Also, before we start- a quick note about piloting MAS's.

All former military pilots have Neural Links- and anyone employed with the Steel Hunters would've had a neural link installed in their heads. Neural links are extremely handy for piloting MASs, and are part of the reason why they're so much more effective than other vehicles.

A neural links allows for a wireless connection with the MAS. It doesn't let you necessarily control it like a portion of your body, but it helps with many functions. 

For example, your MAS's primary viewing camera is on the head. Instead of having to use a manual joystick to turn the machine's head, you use the neural link to turn the machine's head. With the neural link, the MAS knows when you're trying to turn your head to look around the cockpit and when you're trying to make the machine's head turn.

The neural link is also what allows more precise, calculated motions by MASs- There is no crouch button, but a combination of one's neural link and manipulating the controls, its quite easy to make your machine take a knee. This same concept applies to most motions of the MAS. The neural link doesn't give you absolute control over your machine, but it assists in many of these fine movement controls. 

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Edit: Posting MOAR because I can. I decided to throw us right into the beginning of an operation to start us off. Everyone's free to set themselves up however they wish, but I've noted three major "positions" for most people to be in- either on top of hills/cliffs with long range weapons, on the front lines heading down the northern road, or flanking around.

Needless to say, I'm not going to say you [i]can't [/i]start shooting, but if you do, it might make things more annoying for me.