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Clanners must have really wanted you dead  Out of all the mods though BEX is really the only one that does a good job of keeping the rare mechs, well, rare. (thanks to using these https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Faction_Assignment_%26_Rarity_Tables and keeping stuff like royal variants and such exclusively to Comstar who only rarely show up in certain missions and the really good house mechs to more difficult missions targeting specific elite units, though said elite units can show up as the OPFOR in any mission if you're unlucky enough to be close to a planet they're garrisoning at the time.) That said, the latest BTA version did a small tweak making Grasshoppers spawn less, so maybe they're starting to tone down the insanity there.
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The flip side is that any fight with Capellans in BEX is like 3 ravens and a Vindicator. I think it leans too far in the other direction, following canon to detriment of gameplay --- the player generally wants to see the rare mechs to collect them!
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Can't say I've ever had a problem with it, now starting a new career in a 3025 start, yes, since that's a "hope you like bugs, Griffins and Phoenix Hawks" purgatory, but any start post-helm or when the Clans have shown up everyone has a decent enough variety going by that point.
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Really the most amusing thing I've had in my current BTA playthrough is the opfor fielding Direstars, but being too afraid of heat to fire even a single shot.
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It sounds like there's an odd Clan sibko that doesn't take instructions well. Star Captain: "Make sure you destroy the freebirths are eliminated quickly! And don't let our glorious technology fall into their filthy hands!" SirPhoebos posted:BTA Got into a solo duel with a drunk Clanner. Its a lunar environment and they're in an Atlas IIC. On their first Salvo, before I can get a shot off, they blow half their mech up from overheating. Still debating if this is an AI issue or working as intended. Star Captain: "Nicholas H. Kerensky, you stupid stravag idiots. Watch your heat!" IOwnCalculus posted:Really the most amusing thing I've had in my current BTA playthrough is the opfor fielding Direstars, but being too afraid of heat to fire even a single shot. Star Captain: [Spaces himself]
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Warad posted:Can't say I've ever had a problem with it, now starting a new career in a 3025 start, yes, since that's a "hope you like bugs, Griffins and Phoenix Hawks" purgatory, but any start post-helm or when the Clans have shown up everyone has a decent enough variety going by that point. I could never get BEX's timeline/time progression stuff working, which is too bad because the idea of taking a merc company from 3025/3039 to the fall of the Second Star League seems like a fun idea to me.
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CoffeeQaddaffi posted:I could never get BEX's timeline/time progression stuff working, which is too bad because the idea of taking a merc company from 3025/3039 to the fall of the Second Star League seems like a fun idea to me. That's...weird. The only thing I know of that can screw that up is if you reload a save without restarting the game first (which is a thing for every other major mod nowadays) or the install got really messed up for some reason.
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I'm still sorting out my old mods and seeing what new ones are available. Does cFixes already cover the Royal Marauder and Crab Tonnage Fix mod? (And the Big Claw fix too?) https://github.com/BattletechModders/cFixes/releases https://www.nexusmods.com/battletech/mods/564?tab=files
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Hannibal Rex posted:I'm still sorting out my old mods and seeing what new ones are available. I know I fixed some with some of the units with FF armor, but I'll see if I can get some time to compare that mods' fixes vs cFixes.
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Amechwarrior posted:I know I fixed some with some of the units with FF armor, but I'll see if I can get some time to compare that mods' fixes vs cFixes. Thanks. cfixes also seems to be superceded by this one: https://www.nexusmods.com/battletech/mods/646?tab=description
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Hannibal Rex posted:Thanks. cfixes also seems to be superceded by this one: cFixes fixed the tonnage issues for those except for the BSC. Either I didn't catch that or left it for some reason like it was a custom job and has tonnage errors due to that. Both mods fixed the MAD-2R armor, but we have different values by 1 TT armor point. I don't know which is correct at this time. Also, they didn't catch the "CRB-27b" not "CRB-27B" error in the description texts. Yea, the UBTP has taken up where I left off with cFixes. We had envisioned cFixes as a community effort, where new modders could take over from the older ones (I took over from JustinKase when he went dark) but the UBTP guy kind of had this thing going before he approached me, or it didn't occur to me to offer the keys to him. The main page on the cFixes git lists every file we touched and why, so it's a great reference to check if we fixed something. https://github.com/BattletechModders/cFixes
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Coming back to this after a couple years to get my stompy robot fix  Here's the mods I recalled being worthwhile, interested in what y'all recommend for a vanilla++ run before I do stuff like bumping the timeline forward and whatnot. Particularly seem to recall that a pilot AI mod and general weapon rebalance mod might be good but I dunno what exists for that. Here's what I have so far based on what was in my mods folder from last time: BattletechPerformanceFix BTMLColorLOSMod CrystalClear DontShootTheDead Flashpoint_Stock_Photos Flashpoint_The_Raid LittleThings ScorchedEarth TurretlessVehicleHits UBTP Flashpoint Spawn Adjustments
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the yeti posted:Coming back to this after a couple years to get my stompy robot fix Klyith posted:A few other vanilla or vanilla-ish mods I think are cool: Klyith has been on top of vanilla++ for a while
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oh sick ty that's like 95% of what I wanted. Onedrive is giving me poo poo atm though, is the PPC heat mod hosted anywhere else?
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the yeti posted:oh sick ty that's like 95% of what I wanted. Onedrive is giving me poo poo atm though, is the PPC heat mod hosted anywhere else? I tried regenerating the link? https://1drv.ms/u/s!Amy6l_wt7eiuchNqhs-LNJnFwI8?e=8RzmDP if that doesn't work I can put it somewhere else I should really put my poo poo on a github or something, but it didn't seem like a lot of people were all that interested.
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Klyith posted:I tried regenerating the link? https://1drv.ms/u/s!Amy6l_wt7eiuchNqhs-LNJnFwI8?e=8RzmDP I think you'd be surprised. I was actually considering a vanilla++ run. SLDF would make mech-pokemon more fun
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Klyith posted:A few other vanilla or vanilla-ish mods I think are cool: I wonder if that SLDF mod is compatible with BEX.
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Klyith posted:I tried regenerating the link? https://1drv.ms/u/s!Amy6l_wt7eiuchNqhs-LNJnFwI8?e=8RzmDP That worked fine, thanks bud
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Crazy Joe Wilson posted:I wonder if that SLDF mod is compatible with BEX. on paper yes but BEX makes changes to the available mechs for enemy drops. so you may not really see an effect
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I'm staying away from the megamods, but BTR and XAI both look interesting. Has anyone tried both and can compare them?
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How is this game more buggy than the last time I played it lol. I just started a new campaign, was fiddling in the mech bay and the "revert changes" button instead stripped my mech. After that no equipment showed up in the sidebar, and after that I couldn't leave the mechbay. Tried to load a save to get out of it and the game zoomed in on the mech, removed the UI, and hung.
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the yeti posted:How is this game more buggy than the last time I played it lol. I just started a new campaign, was fiddling in the mech bay and the "revert changes" button instead stripped my mech. After that no equipment showed up in the sidebar, and after that I couldn't leave the mechbay. Tried to load a save to get out of it and the game zoomed in on the mech, removed the UI, and hung. 
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the yeti posted:How is this game more buggy than the last time I played it lol. I just started a new campaign, was fiddling in the mech bay and the "revert changes" button instead stripped my mech. After that no equipment showed up in the sidebar, and after that I couldn't leave the mechbay. Tried to load a save to get out of it and the game zoomed in on the mech, removed the UI, and hung. Changed or updated your mods? This is a pretty normal thing to happen when you have a mod item or thing that is broken or missing. The UI just progressively falls apart in weird ways. Modtek saves good logs in /Mods/.modtek to help diagnose what made it choke.
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I would love a sequel but honestly I'd be willing to pay for a damned remaster that just cut down on the waiting.
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Arbite posted:I would love a sequel but honestly I'd be willing to pay for a damned remaster that just cut down on the waiting. at this point it's basically never going to happen and this game is what it is. I mean eventually computers will get good enough to brute force it I'll probably keep playing this til a miraculous Mech Commander 3 comes out but let's be real that's probably not happening either
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Klyith posted:Changed or updated your mods? This is a pretty normal thing to happen when you have a mod item or thing that is broken or missing. The UI just progressively falls apart in weird ways. It’s a fresh install but it’s certainly possible something’s already hosed up
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Playing RogueTech again. New season is pretty fun. Big overhauls to artillery and stuff. If you're new to the mod I highly recommend going generous salvage and generous payments, ignoring the difficulty modifier, and just having fun building stupid stuff. But you probably do want to play on the online map, ally with a faction, and register with the discord so that you can use the online shops as they massively ease the difficulty curve.
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CompeAnansi posted:Playing RogueTech again. New season is pretty fun. Big overhauls to artillery and stuff. If you're new to the mod I highly recommend going generous salvage and generous payments, ignoring the difficulty modifier, and just having fun building stupid stuff. But you probably do want to play on the online map, ally with a faction, and register with the discord so that you can use the online shops as they massively ease the difficulty curve. what in the world, they added a Helldivers type overworld map to a BattleTech mod. wowza. I'll probably never play it but thats pretty impressive
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Yeah that was the war mod that got put out a few after release of the game before rt incorporated it
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Arbite posted:I would love a sequel but honestly I'd be willing to pay for a damned remaster that just cut down on the waiting. This is a design feature of Classic BattleTech. The only way to speed it up, is to have all your guys move at the same time, and then shoot at the same time, and have the enemies do the same thing simultaneously. Alpha Strike does this to an extent. Or could have one side move at a time, based on random initiative.
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Crazy Joe Wilson posted:This is a design feature of Classic BattleTech. The only way to speed it up, is to have all your guys move at the same time, and then shoot at the same time, and have the enemies do the same thing simultaneously. Alpha Strike does this to an extent. Or could have one side move at a time, based on random initiative. I think the waiting they're talking about is  (This is why I stick to vanilla++. At this point my PC can load a mission faster than I can get a drink.)
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Klyith posted:A few other vanilla or vanilla-ish mods I think are cool: you once mentioned making a mod for adding quirks to the other mechs in the base game. any chance that still exists and you'd be willing to upload? I think I really am going to do a vanilla++ campaign. I've kinda gotten bored of Phantom Brigade. there isn't enough weapon customization or shops to really sustain my desire to keep playing. plus there's also no real failure state
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BTA question- anybody ever run the math on the lightest Mech you can one-punch headshot someone with? Like with both of the heaviest (B20) hand actuators?
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Stravag posted:Yeah that was the war mod that got put out a few after release of the game before rt incorporated it I think the online map itself is an RT-specific thing, it's just built upon WarIIC or whatever it's called.
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No the map where peoples missions would influence the territory each house controls has been a part of the war mod since the beginning
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I started up a campaign last night with these mods and the first mission loaded in like 20 seconds, incredible. I also forgot about Coolant Flush and some other base game features so this will be fun rediscovering the past
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What does don't shoot the dead do?
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I R SMART LIKE ROCK posted:you once mentioned making a mod for adding quirks to the other mechs in the base game. any chance that still exists and you'd be willing to upload? Absolutely. I'll work on tidying that up and put it + SLDF Incoming on github. ilmucche posted:What does don't shoot the dead do? Makes it so when a melee attack gets the kill, the mech doesn't also fire the support weapons. Why this is good: in melee combat, the support weapons can destroy additional parts of the mech even if it's already dead, thus ruining salvage. Normal shooting afaik as soon as the CT is dead the damage processing kinda stops and the rest of the mech becomes salvage. (Also not shooting saves flamer & MG ammo and heat from slas.) OTOH flamer celebrations after a kill are funny and I sometimes miss them.
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ilmucche posted:What does don't shoot the dead do? don't fire support weapons if melee already kills the mech
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