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[Coole]

I know this is a game, but I feel like I was just wondering if anybody else thought about this. A helicopter without a tail rotor has its fuselage spin in the opposite way of the rotor because of torque. Hence why most helicopters have a tail rotor, so it can counteract torque.
But mechs don't have tail rotors (that I know of), so how come a mech can twist its torso as if the torso are a helicopters rotors, and the legs are the fuselage. I think this is a legitimate question because mechs are in the air a lot, and poptarts, and jj, etc.
For the record, I'm not trying to nerf anything, but I am curious. Is it explained in lore? Have the devs brought this up? Am I not the master physicist that I like to believe I am (even though I'm no graduate)?

[Rocket Puppy]

Can you twist your torso mid air?

Same way a Mech does it, just several tons heavier.

[Protection]

For the same reasons that you, a human being, are able to torso twist in mid air.

No, seriously, jump and try it.

Mechs are not helicopters with legs.

[Khobai]

yep... the reason helicopters generate torque is because the rotors are producing lift. Mechs dont have the same torque because theyre not relying on rotors for lift. They just have superheated plasma that shoots out of nozzles and produces lift.

[Sephlock]

Is this thread the equal-but-opposite reaction to the other thread?

[Coole]

Khobai, on 14 March 2013 - 08:32 PM, said:

yep... the reason helicopters generate torque is because the rotors are producing lift. Mechs dont have the same torque because theyre not relying on rotors for lift. They just have superheated plasma that shoots out of nozzles and produces lift.

Thank you.