Codejack, on 23 January 2013 - 06:34 AM, said:
I think that if they are going to defenestrate the old TT/MW EW system, as they have with ECM, the least they could do is make BAP useful, and since TAG works outside the bubble, it makes sense that BAP should work inside the bubble, i.e. a more powerful sensor that can "burn through" ECM.
This is probably the best suggestion I've heard on this. That said, the one thing that seems to be missing with BAP is the actual active probing. I have found myself being targetted by LRMs when I have no target myself when equipped with a BAP. Technically speaking, once an opponent gets a lock on a mech with a BAP the BAP should be able to lock onto them (assuming the targetted mech isn't already targeting someone else), irregardless of whether or not the LRM armed mech is covered by ECM. Basically, the BAP is targeting the source of the incoming missile lock. If ECM scrambles that, it would also scramble the missile lock itself, making it useless near LRMs.
So...yeah...a potential fix to ECM is to make BAP able to cut through any ECM interference on mechs within 180m of the BAP as well as permitting a BAP to auto lock onto any mech that acquires a missile lock on the BAP equipped mech, regardless of range.
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