Locust

The Locust is an Inner Sphere light Battlemech, renowned for its speed and affordability. Lightly armed and armored, it is still used widely because of its speed and value as a scouting unit and harasser. This version is at roughly 'true' scale (16 pixels/meter), and represents roughly how large a Battlemech would be in Mech Havoc's universe. I. E., it's pretty big; even small Battlemechs are 7-8 meters across. It's just able to take on the hardest missions (Distraction #2, Compound Combat, Militia Outpost) on the hardest difficulty, with the right gear and some practice. It's overtuned for anything easier. It regens support quickly, but you'll need it on the hardest difficulty and maps. Suggested loadout for new players is to take AMR, GL-40AB, or Gauss Rifles; Seek-R, MRL4 and Missile Pod are all good missile choices. It needs to take at D-LAPS to be viable on the highest difficulty. If you want a "canon" Locust experience, the closest equivalent to the original LCT-1V variant would be a HMG in one of the slots and Gauss Rifle in the other, and no missiles. I think that's the closest thing to a Medium Laser in this game right now. This requires less skill and strategy than my previous mod (XCaliber) to use, but it can be fairly tricky on hard maps at 3X difficulty. It doesn't have the health to get into the middle of a bunch of enemies and tank hits, and the sheer size means it cannot strafe out of trouble; you'll need kite heavies and use your supports wisely. I apologize that it's fairly slow; I thought something this big would be able to be faster than 30, but couldn't make it work. Foot animation speeds were pushed as high as I thought was reasonable without flying all over the place, which breaks my immersion. I also apologize in advance for not using the official super-hard pixel-art style on this one. I wanted to try something that was a compromise. This Battlemech design is based on PGI's interpretation of the Locust in Mechwarrior 5 and Mechwarrior Online.