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7c Nickel posted:In penance, post a pic of your dumb rear end zwee fighter. THE HERO IS YOU! right? I hope this is enough penance.        But if that's not enough, surely this will redeem me in the eyes of my fellow internet nerds?  Zwee Fighter Goku Punchmans is Freedom. 
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you absolute fucker
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Mar 17, 2015 04:19
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Mar 17, 2015 04:22
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Holy poo poo that Majin name is Amazing. 
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Mar 17, 2015 07:56
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PoptartsNinja posted:What? LeadSled posted:Holy poo poo that Majin name is Amazing.
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Mar 17, 2015 08:18
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Well, he is a Majin Z-Warrior 
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MechWarrior’s Campaign Journal, Update 35 December 1, 3051 I think I’ve got a handle on these Clan controls. The layout is virtually identical to the other Clan machine I captured, the displays are just in different places and some of the defaults are infuriating me. It won’t let me assign my weapons to groups until we power up, and the moment I power up the Clans are going to know something’s wrong. We’ve got a full load of ammunition at least, but I have no idea how half of my weapons work and that could be a problem. This machine’s powerful but it’s got less armor than an Atlas. It’s also very badly over-gunned: by my estimate, I can use about three-quarters of my medium lasers with some reliability, but if I try to use all eight of them it won’t be too many salvos before I melt my engine shielding. One of the Clan technicians we captured also told me this machine was in for maintenance on the large laser in its belly, which is apparently only functioning at a fraction of its normal capacity. If worse comes to worst I can always fall back on the SRMs. I just have no idea how a streak-system will interact with a six-tube launcher. It seems like it’d take forever for them to lock on. Mission Briefing    Mission Track(s) Dust River again.   December 30, 3051 Eat poo poo, Chu-sa Baruki. If you’d actually attempted to keep your plan to murder me and my lance a secret you might’ve gotten away with it. I might not be getting paid for this fiasco but this Kodiak is mine, and now that we’re on our way back to the Inner Sphere I can actually check the news to see what we’ve missed while you were keeping us in the dark these last few months. Oh. Oh poo poo.   Oh poo poo, it’s actually happening. The FedCom just sent me a contract signed by Prince Hanse Davion himself. All hands on deck to protect Luthien from the Clans. The political implications of this are almost as staggering as what this battle is going to do to my bank account. Ahahahaha! I’m hiring a back-up pilot just in case. 
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Mar 19, 2015 00:12
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So what happens if you are an honorabu space man and go with the Combine? Also, wow no one really bothered to proofread the pilot histories at all huh? Or is Yachi unable to recall if they are a man or woman?
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Mar 19, 2015 00:33
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Watch out for any stray office chairs while you're on Luthien!
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Mar 19, 2015 01:05
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paragon1 posted:So what happens if you are an honorabu space man and go with the Combine? In my opinion, the only logical answer is that this game from 1996 has a canon genderqueer robot pilot.
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Mar 19, 2015 01:14
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paragon1 posted:So what happens if you are an honorabu space man and go with the Combine? If you're playing the non-economy version of the game, you have to steal the Kodiak (it doesn't give you an option not to) and Luthien kinda assumes you've got it. If you opt not to steal it for yourself you get money. Yay.
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Mar 19, 2015 01:22
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Is the Kodiak worth more than what they were going to pay you or something?
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Mar 19, 2015 01:34
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paragon1 posted:Is the Kodiak worth more than what they were going to pay you or something? It's worth 29,000,000 c-bills on its own, stock. They were going to pay us 4,000,000.
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Mar 19, 2015 01:37
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Poor Yachi Kim, took shrapnel to the head and now cant even remember his/her gender. 
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Mar 19, 2015 02:57
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PoptartsNinja posted:It's worth 29,000,000 c-bills on its own, stock. Haha okay yeah, killing them and stealing it was definitely the most mercenary move possible then.
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Mar 19, 2015 03:38
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So hang on, did you just trade your Timberwolf for the Kodiak? I thought the DC guys that hired you had the mech you infiltrated the place with in their possession.
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Crigit posted:So hang on, did you just trade your Timberwolf for the Kodiak? I thought the DC guys that hired you had the mech you infiltrated the place with in their possession. I'm guessing "We even salvaged your 'mech from the dropship wreckage" means you're getting it back regardless.
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Crigit posted:So hang on, did you just trade your Timberwolf for the Kodiak? I thought the DC guys that hired you had the mech you infiltrated the place with in their possession. Nope, a 'tech retrieved it from the wrecked Dropship.
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Bobbin Threadbare posted:I'm guessing "We even salvaged your 'mech from the dropship wreckage" means you're getting it back regardless. Ah, I missed that bit.
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Mar 19, 2015 04:24
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paragon1 posted:Haha okay yeah, killing them and stealing it was definitely the most mercenary move possible then. It's effectively a one of a kind assault mech. 29M cbills is the TRO price but were this not a computer game you could probably find someone willing to give you the kind of money that moves planets for the chance to take it apart and see how it works. Which he clearly needs just to transport his balls.
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Mar 19, 2015 05:14
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And now you know why we need a bigger boat.
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Mar 19, 2015 05:45
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One thing I always loved about the Battletech setting as a whole is that everyone is trying to gently caress everyone else over, from House to House, various factions within each House, all the way down to House vs Merc, so it's not too hard to justify a... strategic betrayal when you need to. Especially House Kurita, because they are about as subtle with their intentions to stab you in the back as a train jumping the rails and crashing through your bedroom wall.
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Mar 19, 2015 19:14
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At least a train derailment looks like an accident.
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Mar 19, 2015 19:21
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It's been a long time since I played a game in this engine, but I'm pretty sure that standard and LBX autocannons didn't double-fire like that. I know LBX autocannons are supposed to be shotguns, but I don't think MW2's engine could really work with that concept. The fact that the Ultra autocannon's double-fire is mandatory and useless is a major portion of why uAC20s are bad weapons, sadly. You get two and a half shots per ton of ammo (rounding up). They will gently caress a dude up right quick, but that is a dude, singular, because you probably don't have enough rounds for more than that.
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I've mainly played only the Mechwarrior computer games, but I know that Sarna's descriptions of of the LBX ACs makes a big deal about them being able to handle both solid slug and shotgun ammunition. I never really understood would you would take an LBX and put standard ammo in it, unless you could load a ton with half shotgun/half solid ammo or something similar.
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Mar 20, 2015 19:47
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There's no real good reason not to always use the actual LBX ammo but they are probably compatible with regular AC ammo stores for solid shot.
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A Curvy Goonette posted:I've mainly played only the Mechwarrior computer games, but I know that Sarna's descriptions of of the LBX ACs makes a big deal about them being able to handle both solid slug and shotgun ammunition. I never really understood would you would take an LBX and put standard ammo in it, unless you could load a ton with half shotgun/half solid ammo or something similar. LBX cannons are always one ton lighter, so you get a regular AC/10 and a free ton of spread ammo in tabletop. In the PC games you just get to carry an extra ton of ammo to offset the fact that it spreads around.
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It does substantially less damage on a hit than slug ammo, as you have to roll on the cluster hits chart, balanced out by the -1 TH and crit-seeking. Those last are more important in some situations than others.
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All Autocannons in MW2: Mercenaries use the Ultra Autocannon code since the Ultra Autocannons were a carry-over from the original Mechwarrior 2. They tried to slow it down so that sometimes, if you tap the button really carefully, it only fires one shot, but it still usually fires two. Between that, and the dodgy hit detection, autocannons just aren't worth using unless you're cheating. If you are cheating, they're the best weapons in the game.
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SIGSEGV posted:There's no real good reason not to always use the actual LBX ammo but they are probably compatible with regular AC ammo stores for solid shot. Sometimes you want to do 10 damage to one location rather than 1 damage to each of ~6 locations.
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Mar 20, 2015 20:22
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Punch holes, seek crits.
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Yeah but it just seems a kinda marginal use considering how brutal crit-seeking can be.
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Mar 20, 2015 20:33
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If you do a couple damage to various locations on a heavy+ and don't get TAC chances (or they don't go off) or Pilot hits, what you have done isn't even mildly inconvenient. Popping twenty or thirty damage into one spot can be a real pain, especially if it's two+ places.
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Oh, agreed. It's the combo of cluster hits and the to-hit bonus that makes it so appealing.
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And as far as I know, none of the Mechwarrior games ever accurately showed how an LB-X was supposed to look when you shot it.
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Mar 21, 2015 00:12
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MW3 Did a pretty good job of it I think, they went of like auto shotguns an LBX 5 for example fired 5 bursts of shot cannon, but I don't think the spread was quite as wide as it is in table top.
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Mar 21, 2015 00:16
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MW3's got the same issue as MW2 though, where all autocannons are burst fire (and they're completely awful there too.) MW4 and MWO just say gently caress it and it's literally a giant shotgun.
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ACs are fine in MW3, they only use one round per click and do solid damage. It's the ammo use problems that make them unusable in MW2.
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A Curvy Goonette posted:I've mainly played only the Mechwarrior computer games, but I know that Sarna's descriptions of of the LBX ACs makes a big deal about them being able to handle both solid slug and shotgun ammunition. I never really understood would you would take an LBX and put standard ammo in it, unless you could load a ton with half shotgun/half solid ammo or something similar. In tabletop you can switch between whatever tons of ammo you have freely, so you can punch holes with slugs and then crit with bursts on a later turn. Theoretically, anyway.
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90% of the time cluster rounds are the superior option, but occasionally you will want to use a Slug if you don't have any other heavy weapons available and the shot is relatively trivial.
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