Anyone else noticed an increase in heat when using medium lasers, I only have 4 on my mech and Monday I was playing fine but last night I got some huge heat issues as though there was a penalty when firing 4 at a time. My mate did some testing: Testing results from X5 for only Medium Lasers: 1 Medium Laser - heat start 0 heat end 3% 2 Medium Laser alpha - heat start 0 heat end 10% 3 Medium Laser alpha - heat start 0 heat end 18% 4 Medium Laser alpha - heat start 0 heat end 26% That seem broken to you? Anyone fancy doing a quick test too?
It is hard to say without knowing what your heat cap is and what map you were on at the time. Caustic plus low heat sink count/no BASIC skills would mean your heat generation could be 30% or more easily.
Have a try in any mech ya like on a cool map and see what results you get? Personally I use a CN9-AL mastered with 275 and 14 HS...
You have to keep in mind that the medium laser has a 1 second burn time and you dissipate heat over that time. adding another ML into the mix doesn't improve the heat dissipation, but does increase the heat generated so the heat curve actually is linear (so no heat penalties where they're not supposed to be). http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=function+{%281%2C3%29%2C%282%2C10%29%2C%283%2C18%29%2C%284%2C26%29} According to your findings: assuming you dissipate 5% heat over the second of burn time mediums have, they're each generating 7.7% heat. I don't know how percentual heat compares to the actual heat value though, and the map might affect it. I haven't noticed anything different in my 2LL 6ML HBK-4P, alphaing the mediums still generates around 40-45% heat (this is along the linear heat curve you're describing).
My Mechs with Medium Lasers still behave the same, my X5 heats up as fast/slow as it did before the patch. Might just be some paranoia due to all the heat talks that you are more aware of how things heat up.
I recorded some strange happenings, I run the MWO repair program and it went away... very confusing but atleast it resolved the behavior
nothing to see here. You have to look at the delta between your tests. the 1st laser becomes nominal, because as mentioned before, you get some dissipation during the burn/cycle time. +1 laser = 7% more heat (increase of 7 over previous) +2 lasers= 15% more heat (increase of 8 over previous) +3 lasers = 23% more heat (increase of 8 over previous) you're within 1% of the heat level you should be at a 4 laser alpha, which is probably made up by the timing of your measurements vs. heat dissipation ticks.
