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If you play the mech arcade game Brigador, a lot of the lore talks about how dangerous and shitty the vehicles are. Literally there's a bit of lore about how mechs don't really make practical sense as a combat vehicle and should just be replaced with tanks, but they just look so fucking cool everyone keeps making them.
Reminds me when I drunkenly wondered why they do not use mechs in real life and my friend just said "Mechs stand tall, tanks go low."
Which is interesting because later in the UC universe, they started to build smaller mechs that are super agile and can easily destroy taller mech