Ilwrath, on 11 February 2013 - 05:31 AM, said:
They are too easy to take down and don't fit into the assault role. Everything they do can be done better by some other mech. Apart from the 9m that is fast but do you really want to drive a boosted hunchback while giving the enemy team a Stalker or an Atlas?
This is wrong. If you're a bad pilot, and I'm not saying that YOU are a bad pilot Ilwrath, then the Awesome is going to get you dead in a hurry. The lack of armor vs the Atlas will hurt and the lack of weaponry vs the Stalker and Atlas will hinder you. But, this is one of the things that I would ask the people that say that the Awesome is bad:
- How often do you pilot the Awesome?
- And more importantly, when you pilot/fight an Awesome, how often do you/they use Quick Look to protect their torsos while maintaining fire?
See? That last part is really important. I can jump in any mech with arms and protect my torsos, somewhat, with my arm. BUT, it is really hard but especially important to be able to keep your arm loaded weapons on your target while protecting yourself. I see more bad players trying to face hug their targets and even more trying to do so while their torsos are barely holding on by way of a few nuts and bolts. But it is the artists that are nimble enough to do all of this and still put the hurt on their enemies. What is the Stalker going to do when this happens to them? What is the Atlas going to do when all of their weaponry are in their torsos? Not that the Awesome is an arm loaded killing machine. But I can lay down some hurt from range and then circle round you and still hurt you while being fast enough to avoid the bulk of your torso mounted weapons.