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Zaodai posted:Yeah, but these guys have actually made games that don't suck in the past. This. HBS has the original FASA heads including the guy who made MechCommander, and have delivered the solid as gently caress Shadowrun games  's pedigree is the lacklustre Nakatomi Plaza shooter and the multiplayer component of DNF, which apparently was somehow the least inspired and most boring part of that gameBattletech is gonna be alright
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Paingod556 posted:This. HBS has the original FASA heads including the guy who made MechCommander, and have delivered the solid as gently caress Shadowrun games They even have some of the original MechCommander voice actors working in the studio!
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I went on a road trip and read that fan made TRO. There are some legitimately funny bits in it, like the computer for the Phoenix Hawk being made by Apple, a company that couldn't figure out how to spend all its profits so it bought a planet.
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Cyrano4747 posted:I went on a road trip and read that fan made TRO. There are some legitimately funny bits in it, like the computer for the Phoenix Hawk being made by Apple, a company that couldn't figure out how to spend all its profits so it bought a planet. That planet is real in the lore and not made up by the fan, it is also brilliant. I also like that General Motors invented the fusion engine and that catapulted them to galactic fame. Some of the stuff in the TRO is really good, I liked that the cockpit in one of the mechs is so small that the technicians were trialing a command couch that the pilot lay prone on instead of sitting upright to try and fit them in.
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Strobe posted:Too tall. But that's a scale problem that's been happening with MWO and the MechWarrior 5 video that PGI is trying to make, too, so I'm not surprised it showed up here. never mind. That image has some real layering issues. A.o.D. fucked around with this message at 03:13 on May 30, 2017 |
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A.o.D. posted:never mind. That image has some real layering issues. Even before you edited this it's still not good scaling. Six people, give or take, stacked on top of each other should make it up to mid-chest on an Atlas. As it stands you might get all the way to its waist like that. If that. Looking at it some more, they might barely get past the knees.
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The tanks seem pretty decently scaled in that image, at least going by that old line-art scale comparison picture that got linked ages ago. A shrek goes to the shins of a Banshee - assuming those are assault tanks and an Atlas is slightly bigger than a Banshee, that checks out.
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Somebody should figure out the density of that Atlas if we accept the 100T weight. A modern 70 ton MBT is probably the size of it's crotch box. I bet it would float.
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Bubbacub posted:I bet it would float. in water, or in air?
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Bubbacub posted:Somebody should figure out the density of that Atlas if we accept the 100T weight. A modern 70 ton MBT is probably the size of it's crotch box. I bet it would float. Canon Atlases are already lacking enough in density to float, from what people have said about the distribution of 100 tons compared to their physical dimensions. Blowing them up by another 60% or what ever would make it even more hilarious.
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vorebane posted:An apartment for a cockpit is ideal for extended missions. Plus you can invite your girlfriend along! If I can't smoke while pooping in my cockpit, I'm not getting in.
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Phrosphor posted:They even have some of the original MechCommander voice actors working in the studio! THIS IS ROOSTER
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Bubbacub posted:Somebody should figure out the density of that Atlas if we accept the 100T weight. A modern 70 ton MBT is probably the size of it's crotch box. I bet it would float. It gets less irritating to try to reconcile the weight of these things if you simply consider it to be "loadout weight." Nevermind that all of the components are included in that loadout.
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< is also relevantditty bout my clitty posted:THIS IS ROOSTER They've said many many times they want him back. And I think so does everyone else  And going off the discussions over the past 4 years in PTN's thread- 'Mechs are mostly hollow, because it was either that excuse or they do what happened in Honorverse and retcon every single ship ever to stop them having 'the density of cigar smoke'.
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Zaodai posted:Canon Atlases are already lacking enough in density to float, from what people have said about the distribution of 100 tons compared to their physical dimensions. Blowing them up by another 60% or what ever would make it even more hilarious. Wanna see an Atlas floating in a tropical sea, drinking booze out of an apartment building-sized coconut with a circus tent umbrella.
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If I recall correctly, Battletech armor is basically a magical material with multiple properties that are well outside the realm of physics, but most people accept it as a setting conceit because it's the only thing that makes giant robots workable. The magic armor is a significant contributor to the low density of Mechs, especially if you assume the internal structure is made of similarly low density magic stuff.
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blackmongoose posted:If I recall correctly, Battletech armor is basically a magical material with multiple properties that are well outside the realm of physics, but most people accept it as a setting conceit because it's the only thing that makes giant robots workable. The magic armor is a significant contributor to the low density of Mechs, especially if you assume the internal structure is made of similarly low density magic stuff.
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See, in the IS, they use the new Kerensky Ton, which doesn't mean 2000lb/1000kg (depending on if you mean short ton/metric ton) so therefore... Really, just come up with whatever handwave you want to come up with. They're all equally valid. Myomer is magic muscle fiber and can be whatever the setting demands - I don't know if any of the line developers have gone into answering how mech armor and mass works, but I hope the answer is "very well, thank you" trying to rationalize it just doesn't get you anywhere in the end, because once you figure out a workable made-up reason to explain mech weights, you get into ammunition weight and then it's all downhill from there very fast. I think I did the math on Arrow IVs and gauss rifles once and regretted the mistake, trust me.
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The whole setting falls apart if you try and justify why the stompy robots are the way they are. They are inherently illogical, so we should all just relax.
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Psion posted:See, in the IS, they use the new Kerensky Ton half as heavy, two times as convenient
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Psion posted:See, in the IS, they use the new Kerensky Ton, which doesn't mean 2000lb/1000kg (depending on if you mean short ton/metric ton) so therefore... 
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May 30, 2017 19:15
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Suspension of disbelief is clearly lostech.
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Giant Robots punching and shooting each other doesn't make a lot of sense if you already got tanks and planes, but they are fun. That's all that counts. Turns out that in the far future, the Ares Convention was not about safety of non combatants, but about making war more fun, so everyone got battle mechs. That's good enough of an explanation for me.
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Feindfeuer posted:Giant Robots punching and shooting each other doesn't make a lot of sense if you already got tanks and planes, but they are fun. That's all that counts. Turns out that in the far future, the Ares Convention was not about safety of non combatants, but about making war more fun, so everyone got battle mechs. That's good enough of an explanation for me. The in-game explanation is the suitability of the vehicles. Within the context of the TT rules it makes a lot of sense. It is obscenely easy to immobilize a vehicle with a hit to the tracks in TT, which makes mechs a LOT better at taking damage and continuing to be effective.
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But only because they have the ability to have an obscene amount of armor on those legs compared to tracks which can't be armored with skirts or anything for some obscure reason. The ingame explanation only makes sense if you don't think about it and just accept it. I'm fine with that, but it's far from a good explanation.
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Plus the stuff that makes mechs so light would ideally make aircraft even more suited to wreck the poo poo out of mechs, especially given their potato range weaponry.
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May 31, 2017 00:19
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Robots are cool thats why they are in battletech hth friends.
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Feindfeuer posted:But only because they have the ability to have an obscene amount of armor on those legs compared to tracks which can't be armored with skirts or anything for some obscure reason. The ingame explanation only makes sense if you don't think about it and just accept it. I'm fine with that, but it's far from a good explanation. WELL, ACTUALLY, YOU CAN USE ARMORED MOTIVE SYSTEMS ON YOUR VEHICLES, BUT  (Yea it's just all fun fluff  )
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Don't forget that robit armour makes conventional weapons completely useless against them. A shell from a conventional modern day mbt would do negligible damage to a Mech'.
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The construction rules don't account for the weight of the myomer itself. Rules as written describe the structural skeleton, reactor, gyro, cockpit, heat sinks, armour, and guns. So I just handwave in a few unreported hundred tons of myomer and associated support equipment and call it a day.
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Yeah, I'd always heard it as a Mech's tonnage being how much extra weight you could stack on top of an already heavy myomer frame and maintain effectiveness, not that the Atlas is literally only 100 tons. That works okay, is that not the 'canon' route or whatever?
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Psycho Landlord posted:Yeah, I'd always heard it as a Mech's tonnage being how much extra weight you could stack on top of an already heavy myomer frame and maintain effectiveness, not that the Atlas is literally only 100 tons. That works okay, is that not the 'canon' route or whatever? If that were the canon excuse, your equipped stuff would add up to 100T.
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I always considered the myomers to be part of the engine tonnage. The more power also means stronger myomers, which contributed to the diminishing return of engine power versus weight.
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You're all overthinking it. The real reason is...........cocaine.
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God, why do you nerds have to ruin this for me?
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Internet Explorer posted:God, why do you nerds have to ruin this for me? Someone has to do it.
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Internet Explorer posted:God, why do you nerds have to ruin this for me? and we haven't even brought up ground pressure yet
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The setting already contains techno-magical FTL so who cares if they bend a few other laws of physics? Robots are cool; don't overthink this poo poo.
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Xotl posted:It'd be a fun novel or sourcebook excerpt, anyways. A bunch of mechs wildly flailing with their limbs like a Power Rangers episode, with the pilots all yelling about how so and so killed my father and now vengeance is mine and then the flying dropkicks commence. I'd be down for a RetroTech 80s Sourcebook, where all the `Mechs are covered in neon lights, every piece of art has a mullet or legwarmers, and lasers are blasters from Star Trek again. Just promise to add a new SPA called "Yelling While Shooting" which makes burst-fire machineguns do 1d6+1 damage. Edit: And to curb the dumb `Mech argument: BattleMechs are 99% air, just like the heat panels on the space shuttle. 
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I appreciate that the posts saying "don't bother rationalizing this stuff" have been followed by nonstop rationalization of this stuff
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