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KamikazeRat, on 31 March 2015 - 02:09 PM, said:
I have feasted upon many a mechjock who looked upon my awesome and thought i was an easy lunch.
I earned my "Ace of Spades" tag honestly(not during buggy-deathstar-day), and more importantly in an Awesome 8Q. And rest assured, this was no freak occurrance. I have replicated the results a dozen times since. I will admit, the Awesome is not the best mech overall, but it will kill you all the same.
Lesson: Never, i repeat, NEVER underestimate any mech. Its the pilot that kills you, not the mech. Approach each opponent as if they are intent, and able to end you, because they are.
Bishop, you of all people should know this. Your love and admiration for the lesser-loved chassis should have taught you this lesson by now.
I earned my "Ace of Spades" tag honestly(not during buggy-deathstar-day), and more importantly in an Awesome 8Q. And rest assured, this was no freak occurrance. I have replicated the results a dozen times since. I will admit, the Awesome is not the best mech overall, but it will kill you all the same.
Lesson: Never, i repeat, NEVER underestimate any mech. Its the pilot that kills you, not the mech. Approach each opponent as if they are intent, and able to end you, because they are.
Bishop, you of all people should know this. Your love and admiration for the lesser-loved chassis should have taught you this lesson by now.
I agree with this. I would have to say my favorite mechs to kill are the ones that just run head first into my Awsome because they think its gonna be an easy kill. Its especially prevalent in variants like the 8R, they see it and for some reason, it seems like "LRM" boat, pops in their head. That is, until they are getting 4 Artemis Srm6s and pulse lasers in the grill. Usually its too late for them, because with three spl or mpls, the thing can alpha many times without overheating, doing between 67-70 dmg per strike about every 2.9 seconds. A lot of cataphacts, timberwolves and jagers like to do this, they get stripped of armor the first shot, then they get a section blown off or killed by the second shot, especially if they are trying to face hug.
Same goes for the AWS-PB, simple loadout, 2 LPL with coolddown module(42%), 3 srm 2s with cooldown module(27%), one SPL. Well, that wicked general energy cooldown, decent missile cooldown and greatly reduced beam duration(-30% general) bring it to a very repeatable rate of 23DPS. I got facehugged by a jager the other day with 3 ac5s and some lasers, it didn't go over too well for him.
The key to making Awsomes more surviveable-give up the ppcs, erppcs, and lrms. Pulse lasers and srms are friends. Their general energy quirks make them better at handling almost all energy weapons better then even the other assaults with specific quirks.
Edited by jlawsl, 31 March 2015 - 06:22 PM.
