you forgot atomic bomb.. you only have 1 in magazine, you fire it and it does 90% damage to all mechs on the field. Then 1% every 20 seconds from radiation, up to 2 % with implant. 

Why are y'all afraid to touch artillery?

Artillery is tricky. Our game designers haven't come up with how Legendary Artillery can be developed without breaking the balance yet. BUT if our team has any good ideas for how we can add more Legendary Artillery that meets the current balance, perhaps something new will appear someday. But definitely far from SOON

Yeah I saw your response to that post that was made in a similar vein to this one. But did you read any of my suggestions?

I think this hesitance is lame. I think your team has trouble thinking outside the box when it comes to artillery. Your team frequently releases new gear that breaks the current balance. But you're unwilling to risk doing that with artillery, likely because you are unable to think outside the box when it comes to artillery.

How about instead of trying to design an artillery weapon that fits the current balance without breaking it, since your team struggles to do that with any new weapon anyways, you instead design an artillery weapon and make it balanced later if you hav to.

Maybe the problem is not with artillery as a category or your team having trouble figuring it out but with how your team designs new equipment to begin with

well maybe they need to design 300 size maps for artillery weapons first then even gemini range implants will start to make sense, otherwise im not sure I ever seen anything bigger than 170 anyway.. Then we need to add zoom feature to sniper weapons, introduce wind, increase snipers range, oh is it another game already? Well maybe then artillery could be fun, otherwise i just dont understand why would somebody want it? 

I know!!! The new legendary artillery, it will have 5 shots, and it goes so fast that it can shoot through the floors.. when it's in the sky it looks like fireworks followed with rainbow colored flame. Then it explodes under the floor with 5m radius. We could put it on Lacewing, it will fly to the sky and shoot from the moon.

And im not sure why you ignoring my Nuclear bomb idea.. if you struggle to comprehend it doesnt mean it's not good.

Two words. JELLO SHOTS.

That is all.

I'd pass your suggestions on to the team

"How about instead of trying to design an artillery weapon that fits the current balance without breaking it, since your team struggles to do that with any new weapon anyways, you instead design an artillery weapon and make it balanced later if you hav to"

I wouldn't like that at all :-). You're saying that, since Plarium struggles to release new weapons with balance, they should embrace that fault and release any new weapon as is, balanced or not? Just so that a new artillery weapon, which not many people are asking for or care for, can get released?

When I read what you wrote, I realized I actually appreciate Plarium's caution in this regard. Nobody likes the fact that sometimes gear is released imbalanced. It's nice to see that, because it's considered a delicate enough issue (in terms of balance), a new artillery weapon is not being just blindly released. It's a good thing!

Papa makes a good point about why the current game format (map sizes, but also things like 5-per-side teams) probably makes artillery in general a hard thing to get right. When we typically think artillery, we think large scale destruction. Given how strong some weapons are, anything stronger would be too strong. Anything weaker would not quite be how we typically think of "artillery" and you could ask why it is needed at all.

In fact, when I first tried rocket mortar some years back, I was surprised to see that it needed a sighted ememy mech in order to be able to fire. I expected it to be a "ground attack" kind of weapon. But I eventually realized it would be wrong (IMO) for the kind of game this is.