Any point to making M or L units?

[Silver Nightbane]

It feels like whatever defensive advantages they should have is offset by how ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ slow they are to move. Unless I'm missing something to make them move faster, I'm not seeing much of a point.

[Sill]

Movement isn't really the point, but out of the 13 machines I've built two of my favorite are the Mediums, or the Medium with Large Parts.

Later on I plan to build a biodome for multiplayer "Safety" lol

I suppose an edit to be helpful might not hurt; Medium and Large units move slow but are capable of carrying much higher main weight loads. This might not mean a ton to a high level small five star unit, but a majority of your parts are likely not maxed out.

The distance in which you can move a medium or large part makes some builds seem so much bigger than they actually are, and are much better at protecting their vital components.

AoE effects are pretty rare, but a decent amount of Small units cannot distance their legs or torso far enough from the splash to avoid major damage if the enemy shoots you, usually resulting in massive damage or being immediately destroyed.

A heavily guarded medium mech however can typically take those hits like a champ along with having a much higher threshold for HP on parts once leveled.

If you need to, place a medium and large mech in your main 5 so they passively level up during runs, and check back with them to see how strong they get.

[chaos915]

The M Coleweche parts are like hybrid S/M parts(not quite as good as M parts but lighter). The body has lots of blue attachment points. The Arms are decent for using certain weapons(don't support every weapon other arms do) like the revolver cannon on a lighter build. The legs seem to be the least useful part of the set.

The downside is that you need the DLC to actually farm M parts before beating the game.

[Angela™]

L points scale much higher towards the endgame but that's a grind and a half.

Also you can walk things to death