Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4957813-20140510034158/@comment-209421-20140617230829

Again, the lance & LMGs would be only part of the story with the suit. It's a battle suit, meaning enhanced strength simply to move itself. With skilled enough technicians, the limiters could be pushed to the point where the wearer has the sheer power to drive their lance through plate metal, or punch hard enough to smash the armor plates, while remaining reasonably agile thanks to the enhanced leg strength. Again, I concur about the issues it shows, lances in general are very hard to work with. Really, the only places where it works properly is in conjunction with the defensive androids shown in the Black trailer. A human-controlled suit of combat armor that stands between the Spider Droid and the basic robots seen would have the advantages of human intelligence, increased firepower over the basic drones, but increased maneuverability when compared to the unwieldy Spider.

The Death Stalker is an extreme case, since it took four (unskilled) hunters to bring down in the first place. Said suit would more than likely fill a Nora-style role of "bash it until it dies", with whatever armament it was fitted with, or being used to bring the strength to bear to defend a "squishy" unarmored Hunter while they use their greater mobility and agility to perform the same sort of kill seen in the series. In other words, against a Death Stalker, unless you're carrying high-penetration rounds for a heavy ballistics weapon, nothing seems to be effective but itself, power or not. What the suit COULD do is serve a role similar to Jaune and Pyrrha as a delaying and positioning piece, fending off the claws and tail.

Yeah, the "Grimm in city" idea was really a last-case scenario where it could theoretically work. Really, the entire thing is more anti-criminal in design, so I give you that one. As for how it would fare against organized crime, it would be more of a "tactical response" unit. You wouldn't throw one in without backup, nor would you use it in situations where maneuverability was a must, but when armor is needed in the front lines, such as an attack on a criminal compound, a suit armed to defend itself would be of value, especially if it has a method of deployment that's faster than the typical transport van - i.e. a motorcycle form capable of reasonable speeds for it's environment. Another potential deplopyment is against standard crime and/or in a riot control role, although the latter would have to be designed around non-lethal weaponry. Anyway, it would fill a SWAT role and/or that of a riot shielded officer, and never without support. It's not designed to be a jack of all trades, that's what you have standard control teams for. It's a specific tool for a specific task - use where armor is needed.