The Eagle can rearm, how about mechs too?

[DarkFenix]

It seems quite silly that these mechs just get abandoned once their ammo runs dry. They're delivered by dropship, so how about a stratagem like the Eagle rearm one, whereby a dropship comes in and collects a mech, taking it back to the destroyer for repair and resupply.

We get back that use of the mech stratagem, perhaps some time knocked off the cooldown. So long as we don't get it blown up of course, a burning wreck isn't much use to anyone.

[dotVeskan]

rewards preservation of military assets. sounds like a good idea tbh.
inb4 hardcore slaves whine that its too powerful and doesnt need that kind of buff and should get nerfed too

[DarkFenix]

Originally posted by dotVeskan:

rewards preservation of military assets. sounds like a good idea tbh.
inb4 hardcore slaves whine that its too powerful and doesnt need that kind of buff and should get nerfed too

Indeed, Helldivers may be disposable, but mechs don't grow on trees, I'm sure Super Earth would be fond of preserving valuable military hardware.

And that's also why I started spitballing along these lines. It enables mech-oriented play to become more viable as a playstyle, but it doesn't directly buff the mech in any way, and bad players will just get blown up so it doesn't help them at all.

[Kharn the Bloody]

Air dropped resupply bundle for the Mech would be nice.

Would be cool to see the extract airframe grapple and haul out the mech if Mech was in a designated "X marks the spot" on the extract LZ as part of the extraction cut scene. Bonus points and or a few bonus medals for squad if you extract with Mech.

[Anzaman]

While it'd be nice if the mechs could be re-filled with ammo, they would sadly need to tweak their overall power if players could use them that often.

[DarkFenix]

Originally posted by Kharn the Bloody:

Air dropped resupply bundle for the Mech would be nice.

Would be cool to see the extract airframe grapple and haul out the mech if Mech was in a designated "X marks the spot" on the extract LZ as part of the extraction cut scene. Bonus points and or a few bonus medals for squad if you extract with Mech.

That could be cool too. Perhaps an entirely separate stratagem you'd have to pick, a shuttle comes down and drops some kind of engineering apparatus designed to field-service mechs and/or other vehicles.

It'd also fit in with current balance. We can bring a second stratagem in the form of a resupply backpack, that gives us functionally unlimited ammo with any weapon (so long as it itself doesn't require a backpack). Allowing us to take a second stratagem to specialise further into mech play would fit in nicely.