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[Phoenix Branson]

I've played around 50 matches this week and haven't seen a single Awesome on the battlefield. The developers seriously need to consider buffing this 'Mech with a quirk. This 'Mech is basically nonexistent from the game. Maybe give it a special quirk for PPC's...

Thoughts/Opinions?

[RandomLurker]

Their primary build (ppc boating) got nerfed hard, several times. Combined with the huge CT, I can see why nobody is using it. Has more to do with Ghost Heat and the PPC nerf though. Fix those.

[Deathlike]

It could be your ELO level that's causing it... as very few would be fielding them in the first place.

Fix its hitboxes, and maybe give it the Centurion arms treatment, and maybe it would suck a lot less.

[Solis Obscuri]

They were never "Awesome"s. The chassis flat-out needs a hitbox adjustment, and possibly some more "quirks" before it has parity with the other assault 'mechs.

That said, I mastered three variants with a positive KDR on each... but most of the AWS variants are set up to boat heavy energy weapons, and that isn't a viable option at the moment. There isn't a good reason to use one when any Orion, Stalker or Victor can do everything an Awesome does better, and do other things besides.

[Corvus Antaka]

I've seen em.

In the hands of the few, the skilled, and the brave

[VIPER2207]

I sometimes drop with an AWS-8R 'Rain Doctor'. In my opinion, this configuration is the only thing that works realy realy good for the AWS-chassis in the current meta.
In fact, this is the mech with my best K/D-ratio. Performes pretty well when you know how to ride it (and your team isn't completely useless )

[MadCat02]

Maverick01, on 18 September 2013 - 06:13 PM, said:

I've played around 50 matches this week and haven't seen a single Awesome on the battlefield. The developers seriously need to consider buffing this 'Mech with a quirk. This 'Mech is basically nonexistent from the game. Maybe give it a special quirk for PPC's...

Thoughts/Opinions?

Well if you gona play laser boat it might as well be Stalker because he has weapons at the head level . I don't think Awesome was a good mech to begin with .

Even before PPC nerf there were better mechs to mount them like highlander,stalker,viktor and ilya

[Lightfoot]

Same, though I did see one very fast 9M yesterday. That was the only one this week though.

They did end up over-nerfing the PPC/ERPPC though. I was running one ERPPC with 11 DHS and an LBX10 and the ERPPC was causing the mech to shutdown and take damage after 4 or 5 firings on River City. I can't imagine how you would run 2 ERPPC's now with DHS 1.4 making additional DHS pointless since they deliver only 1.4 cooling and one ERPPC seems to require 15 DHS now.

Shameful.

[MadMaxMKII]

I ride the Awesome as my main mech and still pretty much like it. but the ppc nerf was hitting too hard. in my 9M i cant even handle 2 ER-PPC, even with 21 DHS...the heat is too damn high.

btw the 8V is my most successful mech with a kill/death ratio of 2.23
you have to be fully aware of the map and its conditions, being caught in the open AC weapons will shredd you in seconds.