As a kid playing this game, I discovered a glitch that allowed exceeding mass limit on mechs, meaning you were only limited by slots available. As far as I know, no one else ever discovered this glitch. I had hundreds or thousands of hours in this game. I used this glitch in windows, btw.
First, remove ALL inventory from the mech, then save it. Reopen it and the mass limit will be glitched. Hope this helps someone get a new world record, not that there's much competition.
So I went to play around with this a bit. Took a stock Grizzly, removed the extra HS, JJs, and all its weapons. Mech lab shows it at 38.5 tons out of 70. I saved and now it shows 48.5 tons out of 70, and going back and customizing that variant still has 70 as its mass limit. So there must be some additional details to get the mech in a state where you can mount more gear than others.
If someone can figure out the details of how to put the mech in a state where you can mount more gear this could be interesting, depending on how much weight you have to work with. If you get enough weight you could potentially shift from the current MG spam to mounting several autocannons and give yourself more range, which might shave off a bit of time on each mission. Especially if you get enough range that you can drop to a lower chassis (since one limiting factor is that you just need a certain amount of armor to ensure you can survive return fire).
that definitely sounds interesting, though if it's submitted, I feel like there should be a video or something showcasing it because people might think of it as cheating, especially SDA, but you never know. That is interesting though. I'll probably check it out and see what I can do with it. Idk if they patched it in later versions considering that preexisting glitches still occur in those versions as well.
I will say that I heard about this glitch before, but hardly anyone replicated it, especially for a run.
