Extended Range Machines Guns

Extended Range Machine Guns

This mod extends the range of standard machine guns to around the same range as medium lasers or large lasers depending on the version you download. Higher tier guns benefit from further range increases.

There are a couple of other changes in the name of balance...

1. Machine guns now suffer from damage fall off. Engaging at maximum range will now do very little damage. However, the effective range (where 100% damage is done) remains unchanged

2. These machine guns lose their x10 damage modifier to buildings. Instead they now do x5  the damage against buildings. This should help prevent "sniping" buildings with them.

Unfortunately I can't add bullet drop or any other ballistic type things at the moment as it doesn't seem possible from the editor. These weapons remain "hit scan" much like lasers.

I've tried a few missions with the BlackJack A with it's 6 x machine gun setup and while I could engage targets further out it didn't feel overpowered (at least to me).

The main reason why I did this mod was because I always feel that machine guns are made useless by silly "game" mechanics i.e. unrealistically short range. At least now I will want to equip them on mechs that have small ballistic slots but not enough tonnage for an AC-2 and link them in with the Medium Laser group!

Installation

Download the zip file and extract the folder into your MW5Mercs\Mods directory.

Important Information

This mod replaces the standard machine guns and you will now seem them named as ER Machine Guns. It does not add new ER machine guns so any mechs currently equipped with machine guns will benefit from the extended range.