Gaulois wrote:From what I remember, missiles had a much longer range than medium EM guns.
(I'm a blue pilot)
If I remember correctly, I could barely attain 500m with 3 range extenders, while missiles were flying at 800m.
Could you give us some precise numbers plz? I can't start the client from this crappy laptop.
Here are the base ranges for T4 medium weapons. For T4 medium launchers I will calculate the range of long range chemical missiles when fitted into a T4 medium launcher.
Medium T4 long range lasers = 350m + 100 falloff
Medium T4 long range EM guns = 310m + 60 falloff
Medium T4 launchers with long range missiles = 324m + 0 falloff
Lasers are quite clearly the range kings.
EM guns have overall more range than missiles, when you factor in skills that the missile bots do not get use from, such as the skill that boosts your falloff, and not to mention blue mechs falloff robot bonus, EM guns then begin to have significantly more range than missiles. A good skilled blue mech pilot will easily get their falloff to 100+m
So missiles have the shortest range now, and yet blue mechs retain being the fastest mechs which was only given to them in the first place to help them make up for their short range. Now that they have not only better range but also more speed than missile mechs, there's an imbalance.