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[oldradagast]

The Awesome is fun and rather cool looking, but it is still sub-par in this game. No idea why it hasn't gotten armor quirks yet, and that'll never happen now that quirks are soon to go away.

I've run most of them (except the costly 9M and the pay-to-lose Pretty Baby.) I like the 8V as a brawler, as nutty as that sounds, with a max engine, 3 SRM6's, 2 Large Pulse lasers, and 1 Small Pulse laser in the head. Yeah, Awesomes are not sturdy, but it hits hard up close and has great torso twist to keep weapons on target.

I've given up on the PPC-only 8Q builds. It's just too easy these days to get bum-rushed in such a mech, and your low alpha combined with that infernal and completely unrealistic dead zone on PPC's under 90m just gets me killed. I've switched it to a mix of ERPPC's and medium pulse lasers, and it is doing much better.

Anyway, I like Awesomes, but I just wish they were better.

[SuomiWarder]

yeah a favorite of mine from back in the 1980s too. But I sold all of my MWO Awesomes long ago. Except the Pretty Baby. Which I almost never use. Maybe I'll see what she has on her and roll her out of the garage for old time's sake.

[Marius Romanis]

Bud Crue, on 31 January 2017 - 04:53 AM, said:

...wait, so are you saying people bring LRM Awsomes into CW? Jesus Christ on a *******, I heard CW had gotten bad, but I had no idea it was that bad.

Umm the AWS-8R with 4 LRM15 + artemis and tag is the BEST LRM mech on the Inner Sphere side with the lrm15 cooldowns.

5 things about lrms

1 You HAVE TO HAVE both LRM weapon modules and the mech +3 seconds tracking after losing LoS module
2 You should be firing them at 300-500 meters no greater
3 THEIR DAMAGE IS SPREAD OVER EVERY COMPONENT SO IT MIGHT LOOK LIKE YOUR DOING TONS OF DAMAGE BUT YOU AINT KILLING MUCH !
4They should only be brought to Boreal DEFENCE and Polar Highlands, theres generally too much cover on Frozen city and tourmaline and their the only other maps you should ever even consider taking them on.
5 They are still a worse choice than PPCS even if you do all of the above.

Edited by CadoAzazel, 01 February 2017 - 12:16 AM.