** Weapons that generate heat on whatever they hit are often prime causes of the Cycle of Hurting. In the ''Mechwarrior 4: Mercenaries'' free release, Inferno Rockets have a huge splash area that does almost no damage [[OverHeating but creates huge amounts of heat on whatever is in the blast area]]. Combine this with the fact that they have an almost instant refire rate, and you get a weapon that can keep an enemy shut down for minutes at a time - either until the guy with the infernos gets bored or runs out of ammo. In ''Living Legends'', the "[[FanNickname Flamasser]]" variant of the Harasser hovercraft came loaded with 6 [[FireBreathingWeapon flamers]], on a chassis that is [[FragileSpeedster extremely nimble, small, and cheap]]. A duo of Flamassers could keep an enemy shut down indefinitely, though said enemy would usually ''melt to death'' after a couple seconds under both Flamasser's flames. However, the Flamasser was balanced out by the asset being as dangerous to enemies as it was to itself - a top-heavy, unstable firing platform with very little armor and weapons that generate so much heat that it often shuts itself down right as it shuts down an enemy.

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* In ''[[Videogame/MechWarrior MechWarrior 4]]'' and ''Mechwarrior 3'', high caliber ballistics and large missile salvos (and sometimes even lasers) can knock smaller [[HumongousMecha BattleMechs]] off their feet, causing them to collapse onto the ground and lay almost totally helpless (sometimes they will fall in a way that allows them to fire back) for a few seconds on the ground as they start to rise back up onto their feet. Often times as soon as the mech is back onto its feet, another salvo from the high-powered weapons will knock it back onto the ground.
** In ''MechWarrior Online'', mechs won't fall over from damage, but in early versions of the beta, running ''into'' a mech would basically tackle it to the ground. The [[LightningBruiser Dragon]] is a very fast, well armored, well armed heavy mech that, in one patch, had effectively ''[[TheJuggernaut infinite mass]]'', allowing it to go plowing through enemy battle lines, smashing everything in its way to the ground without missing a step... then turn around, and repeat it again as the enemies are starting to get back on their feet, and again, and again, slowly wearing down the enemy's armor while they are totally helpless. The ramming/tackling mechanic [[GameBreaker broke the gameplay (and netcode) so thoroughly]] that it was ''removed entirely''

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