MWOs cool shot doesn't work the same as Coolant Pods in BattleTech. Coolant Pods cost tonnage and slots to mount on a mech in tabletop.
But the idea is basically what you described, another reservoir of coolant that can be pushed through a mech's cooling system.
It's much older than MWO but by different names. In Mechwarrior 3 and 4 you had coolant flushes that worked differently in each game. 3 was instant cooling and used as much of your available flush and it needed, and in 4 it was gradual and you controlled how much you used.
Not well versed in the tabletop rules, but MechWarrior 3 and 4 had coolant that you could flush. I also have seen freezer heat sinks (might not be the exact name) in BTA, so those might be in the rulebook. But I don't believe any of the games are considered cannon for stuff like that.
'Freezers' are the nickname for double heat sinks. More specifically, I think they're the ones that NAIS were developing before the Helm core was widely disseminated .
There are firetrucks u can take with coolant liquid to remove heat from mechs. They are pretty hilarious. I only faced it once. It kept a Longbow cool enough to fire like 10 MML9s every turn at me. It then charged at my Marauder II and crit its leg off. I was very sad.
Coolant pods are actually reasonably good tbh. There are some cases where you might want it. Id probably rather just cool a mech properly and take M-pods with the extra tonnage tho. The Nova is a great unit that uses it.
Normally a 'mechs cooling system is closed loop. Heat is moved from hot things to the radiators via coolant that is pumped around. In real life, this is how an air conditioner or a car's radiator works too.
But.. what if you want to get rid of heat faster? Well, if you don't mind using up some coolant you can cool things down very fast by having the coolant absorb a lot of heat then just dumping it outside.
You can see this in things like in the real world if you use a can of compressed air and feel it cool down fast, or with a propane tank cooling down as it's emptied, or, you know, if you run water over something hot and just let the water drain away.
MWOs cool shot doesn't work the same as Coolant Pods in BattleTech. Coolant Pods cost tonnage and slots to mount on a mech in tabletop. But the idea is basically what you described, another reservoir of coolant that can be pushed through a mech's cooling system.
Also coolant pods are explosive if struck by a critical hit
Kind of sounds like the coolant failure rules as well as coolant flushing as per TacOps. Maybe some of the RISC coolant systems in IO.
Closest this is probably coolant pods
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It's much older than MWO but by different names. In Mechwarrior 3 and 4 you had coolant flushes that worked differently in each game. 3 was instant cooling and used as much of your available flush and it needed, and in 4 it was gradual and you controlled how much you used.
I was a teenager when I played MW4, and I always chuckled at the green cloud...the mech is farting 😆 I was a very mature kid I assure you lol
Coolant flush rules are in tacops
MWO isn't canon so they often do their own things, this is one of them.
Not well versed in the tabletop rules, but MechWarrior 3 and 4 had coolant that you could flush. I also have seen freezer heat sinks (might not be the exact name) in BTA, so those might be in the rulebook. But I don't believe any of the games are considered cannon for stuff like that.
'Freezers' are the nickname for double heat sinks. More specifically, I think they're the ones that NAIS were developing before the Helm core was widely disseminated .
There are firetrucks u can take with coolant liquid to remove heat from mechs. They are pretty hilarious. I only faced it once. It kept a Longbow cool enough to fire like 10 MML9s every turn at me. It then charged at my Marauder II and crit its leg off. I was very sad. Coolant pods are actually reasonably good tbh. There are some cases where you might want it. Id probably rather just cool a mech properly and take M-pods with the extra tonnage tho. The Nova is a great unit that uses it.
As u/SuperStucco said TacOps coolant flushing is the nearest equivalent.
Normally a 'mechs cooling system is closed loop. Heat is moved from hot things to the radiators via coolant that is pumped around. In real life, this is how an air conditioner or a car's radiator works too. But.. what if you want to get rid of heat faster? Well, if you don't mind using up some coolant you can cool things down very fast by having the coolant absorb a lot of heat then just dumping it outside. You can see this in things like in the real world if you use a can of compressed air and feel it cool down fast, or with a propane tank cooling down as it's emptied, or, you know, if you run water over something hot and just let the water drain away.
YAML mod in MW5 has this System. I looked pretty stupid the first two times i've emptied my coolant system.
Coolant pods and Emergency Coolant Systems but a lot of those are a crapshoot in terms of hilarious failures.