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quote:3025: Third Succession War ends. Hanse Davion of the FS and Katrina Steiner of the LC make a deal to ally and marry Katrina's daughter Melissa to a man 27 years older than her (feudalism, everyone). (Federated Commonwealth) It's been ages since I played it, this is relevant to Mechwarrior 4, right? I liked Mechcommander too so I'd be pretty interested in this! I'm going to have a lance of lovely urbanmechs. Also I had a battletech mech book when I was a kid and had no clue what it was or that it was a game, and didn't figure it out until after finding it again a few years ago and realizing that some of the same mechs in Mechcommander and Mechwarrior were in it and putting two and two together. 
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I never played Battletech but I did have a technical readout for it I didn't realize was even a rule book, it just looked sweet as hell. Years later I played Mechwarrior 4 and Mechcommander 2 and put two and two together. I'm hype for this is what I'm saying
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Apr 23, 2018 18:18
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Drone posted:The indication is that the animations are too slow for many people. Mechwarrior was always way cooler than Gundam.
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Apr 24, 2018 12:59
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Moonshine Rhyme posted:In beagle's stream an armless mech melee attacked, critical hit the head and instantly killed his self-insert character in a heavy mech What happens after that anyway? They just show up in plot conversations from then on?
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Apr 24, 2018 21:37
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The game keeps freezing on the first load screen. 
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Apr 24, 2018 22:55
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Moving to SSD and verifying game cache sorted out my freezing issues, though the loading's still a little crappy. Not nearly as bad as DOOM was though. Off my ssd the load time was four minutes somehow.
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Apr 24, 2018 23:10
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Control Volume posted:It owns that this game seems to perform worse the better your computer is lol This seems to happen a lot now.
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Apr 24, 2018 23:55
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So who else missed twelve shots and four melee and death from aboves in a row on that lovely little light mech and Shadow Hawk in the first mission of the game and hosed a pilot and all their mechs up trying to kill them on endless 80%+ attacks
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Apr 25, 2018 03:35
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Like I'm liking the game but it did an insanely lovely job explaining how not to get owned instantly by the guys who survive your ten turns of artillery fire to walk up and punch you in the dick so hard your arms pop off while your own dickpuncher forgets where the dick is even located
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Apr 25, 2018 03:42
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FunkMonkey posted:Agreed, I don't need (or really want) meta templates to follow, but every time I look at the lab I'm like "ah jeez" and back away slowly. I'm sure I'll grok to it with time but a basic common sense overview from someone more experienced would be appreciated. Like, my Blackjack had it's right arm blown off. The laser and autocannon are red now. Does that mean I can't equip them when I drag them on to re-equip them to the refitted arm? Statistically they seem identical to the not-hosed-up weapons on the other arm.
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Apr 25, 2018 04:07
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Gwaihir posted:It means they're gone! Oh, so they're destroyed and and gone forever and not just damaged. That's fair. Then why can I equip them? Can I just send out a mech with broken trash for no reason?
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Apr 25, 2018 04:07
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Thanks guys, I get it now. The ol BJ spent the first mission in the wrong position so my teacher had his arm blown off, then in the next mission I learned from my old mentor and had the same arm blown off. Guess my ancestral Blackjack's shittier than ever! 
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Apr 25, 2018 04:13
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I named my mercs MecCOM after my XCOM Gian robot campaign, even found a logo with what looks like an XCOM shield, what's you guys name your squads?
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Apr 25, 2018 17:03
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So if you use light mechs as backstabbers don't they just get hosed when their target turns around? How would they not get shot?
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Apr 25, 2018 18:23
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Stringbean posted:Fuckin' Glitch in the Vindi is straight up beastmode. Glitch rules and is just so happy to be murderin'
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Apr 25, 2018 18:42
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How effective would an all punching all the time Lance be? It's by far the funniest thing in the game.
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Apr 25, 2018 22:26
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Wow the Blackjack is trash. Overheats instantly, can't move, arms constantly blow off. What an heirloom!  Also on this moon mission I thought I understood initiative but I clearly don't. The shadowhawk escort DFA's my BJ, then two rounds in the same turn later punches me to KO my Blackjack. I thought you could only go once a turn? How do I double up? It went round two then round 4. e: I...guess my Incapacitated pilot can just stand up and keep going? Does "Incapacitated" not mean anything? RBA Starblade fucked around with this message at 03:50 on Apr 26, 2018 |
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Apr 26, 2018 03:48
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kingcom posted:Okay so the Blackjack is a 45 tonne medium so its actually just barely above a light mech, also on that moon mission you have penalties to heat sinks so anything that has some heat issues will be crippled by it on that map type. I get there are penalties but it's never approached overheating. The hawk didn't reserve it's turn, it attacked then attacked again. In round 2, the hawk DFA'd my BJ. In round 4, my locust moved and attacked. In round 4, the hawk melee'd and attacked. This ended the turn. The next turn, my Incapacitated Pilot stood up and punched it back. quote:Is it worth trying to get the Quickdraw in one piece on the moon mission or will you get more heavy mechs thrown your way soon afterwards? It just overheated and killed itself for me.
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Apr 26, 2018 03:55
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kingcom posted:Incapacitated pilots are out, you should not be able to control them in any way. I'm not sure whats happening in your game but I've not heard anyone else report this issue before. Lucky me I guess! I thought it just straight blew up the mech when I wrote that post tbh e: Nevermind, it just did. This mission's brutal. My locust is hosed, my useless BJ is gone, my original character do not steal is out for ages, and I have three mechs in the whole lance. 
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Apr 26, 2018 03:56
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kingcom posted:Are you sure its not just being knocked down and the pilot is just wounded? Because the stand up button is specifically for mechs being knocked over. How many wounds does this pilot have underneath their picture? It's now blood red so a lot, but it said on screen Pilot Incapacitated as the mech fell over and got the knocked down status. 
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Apr 26, 2018 03:58
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kingcom posted:
I guess just the wrong message, though it was the main character pilot if that impacts things like that. I know they can't die at least. I'd be more annoyed about the bj going away but it never really accomplished anything and kept losing body parts lol RBA Starblade fucked around with this message at 04:04 on Apr 26, 2018 |
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Apr 26, 2018 04:02
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kingcom posted:Yeah so the BJ really needs to be kept back and when you get a chance yank one of the Medium lasers off of it and pump up its armour. By default it starts very low. Alternatively, replace the AC/2s with 1 AC/5 and beef up armour, maybe strip a Medium Laser too if you need it. You want a blackjack at the back and the shadowhawk way in the front. I'll try that later if I see another. Though I think the game actually just gave me it back? https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1370484972 Also wow that guy got more kills than I thought.
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Apr 26, 2018 04:05
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Insert name here posted:I wish you could just sell the scrap parts for C-Bills because I really don't give a poo poo about having like 2/3 of a Locust and 1/3 of a Commando or whatever Yeah it's a little weird you can't just dump that somewhere or at least pull out some weapons from it or something.
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Apr 26, 2018 04:35
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Phrosphor posted:Slow? No my friend, the Dragon is a monster. Oh poo poo there are melee upgrades? I was just going to have this Jenner flail at something. Coming off Mechwarrior where I slammed as many weapons into a Mech as possible and just stood in water or let my hud fizzle out while slamming the coolant button it's really weird trying to balance like two or three weapons on some of these light/mediums.
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Apr 26, 2018 04:46
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Also recovering after that moon mission was fun, trying to wrangle finances, a new mechwarrior to replace me, refitting two mechs, and repairing two more. Feels nice and XCOMmy and like I'm barely holding together.Flavius Belisarius posted:This is probably a dumb question, but I don't understand how to wait until my mech is finished refitting without jumping to another system. This took me a minute too but click "Leopard" then just click the play button in the middle of the screen. If you don't have a contract you'll just wait in orbit.
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Apr 26, 2018 04:49
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I keep forgetting how I want to level my mans up so everyone's just going to get slapdash skills and hope for the best. I'll chalk it up as the CO getting some mlild biarn dmaage after getting owned on the moon.
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Apr 26, 2018 12:54
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Virulence posted:My very first one of these when I was still in the Leopard and only had light + medium mechs was a loving King Crab of all things. Go for the knees!
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Apr 26, 2018 21:34
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Internet Explorer posted:There's a withdraw button. There's also a button to eject a MechWarrior. What are they?
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Apr 26, 2018 22:21
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Internet Explorer posted:What or where? I assume where, because what is exactly what they say on the tin. The withdraw button is in the top-right, the eject button is next to your mechs paperdoll when you click on it in the bottom left (button itself is on the top right of the paperdoll, I think). Yeah I meant what were the keys to do them. Thanks!
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Apr 26, 2018 23:40
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Things I learned in this .5 skull baby difficulty mission: 1. Sensor lock scouts are great until 2. enemy sensor lock scouts show up with 3. PPCs and who 4. Don't give a poo poo how much evasion and cover you have, because it is a 5. One shot kill on your little piece of poo poo and 6. You won't break the PPC before it one shot kills you RIP Dekker, you were useful until the game showed me you were not and it was just luck you did anything of value. Now I have to wait literally 40 days to have enough mechs to play the game again. Good thing I took the money option.
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Apr 27, 2018 01:59
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Jesus christ the Blackjack lost it's loving arm again what do you want from me game I hit it behind a mountain so it wouldn't get hosed by autocannon sniper turrets My precious heirloom  Seriously though I'm running out of weapons because the Blackjack keeps losing them and ppc light mechs turbofuck me. The only thing I've ever salvaged was a locust. That's all it's given me. How do I budget this my mechwarriors are dying
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Apr 27, 2018 02:21
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TheTrend posted:I had my first encounter with the Hunchback in this game, which is one of my personal favorites. It fired 3 shots from it's ac120 and two of them were head shots that were instant pilot kills including my own story line pilot, the other shot was the one that knocked over the mech starting the murder fest. Well the game crashed and deleted my save so I tried the other mission I have, 2 stars. Hunchback, Shadow Hawk, Vindicator. Glitch died to ten billion lasers and ppcs because twelve rounds of shooting the same mech in a row did loving zero damage. Then instead of meleeing Behemoth walked up to a mech and did nothing. I'm reloading because gently caress that a crash and a deleted save is enough for a day but what the hell am I supposed to do? .5 skull missions have sniper mechs with ppcs I can't beat without one kill because it takes at least two rounds to finish them, and the others have mechs that are more armored and I can't even scratch or unsteady in six rounds. I don't get it. Did I just do plot missions too quick and now I don't have the gear to handle things? RBA Starblade fucked around with this message at 03:06 on Apr 27, 2018 |
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Apr 27, 2018 03:00
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sebmojo posted:with missing saves i think restarting the game is supposed to bring them back Well that's good to know for next time! Beat this mission on retry, only reloaded because of that melee bug. Two wounded pilots, three hosed mechs. PPCs are basically the ultimate weapon here early game, and lights and Vindicators are bulky or quick enough to do whatever they want; you can't stop it.
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Apr 27, 2018 03:31
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The game seems to crash every time I complete a mission without an enemy mech. Is there a console command to just kill everything so I don't have to replay the mission?
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Apr 27, 2018 04:07
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Please stop crashing on the half hour and extremely boring tank combat mission game
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Apr 27, 2018 04:23
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My mechwarriors all just got shot in the head five times in a row between three of them. We're on mountains and they're in valleys. Why can't I hire the clearly superior trash pirates from Garbage Planet?
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Apr 27, 2018 05:12
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Bruceski posted:I ended a mission recently with two of my mechs in pristine condition except for their heads. RIP Medusa and RIP PC seeing the outside of a medbay any time this year. My PC was in the medbay 80 days then immediately got shot in the face again for another 30 day visit. Glitch took a few hundred missiles to the head and somehow isn't dead, so good job her. I keep almost not blowing up mechs then doing that last second too. I have a dozen different mech parts. e: I have a spare Spider so I'm giving sensor lock another shot. Is there anything better to do with this than run up, lock, and hide? If it tries to fight it's hosed. I know they can hop in and out to melee but trying that just leads to them being shot down after the punch. RBA Starblade fucked around with this message at 05:48 on Apr 27, 2018 |
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Apr 27, 2018 05:25
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Ciaphas posted:That centurion is currently doing me sterling service as Glitch's personal LRM boat The Centurion and Vindicator are the only things I have worth a poo poo so god help me if one blows up again.
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Apr 27, 2018 05:39
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Since Lights aren't working for me I'm going to focus on getting a fourth Medium, replacing the BJ, and going with that before the next primary mission. What's going to make a good scouting medium that will be useful in a fight?quote:Glitch is the best; Dekker always dies. It is known
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Goa Tse-tung posted:Griffin Yeah, little faster to go upfront, hopefully do some flanking.
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