Wednesday, July 5, 2017

The Great Fiasco Of The 105T Equipment By German Jaramillo #685605

After the appearance of the Guardian super class mech, which exceeded the 100 tons that seemed to be the ceiling of the highest technology, we suffered an obvious shortage of equipment.
Some manufacturers were able to adapt some large pieces to be used in the Guardian, but because they were pieces of great rarity, only available in the Mystery Vortex, for the majority of pilots did not offer a reasonable opportunity to equip the newly acquired guardians.

THE JOKE

Finally, the first pieces of equipment are seeing the light, but to the great surprise of this pilot who writes these lines, they are not only a disappointment, but a real fiasco or a bad joke.
Let's see:

CYCLOTRON CONTROLS

To be a cockpit module based on niode technology, it is by far the worst in its class among which we could acquire for any mech above 80 tons.

PROS:
+ Decent increase in projectile damage by 4%
+ Good increase to ability to double damage 2x Damage 6%
And here are the advantages, now the drawbacks:

CONS:
- Very LOW precision, considering that it is an elite cockpit. Only 4 prec is almost a joke that discourages the acquisition of this module.
- Vulnerability to laser 3%. This vulnerability to one of the most common weapons, and particularly lethal if equipped when fighting against a Fext, is a really annoying tare, we repeat, when it is a piece of niodes.

CONCLUSION:
Although the increase to damage is decent, the flaws are sufficiently negative to be of no interest to acquire this piece, which also has a very high price in niodes, considering what it provides.

INCREMENTAL PANEL

Well, the same ridiculous precision for this crystal cockpit module. Again, we face a piece of low quality, even if it is possible to equip it in a guardian's body.

PROS:
+ Reasonable increase to damage (2x Damage 4%)
+ Something of freeze, which never goes wrong (3%)

CONS:
- Low precision (4)
- Laser vulnerability 3% as with its counterpart of Niobium, this is crap.
- Ice vulnerability 5%. If the laser vulnerability already advised against this piece, the vulnerability to cold so brutal make it easy prey of any Boreas.

OOM MODULE

Another "pearl" of some lazy engineer or caused by a so early half developed research.
The lower speed seen in a propulsion module, a small boost and vulnerability, make this piece somewhat suitable for junkyard.

PROS: ... Any?

CONS:
- Low speed (only +3)
- Low ballistic improvement (a little 2% of double damage that does not justify the acquisition)
- Vulnerability to projectiles ... No thanks.

ANZU RUN

Enter the world of 105 tons a funny classic of pieces that I would never equip.
In the first year of academy for mech pilots, you realize that equipping Kickback is an idea only suited for madmen who are self-mutilating or aiming for suicide.
Normally, the kickback flaw, comes from a power imbalance in the pieces offering a high power, but this is not the case.

PROS:
+ With +8 speed, we get a speed slightly higher than normal in a piece of glass technology
+ Decent increase in laser weapon damage (+ 5%)

CONS:
- That increase of laser is not very effective, because the natural build of a Guardian does not contemplate them, reason why it loses synergy.
- Kickback 20% self-inflicted 20% of damage done. A price too high to get that speed that is far from extraordinary, unless you were aiming to help your opponent to defeat yourself.
Yes, decent speed and interesting boost to laser, but at a so high cost.

LAST CONCLUSIONS:
Given the many expectations and hopes placed on the Mechs engineers, and in view of the results obtained, I believe that I will continue to wait for decent quality equipment to appear before investing resources in pieces that instead of improving the Guardian seem designed to sabotage it.
If it is not possible to acquire decent equipment more than Mystery Vortex, then I will wait patiently for the day to come when I can complete the equipment needed for my Guardians, who aside my Excalibur, the first of the four Guardians I received and that is fully upgraded, are also in a long process of upgrading.

In the while time, I will continue to use the traditional BFM Of 100 tons, that have enough equipment to make them faithful companions of battle.