves in relation to the arms to make aiming them easier. The awesome, because of the wider arm movement can even have the circle arm reticle move off the HUD.

Are these the two reticles you are talking about or am I missing something?

[Bilskirnir_]

What i am talking about is the lead recticule. One of the two always leads and the other follows. For the Centurion two version of it track differently then the other two.

Edited by DigitalStef, 12 December 2012 - 06:45 PM.

[Alfred VonGunn]

Look at the arms the weapons are in.. They don;t all have the same number of Actuators.. This effects arm movements.. the Circle is the Arm Ret. The Cross hairs is the torso weapons..

[Roland]

The wang has no lower arm actuator. That's why it can pack a AC20 in its arm.

This means that it can only articulate up and down, and not to the sides. Thus, the arm reticle will only move up and down from the torso reticle.

With a centurion like the Cent-9A, you have lower arm actuators. That lets you aim to the left and right of where the torso is aiming.