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[DJMarine]

I finally decided to spend some of my MC and ended up buying the Yen Lo Wang, to go along with my Founders HBK. After playing with both now, I'm really wondering why I bought it.. Besides aeshetics, what separates the Yen from other medium mechs?

Looking at the stats of each, they're both mirror identical. Same tonnage, same firepower, heat efficiently is similar, same loadouts, and same armor stats. So what makes the Yen stand-out on the battlefield, what does this medium mech specialize in that other mediums do not? When fighting with it, what do I gain?

Outside of comparing these two mechs, it seems every mech within the same class (except heavies and assault maybe - I can't comment on those as I haven't played them) all play the same. If it wasn't for trying to complete the trees, I really see no incentive at all to purchase more than one mech per class as the differences are negligible. If anything, I can simply adjust the loadout of one to match that of a different mech.

So I'm wondering if I'm missing something, or should more be done to add character and uniqueness to each mech in terms of ability. Should certain systems be unique to certain mechs maybe?

Edited by JayTac, 25 December 2012 - 12:21 PM.

[Merky Merc]

With the yen lo you gain 30% more space moneys?

ECMs are unique to some chassis?

Every chassis is unique given hardpoints and arm swings and whatnot?

[salmjuha]

There are a lot of mech chassis that play just about the same but there are a lot of exceptions. ECM is a bonus, but for example while most catapults are built mainly for missiles, the K2 is actually a sniper platform. Also the Cataphract 4x feels somewhat different from it's brothers in that its mainly ballistics platform and has it's main ballistics weaponry in arms rather than torso.

There are other exceptions but these come to mind first. There's couple pretty different playstyle awesomes as well.

If you are wondering if the centurion(which yen is) has anything going for it compared to other mechs, it's its versatility and mobility. It's not the most damaging or the most durable, not even the fastest medium, but it has a decent set of everything. Good centurion players are scary. Same applies to the dragon. I can't do well in a dragon but I see people who destroy me and everyone else in that damn thing.

Edited by salmjuha, 25 December 2012 - 12:39 PM.

[SirLANsalot]

The wang and the 4g are the same setup and is why the wang is a pointless mech if you have a founders (hell any of the current heros are). Like the DRG-FLAME is the same setup you can get on a Catatphract 2x, you can set both mechs up with AC20 2x LL and walk all over everyone, which is the same setup a HBK-4G has only with LL instead of ML. The only hero mech I can see as something special is the Murmets, as there is no other mech that has that config (at the moment) or can do its build. The closest thing is the 4X but its mounts are in the arms only vs having one in each arm and one in the torso.

Case in point, hero mechs are for people who do not have founders. They are the same mechs you can get normally with same or similar setups that are seen in other mechs. They may be not in the same chassis but there configs, can and do, exist in other mechs.