oldradagast, on 10 July 2015 - 05:07 PM, said:
I've got to be honest - the kick in the crotch they gave the Awesome (combined with the increase in pointless cap rushes in Assault) has dulled my remaining enthusiasm. It just feels like a sad mix of pettiness and incompetence.
"We know that the mech you like is rather crummy but looks cools, so we made it crummier and no longer look cool. Enjoy!"
Now I understand how Catapult lovers feel. Yuck.
I kind of agree with the looks of some of the awesome's weapons. PPC size does make it look none threatening. Mounting PPCs in anything but the arms makes it look like it barely has weapons mounted. Lasers are always a joke, same sized box, every type, every size. I do like the missiles though. Even though the arm mounts are kind of goofy, all of the missile points are more flexible. They all handle up to 20 tubes and the torso placement is great. I no longer have to be 300m back from the closest incline to fire for the fear of the missiles just plowing into the ground.
It lets the 8T use an LRM40 viciously
The PB can mount 55 tubes on three mounts with no ghost heat firing all at once
The 8V pretty much stayed the same in overall capacity because all three hardpoints were are in one torso
And the 8R,,,like night and day with missiles now, no longer a 2 missile/launcher sputter that was good for laughs. I was always laughing when I made a goof off build with an lrm20 on the arm, lost lock, then regained lock and the missiles tracked again, then lost lock and regained it again, all in one shot because if fired 10 burst of 2.
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