There has been some discussion in a mercs forum recently about suicide tactics and kamikazi varients.
a lot of the mercs servers have a suicide limit to stop people from using suicide as a tactic.
i personally and having read most of the novels dont think its a valid tactic in the genre, the massive C-bill cost of a mech makes it far too an expensive feild asset to deliver the bang.
kamikazi varients are postulated to like the japanese mitsubisho zero, have all the non essential weight stripped from the chassis ie heat sinks, ecm etc etc and replace them with massive ammunition loadouts, the mech is then piloted into the opponents mech and the pilot eject sequence is used to trigger the mechs destruction. adding the energy of the unused ammo to the reactor splash damage.
Mercs flaw seems to be in tying the pilot eject sequence into a destruct sequence, obviously in MW4 the game couldnt afford to leave "assets" on a map .
the fix is to have an eject sequence that is just that leaving the inoperable (no command couch etc) as motionless salvage
what does everyone else think ?
