That's a good thing. But the very day of the pre-release of an ECM mech? Come on... Anyway, happy to get the Loki sooner. Even if, to be honest, I'm starting to have trouble grinding all those mechs (already on the Lynx and the Mad Cat). edit: just realized we can profit from the double XP weekend to grind this new mech!
Biggest thing to note for HBRs right now: their CT is bugged Basically, any shot to the back CT has about a 90-95% chance to not affect the back, and instead hit the front of the mech. So, for the moment, it's worth piling almost all of your CT armor on the front. Case in point...a dual gauss jager nailed me in the back twice in a row on Bog...no damage to back, it all hit the front. Even worse, the hit indicator said it was a shot from the front, so I didn't realize he was behind me until after the second shot ><
7 MPL? I'm running 6 atm and that's hot enough though admittedly waiting for doubling to see how it goes.
Yepp, can confirm this. Last night so many people were complaining ingame. I was wondering what they meant, because they wrote things like "I'm so pissed by the shitty Hitbox of the HBR etc." but didn't say anything about the Rear/Front Damage Bug
Basically most of the rear CT counts as front. Every battle I finish alive my CT front is bright red but the rest is maybe yellow.... bad PGI...
I wouldn't mind if the rear counted as front, really. In that case you can simply run with full armor front and no armor is wasted. No, the real problem is that the CT is so huge it is the only mech taking damage. From my games I don't recall a single side torso destruction (and yes I twist and try to spread the dmage, but it's like the Dragon, even from the side you still see the nose). It's hot like hell, 6 is much better. But it was my first drop and as my cat says "if it fits, I sits", I had to test.