A short time ago, at a computer terminal far, far, away, Kenny Chiu (MSSM99) wrote:
>I do have a question about salvage though. It almost seems to be preset >and not due to any special targetting skills you have. Also, although I >haven't tried it yet, if you shoot the leg of a mech and let it topple >then finish the mission, would you get that mech as salvage? I'm >wondering because in one mission, a bonus objective is to kill all the >enemy mechs. I killed all the mechs and disabled 2 of them by blowing >one leg off of each of them. When I checked my objectives, it said that I >did not complete the bonus objective. Just wondering.
I'm not sure about the campaign missions, but in MercNet, destroying just one leg of a mech does not, in fact, destroy the mech. It just sits there, staring at the ground. Once you destroy the other leg, it explodes, just as before. _Then_, it's considered destroyed.
Based on this observation, it would appear that you _still_ have to destroy both legs (or a torso section) of a mech to have the game consider it destoyed. And, when you do, it explodes (which, in itself, is stupid). So my question, then, is: just how can you supposedly get any worthwhile salvage from a mech that has just disintegrated itself all over the battlefield? *boggle*
===
Will Day