Yeah, note the CBT mention; I've already had quite a bit of fun with a Big Zam (delightful in the BuCue mission) and the Zeong. The ridden custom looks interesting. S'kinda' sad that it's a scissor, though. Freaking rocks g'damn everywhere with their melee combo lock BS, bleh. Still, it has dakka, not puny sword waving or whatever. At least the Zakus have a decent axe instead of that wimparse pansy!beam
needlesword crap.
I'm not terribly interested in PvP, though. Eh. The Xamel's managed alright in normal missions when the rest of the group was on the ball, but I usually had to resort to th'Zam or Zeong if I didn't wanna' run some pissant gundam. Which I did, occasionally, but I felt dirty afterwards. Not a good dirty, either

I've eyeballed the Kshatriya before, yeah, and the paper is a bonus. I like just about anything that's got at least
some not-one-shot weapons. Beam guns don't have enough dakka. They don't even have
moar dakka, bah. Machine guns, rocket barrages, whatever. Multi-shot beam's fine, too, but the only one of those I noticed in CBT was that bloody Kyrios. I don't like playing rocks any more than I like fighting them

Ruddy RPS system could stand to be just ditched, honestly~ Considering how old the game is, though, I doubt that'd happen.