03-17-2017, 10:01 PM
In battletech rockets are usually a cheap, low-tech option to add a bunch of punching power to relatively small mechs. They never really had any place in the kind of mass conflict that MWO depicts. I disagree that lights will like them because, as you said, there are no MFBs. Lights will want that tonnage for lasers more than for rocket pods, but the ability to pack a 20 point alpha for 1.5t will be somewhat tempting, especially for larger mechs that can spare tonnage more easily.
Heat-generating missiles already exist in battletech in the form of inferno SRMs, no need for rocket launchers to carry them, SRMs are even the better carrier for it. Past a point of burying somebody in infernos you're just layering more jelly over an already thick coating of it, and you aren't heating the mech up anymore than you already were, so the volume of fire a rocket launcher puts out is just wasted potential. I also can't help but feel infernos would be slightly gimped in MWO now that I've seen a mech in TT get heated up so much its ammo literally cooked off inside of it.
Heat-generating missiles already exist in battletech in the form of inferno SRMs, no need for rocket launchers to carry them, SRMs are even the better carrier for it. Past a point of burying somebody in infernos you're just layering more jelly over an already thick coating of it, and you aren't heating the mech up anymore than you already were, so the volume of fire a rocket launcher puts out is just wasted potential. I also can't help but feel infernos would be slightly gimped in MWO now that I've seen a mech in TT get heated up so much its ammo literally cooked off inside of it.
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