Doing damage to yourself with laser heat.

[~SJ~ Blhurr]

Can someone explain to me how this works? I've noticed I do damage to myself in the Novacat when I alphastrike or otherwise go over the shutdown threshold.  Am I on crack or is this really happening?  I suppose I need to test it further but the heat sinks cool the mech down fairly quickly but I still seem to get damage even for those few milliseconds.  Info needed.

[~SJ~ Xarg]

There are 2 stages of overheat worth taking note of. The first, is when you go over the little bar, and get the overheat warning. The second, is when you have a full heat bar, that is when you take damage for any additional heat you have... Novacats cook like bacon if you alphastrike... best to put those things into chainfire mode before leaving the hangar... or binding coolant to m2 and shutdown override to m1 :p

[~SJ~ Blhurr]

mmm Bacon.  I had to!

[MaverickOriginal]

the novacats have enough Dual Heatsinks to keep relatively cool.

If you alpha-strike, or fire half-n-half quickly, then burn coolant while firing.

Even the 6 CERLBL novacat can continuously fire all 6 lasers, if you group them in 2's and cycle through the 3 groups you've created.

[snooggums]

I second the group firing, especially on a mech with multiples of the same type of weapon. If you group by arm location, you can even use the group fire to only fire the weapons with an open path the the target if you are peeking around a building, or if up close and you need to adjust right or left a little. This also allows you to regulate heat very efficiently.

I even to group my left arm on the left button and right arm on the right button and secondary weapons on the mousewheel when there are mixed but similar weapon types so firing kinda feels like a one two punch style, give em the right, then follow with a left to finish off if needed.

[Freakazoid]

I'm sorry but a mech that hurts itself when alphastriking is a shameful mech. They're like the machine versions of this.

[shadowkiller]

Dont go over the redline. We added a slow damage of all sections of the mech if your over the redline for a few seconds, its was either that or instant nuke... So like i said, stay under the redline. Afaik the weapon will simply add X amount of heat to your heat bar. The more heatsinks you have only makes you dissipate heat faster, not reduce the amount of heat added on. So if you alfa strike and it adds so much that your over the redline you will recieve damage untill your under the redline again.

[RabbidFerret]

It's a good feature and I like it. I split the 6 lasers into two groups of three, but whatever works for you..

[~SJ~ Blhurr]

Yep I really like it too.  I just didn't understand it at first.  I think it's because I like projectile weapons so much but when the Ncat came out it heat control became a glaring necessity.

[~SJ~ Xarg]

The Shadowcat A runs very hot if you use the MASC more than sparingly, and the 6erlbl Novacat actually seems easier on the heat than the Awesome (map dependant) so as long as you were ok managing heat of both of those before 0.2.0, you should be fine now.