Posted 16 December 2020 - 08:04 PM
I have the whole thing, from 2013.
I remember the Shadowhawk being pretty fun, although I haven't loaded it out since I returned(stopped for 2 years, just back now). As medium mechs go, it could do a few different things, I enjoyed making it sword and board and using twist to let them shoot my useless arm while weapons cooled down. I did a lot of super high heat longer range alpha loadouts on the Shawks, I know I did a triple AC2 one one of them too for a while. PANG PANG PANG PANG.... sounds more potent then it is but it was fun.
I still use the Battlemaster. 2 PPC and 4 ML. Sometimes when my PING is off the charts(prime time with rural DSL) I put 2 LPL on instead. Make sure to load it in the right order so the PPC are on "top" of the stack, this lets you peak over ridges because the PPC are actually higher then the cockpit, you can actually shoot people you can;t see on certain maps where they didn't botch the wall collision. 2 PPC, 4 ML with a STD 350 and the rest DHS/armor. Pretty agile, pretty quick for a big mech, and pretty tanky as the arms are just bonus armor.
I played the Tbolt a bit back in the day. Nowdays, not much. Seems like T bolts end up with mindless meta builds the few times I see them on the field. Not worth real money IMO, but I would pick it over the griffon or wolverine IMO.
I am surprised they are selling these again. Maybe the "pros" were complaining they couldn't get that pheonix kill badge on their alt accounts. I know when i run my Battlemaster during prime time the enemy team will sometimes go out of their way to chase me. Don;t see many (P) on the team lists lately. I like the (P) Battlemaster a lot more then the hero version, so it is a solid choice for C bill bonus if thats your thing.