Is it not unusal that we are not able to choose how much front or rear armor we want Qaff?

[WarDemon]

like the title says... is there not a way for us to choose how much armor we want on the build?

[Mud'N]

if you have the tons for artemis, but it is not vital. Esp without knowing how this game does hardpoint sizes. I'll not be the best to advise. But I will say from mercs 5. PvE is not made for high alpha. like the boom crow. AC10's range and ammo advantage mostly trumps the sweet Direct crit potential of a Ac20(Lbx, or other on paper). So even if MWO's build included artemis, the weight in ammo should serve you better in this title

[VanHoven]

i likeit actually. being able to allocate and increase/decrease armor to your liking gave such a HUGE boost compared to your opponents. now additional armor comes at more cost than just tonnage, available space. imo that's how it always should have been. great idea from pgi for once.

well... the armor and internal dmg reduction + chance to avoid any dmg does the same, but i still like the change.

[WarDemon]

Originally posted by Mud'N:

if you have the tons for artemis, but it is not vital. Esp without knowing how this game does hardpoint sizes. I'll not be the best to advise. But I will say from mercs 5. PvE is not made for high alpha. like the boom crow. AC10's range and ammo advantage mostly trumps the sweet Direct crit potential of a Ac20(Lbx, or other on paper). So even if MWO's build included artemis, the weight in ammo should serve you better in this title

yea i opted for a UAC 10 instead of a LBX20 but i did put artemis SRMS 6's .. but 1 could maybe swap those for lrms.

[Mors]

Perhaps the issue could be resolved by having it change in the difficulty setting, easy > you can modify armour, Normal > you can modify armour via slots, and expert > only by using ferro armour.
i know it's not lore friendly nor does it make sense but it's what we have access to and could happen in this game?

[MjKorz]

It's not the distribution of armor that bugs me, it's the fact that you can't strap extra armor on the CT of many mechs. While having extra armor take up structural slots is a pretty good way to spice up mech builds, mechs that come with no free strucutral slots on the central torso are death traps. Love the game, but PIG really crapped the bed with this design decision. Every mech should come with at least one free structural slot in the CT.

[hospitaller]

I'm ok with omnipod space being required for armor. What makes me sad is that some of my favorite mechs have zero podspace in the CT and/or head. It really arbitrarily devalues some mechs. It's kinda like the hitbox thing- some beautiful and iconic mechs are just flat bad because they funnel damage to the CT like a storm drain. Meanwhile others roll damage off to random sections like they're made of teflon.

[WarDemon]

The real sad part.. is modders would fix all this in a heart beat.. Yet another.... BUT this game dissables modding? WTH?

[hospitaller]

Originally posted by MjKorz:

It's not the distribution of armor that bugs me, it's the fact that you can't strap extra armor on the CT of many mechs. While having extra armor take up structural slots is a pretty good way to spice up mech builds, mechs that come with no free strucutral slots on the central torso are death traps. Love the game, but PIG really crapped the bed with this design decision. Every mech should come with at least one free structural slot in the CT.

Hard concur.

[Fiachra]

From a playing the games perspective, yes. From a lore perspective, no. Clans might get to choose what omni pods to use but on IS mechs you get whatever came with the mech unless you'r daddy rules a few planets.