The Smart Gelpack is a cockpit made for the 95-100 ton mechas.
Costing 811 Ferrite, 1148 Bioptics, and 55 niodes, the powers that be put a
quantity limit of 40 on these beauties
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The Gelpack works to hack opponent’s systems, then breaking down
those systems to where they don’t communicate with each other (freezing up your
opponent). At the same time it gives you the highest rating of precision for
any equipment in the weight class.
What the hard numbers are on this piece are 10 precision, 12%
freeze, 6 slow, and a 3% Ice vulnerability. With six or seven of these, you
have a very interesting spec to work with.
You take a fast weapon (say projectile), shoot first with great
accuracy, and then for lack of a better term, keep the opponent locked in what
appears to be a mecha version of epileptic seizures while you just pour down
fire until it’s smoldering.
As the Gelpacks hack into the systems, the hapless mech’s own body
works against it, giving it that twitchy, teetering, uneasy motion that just
begs the beginning of the end.
So if you value your mechas custom paint job that the natives gave
you on Vupa 6, this little cockpit piece might just be up your alley.
Until next time, this is Ken signing off and saying “Good equipment
saves your ass. Don’t waste the slots on crap.”