Quote Originally Posted by Power5 View Post
Sounds like a very limited single player though. One planet and sounds like it will be mostly urban, which is great, but I also like sniping enemies from 1000m away. No real point to LRMs if its all urban combat.
Ah but see, that is where the "Oh my main weapons are crit, all I got left are LRMS! (yes IS LRMs have a min range of 5hexes = 150m) a wall of LRMs is still devastating @ point blank range.

I don't care who you are, if you are in melee range and you see 20/30/40 plus missiles coming @ you, your going to hesitate for a second. That second could be all that other pilot needs to tear you a new one with something else, get away, or do something to change the fight to his advantage or live to fight another day.

That is something you can't do in many/most other games. Especially if salvage/mechs are going to be that critical in the game. I would rather "waste" a load of LRM ammo, then let someone sit there and beat on me. Not to mention even though LRMs do 2pts of damage per round, that is still a crit chance and that crit chance can have catastrophic effects.

LRM round = 2pts = crit chance = ammo crit = ammo X rounds left = damage to IS and components.

I have seen it to many times to count it out as not possible.

This would however help to limit the LRM boats that plagued MW4.