Overheating melts BM armor ?

[SuriViruS]

Killed the last 'Mech with alpha strike, which completed the mission, so the ending dialoge with Sumire appears.

The heat scale went slightly in the shutdown-zone. Back in the mech-bay, the whole armor except head is gone.



Is this deliberate ?

 

[kvetcha]

It's deliberate. Armor is free and takes no time to replace, so it's more about making sure you notice that you've got structure damage to repair.

 

[Juodas Varnas]

It just means you need structure to repair.
Only will cost you a few thousand of Ceebs and a day or two.

Intentional.

 

[BunglingLummox]

To clarify, you didn't actually lose the armour, it's just that overheat damage ignores it. If you overheated and then got shot, it wouldn't necessarily have gone internal.

 

[VanSinn]

If you overheat in the middle of a battle (try to avoid this, but occasionally worth it to get that extra damage to kill a mech) you'll see you still have all your armor available. The summary screen shows it that way just to inform you that there's internal structure damage that needs to be repaired.

 

[mjbroekman]

Think of it this way... your internal structure needs to be repaired... in order to do that, they need to strip the armor from the damaged areas first, repair the internals, and put the armor back. Thus "armor stripped from overheating".

 

[SuriViruS]

Alright,
Thanks everybody