BUG: Overheating at the end of a mission strips all armor

[AncientRaig]

As picture. This mech had almost full armor at the end of the game, but I overheated into structure damage at the end of the mission. Mech now has no armor

 

[buraka1]

Working as designed. Armor repairs cost nothing and are instant. This is just to show that your mech took structure damage. Repair the mech and armor will be replenished automatically.

 

[Anastasius Focht F S]

Nope. He is right. Happened to me too. Its one of the first Missions. You must take a Supply depot and hold it. A Com 1b Com 2d and a Locust 1v are your Enemys. When you get them all down your Dropship joins in. First time i was standing next to it with 2 Mechs. Both stripped of all Armor after Battle like his Screenshoot with no armor breach but overheat on the last round. Cost me 5 days each mech to repair. Reload because low on Money and Payday. Next Try only 1 Mech of my on Overheat (and me thinking in Flames of Dropship Engine when it lands and thats why the Armor Strip...). Same thing. He alone would have me cost 9 Days of Repair. Last try i dont overheat any mech and no Damage on them. Me was thinking its the Dropship that damages the Mechs, but after reading this...

TlDR He is on Something Jim, i have still a Save with that Mission, so if needed for Bughunting please PM me

Sincerly

FS

 

[Prussian Havoc]

Working as designed. Armor repairs cost nothing and are instant. This is just to show that your mech took structure damage. Repair the mech and armor will be replenished automatically.

You are completely correct.

Since every location, except the Head, takes internal Structure Damage, when we are once again in the Mechbay it only appears there is no Armor. I just had this happen to me twice, in two separate Missions.

The feature is working as intended. It portrays the damage done to the Internal Structure, even though the Armor remains pristine.

I checked the Repair Bill too. I only paid for Internal Structure Repair with no Armor Charge whatsoever.

 

[Flying Dice]

That's how they display the damage you took from overheating. Normally you'll only incur structure damage if the armor is stripped from a component, and they don't want less familiar players to miss that they're incurring self-damage.

Armor is replaced instantly and for free, so you're not losing anything.

 

[Anastasius Focht F S]

Wrong. Pls read again. It cost Money and Time. One try the SHD 5 Days and the VND 5 Days, 2nd Try the VND 9 Days, Last Try none Damaged. Its the overheat, Cause first try i overheated that both mechs, second try that vnd. But me was thinking my mechs where to close to that restrained landing area of my dropship. Want that save to look for yourself?


FS

 

[Prussian Havoc]

Wrong. Pls read again. It cost Money and Time. One try the SHD 5 Days and the VND 5 Days, 2nd Try the VND 9 Days, Last Try none Damaged. Its the overheat, Cause first try i overheated that both mechs, second try that vnd. Want that save to look for yourself?


FS

It does cost Cbills and Time to repair a Mech that overheats... but there is zero repair cost for Armor.

There is no bug here.

 

[Flying Dice]

Wrong. Pls read again. It cost Money and Time. One try the SHD 5 Days and the VND 5 Days, 2nd Try the VND 9 Days, Last Try none Damaged. Its the overheat, Cause first try i overheated that both mechs, second try that vnd. But me was thinking my mechs where to close to that restrained landing area of my dropship. Want that save to look for yourself?


FS

That's the cost to repair the structure damage you took when you overheated.

That's how overheating works. You go over your heat threshold, all components take a little bit of structure damage. Structure damage takes time and money to fix.

 

[Anastasius Focht F S]

When it only overheats from one Salvo, no internal damage before that salvo, and then i need to repair it 9 days? At the Bills me is not too sure, but Time def. Cause iam stuck now after that Mission because Money problems ( sucks if you drop at your next mission on Payday, and the mercs want Money before the Fight... 14 Days of Flight, Payday also 14 Days away....), will look tomorrow after it, its late here. Have a good Night anyways Gentleman.

 

[Kereminde]

Wrong. Pls read again. It cost Money and Time. One try the SHD 5 Days and the VND 5 Days, 2nd Try the VND 9 Days, Last Try none Damaged. Its the overheat, Cause first try i overheated that both mechs, second try that vnd. But me was thinking my mechs where to close to that restrained landing area of my dropship. Want that save to look for yourself?

Overheat does structure damage. When there is damaged structure, post-mission it will show up this way in the 'Mech lab for clarity - to show you have to repair internal structure. The amount of damage does not seem consistent but it is always "minimal" and is done to the whole body (except the head). This has been seen to happen on every stream where someone thinks "just overheat a little" is okay.

It lays up your 'Mechs for about a week's worth of time +/- 2 days.

 

[Timaeus]

If your 'mech runs past the the overheat threshold it will take structure damage. Structure damage, even from overheating, costs time and money to repair. Armor does not.

 

[Prussian Havoc]

On my first Full Lance Mission, I managed to overheat my Spider twice. That was the only non-Armor Damage it sustained.

IIRC it cost more than 16k Cbills and 5 or 7-days worth of Repair.

I like that for me Overheating is no longer such a Go-To Decision. There are no very suitable consequences and ramifications if I choose or mistakingly Overheat.

 

[Ozymandious]

If your short on time you can drop with some damage

 

[Rhym]

If it isn't clear already, this is not a bug. When pass your overheat threshold all your internal structure takes a small amount of damage. Which then has to be repaired after combat. Armor is free and instantly repaired, structure isn't.