MechWarrior Online BattleMech Profile: Awesome

Behold the AWS-8Q Awesome as it becomes the eighth battlemech to be profiled over on the official MechWarrior Online website. With 80 tons of assault weaponry that includes a triple set of PPCs, it’s a behemoth on the battlefield:

She could feel the small whine as she raised her ‘˜Mechs right arm, and aligned her torso. Alpha in three, two. The Atlas rounded the corner, far off in the distance her zoomed crosshair centre-mass, she fired.

One never really got used to the sound and feeling of a PPC firing. Three at once was even more so.

Her Awesome rocked back as all three PPC bolts cut through the air, a distinct crackle in her ears as she watched the right arm explode on the Atlas, the harsh glow of the right torso as the PPC blasts tried to burn through. Her cockpit instantly filled with steam, and sweat was pouring out of her the ‘˜Mech screamed a heat warning at her, and she switched fire groups to the right arm.

(Woah, confirmed hit Echo; he’s panicking.)

(Roger, Recon.)

The enemy Atlas, instead of moving ahead into cover, was trying to backpedal her next PPC shot caused his right torso to explode, rocking him sideways and nearly knocking him over. The next shot cored out the Atlas, and it fell backwards out of sight.