Battletech - Also known as Trannytech

[Tri-Tachyon'sClown]

Watching half the enemy team go after two white rabbits (me and another medium) and as I told my allies to push was magical, it was like a movie. Sacrificing myself to make sure my fellow flanker to away was simply beautiful. I was a little worried at first since we went kill for kill for a moment before my team steamrolled everyone. Sadly I can feel the enemy team's headache as I've seen this happen to many times.

He was a Hunchback, I blew off his hunch. He gets in chat rambling about me being meta scum. Obviously I mock him real quick and get back to it.

>Meta scum
At this point if he's crying about a dying game having meta players he should just quit.

Annoyed by a friendly mech who keeps getting in my way, blocking my shots and swiping me with his lasers.

Can. Relate. And then they have the gall to whine at you for shooting them in the back, spatial awareness is anathema to some people.

He had shut down and hid in the pile of mech corpses waiting for specifically me to show up and show me what for.

Imagine being that salty. I mean, clever, but salty as fuck.

He didn't scratch 100 damage. It was very funny.

You remember his name? I'll make sure to run my Stalker against him some time. Speaking of which I hate how refitting a mech is as expensive as the mech itself, I mean it makes sense since you're...refitting the entire mech but still.

 

[Boney]

Watching half the enemy team go after two white rabbits (me and another medium) and as I told my allies to push was magical, it was like a movie. Sacrificing myself to make sure my fellow flanker to away was simply beautiful. I was a little worried at first since we went kill for kill for a moment before my team steamrolled everyone. Sadly I can feel the enemy team's headache as I've seen this happen to many times.

>Meta scum
At this point if he's crying about a dying game having meta players he should just quit.

Can. Relate. And then they have the gall to whine at you for shooting them in the back, spatial awareness is anathema to some people.

Imagine being that salty. I mean, clever, but salty as fuck.

You remember his name? I'll make sure to run my Stalker against him some time. Speaking of which I hate how refitting a mech is as expensive as the mech itself, I mean it makes sense since you're...refitting the entire mech but still.

It was "Mechwarrior" followed by a long series of numbers. Which means he's been banned at some point. No surprise there.

 

[Moja Zemlja]

It was "Mechwarrior" followed by a long series of numbers. Which means he's been banned at some point. No surprise there.

Thats a rename, though people like that are dime a dozen especially in the lower tiers.

 

[Tri-Tachyon'sClown]

It was "Mechwarrior" followed by a long series of numbers. Which means he's been banned at some point. No surprise there.

I've seen a few like that, I think the last one I've seen was complaining about getting blasted in the back because he walked in front of someone.

 

[Tri-Tachyon'sClown]

Watching 2 lights dumpster my entire team was both beautiful and horrific.

 

[Tri-Tachyon'sClown]

May have ran into my first hacker, it started with someone getting headshot by a Panther from...600+m away with an ER PPC, guy who nearly died from said headshot was in a fast stealth Cicada (I think), and the match ended with several mechs dying instantly despite still having good armor from most likely headshots. Problem is there were multiple people in the kill feed so it may have been multiple aimbots.

 

[Boney]

May have ran into my first hacker, it started with someone getting headshot by a Panther from...600+m away with an ER PPC, guy who nearly died from said headshot was in a fast stealth Cicada (I think), and the match ended with several mechs dying instantly despite still having good armor from most likely headshots. Problem is there were multiple people in the kill feed so it may have been multiple aimbots.

Is the accused named Herod?

 

[Tri-Tachyon'sClown]

Is the accused named Herod?

Not 100% sure since it may have been multiple, but I don't remember such a simple name.

 

[Snekposter]

This faggot is really starting to reach with his articles now.

 

[StevieLasVegas]

Jesus, even by modern Sarna standards that is a lazy article.

• It has ammo! So does the Archer, my favorite mech. How does ammo make it bad?
• It doesn't have a PPC like the Griffin! Sure, but it has an easier time managing it's heat because it doesn't have a PPC. Also, a standard Shadow Hawk won't be hurting as much if it loses one weapon since it still has three more. A standard Griffin would with it's two.
• It doesn't have an AC/10 like the Centurion! Sure, but the Shadow Hawk has better mobility than a Centurion.

Sean wants to be like Tex, but doesn't understand how to use context from within the setting like Tex does. Just doing a quick browse of his more recent Bad Mech articles, more & more comments keep asking why the mech is bad. Maybe if he stopped sucking tranny dicks, he could take the time to actually compile a valid article.

 

[Moja Zemlja]

I'm not a fan of the Shadow Hawk as I don't like it for being a jack of trades but I still wouldn't call it bad, there is value in having a mech that can perform acceptably well in a wide variety of situations. Its never going to be the lynch pin of a lance but its flexibility makes it perfect to run aside a lot of different mechs.

 

[DefinitelyNotMe]

I really thought that SHD is one of the most mediocre and inoffensive mechs ever designed.
Who will be next? Wolverine?

 

[Corn Flakes]

Jesus, even by modern Sarna standards that is a lazy article.

• It has ammo! So does the Archer, my favorite mech. How does ammo make it bad?
• It doesn't have a PPC like the Griffin! Sure, but it has an easier time managing it's heat because it doesn't have a PPC. Also, a standard Shadow Hawk won't be hurting as much if it loses one weapon since it still has three more. A standard Griffin would with it's two.
• It doesn't have an AC/10 like the Centurion! Sure, but the Shadow Hawk has better mobility than a Centurion.

Sean wants to be like Tex, but doesn't understand how to use context from within the setting like Tex does. Just doing a quick browse of his more recent Bad Mech articles, more & more comments keep asking why the mech is bad. Maybe if he stopped sucking tranny dicks, he could take the time to actually compile a valid article.

See, if he had compared it to the Wolverine and made it clear the differences are actually fairly minor in the grand scheme of just how fucking random Battletech is, he might have had a point. But arguing "ammo bad" (if you're in a light or a medium and you take an ammo crit, you weren't long for this world to begin with), and comparing it to a specialized sniper and an even slower and more glass-cannon-y medium?

Dude needs to lay off the Canopus Catgirl Crackpipe.

ETA: derp. Mixed up Stevie's point with the article itself. That's what I get for posting pre-coffee.

 

[Snekposter]

I'm not a fan of the Shadow Hawk as I don't like it for being a jack of trades but I still wouldn't call it bad, there is value in having a mech that can perform acceptably well in a wide variety of situations. Its never going to be the lynch pin of a lance but its flexibility makes it perfect to run aside a lot of different mechs.

As you said, its not so much bad as it is completely unspecialized. A lance of Shadow Hawks is one of the most versatile things you can have and it can fill in for any other medium in a more specialized lance in a pinch.

And don't forget that it has the Rugged and Ubiquitous quirks so in terms of campaign play its going to be trucking on when other 'Mechs have been sidelined due to maintenance issues, such as the Centurion and its Non-Standard Parts quirk.

 

[Tactical Wizard]

As you said, its not so much bad as it is completely unspecialized. A lance of Shadow Hawks is one of the most versatile things you can have and it can fill in for any other medium in a more specialized lance in a pinch.

And don't forget that it has the Rugged and Ubiquitous quirks so in terms of campaign play its going to be trucking on when other 'Mechs have been sidelined due to maintenance issues, such as the Centurion and its Non-Standard Parts quirk.

And there's an actual shitty version of the Shadow Hawk in the form of the -2D. It's bad because it's basically just got paper plates stapled to the chassis for armor.

 

[Tri-Tachyon'sClown]

This faggot is really starting to reach with his articles now.

I never read these articles, I never got the point. Unless the mech is incredibly dogshit and quite literally unfieldable, calling a mech "bad" is just silly since with enough autism you can make anything work good. Already I regret clicking on this article, it reads poorly and like a Tumblr post (it's Sarna so it's unsurprising), the audio recording gives me a headache with how much soy is radiating off of it, and like you said it just feels like they're reaching. I can imagine every "bad mech" article is just reaching.

• It has ammo! So does the Archer, my favorite mech. How does ammo make it bad?
• It doesn't have a PPC like the Griffin! Sure, but it has an easier time managing it's heat because it doesn't have a PPC. Also, a standard Shadow Hawk won't be hurting as much if it loses one weapon since it still has three more. A standard Griffin would with it's two.
• It doesn't have an AC/10 like the Centurion! Sure, but the Shadow Hawk has better mobility than a Centurion.

What these fools fail to understand is that mechs are relatively "modular" so a lot of these arguments tend to fall flat. And like you said, so what? So what it has ammo? So what it doesn't have a PPC or AC/10 as it's default configuration? These article reads like someone who has never played Battletech, let alone a Shadow Hawk. Matter of fact didn't someone at Sarna admit to never playing BT or something?

 

[Tactical Wizard]

I mean, if you’re not afraid to redline your heart, a great swap on a Shad is to replace the AC5 with a PPC and some heat sinks.

 

[StevieLasVegas]

I never read these articles, I never got the point. Unless the mech is incredibly dogshit and quite literally unfieldable, calling a mech "bad" is just silly since with enough autism you can make anything work good. Already I regret clicking on this article, it reads poorly and like a Tumblr post (it's Sarna so it's unsurprising), the audio recording gives me a headache with how much soy is radiating off of it, and like you said it just feels like they're reaching. I can imagine every "bad mech" article is just reaching.

What these fools fail to understand is that mechs are relatively "modular" so a lot of these arguments tend to fall flat. And like you said, so what? So what it has ammo? So what it doesn't have a PPC or AC/10 as it's default configuration? These article reads like someone who has never played Battletech, let alone a Shadow Hawk. Matter of fact didn't someone at Sarna admit to never playing BT or something?

The weird thing is that when Sean started the article, he actually used notoriously bad mechs, like the Quickdraw or the Jaegermech, and the fan fiction didn't take up half the article. Now it's just a printed word salad that either misses the point of the mech or doesn't actually attempt to explain why Sean thinks it's bad, with a sad waste of good artwork by Eldonious.

As for your final question, I don't recall Sarna having that issue. I do recall CGL picking a some bitch to take over a fan created forum/Discord who later admitted to having never playing anything Battletech related though.

 

[Tri-Tachyon'sClown]

I mean, if you’re not afraid to redline your heart, a great swap on a Shad is to replace the AC5 with a PPC and some heat sinks.

If you're not edging your heat, are you really a MechWarrior? Because if you are that explains why you're alive.

I do recall CGL picking a some bitch to take over a fan created forum/Discord who later admitted to having never playing anything Battletech related though.

Yeah I think you're right, but I remember it being said on Sarna but I could just be misremembering.

 

[robobobo]

The nerds are giving him shit for it in the comments, at least. Because yeah, the Shadow Hawk has an annoying dribble of separate weapon systems instead of a cohesive punch, but it's still an okay mech. Good armor, good mobility, nearly impossible to overheat, and no gaping holes in its ability to respond to fire at any range. Complaining about having ammo in the torso is... okay? So do most mechs. Taking an ammo hit is a bad day for anybody, but shit happens.