Wintersdark, on 05 January 2015 - 02:53 PM, said:
This, because a Warhawk is a tier 2 Mech at best. It's not terrible, but it's not particularly great either.
Well, not that precisely, but rather what that leads to: take a Clan assault, and you've got to make up that tonnage. This means you're taking G a Clan light or non-stormcrow medium... A mediocre to terrible mech. The Warhawk isn't good enough to warrant 100 tons and two Mech slots (+mist lynx)
In fact, most even remotely competitive groups practically bar all Clan assaults. The Direwolf while effective is way too slow, the Warhawk just not that spectacular and carries too high an opportunity cost for what you get, and the Gargoyle is ton for ton probably the worst clan Mech.
Poor Clan assaults

If there is anything wrong with the WHK it is because the CERPPC SUCKS.....only other weapons it can boat are the LPL. Trying to make it a short range brawler will not ever work particularly well. The thing is very soft on return fire due to its HUGE torsos, so any kind of extended face time with the enemy will only result in it's death. So even LPL boating kinda works against it....
Warhawk kinda need 15/15 CERPPC.....that way it can sit at a bit of range, quickly tap off it's what should be 60 dmg, dive into cover to cool off and get out of the line of fire. ofc, not exactly how I imagined a Warhawk playing out in a real Mech battle....but I guess thats its role in this game. I was trying to elite my Prime today, played 8 games, made maybe 600xp...battles didnt go for ****, 2w in 6l...no kills in any game, despite me absolutely unloading into a number mechs CTs....the damn CERPPC is such **** that you cant deal enough damage before your to damn hot to keep firing.....
1st instance, I met a King Crab who kept shutting down in front of me, I put like 6 into his CT, shutdown, he backed up.....I turn on, put another 6 into his CT, he shuts down, I put a couple more in...he shuts down again, I put more into him and I shut down, someone else takes the kill.
2nd: Battlemaster, even with his stripped CT, I put atleast 4 or 5 PPC into his CT, he runs off...
3rd: Jagermech, throughout the course of the battle I must have put 20-30 shots into his CT and in the end, I had him red CT but he never did die.
Had a number of other mechs I got real busted up in the CT, but could never finish them off due to the damn damage/heat ratio of the CERPPC....in every one of those instances im sure had I been firing a 15/15 with true 27DHS, I would have gotten all those kills and not taken a quarter of the damage I did......
Ultimately, I really hope the WHK gets a nice fat boost to it's heat dissipation and some very good CERPPC quirks, though id prefer if the thing got a 15PPFLD perk given to it.....
Edited by LordKnightFandragon, 05 January 2015 - 05:49 PM.