There was a pretty big discussion about this in another thread. Everyone has their own preferences for how legging 'mechs is handled, but in the end the LL team are going to have to do what's best for gameplay. I think the system you just described will be in the game, where enough damage to the 'mech causes it to limp, but that leg could further be destroyed. I think, however, when the leg is fully destroyed the 'mech will probably go with it.

I would really hope that legging stays the same as it was in MW4.

I never had a problem with people legging me.. and I played against some of the best players Mech has ever seen.  I almost never had over half armor on my legs.. lol

Ive always thought it weird that you could kill a mech by legging it, once both legs are critted it should be disabled and unable move, but killing a mech should only be possible from head or torso shots.

That's because MW4 vets have hill sniping and jump sniping to an art and never expose their legs when they come up to shoot . Don't worry, I was there doing it too .

Well it would be cool if this mod could follow that lead, legging to disable but head or torso shots for the kill

A destroyed leg doesnt necessarily mean it has to be missing the animations and practicality of modelling that may be too great but, 2 critted (destroyed) legs means that the mech would be unable to move, it is then a standing turret.

It will always be a viable tactic to leg mechs, but in order to kill them then critical body areas should need to be destroyed, after all these are walking tanks and in the real world you cant kill a tank just by blowing its tracks off, why should a mech be any different

As in CBT, knocking a mech down would generally cause injury to the pilot, potentially knocking them unconscious.

But yeah, once a mech loses a leg it is pretty much eliminated. It can prop itself up on one arm (assuming it still has both of them) and fire one arm at the enemy, but the torso weapons are generally unable to pivot into position to fire. The mech is an easy target and can only bring a small portion of its weapons to bear (unless it's a clan mech, then it's all arm mounted anyway.)

Realistically the legs are the guaranteed method of killing a walker. Something that large falling over would cause incredible damage to itself and the pilot would probably get a hell of a concussion from the impact. After that it is a sitting duck.

What I'm really tired of is players b*tching about how legging is cheap. What was cheap about it was MW4 had the damage transfer from a destroyed leg into the leg next to it, that isn't how it works in CBT, the damage transfers to the ajoined torso location, so blasting into someone's leg actually took 2-3 times the amount of firepower than simply blasting in the torso for a clean kill.

Of course, if you strip your leg armor and I fire a ppc shot at it and see it turn orange, you can bet I'm going to exploit your decision to get a few extra weapons or heat sinks.