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Just in case anyone hasn't already seen it, Phrosphor is kludging together a mercenary campaign game using the HBS Beta and Mercenary management tools meant for the tabletop game. Its pretty cool so far, and just makes me even hungrier for this game to come out!
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Also just as a reminder, the live Q&A returns today at 12 PM Pacific / 3 PM Eastern (or roughly 7 and a half hours from this post for those who aren't in those regions) on NGNGTV. I know a lot of Goons have strong feelings of disgust towards the NGNG tv but they don't interfere with the Q&As, which are completely HBS run. Don't expect a release date announcement then, because if they were to announce it I imagine it would in a Kickstarter update immediately.
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Sky Shadowing posted:Also just as a reminder, the live Q&A returns today at 12 PM Pacific / 3 PM Eastern (or roughly 7 and a half hours from this post for those who aren't in those regions) on NGNGTV.
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AAAAA! Real Muenster posted:Thank you for posting this. Didnt they declare that there would be no date announcement at the Q&A and to not bother asking any questions about it? Yeah, but come on that chat's going to be spammed with idiots saying poo poo like "GIVE GAME."
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Sky Shadowing posted:Yeah, but come on that chat's going to be spammed with idiots saying poo poo like "GIVE GAME."
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AAAAA! Real Muenster posted:Thank you for posting this. Didnt they declare that there would be no date announcement at the Q&A and to not bother asking any questions about it? Also while that's probably true, obviously you don't announce in advance when you will be making an announcement a month in advance of release, if you get my meaning.
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Alchenar posted:Also while that's probably true, obviously you don't announce in advance when you will be making an announcement a month in advance of release, if you get my meaning. Buddy let me introduce you to the last year of announcement announcements.
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when bannerlord
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I'll admit that I wouldn't be entirely surprised if today they put out a Kickstarter update about a release date, but that is mostly because I know THEY know the Q&A will be overrun by that question even if they put a flashing text box saying "No release date, stop asking" on the stream. Also because I expect there will be about 2 months between date given and date reached, so if Early 2018 means anything realistic we're running low on time.
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They are going to announce today that the game will release tomorrow.
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AAAAA! Real Muenster posted:They are going to announce today that the game will release tomorrow. I would love a Netflix Cloverfield twist, and have the game launch directly after the livestream ends.
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Or they start the Q&A but it just works like the Playstation 2 press conference where the only thing they said was the price and walked away. "Release date: NOW." *stream cuts to footage of fireworks for the rest of the duration*
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I was searching for a joke about not releasing on Valentines Day because they wouldnt want to ruin it for so many people, but lol the people that will be playing this game.
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I'd actually be weirdly annoyed if it released today because it's my brother's birthday and I wanted to get him this game a lot but it's not out yet so I got something else instead.
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Feb 14, 2018 18:30
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Heads up, there is activity on SteamDB relating to BattleTech. I very very much doubt release is imminent (they want to market I'd guess) but a simultaneous launch of preorders and the release date might be realistic.
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Feb 14, 2018 18:37
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Microbrain:. Give game Normal brain: What features will be in at launch Galaxy Brain: PORN WHEN
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Rule 34 and Devient Art have you coverted.  OBVIOUSLY EVERTHYTHING BELOW IS  https://i.imgur.com/ppfYbE2.jpg https://i.imgur.com/iuBrzlx.jpg Cyrano4747 fucked around with this message at 16:27 on Feb 17, 2018 |
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Sky Shadowing posted:Heads up, there is activity on SteamDB relating to BattleTech. My memory from that time's really hazy, but didn't they release Shadowrun Returns pretty suddenly?
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A.o.D. posted:Microbrain:. Give game The true XCOM experience.
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Drone posted:My memory from that time's really hazy, but didn't they release Shadowrun Returns pretty suddenly? June 18 2013 was announcement of release on July 25th.
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Q&A finished up. Big news is Maurader and Warhammer are both NOT in the game at launch. When asked if there were reasons, Mitch just responded with a very firm "yes." So the Harmony Gold lawsuit is taking its toll. Replacing them for now are the Black Knight and the Catapult K2. Otherwise no date given other than '2018.'
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Sky Shadowing posted:Q&A finished up. Raven isn't making it either, they said they wanted to fine tune electronic warfare before adding it. I guess they took a look at how much work it would be for one light mech and cut the whole thing. Mentioned lots of new animations, both for falls and for melee. Examples given were the ShadowHawk's punch and an atlas doing an overhead smash down on top of a smaller Mech. Sounds like the off map artillery and aerospace assets have been cut as well, though allies may still call in artillery strikes. Loans are gone, if you run out of money thats it. Destroyed mechs give you a salvage piece of that mech, get three and you can use them to rebuild the naked chassis of that mech. They mentioned being able to buy these salvage pieces. Weapon variants are still in, represented by manufacturers. No trade offs with the weapons, they are just better in some respect. Brief mention of other things you can fit on a mech; improved arm actuators for better melee, better gyros for more stability, heat banks for higher overheat threshold. No idea if these involve tradeoffs or not.
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Wow, arty and air strikes are gone too? Surprising amount of stuff hitting the chopping block as we get closer to <no release date announced>. Wonder why allies can call them in, since that'd still require the code. I guess if you never have to deal with enemies throwing them at you either that's less annoyance, but still sad to see them go.
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Zaodai posted:Wow, arty and air strikes are gone too? Surprising amount of stuff hitting the chopping block as we get closer to <no release date announced>. By the sounds of it they just removed the parts that let you hire/buy the support teams and items themselves. It probably got thrown out when the simplified the finance simulation. Best moment of the stream was when someone asked them how long you could operate just above bankruptcy and there was genuine confusion on whether they question referred to the game or HBS themselves.
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Well here's to hoping it does well and all this stuff makes it in for Battletech: Dragonfall.
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Zaodai posted:Wow, arty and air strikes are gone too? Surprising amount of stuff hitting the chopping block as we get closer to <no release date announced>. If I had to guess I'd think balance. It might have been the kind of thing that was hard to balance missions around.
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Cyrano4747 posted:If I had to guess I'd think balance. It might have been the kind of thing that was hard to balance missions around. Oh and Mitch pissed off half the grogs by basically saying 'no quad mechs in my game EVER!'
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Phrosphor posted:Oh and Mitch pissed off half the grogs by basically saying 'no quad mechs in my game EVER!' Mitch owns, games gonna own
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Boo, quad mechs are neat
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Oh no what will we possibly do without the Scorpion (a worse Griffin) and the Goliath (The second-worst Assault 'Mech in 3025)?
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Feb 14, 2018 23:11
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But will there be quad elementals in the Clan game?
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Cyrano4747 posted:If I had to guess I'd think balance. It might have been the kind of thing that was hard to balance missions around. This is my reading, same with the no loans thing.
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Arty and airstrikes were rubbish in MC1 and 2. And in a turn based game they'll either be 'incoming damage you can do nothing about, gently caress you' or 'I guess everyone moves out of this circle before the next turn'.
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A.o.D. posted:Microbrain:. Give game Zaodai posted:The true XCOM experience.
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Alchenar posted:Arty and airstrikes were rubbish in MC1 and 2. And in a turn based game they'll either be 'incoming damage you can do nothing about, gently caress you' or 'I guess everyone moves out of this circle before the next turn'. Arrow IV to the HD
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It's a shame because strafing runs are the coolest things and I love offmap tactical tools.
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Yeah I'm sad to hear about the offmap assets getting dropped but it looks like they had to do a real hard cut on core features vs everything else. this, though. Phrosphor posted:Best moment of the stream was when someone asked them how long you could operate just above bankruptcy and there was genuine confusion on whether they question referred to the game or HBS themselves. ouch. I assume they meant the game, but ouch. 
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My instinct is that deployable aoe abilities that force a 'move from here or take damage' work really well in cover based games like XCOM where they force a real dilemma, but don't really make any sense in a game like battletech where the concept is 'knights jousting' and the default is that movement is life and standing still is mostly a bad idea.
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I'm actually disappointed about the offmap assets, I like feeling like I'm bigger than One Lance On The Map. Those were a bit of a help to feel that way, but... probably was hard to balance.
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Sky Shadowing posted:I'm actually disappointed about the offmap assets, I like feeling like I'm bigger than One Lance On The Map. Those were a bit of a help to feel that way, but... probably was hard to balance. They want all these things in the game for sure. I think they have sat down and, led by Mitch who seems to be quite the realist, they have brutally cut everything that was holding them back from release. If the game does well I fully expect an add-on of some kind that brings a lot of this stuff back in.
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