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HBS posted:Our STAGE 2 STORY CAMPAIGN will put you in command of your own mercenary outfit, as you find yourself inexorably drawn into a bloody dynastic conflict set in the Periphery of the Inner Sphere. Over the course of the campaign, you’ll manage the finances and logistics of your mercenary outfit - from the modifications and loadout of your 'Mechs, to the salaries and skill growth of your MechWarriors. Hurrr. I'm not sure why you're being so belligerently dense about this
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Rygar201 posted:Hurrr. I'm not sure why you're being so belligerently dense about this Pot, I'd like you to meet Kettle. I'm sure you'll hit it off great.
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Jan 12, 2018 01:50
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Man I thought maybe there was a release date or some kind of big announcement, holy hell
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Jan 12, 2018 01:51
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Rygar201 posted:Hurrr. I'm not sure why you're being so belligerently dense about this quote:At the end of the day, the life of a mercenary is all about money: the money needed to repair the damage your 'Mechs took in combat, to pay your MechWarriors to keep fighting, and - if you’re lucky - the money to put towards buying new 'Mech chassis and weapon systems. Fortunately, 'Mech components salvaged from the battlefield can be both cheaper and better-performing than the oft-refurbished parts available for purchase. Also listed in my prior post, the fact that Stage 2 and 3 are BOTH stretch goals, and Stage 1 is the "base pitch", so maybe I'm not the belligerent retard. I've genuinely tried to be civil while enduring irrational insults (alongside the actual reasoned attempts at criticism and critique, which I appreciate!), but seriously, gently caress straight off.
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Jan 12, 2018 01:52
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Colonial Air Force posted:Man I thought maybe there was a release date or some kind of big announcement, holy hell This all might have been my fault. I started wondering how much of a war criminal Lady Arano could be. Anyway, isn't it time for a threat title change now that backer beta is over? Harebrained Schemes' Battletech: Bickering 'til Launch EDIT: Harebrained Schemes' Battletech: Thinkin' bout dem animated warrior robots VVVVVVV Amechwarrior fucked around with this message at 02:58 on Jan 12, 2018 |
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Jan 12, 2018 02:53
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Harebrained Schemes' Battletech: Thinkin' bout dem robots
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Jan 12, 2018 02:54
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HBS Battletech: Just a Reskin of Your Favorite Game
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Jan 12, 2018 02:59
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HBS Battletech: Backer Beta was terrible; countdown to further disappointment
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Jan 12, 2018 03:03
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rt4 posted:HBS Battletech: Backer Beta was terrible; countdown to further disappointment But it wasn't! It wasn't anything worth snatching your wallet for, but the beta was a lot of fun testing and seeing how the game went!
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Jan 12, 2018 03:40
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Leave it to goons to shitlord it up about Battletech. 
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Jan 12, 2018 05:35
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HBS Battletech: Fire Emblem with robots I suspect it’s just goons being antsy over the dry spell before release, but that’s just me.
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Jan 12, 2018 05:51
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Zaodai posted:Literally all I am suggesting for this game is some kind of event that logically lets you tell the Restoration to gently caress off because you have a better offer. I think this would be a good touch, but I would also want the opportunity to use the directorate's offer to extort more cash from the restoration. If we're going to get really fancy that pay raise could come with the caveat of pushing the restoration a little closer to broke, meaning you
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Jan 12, 2018 06:23
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HBS Battletech: They called the third X-Com HBS Battletech
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Jan 12, 2018 06:51
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Shorten it to "They called the third X-Com Battletech" and I'm on board.
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Jan 12, 2018 07:01
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This game is going to suck whenever it eventually comes out, because it's a Battletech game and Battletech is cursed. I don't know why anyone is excited for this game still.
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Jan 12, 2018 07:22
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I said come in! posted:This game is going to suck whenever it eventually comes out, because it's a Battletech game and Battletech is cursed. I don't know why anyone is excited for this game still. This one-liner entry burn looks like a very real opinion that I'm going to get extremely mad about. Brace yourself for my frothing diatribe.
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Jan 12, 2018 07:27
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Voyager I posted:This one-liner entry burn looks like a very real opinion that I'm going to get extremely mad about. Brace yourself for my frothing diatribe. Nice meltdown.
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Jan 12, 2018 07:41
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Skoll posted:Nice meltdown. Stackpoling rife itt
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Jan 12, 2018 08:07
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The obvious solution is to have a main menu option when you click 'new game' so that in addition to difficulty setting and ironman mode you have a checkbox 'no plot' that just turns off the story entirely and starts the game on a static map where nothing will ever change. Not a ridiculous mid-game 'turn off content' trap button.
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Jan 12, 2018 09:39
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Gyshall posted:Leave it to goons to shitlord it up about Battletech. It was a running gag in my FLGS that Battletech was referred to as The Game That Must Not Be Named - because invariably, whenever the word "Battletech" was uttered, there would be an argument that hit yelling levels within ten minutes. It was eerie, man.
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Jan 12, 2018 10:10
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As we can see, the curse is still active.
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Jan 12, 2018 10:14
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Alchenar posted:The obvious solution is to have a main menu option when you click 'new game' so that in addition to difficulty setting and ironman mode you have a checkbox 'no plot' that just turns off the story entirely and starts the game on a static map where nothing will ever change. That's not really what the point of any of the discussion was. 
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Jan 12, 2018 16:10
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At the end of the day, having the Directorate be a fleshed out faction with a plausible motivation and drive (which may result in them trying to hire you off) would be largely a good thing. The mechanism(s) through which this could best be accomplished is a matter of personal opinion. I will also laugh so very much if it turns out the mid-campaign buyout attempt is already in the game.
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Jan 12, 2018 18:47
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MilkmanLuke posted:Give me a Capellan mechanic or peasant who watched his village get stomped by crusading Fed Sun forces. Skoll posted:Disenfranchised Marik working man whose family was killed during one of their civil wars. A friend of mine was trying to run a BAttletech campaign and my character concept was 'they sort of accidentally kidnapped him'. Dude minding his own business and trying to have a drink in peace when a raggedy band of mercs comes in, trying to grab a quick beer before their dropship takes off. Ten minutes later, predictably, there's a barfight, and my he keeps out of it right, nursing his beer, right until one of the locals pulls a knife, at which point the beer gets broken over his head. (It's just rude to pull a knife in a honest fistfight.) A few swings later they hear the notoriously brutal/corrupt local law enforcement approaching and everybody grabs their buddies and books it. It's only when the mercs are strapping in for takeoff that somebody looks up and goes 'Who's the new guy?' 'Oh poo poo, we took him along?'
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Drake_263 posted:A friend of mine was trying to run a BAttletech campaign and my character concept was 'they sort of accidentally kidnapped him'. This is great. 
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Jan 15, 2018 01:31
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Section Z posted:This is great. I've always been of the mind that RPGs and the like are at their best when they don't take themselves too seriously. Plus, a rough-and-tumble working-class type with a loader claw for an arm made a nice counterpart to a friend's snooty Steiner heir.
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Jan 15, 2018 11:29
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Hey, guys I haven't checked the thread in ages........Zaodai posted:The discord recommend I post drat, the discord killed 2 birds with one stone. Well played... well played
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Jan 15, 2018 11:54
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Last I heard the plan was still for your commander to be able to select from a few different backgrounds, wasn't it? Sort of like Mass Effect and Shepard where you don't play his background but it does change some dialogue and (I recall HBS saying) give you a special mission?
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Sky Shadowing posted:Last I heard the plan was still for your commander to be able to select from a few different backgrounds, wasn't it? Sort of like Mass Effect and Shepard where you don't play his background but it does change some dialogue and (I recall HBS saying) give you a special mission? This seems to be the most relevant HBS update: https://community.battletechgame.com/forums/threads/4920 They don't explicitly reference the PC, but my furious entrail reading of "The bios and descriptions below could all be considered MILD SPOILERS - they occur after the inciting events of the game's Prologue chapter", implies that at the start of the prologue your character is not a mercenary involved in the restoration and at the end of the prologue they are a mercenary involved in the restoration. Whether or not the prologue involves 'becoming a mercenary' is unknown, but 'inciting events' is something I'm taking as meaning that the player character is a written entity of themselves who will interact with the cast of the story, rather than a faceless avatar of the player. ps. All guesswork and I'm not massively invested either way.
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Jan 15, 2018 14:52
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Drake_263 posted:A friend of mine was trying to run a BAttletech campaign and my character concept was 'they sort of accidentally kidnapped him'. 💯
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Jan 15, 2018 18:49
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Rygar201 posted:https://imgur.com/a/A6D5E ...Except they already did stretch goal #4 which was setup for taking $1.5million more than goal #2, so it's entirely valid to question that maybe they should get their priorities in order. I only want the singleplayer including skirmish. I don't give a crap about PvP except in a very loose maybe I'll play like one friend sometime kind of way.
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Jan 15, 2018 19:08
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Oh hey, says it right there. Backstories was a funding goal. I still suspect that moving from not having the Argo and not being involved in the restoration to the reverse probably involves giving your character some meaty hooks to care.
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revwinnebago posted:...Except they already did stretch goal #4 which was setup for taking $1.5million more than goal #2, so it's entirely valid to question that maybe they should get their priorities in order.
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Jan 15, 2018 20:54
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revwinnebago posted:...Except they already did stretch goal #4 which was setup for taking $1.5million more than goal #2, so it's entirely valid to question that maybe they should get their priorities in order.
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revwinnebago posted:...Except they already did stretch goal #4 which was setup for taking $1.5million more than goal #2, so it's entirely valid to question that maybe they should get their priorities in order. EntitledGamer.txt
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vorebane posted:I think this would be a good touch, but I would also want the opportunity to use the directorate's offer to extort more cash from the restoration. If we're going to get really fancy that pay raise could come with the caveat of pushing the restoration a little closer to broke, meaning you I mean Has anyone here played HBS' games recently? I think literally every one of them has an 11th hour option to join the baddy. It's not bloody likely there'll be a fleshed out parallel arc for doing so, but I would not be surprised if there was...yet another 11th hour option to Join The Baddy ending.
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Jan 15, 2018 23:09
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Adding an option to skip the story content in-game that players can click and then not regret their option seems like a bad idea to me. Locking people out of content even if it's by their own hand usually ends badly, some gamers have less sense and more entitlement. You could probably mod it I guess?
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Jan 16, 2018 00:10
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I think the problem we have here is the usual one, its been awhile since we have had an update from HBS (totally justified they have had their winter break and I bet things are busy as hell). The only info we do have is the little bits we have been gleaning from Isildurs twitter. People are just getting antsy and picking apart the little information we have.
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revwinnebago posted:...Except they already did stretch goal #4 which was setup for taking $1.5million more than goal #2, so it's entirely valid to question that maybe they should get their priorities in order. This can't be a real post. Edit: just in case, the MP beta is a bunch of stuff they were gonna have to do anyways and let them get a bunch of playtesting done for the combat mechanics, which is going to be the meat of the game. Voyager I fucked around with this message at 02:08 on Jan 16, 2018 |
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Kickstarter update time! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/webeharebrained/battletech/posts/2089189 Disappointed they won't be able to squeeze in a few features but happy they'll be post launch content. So long as they're not DLC. Moving Kickstarter commitments to paid DLC would give me a problem.
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