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dis astranagant posted:Maybe next time we get a Clan scenario they'll have a Piranha. We had TWO! Piranhas for the "Misjump" Tetatae adventure mission!!
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Yeah, I got to pilot one and it was fun as hell until I started hallucinating.
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Sep 29, 2015 05:27
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Viva Miriya posted:I hope it means that goonlance is doomed to die. That and they spent turns shooting cranes instead of the enemy. ...This is our legacy isn't it? We will forever be 'Those People Who Shot The Cranes'. 
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Sep 29, 2015 06:49
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Theantero posted:...This is our legacy isn't it? Nah, don't worry, we're just fixating on that for now because there hasn't been much else going on in these first few turns. I'm sure once the action kicks off it will bring along some much more spectacular cockups to remember you by.
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Sep 29, 2015 07:22
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Theantero posted:...This is our legacy isn't it? It could be worse. I'm still pretty sanguine about your chances. More seriously, look at it this way - we can't all be Wrestlemechs. I think my group of pilots did damned good - mostly them 
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Sep 29, 2015 07:50
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Theantero posted:...This is our legacy isn't it? It could be even worse. At least you have cranes. Even Capt Sanguine had his sanguine moments. No one even remembers the lot who failed a literal tutorial mission 
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Sep 29, 2015 09:33
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Z the IVth posted:It could be even worse. At least you have cranes. Even Capt Sanguine had his sanguine moments. No one even remembers the lot who failed a literal tutorial mission tell me more
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Sep 29, 2015 10:05
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It starts here. It does not go well.
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Viva Miriya posted:tell me more I drove a Sentinel into death No regrets, I ran around, shot some terrain then gave someone an Armour-Piercing colonoscopy. Rules lawyered out of an embarrassing death, straight into a more embarrassing death. Good times What do you reckon the
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Sep 29, 2015 11:06
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Tran posted:It starts here. It does not go well. Oh hey, I remember you lot! That was team Golden Locust!
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Sep 29, 2015 11:22
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AJ_Impy posted:Oh hey, I remember you lot! That was team Golden Locust! Team with the highest number of stale-outs. What was it, 4 missed turns? I was the angry crab btw.
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Sep 29, 2015 11:44
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Z the IVth posted:Team with the highest number of stale-outs. What was it, 4 missed turns? I recall PTN doing an excellent fluff piece on the stale pilot in question having a seizure.
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Sep 29, 2015 12:59
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Theantero posted:...This is our legacy isn't it? Maybe someone will sweep the leg?
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Theantero posted:...This is our legacy isn't it? 
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Sep 29, 2015 13:09
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DivineCoffeeBinge posted:It could be worse. I'm still pretty sanguine about your chances. It's okay, the girl that got to be Wrestlemech is sympathetic to your plight. I'm sure she gave the best show she could, for the sake of the fans.  In all seriousness I still get giggly over my time in the command couch. I wouldn't have been able to put on a show without my team though, and together we put on a clinic. I would be absolutely thrilled to drop with each and every one of them again.
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Sep 29, 2015 13:23
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Looks like the kickstarter campaign is up and running. I'm digging the tiered system they have setup for rewards, and the little victory point tracker for fan rewards. And DFA and melee attacks are standard! Also, end goal is the Solaris Arena, for more WRESTLEMECH action!
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Sep 29, 2015 20:50
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Does that mean it isn't having a PvP system unless they get to their top tier? Because that seems silly. Also, some of the backer rewards involve multiple Stackpole novella.
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Sep 29, 2015 21:00
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Well Shadowrun is a SP game. And some people like their SP games. I think they are okay with doing limited scope games, and just finish on time.
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Sep 29, 2015 21:23
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Yeah, considering their initial pitch is just a turn-based tactical mech fighting game, it seems fair to gate multiplayer behind "level four" since that's a big commitment from a game design perspective. If they were going to parcel the game's scope out according to their funding I prefer their breakdown of [base game] -> [campaign] -> [open-ended campaign with side missions] -> [multiplayer]. Those top-level backer rewards of getting to appear in a Stackpole novel are a bit iffy though. After the first five chapters of Ghost War I'd pay $10,000 to be taken out of a Stackpole book.
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Sep 29, 2015 21:47
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Maybe it's to get more of that eternal "oops" factor there is in that one Warner Doles guy being in the books. Or was that another guy?
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Sep 29, 2015 21:50
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Nope, it was Warner Doles who was written into canon and then got a job at Catalyst. Then it was revealed he was a child molester.
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Sep 29, 2015 21:53
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That must have been pretty awkward. I wonder how drama-filled the reveal was.
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It's still not public knowledge on the BT forums, as near as I can tell. Sarna.net still doesn't acknowledge it either. I know that the mod team is aware of it, but the early stance by the top brass was it was that the victim was making everything up to get money out of Doles, so they've quietly smothered all mentions of him since. I have heard a number of staffers were very upset by the way it was handled. e: Sarna actually scrubbed mention of it from his article. It's "not relevant" apparently Defiance Industries fucked around with this message at 22:09 on Sep 29, 2015 |
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Sep 29, 2015 22:05
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Well. That's just peachy then. I guess I should change topics a little so, I wonder how painful my beloved gigantic infantry armies will be to manage.
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goatface posted:Does that mean it isn't having a PvP system unless they get to their top tier? Because that seems silly. Multiplayer is a scourge. But more seriously, I'm fine with the lack of multiplayer if it's harebrained schemes. They know how to tell a solid story. I hope we get a Shadowrun-style toolkit along with it to craft our own scenarios because I would be all over-- Harebrained Schemes posted:As we did with our Shadowrun games, we intend to capture the *spirit* of the original tabletop rules, while designing the best PC game we can. Sold. PoptartsNinja fucked around with this message at 22:16 on Sep 29, 2015 |
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Sep 29, 2015 22:10
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Multiplayer will probably lead to changing designs for "balance" which is nonsense.
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Sep 29, 2015 22:13
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Harebrained Schemes posted:We know there are BattleTech fans that have been burned by other crowdfunding projects, and we’re really sorry you had to go through that. Double-sold, haha.
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PoptartsNinja posted:Double-sold, haha.  Mechwarrior: Tactics you aborted abomination of an awful cash grab by bankrupt shitters you.I have a fervent hope that this game lends itself to letting us make campaign style scenarios, basically functioning as a more limited, but more intuitive and prettier, Megamek replacement.
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A robust scenario-maker and a better focus on pilot customization would be a good way to set the game apart from MM. It would be a smart move to emphasize it.
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Sep 29, 2015 22:28
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A computer version of what we're doing here would be awesome. So I'm on board.
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Sep 29, 2015 22:30
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Modding support: NO They stated that creating a UserOriented Editor is a project on its own. And is not on the table. I guess since it's their first Unity 5 project, that makes a bit of sense. Though one might still be able to do "something" by hacking away at it.
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Sep 29, 2015 22:38
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Wow, double their goal in a single day. Here's hoping it makes it all the way to the sandbox campaign and procedurally generated missions
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All those tiers where they add in poo poo by Stackpole. Like, they should be paying us money to tolerate him. Christ.
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warhammer651 posted:Wow, double their goal in a single day. Stage 3 basically gets us "Against the Bots" MegaMek without the ridiculous hassle and bookkeeping of "Against the Bots". Sold.
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Leperflesh posted:All those tiers where they add in poo poo by Stackpole. Like, they should be paying us money to tolerate him. Christ. I still like Stackpole. He puts out solid product on what is typically a "Hey, we need three novels in the next three months" sort of timeframe.
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You've got some kind of Stackpole Stockholm thing going on there. I've never seen anything from Stackpole that qualified as a "solid product." At best, he's mediocre for a genre writer, which means he is absolute trash on an actual fair scale of people who write fiction. At worst, his writing violates geneva conventions and the international human rights treaties, because it qualifies as torture.
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Leperflesh posted:At worst, his writing violates geneva conventions and the international human rights treaties, because it qualifies as torture. EponymousMrYar fucked around with this message at 23:33 on Sep 29, 2015 |
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Sep 29, 2015 23:30
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That's crazy talk; this is The Internet, where every author/historical figure/human is either a heinous scrublord or tolerable, if abysmally overrated.
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Devorum posted:Stage 3 basically gets us "Against the Bots" MegaMek without the ridiculous hassle and bookkeeping of "Against the Bots". And for a protracted campaign potentially! Want to side up with the Capellans and take the Warcrimes tour on the road? You could! Take your heavy lance and be a light-scout contingent for the Lyrans? Backstab every contract in the true spirit of the Free World's League? I'm really hoping they get enough funding for stage 3. The higher tier rewards really didn't motivate me to spend money, but they got a $125 pledge out of me. I'll take some great house swag. Hell, if they added a tier that was basically a double-$125 rewards package, I'd pick that up and support them more. I'm just not down for the pilot jacket. Any of the more experienced tabletop players have an opinion on the mix of 'mechs they've announced so far and how effective/interesting they are? I know the Assaults are looking pretty nice, including the thread-favorite King Crab. And in the Mediums PTN will be elated to see they've got a Shadowhawk. Also, what weapons are we limited to in 3025? Obviously no clan stuff, but were Gauss Rifles even out yet or were AC20s the only headcapper?
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