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[Wikikomoto]

yeah, yeah, its no fun to use with how poor it is compared to other assaults. but i couldnt care less about that. what i do care about is how horrendous it looks.

the redesign isnt terrible, i actually sorta like it on its own. but ever since it got reworked, it dosent even look like the awesome anymore. i know its supposed to be your "own original design" but its still a part of the battletech universe. and it looks NOTHING like its original art. or any redesign.

the PPC arm is just... bad. like, terrible. why is it, that the mauler, the newest mech in the game at this point, has arms that look identical to the mauler art, but the awesome has this weird square lump where a massive protruding particle cannon should be sticking out?

on that note, the mauler without its missile racks looks so much more like the awesome than the awesome does, i often mistake it for such on the battlefield. its inane.

im not asking for a total and complete overhaul. just give me my PPC arm back.

[RuneCaster]

I respectfully disagree to some degree,

The original Awesome mini is one of the oddest looking mechs of the era. The giant head mounted radiar dish, the weird geometry... it's not a good looking of exciting looking mech to say the least. And the new Battle Fist is a massive improvement over the original.

That said, I totally agree that it's losing some of it's "Awesome-ness", especially with the redesign of the PPC's. On one hand, I like that now if I put LL's in a PPC slot, it shows, on the other, the big PPC barrels were a real nice touch that nodded nicely to the original design.

[Mazzyplz]

i disagree as well, i think the awesome is one of the best looking mechs in the game.

first of all it looks like a frog or something, the lack of a proper head i always liked. it's a bit like the thunderbolt in that sense but the cockpit is middle mounted;

i also love how it doesn't look like a fragile hunk of junk.

for instance the griffin has too much glass,
http://i52.photobuck...yl/Griffin1.jpg

it ends up looking like something that wasn't made for combat; here's what it looks like to me
http://www4.pcmag.co...i.jpg?width=630

not like a war machine at all.
to me the griffin looks ridiculous.

the awesome is the perfect example of not making this mistake IMO;

the cockpit looks solid like a gun emplacement or a real armored personnel carrier cockpit:

http://i.ytimg.com/v...xresdefault.jpg
http://www.military-...pc/iklwa_l1.jpg
https://upload.wikim...ther_Thun_1.jpg

look at the hatch on this tank:
http://i60.photobuck...zps8i2wsr6y.jpg

look at the awesome again, it has a hatch on the head. this is tried design. it works.

and it even makes more sense in other ways see the angle of the plating on the head? it slopes down like 45 degree angle

this is what you want in an armored vehicle;

https://en.wikipedia...i/Sloped_armour

i am not saying it makes sense in the center torso area, but at least the head and the top part of the sidetorsos looks like it would make sense as an armored vehicle - other mechs like the griffin look like they were designed by someone who just had no clue - by somebody who should be wearing a helmet at all times, indoors

the awesome is also one of the only mechs that looks like it would transform into an 18 wheeler and 'roll out' and that is always a plus, esp. if you paint it blue/red like an autobot or purple/green/black like decepticon


to me the original awesome looked pretty bad - like really? you think this looks better?
http://jeffporterart..._fi/Awesome.jpg

this is AWFUL, it looks like this old timey fire engine

http://farm4.static....fd732311b_m.jpg

or the top of this dilapidated fishing boat

http://www.thomaslau...at_land_800.jpg
or a tollbooth
https://thepennyproj.../toll-booth.jpg
here's what i am taking to battle:

https://kevpittwmp.f...bus-outside.jpg



sorry, but i think the new design is superior by an infinite ammount

Edited by Mazzyplz, 21 September 2015 - 12:32 AM.

[Karl Marlow]

Why are there no pictures of the red a sign so people know what you are talking about. So far the only thing I've seen that even resembles an awesome is a picture mazzyplz posted that looks like a cartoon version of an awesome dancing the Charleston

[Mazzyplz]

http://www.sarna.net...wesome1.jpg.png

the original art is not dissimilar to the "charleston cartoon" one

http://www.sarna.net...Awesome.jpg.png



you COULD redesign it like this
http://orig12.devian...ord-d3870vy.jpg
, which looks cool - but it doesn't look nearly as tough or tank looking like the current awesome

it looks like a futuristic clan thing

Edited by Mazzyplz, 22 September 2015 - 03:47 AM.

[oldradagast]

Old Zaku, on 19 September 2015 - 02:39 PM, said:

yeah, yeah, its no fun to use with how poor it is compared to other assaults. but i couldnt care less about that. what i do care about is how horrendous it looks.

the redesign isnt terrible, i actually sorta like it on its own. but ever since it got reworked, it dosent even look like the awesome anymore. i know its supposed to be your "own original design" but its still a part of the battletech universe. and it looks NOTHING like its original art. or any redesign.

the PPC arm is just... bad. like, terrible. why is it, that the mauler, the newest mech in the game at this point, has arms that look identical to the mauler art, but the awesome has this weird square lump where a massive protruding particle cannon should be sticking out?

on that note, the mauler without its missile racks looks so much more like the awesome than the awesome does, i often mistake it for such on the battlefield. its inane.

im not asking for a total and complete overhaul. just give me my PPC arm back.

The Awesome is the second most hated mech in the game, right behind the grossly oversized Catapult with its insanely huge-for-no-reason missile boxes that have VCR's strapped onto them.

The Awesome:
- Has a bad hitboxes with huge torsos that get blown off if you look at them wrong
- Has arms that are too small to block any real damage
- Now has stupidly small energy hardpoints (tiny PPC syndrome)
- The 2nd energy hardpoint in the torsos was moved DOWN to make the mech WEAKER when they added dynamic weapon hardpoints.
- The missiles are now scattered all over the mech like a rash and often clearly launching from places that are not missile launchers. Take a look at the Awesome 9M, where one of the left arm "launchers" is clearly nothing but a missile decal slapped on the left shoulder armor plate. It looks cheap and makes no sense at all.

The mech was poor to begin with, but the abuse it's received is just disgusting. Meanwhile, if they just used the nicely done Zeus torsos and the big arms on the Mauler - with the large arm guards - and put them together, with a little work and customizing, you'd have a far better looking Awesome then the mess we have today.

Edited by oldradagast, 22 September 2015 - 03:22 AM.