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[Moonlight Grimoire]

They did it purely on volume, not surface area. As it is, it is a very thin tall mech with thin limbs. As it is, there is a question about if they did actually calculate it given the mech was being made while everything else was being rescaled so it could have slipped through.

As it is, yes, it is a TALL 45 ton mech, but it is NARROW with thin limbs. It is gangly, and from the front looks massive. Like IS Jenners, Firestarters, Vindicators, and Centurions the Phoenix Hawk could use a size adjustment to being smaller. This is as a primarily PXH-1b pilot in T2 with over 300 matches in the darn thing. That said, I still don't mind it's size, since the PXH-1b is my favorite mech.



Hell I would love to see the Jenners get the same health quirks as the Oxide on all variants.

Edited by Moonlight Grimoire, 23 April 2017 - 05:56 PM.

[Humpday]

Seems sized properly to me. You want to see a very large medium, look at the Huntsman, that thing is huge.

[FupDup]

Mediums have been the size of heavies for quite a long time.

[Deathlike]

FupDup, on 23 April 2017 - 05:52 PM, said:

Mediums have been the size of heavies for quite a long time.

Most 55-tonners apply here... like the Jolly Boy (Kintaro), Shaqhawk (Shadowhawk), and Griffin.

They must be #yuge.

[Metus regem]

Source Mystic, on 25 April 2017 - 06:39 AM, said:

It is a 45 ton mech not a 55 ton mech it should be resized. add 5 tons to a cicada it is no where near the size it should be. It is the same size as a 55 ton centurion or a 65 ton thunderbolt reduce the size by about 7-12 % and it would be fine. But right now it is not in line with the other mechs at all. When you make a new mech it should be the same standard as all the others. Other wise you have no standard.

It's not just frontal profile that determines a mechs size in MWO, but also the width and depth of the mech, in the case of the Phoenix Hawk, you turn her sideways you can hide behind a tree on forest, she is that thin. She also has a massive thigh gap as well as massive gaps between the arms and body making them places where shots get lost in to the void. A mech like the Cicada having the body it does, gives it a longer side profile, meaning for it's volumetric sizing it can be much more squat than the tall skinny Pixie. Another great example of this is, the Gryphon vs Bushwacker, both are 55t mechs, but the Bushy is noticeably shorter than the Gryphon, how ever the side profile of the Bushy is much longer than the side profile of the Gryphon, so they have the same volume, just placed in a different way.