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After years of barn door madness and a few months of "well, it's not that bad anymore, kind of 'ok', but still not really good" I think it's time to make things change.
This is not meant to be a rant or a thread for complaints. Really!
Imho things went pretty good the last months and step by step PGI is going up the stairs of success, not down.
With the new upcoming and already released classic mechs most ppl thought we'd never see in MWO we have many toys now to play with.
That said there are like you all know, some "older" toys that still feel unfinished/unbalanced whatever you may call it, but somehow "not really good".
And even there PGI already is working on it. So again, not a classic thread of anger and complaints, but with a clear message regarding at least one mech.
They (PGI) are currently working on some mechs that are simply put too big or too small. So they're rescaling them, which is a relly good tbing per se!
But there's one thing I wish to highlight and of course I'm talking about the Awesome.
Some sidenotes first:
- There has been some polls Tina started, asking the community which mechs should be rescaled first (btw it's a pitty this poll didn't ever went in the next round. Afaik it never finished, but nevermind.)
- This poll clearly shows that the Nova, Awesome and Catapult (in this particular order!) are the most wanted mechs to be rescaled.
- Russ stated on Twitter PGI is working on the Catapult, Kit Fox, Dragon, Quickdraw and of course Nova (Awesome is on the list and has high priority, I know, please go ahead and read further)
- Dragon even has not been in this poll. (But sure it's great he will also be rescaled!!)
- Russ also stated the catapult will not only be rescaled, but completely remodeled and get 2k textures like all newer mechs, which is great, really! Still no complaints!)
- He also mentioned that the awesome won't get so much love. Not much to rescale, just thin out the CT a bit.
I ask you, the mechwarrios exspecially the fans of the Awesome out there:
Do you think this is right?
Before you may say it, let me make this clear: As a devoted Awesome pilot myself I know, this mech can be pretty good once you got used to ist. But it needs that special focussing other mechs don't need. Of course that makes it kind of special. You have to be a skilled pilot to be a good Awesome pilot.
But the thing is, he never had its time.
Even the Quickdraw is kind of meta now. Why can't we finally get an awesome Awesome we wish to have for years?
When there's not so much to rescale, why not put in the same love PGI does/did with the Catapult?
The Awesome doesn't have a top 4 priority. The Awesome at least has a top 2 priority. And if the nova wouldn't have been a pretty new clanmech, the Awesome probably would have been on top of the poll!
Old mechs that feel too fragile ALL need this love! Please help me and support this initiative. The catapult was a good and of course urgently needed start, but for us fans of this other great mech named "Awesome" the time of waiting should finally be over. Let PGI, exspecially Russ know (Townhall meeting is a good place) that we finally want a better, a more viable, maybe even a new and last but not least more often seen Awesome at the battlefield!
I wrote down a question for Russ in this thread for EU players that don't stay up that long to listen to the Townhall Meeting, but may have some questions.
Please help me to pass it on to Russ!
And more than that, please ask your own questions about the Awesome!
I know you all have your favorite mechs that feel weak and should be better. We all know that feel!
But the Awesome is an old mech and a long time in this game now and he never had its time of prosperity (yeah, except the LRM 80 troll build)!!
Imho he deserves it more than any other mech!
Let's move together as a community and help this mech out of this valley of frustration!
Save the Awesome, one and for all!
(sorry for parts of bad english)
Edited by Tarzilman, 29 January 2016 - 12:59 AM.
