As a brawler pilot who has all the Orions(including the Protector) elited and have been running them almost exclusively for the last 2 weeks; get yourself a Cataphract. You'll be much happier. I'm attached to Orion for nostalgic reasons and because I like to torture myself with mechs disliked by the community.
The worst problem with Orions is not their slightly oversized CT, but their sluggishness. It's twist speeds up to higher rated engines is absolutely absymal, it has very limited arm yaw range(20 degrees, same as the Cataph) even though it has perfectly articulated arms, acceleration/decceleration is bad, it's torso pitch is terrible and so on.
If you look at the hardpoints, it's an excellent brawler but the bad quirks PGI gave to this mech is undermining it's potential and forces it to be a ranged fighter.
Banky, on 07 November 2013 - 09:40 AM, said:
The biggest mistake people make comparing these two lies in assuming the Orion has 5 extra tons to work with. It really doesn't... If you're running a standard engine brawler, the difference in weight for the engines alone will eat the majority of that extra tonnage the Orion has. A standard 280 (71 kph for CTF) weighs 22 tons. A standard 300 (71 kph for Orion) weighs 25... That's 3 tons lost without having made a single change...
It also has more armor, further eating into the free tonnage. Usable tonnage doesn't scale proportionally with mech tonnage.
Edited by Tahribator, 09 November 2013 - 11:44 AM.
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