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Psion posted:Look I'm gonna write some shaders for this game and then leave the company, how could that go wrong? This is how Deus Ex:IW and Thief: DS ended up the way they did. They hired a guy to develop a dynamic shadows system and while he did actually do that he also rewrote half the game engine so that it bore no resemblance to what it was based off of. Then the guy got fired and they realized they had less than a year to complete two games on what was essentially a custom fork of Unreal Engine 1.5.
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You're loving trolling me now HBS:quote:Hooray! New digital content is available for BATTLETECH.
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Captain Foo posted:Not moving at full speed is suicide for light mechs "Speed is life. You go slow, you die."
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Sidesaddle Cavalry posted:
"Shoot me even once, and I'll tear that beer can you call a Mech into scrap." "Shoot for his cockpit. Kill the meat, save the metal." "If you get killed try to scream a lot. That way I'll know I'm on my own." "Morning! How's it feel to be strapped into a walking 'nuke reactor at 6 AM. Bet you're sorry you didn't study harder in school." "Good work. And kid, don't think of them as people you killed. Think of them as a line on your resume." Then you find out later the Mech company he's with gets investigated by Comstar because he was training people and ejected out of danger leaving all the newbies to die. Party Plane Jones fucked around with this message at 06:05 on Sep 22, 2017 |
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Sergeant Unther was figuratively my second father as a child.
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So have they said when this is actually coming out or what? Cause I refuse to pony up more money for the beta.
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Sep 25, 2017 21:58
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So when exactly was this coming out again?
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Jan 27, 2018 17:49
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Skoll posted:The MW3 intro and the old MW5 intro are basically it, really. Unless you want to cherry pick specific instances from the novels. I've always liked the MW2: Mercs intro the best. Really shows the priorities there: Look at the bright side, kid. You get to keep all the money.
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Jan 28, 2018 04:28
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Gay Hitler posted:I really wish paradox would send me my reset password link So apparently the link the game gives you doesn't work to reset the password, at all. But if you go through the support system reset, that'll work Hope this helps some people because to try to get a support ticket rolling you have to log into your account and, uh, that's a bit problematic because the two are same same account.
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Apr 25, 2018 07:35
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What settings do I need to change in order to speed up combat/movement? Getting slightly annoyed at how long everything takes to move. Side note there was a mission to extract some civvies from a warzone and you need to escort them to an extraction point. The problem is once you clear out the initial blocking force you end up with no enemies on the field until the civ APCs are in the extraction zone. At which point the game spawns 4 light mechs right on top of the extract so trying to kill 'em off without losing an APC (thanks to surprise attack initiative making it so they're all going first) is more luck than anything else. Definitely one of the worst designed missions I've encountered so far.
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Apr 25, 2018 16:13
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The assassinate missions are sort of easy because the escorts generally are between you and the target; they're also usually lighter weight mechs or vehicles. So by the time you get to the guy you're supposed to be taking out you're maxed out on morale, so alpha striking some legs with concentrated fire will usually succeed. I have parts for 4 different heavies through doing this. Head targeting might as well be a crapshoot though, I've managed to kill pilots maybe twice out of 60 or so mech kills.
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Apr 25, 2018 20:39
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Nef Arious posted:My Day 1 hot take: From what I remember the original ship date was sometime last year and they pushed it back, so having another delay would probably cause backers to riot.
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Apr 25, 2018 22:22
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Is there ever actually a reason to not max out on salvage except on some missions where you'll only be facing vehicles (talking really early on)?
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Apr 26, 2018 14:57
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:So the only long-range mechs in the campaign are LRM boats? No ER PPC's or Gauss rifles? Gauss isn't Clan so much as nobody was still making it in the Inner Sphere until they found the Helm memory core in 3028 (which technically is when the game is taking place? Or is it 3 years later from 3022?). Clan versions were still better though. Similarly pulse lasers/ER laser are in the same boat; IS had them in between Helm and the Clan Invasion but the Clan versions are generally better.
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Apr 26, 2018 19:10
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School Nickname posted:gently caress ME. I'M A loving IDIOT. what in tarnation
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Apr 28, 2018 22:46
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Szcwczuk posted:
The default multiplier for selling items is .32, which is made worse if you don't have standing in a system at all. So a medium laser (which has a value of 60,000) only sells for 19,200ish.
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Apr 29, 2018 17:14
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There's a small amount of weapons that aren't in the era in the game files aside from the aforementioned gauss rifle. There's jsons for ER/Pulse variants of all of the lasers as well as an ER PPC. As far as I can tell no mechs actually use them though and my guess is they're placeholders for DLC or modders.
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Apr 30, 2018 00:37
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Liquid Communism posted:They're used in the mission you get to run SDL 'mechs in. The Black Knight in particular runs an ERPPC as I recall, and the Atlas has ERLLs and Med Pulses. Ah, well, I haven't progressed to that point yet. 3025 is a bit boring in terms of weaponry; at least with 3039 you get an expanded selection to choose from without being bogged down with the Clans.
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evilmiera posted:Playing Megamek just after the fall of the Star League, my main issue isn't so much the weapons (though there are a few glaring missing bits I'd love to see) but the lack of mech and vehicle variety. I'm ok with the range we get here, though I'd love to see more. There's apparently 36 mech types (and another couple dozen variants) but I don't think I've seen about half of them.
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Apr 30, 2018 01:37
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Vargs posted:If you don't like the weapons you can mount on the hawk, the other 55 tonners are all identical, but with different hardpoints and -15 melee damage. Absolutely no other differences. Personally I'm using a Griffin with 2 SRM6s, a SRM4, and an M Laser. I'm using a couple of Kintaros which work well in either a SRM or LRM centric role. LRMs you need to pull a bunch of armor in order to get 40 missiles a salvo though.
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Gort posted:You can pull off some cool stuff with +++ LRMs, but you can pull off some cool stuff with +++ anything, and LRMs seem to have significantly less damage than the other weapon choices. You basically want to go for stability knockdowns with LRMs versus damage with SRMs. You get several SRM ++ or +++ with extra damage and you basically melt mechs with alpha strikes.
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Gort posted:Yeah. It's "Kill things now" versus "Horse around with knockdowns and kill things slower". Feels like LRMs are the same result with more faff, basically. Having all the parts of a mech is a nice change over losing out on them because you only have two. I've got like 8 incomplete heavy mechs because the game doesn't like spawning that particular model often and I hosed up killing the pilot/stability kills. Looking at you Cataphract.
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Apr 30, 2018 19:30
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William Henry Hairytaint posted:I'm kinda meh about the Clans because I really enjoyed the 5-way power struggle scavenger civilization thing that was going on between the original states. When the clans showed up it became clear (in general, they still tried to gently caress each other over on the reg) that the successor states had much bigger problems to worry about, and the clans brought a technological renaissance with them that made the scavenger stuff less important. Within a couple of decades it was pretty much irrelevant. The Jihad and Dark Age is basically BT trying to bring that back into relevance but everything post 3067 is hot garbage.
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TheParadigm posted:My question is: did paradox force an early launch? This game feels rather unpolished, or rather, there's tons of little things which felt like they were glossed over. BattleTech already had another year in the oven over their planned ship date and a beta on top of it so its a bit weird that some of these issues didn't get noticed.
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Lord Koth posted:As for the Wolf's Dragoons, at the time they appeared even Successor States really din't want to tangle with group that suddenly showed up with five regiments of pristine Star League era mechs if they have any other choice. Wolf's Dragoons are also pretty hilarious for bringing along a heap of mechs that had gone completely out of production at the time that they came back; by the time of Battletech there might be a couple variants floating around.
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b0lt posted:Fun fact: the SRM6++ with +4 damage is way better than the +++ version, because it has an accidental -5 accuracy modifier. Hah, looking at that subforum there's these three. Wonder how they didn't get spotted fairly quickly. quote:BattleMechs assembled from salvage immediately start with all of their stock weapons. This directly contradicts what Yang says in the tutorial text. It also doesn't make much sense. According to Yang, they're supposed to start without weapons or equipment. quote:When you complete a mission the game creates an autosave - if you get the 3rd part of salvage for a mech and choose it, creating a new mech in your bay, then load the post-mission autosave, the mech will be gone - and you will not be able to get back to the salvage selection screen. quote:Bank Loan Interest Payment still present:
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Gort posted:Thing is, you need stuff like the + weapons and the enemy mechs being on 50% armour and the morale abilities or you'd never survive the amount of crap the AI can throw at you. I'd love if it the AI actually played somewhat intelligently and punched out if they're on like one leg with no arms and no side torsos left.
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Promethium posted:It was a bit odd that apart from the one mandatory early mission I don't think I saw any other lunar maps during the whole campaign. I was expecting one of the later missions to be one based on the pre-mission briefing but it turned out to be a forested moon. The best space-based map was the one from Mechwarrior 2: Mercs where you fought on a loving ice comet. It was amazing and if you hosed it up (occasionally you could completely blow missions and there would be an alternate campaign plot) you died outright when course corrections couldn't be made and the comet broke up when travelling past the sun.
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Had to restart a mission when I knocked an enemy mech down and it couldn't get back up on its turn. I already cockpit sniped two heavies during it. 
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Are coolant pods in this era or is that too early? I used a lot of them in MW4.
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Eej posted:Clan eugenics is pretty much born out in the fluff as pretty positive for the purpose of blowing things up which is what most of the setting is about. There's a lot of handwringing about the Merchant and Scientist castes being underrepresented in Clan society but it really all boils down to "the Clan is full of amazing warriors, they're all eugenically filtered to be amazing, the only reason why they lost is because they didn't commit to total war" and then you have the wehraboo mindset kick in much like how if Germany just did these things more intelligently they would've won like they deserved... The Clan Eugenics program is a bit hilarious because they apparently rotate sibkos through it and into full Warrior caste and then retire them in the spanse of 10/15 years whereas the Inner Sphere freebirths will keep using the same people as long as they're able resulting in the combat vets of the initial Clan invasion being used as solahma ahead of the end of the truce. The whole Clan system is based on trying to settle disputes on extremely pissed off groups of people without utterly wrecking their society (eg, First Succession War) or destroying vital industries the Clans need as a whole. Once that system dies the whole Clan way of life implodes because the Clans are largely idiots and putting one over on them through treachery is easy as gently caress.
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I ran into a lovely bug where when I knocked a mech down, it wouldn't ever get back up again, but it would still maneuver around and around like it was standing.
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Nasgate posted:I hope the model crawled everywhere? Slide around like it was breakdancing.
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Hammerstein posted:I think Breaching Shot would be way more interesting/versatile if it applied to all weapons of the same type. If you have a Mech with 1 LLaser, 3 MLaser and a PPC then this should allow you to fire all 3 MLasers with the Breaching passive. Breaching shot works with multishot. Makes double PPC setups a bit more viable.
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hellfaucet posted:Has anyone seen ER Lasers available to purchase in any stores? My Atlas lost the arm fitted with the stock ER L Laser and I haven't been able to replace it. LosTech is LosTech, once it's destroyed you're boned. Though technically for the latter there should be some dual heat sink prototypes roaming around in the Davion lands but they're basically married to the elite mech divisions until after Helm.
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evilmiera posted:Which is dang weird. I mean there should be SOME Lostech to be found, especially on old Star League worlds and whatnot, given how there are hints of that on some planets. Maybe incredibly hard to find and rare as all heck, but still. To be honest with how long you can ignore the main plot campaign getting new stuff once you get past 3030 would be nice. I think I'm on week 97 right now.
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Night10194 posted:What. WHAT. Kenshin posted:Wait those can be targeted? Whaaaat When you blow the towers they're above, the turret dies even if you didn't damage it. This might only apply to the turrets that seem to be on fort style walls though, not solo turrets.
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To be honest I'm surprised there hasn't been a reboot/revamp of the whole TT plot/mechanics after 30 years, especially when the license was languishing for a bit in the mid 00s. World of Darkness (Vampire:TM, basically) had a reboot right around the time the game came out.
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Eej posted:Headshots are base 1% chance and if you are always fighting 4v8 or more than you should expect to see twice as many received headshots than you deal out per mission. Is this per weapon or overall? Because if its per weapon enemies generally have larger numbers of shittier weapons so there's more chance of a cockpit hit.
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Pierson posted:Is unique ancient-era stuff truly unrecoverable forever or can regular gameplay spit them out in certain stores/on certain missions? The former though expect people to add it to the latter with mods fairly soon.
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