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Paingod556 posted:Seems likely they want short, violent missions, like MechCommander. Which also had zero ingame save functional. So it has precedence The mechcommanders were the best games, yet every review I find of the first one seem to drat it as too hard for some reason. Polaron posted:I'm having flashbacks to a certain salvage truck mission. Bring LRMs and jump jets. Profit.
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MechCommander 1 is awesome and I'd play someone right now if it were possible. Did the first one even have multiplayer? I'm not actually sure how fun that would be, the appeal of the campaign was trying to salvage mechs ahead of time (like that timberwolf that you see in the 2nd or 3rd mission.
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Aug 9, 2016 20:36
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Hillary Clintons Thong posted:MechCommander 1 is awesome and I'd play someone right now if it were possible. The multiplayer for the first one was excellent actually. I spent years playing it on the old Mplayer service. There was even a pretty large organized playerbase for it called Starlance. Heck, I was still finding people to play MC1 with after MC2 was out, since everyone hated MC2 multi.
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Polaron posted:I'm having flashbacks to a certain salvage truck mission. My flashbacks were to a certain ambulance mission.  MC1 was great even if the difficulty oscillated a bit at times. MC2 was alright as long as you ignored the story and avoided the harder difficulties.
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RGCrab posted:The multiplayer for the first one was excellent actually. I spent years playing it on the old Mplayer service. There was even a pretty large organized playerbase for it called Starlance. Heck, I was still finding people to play MC1 with after MC2 was out, since everyone hated MC2 multi. Spent so much time playing it on Mplayer with Starlance. So many rules to balance some issues in MP (Buy Mad Cats, sell ER PPCs, buy more Mad Cats) Then have a Mech get gimped because every weapon was in the left arm.
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Taerkar posted:Spent so much time playing it on Mplayer with Starlance. So many rules to balance some issues in MP (Buy Mad Cats, sell ER PPCs, buy more Mad Cats) CBBR was the rule that fixed almost everything about the multiplayer, was such a great rule. Even with the huge amount of negotiations a lot of Starlance players did, it pretty much boiled down to "cbbr, 750k, 3v3, 3fort" for 90% of games. The left arm thing was hilarious, since it mostly happened to clan mechs. For IS it seemed they had some sort of dimensional rift in the right torso to hold every gun.
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Hillary Clintons Thong posted:MechCommander 1 is awesome and I'd play someone right now if it were possible. I distinctly remember one of the early missions was absolutely impossible if you didnt pay attention and buy a minelayer
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They've posted a neat little teaser of what the cinematic cutscene style will be like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbvJtznqkBE
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Galaga Galaxian posted:They've posted a neat little teaser of what the cinematic cutscene style will be like: Everything about this game is coming out exactly the way i hoped it to be.
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Why is the atlas's forehead transparent
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Great Beer posted:Why is the atlas's forehead transparent ecm
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Its actually chrome polished to a mirror shine. Also, if that music is a sign of what the soundtrack is gonna be like... 
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Aug 12, 2016 01:26
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Galaga Galaxian posted:Its actually chrome polished to a mirror shine. It sounds immensely similar to the music in the gameplay video, so that's a good sign.
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Is any of that artwork from the video posted somewhere it can be DL'd? That one with the tanks and KGC would make for a sweet desktop background but I can't seem to even find an art/media section on their website and googling "Battletech Game Art" didn't narrow it down very much.
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AtillatheBum posted:Is any of that artwork from the video posted somewhere it can be DL'd? That one with the tanks and KGC would make for a sweet desktop background but I can't seem to even find an art/media section on their website and googling "Battletech Game Art" didn't narrow it down very much. The Kickstarter page has all of them by the looks https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/webeharebrained/battletech/description Maybe they out HD ones on their forum. Phone posting so not sure and it's awkward to dig for them
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Paingod556 posted:The Kickstarter page has all of them by the looks Oh nice, thanks. The ones there are linked to bigger versions that are just fine, though not quite as finished/edited as the ones they had in the video.
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Galaga Galaxian posted:They've posted a neat little teaser of what the cinematic cutscene style will be like: Oh man, the hype is real. Every new thing they show all I can think is, "Yes, this is exactly what I wanted." That shot at 17 seconds of the Tanks with infantry running along, Battlemechs in the background is too good. Crazy Ferret fucked around with this message at 15:13 on Aug 12, 2016 |
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Taerkar posted:I won't be 100% happy until the Atlas can blow a limb off with the AC/20 and then pick up said limb and beat that Mech to death with it. Really? Because that would make me 150% happy.
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You went over the maximum allowed happiness and created an invalid design.
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Story of my life, man.
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Galaga Galaxian posted:Its actually chrome polished to a mirror shine. Jon Everist is an amazing composer and they're lucky to have him. If you don't have shadowrun dragonfall and/or Hong Kong they have similarly amazing soundtracks.
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I want this. e: xthetenth posted:Jon Everist is an amazing composer and they're lucky to have him. If you don't have shadowrun dragonfall and/or Hong Kong they have similarly amazing soundtracks.
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double riveting posted:Kind of getting tired of the moody violins, though. Those kind of struck me as a Hong Kong thing, they don't show up much in Dragonfall except for Lex Parsimoniae (probably the most similar song to the btech trailer), Horn and Ivory has a similar type of melody on clarinet instead. The battle demo music didn't have moody strings either so I think the btech soundtrack will be safely its own thing since Hong Kong is so different musically.
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xthetenth posted:Those kind of struck me as a Hong Kong thing, they don't show up much in Dragonfall True. The Dragonfall soundtrack is loving great, including the Shadowrun Returns half.
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Same demo, different gameplay. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6O_FGALPHhE
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God help me, I've been obtaining and reading Battletech books. I will admit they're not High Literature, but they're fun. I'm not a book snob by any means, and given that I'm picking the overwhelming majority of these up for 3-4 bucks a pop on Thriftbooks (at least the Stackpole ones, all the others are on Kindle), I have no issues with them- if they're dumb they're the fun type of dumb. So far I've read the Gray Death Legion Trilogy, Wolves on the Border, and Blood of Kerensky (notably, I see why Stackpole is considered the best author(or at least 'the most important'). They're like the cheesy summer blockbusters of novels- they're not going to win (or worth being considered for any) awards, but be willing to overlook some things and you'll have a good time. Obviously of relevance to this game is the Warrior Trilogy, which is coming in, and I figure I'll read the Stackpole stuff up until Twilight of the Clans, after which point my MW2 induced nostalgia hits its limits and I will stop. Also tempted to get Far Country because SQUAWK! Sky Shadowing fucked around with this message at 03:08 on Sep 20, 2016 |
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When I was a kid I read so many Battletech books, probably 50+. I'd sit in class reading Battletech books while getting yelled at by teachers to pay attention. Good times! The Gray Death Legion trilogy is a classic.
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I read all 60+ Battletech books earlier this year. My brain still feels fried.
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Sky Shadowing posted:God help me, I've been obtaining and reading Battletech books. Read "Main Event" and come back and tell us something positive about the protagonist. Go on I dare you. Also to comment on Gray Death Legion. The setup for the first book is great, guerrilla actions against an invading army with a side order of familial vengence. The opening with Gray seeing his dad's mech getting wasted by the kurita was a brilliant start. Then it gets a bit silly, capturing a Commando with a truck mounted MG is beyond stretching it really. I wish I had the time to write some schlocky action mech short stories. Once you get past the uncanny valley of giant walking mechs it's a really fun space. Phrosphor fucked around with this message at 09:12 on Sep 20, 2016 |
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Skoll posted:I read all 60+ Battletech books earlier this year. My brain still feels fried. I bought them as they came out in the 80s and 90s until they got more and more childish, vapid and moronic. The clan garbage written by completely forgettable drones made me cancel the order I had at the local comic/games place. I kept what I had but only the older books are on display, the drivel is in boxes.
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I remember loving Highlander Gambit when I was 12. How bad is it?
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Ratzap posted:I bought them as they came out in the 80s and 90s until they got more and more childish, vapid and moronic. The clan garbage written by completely forgettable drones made me cancel the order I had at the local comic/games place. I kept what I had but only the older books are on display, the drivel is in boxes. Basically, the series really shits itself once the Clans show up and the FedCom Civil War happens. They just aren't fun or exciting to read about. The Clans are basically giant sperg retards with unrealistic expectations on warfare, and the FedCom books are just boring because Mary Sue. The only good ones are ones like Flashpoint that don't deal with any Davions or Steiners. LeSquide posted:I remember loving Highlander Gambit when I was 12. How bad is it? Pretty bad. The main character is a Mary Sue Scottish Death Commando that can do everything, Switching allegiances from Liao to Northwind was barely even an internal conflict. So much for fanatical elite troops.
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Are stackpole's btech books better than his star wars books? Cause his star wars books are pretty bad.
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Polaron posted:I'm having flashbacks to a certain salvage truck mission. That farm defense mission was impossible as an eight year old.
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Skoll posted:Basically, the series really shits itself once the Clans show up and the FedCom Civil War happens. aka '3025/3039 best era' It's not just for grogs anymore. 
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I got my package with the Jacket in it yesterday, its a really drat nice jacket, makes me look like a total nerd, but I don't care. Will be nice for the SD winter that is coming soon.
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I just got done reading 'Wolves on the Border', my first BTech book. I thought it was pretty good, for a licensed genre book, any direct followups worth checking out? Kind of curious to see if Jaime Wolf makes good on his promise to the Coordinator, and I'd really like to see what happens to Michi. I've gotten so impatient waiting for the Beta of this game, I'm taking my Battletech fix wherever I can get it. I've even started playing MWO again...
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Q_res posted:I just got done reading 'Wolves on the Border', my first BTech book. I thought it was pretty good, for a licensed genre book, any direct followups worth checking out? Kind of curious to see if Jaime Wolf makes good on his promise to the Coordinator, and I'd really like to see what happens to Michi. Wolves on the Border is one of the better BT books. It's head and shoulders above most of them. There's some followup to it in the main 'spine' books (written by Mike Stackpole) but it's like incidental side stuff so I wouldn't read them just for more Wolf action. Stackpole's books are the ones that push the 'plot' forward for the most part though (and later on when Stackpole stopped writing them because FASA couldn't afford to pay him, Loren Coleman became the plot-book guy). The closest thing to a sequel WotB has is Wolf Pack, which takes place in the 3050s and isn't really about Jaime himself. It's also not as good a book, although it's no D.R.T.. Incidentally, how is Jaime pronounced? I always thought it was supposed to sound like 'hame' but apparently some people say 'jamie'?
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Pretty sure the last scene of Wolves on the Border is one of the major events of the Battletech universe, and if you want the story after that pick up the Warrior Trilogy.
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Sky Shadowing posted:Pretty sure the last scene of Wolves on the Border is one of the major events of the Battletech universe, and if you want the story after that pick up the Warrior Trilogy.
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