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[Spliff_Craven]

I think you should be able to swap your loadouts in the staging area during a match.

Currently you have to drop from the game; go to the garage; make a switch; then hopefully rejoin your game and maybe even get the same team. You should be able to do this in the staging area.

Sure you should go to the garage to make purchases of new deployables/internals/Body Mods and such before enetering a match. However, I see no reason why you shouldn't be able to customize on the fly with things you already own.

Anyone with me_

[h0B0]

I support this idea.

Sadly it has already been proposed in the format of having access to the garage during or between matches.

Am i the only one who is having a feeling of deja vue here.
At least the others who spammed terrible or repetitive ideas ( no offence ) didn't put a tons of irrelevant tags on their topics.

[Spliff_Craven]

Well then they should hurry up and get it in place then shouldn't they_

[Spliff_Craven]

<sup>I've been in game and lately been hearing about being able to swap items/weapons in the garage.

Does anyone know if there is any truth to this_</sup>

[space_]

Buy a second mech.. I have mechs for siege/MA and 1v1 for mechs I like.

[hsram]

I think it should be like BF3 in a sense that you can switch out anything you want/need after you die pending next respawn.

[Spliff_Craven]

Hot Swapping can't come soon enough...

[m3talc0re]

This was one of the first things I noticed about the game and just thought, "wtf_ why can't i_".

[Dinre]

I personally don't care about swapping out internals, but I can see the point.  It's hard for a player to test out an optimal build if the internals can't be swapped out between "lives."

However, I think the internals should be locked for ranked play.  It's really hard to learn your opponents if they are constantly switching up their mechs, so I would even support the idea of ranked play locking you into a specific mech for the entire round.

For pub play, though, I think we should let people fiddle with their mechs at least a little.  It would really help us perfect our setups.

[Spliff_Craven]

I heard Hot Swapping may happen in a future patch. Anyone know if it's true_

[Spliff_Craven]

<sub>See I have other deployables {often for the same mech}  and I have to go to the garage to get them swapped out or buy another mech just to have them available should they be needed.

I have all mechs all at level 25 so I am versatile. It's just sometimes an infiltrator with a scrambler instead of a scanner is more suited for the job. Or swapping out your rocket turret for a Machinegun turret or detonator is more suited.

Hotswapping them just makes more sense than having a duplicate mech with a different loadout. Tailor the one you have. It makes it more personal and more sense...</sub>

[Dinre]

I think we all agree in general, Spliff.  It doesn't make much sense to have deployables locked.  Locked internals and optimizations make some sort of sense, being part of the mech itself, but changing deployables feels more like choosing a different sidearm in CounterStrike.  There doesn't seem to be good logic for locking it down.