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Product Widow
Reviewer Velox Vyper
Created 15-May-2011, 22:06:07
Overview A real Widow maker, or an arachnoid to be squashed with a shoe?
Review
Rating System: 1-5
1= an absolute do not use
5= Is absolutely perfect
∗Disclaimer: This is my personal opinion as a veteran pilot and does not reflect everyones use of said items in actual combat∗

Mech For Review: Widow

Health levels: 2.5 (725 health)
A definate light weight of the medium category, this mech has low end medium and high end light mech health levels, rendering it rather vulnerable to any sort of heavy weaponry or sustained fire.

Speed: 4
Relatively fast for a medium mech, the widow will pound along steadily on the ground and give other ground bound medium mechs without special movement modes a run for their money.

Flight capability: 3
This mech has a very rapid upwards flight movement, but slows down when trying to move latterally in the air. A full JJ fuel burn will bring you atop of the highest buildings in Old City, and leave a little room in the air to spare. Cautious and carefull pulsing of the jump jets wil allow you to achieve roughly six seconds of floating air time at the cost of all of your fuel.

Hitbox Size: 2
While the mech appears to be small, the actual avatars hit box stands much taller than it’s diminutive frame. The top of the hit box actually comes about even with the very top of it’s pair of arm mounted funnel lasers if they are left unmodified (Really protrude from the shoulders), giving lots of empty space to detect hits that look like they should miss.

Weapons that come with: Funnel Lasers

Funnel Lasers:
Equip slot: Stomach, Left and Right Arm slots
Damage level: 3 (27, rated high due to refire rate))
ammo: 5 (None)
range: 1.5 (20 meters)
Projectile type: Beam
Projectile speed: 5 (Instant travel)
fire rate: 5 (About half second cool down between shots)
Heat generation: 5 (Even when spammed with no heat sinks, un-noticable)
Ease of aim: 4 (Rapid fire with thick beams)
Special: None
Hardmounted: yes
Splash Size: 0, none
Personal notes: These weapons, while fast fireing and with a decent amount of damage at no heat, have an incredibly incredibly short range compared to other weapons, and is most comparable to a small laser in range. My suggestions, get in close to other light and medium mechs, and fire repeatedly and nonstop, to cause rapid and intense damage. Just be carefull to keep your opponnents within range.

Overall review
All in all, this mech makes a great wounded mech hunter, or medium mech hunter,and little less other than that. Personally, I found this mech great for hunting non-melee bios and mechs setup for long range encounters, able to bounce repeatedly and just pound into slower targets for rapid repeated damage. Most common setup I used to enhance this ability were pec mounted medium lasers, keeping heat to a low, but accenting the close range damage. However, long range weapons would be helpful too, as this mech’s close range weapons render it weak to other mediums and light mechs, resulting in it’s primary weakness being easily exploitable.
All in all, this mech looks ok, and is ok in what it is used for what it does. Other than that, it’s a mediocre setup, and should only be used by advanced pilots capable of dodging hits.
Rating 2 Stars