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So can you kind folks at HBS "release" Battletech today as an April Fools' joke, only the joke is that you're actually releasing it today for real?
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Coldforge posted:So can you kind folks at HBS "release" Battletech today as an April Fools' joke, only the joke is that you're actually releasing it today for real? At least an open beta  Maybe 4 urban mechs vs. 4 atlases?
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Apr 1, 2018 18:19
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Psion posted:I can guarantee you that’s incorrect, Rygar. There is no universal agreement on anything in this entire franchise. Dark Age/Age of Destruction the game was pretty terrible. The early fiction for it was also terrible. Dark Age now is probably an acquired taste, but I love it.
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Apr 1, 2018 18:41
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I've got to admit. I kind of want to run a campaign where the players are test pilots for an agri mech factory that is branching out into combat mech manufacture. And it seems like Dark Age would suit that well.
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Apr 1, 2018 19:05
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Coldforge posted:So can you kind folks at HBS "release" Battletech today as an April Fools' joke, only the joke is that you're actually releasing it today for real? I never watch streamers and as bad as Cohh is at playing the game, I can't stop watching. I need this game in my life right now and I don't know if I can wait 3 1/2 weeks.
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Apr 1, 2018 20:21
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I like the way he starts day 2 of his BT streaming, stating his philosophy of going into the game fresh and learning things about it the hard way. I've come to like the guy, at least from what I've seen in this stream.
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Apr 1, 2018 20:32
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Cohh is playing fast and loose and as much as I occasionally cringe and wish I could seize the controls it is fun to watch. A demolisher? whats that?  *Demolisher blows a large hole in the side of his BJ with one of its twin AC/20 shots* TWO AC TWENTIES?! Oh my god....  Step on it, NOW! 
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Apr 1, 2018 20:37
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Phosphor's Lp prompted me to start playing a mekhq campaign and served to really get me excited for hbs battletech. Like others have said, it looks a lot like shadowrun returns, a little limited and not 100% a 1 to 1 representation of the tabletop game. But I fukken loved returns bc it got the spirit of its source material and made a legit fun game. Everything I've seen gives me high hopes for hbs battletech and I can only hope that it means we get more down the line.
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Apr 1, 2018 20:40
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Apr 1, 2018 21:20
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I like how fast the really early missions are, presumably they will get more complex but it's good that you can just throw yourself at a bunch of light mechs and tanks to get into the swing of things.
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Apr 1, 2018 22:17
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Psion posted:Except maybe that Dark Age was bad. Although you never know ...someone out there is probably writing a passionate defense of it right this minute. It's me, I'm going to write a passionate defense of it right now: I liked some of the minis. It was a terrible trash fire otherwise, though.
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Apr 1, 2018 22:26
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I'm proud of the art I did for tro3145/3150
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Apr 1, 2018 22:45
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Xarbala posted:I'm proud of the art I did for tro3145/3150 Which ones are yours? I love most of the designs in those books.
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Apr 1, 2018 22:56
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Strobe posted:Which ones are yours? I love most of the designs in those books. Sarath, kheper, Uraeus, Leonidas ba, Calliope, agrotera, scourge, ogre ba, dragon ii, Juliano, and I drew the new art for the samurai mechs but I didn't get to diverge much from the minis with those. Also some other stuff but that's what I remember right off the top of my head.
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Apr 1, 2018 23:00
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Galaga Galaxian posted:Cohh is playing fast and loose and as much as I occasionally cringe and wish I could seize the controls it is fun to watch. I know what you mean, the fact he keep using his Blackjack as the point man of his lance is driving me insane, he's must of lost that thing 4 or 5 at this point.
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Apr 1, 2018 23:09
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You drew like half of TRO 3145 FWL.  I love those things.
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Apr 1, 2018 23:10
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Strobe posted:You drew like half of TRO 3145 FWL. Thank you, I really appreciate that. Most people will never give my stuff a second look because it's set in a time period that everybody wishes didn't exist.
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Apr 1, 2018 23:16
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Xarbala posted:Thank you, I really appreciate that. Most people will never give my stuff a second look because it's set in a time period that everybody wishes didn't exist. Well, the Dark Ages are the only period in BattleTech past the 1st Succession War where the Free Worlds League is not either Incompetent, Evil, or Both, so I take what I can get. The unit designs being sick as hell is a major draw, too.
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Apr 1, 2018 23:23
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Just found out the Crab isn’t in game, pre-order cancelled! But in all seriousness, I’m kind of sad the Crab and Thunderbolt didn’t make the roster, they’re two of my favorite mechs. 
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Apr 2, 2018 00:30
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Back Hack posted:Just found out the Crab isn’t in game, pre-order cancelled! But in all seriousness, I’m kind of sad the Crab and Thunderbolt didn’t make the roster, they’re two of my favorite mechs. Hopefully there will indeed be Crab Battle for launch, rather than something something in success hopeful after the fact.
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Apr 2, 2018 00:36
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the King Crab is in this game so all is fine and forgiven
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Apr 2, 2018 00:40
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Back Hack posted:Just found out the Crab isn’t in game, pre-order cancelled! But in all seriousness, I’m kind of sad the Crab and Thunderbolt didn’t make the roster, they’re two of my favorite mechs. The thunderbolt is definitely in the game. Also we're all hoping the MWO mechs not yet included either show up as expansion material and/or modded in by players (someone already whipped up primitive Rifleman and Warhammer mods for the beta).
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Apr 2, 2018 00:41
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Psion posted:the King Crab is in this game so all is fine and forgiven Its also supposed to be stupidly fantastically rare though, according to a dev. 
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Apr 2, 2018 00:44
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Psion posted:the King Crab is in this game so all is fine and forgiven  Galaga Galaxian posted:The thunderbolt is definitely in the game. Also we're all hoping the MWO mechs not yet included either show up as expansion material and/or modded in by players (someone already whipped up primitive Rifleman and Warhammer mods for the beta).
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Apr 2, 2018 00:45
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Galaga Galaxian posted:The thunderbolt is definitely in the game. Also we're all hoping the MWO mechs not yet included either show up as expansion material and/or modded in by players (someone already whipped up primitive Rifleman and Warhammer mods for the beta). I don't understand why some of the unseen are in and some aren't. Whatever, IANAL. 
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Apr 2, 2018 00:51
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Bubbacub posted:I don't understand why some of the unseen are in and some aren't. Whatever, IANAL. The ones that aren't are all from Macross. The ones that are, are from properties that were not controlled by Harmony Gold (allegedly). They're also different from the initial incarnations, so they're not technically Unseen in the first place. HG is currently (almost definitely) losing a court case about that.
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Apr 2, 2018 01:22
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rt4 posted:battlete.cx What is that Atlas doing to its coolant port?
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Apr 2, 2018 01:28
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Xarbala posted:Thank you, I really appreciate that. Most people will never give my stuff a second look because it's set in a time period that everybody wishes didn't exist. It's why I'm trying as hard as I can to use as many of your designs post timeskip as I can. I will make people look at your art if it kills me.
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Apr 2, 2018 01:49
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PoptartsNinja posted:It's why I'm trying as hard as I can to use as many of your designs post timeskip as I can. 
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Apr 2, 2018 01:53
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HBS Should hire you to do versions of IS Mechs that haven't gotten the MWO Treatment so they can "In Success" not be reliant on PGI for mech models.
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Apr 2, 2018 04:33
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Harmony Gold basically is trying to claim that no matter what HBS does, it will still look like "their stuff". So, basically copyrighting all giant robits.
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Apr 2, 2018 04:45
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PoptartsNinja posted:It's why I'm trying as hard as I can to use as many of your designs post timeskip as I can. well it's by far some of the better TRO work so it's a win-win, hopefully nobody has to get killed for it
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Apr 2, 2018 04:46
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SirFozzie posted:Harmony Gold basically is trying to claim that no matter what HBS does, it will still look like "their stuff". So, basically copyrighting all giant robits. They can go gently caress themselves, it looks like they don't even own the US specific type of Macross license they're claiming copy-right infringement against if the latest series of court cases is anything to go by. Which mean they've been wrongfully suing people for years. Back Hack fucked around with this message at 05:16 on Apr 2, 2018 |
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Apr 2, 2018 05:14
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I just finished my first replay of Shadowrun: Dragonfall and I'm completely blown away by how short the credits are. It took like a minute to read every name. Unbelievable what great stuff HBS does with so few people; I'd guess that they've expanded since then, but who knows? It's really refreshing though. I always sit through the credits after I finish a game, it's a good time to turn the game over in my head and learn who's making cool stuff. But man, some of the games I have played recently have had credits that rolled for over a half hour. I love seeing that you can still make great games without a staff of 2000 people plus a studio with offices in every continent backing you. SirFozzie posted:Harmony Gold basically is trying to claim that no matter what HBS does, it will still look like "their stuff". So, basically copyrighting all giant robits. Further evidenced by the fact that in its latest suit, HG claims ownership of the Atlas and a bunch of other designs that have always been Battletech-specific, and explicitly thereafter spells out that they believe any humanoid war machine design falls under their copyrights. I assume that this is just posturing so that when a judge meets at some fictitious "middle ground" they still get exactly what they wanted. Or who knows, maybe they really are crazy, and the only reason they haven't gone after Pacific Rim is because they don't have the megalawyers they'd need for that.
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Apr 2, 2018 07:33
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HG somehow manages to be even worse than Games Workshop trying to trademark "Space Marine" and "Imperial Guard", gently caress these people.
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Apr 2, 2018 08:07
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Galaga Galaxian posted:Cohh is playing fast and loose and as much as I occasionally cringe and wish I could seize the controls it is fun to watch. This stuff is great for the people watching who don't know what Battletech is though.
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Apr 2, 2018 08:27
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"Oh dear I've done a very bad thing, oh man"
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Apr 2, 2018 10:40
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Crab is totally in MWO so it may show up in this game eventually.Xarbala posted:Thank you, I really appreciate that. Most people will never give my stuff a second look because it's set in a time period that everybody wishes didn't exist. Oh man you do some clean lines, what did you use for those illustrations? Dreadwroth fucked around with this message at 11:13 on Apr 2, 2018 |
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Apr 2, 2018 11:10
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Does the Battletech setting have subfeudal domains and “knight” mechwarriors? The Federated Suns is described that way, but their units have mostly Napoleonic style names.
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Apr 2, 2018 11:55
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Baron Porkface posted:Does the Battletech setting have subfeudal domains and “knight” mechwarriors? Yes and yes. http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Knights_of_the_Inner_Sphere
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