Core detonation/breach effects on nearby Mechs/Tanks

[mechpriest]

Now this might be a idiotic question / suggestion, but shouldn't there be some increase in ambient temperature when you are caught in the reactor-implosion*?

I mean, you get this huge fireball and all that, yet you can merrily keep firing lasers, PPC's, and SRM's despite the fact that mech's core just blew up 20 meters from you.

(*or explosion? I'm not really sure what the correct term here is.)

[AlfalphaCat]

It's called going Ranger, or for the old-timers, stackpolling.

Yeah, I always thought it should transfer heat to those around it too, maybe even give the heat effect a larger radius.  So, even if you don't take damage you still might heat up a bit.

[Spooky]

I agree, I expected this as well, when I got into my first core breaches. Would be nice to have.

[xInVicTuSx]

I wish fusion powered tanks could go crit too. 

[Romeox]

Like the idea^^

nukes should heat you up.

[-SM-SUCKER]

+1 for heat effects on nukes
+2 for tanks going nuke as well.

[thEClaw]

I think the explosion should just heat up the air around you for maybe 30 seconds (e.g. +400 degrees), not heat up the 'Mech itself. But otherwise this is a great idea, hope the developers are convinced, too.

[Waffnuffly]

I really just want a nuclear APC that ALWAYS goes critical when destroyed

[mechpriest]

I really just want a nuclear APC that ALWAYS goes critical when destroyed

Ahem.

[SquareSphere }12thVR{]

lol, making crits possibly more lethal and dangerous? *STAMP WITH 12thVR APPROVAL*

[Waffnuffly]

Ahem.

Exactly.

In all seriousness I'd definitely like to see heat damage applied to all mechs within a very generous radius, even if they don't take damage from the explosion (heat should be attenuated of course if possible so that farther away = less heat than ground zero). It would be hilarious to see someone go critical, two people die in the explosion, then three or four other people suicide within a few seconds of each other when the heat screws them over :I

[lordgrog]

+1 for heat transfer

+1 for fusion powered tanks going crit

[Cloudburst]

+1 for Duke Nukem speaking lines whenever someone goes crit

[Arghy]

Lets just add a self destruct feature to damnit! arms blown off and your legged on the ground? well they should have finished the job! *hits red button*

[Zaro27]

Lets just add a self destruct feature to damnit! arms blown off and your legged on the ground? well they should have finished the job! *hits red button*

Even better if you can initiate the self destruct and then eject. You probably won't make it, but if you do, you're awesome.