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[Texas Merc]

no poll here.

just wondering what you guys think.


IMO its the dragon.

discuss or flame or w/e.

[Kinney]

More love for the Dragon!

[sC4r]

next ones should be both mediums and dragon as these guys are little bit underrated atm

they have kinda good mix of firepower speed and armor but dont shine in either which in current state of game is their undoing as atm its best to be either fast as hell or heavyly armed and armored...
in general if u want balanced mix of all these its better to go for cat or pracht though they are considerably slower than mediums

so yea any of cent, hunch and dragon should get some of those quirks

you can continue discussing flaming or w/e

[FrostCollar]

I'd love for the Raven 2X and 4X to get quirks improving them. 3L shouldn't get anything for obvious reasons.

[Termius]

Any buffs to my centurions are welcome. Seeing one of my favorite mechs get some love is fine by me

Edited by Termius, 10 February 2013 - 12:25 PM.

[GODzillaGSPB]

One idea I always had was different armor values for the two standard mediums - Hunchback and Centurion - while maintaining their overall armor (338).

The Centurion has massive arms on a nimble upper body while his legs are more or less the same size compared to the Hunchback. The Hunchback has rather tiny arms on a thick upper body, legs the same as Centurion as mentioned.

So the arm-torso-armor-distribution should be so that the Centurion has more on it's arms and less on it's torso, while the Hunchback should have more on the torso and less on the arms.

I'd also make sense from a hardpoint perspective since the Centurion usually has a big weapon mounted in it's arms while the Hunchback has not. It on the other hand as a huge weapon box that could really need some extra protection.

That'll set the two mechs apart without changing their overall protection.

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Edited by GODzillaGSPB, 10 February 2013 - 11:45 AM.

[Wintersdark]

I'd love to see some tweaking to the Dragon Chassis. Currently, the mech itself is pretty decent but it's plagued by terrible variants.

[FrostCollar]

Wintersdark, on 10 February 2013 - 12:05 PM, said:

I'd love to see some tweaking to the Dragon Chassis. Currently, the mech itself is pretty decent but it's plagued by terrible variants.

This is the case for a number of different mechs and honestly I'd love to see tweaks for unloved variants to come out tomorrow if it were possible. JR7-Ks, RVN-2Xs, HBK-4Js, and others cry out for justice.

[HurlockHolmes]

Dragon, or for the love of god and all that is 50t, medium mechs.

[Arcadian Xero]

GODzillaGSPB, on 10 February 2013 - 11:43 AM, said:

One idea I always had was different armor values for the two standard mediums - Hunchback and Centurion - while maintaining their overall armor (338).

The Centurion has massive arms on a nimble upper body while his legs are more or less the same size compared to the Hunchback. The Hunchback has rather tiny arms on a thick upper body, legs the same as Centurion as mentioned.

So the arm-torso-armor-distribution should be so that the Centurion has more on it's arms and less on it's torso, while the Hunchback should have more on the torso and less on the arms.

I'd also make sense from a hardpoint perspective since the Centurion usually has a big weapon mounted in it's arms while the Hunchback has not. It on the other hand as a huge weapon box that could really need some extra protection.

That'll set the two mechs apart without changing their overall protection.

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That's a terrible idea. Less armor on a centurions torso just makes it even easier to blow off that torso thus removing the arm as well. More armor on the arms won't stop centurions from losing their primary weapons just as fast.

[GODzillaGSPB]

Arcadian Xero, on 10 February 2013 - 12:29 PM, said:

That's a terrible idea. Less armor on a centurions torso just makes it even easier to blow off that torso thus removing the arm as well. More armor on the arms won't stop centurions from losing their primary weapons just as fast.

A Cent pilot could still sport the same frontal armor on its mech, for sacrificing much more of it's rear armor of course. And more armor on the arms will definitely make the arms survive longer. Because there's more armor...do I really have to explain that. O_o

Hey, were's talking about differences here and handicaps are a part of that.

Much more often do I see Cents without their arms than Hunchies without theirs. Zombies, ya know?

Edited by GODzillaGSPB, 10 February 2013 - 12:57 PM.

[MuonNeutrino]

GODzillaGSPB, on 10 February 2013 - 12:50 PM, said:

A Cent pilot could still sport the same frontal armor on its mech, for sacrificing much more of it's rear armor of course. And more armor on the arms will definitely make the arms survive longer. Because there's more armor...do I really have to explain that. O_o

Not necessarily, if 'more armor on the arms' comes at the cost of 'less armor on the torso'. Arms can get blown off by shooting the arm, but arms can just as easily get blown off by losing the torso as well. I do generally lose my arms before the side torsos, but not by *that* much. If you take, say, 10 points off the max torso armor and add it to the max arm armor, all that will change is that the side torsos will then be blown off first and the arm won't survive any longer overall. And I don't know about you, but *my* centurion's main battery is in its left torso, not its arm. I don't want that blowing off any sooner!

[Valkaryie]

Love to see more ballaistics on the atlas,hunchback,cent, and the dragon want to really even up ecm more guns hard points on these mechs would be awesome can u imagine an atlas with ac2s and gauss mowing u down very slowly the ravens would have to actaully do hit and run tactics instead of brawling

[Vassago Rain]

GODzillaGSPB, on 10 February 2013 - 12:50 PM, said:

A Cent pilot could still sport the same frontal armor on its mech, for sacrificing much more of it's rear armor of course. And more armor on the arms will definitely make the arms survive longer. Because there's more armor...do I really have to explain that. O_o

Hey, were's talking about differences here and handicaps are a part of that.

Much more often do I see Cents without their arms than Hunchies without theirs. Zombies, ya know?

The arms are worthless, and if you lower the armor they can put on the torso, well...people blow the torsos off, ignoring the arm, but still cutting it off.

So no. Not a good idea.

[Davers]

I dunno. The 'quirks' for the Awesome seemed a lot more of a redesign of the entire chassis. I thought quirks were supposed differentiate the different variants from each other.