Locust and AC hardpoints

[Wonderhuzze]

Is that intended to have two hardpoints for a weapon on mech, which can't fit even ONE of it, unless you strip ALL of its armour. I mean, cmon, AC/2 6 tonn? i suppose , it shoul be around 3-4 tonn instead.

[whit]

Which variant is it? If you're looking at it right now, can you list it's hardpoints? I usually just pack on med lasers and srms.

[Wonderhuzze]

Originally posted by whit30:

Which variant is it? If you're looking at it right now, can you list it's hardpoints? I usually just pack on med lasers and srms.

LCT -1V
2 ballistic
1 energy
0 missile
3 support

[Darbie]

3 support. It's a melee mech. Get some flamers/mg's. Or put a LL on it and sit it back.

[Scouten]

one of those odd mechs because they seperated machine guns from ballistic points

[Strayed]

Originally posted by Scouten:

one of those odd mechs because they seperated machine guns from ballistic points

this, completely on the money

The Locust is meant to be built around a MLAS or LLAS with MGs; those support pods are meant to be ballistic pods.

Locust also is meant to be a fast scout; run in, lock target (or if this was TT tag target), and watch the LRMs rain in

If you're looking for a brawling light, consider a Panther with a PPC or a Commando with SRMs - if you want a shooter, a killer can, and if you want a striker Jenner with 4x MLAS and a SRM4

[Wonderhuzze]

Originally posted by Strayed:

Originally posted by Scouten:

one of those odd mechs because they seperated machine guns from ballistic points

this, completely on the money

The Locust is meant to be built around a MLAS or LLAS with MGs; those support pods are meant to be ballistic pods.

Locust also is meant to be a fast scout; run in, lock target (or if this was TT tag target), and watch the LRMs rain in

If you're looking for a brawling light, consider a Panther with a PPC or a Commando with SRMs - if you want a shooter, a killer can, and if you want a striker Jenner with 4x MLAS and a SRM4

For brawling "light" i prefer kintaro with a pilot +1 In =)
I just coudn't understand the idea of those hardpoints

[Gralzeim]

Yeah, there's another thread in this forum about the Cicada 3C, which suffers from the same issue. Stock loadout is meant to be an energy weapon and some machine guns, but MGs/flamers/small lasers being reclassed as support weapons messed with that.

Regarding support weapons, I suspect the reason they're like that at all is because HBS wanted certain weapons to fire automatically during melee attacks, and this might have been the best way for them to do it with the way the game is set up. It also does seem like a change that was made later in development.

[Big Boinka]

Originally posted by Darbie:

3 support. It's a melee mech. Get some flamers/mg's. Or put a LL on it and sit it back.

Not the point of the thread. A locust with 1 or 2 ballistic hard points that cannot reasonably handle even 1.

[Asmosis]

The alternative was removing those ballistic hardpoints and just leaving support hardpoints in its place, but that would have generated significantly more (reasonable) complaints.

Some light mechs can handle it though, found an Urbie with AC10 fitted. thats a monster of a light mech in this game.

Also if you discover an XL engine mod (not saying it exists) you could start playing around with ballistics on light mechs. Personally im looking for leg mods that reduce DFA self damage, on a light mech these can be OP.