01-27-2016, 07:54 AM
(01-27-2016, 07:48 AM)Lost Rinoah Wrote:(01-27-2016, 07:32 AM)Surge Wrote: God I'd forgotten about the fusion core. Course even those old mechs that can't fight ammo burns will sooner dump their core than let it go critical. You'd need a total and instantaneous detonation to compromise the core before the computer dumps it, and at that point the meltdown is just fuel in the HEAP fire.
Older ones couldn't dump their core either, mate. :/
But yeah. Looong time ago, Somehow jammed 6 PPCs on a thor. Moment I alpha striked the core blew, lel.
So yeah. Remember, during that period flamer arrays were fricking EVIL weapons. Could just shut heavies down and let everyone else pick em apart like Vultures. ;P
I don't see anything on Sarna about core dumping being a new feature, just that any Fusion Engine has enough safety measures against a meltdown to make it a virtual non-issue.
"Such dramatic failures are rare, though. It is difficult to sustain the fusion reaction and very easy to shut down. Safety systems or damage to containment coils will almost always shut down the engine before such an explosion occurs. The massive shielding of the engine (in the case of standard fusion engines, this is a tungsten carbide shell that accounts for over 2/3 of the weight of the engine) usually buys the safety systems the milliseconds needed to shutdown the engine when severe damage is inflicted. "
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