Hawks need to powered down a fair amount it just took out my shm, slaves, drones and droner, Lost A charge 4 BFDS and Adv Cand C drone

They are easy on sniper and SD.

They are just fine the way they are. If they are powered down any amount at all, then I will make a post to prove how fine they are.

They are not fine the way they are, yes they should be powered down or made no argo like hives unless u want to kill them.

Since I can camp one on my visible sniper they are fine imo.

they just take advantage of the fact he has no eth weapons. No way playerboy could tank that damage in his engineer or shm, they hurt like hell. Basically you have to run if you are not any of the few classes who can kill them. Lets see admins make the hawks weaps ethereal and see these guys squeal.

There are plenty people that can do them on many classes and with many playing styles. Engineers, fleet commanders, speed demons, berserkers, snipers. All of these can kill them. It takes a while to learn how to kill them, but I thought a long term player would know not to moan just because one AI killed him. If people are going to complain like this, then there will be no challenges in the game. Easy as that.

When there is an AI put in game that no-one can kill for a long time, then it needs to be balanced. But Hawks are killed every single day, which means you are asking for an AI to be balanced towards you as a player, when there are major parts of the player base that can handle these just fine.

I've killed a few on SD, but did encounter one I couldn't finish off with Heph Blazing Hammer. Haven't hunted them enough to know whether that was just an unlucky aug combo. I also haven't experimented with every damage type although I imagine that energy/phys would be among the most effective.

I do feel kind of bad for non-HM ShM against them, but not every class is good against every AI. It's only a matter of time till a pimped out Shield Monkey succeeds in killing one (unless someone already has ).

I highly doubt a Shield Monkey will kill a Hawk; least not any time soon.

As for how they are, I made them to be this powerful. Players asked for Perilous to be scary, simple as.

I have a third instalment for the bird series; but it's too soon to add it.

Hope you realize that only HF's can use that. I want you to tell me how you got that weapon on your LF.

Paxx is a Zebra Sniper?

He is, unfortunately. His 'solo' ability is just the shm he drags around as he plays on his visible sniper. In a sense, he's just an old zerk/shm combo.